No, he's suggesting she should look him up and take lessons from a White, Christian male for a change. At least she would sound original and her world view would grow tremendously which would cure her disease of wishing to appear and sound intelligent by theiving the ideas and words of others exactly as Marx did...With pay.
Creativity is obviously the opposite of what all the current Totalitarians/Authoritarians promulgating division based in their PAGANISM of 'Racism' and 'Climate Change' believe important goals to prioritize in life.
About racism and discrimination, you are correct. That is bad, also when leftists do it. I trace this to monopoly capitalists who aim to create racism and division amongst the people, instead of creating low unemployment for all.
The monopoly capitalists use a few psychopaths in the media and in the political left parties to brainwash the rest of the left into discriminatory stupidity.
100% equality is not the goal for any democratic socialist, probably not for any communist as well. I believe they want a society where monopoly capitalism and inequality does not go bananas, as with s.c. "Democrats" and "Republicans" taking orders from monopoly capitalist oligarchs.
That is why progressive taxes are necessary. If you don't tax the rich, society will become unbalanced, and a high murder frequency is likely the result, according to scientific meta studies.
Think about it! If you were less productive, for some reason, and others stole all jobs from the less productive, taking all the money, not sharing workload, not sharing salary with you, then why should you not rob or kill them? At some point you would have to do that, if you had no food or shelter.
My idea of a society is that we all share workload and income in a way that is perceived as fair by the vast majority. To understand that does not take much enlightenment, only ability to think correctly in about three steps. Like IQ above 80.
And who is to determine what is fair? Who is the arbiter of this system that looks so much like a control economy? And democratic socialists most definitely want a system that takes what is mine (since apparently I got it because of my white privilege, power, and racism) and give it to anyone that is deemed by the group to be deserving until we have the same amount of stuff. That is what equity is. The left have never needed any capitalists to seduce them into thinking in the way of Marx or Gramsci. They are happy getting there all by themselves. I have a theory that young adults are easily seduced by platitudes that make the person saying them seem smart. Smart is good if it's political and young people, particularly those of average intelligence and a political viewopoint love love love feeling smarter and more righteous than their peers. Approaching them using logic is met with angst and pure emotion.
I'm curious what you mean in the point about the less productive becoming unemployed and ultimately homicidal. Is there a construction there related to your thinking on the other parts of your missive? I'm not making fun, just trying to understand where that thought goes.
So people who work are ultimately trying to kill people who don't work? Nonsense in one step - you could be a leftist! Have a look at how many millions of innocent people were murdered by leftists in the Soviet Union and China in the 20th century in the name of "social justice", comrade.
In terms of "taxing the rich" - as distinct from taxing people who work - leftists are doing a really bad job of that.
Did it ever occur to you that people who don't work might be exploiting people who do work, via your "progressive" taxation system? So much for your "social justice".
Yes. People taking all the jobs from the ones who get no jobs are in fact trying to raise the murder frequency.
Evidence:
”Crime rate has also been shown to be correlated with inequality in society. Most studies looking into the relationship have concentrated on homicides – since homicides are almost identically defined across all nations and jurisdictions. There have been over fifty studies showing tendencies for violence to be more common in societies where income differences are larger. Research has been conducted comparing developed countries with undeveloped countries, as well as studying areas within countries. Daly et al. 2001[80] found that among U.S States and Canadian Provinces there is a tenfold difference in homicide rates related to inequality” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Crime
Psychopathy seems to be able to infiltrate all kinds of systems, and that is why you have corrupt s.c. "Democrats" in bed with monopoly capitalists today, and that is why they order mass murder with poisonous injections. That has nothing to do with "socialism" or "communism". The common factor is probably psychopathy, in my opinion.
At the same time, people do not organize new parties and independents in election coalitions, but keep voting for the psychopaths. I am so surprised. It is bizarre, but I guess Carl Sagan made a good point here:
”One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
I would say that your studies looking at the murder rate are suffering from looking for a specific causality then applying a set of measurements that force the hypothesis to be true. It's what Iaonnidis has fought against for a large portion of his career - badly constructed studies in which no useful outcome can be concluded.
I'll bet you a quadrillion dollars that the murder rate in the poorest part of Baltimore near where I live has among the highest murder rate in the country. I'll further bet that the rate in, say rural Ohio in the coal belt is very low. Both places are homogeneous and they undoubtedly have disparate rates of violent crime. That is not to say that we shouldn't attempt to decrease poverty, on the contrary it's very important.
I'm all for vastly enhancing educational opportunities for poor kids and providing more welfare to intact families instead of single parent homes. That would do more than anything else to reduce the violence we see in our country every day. I want poor people to want to earn more, have a sense of community, have agency and enrich themselves. But there will always be poor. There will always be laziness. There will always be opportunism.
"Yes. People taking all the jobs from the ones who get no jobs are in fact trying to raise the murder frequency."
What a load of bullshit. People who EARN their jobs, through merit or suitability, are not trying to take from anyone or raise the murder frequency.
The leftist research you cite essentially shows that people with various issues - lazy, unreliable, parasitic, antisocial, violent, etc - don't tend to earn jobs, so they don't earn money. Then, if they're not given other people's money, they act out with violence. The solution that you and other leftists always propose is to take money from people who earn it, and transfer it to people who didn't earn it and don't deserve it. Essentially, you favor bad people holding good people to ransom, with the threat of violence if they don't get their unearned way. We saw this in spades with the "Black Lives Matter" riots, and looting, and arson. By contrast, hard-working, good people do not tend to resort to violence, even when leftists are thieving their hard-earned income.
