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Just started reading this book, " None Dare Call it Treason" by John A. Stormer. It was published 46 years ago in 1964 and using facts from Congressional investigations and many books on the subject, tells about the slow and inexorable creep of communism-socialism into all aspects of our society including our churches, as well as press, radio and television.
It's amazing how this correlates with what's been happening in America the last few years.
Excellent post CL. It is indeed amazing how far we have drifted from our founding principles of liberty and property rights. Both are linked to the individual, but now are being called extreme.
[...] The Classic Liberal educates us all on the value of Individualism. [...]
Great post, CL. The creeping influx of Marxism into our institutions has targeted most every area that you illustrate here.
To contribute to the discussion, here is one of my favorite lib quotes, from John Dewey...
"You can't make socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.”
How about this quote from George Bernard Shaw in his "Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism";
" I also made it clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under Socialism, you would not be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not the character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well."
George B. Shaw was a founding member of the Fabian society, of which John Dewey was also a member and fellow traveler. John Dewey is part of the reason our education system is so screwed up today. Early Fabian-Socialist leaders were of course, John Dewey as well as Walter Rauschenbusch, (Theology), Walter Lippmann, (government and press), and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
You're favorite quote is a fake: Rosalie Gordon in "What's Happening in Our Schools" (Pg 16) wrote that in her own words as a smear against Dewey's supposed "philosophy", and it is the opposite of his beliefs. It is found in Ann Coulter's smear also, obviously unreferenced.
[...] The Classic Liberal on Individualism – We have had this argument before and his interpretation is just wrong. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness derives from Locke’s Life, Liberty and Property, which was laid out in his Second Treatise on Government. In that Locke postulates that man left the perfect state of freedom in nature and surrenders some of his freedom in order to form a state which will protect those three things. He (man) surrenders some individual liberty in order to obtain that protection and ensure greater liberty for all. The Classic Liberal, and others who follow the same approach, essentially advocate individual anarchy, which is a system in which some enjoy perfect liberty but those who are weaker enjoy none or little. As I have said before if you want to see such a system in action look at Somalia. [...]