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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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It has always been something for nothing that was humans greatest weakness, be it a piece of ass or a gold bar. The best part is we never learn. We can remember injustices of thousands of years back, but not recall we lost everything because some salesman told us we could afford this house when we knew we couldn't. Its just sad because it is inside each and every one of us. 90% of world commerce could not exist without it.
"in bourgeois society the past dominates the present. in communist society the present dominates the past." - karl marx
"ther are eternal truths, such as freedom, justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience." - karl marx
"the communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas." - karl marx
"the bourgeois family will vanish as a mater of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital." - karl marx
Kinda spells it out for ya dontcha think?
I assert that the USA has already become the USSA. We can argue about the beginning or where it was final but it has already happened.
The USA is the complete permission state that all collectivists have wet dreams about. We are in the perfect blend of residual prosperity from residual free markets, yet all the collectivist programs from national health care to central banking are in place. There are no practical limits on the power of the State through the IRS, TSA, NSA, DMV, and a thousand other taxing and policing agencies. You cannot sell, buy, travel, marry, move money, drive, communicate, start a business, close a business, or a hundred other things without a certification, registration, approval, licencse, permit, tax receipt, pass or other government document. There are so many rules no one short of God can know them all...and that is the point. You are in a potential never ending web of rules from driving to filing taxes and official government documents that can be used to close down anyone or anything in America including your life.
Now, about two thirds of us think this is actually okay and good. The far Left asserts we still need more of these things while the practical center right just says we need the "right balance" of thsee things. This is why liberty will lose, at least in the short run.
I suggest we quit pretending there is anything currently special or unique about America, except that we had anhistorical amounts of liberty and gave them all back. That might be unique. But then, freedom really isn't all that great compared to some sort of government check and guarantee, right?
No way you just typed that up between your last post. Social engineering derptard.
U make me gag fag
That is a good assertion I thought about this Continent what made people come here I am talking
the ice ages and land bridges they all wanted something better
same thing is happening today
it is nature to want or desire when it happens, and someone wants to take it way
things go bad very bad
then shit hits the fan and thingys right themselves after a period of slavery
the only thing that seperates us vs. barbarity is electricity
anyways gotta bounce!
Unbelievable, USSA is more commie than Canada.
off topic: Ebola smoothed new case rate (GN,LR,SL):
28 Sep 14 - 146/day
26 Sep 14 - 140/day
24 Sep 14 - 135/day
22 Sep 14 - 124/day
20 Sep 14 - 118/day
18 Sep 14 - 113/day
16 Sep 14 - 101/day
12 Sep 14 - 92/day
08 Sep 14 - 86/day
04 Sep 14 - 75/day
28 Aug 14 - 69/day
22 Aug 14 - 59/day
20 Aug 14 - 54/day
19 Aug 14 - 46/day
15 Aug 14 - 54/day
13 Aug 14 - 40/day
11 Aug 14 - 37/day
08 Aug 14 - 54/day
06 Aug 14 - 55/day
04 Aug 14 - 57/day
02 Aug 14 - 43/day
29 Jul 14 - 38/day
27 Jul 14 - 23/day
23 Jul 14 - 12/day
17 Jul 14 - 10/day
Case Fatality Risk Estimate: 47%
Active Case Growth Rate: 4.1% per day
Health worker deaths/cases: 208/373 as of 21 Sep
Estimated from MoH releases:
http://www.ambafrance-gn.org/Ebola-point-de-situation-au-29
https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=395&language...
http://www.mohsw.gov.lr/documents/Liberia%20Ebola%20Sit%20Rep%20134%20Se...
http://health.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ebola-Situation-Report_V...
