Pravda on American Capitalism

Thanks to Beetlebabeee at Beetle Blogger, I came across the article below in Pravda on the downfall of American capitalism.1. Here is a Russian’s perspective on America’s slide toward Marxism:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

Dollar Sign Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper. . . .

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.2

Sources:

  1. Beetlebabee. “Yes We Can Be – A Communist Nation”. 4 June 2009. Beetle Blogger. 11 June 2009.
  2. Mishin, Stanislav. “American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper”. 27 April 2009. Pravda. 11 June 2009. See Mr. Mishin’s personal blog at Mat Rodina.

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  1. Anyone that has seen my posts about the blogs knows that I am no fan of big government. I am a man that believes in the simple addage that the more plumbing you put into something, the more often it will break.

    It saddens me when I see the Pravda (of all newspapers) get it so spot on right with regards to our “awful situation”. They see it because they lived it and it didn’t work for them either.

    I’ve recently listened to a few of President Ezra Taft Benson’s speeches concerning this nation and the threat of communism and I’ve read W. Cleon Skousen’s books concerning this as well. We must know that all is NOT well in Zion and we must step up and start taking the reins. Prophecies are coming true before our eyes and the Elders of the church should open their eyes.

    One sad thing that worries me is the price of freedom. That price has always been human blood. Always. This price will be high as well. I am not advocating the physical military overthrow of our government, but is it possible to come to freedom by means of peace? We are stuck in that cycle that so many civilations have gone through just as they tumble back into slavery.

    May Heavenly Father have mercy on His Saints.

  2. Greg,

    An extremely sobering reality, indeed. They say “it takes one to know one”. Well, it takes a former socialist/marxist country to know when another is rising. What really chaps my hide, Greg, is that so many people are oblivious to these changes. So many people, even many in the church, could not care less about this issue. One of our duties as Latter-day Saints is to be aware and on guard for these sorts of developments.

    **Our Constitution, laws, and government were established by the Lord** Any messing around with these systems will bring upon us the judgment of God. I have tried to raise a voice of warning by posting an article called “Sieg Heil, Herr Obama”. The post warned against unmitigated socialism and government control creeping into our society. Some members took offense, including the folks at mormon achipelago who removed my site from their list of LDS blogs. They told me Is was not moderate enough. To those people I say, if the gospel-informed truth about socialism hurts, then maybe you should re-assess your values.

  3. RickM and DaveC – This last general conference brought to mind many important lessons. I haven’t had a chance to blog about my reflections of conference, but I believe that one of the themes was expressed by Elder Ballard’s words to his grandson, his grandchildren, and the youth of the Church in general:

    There is a famous saying attributed to George Santayana. You’ve probably heard it: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” (in John Bartlett, comp., Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. [1980], 703). There are, in fact, several different variations of this quote, including “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” Regardless of the exact language, the sentiment is profound. There are great lessons to be learned from the past, and you ought to learn them so that you don’t exhaust your spiritual strength repeating past mistakes and bad choices.

    You don’t have to be a Latter-day Saint—you don’t even have to be religious—to see the repeating pattern of history in the lives of God’s children as recorded in the Old Testament. Time and again we see the cycle of righteousness followed by wickedness. Similarly, the Book of Mormon records that ancient civilizations of this continent followed exactly the same pattern: righteousness followed by prosperity, followed by material comforts, followed by greed, followed by pride, followed by wickedness and a collapse of morality until the people brought calamities upon themselves sufficient to stir them up to humility, repentance, and change.

    In the relatively short span of years covered by the New Testament, the historic pattern repeats itself again. This time the people turned against Christ and His Apostles. The collapse was so great we have come to know it as the Great Apostasy, which led to the centuries of spiritual stagnation and ignorance called the Dark Ages.

    Now, I need to be very clear about these historically reoccurring periods of apostasy and spiritual darkness. Our Heavenly Father loves all of His children, and He wants them all to have the blessings of the gospel in their lives. Spiritual light is not lost because God turns His back on His children. Rather, spiritual darkness results when His children turn their collective backs on Him. It is a natural consequence of bad choices made by individuals, communities, countries, and entire civilizations. This has been proven again and again throughout the course of time. One of the great lessons of this historical pattern is that our choices, both individually and collectively, do result in spiritual consequences for ourselves and for our posterity. (Ballard, M. Russell. “Learning the Lessons of the Past“. April 2009. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 17 June 2009.)

    Over 26 years ago Hugh W. Nibley pointed out that there were dialectical materialists on both sides of the Iron Curtain. When I first read that statement, I didn’t understand what he meant. At first, I thought he was referring to those socialists and communists at work in the East and the West. However, as I studied his writings it was apparent that he meant that capitalism and socialism/communism are both based on materialism. They both have the all important economy as their end goal.

    So in essence, Pravda and Mr. Mishin got it right. America’s former political economy of capitalism has made a long slide towards Marxism because the two are mirror images of each other. Hopefully, more on this later.

  4. Re: Ballard’s comment about pride.

    I was playing golf with a WW II vet and friend. I pointed to some very large houses being constructed near the golf course and said, “Look at those mansions!” He responded, “I am afraid that we are at the peak of a pride cycle.” This comment came from a man who has the benefit of having seen much societal change throughout his lifetime. I then commented, “You know what comes after the peak of a pride cycle, don’t you?” He nodded his head and said, “I am glad I won’t live long enough to find out.”

  5. Thanks Dave C. That’s a very sobering story.

  6. Thanks for your reply, Greg. I had another comment I’ve been toying with and I though I don’t have idea completely worked out in words, it seems right in its first stages of thought.

    These seem to fit fairly well when dealing with the different ideologies and even though rather simplistic, I see the fit. The first three have been brought forward by other political philosophers. The last, I wanted to touch on myself…

    First three…
    Socialism/Communism = government(public) owned/government controlled.
    Fascism = privately owned/ government controlled
    Capitalism = privately owned/ privately controlled

    Now we can see the least amount of freedom or free agency would be with the first. To a slightly lesser degree we see the second of these with government allowing you to own things but under their strict supervision and approval. The last of the three goes to a polar opposite almost to the point of anarchy and possibly chaos.

    Here’s the fourth:

    Government owned/ privately controlled.

    Now this may sound like an improbability and even an impossibility to some. Have you ever known of such a societal undertaking? To me this sounds remarkably like the “United Order” or the “Law of Consecration”. When it was successfully administered, those that were able to make this type of system work were translated. I believe the prophet Joseph’s plan for the New Jerusalem or Zion was fashioned after this economically, but to make this type of system work it had to be worked by common consent not just hoped for.

    Just a thought.