Cultural Marxism extends the same form of analysis from economics to race, sex, ethnicity, sexuality – the list is virtually endless. Any group can claim to be oppressed. Just as in classic Marxism, the proposed solution is to raise your consciousness (become aware of yourself as an oppressed group), then rise up against the oppressor.
The Bronx: socialist ground zero
As
a Bronxite, I’m perplexed that the borough that holds the poorest
congressional district in the country would vote in candidates that lean
farther left than the swamp creatures that preceded them. At the very
least, our borough will be an experiment, a guinea pig, for how
socialist policies do nothing to help the middle class and poor. The
rest of the country should place the Bronx under a microscope and
closely observe the outcome of the socialist experiment that we have
voted ourselves into.
Why Socialism Sucks
Now, here’s why socialism sucks – if everyone is forced to finish a race at the same time then the entire race has to be run at the speed of the slowest runner. But you say, “but socialism means the fastest people go back and carry the slowest ones over the line.” But like it or not, people do not behave that way. And I can prove it. If you’re one of those people who call themselves a ‘socialist’ then you should take your iPhone and you’re X-Boxes down to a pawn shop, collect the cash, and distribute the money to the homeless. Some people are all about wealth redistribution when the wealth is being distributed to them; but when it’s time to redistribute their own wealth, they’re rock-rip capitalists. The fastest runners do not go back and carry the slowest ones and if they’re forced to do so they simply do less work and slow down.
Why run as fast as you can when the faster you go, the more weight you have to carry?
Why study like hell for 15 years in order to become a brain surgeon when you’re just going to get the same paycheck, the same house, and the same car as a barista at Starbucks? You bust your butt for 15 years studying for your entire youth and most of that work gets taken away from you by force to pay someone who doesn’t but get high and play video games all day? That’s fair?
Socialism doesn’t turn baristas into brain surgeons, socialism turns brain surgeons into baristas.
Bill Whittle is really describing redistributionism, aka Bernie Sanders’ brand of “democratic socialism” and not Marxist socialism, but you get the point.
@ms-scarletwings said:
We want equal opportunity, not equal outcome you soggy ham sandwhich.
Stop trying to conflate the socialism most of us are arguing for with communism. We’re not saying everyone should finish the race at the same time, we’re saying in order for the race to be fair everyone should START at the same line.
Take this strawman bullshit elsewhere.So, one must wonder what magical version of socialism is going to give the kind of permanent “equal opportunity,” which you are particularly clamoring for, to everyone? Because if four people were to even theoretically start off with the exact same opportunities and resources inevitably some people are naturally going to prosper while others will naturally fail. This is because people are different. That is the point of this video.
But it sounds like your brand of radical egalitarianism is to say whether some people fail your original “equal opportunity” experiment by creating natural inequality of success then we should ignore this outcome and keep repeating the experiment on the next generation and then the next generation ad infinitum.
Why It’s Time to Treat the Hammer and Sickle Like the Swastika
David Frum Exposes The Dangers Of Living In A ‘Trumpocracy’
In a greater hour of peril for the republic, it was the American
statesman par excellence who refused to take refuge in either foolish
optimism or fatalism. Lincoln knew that the struggle over our national
ideals was eternal, and coolly resolved that the noble experiment in
self-government “shall not perish from the earth.” He assured his fellow
citizens that the American experiment would endure by “the best
cultivation of the physical world beneath and around us; and the
intellectual and moral world within us.” And so it is today.
“He assured his fellow
citizens that the American experiment would endure by “the best
cultivation of the physical world beneath and around us; and the
intellectual and moral world within us.”
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happens over and over, good point or even great ideas drown from fallacies and then the wrong solution is drawn from it. a wonderful, potentially world changing flower in an ever expanding toxic waste dump of old rotting ideas
This Election Is Anything But Normal
Trump’s Nationalism Is Undoing Decades of GOP Failure
One thing the American Right has forgotten through their bromides in
favor of hyper individualism and the meandering status quo-ism is that
humans are inherently collective beings. Now while things like land
collectivization and seizing the means of production are terrible as
public policies, humans do yearn to connect with others under the banner
of a shared, common culture, language, background, and history.Families,
tribes, churches, fraternities, and other voluntary organic collectives
are an integral and necessary part of the human experience. One such
collective, I argue, is more important than all of those. It is the
nation. Without a strong nation, all else collapses beneath it. When
Americans are united amongst a common patriotism, everything else seems
to fall into place. When they are not, the Constitution becomes little
more than a piece of paper and society crumbles.
Podcast: America’s Division Stems From Opposing Views Of Freedom
“America is facing a Rubicon moment,” Guinness said. “Either there will
be a restoration of the founding vision, or it will be replaced, in
effect, by different views of the Republic, different views of freedom
and what we’ve known of American will soon become increasingly
unrecognizable.”
Podcast: America’s Division Stems From Opposing Views Of Freedom
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