Communism

Common sense should predicate the use of seat belts, not a law contrived by pencil pushers in Albany, to placate bleeding-heart liberals and insurance lobbyists. We have a right to self-determination with an end-of- life DNR, do not resuscitate.  

An example of socialism is socialized medicine ... accurate since there apparently is no way to factor in the people I have alluded to in this letter?  

CIO — Are we harboring the last vestiges of Soviet-style communism at the heart of the enterprise? And is consumerization of IT the new Glasnost? In your daily life, you are inundated with choice—from the brands of clothing you wear to the television ...  

Congressman Allen West knows his history. He stated that in the early 1900s, the American Communist Party saw that the American people had a bad view of the Stalin Communist Party in Russia, so they changed their name to Progressive. Stalin’s word for ...  

Grant for $300, 000 could fund repairs for building where Communist newspaper is published, officials said. When the state bond commission meets on ... CT News Junkie each project is evaluated for its individual merits and the impact it has on a community.  

Man who hates public land and public wildlife gains heavy influence on Wisconsin deer management- A last minute controversy in the unpleasant battle in Wisconsin whether to remove governor Scott Walker from office is the revelation that he has hired Dr. James Kroll, who embodies the Texas tradition that hunting should be on game farms and an activity for those with money. Public wildlife, held in trust by the state and managed by a state...  

Wednesday marks the 166th birthday of the legendary jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé. From 1885 to about 1916, he and his army of craftsmen made thousands of Faberge eggs. These works of gold, jewels, and enamel came to symbolize Russian royalty. And, as ...  

Big Government: New York thinks of itself as the place to be, but its high taxes have made it a place to flee. Those who have escaped the Empire State tax man could fill a major city. From 1949 to 1961, more than 2.6 million of East Germany's 17 million population escaped to West Berlin or West Germany, a hemorrhage of humanity that led the Communists to construct the infamous Berlin Wall in 1961. The state of New York, with about 19.5 million...  

I am responding to the column by Tom Cantlon in the May 16 Courier. I find that I must agree with Mr. Cantlon - at least his last paragraph (not the rest of his illogical rant). He states "The principle is simple: No one should pay a higher portion of ...  

While the radio show he said it on compared the new rule to Nazism. Just ignore the fact that communism and Nazism were deadly enemies, because that's a bit over these guys' heads. Oh, and he's a Republican and from North Carolina.  In case there were any doubt. The congressman's solution is to pass a law letting churches endorse political candidates, using their tax-free status to...  

USA --(Ammoland.com)- Having spent most of my life in the last century and the rest in the new one, it affords me the opportunity to look back at the blunders, the slaughters, and the triumphs of a considerable period of time. I often wonder why ...  

NEW YORK — China Daily, the largest English-language newspaper in China, carried a front-page headline last week: "Village Gratitude Shows Integrity of Task." Not clear what that's about, and the opening sentence isn't much help: "On a hot afternoon ...  

For centuries the alleged ideal of communism had come to the world as a messianic and millennial creed.  

It's interesting to note the number of letters that denigrate Congressman Allen West's reference to Communists in Congress. Where have you people been? Communism hasn't gone away; it is highly active throughout the world and especially here in ...  

— I read with interest R. Steele Selby’s letter of May 18 (”It may be that God would prefer communism”). I will limit myself to commenting on just one of his arguments. Mr. Selby wrote: “The best example of true communism in action comes from ...  

Watch a man from the former Soviet Union school this OWS punk.  

Hard to deny this. Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name "Forward!" or its foreign cognates. Wikipedia has an entire section called "Forward (generic name of socialist publications)." More about this >>> http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/apr/30/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-marxism-socialism/  

Overused terms can lose their meaning.  Few words are thrown around as carelessly as Communism, Socialism, and Fascism.  Socialism is not the cheese touch.  These are realities behind these ideologies.  Reducing a word like “Communist” to the ...  

Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) on Wednesday suggested that banning tax-exempt churches from participating in political campaigns or endorsing candidates was something that communist countries would do. Current tax law prohibits tax-exempt ...  

