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No, America Isn't Communist; It's Only 70% Communist
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, unite!”
Most people remember Karl Marx’s most potent points and phrases, and the mountain of corpses his disciples left behind, especially in the 20th century.
However, most forget or don’t even know the specific policies that Marx advocated.
Within his 1848 Communist Manifesto, Marx outlined a list of ten short-term demands. These, he thought, would be the precursor to the ideal stateless, classless communist society.
Ironically in today’s world, Marx’s demands look pretty much mainstream.
That is because nearly every single item on the list has been implemented to varying degrees in the United States.
Think that couldn’t be possible in the Land of the Free? Just take a look.
1. Topping Marx’s list is the abolition of private property.
True, private property exists, but only until the state wants to take it. With its powers of eminent domain, the government can and does confiscate people’s property when it wants for public use.
Your property isn’t unconditionally yours. Just think of property taxes, for example.
If it’s actually YOUR private property, then why would you need to pay tax on it? And why do they have the authority to take it from you if you don’t pay?
2. Likewise, while we haven’t seen the complete abolition of inheritance (another Marx demand), the government can take up to 40% of your estate when you die.
So ultimately your estate is not your own. You don’t get to control what happens to your wealth and possessions when you die. It’s just a matter of proportion.
3. and 4. Marx also demanded the centralization of transportation and communication. Check, and check.
Try broadcasting over the airwaves in the Land of the Free without a license and special permission.
Practically the entire electromagnetic spectrum is tightly controlled by the state, centralized by a handful of government agencies.
Same with the network of roads and highways. Because, after all, without government, who would build the roads…
5. Another point of Marx is state-guided agricultural production and combination of agriculture and manufacturing.
And the Land of the Free does not disappoint. Though its activities may not be as prominent in the news, the US Department of Agriculture is easily one of the busiest government departments.
With a budget of $146 billion a year, and much more for subsidies, USDA tirelessly works to dictate every major and miniscule activity in the sector.
6. Next on the list, is equal liability of all to labor. If you have at any point wondered, as I have, why politicians are always pushing jobs for the sake of jobs, rather than value and wealth creation—now you know why.
Between minimum wage laws and the constant stream of legislation that promises jobs for all, it is clear that politicians have wholly internalized this Marxian ideal.
Now, you might think that this is just a fluke, just a coincidence that some US policies resemble what’s on Marx’s list of demands.
But then you see these demands, which have not only been fully implemented in the US already, but are thoroughly entrenched in the national psyche:
7. First, there’s free education for all children, to enable the uniformity of thought. Check.
8. Then there’s a heavy progressive income tax. Yep, I’m pretty sure you’re familiar with this one, which has actually become so mainstream, that to have any system other than this would be considered revolutionary. Check.
9. Third, is the confiscation of the property of emigrants (expatriates) and rebels.
Between the IRS bullying of political opposition groups and the imposition of exit taxes for those that renounce their citizenship, the United States is firmly set up to discourage dissent and escape. Check.
10. And last but not least, the centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank. Check.
Remember, Karl Marx thought central banking was a great idea—the same guy who thought that individual success and private property were evil.
Think about that the next time the Federal Reserve comes up with a plan to help businesses and fix the economy.
So now you know, America isn’t communist. It’s only about 70% communist. No reason to worry.
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Oh, that's just so special. I'm sure it'll all work out just peachy.
I still say fascism is winning the day. Look at obamacare. Govt regulated bullshit that requires you to buy a product from a lobby that is nice and cozy with the govt. Look up the definition of fascism, or 'national socialism' and we are living it.
Listen Carl.
America is no longer entrepreneurial and capitalist. The "CHINESE" people are more capitalist than fucking Americans. It's a disgrace. Now they all want disability checks and oBarrycare.
Piss off and send all the money back we gave you then
Listen 0766.
You're an Indian giver?
If you're from Bangalore than apparently so. Nevermind the original meaning of indian giving.
really tough crowd tonight...
maybe tyler can find a 1-800 # so the fight club can get anger management help...
or at least start handing out snickers bars...
re: govt confiscation of private property, it doesn't get worse than the smash and grab of the drug and money laundering laws where cash is always up for grabs and the victim has to prove her innocence.
also i'm not so sure the centralization of communication is as effectively centralized as formerly. i don't think i (and other billions) could instantly transmit my opinions world wide for free a few years back. letters to the editor, bitchez.
the communist manifesto's 10 planks, are not like our constitution, guaranteeing
individual rights over government, they are the ten elements needed to destroy
a capitalist system outlined by marx's forerunner friedrich engels and as you can see,
we are all now communists and the republic is dead, comrades.
