Have you ever noticed that the most die-hard supporters of socialism/communism work for government? That would included teachers at public supported colleges and universities, of which Harvard is one. (Suggesting that Harvard is not publicly supported is laughable.)
On the other hand, the most dedicated free-market capitalists exist (surprise!) in the free market.
Those government employed Marxists cannot survive on their own. They must receive 'public' funds, which come from free market capitalists.
If one is going to going to put a spotlight on ideologies or philosophies founded on bases which are antithetical to Christianity, and undoubtedly marxism is one such ideology or philosophy, in my view one should be selective, but rather apply the spotlight to all philosophies or ideologies in that category. Take liberalism, for example, which predates Marxism and at the foundation of which sits Jean Jacques Rousseau from whose theories the ideas of Karl Marx, among others, derive their legitimacy.
Like Marxism, liberalism is founded in atheism and has and continues to undermine Christian principles and values. Yet I have rarely seen the same clinical and comprehensive analysis of the foundations and consequences of liberalism.
I think that having a clear and informed understanding of ideologies and philosophies which are incompatible with Christian principles and values is important. However that extends to all ideologies and philosophies.
Yes! Even in my youth when I was more of a liberal, the ideas of Marxism, Communism, Socialism...they never made sense to me. I am someone who tries to understand why people believe what they believe. I want to know what it is they think they see. I can't grasp it as anything other than an envy that breeds resentment so large that one can't see straight. I understand some of it when one is young, but over 30??? There are old people who believe in this. I don't get it.
There has never been true communism in major countries, only on kibbutzes. They were good at overthrowing the yoke of Monarchial capitalism but never got farther along in Marx's process than install his temporary dictatorship.
There are two more or less pure capitalistic countries that I can think of---Somalia, which shows that pure capitalism devolves into a thugocracy, and Honduras' experiment, more libertarian, that seems to have lost its way.
Pure communism, capitalism, and libertarianism are ideals, utopian extremes, and the best countries incorporate the more reasonable aspects of all three.
Define "country". Do you perhaps really mean "governments", as in the 'best governments'?
In my book, government answer to the citizens, not the other way around. My idea of the best government is one that does not make my decisions for me, but acknowledges my right to make my own plans, economics included.
The problem is not the system, the problem is the people running the system.
Therefore, the best systems are the ones that create an accountability, rule of law, and enforcement on those running the system.
We have lost our way in this country because we clearly have lost all accountability, rule of law, and enforcement of punishment on those who are corrupt as hell in our government.
For Communist "True Believers" any amount of suffering, pain and death (HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY) is justified if there is even a theoretical possibility of the "immanetization of the Eschaton" (hat tip to Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.).
I have been going deep into the conflict between a exclusive deterministic causality that says we live in a clockwork universe. The La Place conjecture. I address the overwhelming scientific agreement based on math and logic that we live in a world of both some determinism (defined by algorithms and well defined parameters like mass, energy, time and acceleration). It is shared by another causality - emergence/self-organization. The latter is like magic compared to determinism. Pretending that modern the pure sciences looking at living things, behavior, consciousness and religion can explain everything is a myth with absolutely no logical or mathematical basis. They can not explain what is going to happen in a pandemic or guess what RNA therapy can do in all possibilities without testing. Biology, humanities, behavioral science etc have a completely different epistemology and method of validating truth.
Neither of these causalities can explain why anything exists.
Their false claims are un-based smugness that is the current face of the materialism. It has no valid claim to be more correct/scientific than peoples belief in religion and God. It, like socialists, communists, left ideologues, most academia and media are anti-religion.They flourish in jobs with no feedback from reality. Most people with long experience know that having more faith in government is totally divorced from experience.
My blog is thethirdmillennium.com. I have always believed that the link between religion and our constitution starts with "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator..." Its all about the power starting with people and communities and families. Small to big vs big to small.
Saying communism is evil is like saying, "Guns kill people."
It is not the system, it is the people running it. Look at the evil bastards running this "bastion of capitalism." LMAO
Irony? Marx was a blood relative of Elijah. The jews are some of the dumbest people on the planet in that regard. Their existence is because their progenitor, Abraham, was hand picked by GOD to start them as a nation. Their entire history is replete with an intimate interaction with that GOD. Yet most of them are philosophically atheist and communist. The Bolshevik ranks were full of jews. I have some jewish buddies, and they don't know jack shit about the Bible or their history.