There are other issues in your leftist worldview, including that you only measure "equality" in terms of what people get (money), never in what they give (time, work, energy); the false and tedious framing of issues into the leftist victim/aggressor model (here, lazy and violent people are the victims, and people who earn their jobs and work for their money are the aggressors); and your steady ignorance of the tens of millions of murders that leftists committed in the 20th century. Most of these murders were committed by street-level leftists, not by the elite psychopath leftists you refer to.
The leftist model is divorced from reality, so in the long term it cannot work. Indeed, it generated spectacular failures in the 20th century, as above. Leftist countries and cities degrade until they take a dose of reality.
There are many others like me who are tired of this leftist bullshit.
I do not believe the scientific meta studies lies. I want to kill people and politicians every day. Only Jesus and God keeps my lion calm. I am sure they will deal with it, and I see them doing it every day too.
I do not get angry at all when people tell me the communists killed a lot of bourgeoisie. I just feel they did not torture them enough and did not kill enough of them, but I guess God is more merciful and loving than me.
I believe my hate is the result of being unemployed and pushed down by the bourgeoisie society, and because 80% vote for it. I hate them all and want them all tortured and dead. Take your boosters! Take your boosters! God is working in fantastic ways.
I had no such hateful feelings when I was part of society in a socialist Sweden with very low unemployment. I even volunteered in the defense of the country.
So, I am not egocentric. I will not abandon the unemployed if I get a job, but will continue to organize, cooperate and vote for reformation, giving all a job and a decent life.
... but it seems God will have to kill off a lot of egocentric bastards in the process ... since 80% still vote for the repression of 7% ... May God's will become law!
I do not agree. They are essential for a functioning society. However, the taxes must be progressive, in order to balance society, and must go to the things the majority of the people want. Otherwise that is a kind of theft. The problem is people voted for it. It is however not "slavery". Unfortunately, the people often vote for warmongering politicians who are in the pocket of oligarchs, creating war crimes and bad health.
Disagree about taxes. Agree on voting systems. Democracy is not through digital systems by companies, crackers or administrators. Democracy is by the people, of the people, through the people, and must therefore be manual, local and in the control of the people themselves, preferably anonymous, and preferably verifiable for the individual voter with a personal code, in my opinion.
Reverence for (fear of) the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge. When you build your initial thoughts on the false premise that there is no God then you end up foolish or brain dead, so to speak. You don't even begin to have wisdom or knowledge. You rule it out at the beginning.
Sure, it's envy, and not poverty, misery, exploitation, war, mass murder, environmental devastation and suffering that drives us to oppose the otherwise so wonderful capitalist system. Do tell!
If it were due to poverty or suffering the organizations devoted to Marxism would be full of poor and working class people, and would want to bring about changes that actually benefit the poorest and most disadvantaged in society.
Instead they are chock full of 20%ers raging non-stop about the 1%. Working class people are driven off either intentionally or through generic upper- middle class asshattery. What working class person wants to sit around a swanky gathering of people having pissing contests over who has the most or best degrees, or whose toddler can say antidisestablishmentarianism?... and before you scoff about that never happening, that is EXACTLY what happened at the last posh and precious Marxist ´do I had the misfortune to be brought to as a guest.
Excepting teenagers, I have never in my life met a Marxist who wasn't born and raised the upper end of the middle class. With the advent of that miserable Marxist-Progressive hybrid, Wokism, all pretending to even tolerate, much less care about, the poor and working class is gone. As far as I can tell, their sole goal is to gatekeep the **** out of any career with the slightest $ or prestige involved and to hoard every opportunity to themselves while trying to destroy anyone richer than they...or else they are accelerationists doing all they can to tank civilization in the hopes that the fairies of historic inevitability will wave their wands and a flat-packed environmentally-sustainable Utopia from Ikea will magically assemble itself.
The SDA doesn't even bother to discuss class anymore, anyways, so effectively there is no more Marxism, to speak of. Orwell spelled it all out, how out of touch Socialists undermine Socialism, back in 1937 in The Road to Wigan Pier, so not much has changed in 80 odd years.
I most emphatically did NOT make that mistake, as I described Wokism as a HYBRID ideology. However they are all hybrid ideologies, even Marx is a hybrid of the revolutionary anti-elite urge of the French Revolution plus his economic snd class observations...which were astute, but he was never going to keep those ideals pure, or keep anything under control. It was always going to end up a Stalinism.
But from the French Revolution on it's always been middle and upper- middle class revolutionaries, and when they're done with the upper classes they loathe, they always turn on the peasants and kulaks. Egalitarianism is merely an excuse invoked to attack those above them, once they get power its a boot stomping on a lower class face forever. It's a new class system based on tribal party loyalty run amok.
And you can disavow Woke all you like, but ideologically they are your incestuous bastard offspring. Everything they are comes from Marxism and its other post-Marxist offshoots like Critical Theory.
Jewish students?...like the ones locked into a library while a mob tried to break down the door to get them? Yeah, Woke got that little discursive trick from Marxists too... claim to be on the side of some group, but then platform only the minority of the group who agree with you, and assert that their voices are the "authentic" voices of the group while turning the rest into the target of a mob.
Unless you have spent a LOT of time in the Jewish community, I'm going to hazard that I know it and it's political and religious divisions better than you. I was complaining about and protesting the Israeli government before most of these Jewish students were out of diapers, and was one of the youngest doing so... only now that Woke has made it popular and prestige enhancing are these useful idiots rushing to protest, not realizing that for the gentile mob this is not about Israel, it's about Jews and "Jewish privilege". Now they are marching beside people waving hakenkreuzes...because every Marxism goes totalitarian, and every offshoot morphs into a fascism eventually.