CHANGSHA, China—On an island in the Xiang River stands a massive bust of the late Chinese ruler Mao Zedong as a young man, his long hair blowing gracefully in an imaginary wind. Good thing for him he's a safe distance from the Expo Central China.  

You will be handed an End of Communism menu along with the regular one. In 1992, Sedlar was part of a brigade of American chefs, also including Simon L.A.'s Kerry Simon, invited to march in the first post-Soviet Russian May Day parade in Red ...  

Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) appeared today on Truth that Transforms, the flagship radio program of Truth in Action Ministries, to push his Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act, which the Interfaith Alliance notes would allow houses of worship to engage “in partisan politicking,” such as endorsing candidates from the pulpit, “without losing their tax-exempt status.” Related articles: Send Pastor Terry Jones to Afghanistan to Burn a Quran...  

Last weekend, Magorn posted an excellent diary about Scott Walker having appointed a "deer Czar", who appears to believe that it's his mission to do away with hunting on public lands in favor of paying private landowners to hunt. As he points ...  

His photographs explore the gulf between the high ideals of communism and its complex present day reality. Title: Behind the curtains. Autor: Tomas Van Houtryve Year of Publication: 2012; Page Count: 284; Size: 9 in. x 8,3 ...  

About 400 million unborn Chinese have been sacrificed on the altar of economic development since 1980. They, like all of us, are zombies in the unnatural quest for an eternal life lived in shopping malls. Closeness to death, from Tiananmen to the SARS epidemic and beyond, is breeding an indomitable vitality in China, whereas the West needs new ideas and old religions to give sense to life. - Francesco Sisci (May 23, '12)  

To billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg, it's a wedge to open the door to communism. That's right -- the mayor told a local radio program that requiring businesses that get taxpayer subsidies to pay their workers a little bit more is just like a centrally ...  

Note: In his 1958 book "The Na[k]ed Communist," Cleon Skousen outlined Communism`s goals in the United States. I leave it to you to compare these goals with what has been going on in our country. Thanks to [Edward S] for providing me this ...  

When Rep. Allen West called a number of Democrats in Congress Communists, I thought: "That takes guts!" Sen. Joe McCarthy paid dearly for exposing Communists in American public life. But Edward White's May 13 column about communism tops it all.  

Donald Rumsfeld, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Annette Lantos, Chairman of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, will headline a list of speakers and guests from Capitol Hill and Washington’s diplomatic corps at a June 12, 2012 10 ...  

The reader’s commentary dated May 18 (“It may be that God would prefer Communism”) is absolutely absurd. To say that God would prefer Communism over Capitalism is total heresy. In a system where millions have been slaughtered, how can we say that God ...  

Czechs and Slovaks spent most of the 20th century in one country, Czechoslovakia. Ever since its foundation, however, each nation had a different idea of how the country should work, and what their role in it should be. In his new book entitled Czechs and Slovaks in the 20th Century: Cooperation and Conflicts, historian Jan Rychlík argues that Czechoslovakia was in fact bound to fail as a state, and that communism only postponed its inevitable...  

The Times has a story today confirming what most of us already knew: China’s economic and political system is deeply corrupt. In particular, they highlight how much palm-greasing is necessary for Western companies to begin doing business in China, and how wealthy this has made the Chinese political elite, especially top members of the Communist Party. For example: The Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation recently announced a bold move to...  

The Arab Spring saw more than 300,000 protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square bring down Hosni Mubarak. But did these protesters represent the average Egyptians who stayed home? Writing about another equinox - the 1968 Prague Spring that introduced liberal ...  

So what, you ask? The answer is: West's politically charged remarks were intended to denigrate Democrats and Communism. There is no point to labeling anyone a Communist unless communism itself as a system is a priori BAD. But just as West failed ...  

New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. What's the deal with living wage laws anyway?  

Victory can bring the greatest challenges. Last week Tea Party Congressman Allen West accused much of the Democratic Congressional delegation of being Communist Party members.  He didn’t call them “fellow travelers” or “socialists” or ...  

The days of Soviet Communism are long gone but reminders of the era are all around Moscow, ensuring it will never be forgotten. Not even the thick morning fog that covers Moscow can hide the Stalinist spires of the Seven Sisters wedding-cake skyscrapers.  

