Real Meaning of Marxism: Disintegration of the Family

Phil Gramm: “My educational policies are based on the fact that I care more about my children than you do.”
Progressive: “No, you don’t.”
Phil Gramm: “Okay: What are their names?”

Given that Marxism has little real dialogue with anything outside of a plan to have government-owned everything, it makes one wonder what "dialect" means for dialectical materialism.  It surely doesn't mean that Marxism merely revises itself in response to objective inquiry.  Nothing objective will avail itself against the axiom of 'class struggle' in terms of which all must be interpreted.  All facts serve the self-evident truth.

If anything, it is a warning about anything that needs to validate itself with the word 'scientific.'  Marx' "dialectic" may have borrowed conceptually from Hegel, but Marx had no truck with Hegel's idealism.  He thought he was turning Hegel's idea on its ear by rooting it in materialism, and to Marx materialism was realism and realism was materialism.

What could be more objective then, than finding the 'meaning' of Marxism in its policies.  Marx himself outlined 10 platform points to convert a society to communism.

It amuses me when folks think that you can put everything in the hands of the People, by taking control away from people and giving it to government, an elite oligarchy of central planners.  When personal property is abolished (the 1st point) who gets to decide what is done with the "public" property?  Some animals are created more equal than others.

Aside from Marx' points to put all capital, credit, production resources, communication, and transportation in the hands of the state (any and all of which to lead toward collectivist totalitarianism, Marx was quite right), there is something else that is important:

Consider #10 (public education) and #3 together (abolition of inheritance):  Instead of allowing children to work, it important that the government instead cultivates them to be workers for the public good, train them to be loyal instruments of public production.

Benghazi-gate vs. Watergate

A bit of nostalgia from one American about the late-blooming Benghazi story:

I lived through 'Watergate'....I was in my early twenties and once it gained momentum all the media was covering it, in fact if you were not it was considered 'Un-American'. Benghazi is far worse and if you criticize it you are Un-American, Stupid and a RACIST. What a difference forty years of liberal schooling and media 'indoctrination' can do.

Yes, times they've been a-changin'.  But realize that the fact that a Democrat is doing this rather than a Republican also makes a difference.

Foster Care - Atheist Jodie Foster Teaches the Meaning of Faith

"People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist...In my home, we ritualize all of them. We do Christmas. We do Shabbat on Fridays. We love Kwanzaa. I take pains to give my family a real religious basis, a knowledge, because it's being well educated. You need to know why all those wars were fought." ~ Jodie Foster (Examiner)

A truly talented actress, but does the ability to channel human emotion and embody story lend itself to the ability to think deeply?  Surely there are always exceptions, but Hollywood seems to give us many examples to make us think that these abilities don't often accord with each other.

Ah, the grand tradition of Kwanzaa over which many wars have been fought.  Or not.  Kwanzaa is an invented holiday with a fusion of traditions, some of which seem to be borrowed from Hanukkah.  Kwanzaa is not even properly a speculation but a whole-cloth invention to replace disparate traditions that the African slaves forgot and lost.  I've joined celebrations of Ramadan and Passover in traditional homes, and these have been very positive cultural experiences.  I love the idea of people celebrating traditions that link them to their ancestors.  There is something I find deeply sad about Kwanzaa's self-defeating lack of history and continuity.  It's sort o' like talking about that great vacation you never took with the father you never had.  It seems like the sort of thing only someone extremely uninformed or extremely progressive could get excited about.

During the early years of Kwanzaa, Karenga [who invented it] said that it was meant to be an alternative to Christmas, that Jesus was psychotic, and that Christianity was a white religion which Black people should shun. [Wikipedia]

Challah bread

I wonder, by "Christmas" does Jodie Foster mean that she celebrates the story of the birth of Immanuel?  Or does she simply mean that she gives her family a "real religious basis" by opening wrapped presents by the Tannenbaum shortly after the solstice?  Wow, I bet she even takes the fam on Easter egg hunts in order to introduce them to the hope of Resurrection that has sustained believers for millenia.  Awesome.

"Here, kids. Light the menorah, I mean, the kinara, put out some milk and cookies for Santa, and pass the challah.  This is why we fight wars, kids.  Kind o' stupid, huh?  That's why Mom's an atheist."  It's a Saturnalia miracle.

Deep. While she's at it, she might want to tell her kids about the ritual killings and crucifixions of theists by various sects of the Marxist religion.  If they really need to know how an Ultimate Concern inspires war and and terror and torture.

The communist torturers often [told me], “There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.” I heard one torturer say, “I thank God in whom I don’t believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart.”*

It's a Communist Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.

Hope 'n' Change Cartoons

This cartoonist is pretty funny.  Some really extra-sharp satire for right-leaning folk.

six contradictions of socialism in the USA

I've been wondering about these for years...

Poor Barbara

After years of this guy blaming Dubya for everything (literally making a career of it), she has to sit next to the jolly Marxist.

A New Pledge of Allegiance

Above picture depicts the original Bellamy salute to be performed with the Pledge of Allegiance.  Seems a little creepy, doesn't it?

I'm a little sentimental about the Pledge in spite of its origins in creating a docile, obedient populace.  It stirs up feelings of how special this nation really is, and how special its founding was.

But I think it is a little odd to pledge allegiance to a flag, when such a symbol is easily perverted.  If our government turned against its own people, it would still be waving this flag.  "To the republic" is much more meaningful, if you know that republic is not a mere synonym for nation.  The "indivisible" part is a post-Civil War rejection of the 10th item in our Bill of Rights, and doesn't really convey how the States were intended to be United.

Here is something that I think would be an improvement to our Pledge, if somewhat less poetic:

I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States, and the republican form of limited government which it constitutes, one republic of free states standing united for their mutual liberty and defense against tyranny, a beacon to the world for the natural rights of humankind.  

Or perhaps:

I pledge allegiance to the natural rights of mankind, which arise in Free States of self-governing free peoples, and to the Constitution that Unites these States, one republic so constituted, and a federal government so restricted, for free peoples at all times prepared to oppose any form of tyranny, a beacon of hope and liberty to the world.

Something like that.  If either of these seem too radical to our Establishment leaders, they need to stop praising our Founders, because these radical ideas pervade our Constitution, our Declaration, the Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist Papers, and our political literature for the first 40 years of our republic.