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NYC Marxists: We Prefer to be Called ‘Progressives’
- Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:32am by
Meredith Jessup
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At this Marxist school in New York City, students study Marx and revere Stalin. But don’t call them “socialists”; they prefer to be called “progressive.”
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Comments (51)
TrueToTheCoreAmerican
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:39pmWho cares what they like or don’t like. I call a spade a spade. These people ARE MARXISTS and need to be eradicated.
Report Post »GRuss
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:00pmYet the Left calls us Crazy when we say the Progressive democRats are Marxists!
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:54am“They don’t realize Haiti was the first free black republic in the Western hemisphere”
Who doesn’t? Also, what does that have to do with capitalism, liberty, and personal freedom?
Did anyone here actually hear anything useful or intelligent? All I heard was rhetoric… but more important is what I didn’t hear: the starvation, poverty, and war caused by the very ideals they are promoting.
“I’m a Marxist”
Anyone who can slap a label on themselves as surely as that (especially a political label named after another human) doesn’t have an ounce of individuality or independence left.
Let them all move to Cuba or Venezuela, or wherever it is they want to go. Even at taxpayer expense… it would be money well spent for once. America should just set up an exchange program with other countries. Trade the whining, greasy haired American youth for people who want out of oppression.
Report Post »Dmoreau508
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:39amI wanted to add one additional thing to my previous comment which is about the premises of Marxism.
Those who are proponents of Marxism, communism, progressivism, liberalism, anti-colonialism, anti-capitalism, anti-free market, anti-republic, etc., find democracy to be a friend of all these destructive groups. When someone asked John Adams, “What kind of government did you give us?” Adams replied by saying, “A Republic if you can keep it.” And this republic idea is far better than democracy.
And before some you have a hiss-fit, you better understand the difference between Democracy and a Republic. Democracy is the friend of Marxism, Maoism, Communism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Anti-Republicism, Anti-free-marketism, Anti-God, Anti-Christian and a foe of a whole host of other good things with which we cherish in the USA. Democracy has been used by every liberal group throughout history to force their liberal views on others.
Democracy says “the Rights of the Many outweigh the Rights of the Few.” I know this sounds like a phrase from Dr. Spock but this is the truth of what democracy consists. So, in a pure democracy a majority can take over what is owned by the minority through the voting process and the minority has no recourse.
A “Republic” is a system of government in which the people retain supreme and absolute control over the government, and in which the head of government is not a monarch, sovereign ruler, king, queen, tsar, czar, imperator, or is not any one branch of government. The term “Republic” most commonly means a system of government which derives its power from the people rather than from another basis, such as from inheritance or divine right.
In a republic, the Rights of the Few and the Many are protected by law, and in the case with regard to America,the law of the land is the Constitution of the USA and the Bill of Rights. In a democracy, the minority are oppressed by the those who are in power and there is no way out of it. This democratic idea is one which is loved by all liberal and progressive groups and organizations. Hitler himself used the Democratic process to enact atrocities on humanity.
Report Post »betsp
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:36amThey’re Communists who enjoy the benefits of capitalism as they seek to destroy it. We must be loud and blunt when we explain to our children who they are. They are the murderers of the world, the scum of history, the liars who prey on the ignorant. Our president is one of them, Hillary too. They are the enemy of our kids. Truth and faith will expose them, but only the force of numbers will defeat them.
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:33amWe prefer to call you “socialist ********”…if that’s okay with you?
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:15amA pig by any other name would smell as foul?
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:07amIt is no surprise to me to see these commies all look like loosers and speak like morons, also no surprise that they are anti-Israel. Patriotic they are not, they are a disgrace to American Patriots.
Report Post »Windsong
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:05amI prefer to call you…gone.
Report Post »Derfel Cadarn
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:02amThe correct term to call these people is TRAITORS. If you do not like America please go somewhere else Pugsely will welcome you with open arms.
Report Post »Phyllis1222
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:50amWe need to call them what they are…Marxists…then maybe people will wake up.
Report Post »Dmoreau508
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:28amMarxism (which leads to communism) is founded on 2 major premises.
The first premise is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s famous “Dialectical Idealism”. Dialectical Idealism says ideals consists of that which is true and that which is false and the way to interpret ideals is to synthesis both the truth and the lies of ideals. This leads to the destruction of absolutes in which one cannot distinguish what is right and what is wrong.
The second premise of Marxism, which leads to communism, is Friedrich Engels’ “Dialectical Materialism.” Engels said that the realm of ideals is not the most important thing on which to reason but the realm of the material world is the most important thing on which one should reason. Therefore, to Engels,human social organizations are only understood within the context of the material reproduction of their daily lives. This means people fall into two groups of social classes, the rich and the poor. And the way by which you create a equal society in which everyone has the same opportunity with each others is to synthesize the rich and poor into a working middle class. This may be a grand idea in Engels mind but the ultimate conclusion of this idea is human beings must be enslaved in order to make this 3rd rate philosophy to work.
This latter premise of Engels is why you hear so many Democrats, Liberals, and Progressives demonize the rich and claim to be champions for the poor and middle class. This is where the idea of “Redistribution of Wealth” originates. However Dialectical Materialism is only a ruse for the real intention of these liberal groups is to enslave humanity in order to create a Utopian society in which all are on equal standing with each other.
Democrats, liberals and progressives have only one thing in mind and that is to enslave humanity in order to promote their delusional ideas of what they deem to be a perfect world.
The problem with “Dialectical Materialism” is it assumes everyone on the planet has the same set of values as what is typified in the rich. However, humans are far more complex than reducing them to some unit which can be measured by the social sciences. “Dialectical Materialism” is from where Marxism, communism, socialism, anti-colonialism, and a whole host of other destructive philosophies which want to control wealth originate.
Report Post »tinlizy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:13amCommunists are godless lost souls who hate god, freedom, and success.
Report Post »tinlizy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:11amum since progressive has had their president obama unemployment has been at an all time high for a record time period with no relief in sight. under their marxist president poverty has increased to unpresedented numbers.in the history of america. the elixer to this progressive problem is called “FREEDOM”.
Report Post »tinlizy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:08amthese progressives brought us the federal reserve, the progressive income tax after it was rule by the us supreme court in 1890′s to be unconstitutional. they brought us the 1929 crash, the great depression the failed new deal, they brought corporatism to shape public policy, mass murder arond the world. haiti is utter poverty strcken. why would we keep this crap around.
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:36amThinking in a state of A Shade Of Grey is bad because what you percieve as doing something good is really doing something bad. Hiroshima is considered a Shade Of Grey even though it needed to be done we still killed almost half a million people, Thats much less then what would have been killed but still your commiting evil to get rid of evil.
Progressives, Marxists they want the same thing Progress away from the constitution. They are fools, the Constitution is the answer to all of our problems its just convincing the brain dead Progressive zombies to abadon what they are doing. Thats going to be the true test.
Report Post »mikemanners11
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:33amAll of your talk by you people here is useless unless people have jobs. A hungry, angry man is a DANGEROUS thing.
I live in a part of Chicago which is mostly Black and working class.
I am a Black conservative but I can see the RAGE beginning to swell and burst at the seems amongst my people.
I see my people suffer every day because no one wants to pay a fair wage or treat workers with dignity and respect. Employers treat people like dogs because they know people are desperate.
I will have NO PITY on those who now hold all the Economic Cards when they are called to account for their crimes.
ONE DAY soon the peasants with the pitchforks carrying blazing torches will be outside your door – what will you do then?
Report Post »CygnusX1
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:02pmMike,
I understand what you are saying, but what you and those you refer to seem to miss is that there will always be those that take advantage and/or abuse others. PERIOD! This fact will never change as it is human nature no matter what race, religion, or nationality!
While America is not a perfect country, and there never will be a perfect country. It has been one of THE BEST examples of a FREE nation. America has provided the citizens the tools to succeed beyond the wildest dreams of those that live elsewhere in the world.
But it is incumbant upon the people of this country to use those tools and the freedom they have, to improve themselves. But in the last twenty years and especially the most resent years, Government has been removing those tools and desolving our freedoms.
As decent human beings, we all must make an attempt to stop the abuses that you refer to as well as hold OUR Government accountable for it‘s policies and stop it from it’s path of destroying our freedoms and making us all beholding to it. Too many Americans now just hold their hands out to the Government for everything, which is exactly what those in charge have been wanting and fostering among the population. In the end, Black or White or whatever, we become slaves to this Government.
History has shown all over the world, that Marxisim, Socialism, Communism ALWAYS destroys freedom.
The suffering we see around us in America does not hold a candle to the suffering that Marxist, Socialist, Communist controlled populations have and do suffer under.
I’d rather be treated badly, as you say, by an employer than a Government anyday. At least for now, I still can quit, and/or sue a bad employer.
We can’t simply quit and/or sue a Government that no longer fears us and will do to us as it pleases.
We ALL must stand together. Resist the temptation of resorting to violence to change the American Governement. Use our remaining tools of freedom to correct and change the course of this Government for the better and restore our freedoms.
But whatever we do, we must NEVER allow America to fall into the trap of Marxisim or Communism!
Violence is only an option of last resort. Because history has also shown, with the exception of the American revolution which was guided by people who, end the end, did not let the violence end in tyranny! Nearly all other violent revolutions in history have ended in the people suffering at the hads of tyrants and the loss of all freedoms!
