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Showing posts with label Socialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Socialism. Show all posts
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Monday, March 5, 2018
Penumbra from Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
On March 5, 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri which framed the decades that followed World War II.
In the Sinews of Peace speech, Churchill called out the Soviet Union for forcibly applying an Iron Curtain on lands that it occupied after defeating Nazi Germany along with the Allies (principally the United States and the British Commonwealth).
By chastising the forced communism in Soviet Occupied lands, it further alienated Soviet dictator Josef Stalin (a.k.a. "Uncle Joe"). For all practical purposes, this declared the Cold War, a conflict between the free market democratically elected United States and its allies against a communistic Soviet Union and its vassal states in Eastern Europe.
While Churchill did not utter his bon mot about socialism during the Iron Curtain speech, it does highlight Churchill's political philosophy which made economic and moral distinctions between a forced system of equality with capitalism.
Considering how well socialism is polling at so called institutes of higher learning in the West, it is fitting to remember Churchill's clarion call against Soviet aggression, and seek to find any examples of where communist principles have been peacefully implemented without subjugating most peoples' freedom, not creating an elite ruling class (nomenklatura) and providing a thriving economy
In the Sinews of Peace speech, Churchill called out the Soviet Union for forcibly applying an Iron Curtain on lands that it occupied after defeating Nazi Germany along with the Allies (principally the United States and the British Commonwealth).
By chastising the forced communism in Soviet Occupied lands, it further alienated Soviet dictator Josef Stalin (a.k.a. "Uncle Joe"). For all practical purposes, this declared the Cold War, a conflict between the free market democratically elected United States and its allies against a communistic Soviet Union and its vassal states in Eastern Europe.
While Churchill did not utter his bon mot about socialism during the Iron Curtain speech, it does highlight Churchill's political philosophy which made economic and moral distinctions between a forced system of equality with capitalism.
Considering how well socialism is polling at so called institutes of higher learning in the West, it is fitting to remember Churchill's clarion call against Soviet aggression, and seek to find any examples of where communist principles have been peacefully implemented without subjugating most peoples' freedom, not creating an elite ruling class (nomenklatura) and providing a thriving economy
Thursday, October 19, 2017
On the Meaning of Robin Hood to US
During a debate sponsored by CNN between Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (S-VT) and Conservative Senator Ted Cruz, the junior Senator from Texas demolished the Democrat conceit that progressives take from the rich to give to the poor.
Friday, September 22, 2017
Monday, May 1, 2017
On Paving the American Road to Communism
Recent polling has shown that just over half (55%) of American Millennials believe that communism was or is still a problem. In addition, only 37% of them have a very unfavorable view of communism compared to 57% of the rest of Americans. Furthermore, 64% of these Millennials say that they agree with the Marxist mantra: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs".
It should be noted that the same millennial class show a remarkable lack of knowledge about infamous and ruthless communists like Mao Zedung, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Karl Marx and Cuban revolutionary Che Gueverra (the latter must just be a stylish T-shirt icon) No wonder many deride the ideologically indoctrinated university students students as young skulls full of mush.
Such astounding ignorance and inclination to "lean forward" must make progressive professors at UC Berkeley and the ilk to party like it's October 1917.
Benito Mussilini on Socialism
Do not mistake Il Duce's pearl of wisdom as a being a rejection of state control of industry. Mussilini was a committed socialist, but he wanted to be the one to decide the allocation of labor and capital and make the trains run on time
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