A New Kind of Freedom
Nelson Hultberg
Karl Marx was asked once how he could justify advocating a political system of slavery for the individual, which is what socialism is. He replied that, socialism is not slavery; it is a "new kind of freedom." As all perceptive students of history know, the intellectuals of Europe bought into such Alice in Wonderland sophistry. But unfortunately so did the American intellectuals about 30 years later when the progressives of Woodrow Wilson's era established the Creature from Jekyl Island to usher in centralized government banking and the progressive income tax to “spread the wealth around.”
Socialism is not really so bad, reasoned the early twentieth century American thinkers. If we think about it, it's really a "new kind of freedom." We just have to do what the Red Queen and the Mad Hatter advocated. We just have to change the meaning of the words that define the fundamental values of our lives. After all, words can mean whatever we want them to mean. All we have to do is teach Marx's new definition of freedom to the young at an early enough age, and when they grow into adulthood they will not think of a government-dominated society as slavery at all. It will be a "new kind of freedom" to them.
The socialists of America never bought into Lenin's violent revolutionary approach, but they certainly did buy into the democratic evolutionary approach of the English Fabians whose ideas were picked up by the American progressives and liberals of the twentieth century. This redefinition of values has been consuming us now for 100 years – ever since the Creature from Jekyl Island and the tax revenuers took over Washington. The progressives and liberals have even redefined their redefinitions. Fascism, being basically the same as socialism, is now acceptable in the mix.
What is horrifying is that the recent election is tied to this corruption of values? We have elected now for a second time a man who was raised by radical communists in Hawaii. Obama's mind was forged from the likes of Frank Marshall Davis, a powerful and radical communist apparatchick of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Davis was Obama’s constant companion from the age of 9 to 18 before he went off to Occidental College in Los Angeles. His worldview is thus the Marxian sophistry that socialism is not slavery; it is a "new kind of freedom." In the mind of Obama, individuals like Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggart are not entrepreneurial benefactors to their fellow man; they are evil rich people who exploit their fellow man. These evil rich need to be leveled down. And the way to do it is insidiously via government with ever-expanding redistribution of wealth programs and ever-expanding monetary inflation.
Ayn Rand's powerful insight in Atlas Shrugged that dictatorships take over because the people actually sanction them (she called it the "sanction of the victim") permeates the American electorate today. American citizens want to be enslaved.
Rand also made the following observation: When asked once why she voted Republican if she thought both parties had sold out to collectivism, she replied that both parties are headed toward the abyss, but Democrats wish to charge toward it and Republicans wish to creep toward it. She, no doubt, felt we have more time to educate the people as to what is happening with Republicans in power.
Well, America just ran out of time this past election night. A majority of American voters indicated that they believe government owes them a living. They indicated that they are very comfortable with the Fabian march into socialist-fascism that has been taking place ever since the Creature was instituted in 1913. They indicated that they believe rich people don’t earn their wealth; they steal it from the kindly masses by siphoning off the surplus productivity of their labor and reducing them to grinding poverty. (This is the fallacious “labor theory of value” that Marx perpetuated.)
Unfortunately this fallacious reasoning is why so many Americans have become so slothful and are choosing to vote for a living instead of working for a living. It is the reason why so many productive men and women in America are poisoned with guilt and now tolerate the egregious, confiscatory taxes that are destroying the dynamism of our economy and the sanity of our lives. Justice and prosperity cannot be built by catering to slothful masses with theoretical fallacies.
The slothful masses now control America through an Orwellian czar in Washington whose mentor was a rabid communist apparatchik in the 1970s, and whose close advisors (Bill Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Valerie Jarrett, etc.) have always been radical leftist haters of America. This Orwellian czar is now a lame duck President and doesn't have to run again. All that blocks him from ravaging our rights and freedoms is a supine Senate and a timid array of House Republicans. Will these political sycophants be able to stand up to him and the new hordes of entitlement seekers that bolster him with their eager votes. Not likely. They will instead begin the transition to reach out to the new entitlement seekers also. Thus Obama can now push full-blown for Marx's redefinition of slavery into a "new kind of freedom." We will now charge toward the abyss at a speed never before employed. Obama and the Creature will now gobble up the last of our freedoms; America will become a giant replica of Greece.
