by Dr. James Willingham » Sat Dec 31, 2011 1:19 pm
[b]The trouble with talking about socialism is that not many folks really grasp its history and ramifications. You all really should set under one of the theoreticians of world communism (perhaps that should read socialism), the one who showed Max Weber up by proving that capitalism really began with the founding of the city of Venice in the 4th century a.d. I refer to Dr. Oliver Cromwell Cox, Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, who taught Sociology at Lincoln Univ. All of the students in the class at Lincoln (Black and White) thought he was, and I wrote a paper critiquing communism as the creation of a new class, more greedy and rapacious than any in history, because it was basically unconscious of its enormous powers that, due to human nature, were always being perverted to that end. The students views of the good doctor were confirmed by two scholars in different ways. One Dr. N.B. Magruder of the old Magruder family of the South, had a Masters from Yale and one from Columbia (he was invited to join the communist conspiracy while a student there, but, after a terrible depression refused) (and a Ph.D. from Southern) declared that the gentleman in question was a theoretician of world communism. While teaching at South Carolina State, I met a Black Sociologist from Princeton who confirmed that the professor at Lincoln was "one of the unsung heroes of Marxianism." In '90 our son was a student at UNC-CH. He laid a course syllabus on Marxian Theorists before me and said, "Dad, I'm going to study you professor." There in the middle of the course outline for the semester was listed the name of my professor at LIncoln. I said all of that to say this; Having attended 10 diffferent colleges and universities above the secondary level, and having had a number of socialists, including Fabian as well as Marxian socialists (with some other varieties thrown in for good measure, I have a pretty good idea of what constitutes socialism. I also know of the tie-ins between the various socialists. It pains me to say, that the present administration is quite on track with a socialist agenda, and, lest any should think I was playing favorites, the same stuff is coming from the Republicans, all too often, too. And that inspite of the fact that the average American citizen doesn't want socialism (These days the average can study the effects on the internet in most countries where it is in effect and yuck! I rather be free.), but certain banking groups want it, because it offers more control over the average John Doe, the "useless eaters" as H.G. Wells' called them in the plural in his little work, The Open Conspiracy, which advocated the extermination of such by folks flying around in blimps or helicopters or planes (I forget which), and Wells was a member of the original circle of Fabians in England. So maybe Dr. Price might not know a great deal about socialists, but who does in these days of visual entertainment and a pathetic lack of willingness to do hard research. Still, he was not far off the target. Not as far as portrayed.