Socialism Is An Eternal Recurrence

[Flanders]

Friedrich Nietzsche, that great sage of despair, asked, “What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it . . . ?’” Nietzsche called this idea of eternal recurrence “the heaviest weight.”​

Nietzsche might just as well have said —— human nature is an eternal recurrence. By extension, war is eternal recurrence; government tyranny is eternal recurrence; organized religion is eternal recurrence, and so on.

Individual liberties codified in our original form of government have not been around long enough to qualify as an eternal recurrence —— there were none before America’s Constitution and none since.

Interestingly, Democrats accuse those Americans who oppose them of wanting a return to the past, while Socialism is a short cut to immutable eternal recurrences via more government that can only end in tyranny.

President Obama, who has spent his presidency yearning for the reality he wants rather than the one he has, once again downplayed any suggestion that this was another battle in the war on Islamic terror he does not want to fight.​

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Orlando Shooting Reaction Has the Feel of Eternal Recurrence, by Jonah Goldberg, National Review​

 

[Fenton Lum]

Socialism is a short cut to immutable eternal recurrences via more government that can only end in tyranny.

The very same can be said of our version of capitalism, as we now see.

 

[Flanders]

The very same can be said of our version of capitalism,

To Fenton Lum: Nice try but no cigar.

Socialism is a theocratic form of government. Socialists go so far as to say that Socialism is an economic system. After 16 years of debating Socialists, I am too tired to repeat the countless ways Socialism is a theocracy.

In short: Capitalism is an economic system that works to perfection for the most people in a limited form of government. Socialism is a form of government that works for the least number of people. The two are, and always will be, incompatible.

as we now see.

To Fenton Lum: Do you have a tapeworm?

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." Mark Twain​

 

[Fenton Lum]

The very same can be said of our version of capitalism,

To Fenton Lum: Nice try but no cigar.

Socialism is a theocratic form of government. Socialists go so far as to say that Socialism is an economic system. After 16 years of debating Socialists, I am too tired to repeat the countless ways Socialism is a theocracy.

In short: Capitalism is an economic system that works to perfection for the most people in a limited form of government. Socialism is a form of government that works for the least number of people. The two are, and always will be, incompatible.

as we now see.

To Fenton Lum: Do you have a tapeworm?

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." Mark Twain​

If you are in america, you have long enjoyed a blended economy leveraging aspects of both capitalism and aspects of socialism. One could easily argue that in america, capitalism is theocracy.

 

[Flanders]

If you are in america, you have long enjoyed a blended economy leveraging aspects of both capitalism and aspects of socialism. One could easily argue that in america, capitalism is theocracy.

To Fenton Lum: Give it up. Your interpretation is a variation of a Cold War talking point:

At the beginning of the Cold War the folks on the Left said “Capitalism and Communism will meet in the middle and everything will be fine.” That idiocy qualifies as the most successful lie they ever told —— mainly because they said an economic system would meet a form of government in the middle. The primary problem among many is that equal distribution of the wealth stood in the way of the two meeting anywhere.

Pontius Pilate Vetoed Christianity​

 

[Fenton Lum]

If you are in america, you have long enjoyed a blended economy leveraging aspects of both capitalism and aspects of socialism. One could easily argue that in america, capitalism is theocracy.

To Fenton Lum: Give it up. Your interpretation is a variation of a Cold War talking point:

At the beginning of the Cold War the folks on the Left said “Capitalism and Communism will meet in the middle and everything will be fine.” That idiocy qualifies as the most successful lie they ever told —— mainly because they said an economic system would meet a form of government in the middle. The primary problem among many is that equal distribution of the wealth stood in the way of the two meeting anywhere.

Pontius Pilate Vetoed Christianity​

American style capitalism is all about wealth redistribution out of society into the hands of a privileged few at the top, as we now see.

As for "At the beginning of the Cold War the folks on the Left said “Capitalism and Communism will meet in the middle and everything will be fine.”" , we merely have to go back to 2007-08 to see the champions of unfettered unregulated capitalism come on their knees begging to be bailed out via socialism, in both "righty" and "lefty" administrations.

 

[Flanders]

American style capitalism is all about wealth redistribution out of society into the hands of a privileged few at the top, as we now see.

To Fenton Lum: Capitalism is about individuals —— rich and poor —— keeping what they work for. Basically, that is the meaning of:

laissez faire also laisser faire (noun)

1. An economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws.

2. Noninterference in the affairs of others.​

As for "At the beginning of the Cold War the folks on the Left said “Capitalism and Communism will meet in the middle and everything will be fine.”" ,

To Fenton Lum: You are going in circles to salvage an untenable position.

we merely have to go back to 2007-08 to see the champions of unfettered unregulated capitalism come on their knees begging to be bailed out via socialism, in both "righty" and "lefty" administrations.

To Fenton Lum: Bailouts, subsidies, etc. evolved from the XVI Amendment. The income tax was implemented by early 20th century Socialists. Note that the upper echelon of the Democrat party, who contribute nothing to society, acquire more wealth from the tax code than any other group. Also note that wealthy Democrats are the biggest supporters of tax increases; ergo, beneficiaries of bailouts.

 

[Kristian]

Socialism are Communism how are little goodness.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Socialism Is An Eternal Recurrence"

No, ‘socialism’ is something conservatives are completely ignorant of and incessantly misrepresent – this thread is further proof of that.