While I feel that the Progressive movement is the real enemy of freedom, I am not blind to the efforts of radical Socialists and Communists that are sadly on the rise again. I supposed it is inevitable that these groups spring up whenever there are economic difficulties and it’s probably our own fault for tolerating their nonsensical diatribe. The First Amendment guarantees their right to speak out and I would not risk damaging the bill of rights simply because I think their message is ridiculous but I am perplexed that their message actually reaches more than the few unwashed screwballs in their own little group.
The Socialist movement claims to be the harbinger of true democracy; a workers utopia where everyone is equal and everyone shares the wealth. Uh yeah… Similar promises were made by the Bolsheviks prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 but once the rule of Czar Nicholas II was brought to a bloody and violent end, the utopia never appeared. The oppressive government of the Czar was replaced by a violent mob that terrorized and murdered millions of Russia’s citizens. The Russian people were powerless in the face of this brutal regime because as soon as the loyal resistance had been broken, the Bolsheviks seized control of the press, weapons and industry. They moved swiftly against any opposition and millions were swept away in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again.
Russia is not an isolated incident. Anywhere that Socialists and Communists have assumed power, similar atrocities were committed. The left loves to equate Nazi Germany and Hitler with rigid Conservatism but anyone that has ever bothered to pick up a history book can quickly refute this claim. Nazis were “National Socialists”, not unrestrained Conservatives. Hitler openly admitted that the goals of the Nazi Party were in line with that of the Socialist movement but he did not want Germany to become part of some Bolshevik empire. He believed in a Socialism dominated by Germany, not Russia because he also believed in racial superiority and that the Russian people, among others, were genetically inferior.
While Hitler’s Nazis were directly responsible for the death of six million Jews through his mission of ethnic cleansing, it is dangerous to assume that non-Jews were safe. Although few hard facts have been found, it is estimated that Nazis killed five million gentiles of all faiths before the end of the war in 1945. Any opposition to Hitler’s power or programs was neatly eliminated in much the same way as the Bolsheviks disposed of their dissenters.
Italy’s Benito Mussolini was a little more civilized and simply shipped his problems into exile on small islands off the coast of Italy. Thousands of Italians died during their internment and while some were executed, the majority of the fatalities were from hunger and neglect. Once again, the left loves to equate Mussolini with the right wing because of his leadership within the National Fascist Party. Why Fascism is even mentioned in the same breath as Conservatism is beyond me and an examination of Fascism and Mussolini draws far more parallels with Socialism.
Mussolini spent his early life studying the radical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, socio-economist Vilfredo Pareto and French Marxist Charles Péguy. While living in Switzerland, Mussolini met some of the Russian political exiles living there, including the Marxists Angelica Balabanoff, and Vladimir Lenin. Although Mussolini joined the Marxist Socialist movement at that time, it was the merging of all these radical schools of thought that aided Mussolini in the creation of Fascism. While he publically opposed Socialism and Communism, so close were Mussolini’s ties to Socialist labor groups that it was the economic disaster brought on by massive strikes and demonstrations in Italy that forced King Victor Emmanuel III to appoint Mussolini as his Prime Minister, replacing Luigi Facta. That appointment would later be considered a political coup d’état as Mussolini and his Black Shirts accumulated more power, eventually replacing the Parliamentary Republic with National Fascism.
I find it particularly disturbing that so many Progressives have an obsessive admiration of China’s Mao Zedong. Zedong’s revolution killed over seventy-million Chinese in his sweep to seize total power making him one of histories most ruthless and deadly dictators. Of course the Progressives saw this as a necessary evil and the ends would justify the means as Zedong brought social justice to the masses of China. Social justice is one of those “catch-all” phrases used by the far left to rationalize nearly anything. It doesn’t matter that the lives of the Chinese people are no better now than they were then as long as there are none of those horrible rich people around to show the poor how poor they really are. In a Socialist economy there can be no expansion so there is no hope of elevating the poor out of poverty. The best you can hope to accomplish is to make everyone universally poor. Instead of the injustice of having some feast while others starve; now there is fair and balanced hunger for all. Of course now that the new ruling party had dominated the nation, the angry mobs that brought them into power on the promise of shared wealth are silenced with brutal retribution for any show of dissent.
Jed Brandt of the Brecht Forum is an angry Socialist that would prefer that the United States collapse so they can usher in their own “workers utopia”. I imagine that he believes the historical devastation wrought by forming Socialist governments against their own people couldn’t possibly happen here. Really? Listen to his speech and even that is filled with the same hate and venom as every one of his predecessors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnF8xHhRgo
Then there is SEIU President Andy Stern; a little more refined but still as dangerous. Sort of like the difference between Hitler and Mussolini. Andy is not ashamed to quote directly from the Communist Manifesto during interviews were he says that “Workers of the world, unite” is no longer a phrase but how SEIU must do their work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzG0xpkjWrA
Stern has gone as far as saying that they will try to use the power of persuasion to achieve their agenda but if that fails they are willing to use “the persuasion of power”. That was evidenced last year during the town hall meetings and Tea Party events where SEIU and MoveOn.org members violently retaliated against people opposed to Obama’s healthcare plan. Of course neither group accepted the responsibility for that saying that these were isolated incidents and individual acts that were not encouraged by their respective organizations. Historically, there was no “official” encouragement in the violence perpetrated against Jews in pre-war Germany or in pre-revolutionary Russia, but looking the other way is not exactly a rebuke either. It would be years before the truth about those attacks was learned and the fact that they were the product of secret policies of both governments would eventually be revealed.
