Atlas Shrugs ... Pamela Geller

[legelegel]

THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/08/the-history-of-.html

[FloridaPoke]

Marxism holds that class struggle is the central element of all social change. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle" ( –Communist Manifesto). In the present form of society, capitalism, the two main classes are the capitalists (or bourgeoisie), who own the means of producing the necessities of life; and the workers (or proletariat) who do not own those means of production and therefore must work for the capitalists in order to survive. Marxism holds that such a system is exploitive as well as, in the final analysis, economically irrational. Marxism aims at the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement by a classless society in which goods are produced for their usefulness not profitability; and distributed according to the principles of (at first): "from each according to their ability, to each according to their work"; and finally, in the most advanced stage: "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."
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Now I know why some on this board (who shall go unnamed) are so fixated on current income gaps between the bottom and top of our economic stratum.

What they miss ENTIRELY is the HUGE numbers of "workers" who, through hard work, toil, patience and perserverence, become Capitalists. And they also miss the capitalists who fail and become workers again. Marxism can only have a meaning if everyone in life remains constant in their so called "class". And it has never worked, and will never work because once you take away the incentive for profit, through healthy greed, nothing gets done.

A little bit of political correctness is ok and good. But when it only favors the leanings of socialism, as it has today, it is not good..........or decent.

[wood911]

What they miss ENTIRELY is the HUGE numbers of "workers" who, through hard work, toil, patience and perserverence, become Capitalists. And they also miss the capitalists who fail and become workers again.
These are the people which were called the forgotten man during the early part of last century. William Graham Sumner coined the term in an essay by the same name. There is also a book about them I just finished reading called, coincidentally, "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes. It is essentially the people who are prospering and and the government comes in and takes what they have to share with others with no regard to the consequences it had on the one which things were taken. If you have A and B trying to help D, their decision on how to best help D rarely concerns itself with what happens to C because of their actions.

"The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked."
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Best/SumnerForgotten.htm
BTW, Why are socialists/liberals called progressives or intellectuals? Does that mean capitalists/conservatives are regressives or idiots?:rollseyes: