Rusty--looking at your avatar--are you the next reincarnation of Rusty Warren? Your righteous indignation to the Samuel Jackson piece amuses me. Also you must not get out much. Go the F-ck to Sleep is a book on the realities facing young parents when trying to put their child to sleep. Like your politics--your world needs to get a little bigger.
Yossi, I've seen the "Go the F**k to sleep" book and video. Funny! I was going to explain it to Rusty but figured he's got enough on his plate dealing with Obama in an apparent landslide.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Obama will sweep NYS....it is as blue as blue can be!!! Obamites need not worry.
I wouldn't be happier if this election had the lowest turn out in history....nationally!!!!
The LAME STREAM MEDIA and the CORRUPT SYSTEM would sh!t!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
there is a difference [face=Arial]How about a Marxist socialist? The difference between the Marxist and the Fabian is somewhat of an important difference, but from Marx's point of view, socialism was going to be the answer to the capitalist economic system. And what Marx did was divide basically the human race into two groups, the proletariat and the bourgeois. And from a Marxist point of view, the bourgeois needed to be eliminated so that we could have peace on earth, and goodwill to all the socialists, I guess.
But the Fabian socialists came along with a different idea. They came along with the same socialist idea, but instead of dividing the world between the two groups, they decided that they were going to bring about socialism through a more peaceful process. In other words, the Bolsheviks were known as the party of slaughter, and we had to ultimately get rid of the bourgeois. And they did, by the way, Brannon. They killed tens of thousands. I think the numbers are probably closer to 100 and some million.
But the Fabians decided that they were not going to use the heavy hand. They were going to go slowly and surely, and that's what they did.
The word Fabian comes from a Roman general by the name of Fabius who was – he was up against the Carthaginians and Hannibal, and he decided that he wasn't going to face them head on, but he was going to – he was going to go through them, and he was going to go above them, and he was going to go below them. He was going to use a lot of different tactics to defeat them, so that's what he did.
And so the Fabians were founded about 1883, and what I find interesting is that the Fabian Society was founded the very year that Marx himself died. Marx died in March of 1883. At his funeral, there were about six in attendance, and so I suspect that most people thought this was the end of Marx and Marxism and socialism and communism. But the truth is, it was just the beginning, because Marxism took off, of course, into the 20th century big time.
Also in 1883, the Fabian Society was founded in England, and this is the group that decided we were going to use a little different tactic than just the Bolshevik tactic. So the Fabian socialists to a great extent had the same socialism in mind as the Marxists, but they had a little different approach on how they were going to do it. A lot of us look upon what's going on even today as somehow, you know, well, it's just going on today, but what are the predecessors? Well, I think as Christians, we need to get back and get the – and get the historical footing on this whole thing, too.
So Fabian socialism is a term that comes from a British organization called the British Fabian Society, founded in 1883, and then it has progressed from that to the present time, and has had a tremendous success in England and in this country, and really around the world in many ways. Basically, Europe today is becoming very socialistic in nearly every country in Europe.
So they have done their homework. ____ take your hats off to this group, because they started very small, but they just kept building and building and building. And they have now reached the point where you could argue that even in our own country, the United States of America, the whole Fabian socialist approach has succeeded way beyond anyone's imagination today.
We didnt come this far to get this far. random 12 year old
A slave is someone that waits for someone else to free him. Ezra Pound
If you get people in a room together, if people have the freedom to meet, talk and argue, they’ll make better decisions about the things which affect their lives than anyone else.
In ‘Letting Go: How Labour can learn to stop worrying and trust the people’ Jon Wilson argues that Labour needs to become a movement rooted in people’s experience, not be the party of the central manager. Above all, it needs to trust people again. The politician’s vocation should be to create institutions where those conversations happen, not determine what they decide.
This doesn’t mean Labour should abandon its faith in the state. Indeed, that faith needs to be renewed, because our public institutions embody Labour’s sense of the purpose of politics: to protect and care, and provide a basis for us to lead good lives together. But the argument in favour of the public sector should be an argument for local control and popular ownership.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
The political right, and many on the left, have long assumed that the people of Britain want the state to be smaller. But new Fabian research suggests that progressive advocates for the state and tax-funded public services have reason to be confident. ‘No Right T urn’ is based on original qualitative and quantitative research which explores how people respond to some of the main arguments for and against the state and public services. Over nine hours of focus groups plus a nationally representative opinion poll provide a rich picture of how the public view the debate around the role of the state.
The idea that we all depend on public services at different stages of our lives, and that tax-funded public ser vices are a way of caring for those less fortunate in our society , were both popular . So too were the themes of contribution and desert, with the importance that public services play throughout everyone’s life cycle a key theme.
The left should resist the urge to seek out a middle-way that cedes ground to the right on public ser vice debates. Labour can be confident and bold in making pro-state arguments and can set out a collectivist case for maintaining high quality, tax-funded public services.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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