“In practice, communism is nothing less than sheer barbarism that makes even the horrors of Naziism pale in comparison. Professor Rudolph J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii outlines that barbarism in his book “Death by Government,” a comprehensive detailing of the roughly 170 million people murdered by their own governments during the 20th century. […]
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Oct7th2006
“For centuries, philosophers and poets have tried to understand what happiness is, and what might contribute to it. In recent decades, scientists have started to come up with the answers. Happiness is electrical activity in the left front part of the brain, and it comes from getting married, getting friends, getting rich, and avoiding communism”. […]
Oct6th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Communism, Economics and General. 6 Comments“Again, one reason why intellectuals are so much more obsessed with Nazi crimes than Soviet crimes – even though in terms of human lives lost the Soviets way exceeded the Nazis – is that intellectuals, by the very nature of their professions, grant enormous attention to words and ideas. And they are attracted by socialist […]
Oct5th2006
“What the Holocaust taught me – as did communism – is that the denial of God can lead to genocide. There is a German scholar who wrote that one of the main reasons for Hitler’s ravenous anti-Semitism was that Judaism was the first religion to believe in the sanctity of human life. Judaism says that […]
Sep20th2006
“One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale”. –Thomas Sowell
Sep18th2006
Getting Emotional About Mexicans By Douglas S. Massey
Published by in Communism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 2 CommentsDouglas S. Massey continues the discussion over at Cato Unbound on the topic of Mexicans in America, here is a teaser of what he wrote:
Emotional displacement, ethnic scare-mongering, and the scapegoating of immigrants are nothing new in American history. But they don’t solve our problems, and in the case of Mexican immigration […]
Aug11th2006
“Socialism and Communism have failed wherever they have been tried, while economic freedom and prosperity have brought unparalleled prosperity to hundreds of millions…But maintaining freedom even in prosperous nations is a never-ending chore. Government, here and elsewhere, constantly threatens prosperity through high taxes and complex rules and regulations”.–Thomas C. Reeves, historian writing in the History […]
Aug5th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Communism, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and LatinAmerica. 22 Comments“Two other observations struck me during my visit to Cuba: 1. I don’t think I met anybody who truly believed in communism. I met with high officials at ministries and top people at the University of Havana and official think tanks, some of whom were very intelligent and quite sophisticated, and all of whom left […]
Jul22nd2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Communism, Economics and General. 2 Comments“A headline in the San Francisco Chronicle offered this prescription for California’s problems: “The Golden State needs big, bold ideas to solve the puzzle its future presents.” But big bold ideas have been behind many — if not most — of California’s problems, as well as disasters in countries around the world”. –Thomas Sowell, listing […]
Jul5th2006
Tim Worstall quotes:
It is 50 years since the greatest misquotation of the cold war. At a Kremlin reception for western ambassadors in 1956, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced: “We will bury you.” Those four words were seized on by American hawks as proof of aggressive Soviet intent.
Doves who pointed out that the full quotation […]
Jun28th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Communism, Economics, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 11 Comments“Most people agree that Marx’s predictions about capitalism turned out to be dead wrong. What most people don’t know is that Marx was an out and out racist and anti-Semite. He didn’t think much of Mexicans. Concerning the annexation of California after the Mexican-American War, Marx wrote: “Without violence nothing is ever accomplished in history.” […]
Jun13th2006
“While in alliance with the Nazis, the Soviets claimed, as usual, to be “liberating” the countries they invaded. The reality was quite different. Most shockingly, during Stalin’s alliance with Hitler, almost two million Poles were deported to Siberia. Hitler’s double-cross was the only reason the Polish deportees didn’t all die in Soviet slave labor camps; […]
Jun9th2006
“As a Jew, it never ceases to amaze me that people think the most important lesson of the Holocaust is that anyone, even civilized Germans who love Bach and Beethoven, can become murderers. Or that the most important lesson is that hatred is wrong. Hatred is immortal. People say, “never again” as if […]
May4th2006
“While a wide variety of governments in this century have used slave labor camps, mass death due to man-made famine can be fairly described as an original Communist invention. For ideological reasons, Communist governments almost invariably seek to “collectivize” agriculture; i.e., to expropriate peasants’ farms. But while Marx thought that Communist revolution would occur only […]
Mar14th2006
“The root of Old Europe’s problems is that it is in denial regarding the nature of the society it has constructed. In the first instance, European nations are capitalist, not socialist. It takes capitalism to have socialism, in the sense that without capitalism you get Cuba and North Korea and Albania when you try to […]
Mar1st2006
The Chinese Are The Biggest Supporters Of Capitalism
Published by in Capitalism, Communism, Economics and General. 0 CommentsI wonder if it’s living under a communist system for so long or experiencing all of the wonderful things capitalism is doing to your country that make the Chinese the biggest supporters of capitalism:
Though Mao Tse-tung’s portrait still hangs in Tiananmen Square, a recent poll shows that the Chinese are crazier about capitalism than are […]
