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the anger of the left - the war on the individual
submitted by The FACE that lunched on a thousand planets
- “The difference between socialism and fascism is superficial and
purely formal.[...] under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense
of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.[...]
If 'ownership' means the right to determine the use and disposal of
material goods, then Nazism endowed the state with every real
prerogative of ownership. What the individual retained was merely a
formal deed, a contentless deed, which conferred no rights on its
holder. Under communism, there is collective ownership of property
_de jure_. Under Nazism, there is the same collective ownership
_de facto_” [Ayn Rand (Lexicon 159, 161)]
- “Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and
for all.” [Nikita Khrushchev]
- “All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the
elevation of the single person.” [Vladimir Lenin]
- “There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the
State and the Individual.” [Benito Mussolini]
- “The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the
liberalistic concept of the individual” [Adolph Hitler]
- “At a time when our entire country is banding together and facing down
individualism, the Patriots set a wonderful example, showing us all what is
possible when we work together, believe in each other, and sacrifice for
the greater good.” [Ted Kennedy]
- “We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is
best for society.” [Hillary Clinton, 1993]
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quotations selected at www.abelard.org
socialist religions
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