“Fortunately,
socialist ownership of the tools of production proved so inefficient
that it only served as a placard for selling income confiscation and
redistribution to the “have-nots” of the underclass and a few utopian
eggheads. However, the fundamental goal of socialism remains unaltered:
the ownership of the hearts and minds and souls of mankind by a global
world order of socialist states controlled by a self-appointed
directorate.
Representative
democracies have long since been transformed into centralized powers
with perpetual incumbents and self-serving bureaucracies, answerable
only to the cabal of international financiers and the high priests of
the media and academia. In their envisioned global network of states,
they are the true parent of the child, the husband of the unmarried
mother, the equalizer of wealth, (other than that which is controlled by
the governing directorate), and the provider of first and last resort.
Consummating
the union of Marxist doctrine and the modern state through the
government-sponsored eradication of the family, religion, and private
productive property, they have produced the nuclear individual, who is
left with no alternative but to depend on the benevolence of government.
So we find that socialism alive and well, despite the setbacks caused
by communism’s failed attempt to reach the same goal. The possibility
of recovering the limited government bequeathed to us by the Founding
Fathers has likely long vanished.
The Marxist invasion of American public education, communications, and religion that was launched back in the mid-19th
century has enabled a lethal assault on our culture and heritage. But
the road to socialism in the United States has also been paved with a
fundamental reversal of the nature of public finance and the scale of
centralized federal government. The Founding Fathers….prescribed
indirect taxation….[a] basis for a limited funding of central government
[which] was directly contradicted by the Communist Manifesto, which
sought to tax personal income, corporate income, and inheritances.
It
was Abraham Lincoln who succeeded in adopting this triad of Marxist
taxation during the Civil War. Before the end of the war, the Supreme
Court found all three of these to be unconstitutional, and the only
Lincoln-imposed taxes that survived were excises on spirits and tobacco.
As
of 1913, total expenditures for federal, State, and local governments
in the United States consumed only one-twelfth of the output of the U.S.
economy. That was the year that the Progressive Republicans, led by
William Howard Taft (a “conservative icon”) and Theodore Roosevelt,
adopted the socialist triad, which would not become law until 1916, when
the States ratified the 16th Amendment.
The 16th
Amendment enabled socialism, but it was the Great Depression, as
handled by Roosevelt, that fundamentally instituted socialism here in
the United States. The “Great Society” proposed by John F. Kennedy and
implemented by Lyndon B. Johnson was the culmination of a true American
socialist welfare state of the Swedish model designed by Alva and Gunnar
Myrdal. Social security and Medicare, together with pensions and other
personal resources, created the individual aged, who no longer needed
to depend on the care of their children and grandchildren, thus severing
the ties between generations.”
(Marx’s and Engel’s Illegitimate Offspring, David Hartman, Chronicles Magazine, August 2006, excerpts, pp. 25-26 – www.chroniclesmagazine.org)
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