Posted by
Reeson on Friday, June 29, 2007 5:20:46 PM
By Greg C. Reeson
One of my favorite features from Rush Limbaugh’s “Limbaugh Letter” is a “Who said it?” section that offers quotes from two different individuals and asks readers to guess which noted figure committed the utterances. July’s edition of the newsletter highlights quotes from New York Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and noted socialist thinker, philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx. The really scary part is how much the two are alike when it comes to their political thoughts.
Listed below are five of the Clinton quotes that could have just as easily been spoken by Marx:
--“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” (June 29, 2004)
--“[W]e can’t…just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.” (June 4, 2007)
--“I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in [the] entire economy that they’re being watched.” (September 2, 2005)
--“I certainly think the free market has failed.” (June 4, 2007)
And finally,
--“We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.” (April 6, 1993).
Remolding society. That means American society. Why? Why would we remold the society that has made us the most prosperous and most powerful nation in the history of the world? Why would we remold the society that built this nation through hard work and individual responsibility. The bottom line is that Senator Clinton believes in taking from the “haves” to give to the “have nots.” That means that those members of society who are most productive are penalized in order to benefit those members who contribute the least to our national well-being. It sounds eerily like “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” from Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme.
I’m sure Marx would have been proud.