Are you people for real? I eat pretty damn well for a communist. Why does American capitalism have to be dog eat dog? Can't we have a system more like Germany. Or are they commies, too?
"Why does american capitalism have to be dog eat dog?"
First off american capitalism is a repetitive statement. Secondly its only dog eat dog for those who don't want to work as hard as others but want the same benefits. Just like the socialistic bourgeoisie.
Its competition like anything else. if you ran, name your sports team/league, the way the communists would like to and it would be unbearable to watch. there would be no competition for anyone to work any harder then the other players. if everyone had the same salary as the next guy they who the fuck would play center? who would play quarterback/ running back/ linebacker/ wide receiver when your getting your body brutalized for the same amount as the second string?
Oh thats right there is no second string cuz thats not fair, that's not equal. everyone gets a chance to play. there is no individuals allowed. nope not allowed to run faster than the slowest player of the opposition team cuz that would hurt their feelings for getting scored upon.
The bookies alone wouldn't allow that to happen in this country.
To put it plainly, there's a reason the plumber makes good money. Some jobs pay more than the others.
Orwell's fiction in 1984 and Ray Bradbury's fiction in Fahrenheit 451 grow more closely to our dystopian reality with each passing day.
It's really incredible and sickening to behold.
Police State USACommunists? And you guys fall for it? COMMUNISM IS THE PROPAGANDA. FASCISM IS THE TRUTH.
For all the fuckwits out there who are so quick to point out the difference between, pure capitalism and crony capitalism, where are all the people bleating about the difference between pure communism and crony communism???
Hmmmm. A bunch of "animals" work for a "farmer". In return they get the bare minimum of the fruits of their labour as the rest is exported away from the "farm" and traded for profit. Where have I seen that recently?
I saw Animal Farm. We all understand the nature of its "more equal" message. But don't forget that the evil farmer traded with other people. The evil farmer was a Capitalist. When the pigs took over, their undoing was that they became Capitalists. There were two messages from Animal Farm:
1. Don't be a Communist
2. Don't work for a Capitalist!!!
Be a Farmer. You know it makes sense.
Communism is dead and buried. It was tried, it failed. So that means this article is about propaganda rather than reality. Question 1...who benefits from this?...Capitalists and noone else....Question 2 What is their agenda?....Best bet is that this is an attempt to divert attention away from the elite who have taken over the US and are busily gutting the middle class by waving the dead communist bogeyman in their faces. Question 3 Why are they doing this? Best bet is that as their greed and dishonesty is becoming more obvious they are concwerned they will be exposed and so have started funding bs to try to keep hidden.
communism has not failed. it has adapted to fit the playing field. regulation and taxation are far more effective at controlling industries than actually running them. plus the benefit of labor unions who act as your army to protest whatever the hell they want.
Communism is a method for agitattion and gaining control. it tries to break down the moral fabric of societies as to create offspring of unbalanced kids who come from broken families until the family unit is destroyed. then you have a public that is easily manipulated by their emotions which is what the 10 tenents are supposed to do. they invoke an emotional reaction rather than critically thinking about eternal truths from the past.
What you are describing is not communism. The core issue behind this article is the centralisation of power, which when it occurs according to James Madison is Tyranny. Communism failed as centralising power led to totalitarianism, the same is occurring in the US today and it is likely to result in failure as well. One of the strategies the elite use to divert people away from looking at what is happening with power is talking about isms...which is all this article does. So even debating which ism exists is a sign one has been diverted.
Communism and fascism are kissing cousins.
In communism, state bureaucrats run everything directly.
In fascism, state bureaucrats run everything indirectly.
In communism, everything is run directly by the commune. It probably works for small tribes, if you have the right people. Any larger and "representatives" magically appear and the authority of the commune gets to commune with the floor at the back of the woodshed. And after that, your comment stands unassailed.
Under Real-world Practical Communism, the Fascists are still pretending they are Communists.
And under Real-World Practical Capitalism, the Fascists are still pretending they are Capitalists.
