A Letter To America's Fools.

 Via JWMJR

"The reading of this manifesto will have many people either confused or dismissing it as the work of a confused mind.

But if we reexamine it more closely it is actually the melding of what von Mises called "German pattern socialism" and "Russian pattern socialism" adapted to 21st century circumstances.

Reexamination from this perspective, that the two are juxtaposed at one end of the political spectrum rather than at opposite ends certainly brings a different focus if not conclusion about what it says.

For seventy years we have been sold the lie of them being at opposite ends and it has now burdened our nation with a generation of ignorance but utter fools."

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In the 19th century as socialism became the latest rage in European politics the was no distinction made between communism and socialism. There were different types or interpretations of socialism but there was little distinction in the terms of their description. Different protagonists had their own preferences but the terms remained interchangeable even in Marx's writings. By 1875 Marx began to refer to what he called lower and higher forms, earlier vs. later forms of his imagined future perfected society. Nowhere however did he differentiate these states as socialism vs. communism.

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