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TheHeretic -> RE: Tucson and the Media (1/22/2011 11:02:15 AM)
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Well good morning, dear friends on the left. I hope you've enjoyed your little gangbang with Wilbur, but now you get to hear from someone who doesn't get their information from a caricature of a clown.
Now Marx and Engels were bright enough in some ways, but their understanding of human nature was fatally flawed. Quite literally fatal for millions upon millions of people unfortunate enough to live under governments that tried to make this bullshit work. The beat goes on however, under the assumption that the reason it hasn't worked is because the wrong people were in charge.
There are elements of a lot more than 2 out of 10 that the American Left are enchanted by.
1) Abolition of property rights to land, no. That is pretty much left to commies who call themselves commies, but it can be sold to the poor, and class warfare is the platform it gets sold from.
2) The income tax as a tool of wealth redistribution. Thanks for not insulting us by trying to deny that one.
3) Abolition of inheritance. Can you say "death tax?"
4) Forfeiture of emigrant and rebel assets to the state. Clear on that, but it's more a "revolution in progress," plank anyway.
5) Centralization of credit. What just happened to the student loan system in the US?
6) Government control of communication and transportation. Funny. I'd swear we had rumblings about increased censorship just here in the last couple weeks, and aren't the useful idiots of the environmentalist left trying to convince us to give up our cars and get on the bus? You'll find some version of such controls in any authoritarian school of thought.
7) Government control of agriculture and industry. That's the bright line. Here, there be socialists. [;)]
8) Everybody works. Also known as the principle of, "you don't work, you don't eat." Even most communists shy away from embracing this one too loudly. I actually like this idea, in terms of a mandatory period of national service, though I don't share much else of the vision.
9) Centralized regional planning. The vision of the landscape doesn't belong to Marx and Engels, but wanting to dictate where and how people live is very much alive and well across a broad spectrum of the left, and driven by, again, the coopted global warming cult.
10) Free public education by government schools. Be clear there, because while hardly anybody opposes free education, the folks fighting the ideas of charter schools and vouchers are well represented in the mainstream left. It has to be the state school. Nice of you to claim it, but let's be honest about what's being owned.
That looks like 6 to me, Ken. 5, if you want to quibble about communication and transportation.
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