That being said, the difference between communism and capitalism is the age old battle between the collectivist and the individualist. Collectivist are evil, aggressive, and will eventually try to destroy anyone that resist their collective. They reject the thing we call The Bill of Rights. Take a look at the White House and Congress.......it is full of elected officials that piss on the Bill of Rights and scoff at the idea they should be held accountable to them. We are at the tipping point in this country where we are going to go from the greatest bastion of individual freedom the world has ever know to a collectivist nightmarish hellhole.
Communism is a system that is easily corrupted because the power is concentrated in a few hands. Capitalism does a much better job of spreading out the power and wealth and creates competition that makes corruption a lot harder. Though we are seeing the competition disappear and the centralization grow in power every successive year.
Governments as a whole HATE the rights of the individualist. They want "we are all in this together" so they can rule by herd methodology.
Chump is a socialist democrat......at best. He has no problem with the collectivist system as long as he and his buddies are running it. His antisemitism bullshit is treasonous as hell. Tell me BTC isn't a socialist, commune money that melds everyone together in a giant borg called the "block chain." Nothing is more individualistic than that paper money in my wallet or the gold and silver that I MIGHT have stashed somewhere. Digital money is all about the collective and central control.
America was great when it protected the rights of the individuals. Today, America uses its money and power to force its citizens and other nations to agree with it on whatever issue or policy it thinks is best.......and that usually includes whatever increases power in DC and fills the coffers of the billionaire club of pricks.
Capitalism is not based on Judeo-Christian values but rather on man's inherent nature as a conceptual being requiring absolute liberty to choose which values are necessary for his long-term happiness, provided he does not infringe on the liberty of others. Self-sacrifice is central to all religious values, not just Christianity. Capitalism can not last if man's liberty is sacrificed, even on the margins, as it simply sets the principle from which the degree of self-sacrifice is parsed politically, thus leading us down the road to serfdom.
Have you ever noticed that the most die-hard supporters of socialism/communism work for government? That would included teachers at public supported colleges and universities, of which Harvard is one. (Suggesting that Harvard is not publicly supported is laughable.)
On the other hand, the most dedicated free-market capitalists exist (surprise!) in the free market.
Those government employed Marxists cannot survive on their own. They must receive 'public' funds, which come from free market capitalists.
One of the best articulated discussions of capitalism and marxism. True.
Bringing religious lunacy into economics 🤡
If one is going to going to put a spotlight on ideologies or philosophies founded on bases which are antithetical to Christianity, and undoubtedly marxism is one such ideology or philosophy, in my view one should be selective, but rather apply the spotlight to all philosophies or ideologies in that category. Take liberalism, for example, which predates Marxism and at the foundation of which sits Jean Jacques Rousseau from whose theories the ideas of Karl Marx, among others, derive their legitimacy.
Like Marxism, liberalism is founded in atheism and has and continues to undermine Christian principles and values. Yet I have rarely seen the same clinical and comprehensive analysis of the foundations and consequences of liberalism.
I think that having a clear and informed understanding of ideologies and philosophies which are incompatible with Christian principles and values is important. However that extends to all ideologies and philosophies.
edmundlasch
Yes! Even in my youth when I was more of a liberal, the ideas of Marxism, Communism, Socialism...they never made sense to me. I am someone who tries to understand why people believe what they believe. I want to know what it is they think they see. I can't grasp it as anything other than an envy that breeds resentment so large that one can't see straight. I understand some of it when one is young, but over 30??? There are old people who believe in this. I don't get it.
Wait until this guy figures out that Capitalists funded The Bolsheviks. And Neocons are admitted Trotskyites.
Capitalism and Communism are not "opposed" to each other. They are two methods to reach the same end goal. Today we see the two blended.
Most people will never understand this.
Read Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley for a start.
Evil men care not what you name the system. You either deal with the evil men.....in any system......or they will use it against you.
What makes a man evil? To be void of principle and moral character. They are found in all economic systems.
There has never been true communism in major countries, only on kibbutzes. They were good at overthrowing the yoke of Monarchial capitalism but never got farther along in Marx's process than install his temporary dictatorship.
There are two more or less pure capitalistic countries that I can think of---Somalia, which shows that pure capitalism devolves into a thugocracy, and Honduras' experiment, more libertarian, that seems to have lost its way.
Pure communism, capitalism, and libertarianism are ideals, utopian extremes, and the best countries incorporate the more reasonable aspects of all three.
