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Understanding the Fabian Society… Worldview, Agenda, & Methodes
The Century of Self
0122 days
by VERITAS
in Documentary Films
To many in both business and government, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power is truly moved into the hands of the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis tells the untold and controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society. How is the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interest? Continue reading “The Century of Self” »
Behind The Green Mask
0Rosa Koire campaigns against the United Nations Agenda 21, a plan for the whole world: Excerpt from her web site: http://www.postsustainabilityinstitute.org
Rense & Rosa Koire – Agenda 21 Eco Terror War – YouTube.
Hollywood Loves to Drop Names
0Tom Hanks bombed earlier this year with his film Larry Crown. Over Thanksgiving I had the opportunity to watch this comedy and was amazed at the very end of the film Hanks drops George Bernard Shaw’s name by stealth without explanation and moves on to boy-gets-girl. Here is the real history on Uncle George… a founder of the Fabian Society.
911 TEN YEARS LATER
0253 days
Watch 9/11 Explosive Evidence, Experts Speak Out, Ver. 1.2
Excerpt: Just a mere and simple utterance of the word, 9/11, or September 11th, or any other various related terms can stir up a caldron of emotion – and it runs the entire spectrum. From steadfast defenders of the government’s official explanation of what happened on 9/11 to those arguing theories of a deep, dark, evil conspiracy. There is no shortage of passion. Continue reading “911 TEN YEARS LATER” »
LEFTISM: PROGRESS OR REACTION?
0413 days
by VERITAS
in Chapter-6 REACTION
CHAPTER 6 LEFTISM: PROGRESS OR REACTION?
Introduction
The all-embracing theme of socialist and communist propaganda is that their movements are “progressive”. Leftists label all those who stand for personal freedom and individual rights as “conservative” or “reactionary”. They have tried to make the term “progressive” a synonym for all leftists and the term “reactionary” a synonym describing all their opponents. Continue reading “LEFTISM: PROGRESS OR REACTION?” »
The Medieval Straight-Jacket
0414 days
by VERITAS
in Chapter-6 REACTION
CHAPTER 6 LEFTISM: PROGRESS OR REACTION?
The medieval straight-jacket
with more power over more and more of the activities of men.” <4>
The medieval straight-jacket
In order to probe the socialist claim of being progressive it is necessary to check the history of socialist thought. People are led to believe that socialism is something new and modern, evolved out of the present day high technical level of production. However, all , the basic essentials of modern socialism, as they exist today, were : formulated between the years 1803 and 1848.<5> This was a period when the benefits of private enterprise and free competition had barely mllde their appearance. The American Revolution and the French Revolution had taken place scarcely a generation before Saint Simon formulated his socialistic theories. The breath of the Middle Ages could still be felt upon the civilizations of Europe. The German principalities in particular were still saturated with medieval trappings and customs. Continue reading “The Medieval Straight-Jacket” »
Freedom Called “outmoded” at birth
0415 days
by VERITAS
in Chapter-6 REACTION
CHAPTER 6 LEFTISM: PROGRESS OR REACTION?
Freedom called “outmoded” at birth
shackles of medieval collectivism came several generations before the ripening of an economic system which developed on the basis of competition freed from feudal restrictions. The struggle for the freedom of the individual man came first and the economic results in the form of the system of private enterprise developed later as a natural result. This is in complete contradiction to the erroneous prevailing view that the system of private enterprise came first and that the ideas of individual rights came later as a reflection of the new means of production.
The main reason why the poverty, ignorance, filth and disease in the factory slums were so glaring during the early part of the industrial revolution was that these were the accumulations of the barbaric backwardness of the recently overthrown feudal order. The liberated serf-like population had brought to the cities all the ancient habits of ignorance, lack of sanitation, primitive morals and misconduct. Conditions in a serf’s hovel were immeasurably worse than the poorest of the city slums of the industrial revolution. However, the serf’s lot was not as socially noticeable in the rural environment, since each family was relatively isolated. The sudden influx of brutalized and impoverished masses from the-feudal countryside into the new industrial areas dramatized the degeneracy and poverty which had been fermenting for centuries under feudalism. The fledgling system of free enterprise was immediately loaded with a terrible legacy of pre-existing mass misery.
