All your property belong to us
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:08 pm
From Maggies Farm:
To understand the now-antique Liberal/Progressive mind set in America, we must go back at least to the turn of the last century. Around 1910, Walter Weyl was all the rage - the new, new Coke.
At the time, the Western world was excited by utopian ideas about everything being run by brilliant, virtuous, and omniscient overseers who aspired to unburden us common folk of freedom, risk, and excessive responsibilities.
http://www.teaparty911.com/blog/walter- ... -property/
With a h/t to Doug Ross, here is some of it: Walter Weyl (1873-1919): The state has a "primordial, intrinsic, underlying right to all property".
A quote:
"We are beginning to see that we can moralize, we can socialize the trusts, and can build more widely upon the economic tendencies of the age...the end of it all must be production on the largest scale compatible with efficiency, but a production so regulated as to ownership, stock issues, dividends, prices, wages, and profits as to safeguard the whole community. Unless we are to take the saltum mortale [dangerous undertaking] of a complete and immediate governmental ownership and operation of all large industries, we must work out a more perfect system of corporation control in the interest of society."
As most Maggie's readers know, individual freedom is not about "the greater good," nor is it about the State. It's about individual sovereignty.
http://www.teaparty911.com/blog/walter- ... -property/
The agenda that drive our current Prgressivism has been arouns from a long time. Here is a link to the actual book so that it's clear that the tea party page is quoting directly and not taking it out of context:
http://books.google.com/books?id=saM9AA ... CDIQ6AEwAQ
The utter contempt for individual people and the greedy desire for power are just stomach wrenching. Yet the language used is the same as that of our current mandarins.
To understand the now-antique Liberal/Progressive mind set in America, we must go back at least to the turn of the last century. Around 1910, Walter Weyl was all the rage - the new, new Coke.
At the time, the Western world was excited by utopian ideas about everything being run by brilliant, virtuous, and omniscient overseers who aspired to unburden us common folk of freedom, risk, and excessive responsibilities.
http://www.teaparty911.com/blog/walter- ... -property/
With a h/t to Doug Ross, here is some of it: Walter Weyl (1873-1919): The state has a "primordial, intrinsic, underlying right to all property".
A quote:
"We are beginning to see that we can moralize, we can socialize the trusts, and can build more widely upon the economic tendencies of the age...the end of it all must be production on the largest scale compatible with efficiency, but a production so regulated as to ownership, stock issues, dividends, prices, wages, and profits as to safeguard the whole community. Unless we are to take the saltum mortale [dangerous undertaking] of a complete and immediate governmental ownership and operation of all large industries, we must work out a more perfect system of corporation control in the interest of society."
As most Maggie's readers know, individual freedom is not about "the greater good," nor is it about the State. It's about individual sovereignty.
http://www.teaparty911.com/blog/walter- ... -property/
The agenda that drive our current Prgressivism has been arouns from a long time. Here is a link to the actual book so that it's clear that the tea party page is quoting directly and not taking it out of context:
http://books.google.com/books?id=saM9AA ... CDIQ6AEwAQ
The utter contempt for individual people and the greedy desire for power are just stomach wrenching. Yet the language used is the same as that of our current mandarins.