socialism

There is a persistent danger in attempting to apply universal ‘one size fits all’ solutions to every political crisis across the globe.
This is the primary reason why solutions based on broad, sweeping  ideological dogmas tend to produce inferior results to those based on specific problem solving endeavours.
A clear example of this is the age old ‘right versus left’/’conservative versus socialist’ debate. There is no universal answer, it merely depends what is the best specific situation to any given crisis.

So long as the Socialist zealots don’t burn me at the stake for my heretical views, I guess I won’t get too agitated by their bizarre fetish for statism. But I will periodically mock them. And that’s the purpose of today’s column.

6 million protesters have filled the streets of Venezuela, in what is being called “the mother of all marches.’ The Chávez-Maduro regime has turned high powered water hoses and tear gas on its own starving citizens, some of whom have jumped in the river to escape or erected improvised barricades. The oppressive government has taken numerous news outlets off the air. At least three people have been killed so far.

Popular wisdom holds that Fascism and Communism were diametrical opposites. Not so.

"While, yes, Canada is dangerously close to Bernie Sanders’ dream of a single-payer system, the very structure of its system explains why Canada constantly ranks higher on the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom – #7, compared to the U.S. #17 ranking. And that structure is federalism."

Brett Veinotte of the popular podcast The School Sucks Project joins me to cover the MK Ultra mind control facilities known as public schools. Brett discusses how American education has always been used by the oligarchic power structure to produce the drone clone force needed. We cover the salvific mindset of the early planners of public education, the educational conspiracy, Common Core, as well as the issue of “philosophy of liberty” and whether it requires more.

Then, just as liberalism began to transform the world, two pernicious ideas began to vie with it. Nationalism and socialism began to capture the imaginations of intellectuals and would eventually displace liberalism completely in the hearts and minds of the West.
Liberalism unlocked humanity’s creative potential, yielding the first ever rise of widespread abundance through industrial mass production. Nationalism and socialism unleashed humanity’s capacity for destruction, unleashing the first ever rise of industrial-scale mass murder.

"One has to communicate in ways that capture attention, motivate and inspire, which means making your message relevant to the times, using stories of real people, appealing to the best in people, exemplifying solid character in everything you do as a teacher."

Why is the reparations movement in the Anglophone Caribbean not putting capitalism on trial in its campaign to force British imperialism to provide financial compensation for its industrial and agricultural capitalists’ enslavement of Africans? To what extent is capitalism such a sacred spirit or god whose name should not be publicly called in order to avoid attracting its vindictive and punishing rebuke?

Attacks and intimidation, it seems, have become a part of American political life, but America’s political polarization buries a counterintuitive insight: Culturally and aesthetically, the left and the right appear quite different, yet both of their political philosophies are rooted in authoritarianism.