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Thursday, March 21. 2013

Walter Weyl: All of your property is belong to us

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.


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.


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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.


That is so....1780!

The greatest trick played was when the Progs got everyone distracted by getting them focused on Communist form of socialism or Fascist form of socialism. Thus, hiding the Progressive form of socialism. All have in common control and destruction of the individual, assuming the individual isn't one of the chosen betters.
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It(socialism) purposes to introduce new forces into society and industry; to put a stop to the idleness, the waste of resources, the misdirection of force, inseparable, in some large proportion of instances, from individual initiative; and to drive the whole mass forward in the direction determined by the intelligence of its better half.


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The Socialist, under this definition, would be the man who, in general, distrusts the effects of individual initiative and individual enterprise ; who is easily convinced of the utility of an assumption, by the State, of functions which have hitherto been left to personal choices and personal aims ; and who, in fact, supports and advocates many and large schemes of this character.

A man of whom all this could be said might, in strict justice, be termed a Socialist. The extreme Socialist is he who would make the State all in all, individual initiative and enterprise disappearing in that engrossing democracy of labor to which he aspires. In his view, the powers and rights of the State represent the sum of all the powers and all the rights of the individuals who compose it ; and government becomes the organ of society in respect to all its interests and all its acts. So much for the Socialist.
#1 JKB on 2013-03-21 12:09 (Reply)
Those who consider themselves as our betters are deluded that they know better than we on what to do for or about everything.

I'm investing in tar and feather futures.
#2 Sam L. on 2013-03-21 12:31 (Reply)
The continuing protestant reformation emerging through the unitarian church and feeding the progressive religion. When the goal posts of morality are buried in shallow turf they have a tendency to be easily moved at most any whim. Some aren't even buried, they just had a hastily installed tripod to insure a less troublesome change.
#3 indyjonesouthere on 2013-03-21 13:57 (Reply)

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