Keynes at Harvard - Contents. America: The Grim Truth. Watch Free Documentaries Online. ICE/Homeland Security Shutting Down Dozens Of Websites With Illegal Music, Counterfeit Goods & Movies In Massive Sweep [See Full List Of Seized Sites Inside] Welcome to Unbalanced Passions. Atheism.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x400 pixels) How Communism Works" In a perfect world, everyone would have food and shelter, and a true utopian society would be devoid of sexism, racism and other forms of oppression.
But for most of the world's population, this perfect society just isn't possible. Communism is one proposed solution to these problems. Most people know what communism is at its most basic level. Simply put, communism is the idea that everyone in a given society receives equal shares of the benefits derived from labor. Communism is designed to allow the poor to rise up and attain financial and social status equal to that of the middle-class landowners.
According to the philosopher Frederick Engels' "Principles of Communism," the plan for ultimate financial and social equality is built on the principle that the system should spread around the world until all countries are on board [source: Engels]. Who are communists, and why do non-communist cultures consider them radical? The Soviet Union Versus Socialism, by Noam Chomsky. When the world's two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles.
One such doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and molded further by Stalin and his successors has some relation to socialism in some meaningful or historically accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the relation of contradiction. It is clear enough why both major propaganda systems insist upon this fantasy. Since its origins, the Soviet State has attempted to harness the energies of its own population and oppressed people elsewhere in the service of the men who took advantage of the popular ferment in Russia in 1917 to seize State power. The Soviet leadership thus portrays itself as socialist to protect its right to wield the club, and Western ideologists adopt the same pretense in order to forestall the threat of a more free and just society.
The Leninist intelligentsia have a different agenda. An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum. For all y’all rich folks, enjoy that champagne, or whatever fancy ass Scotch you drink.
And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor. Whatever the case, and whatever your economic station, know this… You need to drink up. And quickly. And heavily. Because your time is limited. Real damned limited. So party while you can, but mind the increasingly loud clock ticking away in the corners of your consciousness.
The clock that reminds you how little time you and yours have left. Not much more now. Tick, tock. Tick. Ideas On Liberty. Ludwig von Mises Institute - Homepage. The Pledge versus the Oath. MAY 01, 2001 by JAMES PERON When George W.
Bush became president last January, he struck a familiar pose. Raising his right hand before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he swore to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The oath serves to remind us that the United States is a constitutional republic with a federal system. The oath also reminds us that the Constitution is the cornerstone of the American system. Behind the Constitution are specific principles that America’s Founders consciously held and promoted.
Of course there have been individuals who were opposed to the Founders’ philosophy and opposed to a constitutional republic with limited powers. The differences between the two ideologies is striking. Imagine if our elected officials, instead of swearing to uphold the Constitution, simply swore to support the government! ProCon.org - Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues. The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong—By Bill McKibben. Welcome to the For Liberty Store!