Once again, like Leake himself, you are confusing the woke, with the Marxists. Finkelstein, whom I sure the Zionists on this thread hate with a passion, does not make that mistake in his book I'll Burn That Bridge When I Cross IT. Woke is anti-Marxist. Petite bourgeois consciousness is a tendency for ALL middle class intellectuals. The right wingers on this thread, including Leake, are deplorable examples of letting their privileges under capitalism dictate their conscience, and their politics. No wonder some here want to silence Claudine Gay, as well as the young Jewish students on campus! Just so inconvenient for you! You have my sympathies! NOT!
Gay and the other presidents under attack are complicit in woke, and I thought the SNL satire did a good job on that. But Stefanik is a real creep, and those who back her against Gay are just philistines. You say you're for freedom?! Then FIGHT FOR IT, NOT AGAINST IT!
But the mission of Marxism is to shake off this temptation, build a vanguard party that recruits the masses of working people into its ranks, on an egalitarian, "democratic centralist" basis. The Bolsheviks accomplished this, in September 1917, and this enabled them to wage the October Revolution successfully. What they did with that organic connection after that, is a matter of controversy. Wohlforth and Farber believe that under the pressure of imperialism, and Lenin's Blanquism--in other words, his petite bourgeois AUTHORITARIANISM--they fumbled the ball. They lost the connection. The revolution devolved into Stalinism. But it didn't, and it doesn't, have to be that way..
The Bolshevik revolution was heroic. The country was being destroyed, by the liberals, and the social democratic Compromisers. But did they have to create a one party state? Was it necessary to suppress, in other words, the Left SRs? There are facts which indicate that the answer was no. At the time, Trotsky made a gangster like statement, akin Eli Wallach's saying about Michael Corleone, "I wish someone would get rid of this stone in my shoe." The stone in Trotsky's shoe, was the Left SRs. Then there's the fact that the chief assassin of Count Mirbach was just a few years later welcomed into the Bolshevik Party, with open arms. As Lt. Columbo might say, "that was mighty peculiar".
Seriously, there is the possibility that these shots are introducing self assembling nano particle systems into the bodies of the "vaccinated", and that Netanyahu forced almost all of the Israeli population to take the shots. I wonder if this has to do with the fact that only a tiny percentage of the population now believes too much force is being used against the Palestinians, and the willingness of the IDF to carry out mass murder, even the murder of two Christian women going to the bathroom, medics, journalilsts, etc. etc.?
The universal truth is that God created everything from nothing that we can see. Natural man is at enmity with our Creator. Natural man willfully violates God’s laws that were made for him to have life and peace.
Viktor Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning” explains that that those selected to be Kapos in the Nazi concentration camps were selected precisely because they were sadists.
Those selected to serve as Presidents of (formerly) elite institutions, are selected precisely because they are hate filled, untethered and power hungry.
Anti-Jewish perhaps, anti-Israel maybe but not antisemitism please. They cannot be antisemitic as this covers approximately one third of the world's population as they descended from Shem, one of Noah's sons.
Despite the poor choice of name, Antisemitism was not from its origins ever aimed at Semitic speakers in their entirety. It was the "polite" and more scientific-sounding term thought up by Wilhelm Marr to replace Judenhass(Jew hatred). Attempts a century later to re-engineer the term to excuse yourself show only your own ignorance of history.
It was a poor choice of name you say, that says it all. Words matter dear soul, they always have.
Honestly, do you think I didn't look up the history? Wikipedia refers to an earlier person, Moritz Steinschneider. I mention this in my link, but I don't suppose you bothered to check did you??
And if you can be bothered to look at Wikipedia, it does say that it WAS aimed more generally at Semitic speakers.
You refer to '"polite" and more scientific-sounding term'. That is called political correctness, in other words it was a load of bollox.
Get a grip and double check before you launch in to an unfounded criticism.
Steinschneider's use of the term with a differing meaning may have preceded Marr's but his is not the usage from which our modern day term derives at all, which you know perfectly well, seeing as Marr's is the meaning in every dictionary and your substitutionary use of Steinschneider's meaning is now characterized as erroneous.
Digging up the grave of another variant that went nowhere is pedantry and sophistry at it's best.
So what? Don't you understand that it is the distortion of language that causes problems? I am correcting that distortion.
And please, it is not a "variant that went nowhere", what an imbecilic thing to say. I have given you the real meaning of antisemitism which you wilfully ignore. I suggest you stop digging a hole for yourself.
It is not the first time that a German like Wilhelm Marr has messed things up. Germany has a Nazi (sic) habit of waging war against the world in recent times.
It would seem that many of the people making noise in our country today suffer from a state of narcosis. Might this be due to the hypnotic effect of poor teaching in our schools or from the chemicals in the fast food diets or some other agent in their zombie world.
What a nice strawman you have constructed there! Now go actually read some Marxist texts, Losurdo's take on classical liberalism is an excellent one, and come back when you are less ignorant.
Holy shit... No, excuse me, wholly... Pseudo-medicine really doesn't need pseudo-post mcCarthyite pseudo philosophical dross Mr. Leake... Utter nonsense from start to finish, 2/10, must try harder. Probably detrimental to Dr. McCulloch nonsense like that...
@Thomas Gerard Smith It’s amazing to see a communist like you acting up here. What’s the matter with you? Have you taken the 9th COVID shots as prescribed by Dr Tony Fauci? Make sure you triple mask yourself while reading this post.