Socialist propagandists wrote as if the business world had taken people of high calibre and brutalized them through the process of industrialization. This is a great historical fraud.
Karl Marx, in his Communist Manifesto, carried out the fiction of his socialistic predecessors that capitalism had degraded human beings from a formerly higher level. He charged that the new industrial system had “changed personal dignity into market value, and substituted the single unprincipled freedom of trade for the numerous, hardly earned, chartered liberties of the middle ages.”<9>
Freedom called “outmoded” at birth
The system of business enterprise was just beginning. The great technological and industrial development was to follow. However, Karl Marx and his cohorts had already proclaimed that “The
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9… The “Communist Manifesto” (printed for the first time in English in the United States) Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, Dec. 30, 1871, p. 3.
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Socialism a Reaction
0416 days
by VERITAS
in Chapter-6 REACTION
CHAPTER 6 LEFTISM: PROGRESS OR REACTION?
Socialism a reaction
long after the socialist principles were first proclaimed there. Saint Simon and Charles Fourier promulgated their socialist theories 27 and 15 years respectively before the industrial revolution began in France in 1830.<6> Karl Marx laid down the entire basic super-structure of his theories within 36 months, beginning with 1844. He was then 26 years of age. He had spent 25 of those 26 years in Germany, and his program was oriented towards the German situation. The industrial revolution in Germany did not get under way until six years later, with the formation of the German Empire under Prussian leadership (circa 1850).<7>
The industrial revolution in the United States did not begin until after the Civil War. The denunciation of American capitalism occurred 22 years before.<8>
Socialism a reaction
One can only imagine how all the subsequent progress of human society would have suffered if humanity had listened to the socialists at that time and allowed itself to be constricted in a socialized straight-jacket into a closed social order with no chance of further industrial expansion and development.
In the overwhelming number of cases, school textbooks create the impression that socialistic theories arose out of the conditions brought about by the industrial revolution. This is a gross misstatement from which the left-wing has reaped tremendous political capital. The truth is that the period during which the basic socialist tenets were fashioned was a period when society was throwing off the chains of medievalism.
For the first time, in many centuries, men began to fight for the principles of individual liberty and personal dignity. The ignorance, disease, brutality and abysmal poverty of the Dark and Middle Ages finally caused courageous and intelligent men to rebel against the feudal “closed society”. The industrial fruition of this freedom was still to come. The fight to free the human spirit from the
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6… As previously indicated, Saint Simon enunciated his basic principles in 1803. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition, indicates that the industrial revolution did not develop in France until after 1830, p. 957.
7… New International Encyclopedia, Dodd Mead & Co., N. Y., 1926, 2nd ed., Vol. 12, p. 150; William L. Langer, An Encyclopedia of World History, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1960, p. 678.
8….Charles Sotheran, Horace Greeley and Other Pioneers of American Socialism, passim.
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shackles of medieval collectivism came several generations before the ripening of an economic system which developed on the basis of competition freed from feudal restrictions. The struggle for the freedom of the individual man came first and the economic results in the form of the system of private enterprise developed later as a natural result. This is in complete contradiction to the erroneous prevailing view that the system of private enterprise came first and that the ideas of individual rights came later as a reflection of the new means of production.
The main reason why the poverty, ignorance, filth and disease in the factory slums were so glaring during the early part of the industrial revolution was that these were the accumulations of the barbaric backwardness of the recently overthrown feudal order. The liberated serf-like population had brought to the cities all the ancient habits of ignorance, lack of sanitation, primitive morals and misconduct. Conditions in a serf’s hovel were immeasurably worse than the poorest of the city slums of the industrial revolution. However, the serf’s lot was not as socially noticeable in the rural environment, since each family was relatively isolated. The sudden influx of brutalized and impoverished masses from the-feudal countryside into the new industrial areas dramatized the degeneracy and poverty which had been fermenting for centuries under feudalism. The fledgling system of free enterprise was immediately loaded with a terrible legacy of pre-existing mass misery.
