A Holodomor for the New Millennium. In response to their defiance, Stalin raised militias to expropriate and deport the Ukrainians to the Siberian tundra. When production stalled, he enacted decrees to arrest or execute any among the starving peasantry for taking or hiding "as little as a few stalks of wheat or a potato from the field he worked. " By 1933, "Ukrainians [were] dying at a rate of 25,000 a day, more than half of which [were] children. In the end, up to 10 million starve[d] to death. " This event has come to be known as the Holodomor, which means "death by hunger. " This is far from the only incident of man-made famine the history of the twentieth century provides. Mao Zedong, in 1959, created his own initiative for state-sponsored "agricultural collectivization" known as The Great Leap Forward. Cambodia experienced a similar scenario of famine as the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot worked industriously to cultivate their own brand of "agricultural collectivism.
" The trend is not obscure. » Collectivism: Didn’t Work Then, Won’t Work Now - Big Government. FPM Article. IT HAS BEEN HARDLY A DECADE since the statues of Lenin were toppled throughout the Soviet empire and the head of Karl Marx was severed once and for all from any connection to a body politic. Yet the lips of the severed head continue to move. In the West leading intellectualsmany who would not allow themselves to be called Marxistsprofess to hear a message they insist is relevant to our times.
Thus the rush to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the only text that most of the millions of soldiers in Marxist vanguards around the world ever read. The Manifesto was an incitement to totalitarian ambitions whose results were far bloodier than those inspired by Mein Kampf. We might expect this of a former Communist and present-day Marxist like Eric Hobsbawm, who contributed the egregious introduction to an anniversary edition of the Manifesto published by the New Left Review's Verso Press. Prematurely! Of course, it has not exactly done this either. American Thinker: If Obama were a Marxist, what would he believe? This article offers the basic teachings of Karl Marx, so readers may judge themselves whether these might be at work influencing current Administration decisions. In the present chaotic political atmosphere, the phrase "Marxist" is tossed around without explanation. But what exactly does Marxism represent? Marx's universe was simplistic.
It presents a godless, sinister world where the powerful prey upon the weak, which can only be healed through revolution. In the resulting apocalypse, wealth is confiscated by revolutionaries so all may benefit. Private property is outlawed as enlightened leaders build a paradise of communism. Besides the above classic theory, a new approach, called Neo-Marxism, has arisen. Mini-Summary: Marxism concerns wealth. The following is a basic overview of some essential aspects of Marxism Founder: German economist Karl Marx lived from 1818-1883, after the tumultuous Industrial Revolution, when modern business forms coalesced.
Would the above plan be Marxist? The Socialist Phenomenon by Igor Shafarevich. ViewSubCategory. This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines the worldview and objectives of communism. David Horowitz's 1998 essay, "Marx's Manifesto: 150 Years of Evil," offers an excellent overview of this topic: It has been hardly a decade since the statues of Lenin were toppled throughout the Soviet empire and the head of Karl Marx was severed once and for all from any connection to a body politic. Yet the lips of the severed head continue to move. In the West, leading intellectuals, many who would not allow themselves to be called Marxists, profess to hear a message they insist is relevant to our times. Thus the rush to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the only text that most of the millions of soldiers in Marxist vanguards around the world ever read.
The Manifesto was an incitement to totalitarian ambitions whose results were far bloodier than those inspired by Mein Kampf. The Manifesto's message is: Civil War. Well, not really. Conclusion. The Great Obama Red Awakening. Workers World Forum: ‘Youth in Revolution’ Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official. Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist Party member, testified under subpoena before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) that Hiss had secretly been a Communist, though not a spy, while in federal service. Called before HUAC, Hiss categorically denied the charge. Early life and career[edit] Hiss was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Mary Lavinia (née Hughes), who came from an old Maryland family, and Charles Alger Hiss, an executive in a wholesale dry goods company.
