A History Of Socialism In America

10:11 pm EST December 5th, 2009 | News | 6 Comments

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6 Responses to “A History Of Socialism In America”

  1. jrfunkenstein says:
    December 5, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    Forgot public television.

    The horror….the horror…

  2. gruntled atheist says:
    December 5, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    Public mail service (socialism) was included in our Constitution. Yikes!

  3. Rheinhard says:
    December 6, 2009 at 12:36 am

    All together now!

    Arise, wretched of the earth
    Arise, convicts of hunger
    Reason thunders in its crater
    This is the eruption of the end
    Of the past let us wipe the slate clean
    Enslaved masses, arise, arise
    The world is about to change its foundation
    We are nothing, let us be all
    |: This is the final struggle
    Let us group together, and tomorrow
    The Internationale
    Will be the human race     :|

    There are no supreme saviours
    Neither God, nor Caesar, nor tribune.
    Producers, let us save ourselves
    Decree the common welfare
    So that the thief expires,
    So that the spirit be pulled from its prison,
    Let us fan the forge ourselves
    Strike the iron while it is hot
    |: refrain :|

    The state oppresses and the law cheats
    The tax bleeds the miserable
    No duty is imposed on the rich
    ‘Rights of the poor’ is a hollow phrase
    Enough languishing in custody
    Equality wants other laws:
    No rights without obligations, it says,
    And as well, no obligations without rights
    |: refrain :|

    Hideous in their self-glorification
    Kings of the mine and rail
    Have they ever done anything other
    Than steal work?
    Into the coffers of that lot,
    What work creates has melted
    In demanding that they give it back
    The people only wants its due.
    |: refrain :|

    The kings make us drunk with their fumes,
    Peace among ourselves, war to the tyrants!
    Let the armies go on strike,
    Stocks in the air, and break ranks
    If these cannibals insist
    On making heroes of us,
    Soon they will know our bullets
    Are for our own generals
    |: refrain :|

    Labourers, peasants, we are
    The great party of workers
    The earth belongs only to men
    The idle will go reside elsewhere
    How much of our flesh they feed on,
    But if the ravens and vultures
    Disappear one of these days
    The sun will still shine

    |: refrain :|

  4. anotherbozo says:
    December 6, 2009 at 8:46 am

    The cartoonist left out Social Security and Medicare. But probably there were space limitations…

  5. ASH says:
    December 8, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    Public services are not Socialism. Fail
    Medicare, Social Security are and both are failing for a reason

    Main Entry: so·cial·ism
    Pronunciation: \ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm\
    Function: noun
    Date: 1837

    1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
    2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
    3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

  6. T.J. Swoboda says:
    December 9, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    Whether it’s socialism-in-certain-areas or not, all of the examples in the cartoon constitute restrictions we place on our freedom, in the belief that certain services won’t exist in any practical form if they’re not paid for with compulsory tax dollars.

    The biggest problem here is that the people who have traditionally opposed this and favored freedom in these areas (our friend at the top with the MacAulay Culkin expression) have opposed freedom in other areas. They’re pro-school choice, pro-utilities choice, pro-transportation choice, etc., but want to keep women barefoot and pregnant, throw you into a rape room (prison) for making or buying porn, etc.

    Over the past century, we’ve seen freedom wax in some areas and wane in others. This is the absolute litmus test of whether a change is good or bad.