As more isolation/treatment units are set up, the growth rate should fall. Given that, can make some worst case, short term predictions based on iterated, discretized version of the Pearl-Verhulst logistic process fitted to data from past three weeks:
K = 20000000
r = 2.4%/day
where P << K/2
P(n+1) = P(n) * ( 1 + r * ( 1 - ( P(n) / ( K - P(n) ) ) ) )
date, expected cumulative cases
10/12/14, 10k
11/11/14, 20k
12/10/14, 40k
01/08/15, 80k
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-texas-hospital-patient-...
But we know it is simply impossible to catch Ebola unless you exchange spit with them, right. Everyone who has come down with it in Africa has swapped spit , right? Even those doctors caught it from swapping spit thought their plastic face shields and shit, right? And its not communicable until it is full on symptoms too, right? No way some Dallas person was over there swapping spit with an ass bleeding high fever African, right. So its just impossible, right? Has to be because they would NEVER lie to us, right?
We know were fucked six ways from Sunday, ,,,,right?
Right now, presuming it turns out to be an actual case, I'm hoping it's an aid worker that has recently returned, i.e., someone who had some 'good' reason to be around known infected individuals and took basic hygienic precautions in between such potential exposure and their own admittance.
This is NOT off topic thanks for the updates.
Thanks. I add this to a letter to fiends and family every few days.
The communist manifesto-
"the bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. it has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors" - karl marx
"the workers begin to form combinations (trade unions) against the bourgeoisie; they club together in order to keep up wages; they found permanent associations in order to make provisions beforehand for these occasional revolts. Here and there the contest breaks out into riots." - karl marx
"the immediate aim of the communists is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties; formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow the bourgeoisie supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat."- karl marx
"The communists have not invented the intervention of society in education: they do seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class." - karl marx
"the bourgeoisie claptrap about the family and education, about the hallowed correlation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting the more, by the action of modern industry, all family tie samong the proletarians are torn asunder and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labor." - karl marx
Such Good Intentions. Might as well say the Government of Peace
Actually my favorite is this one but not from marx.
"You grind the middle class between the millstones of inflation and taxation."
Vladimir Lenin
"the communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement againsts the existing social and political order of things. in all these movements bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of dvevelopment at the time." karl marx
Funny. They tell what their plans are if you read what these people write and take them seriously. even funnier is how this sounds familiar. it sounds like what every democrat/ liberal/ progressive (republicans too) says. fair share, equality, social economic justice, workers of the world unite, tax the rich, not fair, and blah blah blah blah.
and go ahead and down vote for the "left/right paradigm" shit because in the ideological realm of freedom vs collectivism, there is a difference between right and left. its just have of the people on the right are just like the left which blurs the lines to the uninformed.
Vacate every statist from your local towns, cities and states. otherwise we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Anyone who reads your posts will be dumber for it. I feel sorry for your Mother.
Gee posting the words of a man who gave birth to the ideology that has been responsible for more deaths than any other time in history. And i feel sorry for you. Having an avatar of your mother being faced fucked is just sad. do you have a oedipus complex?
go eat the dick thats fucking your moms face dickhole.
Another point of Marx is state-guided agricultural production and combination of agriculture and manufacturing.
Not very likely. The USDA as well as the FDA is firmly in the pockets of biotech and big agribusiness. And the US national bank otherwise known as the Federal Reserve is firmly in the pockets of big business. It is communism for the little folks and plain old kleptomania for the upper classes. Same as it ever was, just under a different name.
Privatize the profit, share the risk with the public. We're not Commie so much as Fascist.
"share the risk with the public" more like dump all the risk on the public and privatize the profit.
Turns out that "Socialism Is The Opium Of The Masses" who will soon be issued Medical Opium Cards along with all the other free shat, that is traded for votes, given to the Free Shat Army, which includes tenured commie professors.
As Edward Griffin has said for a number of years and explained in his excellent video "Left,Right paradigm", we are lead to believe that there's an ideological difference between all of these warring groups and factions that make up global powers and empires. But there isn't. The wars are not about ideologies and different models of running the world, but simply about which gang is to be "top dog".