"Be a Farmer. You know it makes sense."
From Chapter 10 of Animal Farm:
My comment reminded me of a real country. Your comment reminds me of another real country.
The thing is that until 1848 most places had a flat tax, leftover from the church's tithe. Shortly thereafter every "capitalist" country thought it would be great to squeeze the rich with a progressive tax. Then in 1994 Mart Laar started the "Flat Tax Revolution" in Estonia and now most of the formerly Communist bloc countries have a flat tax. Russia, Lithuania, Albania, Romania, Hungary, Serbia....there are about 25-30 of them formerly Communist areas of Eastern Europe or Asia. The rest of the flat tax countries in the world are either small or protectorates of England.
I don't think WS will become anything other than a non functioning version of Communism, with WS more equal than the others.
Stop the Welfare of WS>>>>
o.k.
fire up the presses, janet...
Think you're going to vote your way out?
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/13/pf/north-dakota-property-tax/
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Voters in North Dakota, where the economy is swelling with money from the oil boom, have voted against abolishing property taxes in the state.
More than 76% voted "no" in Tuesday's initiative to get rid of the property tax, according to returns from the North Dakota Secretary of State."
The only way forward is through the Fire.
Not ALL Americans, you racist, broadbrush POS.
Listen Watching.
You're in a sinking ship, too bad. Sorry for you.
Don't drone "ME" bro! OK?
I didn't sink your ship. Your USSA gov hired the lowest bidder to build it because Wall St. mandated it(bond holders and such)
Whatever. More wodka for all my comerades here in the Gulag Amerikano.
Every decent white man should have seething resentment towards government and mainstream society. Burn it all to the ground.
I'm an indecent white man, and even I resent the government and mainstream society.
whatever its become..
it isnt a republic
I'd say what we have is a deadly mixture of both communism and fascism.
It still falls under the same umbrella though: authoritarian.
^ This ^
Plus one.
Simon should read The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, then do another article.
read it red arrow voters, or is it red shield?
Read what? Its a proven hoax.
I assure you it does exist. I read the version published by Henry Ford. You can question its origin, but that doesn't qualify it as a "hoax".
To quote Elie Wiesel on the Holocaust literature...."some stories are true that never happened".
It was clearly written in the early 20th century and plagarizes from a variety of sources in order to place the reader back another hundred years at some fictional meeting.
Now I realize jooo bashing is some sort of weird sport and or pastime that europeans have engaged in for many centuries but the real hoax is a nation-state ordering people of all nationalities and ethnicities to strip down on a train ramp and be driven like cattle to the "showers" to be executed.
Thats very much real dude, the Nazis were a little more meticulous in keeping real time records than Stalin was but the fact that millions of people just disappeared didn't go unnoticed to the outside world.
the showers... but Auschwitz had a swimming pool.
Some had neither.
Majdanek the concentration camp in Lublin Poland, note the "Prussian Blue" stains on the walls...
http://www.majdanek.eu/galeria/07062013/image-12.jpgthats
...thats residue of Zyklon B.
There is something everyone should understand about this and why I go against the grain around here confronting the anti-jooo BS even though I'm not Jewish. This particular type of evil may start with Jews or blacks or Slavs or muslims etc. but eventually, given time, they always run out of victims and a new group will be picked out.
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Martin Niemöller
And never be confused by my hatred for communists which is as venomous as my hatred of nazis. I hate them both but I could never contenance the cold efficiency, the industrial scale slaughter, that only communists & nazis are capable of.
Its probably not possible to comment on a thread about Marx and socialism/communism without bringing up some 20th century fabrication/plagiarism is it?
Well, however you decide to attack Marxism is fine with me, just don't expect me to join your little national-socialist Hitler Youth book club.
What's the matter, you have something against tiny little moustaches?
lol...yes, I think I do ;-)
Yeah, the fake distinctions between National Socialism and Soviet Socialism. These two were just warring family members. They were/are both autocratic with a centrally planned state, a nation run by one party and all things done by permission of the State. The fascists were slightly more practical in that they did not actually feel the need for the State to own all property and the means of production. They simply ran the economy through law from minimum wage to production quotas.