And it's fascism obviously... Corporate/state amalgam. I take it you did read Mussolini 1934 speech on Rome on the corporate state where he disavows Marxism, in your masters in history?
Dear John Leake, your assessment of the situation of Leftist thinking as 'brain death' is accurate. We could add that they are also action-wise soul death. But this has nothing to do with the works of Marx and other socialists of the past. Rather it has to do a lot with what happened following the end of WWII and the way the West organized itself against the 'dangers of socialism' through the creation of transnational and intergovernmental organizations such as the NATO, the UN, World Bank, IMF, and numerous other organizations as an umbrella network to protect and advance Western capitalism. On the one hand, they dealt with emerging socialist movements and governments brutally (Chile, Argentina, Turkey in the 70s) and, more importantly and unintentionally, they gave birth to new economic formations by opening public institutions to expansion and privatization such as the media, the academies, health care, policing, security, the military, prisons (hence jurisdiction), education, and others. The initial strong position of Marxists in the academy was overridden by new academic endeavors such as environmentalism, feminism, anti-racism, queer studies, sexuality and gender studies, and many other grievances-based discourses, as well as by mushrooming MBA schools with their graduates taking over public institutions and transforming them into state-privileged corporations. What we refer to as 'brain death' or 'soul death' is the result of diminishing support for society- and community-conscious research and scholarship, which also paralleled the weaking of workers' unions. Nature and society abhors vacuum; the places and positions abandoned by Leftist oriented people were occupied by opportunists and ethically uninhibited people. They are the woke crowd of today - the likes of Claudine Gay. There is nothing Leftist about them. In the US context, for political usage, they are referred to as Leftists. That is okay because many of their associates claim to be Leftists such as Bernie Sanders. In actuality there is no Left Right opposition in the US at the moment, there is an opposition between people involved in criminal activities in varying degrees and people wanting to restore law and order.
True. The Claudine Gays of the world are opportunists. Presiding over Harvard pays a lot more than flipping burgers and certainly doesn’t require any real work!
They seem to preside over a world of "isims" where everything purported to be real is tangential and simile. Hilarious they should so often describe it as a thing called "intersectionality" where anything actually present is officially concretized and ornamented with academically favored adjectives and jingoism.
As for Racialism, how does one rid the world of racial bigotry by inculcating racialism and obsession with skin color as identity and as a measure of human worth?
Those who monetize racialism for personal gain and participate in its inculcation are promoting the breadth and stratification of bigotry in society. I realize the promulgation of bigotry is a time-honored academic tradition, but its pathological result is disordered thinking at best and soul murder at worst.
Teaching children they are a skin color is child abuse. Those who monetize the practice are engaged in a depravity far more cruel and pernicious than we currently appreciate. Each child has a soul. How is it good when that is harvested for the political and economic advantage of another?
Racialism and its inculcation has nothing to do with family heritage. It's modern carpetbaggery of the worst sort; parasitic and elementally self-immolating.
There is a point to numbing, unreadable prose. It is an assertion of power. Stalin knew this. His lengthy analytic articles about Marxist-Leninist theory were intellectual sadism, compelled assent to wearying prose, with a death threat hanging behind each numbing paragraph. On a less bloodthirsty level, a similar point was made about Warren Christopher by someone forced to endure a speech composed entirely of woodenly delivered monotone platitudes, who concluded that being boring, being obvious, being stale, is a privilege and a symbol of power. Everyone had to listen, and clap politely, and pretend to be interested and enlightened, as a professional obligation. Gay's work is similar. She pretends to be a scholar, and everyone else has to pretend that she is one, at risk of professional annihilation.
What she is doing, and what people do in response, is an exercise in naked, brainless power.
So you are right, but it is worse than you say here. Much worse.
Totalitarianism works on one simple principle: Participate in the lie or perish.
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Inside every Progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out."
John, it appears that several of the radical left have noticed you. Thank you for what you have written! May the Truth prevail in a time of great darkness.
Wokeness has revealed pretty clearly how much of a percentage of the population are automaton conformists.
Aka NPCs
OUCH
So you’re saying Gay should have plagiarized some more interesting and deeper-think authors? 🤣😂
It's a measure of HER intellectual nullity that she couldn't tell the difference...!
No, he's suggesting she should look him up and take lessons from a White, Christian male for a change. At least she would sound original and her world view would grow tremendously which would cure her disease of wishing to appear and sound intelligent by theiving the ideas and words of others exactly as Marx did...With pay.
Creativity is obviously the opposite of what all the current Totalitarians/Authoritarians promulgating division based in their PAGANISM of 'Racism' and 'Climate Change' believe important goals to prioritize in life.
Leftist stupidity, in one easy step:
Everyone is equal / we, the leftists, are the enlightened ones.
Everyone is equal / we, the leftists, should rule over others.
Racism is bad / let's divide people by race (affirmative action, diversity).
Discrimination is bad / let's discriminate against Whites (affirmative action, diversity).
Everone is equal / let's take from productive people and give to unproductive people.
This is a formula for societal degeneration and destruction.
When I was a uni. student back in the mid-60's, a prof. said : there is nothing as unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.
About racism and discrimination, you are correct. That is bad, also when leftists do it. I trace this to monopoly capitalists who aim to create racism and division amongst the people, instead of creating low unemployment for all.
The monopoly capitalists use a few psychopaths in the media and in the political left parties to brainwash the rest of the left into discriminatory stupidity.
