The Liberal Avenger: The Collapse of the Soviet System

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"At times, conservatives have even trod into arguing in favor of a war ethos (see, for instance the popular bumper sticker: "War Has Never Solved Anything, Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism"); at other times -- as in all the talk about "shock and awe" in the Iraq invasion -- they have even suggested there is a kind of beauty to violence, especially in the service of the imposition of American will. "

"Let's do the sign of the cross. It'll make us feel real boss."

- Skafish

"Look, can we all at least agree on one thing -- if the 'I didn't do it' administration is re-coronated, that come November 3, EVERYTHING IS THEIR FUCKING FAULT."

"Arbolist... Look up the word. I don't now, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."

- George W. Bush, USA Today, 08/21/2001

"There are no mirrors in Bush's church."

- Tim Appelo, Seattle Weekly, 12/08/2004

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends."

- Maya Angelou

"To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when?"

- An Appeal to Global Conscience (via j a c k *)

"How much productivity has been wasted, not reducing our dependence on oil, but to entice us to buy more that is made with, and which consumes for its continuance - oil. It would be as if a man who had been poisoned, rather than reaching for the emetic, reaches for another dose of the poison."

- Stirling Newberry, So We Want a Revolution, 03/18/2005


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Friday, April 08, 2005

The Collapse of the Soviet System

The Collapse of the Soviet System

A person who writes a lot in the blogosphere who everybody knows that I respect a great deal (yes, his name is Stirling Newberry) posted a link to a Slate article about why the Pope isn't the person responsible for the collapse of Communism. The Slate article is excellent and worth reading, but Stirling's comments about the article are even more fascinating, I think.

One item, among many, stood out for me:

...but it seems odd that the people who assert the obvious superiority of laissez-faire capitalism over even the most moderate forms of government involvement in an economy...

I'm glad that Stirling said this. Somebody needed to say it.

Here we have a dyed-in-the-wool liberal economist-philosopher endorsing capitalism due to it's "obvious superiority" of centralized government economies. It's time to lay the tattered strawman to rest that says that Liberals = Communists. (You hear that John Jay Ray, you deranged fool?)

I hate to burst everybody's Stalinist bubble but Stirling is right. There will be no liberal blogger cheering section at the May Day parade in Red Square this year. It's time to throw out those red armbands and get back to work in the salt mines where we'll earn an honest day's pay for an honest day's work, just like Jesus, Lech Walesa, Ronald Reagan and the Pope told us to do.

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