Socialist propagandists wrote as if the business world had taken people of high calibre and brutalized them through the process of industrialization. This is a great historical fraud.
Karl Marx, in his Communist Manifesto, carried out the fiction of his socialistic predecessors that capitalism had degraded human beings from a formerly higher level. He charged that the new industrial system had “changed personal dignity into market value, and substituted the single unprincipled freedom of trade for the numerous, hardly earned, chartered liberties of the middle ages.”<9>
Freedom called “outmoded” at birth
The system of business enterprise was just beginning. The great technological and industrial development was to follow. However, Karl Marx and his cohorts had already proclaimed that “The
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9… The “Communist Manifesto” (printed for the first time in English in the United States) Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, Dec. 30, 1871, p. 3.
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MARXISTS TWIST HISTORY
0424 days
by VERITAS
in Chapter-5 HISTORY
CHAPTER 5 MARXISTS TWIST HISTORY
Introduction
When Charles Beard and his cohorts sold the idea to the American educational system that history is economically determined they pretended that this was a new American concept. Several generations of Americans have been taught this false historical principle without knowing that they were being inoculated with Karl Marx’s old formula of historical materialism, or what is sometimes called the economic interpretation of history. The only thing unique about Charles Beard and his corps of undercover socialists was the smooth technique with which this whole process was put over on the American public. Millions of Americans, including teachers and academicians, did not suspect that this was a device to brainwash an entire nation and change the whole concept of national destiny.
In order to unravel the wordy superstructure which Marx foisted upon the world under the label of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, we must look into the motives behind Marx’s theories. We must also remember the period in world history when his ideas were germinated.
Most observers, both leftist and conservative, who deal with the Marxist question, seem to forget that Karl Marx hatched his theorems in the middle of the 19th century, when the forces of private enterprise and individual initiative were still in their infancy, and had only recently emerged from the restrictions of feudalism. Karl Marx lived, wrote and died when daily life was characterized by horse-drawn transportation, primitive sanitation, backward farming, and almost no medicine in the modem sense. It was under these relatively backward conditions that Marx made the charge that capitalism had already outgrown its usefulness and was ripe for revolutionary overthrow.
Chroniclers of Marxism generally fail to note that Karl Marx did not arrive at his so-called “scientific socialism” by “scientific” investigation and testing. Marx embraced socialism as a teen age
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youth, as an emotional belief and then spent the rest of his life in constructing theoretical justifications for his creed, – just the reverse of the “scientific” methods that Karl Marx and his followers profess.
Bigotry inspired Marx
Marx’s original historical theory was actually an anti-Jewish interpretation of history. He later refined it into the formula called “an economic interpretation of history.”
In 1844, having elected to become a professional revolutionary, Marx presented socialism as a revolution against the system of private enterprise which he characterized as a “Judaized” economy. He labeled the noble principles of individual dignity and personal freedom as “Judaistic” characteristics taken over by Christian society. He declared:
“The Jew has emancipated himself in Jewish fashion, not only by taking to himself financial power, but by virtue of the fact that with and without his cooperation money has become a world power, and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of Christian nations.
The Jews have emancipated themselves insofar as Christian have become JewS.”1
“The Jew who exists as a peculiar member of bourgeois society, is only the particular expression of the Judaism of bourgeois society.
“Judaism has survived not in spite of, but by virtue of history.
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1… Karl Marx, Selected Essays (“On the Jewish Question”) translated by H. J. Stenning, International Publishers (Soviet publication outlet) N. Y., 1926 (pp. 89·90). First printed in the Deutsch·Franzosische lahrbucher, Paris, 1844. (Marx was coeditor of this periodical).
Also see: Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Marx-Biographical Memoirs, Charles H. Kerr Co., (socialist), Chicago, 1901, translated by Ernest Untermann. Liebknecht, a close friend of Karl Marx, and later a leader in the International socialist movement, quotes Marx on the nature of the capitalist system:
“Now for the first time Judaism could gain universal supremacy and change dispossessed Man and Nature into disposable, salable objects, a prey to the serfdom of egoistic wants, of barter.”