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Nelson Hultberg is a freelance writer in Dallas, Texas and the Director of Americans for a Free Republic (AFR.org). His articles have appeared in such publications as the Dallas Morning News, The American Conservative, Insight, The Freeman and Liberty, as well as on numerous Internet sites such as The Daily Bell, Financial Sense and Safe Haven. He is also the author of a soon to be released book on political philosophy, The Golden Mean: Libertarian Politics, Conservative Values. Email him at: nelshultberg@aol.com
Karl Marx was asked once how he could justify advocating a political system of slavery for the individual, which is what socialism is. He replied that, socialism is not slavery; it is a "new kind of freedom." As all perceptive students of history know, the intellectuals of Europe bought into such Alice in Wonderland sophistry. But unfortunately so did the American intellectuals about 30 years later when the progressives of Woodrow Wilson's era established the Creature from Jekyl Island to usher in centralized government banking and the progressive income tax to “spread the wealth around.”
Socialism is not really so bad, reasoned the early twentieth century American thinkers. If we think about it, it's really a "new kind of freedom." We just have to do what the Red Queen and the Mad Hatter advocated. We just have to change the meaning of the words that define the fundamental values of our lives. After all, words can mean whatever we want them to mean. All we have to do is teach Marx's new definition of freedom to the young at an early enough age, and when they grow into adulthood they will not think of a government-dominated society as slavery at all. It will be a "new kind of freedom" to them.
The socialists of America never bought into Lenin's violent revolutionary approach, but they certainly did buy into the democratic evolutionary approach of the English Fabians whose ideas were picked up by the American progressives and liberals of the twentieth century. This redefinition of values has been consuming us now for 100 years – ever since the Creature from Jekyl Island and the tax revenuers took over Washington. The progressives and liberals have even redefined their redefinitions. Fascism, being basically the same as socialism, is now acceptable in the mix.
What is horrifying is that the recent election is tied to this corruption of values? We have elected now for a second time a man who was raised by radical communists in Hawaii. Obama's mind was forged from the likes of Frank Marshall Davis, a powerful and radical communist apparatchick of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Davis was Obama’s constant companion from the age of 9 to 18 before he went off to Occidental College in Los Angeles. His worldview is thus the Marxian sophistry that socialism is not slavery; it is a "new kind of freedom." In the mind of Obama, individuals like Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggart are not entrepreneurial benefactors to their fellow man; they are evil rich people who exploit their fellow man. These evil rich need to be leveled down. And the way to do it is insidiously via government with ever-expanding redistribution of wealth programs and ever-expanding monetary inflation.
Ayn Rand's powerful insight in Atlas Shrugged that dictatorships take over because the people actually sanction them (she called it the "sanction of the victim") permeates the American electorate today. American citizens want to be enslaved.
Rand also made the following observation: When asked once why she voted Republican if she thought both parties had sold out to collectivism, she replied that both parties are headed toward the abyss, but Democrats wish to charge toward it and Republicans wish to creep toward it. She, no doubt, felt we have more time to educate the people as to what is happening with Republicans in power.
Well, America just ran out of time this past election night. A majority of American voters indicated that they believe government owes them a living. They indicated that they are very comfortable with the Fabian march into socialist-fascism that has been taking place ever since the Creature was instituted in 1913. They indicated that they believe rich people don’t earn their wealth; they steal it from the kindly masses by siphoning off the surplus productivity of their labor and reducing them to grinding poverty. (This is the fallacious “labor theory of value” that Marx perpetuated.)
Unfortunately this fallacious reasoning is why so many Americans have become so slothful and are choosing to vote for a living instead of working for a living. It is the reason why so many productive men and women in America are poisoned with guilt and now tolerate the egregious, confiscatory taxes that are destroying the dynamism of our economy and the sanity of our lives. Justice and prosperity cannot be built by catering to slothful masses with theoretical fallacies.
The slothful masses now control America through an Orwellian czar in Washington whose mentor was a rabid communist apparatchik in the 1970s, and whose close advisors (Bill Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Valerie Jarrett, etc.) have always been radical leftist haters of America. This Orwellian czar is now a lame duck President and doesn't have to run again. All that blocks him from ravaging our rights and freedoms is a supine Senate and a timid array of House Republicans. Will these political sycophants be able to stand up to him and the new hordes of entitlement seekers that bolster him with their eager votes. Not likely. They will instead begin the transition to reach out to the new entitlement seekers also. Thus Obama can now push full-blown for Marx's redefinition of slavery into a "new kind of freedom." We will now charge toward the abyss at a speed never before employed. Obama and the Creature will now gobble up the last of our freedoms; America will become a giant replica of Greece.
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Nelson Hultberg is a freelance writer in Dallas, Texas and the Director of Americans for a Free Republic (AFR.org). His articles have appeared in such publications as the Dallas Morning News, The American Conservative, Insight, The Freeman and Liberty, as well as on numerous Internet sites such as The Daily Bell, Financial Sense and Safe Haven. He is also the author of a soon to be released book on political philosophy, The Golden Mean: Libertarian Politics, Conservative Values. Email him at: nelshultberg@aol.com
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