1. Obama's reign in America is, in one way at least, a dramatic reversal of one of Marx's basic tenets.
I'll get to that…..
2. But first, the context:
While there are myriad comparisons able to be made between Liberalism and its totalitarian cousins, there are actually some….significant…. differences.
The most obvious is the wholesale slaughter of its citizens.
Repressed, yes, marginalizes and discriminated against, but none of the annihilation the world has witnessed under the Bolsheviks and the Nazis.
This doesn't mean that the thought to do so in no present in American totalitarians….but there are conditions that, up to now, work to block same:
"The excesses of the European versions of fascism were mitigated by the specific history and culture of America, Jeffersonian individualism, heterogeneity of the population, but the central theme is still an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life., albeit at the loss of what had hitherfore been accepted as ‘inalienable human rights.’
The dichotomy that is today’s political reality is based on this retreat, as the American left simply flipped from the brown-shirt utopians to the red-flag utopians, parroting Stalin’s rhetoric: anything objectionable is fascist."
Jonah Goldberg
a. Hold on, you say…..the icon of Liberals/Democrats penned up American citizens in concentration camps…..
True. But I did say there are ' there are myriad comparisons.'
3. The most basic requirement for liberty is the right to private property ownership. The Founders knew that: they had studied John Locke. But the followers of Rousseau, Hegel and Marx had very different views to impose on the less astute in America.
You might take a look at this:
10 planks of Communist manifesto
Communist Manifesto 10 Planks
a. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
b. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
c. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
The Democrats are right there with Marx:
a. "Obama Set To Propose Taxes On Capital Gains, Inheritance, And Wall Street"
Obama Set To Propose Taxes On Capital Gains, Inheritance, And Wall Street - Shadowproof
b. ....we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism.... Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - Address at Commencement Exercises at the University
c. President Barack Obama downplayed the differences between capitalism and communism, claiming that they are just “intellectual arguments.” He urged those at a town hall eventin Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday to “just choose from what works.”
Obama Downplays Difference Between Capitalism, Communism [VIDEO]
So far, we've seen only the similarities and consubstantiations of Obamaunism and communism.
A big difference….
…coming up.
I'll get to that…..
2. But first, the context:
While there are myriad comparisons able to be made between Liberalism and its totalitarian cousins, there are actually some….significant…. differences.
The most obvious is the wholesale slaughter of its citizens.
Repressed, yes, marginalizes and discriminated against, but none of the annihilation the world has witnessed under the Bolsheviks and the Nazis.
This doesn't mean that the thought to do so in no present in American totalitarians….but there are conditions that, up to now, work to block same:
"The excesses of the European versions of fascism were mitigated by the specific history and culture of America, Jeffersonian individualism, heterogeneity of the population, but the central theme is still an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life., albeit at the loss of what had hitherfore been accepted as ‘inalienable human rights.’
The dichotomy that is today’s political reality is based on this retreat, as the American left simply flipped from the brown-shirt utopians to the red-flag utopians, parroting Stalin’s rhetoric: anything objectionable is fascist."
Jonah Goldberg
a. Hold on, you say…..the icon of Liberals/Democrats penned up American citizens in concentration camps…..
True. But I did say there are ' there are myriad comparisons.'
3. The most basic requirement for liberty is the right to private property ownership. The Founders knew that: they had studied John Locke. But the followers of Rousseau, Hegel and Marx had very different views to impose on the less astute in America.
You might take a look at this:
10 planks of Communist manifesto
Communist Manifesto 10 Planks
a. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
b. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
c. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
The Democrats are right there with Marx:
a. "Obama Set To Propose Taxes On Capital Gains, Inheritance, And Wall Street"
Obama Set To Propose Taxes On Capital Gains, Inheritance, And Wall Street - Shadowproof
b. ....we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism.... Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - Address at Commencement Exercises at the University
c. President Barack Obama downplayed the differences between capitalism and communism, claiming that they are just “intellectual arguments.” He urged those at a town hall eventin Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday to “just choose from what works.”
Obama Downplays Difference Between Capitalism, Communism [VIDEO]
So far, we've seen only the similarities and consubstantiations of Obamaunism and communism.
A big difference….
…coming up.