When so many students think Communism isn't all bad and high school teachers suggest there's an upside to Communism, it's time to educate students about the realities.
I had a friend, with whom I worked, who was Native American. He actually used his tribal name rather than that name to describe his heritage. I asked about benefits he could have received or might receive because of his heritage. He said when he reached adulthood, he left the “reservation” and refused any “benefits” offered by the government. I asked why and he told me: “It wasn’t killing the buffalo that destroyed the tribes. It was the Bureau of Indian affairs giving them welfare and making them dependent on the government.”
The same effort is made in Socialist governments, monarchy’s and the feudal system. By taking individual rights away and making the people dependent on handouts, you create a serf or slave class and enforce it with big government laws, military and federal police to prevent any exercise of individual freedoms.
This is what was done in America with the tribes, with the New Deal, and every other federal government program in our history. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini did the same. Pre war German citizens were very happy with the government benefits they were given, until they saw what cost them. The Russians went from a monarchy to a socialist government with little or no change for the working classes, and just new names and titles for the government.
It’s as old as history, as you have pointed out repeatedly, and history has been rewritten with new names, “theories” and labels to make it seem like a new socio-political idea.
Keep calling out the frauds. D. Parker. It’s the only way our country can survive as it was envisioned by our founders .
"Natural experiments where the same people on the same land mass or country were divided, with one side free, and the other in socialist slavery, prove that collectivism cannot work, no matter how many people are killed"
"No matter how many people are killed."
Take that argument and run with it, all the way to Moscow, Beijing, and on to Washington DC.
You can skip Cambodia, Cuba, and all the rest, it's not necessary but doable.
Schools need to get back to the basics, and one of those is history. It is my contention that economics and philosophy are also basics, but they have never been taught in most K-12s.
They need to be.
Every American school kid needs to understand what the Enlightenment was, and why it is important.
100 % agreement on that. You don’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.
A solidifying contention is that the internet is causing a loss of intelligence. If you can instantly look something up – or ask AI about it (cringe) – you don’t really need to know about it.
Example: In my research, I came across the word ‘Nazid’ from a Biblical Dictionary from the 16th century. Just try looking up a word like that without getting plastered by everything around WWII.
While True Democracy is flawed even it’s best, it is better than all the rest, that man has ever come up with. The reason It is flawed, is because the very “freedoms” it enjoys only works best like a splendid ocean going vessel, when all the passengers, are all law abiding and faithful to the rules and regulations they agreed to to stay on board, and the Crew are loyal to the Passengers and the Captain alike, and the Captain, is honest, reliable, qualified, and able to Navigate through Hell or High Waters with all of the above intact, with regard to their safety and welfare above all else, even above himself. Of which there have been only a few and far between, that have come as close as is humanly possible thus far. And this is only “better than all the rest” until the Perfect Government that has existed for all Eternity, finds us humbled enough to want it. Selah
Communism is so easy to teach. Give the class $5 each to complete a task and sit back and watch. Some kids will go right to work, while others will just watch--they have their $5 no matter what so why work up a sweat?
Make this experiment last through the growing of some veggies so the kids can see day after day how some people are just plain slackers. Then have these slackers get together to vote how the veggies are divided up since they are the majority.
And to think... we narrowly escaped voting a Marxist into the Presidential office. Thank God there are enough rational, sane, logical and traditionally minded folk left in America to see and understand the bleak future that faced us ahead, had we allowed Kamala to get anywhere NEAR the White House again!
First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory.
[That’s one of the more recent translated editions from 1684]
“I holde well with Plato, and doo no thynge marueyll that he wolde make no lawes for them that refused those lawes, wherby all men shoulde haue and enioye equall portions of welthes and commodities l. For the wise man dyd easely forsee, that thys is the one and onlye waye to the wealthe of a communaltye, yf equaltye of all thynges sholde be broughte in and stablyshed.”
That’s “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” 300 years before Karl showed up on the scene.
The first experiments in what was later called socialism took place in the first colonies in the Americas in Jamestown in 1607 then Plymouth in 1620. Interestingly enough, that was also supposed to be the ‘location’ of the island of Utopia.
Was America once socialist? Surprisingly, yes. The early settlers who arrived at Plymouth and Jamestown in the early 1600s experimented with socialist communes. Did it work? History professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton shares the fascinating story.
The first documented use of ‘socialist’ in the Oxford English Dictionary is in a letter in The Co-operative Magazine, London, November 1827 in connection with collectivist experiments in the early 19th century.
“The chief question on this. point, however, between the modern, (or Mill and Malthus) Political Economists, and the Communionists or Socialists, is, whether it is more beneficial that this capital should be individual or in common?”
Sorry for the long answer, but those are the facts of the matter.
No argument there, but the actual Communist movement came much later and deployed different strategies beyond collectivism. It also didn’t take control of a large state until much later. I’m not trying to quibble about semantics.
But I think most will not understand what you’re saying without more of a back story.
The point is that while the fascist far-left loves to parrot the absolute lie that ‘communism has never really been tried before’ it has untold times over the past 400 years in all manner of experimental venues. And it’s never, ever worked.
It’s the political equivalent of a perpetual motion machine with hypothetical underpinnings that aren’t above flat earth theory.
Everyone should question anything that starts out with gun confiscation so that the leftists in charge have a monopoly on the use of force.
It’s not leadership when the end result is a stack of bodies.
When so many students think Communism isn't all bad and high school teachers suggest there's an upside to Communism, it's time to educate students about the realities.
Thanks for mentioning this new law.
