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Title: Give Greece ... What It Deserves ... Communism
Source:
forbes.com/
URL Source: http://blogs.forbes.com/billfrezza/ ... ce-what-it-deserves-communism/
Published: Jul 20, 2011
Author: BILL FREZZA
Post Date: 2011-07-20 14:58:03 by BorisY
Keywords: neocom, marxism, change
Views: 2692
Comments: 12
Give Greece What It Deserves: Communism Jul. 19 2011 4,126 views By BILL FREZZA Once in a great while an opportunity comes along to deliver justice to a people, giving them what they truly deserve. Greece’s time has come. It must be dawning on all but the most obtuse member of the banking elite that they can’t possibly steal enough money from German taxpayers to save the Greek government from default. Put it off, maybe, but collapse is inevitable. Once this happens, what is the purpose of casting Greece into some selective temporary financial purgatory where the irrelevant Greek economy can continue embarrassing anyone foolish enough to lend their dysfunctional government a dime? Why not go all the way and give the country what many of its people have been violently demanding for almost a century? Let them have Communism. Hard as it is for young people to believe, Communism was once a major historical force holding billions of people in thrall. Outside the halls of elite universities, who still takes it seriously? Sure we have Cuba, where the Castro deathwatch is the last thing standing between that benighted penal colony and an inevitable makeover by Club Med. Then there is Venezuela, though hope is fading that Hugo Chavez will carry the Bolivarian banner much longer now that he’s busy sucking down FOLFOX cocktails while checking for signs that his hair is falling out. And frankly, a psychopathic family dynasty ruling a nation of stunted zombies hardly makes North Korea a proper Communist exemplar. What the world needs, lest we forget, is a contemporary example of Communism in action. What better candidate than Greece? They’ve been pining for it for years, exhibiting a level of anti-capitalist vitriol unmatched in any developed country. They are temperamentally attuned to it, having driven all hard working Greeks abroad in search of opportunity. They pose no military threat to their neighbors, unless you quake at the sight of soldiers marching around in white skirts. And they have all the trappings of a modern Western nation, making them an uncompromised test bed for Marxist theories. Just toss them out of the European Union, cut off the flow of free Euros, and hand them back the printing plates for their old drachmas. Then stand back for a generation and watch. The land that invented democracy used it to perfect the art of living at the expense of others, an example all Western democracies appear intent on emulating. Being the first to run out of other people’s money makes Greece truly ripe to take the next logical step beyond socialism. As wrenching as it will be we can take comfort in the fact that Greece doesn’t have much of an economy to disrupt. The only Greek industry that’s worth a damn is tourism, rapidly collapsing as travelers get tired of being stranded by strikes while dodging Molotov cocktails. The rest of us can find plenty of other sources of lamb chops, yogurt, and olive oil. They crushed the concept of private property long ago under the burden of environmental, cultural, and social regulations that govern land use. Wouldn’t it be instructive to let them have a go at building a workers’ paradise to remind us what state enforced equality looks like? Unlike neighboring Balkan nations that got to experience the joys of Communism after the Second World War, Greece was brought back from the brink by massive western intervention as well as a Churchillian side deal that obliged Stalin to butt out. The nasty civil war between the Greek Communist Party (the KKE) and government forces backed by Britain and the U.S. set the stage for decades of struggle between communist sympathizers who never gave up the dream, and right wing juntas determined to rule by force. The uneasy peace that has existed since the colonels were booted merely masks underlying tensions as every Greek worries, is someone else working fewer hours than I am? How Greece conned its way into the European Union while hard working Turkey was left begging is a testament to the astute diplomats in Brussels, no doubt consulting their playbook on what dodge they can conjure up next to stick someone else with the bill. Why the E.U. extended credit to a nation whose governments have been in a chronic state of default since the country gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832 is a fitting subject for a News of the World expose. Perhaps they were being advised by Fannie Mae. So despite the frantic meetings, the tragicomedy nears its final act. It’s time for the global financial industry to pull up stakes and go home before more innocent bank employees get immolated. If you don’t want the real contagion to spread, that is the disease of believing you can perpetually consume more than you produce, leave Greece to the Greeks and let the bankers take their lumps. As difficult as it is for a Greek-American like myself to admit, resting on 2,000 year old laurels is a stale act. While few cultures can proudly look back on as many achievements in the arts, drama, athletics, philosophy, rhetoric, and architecture that were the glory of Greece, it’s time for modern Greeks to take a good hard look at themselves. What have they done for the world lately? More importantly, what are they prepared to do to help themselves? If they can’t face that question then it’s time to sing the Internationale. 7 comments
Poster Comment: Is Greece the ... attic - basement - garage - landfill --- of western civilization !
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#3. To: byeltsin (#0) The land that invented democracy used it to perfect the art of living at the expense of others, an example all Western democracies appear intent on emulating. Being the first to run out of other people’s money makes Greece truly ripe to take the next logical step beyond socialism. Good article, thanks for posting it. The land that produced Pythagoras now has a retirement system where one can retire at the age of 53 with 80% pay, combined with a below replacement birthrate. You cannot legislate the laws of mathematics, they are hard. If Destro doesn't work, Destro doesn't eat. fallujah nuker posted on 2011-07-20 http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=310716&Disp=3#C3
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys !
Greeks don't pay taxes, ignore govt rules and regulations and conservatives are upset. Greeks are living the Tea Party dream.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
don't the greeks like it up the you know where ! spartans left the babies for the vultures to eat !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys !
Ask fallujah nuker and his gay lover Yukon over at LP. I am sure they fantasize about Greek men all the time. They can't get them out of their minds.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
I was in Greece for 6 weeks in 1981 when I was in the Air Force. I was married to a Greek for 17 years. I went sailing in the Greek Isles in 2000. Greek is by far the most arbitrary place I've ever been. Stores don't keep regular hours. The television station didn't keep a regular schedule -- you never knew when it was going to be on. The vast majority of Greeks would rather sit in the cafe, talking about politics, and bad-mouthing America than work. I've been to 26 countries, including a bunch in the third world, and I have never seen anything like Greece. It was just unreal.
I just met an airline american west coast greek pilot ! For my injured knee he politely told me I need to see a Chinese acupuncturist ! In Italy if you are going anywhere you need to read the daily worker's strike report !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys !
They need a leader dedicated to communist purity. Destro for Commissar of Greece!
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Greece shows what happens when you don't raise taxes or pay them. Tea Party paradise. I kind of find it funny conservatives are all for Greeks paying taxes in their 'blogs". LOL!
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Let me know when capitalism works because if the American's can't get that right why should the Greeks adopt that crappy system? Currently, Greeks outlive Americans by several years so I don't see why they want to emulate obese land whale proportioned Americans who die younger each year while in credit card debt.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
LOL! LOL! Boys and girls THIS is YOUR "brain" on libTURDISM! LOL! Greece IS the "perfect" leftist libTURD nation in ALL ways and the resident libTURD whore/shill/tool/fool TRIES to make it into a "Conservative" thing! LOL! Can you say, libTURD thy name is LIAR? ... or, ... libTURD thy name is HYPOCRITE? LOL! I knew that YOU could sparky! LOL! So I say again ... THIS, ... "Greeks don't pay taxes, ignore govt rules and regulations and conservatives are upset. Greeks are living the Tea Party dream.", ... is YOUR "brain" on libTURDISM! LOL!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Sounds like Greeks weren't any body's slaves.
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
Liberals - libertarians ! The New Theocracy (( neocoms )) For the last several years (during the Bush Administration) we have been treated to a newly coined word in the political lexicon, to wit: Neoconservative (neocon). The word has been used to describe those in both the political arena and society as a whole who have previously adhered to a leftist (liberal?) oriented political philosophy but who have undergone an epiphany of sorts and now support a more conservative political philosophy. These would include ›•Ÿ™”‘£ who emerged from the "academic" system as a dedicated Marxist but made the political journey through conservativism to libertarianism. Another wag defines "neocon" as a liberal who has been mugged by reality. Examples of this designation would include such bureaucrats as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle and academics such as David Horowitz and Victor Davis Hanson. With the recent capture of the legislative branch of the U.S. government and the distinct possibility of the capture as well of the executive branch in 2008 by the Democratic Party the likelihood of a new political animal assuming power must be addressed. The "Neocoms". They are already deeply entrenched in academia and thus the mainstream media due to the influence of the major journalism schools. It is described by David Horowitz as a religious movement. The "Neocoms". They are already deeply entrenched in academia and thus the mainstream media due to the influence of the major journalism schools. It is described by David Horowitz as a religious movement ... The Neo-communist left opposes America’s commitment to freedom and capitalism domestically as well as supporting (sometimes “critically”) America’s declared external enemies not because of what America does, but because of what they think America is. The Neo-communist left is impervious to facts because it is a political messianism, in essence a religious movement. Its delusions of social redemption are fed on a rich diet of anti-American myths. These myths were once generated in institutions funded by the Communist Party and other marginal radical sects. But that has all changed with the long march of the left during the last thirty years through America’s institutions of higher learning. The Neo-communist left is now entrenched on the faculties of America’s elite universities, where it is a “hegemonic” force. It has converted America’s elite universities into a political base for its radical and anti-American agendas. * In the present war with radical Islam ... [which the Neocoms either ignore or tacitly support] --- this poses a problem Americans can continue to ignore only at their own peril, and which sooner or later they must address. http://fightingintheshade.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={AD729DCC-EF8C-4BEC-A8B0- B459457A615D}
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys !
#2. To: BorisY (#0)
#3. To: Godwinson (#2)
Greeks are living the Tea Party dream.
#4. To: BorisY (#3)
don't the greeks like it up the you know where !
#5. To: BorisY (#0)
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. — Thomas Jefferson
#6. To: jwpegler (#5)
unreal.
#7. To: Godwinson (#2)
Greeks don't pay taxes, ignore govt rules and regulations
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#8. To: hondo68 (#7)
#9. To: BorisY, jwpegler, hondo68 (#1)
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#10. To: Godwinson, BorisY (#2)
Greeks don't pay taxes, ignore govt rules and regulations and conservatives are upset. Greeks are living the Tea Party dream.
#11. To: jwpegler (#5)
Stores don't keep regular hours. The television station didn't keep a regular schedule -- you never knew when it was going to be on. The vast majority of Greeks would rather sit in the cafe, talking about politics, and bad-mouthing America than work.
#12. To: lucysmom (#11)
sit in the cafe, talking about politics, and bad-mouthing America than work. Sounds like Greeks weren't any body's slaves.
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