Define "country". Do you perhaps really mean "governments", as in the 'best governments'?
In my book, government answer to the citizens, not the other way around. My idea of the best government is one that does not make my decisions for me, but acknowledges my right to make my own plans, economics included.
The problem is not the system, the problem is the people running the system.
Therefore, the best systems are the ones that create an accountability, rule of law, and enforcement on those running the system.
We have lost our way in this country because we clearly have lost all accountability, rule of law, and enforcement of punishment on those who are corrupt as hell in our government.
For sure. If we get a big reset, if it's bad enough we may get a sober consensus on amending our constitution/government to prevent some of this crap.
For Communist "True Believers" any amount of suffering, pain and death (HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY) is justified if there is even a theoretical possibility of the "immanetization of the Eschaton" (hat tip to Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.).
I have been going deep into the conflict between a exclusive deterministic causality that says we live in a clockwork universe. The La Place conjecture. I address the overwhelming scientific agreement based on math and logic that we live in a world of both some determinism (defined by algorithms and well defined parameters like mass, energy, time and acceleration). It is shared by another causality - emergence/self-organization. The latter is like magic compared to determinism. Pretending that modern the pure sciences looking at living things, behavior, consciousness and religion can explain everything is a myth with absolutely no logical or mathematical basis. They can not explain what is going to happen in a pandemic or guess what RNA therapy can do in all possibilities without testing. Biology, humanities, behavioral science etc have a completely different epistemology and method of validating truth.
Neither of these causalities can explain why anything exists.
Their false claims are un-based smugness that is the current face of the materialism. It has no valid claim to be more correct/scientific than peoples belief in religion and God. It, like socialists, communists, left ideologues, most academia and media are anti-religion.They flourish in jobs with no feedback from reality. Most people with long experience know that having more faith in government is totally divorced from experience.
My blog is thethirdmillennium.com. I have always believed that the link between religion and our constitution starts with "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator..." Its all about the power starting with people and communities and families. Small to big vs big to small.
Saying communism is evil is like saying, "Guns kill people."
It is not the system, it is the people running it. Look at the evil bastards running this "bastion of capitalism." LMAO
Irony? Marx was a blood relative of Elijah. The jews are some of the dumbest people on the planet in that regard. Their existence is because their progenitor, Abraham, was hand picked by GOD to start them as a nation. Their entire history is replete with an intimate interaction with that GOD. Yet most of them are philosophically atheist and communist. The Bolshevik ranks were full of jews. I have some jewish buddies, and they don't know jack shit about the Bible or their history.
That being said, the difference between communism and capitalism is the age old battle between the collectivist and the individualist. Collectivist are evil, aggressive, and will eventually try to destroy anyone that resist their collective. They reject the thing we call The Bill of Rights. Take a look at the White House and Congress.......it is full of elected officials that piss on the Bill of Rights and scoff at the idea they should be held accountable to them. We are at the tipping point in this country where we are going to go from the greatest bastion of individual freedom the world has ever know to a collectivist nightmarish hellhole.
Communism is a system that is easily corrupted because the power is concentrated in a few hands. Capitalism does a much better job of spreading out the power and wealth and creates competition that makes corruption a lot harder. Though we are seeing the competition disappear and the centralization grow in power every successive year.
Governments as a whole HATE the rights of the individualist. They want "we are all in this together" so they can rule by herd methodology.
Chump is a socialist democrat......at best. He has no problem with the collectivist system as long as he and his buddies are running it. His antisemitism bullshit is treasonous as hell. Tell me BTC isn't a socialist, commune money that melds everyone together in a giant borg called the "block chain." Nothing is more individualistic than that paper money in my wallet or the gold and silver that I MIGHT have stashed somewhere. Digital money is all about the collective and central control.
America was great when it protected the rights of the individuals. Today, America uses its money and power to force its citizens and other nations to agree with it on whatever issue or policy it thinks is best.......and that usually includes whatever increases power in DC and fills the coffers of the billionaire club of pricks.
Capitalism is not based on Judeo-Christian values but rather on man's inherent nature as a conceptual being requiring absolute liberty to choose which values are necessary for his long-term happiness, provided he does not infringe on the liberty of others. Self-sacrifice is central to all religious values, not just Christianity. Capitalism can not last if man's liberty is sacrificed, even on the margins, as it simply sets the principle from which the degree of self-sacrifice is parsed politically, thus leading us down the road to serfdom.