Both of these ideologies are far left or the autocratic left. To the right of them is democratic socialism where you vote on what to do with other people's stuff and what you will make everyone do. This is roughly where the USSA and Europe are. There are no sacred property rights, including privacy that cannot be violated at will by the State. The far right are the anarchists and libertarians who have little to no statism and the individual and his liberty are supreme. In the far right we are not all property of the State and ants in the centrally planned ant hill.
I've always marvelled at the ease with which communists placed nazis on the right, to the right of THEM perhaps but so far to the left of me as to make them indistinguishable to me.
They both held the state as superior to the individual, the exact opposite of my view of what any nation-state should be.
Authoritarian? Or authoritarian on the path to totalitarian?
As to whether it is fascism (national socialism) or Communism (international socialism), I don't care. I'm not one of the elite, and slavery and subjugation feel the same either way, but you're coirrect when you say it's deadly.
Fascism = national socialism
Communism = international socialism.
A combination of communism and fascism without any communism is what we have now. All of this country's economic gains go to the owners of property, aka the capitalists. These same people control our government via campaign contributions to politicians.
That would seem to be the case. However, think of there being more than one group vying for power. Perhaps one group is playing this fascism phase out because it gets them closer to their goal. More centralized control is more centralized control.
When we wake up one day and learn that bankers and/or CEOs are killing themselves all around the world we might know if there is anything to this.
America today exhibits Clinton's "third way". Fascism at the top, communism/socialism at the bottom.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DIFFERENCE ANYWAYS? FACISM COMMUNISM...SERIOUSLY...WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
There are worlds of difference. Mussolini defines "fascism" as the fusion of corporate and governmental power. It is the world we now live in where the corporations have taken over government and use it to their purposes. By contrast, "communism" is a political system where the state owns all private property. (Truthfully, this should be called "socialism" but the terms have been misused for so long that they've become conflated). The differences are important because so-called "communists" are fellow soldiers in the fight against fascism. Very few people, mostly CEOs, like fascism. If you spend your time fighting with communists, you aren't fighting the root problem and are alienating your allies.
Guaranteed you could pass these BanzaiBucks at the grocery and nobody would bat an eye.
WB7, great job, especially with keeping Washington's image behind the grafitti.
The Founders would be horrified for sure.
Marx would love the concept of paying government drones a multiple of an honest, productive wage.
Listen Care.
The founders paved the way for the American "PIMPS, HO's, and CRACK DEALERS" that infect the "WHITE" house.
It's over American. It only took you people roughly 200 years to fuck things "WAY" up. lol. Nice.
You are late for work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93pfNmQ85PM
Listen G.
Work is for "SUCKERS" right America?
"We be hustlin' to git mo money"
The color of cancer in America is black.
The color of cancer in America is all colors, after all, we're all just pawns in their games...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aob_uEGo9Xc
;-D
More like red and we aren't talking Indians.
I have known a few Indian folks. I know America is fucked, we all do. Clean your own fucking house first dickhead.
USSA!
USSA!
USSA!
FUCK YEAH!
Listen HERO.
#1.
When people call....
"THEY" fucking call America!
Who did the people of Crimea call?
And in Iran "THEY" fucking call America the Great Satan.
Marx did not advocate for a society controlled by private corporations and banks, which is what we have. This article is so far off the Marx that it's laughable. But good click bait for the new ZH.
It is the government pointing their gun at my head not the banks. Without government these behemoths would not exist in the first place, nor would the policy or laws the government creates and enforces to benefit the few. It is the government through threat of violence that enforces these laws and policies, not the banks.
And of course these same guys who control the government would not point a gun at your head with their private armies if there were no elected government. I know of a few Kings and Queens who undermine your argument.
So according to your statist logic it is better the banks use government to point a gun at my head than a private army. Brilliant!!
I guess the Founding Fathers were statists according to your Randian logic. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Speaking in generalizations of course they were statists you fucking idiot. You would know that if you had ever picked up a history book or a dictionary. Fuck you are dumb. By the way stupid Ayn Rand was a statist too.
Statism
A political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/statism...
Statism
In political science, statism is the belief that the state should control either economic or social policy, or both, to some degree. Statism is effectively the opposite of anarchism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statism
Funny! LTER is attacked by an anti-Randian.
"deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
I didn't (and don't) consent to paying income tax. I was born into this system.
Don't confuse our current government with government of the People, by the People. King George also told his subjects that he was their duly appointed leader.