100% equality is not the goal for any democratic socialist, probably not for any communist as well. I believe they want a society where monopoly capitalism and inequality does not go bananas, as with s.c. "Democrats" and "Republicans" taking orders from monopoly capitalist oligarchs.
That is why progressive taxes are necessary. If you don't tax the rich, society will become unbalanced, and a high murder frequency is likely the result, according to scientific meta studies.
Think about it! If you were less productive, for some reason, and others stole all jobs from the less productive, taking all the money, not sharing workload, not sharing salary with you, then why should you not rob or kill them? At some point you would have to do that, if you had no food or shelter.
My idea of a society is that we all share workload and income in a way that is perceived as fair by the vast majority. To understand that does not take much enlightenment, only ability to think correctly in about three steps. Like IQ above 80.
And who is to determine what is fair? Who is the arbiter of this system that looks so much like a control economy? And democratic socialists most definitely want a system that takes what is mine (since apparently I got it because of my white privilege, power, and racism) and give it to anyone that is deemed by the group to be deserving until we have the same amount of stuff. That is what equity is. The left have never needed any capitalists to seduce them into thinking in the way of Marx or Gramsci. They are happy getting there all by themselves. I have a theory that young adults are easily seduced by platitudes that make the person saying them seem smart. Smart is good if it's political and young people, particularly those of average intelligence and a political viewopoint love love love feeling smarter and more righteous than their peers. Approaching them using logic is met with angst and pure emotion.
I'm curious what you mean in the point about the less productive becoming unemployed and ultimately homicidal. Is there a construction there related to your thinking on the other parts of your missive? I'm not making fun, just trying to understand where that thought goes.
So people who work are ultimately trying to kill people who don't work? Nonsense in one step - you could be a leftist! Have a look at how many millions of innocent people were murdered by leftists in the Soviet Union and China in the 20th century in the name of "social justice", comrade.
In terms of "taxing the rich" - as distinct from taxing people who work - leftists are doing a really bad job of that.
Did it ever occur to you that people who don't work might be exploiting people who do work, via your "progressive" taxation system? So much for your "social justice".
Yes. People taking all the jobs from the ones who get no jobs are in fact trying to raise the murder frequency.
Evidence:
”Crime rate has also been shown to be correlated with inequality in society. Most studies looking into the relationship have concentrated on homicides – since homicides are almost identically defined across all nations and jurisdictions. There have been over fifty studies showing tendencies for violence to be more common in societies where income differences are larger. Research has been conducted comparing developed countries with undeveloped countries, as well as studying areas within countries. Daly et al. 2001[80] found that among U.S States and Canadian Provinces there is a tenfold difference in homicide rates related to inequality” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Crime
Psychopathy seems to be able to infiltrate all kinds of systems, and that is why you have corrupt s.c. "Democrats" in bed with monopoly capitalists today, and that is why they order mass murder with poisonous injections. That has nothing to do with "socialism" or "communism". The common factor is probably psychopathy, in my opinion.
At the same time, people do not organize new parties and independents in election coalitions, but keep voting for the psychopaths. I am so surprised. It is bizarre, but I guess Carl Sagan made a good point here:
”One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
/Carl Sagan
I would say that your studies looking at the murder rate are suffering from looking for a specific causality then applying a set of measurements that force the hypothesis to be true. It's what Iaonnidis has fought against for a large portion of his career - badly constructed studies in which no useful outcome can be concluded.
I'll bet you a quadrillion dollars that the murder rate in the poorest part of Baltimore near where I live has among the highest murder rate in the country. I'll further bet that the rate in, say rural Ohio in the coal belt is very low. Both places are homogeneous and they undoubtedly have disparate rates of violent crime. That is not to say that we shouldn't attempt to decrease poverty, on the contrary it's very important.
I'm all for vastly enhancing educational opportunities for poor kids and providing more welfare to intact families instead of single parent homes. That would do more than anything else to reduce the violence we see in our country every day. I want poor people to want to earn more, have a sense of community, have agency and enrich themselves. But there will always be poor. There will always be laziness. There will always be opportunism.
"Yes. People taking all the jobs from the ones who get no jobs are in fact trying to raise the murder frequency."
What a load of bullshit. People who EARN their jobs, through merit or suitability, are not trying to take from anyone or raise the murder frequency.
The leftist research you cite essentially shows that people with various issues - lazy, unreliable, parasitic, antisocial, violent, etc - don't tend to earn jobs, so they don't earn money. Then, if they're not given other people's money, they act out with violence. The solution that you and other leftists always propose is to take money from people who earn it, and transfer it to people who didn't earn it and don't deserve it. Essentially, you favor bad people holding good people to ransom, with the threat of violence if they don't get their unearned way. We saw this in spades with the "Black Lives Matter" riots, and looting, and arson. By contrast, hard-working, good people do not tend to resort to violence, even when leftists are thieving their hard-earned income.
There are other issues in your leftist worldview, including that you only measure "equality" in terms of what people get (money), never in what they give (time, work, energy); the false and tedious framing of issues into the leftist victim/aggressor model (here, lazy and violent people are the victims, and people who earn their jobs and work for their money are the aggressors); and your steady ignorance of the tens of millions of murders that leftists committed in the 20th century. Most of these murders were committed by street-level leftists, not by the elite psychopath leftists you refer to.
The leftist model is divorced from reality, so in the long term it cannot work. Indeed, it generated spectacular failures in the 20th century, as above. Leftist countries and cities degrade until they take a dose of reality.
There are many others like me who are tired of this leftist bullshit.