At Volokh (HT Instapundit) Ilya Somin explains: May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a propaganda tool to prop up their regimes. I suggest that we instead use [...]  

Seventy-five years ago, on May 16, 1937, a ceremony was held to lay the cornerstone for Berkeley's new Catholic School of the Madeleine building at Berryman and Milvia. The event featured several speakers, including Berkeley Mayor Edward Ament ...  

Conservatives are not shy about highlighting what they perceive as Marxist/communist roots in various aspects of Barack Obama’s policies, vision, and rhetoric. Some of these alleged parallels are a stretch; others are not. Many are merely the ...  

Now if your moral code is based on the ... know communism has a very low success rate (0% to be exact) in governments. Communists, on the other hand, have come to understand (through successive failures) that their ultimate goal must be reached through ...  

It may not be quite as famous as the Berlin Wall, but there is a small block of bricks on display in the Polish port city of Gdansk that also undeniably merits its place in the history books. It's referred to locally as the "Walesa Wall" in honour of the ...  

Thirteen community agencies and institutions have been working for four years to have Edmond become a sister city for a cultural and educational exchange. Representatives from Engels will make their third visit to Edmond next week. The opponents ...  

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's living wage bill has been watered down so much you could film a big-budget post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner movie in it and still have enough water left over to start hydrofracking in Sheep's Meadow. But it's not watered down enough for Mayor Bloomberg, who promises to file legal action to stop it if necessary. It's not because he hates the idea of plebes getting paid enough to live with dignity, it's...  

To the editor: Because Communist expansion seldom grabs the headlines anymore, many Americans no longer consider it a threat.Unfortunately, this inverted economic and political system — with all of its human rights abuses — did not go away with...  

Radical Left Theorists Resurrect Utopian DelusionAlan Johnson reports:A specter is haunting the academy—the specter of “new communism.” A worldview recently the source of immense suffering and misery, and responsible for more deaths than fascism and Nazism, is mounting a comeback; a new form of left-wing totalitarianism that enjoys intellectual celebrity but aspires to political power.Read more.  

U.S. Rep. Allen West, who said last week that he believes 78 to 81 members of Congress are "members of the Communist Party," is not interested in retracting or apologizing for that ridiculous false statement, although he did say some things on CNN this morning that imply he didn't mean "members of the Communist Party" quite as literally as it sounds.Even when he first made his statement at a town hall meeting in his district, West seemed to...  

OK, here's something else a bit offbeat for the day: A lesser known aspect of the Russian Revolution is the flourishing of … nudism. After the revolution, the famous actress, Ida Rubenstein, played naked on stage. The poet Goldschmidt would...  

On Tuesday, participants in Chicago's May Day march proudly featured a series of communist flags, banners and slogans, according to a post at Marathon Pundit. In addition to the hammer-and-sickle flag of the former Soviet Union, marchers proudly showed off their allegiance to Marxism and Communism with banners declaring, "long live Communism," and flags bearing the images of Marxist leaders like Lenin, Stalin and Che Guevara. Protesters also...  

The Occupiers are back and this time they are getting even more dangerous and making more threats. (Eventually they’ll be hammered for the violent undertones and full bore scare tactics being employed, but ….) Because nothing spells communist revolution like a May Day march with bullhorns. The Democrats and some Liberty Republicans are embracing these [...]  

Re: "Deny the British Empire's crimes? No, just ignore them", opinion, May 8. The author George Monboit and the Harvard researcher Caroline Elkins are, to the say the least, somewhat narrow and very negative concerning the British Empire and its place in ...  

"If we were in the middle of the Cold War, it might be different. Communism isn't a threat to the United States or the people of New Haven." Yes, as international communism disintegrated with the fall of the Soviet Union and the liberation of ...  

“If we were in the middle of the Cold War, it might be different. Communism isn’t a threat to the United States or the people of New Haven.” Yes, as international communism disintegrated with the fall of the Soviet Union and the liberation ...  

While there may not be large numbers of card-carrying communists lining the halls of Congress, there is a clear tie between the Democratic Party's Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), Communist Party USA (CPUSA), and the Democratic Socialists ...  

