“Most people who read “the Communist Manifesto” probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spokeboldlyin the nameof “the workers“. – Thomas Sowell
“You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba.
That’s all you need to know about communism” – P.J. O’Rourke
A HISTORY of FAILURE
definition of insanity – doing same thing over and over and expecting a different result
arthur brooks: “you can point out that obama’s plan to tax the rich more and more will LOWER OVERALL OPPORTUNITY for EVERYBODY – especially the poor”
the ultimate “BAIT and SWITCH”
promise “paradise” – utopian heaven on earth, deliver “hell” – “equality” in MISERY
“Dictatorship of the Proletariat” becomes just plain “dictatorship”
organized crime – theft-confiscation of means of production
The PROBLEMS are NOT the JOCKEYS, IT’S the HORSE
OBSESSION with “OTHER” – OBLIVIOUS to SELF
“externalize “sin” in others, ignore it internally
scapegoat OTHERS for their OWN failures
replacing “GREED” with “ENVY”
And then there is the Tenth Commandment. ‘Thou shalt NOT COVET thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.’ The Ten Commandments are God’s basic rules about how we should live – a brief list of sacred obligations and solemn moral precepts.
The first nine Commandments concern theological principles and social law. But then, right at the end, is ‘Don’t envy your buddy’s cow.’ How did that make the top ten? What’s it doing there? Why would God, with just ten things to tell Moses, choose as one of those things jealousy about the starter mansion with in-ground pool next door?
Yet think how important the Tenth Commandment is to a community, to a nation, indeed to a presidential election. If you want a mule, if you want a pot roast, if you want a cleaning lady,
don’t be a jerk and whine about what the people across the street have – GO GET YOUR OWN.
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to all the jerks who want redistribution of wealth, higher taxes, more government programs, more government regulation, more government, less free enterprise, and less freedom.And the message is clear and concise: GO TO HELL.
– P.J. O’Rourke “An Alternative Inaugural Speech” (18 January 2005)
MALIGNANT NARCISISM
IDOL of “EQUALITY”
a fake “virtue” excusing manifold “VICES”
“americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom” – alexis de Tocqueville
“democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it.
democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number.
DEMOCRACY and SOCIALISM have NOTHING in COMMON but one word: EQUALITY.
but notice the DIFFERENCE: while democracy seeks equality in LIBERTY,
socialism seeks equality in RESTRAINT and SERVITUDE.” ― alexis de tocqueville
trade “FREEDOM” for “SECURITY” and get neither
MALIGNANT MORALITY – The WILL to POWER
demonize “profit” , worship “power” (domination)
hypocritically while they seek to DOMINATE
In the Alinsky model, “organizing” is a euphemism for “revolution”
a wholesale “revolution” whose ultimate objective is the systematic acquisition of power
in alinsky’s brand of social warfare, the ends justify whatever means are required in
“the great cause”. Since the HERE and NOW is ALL there is, anything was “moral” in the pursuit of worldly POWER
Alinsky believed in sacrificing ethics and morals for the great cause – “ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times” … “once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. you no longer care about your reputation“ “you no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in“
there is no reason not to LIE, fabricate and obfuscate [confuse]
”to the questioner, NOTHING is SACRED.
he detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, he is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.
“life is a corrupting process from the time a CHILD LEARNS to PLAY HIS MOTHER OFF AGAINST HIS FATHER. in the politics of when to go to bed” …
There were no distinctions between good and evil when it came to transferring POWER from the HAVES to the HAVE NOTS.
a flawed, hypocritical and dangerous perspective of “INTERESTS”
UN-EQUALSHARING of “BLESSINGS”. VS EQUALSHARING of MISERY
CLASS WARFARE – DIVIDE and CONQUER
saul alinsky, ‘rules for radicals”: “our is a world NOT of ANGELS BUT of ANGLES”
MASS MANIPULATION under the hypocritical CAMOUFLAGED as ending “EXPLOITATION”
for alinsky, the means don’t matter – DESTROY whomever or whatever gets in your way. alinsky made it clear that what his followers want “is POWER”
charles murray’s book “coming apart” – the top 20% of americans continue to exhibit the
virtues of hard work, religious belief and traditional marriage, but the bottom 30% have
over the last few decades ceased to do so. the word ‘class’ doesn’t even capture the divide
[charles] murray describes. you might say the country has bifurcated into DIFFERENT SOCIAL TRIBES”
karl MARX was always raging at his personal enemies, and of course marx’s good-vs-evil. division between the bourgeoisie and the workers turned everything into white hats vs.
black hats.
the whole world DIVIDED up very neatly into the people you can hate (because they are objective evil, of course) and the ones you idealize in the most absurd ways (because they are objectively good).
They all mixed the egomania and grandiosity of narcissism with the global demonizing characteristic of borderline personality disorder.
it’s the narcissism that keeps them from falling apart, and it’s the love-hate relationshipsthat keep them oriented to other people
leninism is malignant, but not just because it divides all of humanity into good versus evil,
like some bad spaghetti western. it gets actively harmful because it is a political program aimed at absolute power – not just an academic philosophy.
“as karl marx famously put it, ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.’ or as barack obama put it, ‘when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody”