Karl Marx is Yukking it Up

Weren't you reassured years ago after the Soviet Union collapsed, and we were all convinced that communism was dead? We wouldn't have to worry about being buried by the likes of dead communist dictators. We wouldn't have to worry about selling them the rope to hang us, right?

If you were a skeptic like me, you realized that the communist agenda was alive and well and never died or was killed. The Chi-coms are still around and growing stronger militarily every year. Are we to ignore them?

What about the leftists within our own country who, more often than not, side with our enemies and are successfully growing the bureaucracy ever larger, each and every year in order to abscond from "those who are able in order to give to those in need?"

The Daily Inter Lake has an interesting piece about Karl Marx's philosophy in its simplest form:

From each according to their ability; to each according to their need.

Sound familiar?

Familiar? It's become a way of life in Amerika, er, America.

That is the simplest statement of Marxist philosophy that exists, and if it doesn't set off alarm bells when you hear it, then you haven't been paying attention to the political debate in our country recently. More and more, it looks like our country and our people are supposed to feel guilty for being successful, and we are supposed to make up for it by throwing money at people who haven't earned it. In the old days, they called that begging; now they call it 'entitlement.'

The United States has jobs, and Mexicans need them, so therefore Mexicans are entitled to those jobs.

Hospitals have health services, and poor people need them, so therefore poor people are entitled to those health services.

Bill Gates has billions of dollars, and the government needs billions, so therefore he should fork over as much as the government wants -- no questions asked.

(Oh yes, and because he has so much money, the government is going to want more of his than yours. Heck, they're entitled to it, right? From each according to their ability; to each according to their need.)

Disturbing, isn't it? What have we come to in this country?

Whereas, socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried, it continues to be foisted up on us as if it is the salvation for all mankind, when just the opposite is true:

Likewise, when you enable the chronically unsuccessful to avoid the consequences of their lack of education, resourcefulness or toil, you are just speeding them on the way to a life of dependency and despair, and if you don't think people on welfare resent the hand that feeds them, visit the inner city in a major urban area for a day. You will not discover an attitude of gratitude.

Maybe Karl Marx should have said it this way: 'From everyone else because they've got it; to me, because I damn well want it.'