Barack Obama's re-election has adopted a new slogan: "Forward" It has some really interesting historical predecessors: [VIDEO AT SITE] via GPAnd then there are these: Under the Leadership of the Great Stalin — Forward to Communism! Under Lenin’s Banners, Under Stalin’s Leadership, Forward to a New Prosperity of the Soviet Motherland, to the Complete Victory of Communism in Our Country! Forward to the Victory of Communism! Via WZAnd over at...  

If you want to see something really interesting Google the words “Korea at night” and see the satellite images that come up. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, reports: In 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed on the surrender of ...  

The Progressive Party and the American Socialist Party have been in existence for more than 80 years, and at one time it was against the law to be a card-bearing Communist. Both of these organizations at that time were a cover for communism and ...  

Mayor Bloomberg Friday said the proposed Living Wage Bill City Council Speaker Christine Quinn backs amounts to communism — and vowed it will bring on a legal battle if passed. Our Tina Moore reports: “The last time we really had a big managed economy was the USSR, and that didn’t work out ...  

The CARA organization is a perfect example of the socialist/communist leaning that has crept into the United States’ politics over the past few years. CARA was created without the permission of the people and is administered without their ...  

Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa is receiving criticism for one class assignment on the Cold War. Based on a worksheet handed out in a social studies class last week, many are questioning whether the lesson is promoting communism over ...  

(Ilya Somin) Today is May Day. Since 2007, I have been commemorating this day here at the Volokh Conspiracy as Victims of Communism Day. Various other websites and blogs have promoted the same concept. In time, we hope to make this a worldwide commemoration similar to Holocaust Memorial Day. I explained the rationale for this idea in [...]  

I found this commentary and thought it worth sharing ..... By Susan Stamper Brown April 18, 2012 12:50 pm "In politics, truth-telling can get you into trouble, even if you stumble upon it by accident. Just ask Rep. Allen West (R-FL). West is feelin... From the experience, I Believe It Is Irresponsible Not to Vote  

(Ilya Somin) Most of the commentary on my latest post advocating the transformation of May Day into Victims of Communism Day has been positive. A few people, however, have argued that some other date is more appropriate than May 1. Some claim that it is wrong to use May Day because of its former status as a [...]  

Victor Morton, Joel Pollak, Jim Hoft, and Bill Kristol are scared to death that the word "FORWARD" is code for Communism. Each one of those scared-wabbits wrote blogs to spread fear and paranoia accusing politicians who use the word "Forward" in ...  

Book recommendation to answer the question: Why did Communism fail in Russia?I'm looking for a non-fiction book that details exactly what went wrong with Russian Communism in the most apolitical way possible. I'm sorta envisioning a book with the benefit of historical perspective and that ideally links different stages of the collapse to social, demographic, economic, etc. trends at the time. It seems like it's so easy for people to write...  

I raised a few eyebrows last week when I wrote, “there is a Marxist coup underway in our nation…”.  One of my subscribers suggested that “I was over the top with that statement”, and he urged me to “tone it down so that more on my ...  

You can argue until you're blue in the face, but sometimes a picture is worth much more than a thousand words. These photos are a stunning punch-in-the-gut example to people on the left who attack consumerism and capitalism; THIS is the ...  

While May Day is usually identified with the socialist movement as a day for workers rights, the New Liberal Movement in Israel will commemorate the day in memory of the victims of communism around the world. Officials of the group said that communist ...  

Victims Of Communism Day. Professor Ilya Somin says we should remember those victims on May 1 every year. I think he's right, though not all the commenters on his post agree. (I haven't taken the time to read all of the ...  

The ever-shy Michael Bloomberg took to the radio airwaves this morning to offer up his thoughts on a living-wage bill about to be enacted by City Council. He's not a fan. In fact, Bloomberg sees the bill — which reports say would impact only an estimated 500 workers a year — as the canary in the coal mine for something much, much bigger. Communism! "The last time we really had a big managed economy was the USSR and that didn't work out so well...  

Matt writes: To me the most pointed contrast is between the Soviet Bloc and pre-reform China. Why was East Germany so much poorer than West Germany? That’s easy—Communism! And that’s why North Korea is poorer than South Korea. It’s also why Taiwan is richer than China. But Communism hardly explains why the Soviet Union was [...]  

As things on the political landscape come to a purulent head, it appears to have become my lot in life to aid in enumerating the various radical organizations operating under the umbrella of the Obama administration and its more powerful supporters.  

(THINKPROGRESS.ORG) — One word; seven letters; so much nefarious hidden meaning. The Obama campaign’s new slogan, “Forward,” may seem like a typically oblique and anodyne piece of political branding — but thankfully, right-wing bloggers are here ...  

(Alan Caruba) - I came of age in the 1950s during a period when Joe McCarthy was raising hell about communists in the federal government. He was spectacularly inept, often made intemperate and inaccurate charges, but for the most part he was right. He managed to alienate his fellow Republicans and earn a slap-down from then President Eisenhower. By around 1953 his fifteen minutes of fame were up. His bombastic personality undermined the...  

On employment: I will be surprised if employment bounces back with the wonderful speed that it did after previous economic ... On accumulating wealth: They'll say when I die, "How much did Charlie leave?" And the answer will be, "I believe ...  

I'm responding to the Apr. 24 letter, "Do we have domestic communists?" The writer concerned with communists is very misled by wing nuts referenced. I can't believe these people live among us; they vote and some are congressmen. The writer makes ...  

Officials feared that Bo’s fall could be as shattering, said Dali Yang, a political scientist at the University of Chicago and head of its Beijing center. To control public reaction, workers at Party headquarters in Beijing conveyed messages ...  

It echoes the fall of General Lin Biao, who died in a plane crash in 1971 after ... hold positions of power throughout China’s political and business universe. Former Premier Zhu Rongji’s son, Levin Zhu, is the president of the investment ...  

With President Raul Castro looking on from beneath a giant statue of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti, hundreds of thousands of workers wearing red shirts and waving red flags filed through the vast plaza where Cuba holds its biggest political rallies.  

If a child makes a false 911 call, parents should get fined. If they pass a law banning plastic bags, they better pass a law mandating all women must wear aprons when they step out of the house. That way, if they forget their grocery bags ...  

Pastor Terry Jones continues to fight for free speech against sharia in America, taking his battle back to one of the most Islamic enclaves in America -- Dearborn, Michigan. There. in Dearborn's latest sharia-complying outrage, the city actually asked Jones to sign a legal agreement to forfeit his legal rights regarding any harm that might befall him during his latest lawful protest. Jones filed suit, and a Detroit federal judge ruled last...  

Joe Scarborough Says Communism is Terrible, Slams Allen West | The Lonely Conservative MSNBC’s token RINO Joe Scarborough said something you don’t hear many liberals say. He actually spoke the truth about communism, according to Da TechGuy. Joe called Communism “..the … Continue reading →  

I thought you would appreciate this rundown on some of the reactions to Allen West's accusation that 78-81 members of Congress were members of the Communist Party. My own position is that West's comments do nothing but divide the people he seeks ...  

When Allen West called the progressive Democrats currently serving in Congress "Communists", he delivered an amazing hunk of red meat to the conservative base. Communism, just like socialism & Hitler, is a word that the GOP has used to strike ...  

Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609 (about 1 mile south of the UC campus, north of Alcatraz)  

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned Dutch politician Geert Wilders for his outspoken views on the way the shadow of militant Islam is falling over Europe as that of the swastika did 70 or so years ago. Tufts University's Committee on ...  

WARSAW, Poland, April 17 (UPI) -- Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said it is finally time for Poland to have a museum devoted to the crimes of communism. During a debate on history curricula in Polish schools Monday, Komorowski said Poland ...  

Communism and Christianity through the Eyes of a Cuban Catholic. ICC Note: Margarita A. ... For Rodrigo, the Christian faith helps break the fear that the communist government tries to instill in people. As he spoke to me ...  