When I see libertarians criticize BOTH gov't and business tyrannies..then I'l listen.
I hate "business tyrannies" so much so that I want to see the source of this diseasse killed off, that source being government.
do you even understand what the word "tyranny" means? look it up on wikipedia or elsewhere if you're unsure.
it can only exist in government. there is no such thing as business tyranny.
to a business, you can simply say, you are crooked and i won't do business with you.
with the government, you have no such option.
understand the difference?
The bully will always be there. The bully does not wait for government to appear. The bully does not disappear with the dissolution of govt. Yes, he loses a lot of leverage. But he is still there.
Sooner or later the people will again get the opportunity to directly protect themselves from the bullies, instead of delegating that task to the govt bullies. Eventually the biggest bully will tire of fighting and reform govt to protect himself from the other bullies. The people will go along with the biggest bully who is smart enough to stay out of their face most of the time and yet still protect them from the minor bullies.
And the cycle begins anew.
As the bloated govt privatises the military, it is easy to see where the new bullies will come from in the new age of Chaos.
Keep an eye on the wages of your police officers and your foot soldiers. Can they afford to house their wives and families? How do their wages compare with the wages of the average worker?
To whom are the mercenaries loyal? What is their risk/reward profile? How do they feel about their share of the loot?
Govt is helpful until it isn't. Anarchy is helpful until it isn't. The cycle continues.
I hate tyrannical business, it practically runs the government.
Marx was financed by European men of wealth and influence. And the ideas of communism were passed to him by these men. Communism is a tool used by the Oligarchs to ensure thier control over the masses.
The word you're looking for is fascism. Communism by defnition does not allow for private ownership of means of production. We are ruled by private owners of the means of production, who use the government. If you want to be against something, at least know what you are against.
They own the State = fascism.
The State owns you = communism
They Own You
You get an F. In both the State and one party are supreme with dictatorial power. In both the State is the end and you are the means.
The only difference is in how the economy is run. In both the state is supreme and unlimited.
Even the frickin armed forces are private wealth concerns: the long long list of suppliers was bad enough, now private military is expanding (aka mercenaries). They aren't accountable to citizens, only their boards and shareholders
The government is a revolving door between the means of production and those seats overseeing the bankruptcy. Differentiating between the two is to believe there is a difference. There is no difference. The government is a corporation, and they contract with other corporations. There is no government. None. It ended a long time ago.
Only if every single thing were privatized. We can trust business not to screw us over..right? Monopolies, cartels and collusions have our best interests at heart, right?
Go ahead, place all your faith in business...it's a panacea!
business is no panacea, any more than human beings in general are a panacea. a business is mere the action of people in the marketplace.
there's plenty of crooked and evil ones out there, but so what?
saying that businesses should never be trusted is just saying that people should never be trusted.
i would rather take the side of people and businesses, to freely live their lives, than to take the side of those who would oppress them.
Oppressor is an oppressor, don't matter what he calls himself.
Capitalist USA has backdoor communism.
Communist China has backdoor capitalism.
Means Jack Shit to the slave at the end of the shovel.
The kid signing the mortgage thinks he just completed a capitalist transaction. He has no idea of the fascist shenanigans plaguing the other side of the deal. Did I say "Fascist"? You fucking betcha! How much of that transaction finds its way to the rest of the community? Merger of corporations and state = Fascism.
At the end of the day we end up with a word game. Complete waste of time.
Once the agenda is advanced far enough the bankers and businessmen can be dealt with easily. Already today they are greatly unpopular with the 99%. Who will stand up for those people when government finally makes its move to consolidate power? What will the bankers and businessmen do, fire back wads of paper or complain on CNBS against real bullets?
Socialism for the public sector, capitalism for the private sector. It's not hard.
This is one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen from the "international man of mystery" - and that is saying something.
First off, the dissemenation of the post and this comment shows how uncentralized communiation is. Sure the NSA is listening, but anybody can say anything. or make videos.
Second, the inheritance tax is zero until what - $10 million? It doesn't affect me at all - nor you either, Simon, you worthless poser.
Third, the state does bupkus to control agriculture, except for giving out generally unnecessary subsidies.... and it does fuck-all in manufacturing. (excepting sweetheart contracts to defense contractors. Again, wasteful and unnecessary, but hardly controlling)
Fourth... oh screw it, I can't be bothered with this moron anymore.