“Disposal is the practice of dispossession. Just as Man, while he is religiously handicapped, knows no better way to make his being objective, than to change it into a strange, phantastic being, so under the supremacy of egoistic want he can only manifest himself practically, produce practical objects, by submitting his products as well as his activity to the supremacy of a strange being and giving them the meaning of a strange being-of money.” pp. 19·20
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Bigotry Inspired Marx
0425 days
by VERITAS
in Chapter-5 HISTORY
CHAPTER 5 MARXISTS TWIST HISTORY
Bigotry Inspired Marx
youth, as an emotional belief and then spent the rest of his life in constructing theoretical justifications for his creed, – just the reverse of the “scientific” methods that Karl Marx and his followers profess.
Bigotry inspired Marx
Marx’s original historical theory was actually an anti-Jewish interpretation of history. He later refined it into the formula called “an economic interpretation of history.”
In 1844, having elected to become a professional revolutionary, Marx presented socialism as a revolution against the system of private enterprise which he characterized as a “Judaized” economy. He labeled the noble principles of individual dignity and personal freedom as “Judaistic” characteristics taken over by Christian society. He declared:
“The Jew has emancipated himself in Jewish fashion, not only by taking to himself financial power, but by virtue of the fact that with and without his cooperation money has become a world power, and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of Christian nations.
The Jews have emancipated themselves insofar as Christian have become JewS.”1
“The Jew who exists as a peculiar member of bourgeois society, is only the particular expression of the Judaism of bourgeois society.
“Judaism has survived not in spite of, but by virtue of history.
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1… Karl Marx, Selected Essays (“On the Jewish Question”) translated by H. J. Stenning, International Publishers (Soviet publication outlet) N. Y., 1926 (pp. 89·90). First printed in the Deutsch·Franzosische lahrbucher, Paris, 1844. (Marx was coeditor of this periodical).
Also see: Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Marx-Biographical Memoirs, Charles H. Kerr Co., (socialist), Chicago, 1901, translated by Ernest Untermann. Liebknecht, a close friend of Karl Marx, and later a leader in the International socialist movement, quotes Marx on the nature of the capitalist system:
“Now for the first time Judaism could gain universal supremacy and change dispossessed Man and Nature into disposable, salable objects, a prey to the serfdom of egoistic wants, of barter.”
“Disposal is the practice of dispossession. Just as Man, while he is religiously handicapped, knows no better way to make his being objective, than to change it into a strange, phantastic being, so under the supremacy of egoistic want he can only manifest himself practically, produce practical objects, by submitting his products as well as his activity to the supremacy of a strange being and giving them the meaning of a strange being-of money.” pp. 19·20
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“Out of its own entrails, bourgeois society continually creates Jews.” <2>
Having branded the private enterprise system as a “bourgeois” order he declared:
“Because the real essence of the Jew has been generally realized and secularized in bourgeois society, the latter could not convince the Jew of the unreality of his religious essence, which is merely the ideal reflexion of his practical needs.” <3>
According to Marx the United States was the classical example of a society that has become “Judaized” through private enterprise. He declared:
“The practical domination of Judaism over the Christian world has reached such a point in North America that the preaching of the Gospel itself, the Christian ministry, has become an article of commerce, and the bankrupt merchant takes to the Gospel, while the minister grown rich goes into business.”<4>
Marx called for the simultaneous elimination of individualism and the Jew:
“As soon as society succeeds in abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism, the huckster, and the conditions which produce him, the Jew will become impossible, because his consciousness will no longer have a corresponding object, because the subjective basis of Judaism, viz: practical needs, will have been humanized, because the conflict of the individual sensual existence, with the generic existence of the individual will have been abolished.”<5>
Marx’s point of view is made clear in the final sentence of this infamous essay when he concludes that:
“The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism.”<6>
His use of the scapegoat device,-reviving the old prejudices of the Dark Ages in order to animate his dull socialistic propaganda was the original matrix of Marxism.
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2… K. Marx, Selected Essays, p. 92.
3… ibid, p. 96.
4… ibid, p. 90
5… ibid, p. 97
6…. Id.
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