McMansion Marxism

American Spectator ^ | 02 apr 08 | George Neumayr

[rellimpank]

Black liberationists who pour bile upon America rarely want to leave it, preferring to wallow in the "white" wealth they claim to distrust than risk penury and persecution in their imagined Marxist paradises.

Eldridge Cleaver, a prominent figure in the Black Panthers, once tried life abroad in those glorious countries free of racism and oppression -- Cuba, Algeria, among others -- and returned shaken and depressed. He had seen the future and it seemed to him pretty crummy and not a little bit scary.

"Pig power in America was infuriating," Cleaver concluded. "But pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable."

[rellimpank]

---fits well with Demotraitors such as Pelosi, Edwards, Gore, etc.,--

[Eurale]

I recommend reading the whole article. Excellent, but fails to mention the $10M line of credit.

[snarks_when_bored]

McMansion Marxism

A prime example: it would take the Jaws of Life and a backhoe to extract Noam Chomsky from his sprawling Boston digs.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Rev. Wright is bringing liberation to Tinley Park.

[freespirited]

I imagine much of the elite ratmedia are little different from Chomsky.

[Mister Da]

I have a feeling Wright is NOT going to be the darling of the neighborhood.

[denydenydeny]

When I came back from Eastern Europe one time, on the way home from the airport the cab driver, an African-American, asked me what Communist countries were like.

I told him to imagine a country where everyone lived in the projects. He understood exactly.

[redstateconfidential]

[Hemingway's Ghost]

A gem from the article:

"Not that Wright is alone in his McMansion Marxism. That's the familiar posture of most radicals: the farther they get from Marxism, the better it looks; the more America protects their celebrity, status, and wealth, the more secure they feel in denouncing it."

Here in Massachusetts, the most affluent communities are also the most liberal.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Writes Walker, Hillary "carries all the history of white womanhood in the US in her person; it would be a miracle if we, and the world, did not react to this fact. How dishonest it is, to try to make her innocent of her racial inheritance."

Oh, please, can we talk about Ms. Walker's "racial inheritance?" Can we, please, in the interest of "honesty?"

How about Ms. Walker's "racial legacy?"

[denydenydeny]

If you are a "victim," make sure to select a kind and gentle oppressor like America. Gandhi, too, by the way, had that figured out, selecting the civilized British as his brutal master. At least he had the decency not to move into a McMansion.

Great passage.

[Alberta's Child]

Gandhi, too, by the way, had that figured out, selecting the civilized British as his brutal master.

Great point. As someone pointed out a while back with regard to some kind of silly "peace demonstration" somewhere here in the U.S. . . . it doesn't take any courage to block a highway in a place where you know every motorist is going to stop.

[Girlene]

Excellent, but fails to mention the $10M line of credit.

Yes, what is up with a $10 Mil line of credit on a property worth maybe $2 Mil? I can't figure out how they can get a line of credit over 5 times the value of the property.

[Kleebo151]

the demographic makeup of Tinley Park is alarmingly unbalanced: as of the 2000 census, it is "93.16% White, 1.92% African American, 0.13% Native American, 2.38% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.11% from other races, and 1.27% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.13% of the population."

I thought white people were evil. I guess those were "just words".

[GodGunsGuts]

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[Eurale]

I’m sure that the $10M was collateralized by “other means”, if you get my drift.

[GodGunsGuts]

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[Girlene]

I’m sure that the $10M was collateralized by “other means”, if you get my drift.

Well, it had to be. The original story made it sound like it was a line of credit based on home equity, which made no sense.

[GVnana]

"If one is enamored with the liberation theology or ideology of non-Western countries, it is better not to visit them and certainly not to live there. Marxism is best contemplated upon in a mansion; Afro-centrism is most comfortably practiced in America.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

to go to a country like Cuba or Algeria or the Soviet Union and see the nature of control that those state apparatuses had over the people -- it was shocking to me. I didn't want to believe it, because it meant that the politics that I was espousing was wrong and was leading toward a very bad situation...

Great read.