I do not believe the scientific meta studies lies. I want to kill people and politicians every day. Only Jesus and God keeps my lion calm. I am sure they will deal with it, and I see them doing it every day too.
I do not get angry at all when people tell me the communists killed a lot of bourgeoisie. I just feel they did not torture them enough and did not kill enough of them, but I guess God is more merciful and loving than me.
I believe my hate is the result of being unemployed and pushed down by the bourgeoisie society, and because 80% vote for it. I hate them all and want them all tortured and dead. Take your boosters! Take your boosters! God is working in fantastic ways.
I had no such hateful feelings when I was part of society in a socialist Sweden with very low unemployment. I even volunteered in the defense of the country.
So, I am not egocentric. I will not abandon the unemployed if I get a job, but will continue to organize, cooperate and vote for reformation, giving all a job and a decent life.
... but it seems God will have to kill off a lot of egocentric bastards in the process ... since 80% still vote for the repression of 7% ... May God's will become law!
Taxes are true slavery, which has been used and exploited for a reason. “They” have made people believe that taxes are normal. Taxes are theft.
I do not agree. They are essential for a functioning society. However, the taxes must be progressive, in order to balance society, and must go to the things the majority of the people want. Otherwise that is a kind of theft. The problem is people voted for it. It is however not "slavery". Unfortunately, the people often vote for warmongering politicians who are in the pocket of oligarchs, creating war crimes and bad health.
There are many things necessary for a “functioning” society. Taxes is DEFINITELY not one of them. Taxes are a Ponzi scheme.
And, if you haven’t noticed, the voting system is illegitimate…they are not fair or free. My vote does not matter.
Disagree about taxes. Agree on voting systems. Democracy is not through digital systems by companies, crackers or administrators. Democracy is by the people, of the people, through the people, and must therefore be manual, local and in the control of the people themselves, preferably anonymous, and preferably verifiable for the individual voter with a personal code, in my opinion.
Aren’t you a “cracker”???? Good luck with the “color revolution”…cracker! 😉🤣😂🤣😂
Also, the USA is SUPPOSE to be a Constitutional Republic. Unfortunately, the Marxists have the power now.
There are plenty of sociopaths and psychopaths, white collar types, running the show. They did a grand job of it in France 1790s.
Reverence for (fear of) the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge. When you build your initial thoughts on the false premise that there is no God then you end up foolish or brain dead, so to speak. You don't even begin to have wisdom or knowledge. You rule it out at the beginning.
Amen to you John.
The (Left's) Politics of Envy shall always have avid proponents; after all, they market to the Demographics.
Sure, it's envy, and not poverty, misery, exploitation, war, mass murder, environmental devastation and suffering that drives us to oppose the otherwise so wonderful capitalist system. Do tell!
Yes, it is envy.
If it were due to poverty or suffering the organizations devoted to Marxism would be full of poor and working class people, and would want to bring about changes that actually benefit the poorest and most disadvantaged in society.
Instead they are chock full of 20%ers raging non-stop about the 1%. Working class people are driven off either intentionally or through generic upper- middle class asshattery. What working class person wants to sit around a swanky gathering of people having pissing contests over who has the most or best degrees, or whose toddler can say antidisestablishmentarianism?... and before you scoff about that never happening, that is EXACTLY what happened at the last posh and precious Marxist ´do I had the misfortune to be brought to as a guest.
Excepting teenagers, I have never in my life met a Marxist who wasn't born and raised the upper end of the middle class. With the advent of that miserable Marxist-Progressive hybrid, Wokism, all pretending to even tolerate, much less care about, the poor and working class is gone. As far as I can tell, their sole goal is to gatekeep the **** out of any career with the slightest $ or prestige involved and to hoard every opportunity to themselves while trying to destroy anyone richer than they...or else they are accelerationists doing all they can to tank civilization in the hopes that the fairies of historic inevitability will wave their wands and a flat-packed environmentally-sustainable Utopia from Ikea will magically assemble itself.
The SDA doesn't even bother to discuss class anymore, anyways, so effectively there is no more Marxism, to speak of. Orwell spelled it all out, how out of touch Socialists undermine Socialism, back in 1937 in The Road to Wigan Pier, so not much has changed in 80 odd years.
I most emphatically did NOT make that mistake, as I described Wokism as a HYBRID ideology. However they are all hybrid ideologies, even Marx is a hybrid of the revolutionary anti-elite urge of the French Revolution plus his economic snd class observations...which were astute, but he was never going to keep those ideals pure, or keep anything under control. It was always going to end up a Stalinism.
But from the French Revolution on it's always been middle and upper- middle class revolutionaries, and when they're done with the upper classes they loathe, they always turn on the peasants and kulaks. Egalitarianism is merely an excuse invoked to attack those above them, once they get power its a boot stomping on a lower class face forever. It's a new class system based on tribal party loyalty run amok.
And you can disavow Woke all you like, but ideologically they are your incestuous bastard offspring. Everything they are comes from Marxism and its other post-Marxist offshoots like Critical Theory.
Jewish students?...like the ones locked into a library while a mob tried to break down the door to get them? Yeah, Woke got that little discursive trick from Marxists too... claim to be on the side of some group, but then platform only the minority of the group who agree with you, and assert that their voices are the "authentic" voices of the group while turning the rest into the target of a mob.
Unless you have spent a LOT of time in the Jewish community, I'm going to hazard that I know it and it's political and religious divisions better than you. I was complaining about and protesting the Israeli government before most of these Jewish students were out of diapers, and was one of the youngest doing so... only now that Woke has made it popular and prestige enhancing are these useful idiots rushing to protest, not realizing that for the gentile mob this is not about Israel, it's about Jews and "Jewish privilege". Now they are marching beside people waving hakenkreuzes...because every Marxism goes totalitarian, and every offshoot morphs into a fascism eventually.
