Well said, Mike.
Every time I hear that the program I was listening to on Public Radio was supported by a generaous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation I think of the workers and their families who were shot by private security forces (Brinks) and national guardsmen for striking or being with the strikers.
The invisible hand of the market was covered with bright red visible blood on that day.
Gosh, I'm moved by your sympathy for those victims. However, I can't help but wonder how sympathetic you are -- or even how aware you are -- of the 100,000,000 victims who were killed by their own communist government in the past century. No invisible hand there, eh.
While we're on the topic of murderous governments, I'd like to try a fun little quiz for anyone who cares to give it a try. The following paragraph expresses views remarkably similar to Mike's. Can you guess who wrote it and who he worked for? (I have cut a few giveaway words to make the game a bit more challenging.)
--Russ
"We are socialists because we see the social question as a matter of necessity and justice for the very existence of a state for our people, not a question of cheap pity or insulting sentimentality. The worker has a claim to a living standard that corresponds to what he produces. We have no intention of begging for that right. Incorporating him in the state organism is not only a critical matter for him, but for the whole nation. The question is larger than the eight-hour day. It is a matter of forming a new state consciousness that includes every productive citizen. Since the political powers of the day are neither willing nor able to create such a situation, socialism must be fought for. It is a fighting slogan both inwardly and outwardly. It is aimed domestically at the bourgeois parties and [cut] at the same time, because both are sworn enemies of the coming workers' state. It is directed abroad at all powers that threaten our [cut] existence and thereby the possibility of the coming socialist [cut] state."
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