Curiously, as Jed Brandt and the Brecht Forum spew their hateful venom at the United States, they still have active support in the strangest places. New York State, a State that is more than fifty-billion dollars in debt, sees fit to provide support funding for the Brecht Forum through the New York State Arts Council. While NY did not supply a lot of money for this radical rat’s nest, it still flies in the face of reason. I support Mr. Brandt’s First Amendment right to speak even if I completely disagree with the message. However, the First Amendment does not guarantee the right to be heard and there is no mandate to provide any material assistance to insure opposing messages have a publically funded forum. The Brecht Forum has some interesting followers too. There are links to organizations and media outlets contained on the Brecht Forum’s web page and some of those links are all too predictable such as Van Jones’s “Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Andy Stern’s SEIU and even the AFL-CIO.
http://brechtforum.org/taxonomy/term/50?page=1
http://brechtforum.org/taxonomy/term/50?page=2
http://brechtforum.org/taxonomy/term/50?page=3
Don’t forget that Progressives love Socialist radicals. They can always be counted on to provide our sneaky left wing politicians with a crisis or two that will help propel the Progressive agenda forward. Remember that their ultimate destination is the same and the only difference between the two is whether or not you want to hop a flight or take a leisurely drive to get their.
Paul
The Socialist movement claims to be the harbinger of true democracy; a workers utopia where everyone is equal and everyone shares the wealth. Uh yeah… Similar promises were made by the Bolsheviks prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 but once the rule of Czar Nicholas II was brought to a bloody and violent end, the utopia never appeared. The oppressive government of the Czar was replaced by a violent mob that terrorized and murdered millions of Russia’s citizens. The Russian people were powerless in the face of this brutal regime because as soon as the loyal resistance had been broken, the Bolsheviks seized control of the press, weapons and industry. They moved swiftly against any opposition and millions were swept away in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again.
Russia is not an isolated incident. Anywhere that Socialists and Communists have assumed power, similar atrocities were committed. The left loves to equate Nazi Germany and Hitler with rigid Conservatism but anyone that has ever bothered to pick up a history book can quickly refute this claim. Nazis were “National Socialists”, not unrestrained Conservatives. Hitler openly admitted that the goals of the Nazi Party were in line with that of the Socialist movement but he did not want Germany to become part of some Bolshevik empire. He believed in a Socialism dominated by Germany, not Russia because he also believed in racial superiority and that the Russian people, among others, were genetically inferior.
While Hitler’s Nazis were directly responsible for the death of six million Jews through his mission of ethnic cleansing, it is dangerous to assume that non-Jews were safe. Although few hard facts have been found, it is estimated that Nazis killed five million gentiles of all faiths before the end of the war in 1945. Any opposition to Hitler’s power or programs was neatly eliminated in much the same way as the Bolsheviks disposed of their dissenters.
Italy’s Benito Mussolini was a little more civilized and simply shipped his problems into exile on small islands off the coast of Italy. Thousands of Italians died during their internment and while some were executed, the majority of the fatalities were from hunger and neglect. Once again, the left loves to equate Mussolini with the right wing because of his leadership within the National Fascist Party. Why Fascism is even mentioned in the same breath as Conservatism is beyond me and an examination of Fascism and Mussolini draws far more parallels with Socialism.
Mussolini spent his early life studying the radical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, socio-economist Vilfredo Pareto and French Marxist Charles Péguy. While living in Switzerland, Mussolini met some of the Russian political exiles living there, including the Marxists Angelica Balabanoff, and Vladimir Lenin. Although Mussolini joined the Marxist Socialist movement at that time, it was the merging of all these radical schools of thought that aided Mussolini in the creation of Fascism. While he publically opposed Socialism and Communism, so close were Mussolini’s ties to Socialist labor groups that it was the economic disaster brought on by massive strikes and demonstrations in Italy that forced King Victor Emmanuel III to appoint Mussolini as his Prime Minister, replacing Luigi Facta. That appointment would later be considered a political coup d’état as Mussolini and his Black Shirts accumulated more power, eventually replacing the Parliamentary Republic with National Fascism.
