Peter1469 (06-30-2020)
The American Revolution overthrew tyranny of a foreign government. You don't want to "maintain" your livelihood, you want to climb onto the backs of someone else and live off of them. I work 60+ hours a week as a poor country lawyer just to make ends meet. It's funny, the little socialist in my office doesn't work like that. Hmmmmm. Her bonus will reflect her production.
I think conservatives prepare for the day when they have to defend their lives and their way of life. Go out there and earn it, rather than taking it from someone that has earned it.
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
How dare you suggest that people actually work! That is not what the agitators are looking for. It is also the reason that they are purged after they bring about the socialist revolution. They are dead weight when the socialist are in power and dead weight is not tolerated.
Green Arrow (06-30-2020)
I think Marxism is a derivative of capitalism in two ways. Marxism (really socialism and communism in all of its forms) would not exist were it not for the conditions of urban workers particularly in terms of dissolute lifestyles and poor family life. Materially, most of them were actually better off. On the other hand and despite the fact that most of us perceive capitalism and Marxism as polar opposites the two share many of the same premises and differ principally on how the wealth produced by the market is to be distributed.
Regarding the LTV, it's important to place emphasis on human labor but the theory misses the mark, IMO, because it makes labor the sole criterion of value. This is an example I encountered while reading a Catholic treatise sympathetic overall to the LTV: (paraphrased) a vineyard in Iceland will require much more labor to produce inferior wine while a vineyard in Portugal will produce superior wine with a fraction of the labor. In this case, the LTV takes no account of the natural conditions under which a good is produced.
Just some thoughts.
Marx's work isn't a blueprint for Communism. How it's actually to be implemented is left to his interpreters. It has been a tragic tale.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Chris (06-30-2020),Green Arrow (06-30-2020),Peter1469 (06-30-2020),zelmo1234 (06-30-2020)
Well, yes and no. Ever hear of the Communist Control Act of 1954?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commun...0by%20a%20jury
It made it a criminal offense to be a member of the Communist Party or any similar organization. It wasn't declared unconstitutional by a federal court until 1973, and to date the Supreme Court has never ruled on it. Except to keep declared Communist candidates off one ballot or another, it has never been enforced.
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Peter1469 (06-30-2020)