Like the previous editor, I've never liked Michael Gartner.  Never trusted him.  I learned a lot about him from reading this blog.  How NBC News under his watch faked the explosion of GM truck gas tanks for effect.  How he got nearly a million dollars in state taxpayer pork for his ballpark in Des Moines.  Gartner was one of Tom Vilsack's worst picks. Today, the for-profit newspaper out of  

Not even the thick morning fog that covers Moscow can hide the Stalinist spires of the Seven Sisters wedding-cake skyscrapers ... soda pop from the ancient vending machine at the museum entrance. The old arcade machines were originally assembled at ...  

China is a country of extremes. European cars swerve through traffic barely missing battered Soviet-era motorcycles laden with bounties of plastic and metal recyclables. College students carrying iPads walk past street vendors selling 15 cent eggs in ...  

Part 4 in a series. Click here for my podcast interview on Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Cuba, hosted by Research on Religion. After watching Pope Benedict XVI’s March 2012 visit to Cuba, I have written a series of posts on Catholicism in Cuba, past ...  

In politics, truth-telling can get you into trouble, even if you stumble upon it by accident. Just ask Rep. Allen West, R-Fla. West is feeling the heat for a pregnant pause he took during a town hall meeting after he was asked "What percentage ...  

In politics, truth-telling can get you into trouble, even if you stumble upon it by accident. Just ask Rep. Allen West (R-Florida). In politics, truth-telling can get you into trouble, even if you stumble upon it by accident. Just ask Rep.  

Mayor Bloomberg took time out of his busy Friday morning kissing Miss Piggy to take a jab at city council's living wage bill, comparing the legislation to communism. On his regular appearance on WORS radio, Bloomberg said, "The last time we ...  

As Occupy protesters turn violent, it’s worth reflecting on why the movement failed in the first place.  

Communism has long been portrayed as this dark-cloaked creature that goes about destroying everything it comes in contact with. Mccarthy was instrumental in putting a sinister face on it during the ’50. One after another he drug victims through the ...  

In politics, truth-telling can get you into trouble, even if you stumble upon it by accident. Just ask Rep. Allen West, R-Fla. West is feeling the heat for his answer to: a pregnant pause he took during a town hall meeting after he was asked ...  

Follow stories by David Weigel. MySlate is a new tool that you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. The thing to remember about Allen West is that he has a ...  

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- I came of age in the 1950s during a period when Joe McCarthy was raising hell about communists in the federal government. He was spectacularly inept, often made intemperate and inaccurate charges, but for the most part ...  

(Ilya Somin) I don’t agree with everything that CNN columnist John Avlon writes in his denunciation of Republican Rep. Allen West for claiming that some 80 Democratic House members are “communists.” But this part is right on target: The ghost of Joe McCarthy’s ulcerous accusations hung over a disturbingly casual comment this past week by U.S. Rep. [...]  

West is feeling the heat for a pregnant pause he took during a town hall meeting after he was asked "What percentage ... a large, influential and effective Communist Party USA. After the incredible movement to elect Barack Obama, more far ...  

Does communism have the answer to New Zealand’s dilemma over foreign investment in farmland? A New Zealand businessman in China made a suggestion over the weekend that the New Zealand Government should adopt the Chinese policy of leaseholding farm land ...  

Rep. Allen West, a tea party Republican from Florida, said Tuesday that he did not regret describing the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus as communists. At a forum, he called on journalists to study the political spectrum of ...  

Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free ...  

Did rock 'n' roll bring down communism? History, obviously, is messier than a good melody and an infectious beat. But it's undeniable that Western music - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Velvet Underground and so forth - had wide, if officially ...  

"You all are a disappointment to people who love freedom," Deb Caso said. "That is communism. That's what it is. When are you going to realize what communism is? … When the government is in control of everything, it's communism. There's no ...  

I normally try to keep my opinion to myself but the April 10 letter by Joel Parker cannot go without comment. I'll try to be brief. First, Mr. Parker has leaped beyond what scripture says is wrong when he pronounces that money is evil.  

Our mom was born in Poland "behind the red curtain" of communism. Communism is a heavy word and a hard one to understand. She lived through it ... decided to leave her family and country to be able to provide a better life for her children.  

Yesterday, we reported that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn lost support from a major business group for a living wage bill that she has been carefully negotiating. That disappointing loss ...  