That explains many observations in recent years that the West spent decades trying to destroy the USSR & communism, only to adopt it ourselves immediately afterwards: "We Have Become What We Spent Years Destroying" etc.
Truth is that there simply are not many different totalitarian ideologies available, only variations in nuance (ie: which nail of the coffin to bang in next). And whatever model the wannabe despots peddle to deceive the masses, once in power and control, they quickly revert to type and adopt the standard MO.
One needs to be an outright idiot to claim that U.S is Marxist. And such a level of idiocy is peculiar only to Austrian economics fans who do not have a clue about the distinction between crony capitalism and socialism..
In order for the corporatists/fascists to gain support for more corporatist/fascist policies is to convince their constituents that what is plaguing and ruining the nation is socailist/marxist policy and the constituents will cheer vigorously for the corporatism
Many can see that the housing market is going to crash and blaming it on Millenials. I've seen many comments from Millenials and others but one that really stands out aside from the lack of solid, self supporting income earnable jobs when it comes to housing and eminent domain as mentioned in this article is the fact that when a home buyer purchases a home all that they have in hand is what is known as a 'Certificate of Title' vs. the 'Actual Title' that confers the right of the government to exercise eminent domain. Also, in the event of martial law it is the law of eminent domain that means all of the things we as citizens think we own that we have worked hard for are, in reality the property of the government, even ourselves!
Lookup 'martial law' and everything about it online, it's a real eye opener! No wonder some people choose to live in extreme ways, similar to the hobos of old!
I have never seen eminent domain for the betterment of society at large but I have seen it used to destroy a family farm to put in a development. Someone won big time but not our family friends' farm though.
Agree with most of it, except for this part:
"Same with the network of roads and highways. Because, after all, without government, who would build the roads…"
In Portugal, we decided to make Public-Private Partnerships to build highways.
The private construcion companies and banks bribed the governments to build roads we didn´t need and every year we pay hundreds of millions in tolls and compensations to the concessionaires (due to low traffic).
Just an example: a round trip from Lisbon to Oporto (600Km), costs 45 Euros just in tolls. In Switzerland, were the State builds the highways, you pay 50 Euros for a 1 year pass, which is enough for the government to mantain the roads.
I'm not a communist, nor a Marxist, but I studied Marx, under Marxists. In contrast, to Simon Black, I actually know what I'm talking about when I claim to understand Marxism. The reality is that Marx correctly identified the economic drivers of history. He said that the greed of the wealthy will always drive them to steal from the poor in ever greater degrees until the poor rise up in a tide of blood and gore to set the scales right again. Any student of history knows that's pretty accurate. While guys like Simon Black moan about supposed "communism," the 10 points of Marx's Manifesto were actually meant to establish the "socialist" state, but hey, "communism" is a more semantically loaded term, so let's use that, incorrectly. In actual fact, there is a much different reality confronting those of us living the REAL world. That reality is a corporate state, which Mussolini called "fascism." In the Marxist understanding, the fascist state will continue to steal from the workers, just like every other form of human government. Again, any student of history knows this to be accurate. The corporations will not stop their theft and destruction until they are overthrown. This push and pull between wealthy and poor will end, according to Marx, when the poor rise up and abolish both private property AND the state and usher in the "communist" utopia. Again, I'm not a Marxist, but I am concerned with accuracy, in contrast to Black who can't be bothered to understand the differences between communism, socialism and fascism. While idiots like Black look for "communists" under every rock and tree, we are being aggressively looted and enslaved by the fascist state, which is exactly what Marx predicted. Marxist and communist philosophy has been in disarray since the fall of the USSR in '89. Yet the right-wing lunatic fringe continues to look right past the fascist elephant in the room, while it tries to root out the communists who, like everyone else, are crushed beneath the elephant's feet.
Please, for the love of God, would you people stop throwing around words you don't understand and start working on the REAL problems facing us???
Excellent comment Dr. Snooz, thanks for putting it so well!!