[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Another quite weekend coming - The revolutionary heart of Marxism

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

You think Putin is peeing down his leg waiting for this guy to get into
office? Ahmadinejad? Anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs&eurl=http://powerlineblog.com/

Brad

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

>
> Most do not ask why Marxism, Communism, Progressivism, Liberalism inspire a
> following (Remember they are really the different names for the same
> concepts).  This an excerpted and paraphrased summary from a former
> Communist who testified before Congress against his mentors and former
> comrades:
>
> The revolutionary heart of Marxism … in defiance of religion, morality,
> truth, law … "is a simple conviction:  It is necessary to change the
> world."
> (Does this sound like Obama?)
>
> Like the force of all great religions, "its force derives from a simple
> vision."  Whereas all great faiths have always been different versions of
> the same vision: "the vision of God and man's relationship to God."  The
> Marxist vision is the vision of Man without God.  "It is the vision of
> man's
> displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world."
>
> Marxism gives man sovereignty by the simple method of denying God.  The
> educated man is moved by the vision.  An educated man, peering from the
> Harvard Yard or any educated position, upon the world in chaos, finds two
> certainties he seeks:  "a reason to live and a reason to die."
>
> One thing most ex-Marxist could agree upon: "they broke the bond because
> the
> wanted to be free."  Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else.  God
> alone is the creator and guarantor of freedom.  He is the only guarantor.
> Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without the soul there is no
> justification for freedom. That necessity is the only ultimate
> justification
> known to the human mind.
>
> "Without freedom the soul dies."  Marxism is a religious experience, though
> Marxists fail to identify this truism.  Marxism fails because if requires
> man to choose between irreconcilable opposites God or Man, Freedom or
> Marxism.  This illustrates the crisis of Marxism to the degree in which it
> has failed to free peoples from rules from God.
>
> Paraphrased from Whittaker Chambers' letter to his children on why he was a
> Communist and why he quit.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _/) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> >
> > add an i
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Where in the hell do you find people like this in the world?  This
> 'girl'
> >> could teach a thing or two to the absolute worthless individuals we have
> >> in
> >> our country posing as journalists.  I have no idea where the truth lies
> >> in
> >> this conflict, but people like this 'girl' have the guts to report from
> >> the
> >> front line.  The NYT's should just fold their tent and be done with
> their
> >> pitiful self.  Brad.
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyQ5Maqf80
> >>
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