Once again, like Leake himself, you are confusing the woke, with the Marxists. Finkelstein, whom I sure the Zionists on this thread hate with a passion, does not make that mistake in his book I'll Burn That Bridge When I Cross IT. Woke is anti-Marxist. Petite bourgeois consciousness is a tendency for ALL middle class intellectuals. The right wingers on this thread, including Leake, are deplorable examples of letting their privileges under capitalism dictate their conscience, and their politics. No wonder some here want to silence Claudine Gay, as well as the young Jewish students on campus! Just so inconvenient for you! You have my sympathies! NOT!
Gay and the other presidents under attack are complicit in woke, and I thought the SNL satire did a good job on that. But Stefanik is a real creep, and those who back her against Gay are just philistines. You say you're for freedom?! Then FIGHT FOR IT, NOT AGAINST IT!
But the mission of Marxism is to shake off this temptation, build a vanguard party that recruits the masses of working people into its ranks, on an egalitarian, "democratic centralist" basis. The Bolsheviks accomplished this, in September 1917, and this enabled them to wage the October Revolution successfully. What they did with that organic connection after that, is a matter of controversy. Wohlforth and Farber believe that under the pressure of imperialism, and Lenin's Blanquism--in other words, his petite bourgeois AUTHORITARIANISM--they fumbled the ball. They lost the connection. The revolution devolved into Stalinism. But it didn't, and it doesn't, have to be that way..
The Bolshevik revolution was heroic. The country was being destroyed, by the liberals, and the social democratic Compromisers. But did they have to create a one party state? Was it necessary to suppress, in other words, the Left SRs? There are facts which indicate that the answer was no. At the time, Trotsky made a gangster like statement, akin Eli Wallach's saying about Michael Corleone, "I wish someone would get rid of this stone in my shoe." The stone in Trotsky's shoe, was the Left SRs. Then there's the fact that the chief assassin of Count Mirbach was just a few years later welcomed into the Bolshevik Party, with open arms. As Lt. Columbo might say, "that was mighty peculiar".
Their problem is that they got vaccinated too young, and it messed up their cognitive development. Whose fault is that ?
Seriously, there is the possibility that these shots are introducing self assembling nano particle systems into the bodies of the "vaccinated", and that Netanyahu forced almost all of the Israeli population to take the shots. I wonder if this has to do with the fact that only a tiny percentage of the population now believes too much force is being used against the Palestinians, and the willingness of the IDF to carry out mass murder, even the murder of two Christian women going to the bathroom, medics, journalilsts, etc. etc.?
What did you think of Claudine Gay's thesis?
I dont think Claudine Gay is my type, but there wasnt enough detail to be sure.
The universal truth is that God created everything from nothing that we can see. Natural man is at enmity with our Creator. Natural man willfully violates God’s laws that were made for him to have life and peace.
Viktor Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning” explains that that those selected to be Kapos in the Nazi concentration camps were selected precisely because they were sadists.
Those selected to serve as Presidents of (formerly) elite institutions, are selected precisely because they are hate filled, untethered and power hungry.
John Leake and Peter McCullough, you need to delete some of the comments on your post. It’s seething with antisemitism.
Anti-Jewish perhaps, anti-Israel maybe but not antisemitism please. They cannot be antisemitic as this covers approximately one third of the world's population as they descended from Shem, one of Noah's sons.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/a-is-for-anti-semitism/
Despite the poor choice of name, Antisemitism was not from its origins ever aimed at Semitic speakers in their entirety. It was the "polite" and more scientific-sounding term thought up by Wilhelm Marr to replace Judenhass(Jew hatred). Attempts a century later to re-engineer the term to excuse yourself show only your own ignorance of history.
It was a poor choice of name you say, that says it all. Words matter dear soul, they always have.
Honestly, do you think I didn't look up the history? Wikipedia refers to an earlier person, Moritz Steinschneider. I mention this in my link, but I don't suppose you bothered to check did you??
And if you can be bothered to look at Wikipedia, it does say that it WAS aimed more generally at Semitic speakers.
You refer to '"polite" and more scientific-sounding term'. That is called political correctness, in other words it was a load of bollox.
Get a grip and double check before you launch in to an unfounded criticism.
The intent of the accusation is, as noted, pointing out Jew hatred.
Your real argument remains, that criticism of Israel and its government and insititutions is not criticism of Judaism or Jews.
Steinschneider's use of the term with a differing meaning may have preceded Marr's but his is not the usage from which our modern day term derives at all, which you know perfectly well, seeing as Marr's is the meaning in every dictionary and your substitutionary use of Steinschneider's meaning is now characterized as erroneous.
Digging up the grave of another variant that went nowhere is pedantry and sophistry at it's best.
So what? Don't you understand that it is the distortion of language that causes problems? I am correcting that distortion.
And please, it is not a "variant that went nowhere", what an imbecilic thing to say. I have given you the real meaning of antisemitism which you wilfully ignore. I suggest you stop digging a hole for yourself.
It is not the first time that a German like Wilhelm Marr has messed things up. Germany has a Nazi (sic) habit of waging war against the world in recent times.
I think you just outed yourself. Censorship and deleting comments is something an ignorant child would do.
It would seem that many of the people making noise in our country today suffer from a state of narcosis. Might this be due to the hypnotic effect of poor teaching in our schools or from the chemicals in the fast food diets or some other agent in their zombie world.
