Journal ncc74656's Journal: It's official: Barack Hussein Obama is a Communist. 3
Guess who said the following:
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I'd be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way , that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the Federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn't shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.
If you guessed "B. Hussein Obama," then you, sir, are correct. It's from an interview he gave WBEZ, the Chicago NPR affiliate, in 2001. Go here for the MP3.
"Redistributive change?" "Economic justice?" That's Communism we can believe in.
Do you suppose this would be the new national anthem under an Obummer regime?
Update: (9:15 AM) Sounds like Rush Limbaugh is kicking off the day with this story. John McCain needs to run with this. America won't vote for a Communist.
(Cross-posted at*.)
Communists don't need to "redistribute" wealth (Score:2)
Only under capitalism, or more precisely that form of socialism designed to steal from the poor to give to the rich, is redistribution of wealth by government needed to balance the natural tendency of the marketplace to redistribute wealth into very tall, very small piles.
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Under communism in practice, the state owns the wealth, so nobody needs to "redistribute" it, all citizens get very little of it equally.
Capitalism wasn't designed to do anything except harness peoples' drive. Often it's the case that the rich are rich because they have drive, and t
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Incorrect. Communism, in practice, has only been in existence inside of Catholic and Christian communes, and has never been implemented on a country-wide basis. You can't have a commune that big, because communes are based on gift economies, and gift economies are based upon direct human relationships. Get more than 2 degrees of separation, you no longer have communis