Marxism Tries to Make a Comeback by Misrepresenting the Data

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h/t: Breitbart TV

Glenn Beck goes rounds with Bill O'Reilly over Marxism

This is a couple of weeks old but I did not see it until this morning. Since I found it entertaining, I thought I'd add it to the mix.

Finest Links In All Of Christendom

Dr. Melissa Clouthier has a post titled Decadent Democrats And Republican Bums that asks the question, ""The bums didn’t listen in 2004, 2006 and 2008. Are the Republican bums listening now?"
When I can locate them, I enjoy listening to the doctor's podcasts while I take a walk.

From the B Cast from Friday Scott Baker and Liz Stephans interview Dr John C. Drew who used to be a very commited Marxist revoulutionary. Dr. Drew had a couple of discussions with Barack Obama about Marxist theory while Obama was at Occidental College. Drew says there is no doubt that Obama was a commited Marxist at that point.

Here are a couple of evenings of Glenn Beck dealing mainly with what is going on in Europe. The second has a too short appearance by Andrew Breitbart. One. Two.

JammieWearingFool covers Harry Reid letting go on the American Bar Association because they only give passable marks to one of his court nominees. Ried thinks they don't know enough about the real world. How many believe Reid knows over much about the real world?

S. E. Cupps' Diary can be enjoyable if you like a little chart about books and people and life among the lower middle class in DC.

From Jo-Joe Politico here is his list of RANDOM CONSERVATIVE BELIEFS OF MINE.

Groucho 'Lydia the Tattooed Lady'

Duck Soup

Dictionary.com defines duck soup as an Americanism that means, "something that is easy to do or accomplish."

ht/Lolita's Classics

If the Anarchy Doesn't Kill You, The Nuance Will

The following is from an article in The New English Review from May 2007 by Theodore Dalyrmple which is a pen name of Anthony Daniels. Daniels is a retired psychiatrist who often writes about culture. I see it as an indictment of the obsession of liberals with nuance. My own personal indictment might be more on the lines of, ‘if you can‘t win with the truth then baffle them with bullshit.’

“In my youth (in which I include my early adulthood), I read a lot of philosophy. . . . .
In those days, the Soviet Union loomed very large in all our imaginations. It was the ruffian on the stair of western civilisation, or a looming presence to the east. And that meant that, for anyone who wanted to understand the world, it appeared necessary to immerse himself in Marxism (actually, it was more important to read the history of the Russian intelligentsia from the time of Nicholas I than to read Marx), since the Soviet Union claimed to be a society founded on Marxist principles.
Marxist writers were not famed for their clarity or elegance of exposition. Indeed, clarity was rather looked down upon by them, for the dialectical nature of the world was inherently hard to understand and therefore to express. For Marxists, clarity was simplification, or worse still vulgarisation. It was the handmaiden of false consciousness that misled the workers into not being revolutionaries.”

This is what liberals frequently espouse: lack of nuance is, "the handmaiden of false consciousness that misleads workers . . . "

Dalyrmple's piece is an interesting comparison of marxism to the teachings of the Egyptian, Qutb, who is often seen as the main intellectual father of radical and jihadist Islam. It can be found at
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=7240&sec_id=7240