re: #258 Dark_Falcon

Jonah Goldberg is wrong about the origins of fascism, but he’s right about the left’s blindness to communism. However, I don’t think that’s on point here, since Obama is no Marxist (whatever Glenn Beck may think).

DF, I think that’s a bit of a broad brush. The *far* left always had a place in its heart for Marx, if not Russia. Russia was always a bastardization of Marxist Communism, in that the Apparatchiks controlled the proles. That’s not Marxist dogma. The concept of “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need” was a radical reinterpretation of the Capitalist west, written in The Communist Manifesto (TCM) in 1848. At the time, magnates had total control over the lives of the workers in much of Europe.

TCM was basically a Utopian view of how Capitalism- the relationship between workers and manager, could work. Like all Utopian writings, it is romantic and impossible. Goldberg saying that this is a driving focus of the modern American left, which is by and large fundamentally Centrist with a few fringe groups that are held at arms length (unlike the Conservative fringe, which is tacitly endorsed by the Republican Party through its surrogates) is ridiculous. Goldberg is full of shit.