In 1929, Hiss married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, a Bryn Mawr graduate and grade school teacher. President Harry S. Accusation of espionage[edit] HISS. HISS. Venona project. The Venona project was a counter-intelligence program initiated by the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (a forerunner of the National Security Agency) that lasted from 1943 to 1980.[1] The program attempted to decrypt messages sent by Soviet Union intelligence agencies, including its foreign intelligence service and military intelligence services.[2] During the program's four decades, approximately 3,000 messages were at least partially decrypted and translated.[3] The project produced some of the most important breakthroughs for western counter-intelligence in this period, including the discovery of the Cambridge spy ring[4] and the exposure of Soviet espionage targeting the Manhattan Project.[5] The project was one of the most sensitive secrets of United States intelligence.
It remained secret for over a decade after it ended and was not officially declassified until 1995. Background[edit] Most decipherable messages were transmitted and intercepted between 1942 and 1945.
More on the Real Howard Zinn. You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way T... William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire. William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire posted: October 22, 2008 William Ayers is a communist. But don't take my word for it. He said so himself: And not some nicey-nice peace-and-love kind of communist. Through his group the Weather Underground, Ayers was planning to "seize power" in a violent communist takeover of the United States: The quotes above were scanned directly from a now long-forgotten book entitled Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism, which was written and published in 1974 by William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and other members of the Weather Underground.
After a long search, I was lucky enough to finally get my hands on a copy of the original edition of Prairie Fire, which is now extremely rare and hard to find. This essay features many high-resolution scans of quotes and entire pages taken directly from Prairie Fire, which journalists, bloggers and other media members are free to copy and re-post. But Where Is the Obama Connection? » Whittaker Chambers: The New Deal as Revolution - Big Governmen. » A Whittaker Chambers Dialogue - Big Government. History of Communism. The history of Communism is complicated and filled with fascinating "footnotes. " The Main Hall presents the bare skeleton of this rich story.
Other levels focus in on topics of note and the experiences of particular countries. The Main Hall is set up so that one can follow the history of Communism chronologically; alternately, you may go directly to the topics of interest to you. Czarist Origins of Communism. Marxist Origins of Communism. The Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in the German language as Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts.
It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. Synopsis Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of the Manifesto The Communist Manifesto is divided into a preamble and four sections, the last of these a short conclusion.
"Proletarians and Communists", the second section, starts by stating the relationship of conscious communists to the rest of the working class. Writing Publication Rise, 1872–1917. Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant (/kænt/;[1] German: [ɪˈmaːnu̯eːl kant]; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is widely considered to be a central figure of modern philosophy.
He argued that fundamental concepts structure human experience, and that reason is the source of morality. His thought continues to have a major influence in contemporary thought, especially the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.[2] Kant's major work, the Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781),[3] aimed to explain the relationship between reason and human experience. With this project, he hoped to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics. He attempted to put an end to what he considered an era of futile and speculative theories of human experience, while resisting the skepticism of thinkers such as David Hume.
Kant argued that our experiences are structured by necessary features of our minds. [edit] Karl Marx. Karl Marx[note 1] (/mɑrks/;[4] German pronunciation: [ˈkaɐ̯l ˈmaɐ̯ks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for much of the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and subsequent economic thought.[5][6][7][8] He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867–1894). Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Trier in the Prussian Rhineland, Marx studied at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians. After his studies he wrote for Rheinische Zeitung, a radical newspaper in Cologne, and began to work out the theory of the materialist conception of history.
Early life[edit] Childhood and early education: 1818–1835[edit] Karl Marx was born on 5 May 1818 to Heinrich Marx and Henrietta Pressburg (1788-1863). Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions. Loudon: Communist Party USA influence? More than you think! « RB. Communists Could Gain in Czech Vote. » Useful Idiots: In ‘Peter Pan’ Special on Cuban-Americans, CNBC.
Loudon: Communists plan Obama/Democrat resurgence in November mi.