All of the above.
I'm not understanding the animus toward this post. College professors perhaps?
John Leake is right. When you understand two of the foundation stones of the Left:
1) there is no absolute truth
2) man is inherently good...
...it's a lot easier to spot "The Intellectual Nullity of Today's Left."
What a nice strawman you have constructed there! Now go actually read some Marxist texts, Losurdo's take on classical liberalism is an excellent one, and come back when you are less ignorant.
Exceptions don't make the rule, and Losurdo's not much of an exception.
You sure hit that nail square on the head John. Using nothing but obvious truth!
Holy shit... No, excuse me, wholly... Pseudo-medicine really doesn't need pseudo-post mcCarthyite pseudo philosophical dross Mr. Leake... Utter nonsense from start to finish, 2/10, must try harder. Probably detrimental to Dr. McCulloch nonsense like that...
Dump this guy, Peter. He's bad news. Completely unworthy of you.
@Thomas Gerard Smith It’s amazing to see a communist like you acting up here. What’s the matter with you? Have you taken the 9th COVID shots as prescribed by Dr Tony Fauci? Make sure you triple mask yourself while reading this post.
And it's fascism obviously... Corporate/state amalgam. I take it you did read Mussolini 1934 speech on Rome on the corporate state where he disavows Marxism, in your masters in history?
Dear John Leake, your assessment of the situation of Leftist thinking as 'brain death' is accurate. We could add that they are also action-wise soul death. But this has nothing to do with the works of Marx and other socialists of the past. Rather it has to do a lot with what happened following the end of WWII and the way the West organized itself against the 'dangers of socialism' through the creation of transnational and intergovernmental organizations such as the NATO, the UN, World Bank, IMF, and numerous other organizations as an umbrella network to protect and advance Western capitalism. On the one hand, they dealt with emerging socialist movements and governments brutally (Chile, Argentina, Turkey in the 70s) and, more importantly and unintentionally, they gave birth to new economic formations by opening public institutions to expansion and privatization such as the media, the academies, health care, policing, security, the military, prisons (hence jurisdiction), education, and others. The initial strong position of Marxists in the academy was overridden by new academic endeavors such as environmentalism, feminism, anti-racism, queer studies, sexuality and gender studies, and many other grievances-based discourses, as well as by mushrooming MBA schools with their graduates taking over public institutions and transforming them into state-privileged corporations. What we refer to as 'brain death' or 'soul death' is the result of diminishing support for society- and community-conscious research and scholarship, which also paralleled the weaking of workers' unions. Nature and society abhors vacuum; the places and positions abandoned by Leftist oriented people were occupied by opportunists and ethically uninhibited people. They are the woke crowd of today - the likes of Claudine Gay. There is nothing Leftist about them. In the US context, for political usage, they are referred to as Leftists. That is okay because many of their associates claim to be Leftists such as Bernie Sanders. In actuality there is no Left Right opposition in the US at the moment, there is an opposition between people involved in criminal activities in varying degrees and people wanting to restore law and order.
True. The Claudine Gays of the world are opportunists. Presiding over Harvard pays a lot more than flipping burgers and certainly doesn’t require any real work!
They seem to preside over a world of "isims" where everything purported to be real is tangential and simile. Hilarious they should so often describe it as a thing called "intersectionality" where anything actually present is officially concretized and ornamented with academically favored adjectives and jingoism.
As for Racialism, how does one rid the world of racial bigotry by inculcating racialism and obsession with skin color as identity and as a measure of human worth?
Those who monetize racialism for personal gain and participate in its inculcation are promoting the breadth and stratification of bigotry in society. I realize the promulgation of bigotry is a time-honored academic tradition, but its pathological result is disordered thinking at best and soul murder at worst.
Teaching children they are a skin color is child abuse. Those who monetize the practice are engaged in a depravity far more cruel and pernicious than we currently appreciate. Each child has a soul. How is it good when that is harvested for the political and economic advantage of another?
Racialism and its inculcation has nothing to do with family heritage. It's modern carpetbaggery of the worst sort; parasitic and elementally self-immolating.
Brilliant comment. You my friend have intellect superior to the carnival barkers in leadership roles across academia and more.
And, most importantly, no one will DARE say a disparaging word to her. Gay has free rein to do and say as she chooses (I mean, did..).
Another jewel. Good on you! Beautifully and thoughtfully written.
But ...
There is a point to numbing, unreadable prose. It is an assertion of power. Stalin knew this. His lengthy analytic articles about Marxist-Leninist theory were intellectual sadism, compelled assent to wearying prose, with a death threat hanging behind each numbing paragraph. On a less bloodthirsty level, a similar point was made about Warren Christopher by someone forced to endure a speech composed entirely of woodenly delivered monotone platitudes, who concluded that being boring, being obvious, being stale, is a privilege and a symbol of power. Everyone had to listen, and clap politely, and pretend to be interested and enlightened, as a professional obligation. Gay's work is similar. She pretends to be a scholar, and everyone else has to pretend that she is one, at risk of professional annihilation.
What she is doing, and what people do in response, is an exercise in naked, brainless power.
So you are right, but it is worse than you say here. Much worse.
Totalitarianism works on one simple principle: Participate in the lie or perish.
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Inside every Progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out."
- David Horowitz
John, it appears that several of the radical left have noticed you. Thank you for what you have written! May the Truth prevail in a time of great darkness.
They may be Obiden bots
Affirmative Action in action! Most contemporary Leftists get to the top by lying, cheating, s--king, f--king and ideological incest.