We must not give in to the temptation and stand strong together as a nation and as a people or all will be lost and there will be GREAT SUFFERING!
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:34pm@mikemanners11
You are not a conservative. I have been waiting for someone to answer your question. If you showed up at my door with pitctforks and torches, I and my neighbors would defend ourselves by exercising our second ammendment rights to bear arms and defend ourselves from a domestic attack. In other words, we would shoot you,
I am not advocating violence, but I will defend myself and my family. If I would die trying I would be another patriot defending my home and my freedom.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 6:08amDepends on HOW MANY show up.
In our Local AO we have the following Rules of Engagement to maximize the use of available ammo.
Singles and small groups (1 to 5)= Scoped Bolt Guns
Medium sized gatherings (6 to 40)= Suitable Magazine Fed MBRs and Light GPMGs
ZULU DAWN= Heavy Browning Belt Fed Gun Batteries and Tracked Armor
Still working on Close Air Support, both fixed wing and helo, but we are close.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:07amLike them or (more likely) hate them, they’re the only ones telling the truth about who the Progressives really are.
Report Post »dizzyinthedark
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 8:24am…..and I’m the one that had the brain tumor!
These people need to be seen by a neurosurgeon to have the tumor inside their heads squashing their common sense, surgically removed–STAT!
Report Post »Monsta777
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 8:07amMorons! The economy has faltered because as individuals many didn’t pay their bills. Now, collectively, we are trying to do the same thing. Gee, I wonder what the result will be?!!
Communism has never worked. It‘s not a solution and it’s only purpose is to control the people. Can anyone give me an example of successful Marxist ideology? China, the biggest Marxist holdout is stumbling into the light of capitalism. They are a world power not just in weaponry but econonmically because of it. This is where the new war is and they are using capitalism to bring us down! Everyone knows you can’t buy guns without money.
Japan lost nearly everything during WWII because they tried to take it through violence. By the 1980′s they had gained through capitalism everything they had tried through violence just 40 years earlier.
Take the tax and regulatory chains off of Americans and let them regain the world! Fight back by imposing tariffs on imports with an “unfair advantage”. Remember the tariffs on imported large displacement motorcycles in the early 80′s. Saved Harley Davidson’s bum that one did!
Wicked Marxists have only returned because we didn’t educate them after we defeated them.
Report Post »Dstarr55
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:56amI find this rather sad – this group talks about social needs yet what are they doing about it – talking and apparently singing. Holding up Lenin and Stalin? Did you see what those two men did to the masses? If they are so concern then set up soup kitchens, job training programs, or shelters but do it on your own, not on the tax payers dime. And the end statement by the reporter, “one thing you can’t call them is unpatriotic” is an opinion. I do think there is an element of being unpatriotic when you have a disdain for your country and I submit to you that these people do – they want to fundamentally change what this country is and what it stands for – I do not see that as patriotic. They may hide this under the banner of helping the needy but you can do that without wanting to change the government of this great nation.
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:45amWell if it looks like SH&*, smells like SH%#, then you can bet it is SH^%. I don’t care what you call it.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:25amInstead of English class, they have Thesaurus class since all they need to know about the English language is how to change the names of things.
Report Post »Mike Z4000
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:23amAs we conservatives have been saying for years, “Progressives” are “Communists”. Some well known, self-admitted “Progressives”. During her campaign against O’bama, Hillary Clinton admitted to being a “progressive”, a few days later O’bama admitted that he too was a “Progressive”. The fact is “Progressives” are everything from Communists to Fascists to Socialists but never Capitalists. Whatever suits their agenda at the time. The republicans who call themselves “Progressives” are really socialists.
Report Post »not funny
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:55amThey may not like capitalism, but many of them are very wealthy and hang onto their own money. They prefer to spend others’ money. Hypocrites.
Report Post »Kitsune
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 8:22am@ Not Funny : It’s called “Shutting the Door Behind You”. They have theirs, now they need to make sure nobody else does. They’re already in power, and therefore immune from any Marxist policies they may get enacted.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:25amhttp://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
This article will clue you in…to the real commies….how they took power using Civil Rights, Voter Fraud, Unionism, Dept of Education….et al……Wake up America.
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:16ammental instability.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:58amBe on this whole philosophy is from the belly of the beast. Satan laughs at the clowns.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:04amOne more thing: at the conclusion of the three or so minutes, the reporter says “you can call them some things but not patriotic” has she ever read the definition of patriotic? Obviously not, and they feel now they can work from within, where has this idiot been, they’ve been working from within for years.
Cemoto78
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:38amNancy Pelosi 101.
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