Communism today

Excellent essay by Howard at Oraculations regarding current trends in communism, it's initial growth and rebirth: bq. A New Excuse to Overthrow the Government and destroy Capitalism Communism, the bad old business destroyer that was "tres chic" from 1900 to 1960 IS dead, but there is a new game in town and this new game explains the Hate America Left, the Hate America Hollywood Left and why they like dictators and sympathize with Radical Islam. I'll try to make it short. References for very heavy reading are at the end. bq. The nexus of the original Marxist Theory was that Marx had a "scientific" method for achieving socialism. He called it "Scientific Socialism" (Das Kapital is a dam math book); all other methods people were trying to bring forth at that time were "fantasy" conceptions (no math). It's very important to know that Marx had contempt for fantasy. It's well to keep in mind that fantasy is the nexus of the New Communism. And more: bq. So it's the mid-fifties. Anybody with a real brain knows Communism ain't gunna happen, at least not in the way Karl Baby figured it. So in 1957 a book comes out by a guy named Baran and he blew the walls down for Marx. He said that the poverty in the Third World was caused by capitalism. A wonderful opening for the disillusioned hard core. A great excuse for the loser possed by envy of anybody with money. bq. Baran "discovered" that the workers in the U.S. and the owners of industry had become one and the same. Workers and capitalists together were responsible for the poverty all over the world. All had to be killed; both workers and capitalists. Now this book didn't exactly fly off the shelves, but it was read by the usual suspects who KNEW THEY WERE RIGHT, who knew they were "on the right side of history", and Communism quietly began to shift. Nobody had ever thought that Capitalism caused Third World poverty before. Especially not Marx, Groucho maybe, but not Karl. And more: bq. Now this new theory grew in (where else) academia (Berkeley, Yale, Stanford) until the mid-seventies when another huge book came out by a guy named Wallerstein that really galvanized the Communists. This huge book not only backed up what Baran had said but "proved" that America became rich by making other countries poor. Think about this for a second: our success as a country is based upon making others poor, period. It's all our fault: hunger, no medical care, no education, poverty, and whatever else they could come up with.. bq. To the Left that book was a gift from the Gods themselves. Just what every old Lefty, every whacked out Viet Nam protester, college teacher, guilty actor, and Red Diaper baby wanted to hear. It's all America's fault. bq. Kindling for the combustible haters like Chomsky, the Hollywood Left (the old line Communist propagandists), the Castros, Saudi Princes, up and coming Terrorists, slave Traders in the Sudan; in short with the arrival of the "New Communism" every bad guy in the world could blame the U.S.A for everything. This stuff grew like Jack's Beanstalk. Communism was baaaaaakkk. And in a new twist, all the sensitive artist types in the USA could get sensitive about truly miserable people. People who had an added benefit of being 10,000 miles away. bq. Blame America for everything. That is Communism today. The poverty in Muslim countries is not only America's fault, but we caused it so we could get rich. We literally strongarm the people in Africa to be poor, SO we can get rich. Mugabe can blame us. The Communists will back him to the hilt. Howard goes on a lot more -- all of it spot on and deadly. Check it out -- print it out and hand it to any moonbat acquaintances.