I find it particularly disturbing that so many Progressives have an obsessive admiration of China’s Mao Zedong. Zedong’s revolution killed over seventy-million Chinese in his sweep to seize total power making him one of histories most ruthless and deadly dictators. Of course the Progressives saw this as a necessary evil and the ends would justify the means as Zedong brought social justice to the masses of China. Social justice is one of those “catch-all” phrases used by the far left to rationalize nearly anything. It doesn’t matter that the lives of the Chinese people are no better now than they were then as long as there are none of those horrible rich people around to show the poor how poor they really are. In a Socialist economy there can be no expansion so there is no hope of elevating the poor out of poverty. The best you can hope to accomplish is to make everyone universally poor. Instead of the injustice of having some feast while others starve; now there is fair and balanced hunger for all. Of course now that the new ruling party had dominated the nation, the angry mobs that brought them into power on the promise of shared wealth are silenced with brutal retribution for any show of dissent.
Jed Brandt of the Brecht Forum is an angry Socialist that would prefer that the United States collapse so they can usher in their own “workers utopia”. I imagine that he believes the historical devastation wrought by forming Socialist governments against their own people couldn’t possibly happen here. Really? Listen to his speech and even that is filled with the same hate and venom as every one of his predecessors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnF8xHhRgo
Then there is SEIU President Andy Stern; a little more refined but still as dangerous. Sort of like the difference between Hitler and Mussolini. Andy is not ashamed to quote directly from the Communist Manifesto during interviews were he says that “Workers of the world, unite” is no longer a phrase but how SEIU must do their work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzG0xpkjWrA
Stern has gone as far as saying that they will try to use the power of persuasion to achieve their agenda but if that fails they are willing to use “the persuasion of power”. That was evidenced last year during the town hall meetings and Tea Party events where SEIU and MoveOn.org members violently retaliated against people opposed to Obama’s healthcare plan. Of course neither group accepted the responsibility for that saying that these were isolated incidents and individual acts that were not encouraged by their respective organizations. Historically, there was no “official” encouragement in the violence perpetrated against Jews in pre-war Germany or in pre-revolutionary Russia, but looking the other way is not exactly a rebuke either. It would be years before the truth about those attacks was learned and the fact that they were the product of secret policies of both governments would eventually be revealed.
Curiously, as Jed Brandt and the Brecht Forum spew their hateful venom at the United States, they still have active support in the strangest places. New York State, a State that is more than fifty-billion dollars in debt, sees fit to provide support funding for the Brecht Forum through the New York State Arts Council. While NY did not supply a lot of money for this radical rat’s nest, it still flies in the face of reason. I support Mr. Brandt’s First Amendment right to speak even if I completely disagree with the message. However, the First Amendment does not guarantee the right to be heard and there is no mandate to provide any material assistance to insure opposing messages have a publically funded forum. The Brecht Forum has some interesting followers too. There are links to organizations and media outlets contained on the Brecht Forum’s web page and some of those links are all too predictable such as Van Jones’s “Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Andy Stern’s SEIU and even the AFL-CIO.
http://brechtforum.org/taxonomy/term/50?page=1
http://brechtforum.org/taxonomy/term/50?page=2
http://brechtforum.org/taxonomy/term/50?page=3
Don’t forget that Progressives love Socialist radicals. They can always be counted on to provide our sneaky left wing politicians with a crisis or two that will help propel the Progressive agenda forward. Remember that their ultimate destination is the same and the only difference between the two is whether or not you want to hop a flight or take a leisurely drive to get their.
Paul
If capitalism worked we (the planet) wouldn't be in a constant state of boom and bust, which has existed since the reagan years and deregulation.
ReplyDeleteAs it stands the capitalist system exclusively favours the rich, recent developements such as the planet wide recession have demonstrated this very clearly with bankers recieving huge bonuses at the same time as others.
Though many are unemployed, unhoused and so on, the stability of the wealthy continues unabated. I have no objection to people making money or being rich, what i do object to is that the tiny percentage of wealthy people own nearly all the wealth. This makes total sense in say a kingdom but i was under the impression that the US was a country based on democracy for all not just the rich.
Being British i know i live in a class system that the US snears at, however, you have it as well, there just no arcaic titles or fancy hats to go with it. However, i can go to hospital with any kind of ailment and leave, treated, without a bill. The welfare state that exists in my nation was put forward by the then socialist labour party and it led to a country with an effective health system, social securtity and state pension. As certain aspects of my own society have become richer and less taxed, the welfare state has suffered.
My impression was that your nation wanted independance from ours to suit all of the people with a government of the people, by the people and for the people. As time has rolled by, this appears to have been less and less the case as the gulf between rich and poor gets wider. Great if you're rich, not if you're the other 95% of the US population. With financial entities such as Citibank happily discussing the creation of a plutonomy, a government run exclusively by the rich and for the rich (a memo stating exactly that from Citibank exists), it strikes me that you and your friends should be vigilant in ALL directions, not just the left.
Your money masters will happily turn your nation into the equivalent of a fascist state in due course and the worst part is, many don't see it or even choose to ignore it. A staggering irony of the vigilance project.