Very few Americans are fans of both "The Communist Manifesto" and "Mein Kampf," as 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, the purported Tucson killer, apparently was. Fewer still post on the Internet fears about "brainwashing," "mind control" and "conscience dreaming"; have long records of public disruption and aberrant behavior; were expelled from community college; or were rejected summarily for military service. No matter. Almost immediately following Mr. Loughner's cowardly killing of six and wounding of 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, pundits and some public figures rushed to locate his rampage, together with his paranoid rantings about government control, within the larger landscape of right-wing politics - especially the rhetoric of the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
British poet Rudyard Kipling observed, "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. When I was in graduate school at Oxford, I studied some of the most beguiling words ever uttered -- words that had been used as a narcotic among both the educated and the ignorant. I speak of the words of communism. I wanted to know what all the fuss with communism was about. What could explain the attraction -- nay, the devotion -- to this juggernaut that had swept up entire nations and become the new organizing principle of millions of people? I poured over Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" and other seminal works in the body of communist literature and Marxian economics. I listened to some of my professors hold forth on the virtues of communistic ideals.
To the Editor: Questions: Why does President Obama hate the rich? Wasn't it the rich that created thousands of jobs in the private sector that helped make America the strongest economy in the world? Why does Obama want to tear them down? Answer: It is his agenda to make all Americans dependent on the government. He blames the rich for all of his problems. He must, therefore, tear down the rich along with the private sector, in order for his agenda to progress and succeed. All those who work, produce, and achieve in the private sector are prime targets for him. To those of you who have access, you should read the Communist Manifesto. You will be alarmed as to how close President Obama's agenda correlates to it. He is, in fact, a Socialist with a Marxist agenda! Proof: Notice h...
Private property also makes a key contribution to justice, classically defined as giving to each his due. Marx's Communist Manifesto advocated the abolition of private property at a time when its central role in both economics and freedom was still not really understood. [...] the World Bank encouraged the Mugabe regime down Zimbabwe's road to tyranny with a land reform program of its own.
One of the greatest sources of confusion and deception is the difference between leftists, progressives, socialists, communists and fascists. I thought about this as I caught a glimpse of the Oct. 2 "One Nation" march on Washington. The participants proudly marched with banners, signs and placards reading "Socialists," "Ohio U Democratic Socialists," "International Socialists Organization," "Socialist Party USA," "Build A Socialist Alternative" and other signs expressing support for socialism and communism. They had stands where they sold booklets under the titles of "Marxism and the State," "Communist Manifesto," "Four Marxist Classics," "The Road to Socialism" and similar titles. The gathering had the support of the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union, stalwarts of the Demo...
* People in the keep saying Republicans never give the people a minimum wage raise. I want everybody to know that George Bush signed into law the last two raises in minimum wage. Now I know you're not going to print this because you're half Democrat. * A Communist Manifesto of 1848 called for the redistribution of wealth.
Those of you whose parents forced you to make a weekly pilgrimage to the town library, testify. If you're like me, you would give your next-born child to go back in time right now and find the shelf that holds all those Shakespearean classics, or "The Communist Manifesto," or some random volume that would prepare you to study nuclear physics.
For many of us, it's part three of that summer trifecta of long, paid weekends -- and we hope you're enjoying today at your leisure. Labor Day in this country began on an early September Tuesday in 1882 with a parade of working folks in New York City -- who shared the yearnings of labor organizers in Europe. On our side of the pond, there were concerns over the connotations of the May Day celebrations and uprisings over there, where the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was gaining support. Ours was a peaceful beginning to what Congress and President Grover Cleveland by century's end turned into a national holiday; no small accomplishment in the wake of 1886's Haymarket Riots in Chicago, where May Day was labor's time to roar.
Congressman Baca cited the tea party as a possible reason why the attempted assassination took place in Tucson. Fact is, the alleged assassin, according to his family and friends, was a far-left progressive (New York Times). His Facebook page listed as his favorite book, Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto." His favorite movie is the anti-capitalist "Zeitgeist: The Movie.
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