The Jew York media has a strangle hold on almost all wide spread, public commentary in this country, and has since the dawn of the television age.
What America needs most, is free speech.
In regards to Agriculture On March 16, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order entitled, "NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS."
The EO states that the President alone has the authority to take over all resources in the nation (labor, food, industry, etc.) as long as it is done "to promote the national defense" -- a phrase so vague that it could mean practically anything.
This takeover is designed, in part, to "stockpile supplies" for the U.S. military.
http://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama_executive_orders_food_supply.htm...
Some people need to pay attention. A lot more attention. And while this might seem clickbait, Simon Black is not that far off the mark.
1. Communication is centralised - there are only a few places in the US where data (because, getting down to it, it's all digital data now) can go somewhere else or come from somewhere else on the planet. Unless you're running your own mesh network, completely independant of the public internet, you're using services provided by a select few.
If the NSA is listening, that's one person listening to it all, and copying what it wants into one central location. "Cloud" service providers are attempting to centralise all of the publics data into their server farms, so people can access their data from anywhere (and others can access everyones data from one place). Oh, the FCC in the US and the ACMA in Australia regulate all communications mediums - so there's that.
2. http://www.internationalestatetax.com/?c=article&l=en&s=australia&id=16 - their tentacles reach far beyong the United States.
3. Isn't exerting great influence via subsidies a form of control? If money is what everyone wants, and the government will drop it out of a helicopter for people to fight over if they just do this one little thing for it, then that's controlling what's being produced in the agricultural sector.
Unless... well... you're trollololling.
Third, about agriculture:
How many cows are you allowed to have without a state permission? I think only two.
Are you allowed to sell the milk from your cows to your neighbors? Prohibited!
Are you allowed to grow tomatoes in the front yard of your own house? There is an ordinance against this "bad" behavior.
Let me know when you decide not to pay your property tax... A friend of mine had his home go up for auction on the court house steps because a State employee recorded his payment for the wrong address. My wife went in to check after that incident (it did get straightened out) and found that they had not removed the previous owner's names from our property. One slip of some overpaid bureaucrat's pen and you're screwed. I prefer real world examples per se, as opposed to someone ranting just for the sake of ranting because what's written doesn't neatly mesh with their world viewpoint.
I'm meeting my lawyer for depositions to get my money back from confiscation by the county. They didn't record my address correctly, either. I'm so pissed I can't stand to type this. Alzheimers in the tax office isn't good. So, why am I having to even bother? The fucking contract lawyer for the county has a bird nest on the ground as long as the dumbass politicians don't know and don't care.
I'm considering buying a billboard for a couple of years and blast the bastards on the interstate.
Communism! Let's give 110%!
We can do this!
You can give, I will just keep voting for the party and live for free. ;-)
In order for it to be Communism, the produce has to be returned to the Commune, minus some small administrative cost. When the Admin costs swamp the returns, it is no longer Communism. It is Fascism.
Where just a bunch of commie fucks.
(never mind)
I like it. Can't wait til we hit 100%!
10. And last but not least, the centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank. Check.
We just learned that the FED is a bitch boy to goldman jewsacks. And FED shareholders are not public so who knows if they are the state, I'm guessing not, just capitalist. The only thing publically pooled in this shit show is the debt.
Marx pointed out the natural conclusion to capitalism, and we are witnessing it.
"We just learned that the FED is a bitch boy to goldman jewsacks. And FED shareholders are not public so who knows if they are the state, I'm guessing not, just capitalist."
The Federal Reserve derives its authority from the Congress of the United States and the Federal Reserve is subject to oversight by the Congress. The members of the Board of Governors are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Each of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks is organized into a corporation whose shares are sold to the commercial banks and thrifts operating within the Bank's district. Shareholders elect six of the nine the board of directors for their regional Federal Reserve Bank as well as its president:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
Marx ADVOCATED for the centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank like the Federal Reserve.
Marx was an opium addict:
http://www.amazon.com/Karl-Prince-Darkness-George-Fabian/dp/1462874312
Really the Osama slayer is nominating the FED board? Jesus christ we are doomed for sure now.
Simon Black should start a counter-revolution. I imagine he's well armed. Maybe he could get all the liberty groups and NRA chapters off their collective asses. They claim to be well armed. Angry white men and their supportive wives vs. The Free Shit Army.
