Tag: Socialism
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Kissinger’s Secret Memo to Nixon on Chile
Let’s talk realpolitik. This is an internal memo dated November 4, 1970 from Henry Kissinger to President Nixon telling him to reject the State Department’s recommendation that the U.S. seek a modus vivendi with Chile’s newly elected President, Salvador Allende. In an eight-page secret briefing paper, Kissinger emphasized to Nixon that “the election of Allende…
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NSC 5412 – Covert Operations
Here’s an interesting little document that we should all be familiar with. National Security Council Directive 5412: Covert Operations 1) The National Security Council, taking cognizance of the vicious covert activities of the USSR and Communist China and the governments, parties and groups dominated by them, (hereinafter collectively referred to as “International Communism”) to discredit and defeat…
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Congress Denounces the “Horrors of Socialism”
Do you want to see an great exercise in propaganda? I present to you H. CON. RES. 9 of the 118th CONGRESS. Let’s read it: Concurrent Resolution Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism. Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has time and time again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships;…
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Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949): Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is. Let us…
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Henry George: Progress and Poverty
Henry George was an American political economist and journalist. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide, probably more than any other American book before that time. The book is a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why economies exhibit a tendency toward…
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Rosa Luxemburg vs. The Bolsheviks
Rosa Luxemburg is one of my favorite revolutionaries. She easily predicted the shortfalls of the pending Russian Revolution and elegantly exposed the Bolsheviks for what they truly were. Below are my favorite parts from two of her essays regarding the Russian Revolution: Leninism or Marxism (1904) Lenin reasons that the combination of the socialist mass…
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The United States Crusade Against Communism is a Campaign Against Development
Hi, In March 1967, Joan Robinson, Professor of Economics at Cambridge University and one of world’s foremost economists attended a seminar in Estes Park, Colorado to express concern on U.S. involvements in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. Robinson wrote: It is obvious enough that the United States crusade against Communism is a campaign against development. By…
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Henry Wallace and the “Century of the Common Man”
Hi, I recently wrote an article titled Henry Luce and the American Century (Empire) where I quote the prevailing thoughts of what was to become American foreign policy strategy for years to come: As America enters dynamically upon the world scene, we need most of all to seek and to bring forth a vision of America…
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Excerpts from the Manifesto of the Communist Party
Hi, Given the current and events of the recent past, I would argue that the Communist Manifesto should be required reading. Not so much for its revolutionary rhetoric, but instead for its ability to describe and warn of the dangers of a capitalist system ruled by a small elite. It goes without questions that there…
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Eugene Debs – A “Dangerous Man Calculated to Mislead the Unthinking”
Hi, I’d like to share one of my favorite stories from American history. This is the story of Eugene Debs: Eugene Victor “Gene” Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times…