I had a friend, with whom I worked, who was Native American. He actually used his tribal name rather than that name to describe his heritage. I asked about benefits he could have received or might receive because of his heritage. He said when he reached adulthood, he left the “reservation” and refused any “benefits” offered by the government. I asked why and he told me: “It wasn’t killing the buffalo that destroyed the tribes. It was the Bureau of Indian affairs giving them welfare and making them dependent on the government.”
The same effort is made in Socialist governments, monarchy’s and the feudal system. By taking individual rights away and making the people dependent on handouts, you create a serf or slave class and enforce it with big government laws, military and federal police to prevent any exercise of individual freedoms.
This is what was done in America with the tribes, with the New Deal, and every other federal government program in our history. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini did the same. Pre war German citizens were very happy with the government benefits they were given, until they saw what cost them. The Russians went from a monarchy to a socialist government with little or no change for the working classes, and just new names and titles for the government.
It’s as old as history, as you have pointed out repeatedly, and history has been rewritten with new names, “theories” and labels to make it seem like a new socio-political idea.
Keep calling out the frauds. D. Parker. It’s the only way our country can survive as it was envisioned by our founders .
"Natural experiments where the same people on the same land mass or country were divided, with one side free, and the other in socialist slavery, prove that collectivism cannot work, no matter how many people are killed"
"No matter how many people are killed."
Take that argument and run with it, all the way to Moscow, Beijing, and on to Washington DC.
You can skip Cambodia, Cuba, and all the rest, it's not necessary but doable.
TRIPLE BRAVO
Schools need to get back to the basics, and one of those is history. It is my contention that economics and philosophy are also basics, but they have never been taught in most K-12s.
They need to be.
Every American school kid needs to understand what the Enlightenment was, and why it is important.
100 % agreement on that. You don’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.
A solidifying contention is that the internet is causing a loss of intelligence. If you can instantly look something up – or ask AI about it (cringe) – you don’t really need to know about it.
Example: In my research, I came across the word ‘Nazid’ from a Biblical Dictionary from the 16th century. Just try looking up a word like that without getting plastered by everything around WWII.
While True Democracy is flawed even it’s best, it is better than all the rest, that man has ever come up with. The reason It is flawed, is because the very “freedoms” it enjoys only works best like a splendid ocean going vessel, when all the passengers, are all law abiding and faithful to the rules and regulations they agreed to to stay on board, and the Crew are loyal to the Passengers and the Captain alike, and the Captain, is honest, reliable, qualified, and able to Navigate through Hell or High Waters with all of the above intact, with regard to their safety and welfare above all else, even above himself. Of which there have been only a few and far between, that have come as close as is humanly possible thus far. And this is only “better than all the rest” until the Perfect Government that has existed for all Eternity, finds us humbled enough to want it. Selah
Communism is so easy to teach. Give the class $5 each to complete a task and sit back and watch. Some kids will go right to work, while others will just watch--they have their $5 no matter what so why work up a sweat?
Make this experiment last through the growing of some veggies so the kids can see day after day how some people are just plain slackers. Then have these slackers get together to vote how the veggies are divided up since they are the majority.
And to think... we narrowly escaped voting a Marxist into the Presidential office. Thank God there are enough rational, sane, logical and traditionally minded folk left in America to see and understand the bleak future that faced us ahead, had we allowed Kamala to get anywhere NEAR the White House again!
400 years? I’m opposed to Communism, but it is not 400 years old.
The concepts of collectivism can be traced to ancient Greece in discussions in Plato’s republic from 2,400 years ago:
Plato’s republic
https://archive.org/details/platosrepublic0000unse_e1n0
It was admitted by leftists that the book Utopia, first published in 1516 was the ‘first socialist position:’
Utopia
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15366912W/Utopia?edition=ia:utopia1684more
First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory.
[That’s one of the more recent translated editions from 1684]
https://archive.ph/11vG4
“I holde well with Plato, and doo no thynge marueyll that he wolde make no lawes for them that refused those lawes, wherby all men shoulde haue and enioye equall portions of welthes and commodities l. For the wise man dyd easely forsee, that thys is the one and onlye waye to the wealthe of a communaltye, yf equaltye of all thynges sholde be broughte in and stablyshed.”
That’s “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” 300 years before Karl showed up on the scene.
The first experiments in what was later called socialism took place in the first colonies in the Americas in Jamestown in 1607 then Plymouth in 1620. Interestingly enough, that was also supposed to be the ‘location’ of the island of Utopia.
America's Socialist Origins
https://www.prageru.com/video/americas-socialist-origins
Was America once socialist? Surprisingly, yes. The early settlers who arrived at Plymouth and Jamestown in the early 1600s experimented with socialist communes. Did it work? History professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton shares the fascinating story.
The first documented use of ‘socialist’ in the Oxford English Dictionary is in a letter in The Co-operative Magazine, London, November 1827 in connection with collectivist experiments in the early 19th century.
https://archive.ph/XEror
“The chief question on this. point, however, between the modern, (or Mill and Malthus) Political Economists, and the Communionists or Socialists, is, whether it is more beneficial that this capital should be individual or in common?”
Sorry for the long answer, but those are the facts of the matter.
No argument there, but the actual Communist movement came much later and deployed different strategies beyond collectivism. It also didn’t take control of a large state until much later. I’m not trying to quibble about semantics.
But I think most will not understand what you’re saying without more of a back story.
The point is that while the fascist far-left loves to parrot the absolute lie that ‘communism has never really been tried before’ it has untold times over the past 400 years in all manner of experimental venues. And it’s never, ever worked.
It’s the political equivalent of a perpetual motion machine with hypothetical underpinnings that aren’t above flat earth theory.
Everyone should question anything that starts out with gun confiscation so that the leftists in charge have a monopoly on the use of force.
It’s not leadership when the end result is a stack of bodies.