That's racyisssssss.
The free shit army isn't the enemy. Although I like the idea of the "Sovereign" man working to better his fellow man. What he offers is not sovereignty.
Edit: ok, they might be short term, but they are not the true enemy.
I was being a sardonic dick.
I'm really tired of Simon Black and his ilk.
Put up, or shut the fuck up, pussies.
Revitalize the state militia. The first 13 words in the second amendment explain why.
The founders were smarter than we give them credit for.
what a load of red-meat nonsense.
did someone tell the author it was 1950?
That creepshow Roy Cohn would be pleased.
The Birchers kicked my ass out for being too conservative. Cohn was a progressive
Hey Neville, Churchill was called a Naziphobe
Oh ! gasp the thought " George " was proven right .
Medium rare puuhleeez!
To be fair, communism probably was a lot better than the system in place when he wrote that. Companies would issue their own currency that was only good in company owned stores. Imagine you work at Walmart and they pay you in Walmart dollars that can only be used at Walmart. Widespread illiteracy also kept people down. Lack of math education kept people down as well. Some guy lends you money, you scribble on a sheet of paper you can't read, and you somehow need to pay back 3x what you borrowed. The current education system is far from perfect, but it's infinitely better than the system most people had in 1848 (no education at all).
People need to remember that things are thought of and written down for a reason. A national bank issuing national currency was suggested because that was a very serious problem back then. Different banks issued different currencies, and it would fuck up trade. I want to sell my cow, and some guy offers to pay using a note from the Dominion Bank. I don't know what the hell that is, so I can't accept his bank note. If we all use standardized bank notes, I can accept bank notes issued by any bank. People will say the solution is to carry around physical silver. Really? You're going to carry around hundreds of pounds of silver to buy things like cars, houses, or cattle? Of course not. You'll use a bank note that is backed by silver, but that bank note is only good if everyone agrees to use the same bank notes.
Regulating communication is just common sense. We can't have a clusterfuck where everyone is using whatever random frequency they want. Do you really want a city where 3 different radio stations are using the same frequency? Don't think it wouldn't happen. If the most popular station in town in 93.7mhz, you can bet some asshole will start a new station on that frequency to piggyback on its popularity.
Collectivization is ALWAYS superior to individual freedom. ALWAYS. All that is needed is a little force, and then a little more, but eventually we will get to utopia.
Corporations are collective enterprises whose sole objective is to enrich to owners of the corporation. How do we combat these collectives without organizing?
"Corporations are collective enterprises whose sole objective is to enrich to owners of the corporation. How do we combat these collectives without organizing?"
Buy stock. Shareholders are the owners of a corporation. One of your key rights as a shareholder is the right to vote your shares in corporate elections.
Businesses are an economic entity and therefor subject the democratic process of voting with our spending. The only way this is not true is if they are a monopoly which is against the law, unless of course our GOVERNMENT decides it is in our public interest. We can vote our businesses out of business unless government decides otherwise. Business is not our problem. GOVERNMENT IS OUR PROBLEM and the laws they decide to enforce or NOT enforce. Centralization of power is our problem as it ALWAYS leads to corruption and yes, we can have corruption in small governments and business as well, but have a much greatest chance of escaping if not eliminating them. Their is no escape or elimination of what we now have. Business, entrepreneurs, people willing to work and take a chance on people are all we have ever had to prosper, so let's spend a little less time blaming them and focus on the real culprit here...GOVERNMENT.
Govts come and go. The evil remains.
Economic Darwinism is good. The alternative is parasitism. Donate to that which you like, shoot the first mofo that takes your wampum by force.
Commies actually won the Cold War when LBJ started the Great Society.
70% -- a good, solid "C". I think this nicely sums up the medioracy that America has become. Moar Kardashians, Bitchez!
The official communist party in the United States rather than run their own presidential candidate determined it would be far better to back the Democrat Barack Obama for president. Any questions?
The Founding Fathers would rebel against Washington DC.
yeah 150 years ago. but they would have won.
If the citizens revolted tomorrow morning, they would win within hours.
She said, "Carl, take all the money" She called everybody Carl....
My spirit's broke My mind's a joke and getting up's real hard.
.........Come back to us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard.
