Poor Barack,been so bedeviled! The Lug started spying on the incoming Admin even before they got to the WH! He was the proverbial Manchurian Candidate! And he still can't keep his gracious Yap shut!
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: “I want it now!”—is through.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“The Cashing-In: The Student ‘Rebellion,’” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 266
Collectivism has lost the two crucial weapons that raised it to world power and made all of its victories possible: intellectuality and idealism, or reason and morality. It had to lose them precisely at the height of its success, since its claim to both was a fraud: the full, actual reality of socialist-communist-fascist states has demonstrated the brute irrationality of collectivist systems and the inhumanity of altruism as a moral code.
“The Cashing-In: The Student ‘Rebellion,’” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 269
Collectivism does not preach sacrifice as a temporary means to some desirable end. Sacrifice is its end—sacrifice as a way of life. It is man’s independence, success, prosperity, and happiness that collectivists wish to destroy.
Observe the snarling, hysterical hatred with which they greet any suggestion that sacrifice is not necessary, that a non-sacrificial society is possible to men, that it is the only society able to achieve man’s well-being.
“Theory and Practice,” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 137
The advocates of collectivism are motivated not by a desire for men’s happiness, but by hatred for man . . . hatred of the good for being the good; . . . the focus of that hatred, the target of its passionate fury, is the man of ability.
“An Untitled Letter,” Philosophy: Who Needs It, 102
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