Asked about the city's "living wage" legislation during his regular Friday morning radio appearance on WOR, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "The last time we really had a big managed economy was the USSR." On Wednesday night, City Council speaker Christine ...  

Mr. Caruba is and has been for a long time a writer by profession. He has several books to his credit and his daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs.  

David Graeber in conversation with Rebecca Solnit. From Guernica. Previously.  

In the Twenty-first Century there are two distinct economic models. The predominant is Capitalism and the other is Socialism. Communism has fallen by the wayside as a system that is too easily usurped by totalitarianism. Capitalism is a socio-economic ...  

When Allen West, the Republican congressman from Florida, said he had “heard” that up to 80 members of Congress were members of the Communist Party, but refused to say who they were, I began once again to worry about the declining standards ...  

It's hard to tell what's more disturbing: That Rep. Allen West says that up to 80 House Democrats are secretly members of the Communist Party or the fact that he and others actually believe it.. Granted, this is the same Allen West who once wrote a letter ...  

NBC NATIONAL NEWS — A man shouting "down with communism" was taken away by security during an event with Pope Benedict in Cuba yesterday, Monday, March 26. The pope celebrated an open-air mass in Santiago's revolution square after his arrival ...  

We hate the politicians we elect every two years.  I’m not exaggerating. The approval rating for Congress last year fell to a historically low rating of just 9%.  Indeed, as Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post notes, that’s below the ...  

Like the Soviet Union, other nations have turned back communism and restored democratic structures and forms of capitalism. But rarely has communism relinquished control for power easily, sometimes without a bloody struggle. The word ...  

"The only difference between socialism and communism is an AK-47 aimed at your head. That was my experience."Quang Nguyen, Creative Director/Founder, Caddis Advertising, LLC Fled Vietnam in 1975 at age 13. From a speech he gave on Saturday, July 24th, 2010, in Prescott Valley , AZ. Nguyen had been asked to speak on his experience of coming to America and what it means. He spoke the following in dedication to all Vietnam Veterans.  

Brown further argued that if Entergy’s customers in Kingwood did not like the rate increase, they should find a market-based solution, not a governmental one: switch electric  providers. However, City Attorney David Feldman explained after the meeting ...  

After fourth-quarter profit dropped 23%, Asia's largest refiner ( SHI, quote) plans to boost oil production in West China and increase exploration for unconventional resources including gas from shale formations. The Beijing-based China Petroleum ...  

This interview is the third of a three-part series* on socialism. In this article, Brad Zinn interviews Zina Brodovsky, a naturalized US citizen who lived under the Soviet socialism and communism in the former USSR. This interview is the third of a three-part series* on socialism. In this article, WFP’s Brad Zinn interviews Zina [...]  

Calling ObamaCare “socialized medicine” truly lowers the standards on what could be considered socialized medicine. It’s like calling paved roads “government overreach”; a stop light a “government takeover of your commute”; or a neighborhood with speed bumps “a road to communism.” The law is really some regulations to help consumers buy private insurance coupled with a small fee if consumers decide not to buy said insurance. Is it perfect? No...  

In 1627 the seven years of enforced communism expired.  

Reagan did not want to reconcile communism with democracy, but wanted to end it (Lee Edwards). “The West won't contain communism. It will transcend communism. It will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are ...  

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If we don't speak out, we're part of the problem - Progressive blogging for the middle class, not corporate welfare.  

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez keeps promising Venezuela and all of Latin America that he wants to give them the gift of “21st Century Socialism.” Unfortunately, when you see 21st Century Socialism in action, it looks identical to 20th Century Communism.  

Anyone that listens to rhetoric spouted by the Retro-Republicans has heard the word "Socialism" used to insult those that disagree with the Republican Theology.They know their target audience doesn't know the difference between Communism and ...  

It's like calling paved roads "government overreach"; a stop light a "government takeover of your commute"; or a neighborhood with speed bumps "a road to communism." The law is really some regulations to help consumers buy private insurance ...  

It's like calling paved roads "government overreach"; a stop light a "government takeover of your commute"; or a neighborhood with speed bumps "a road to communism." The law is really some regulations to help consumers buy private insurance ...