Simon, like an embarassing number of us, doesn't understand the difference between Communism and Fascism. We're also very lazy in our use of terminology. "Communism" and "Socialism" and "Fascism" are words that have meanings, more than just "Things I Don't Like for $200, Alex." What's happening in America is Fascism. Ironically, what we're seeing going on all around us was actually foretold by Marx.
No Marxist would ever privatize the Treasury (as opposed to nationalizing the banks) to make sure the private banks not only didn't fail but profitted enormously. That's what Obama's done, continuing Clinton's policies through Bush.
Embezzling the commons to allow the merger of State and Corporate power is not Communism. It's Fascism. To me it's abhorrent no matter what you call it. But to understand what's going on and why, we have to start by calling things by their right names.
It is fascism, pure and simple. The so-called free shit army is living on peanuts compared to what the bankers and MIC have sucked out of the treasury. I have seen more homeless people in the past 4 years than I have in the previous 40 and I have seen it everywhere as I travelled almost constantly for work all over the country.
I think I'll go with 'crony corporatism'. One difference being that historical fascist regimes exercised total control over labor by outlawing trade unions and making membership of the state/party run industrial unions/boards a de facto requirement for obtaining work or (state) contracts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Charter_of_1927
Yes, even Il Duce said he thought it should be called corporatism and he was the one that coined fascism.
As long as issuance of debt/currency is in private hands, the system ain't communism.
The number one condition of capitalism is private property aka private ownership of means of production, including production of debt. The guy who wrote this piece should have known better.
THe current system is a perfect marriage between huge Biz that owned privately and the gov, which is the textbook case of Fascism.
MussObamalinni I just studied real facsism per the train conductors own words, awesome
affirmation man........
gotta bounce!
Its always in private hands. What the fuck do you think Stalin was doing in his spare time from murdering millions.
USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Uncle Joe was a communist; however, the policies of USSR were of socialism.
America ain't no stinkin Communist.
It's a fucking fascist oligarchy posing as a "democratic capitalist"!
Mother England and the little Zionist tot trained us well!
I don't think 3rd rail economics is zionist, caprice?
I don't think 3rd rail economics is zionist, caprice?
Why Bouncy... My apologies if I offended anyone with dual anglophile/cheesepope extraction!
God knows we have enough of them in the U.S.A., but we need to gently remind ourselves from time to time who we were born out of... Or should I say "let" at this point in our fragile history?!!!
I keep forgetting.. Was that England or Israel given "the money"?... Chicken and Egg...
You actually did not offend me I studied the history of banking from the Templars forward
I am a Redskin' Chief Red Coud defeted the U.S.A.A. sadley I watch you buy into your
sophistry
I am a Redskin' Chief Red Coud defeted the U.S.A.A.
Yes but of course.
Chief Red 'Burning Bush" from the tribe "Knish"!
Absolutely agree. There is a 'slight' blend but it's mostly fascist.
Forgot the part about destroying the family. .gov has done a beautiful job of that. There are more singles in America now than married people. If you are married you are now a minority. Why and how has this happened??? Social feminism in the courts. Marginalization of everything male in society. Uncle Sam gets in the middle of marriages with his "daddy warbucks" welfare system and turns divorce courts into casinos for women who want money. WAAAAALAAAA! End of the american family. And Marx wanted the children to be NARC's against their parents too, looks like the entire society in america is being taught to narc now with the war on terror and everyone being told to use their zombie phones to videotape and record everything they witness.
"First they ignore you then they laugh at you, then they fight you"...
Let me know when we win!
http://xrepublic.tv/node/10617
We are going to win Solzhenitsyn won a person who with Ryand without any technology won.
the Russian's just built or are going to build a musuem to him I heard he died in L.B.s
Dacha
Gotta bounce!
where has communism worked without eventually collapsing... it is attractive to parasites and libtards
Good point, esum. The leftist, centrally planned, collectivist, statist ideologies will fail over time. That is the only pyrrhic victory for a right wing libertarian like myself. However, they are powerful and appealing and they destroy the very thing that gives them lifeblood, i.e., the economy.
Liberty is hard, takes thinking and offers no guarantees. This is why it is less popular even though much more successful every time it is tried.
Socialism appeals to pessimists, losers and aspiring autocrats.
you are so full of shit "freedomguy"