Comments by "TeaParty1776" (@TeaParty1776) on "Liberty Vault" channel.

  1. Christianity, w/its faith and altruism. The early Marx is like the Sermon On The Mount. I had a Marxist philosophy prof w/ a Marx -like beard. God, waas he stupid!
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  2.  @TheWhitehiker  Its popular in pop culture form and suitable to different nations values. When people talk about the digital divide so govt will subsidize online acccess for poor or rural people, thats Marxism. And minimum wage. And Federal Reserve cointerfeiting. Subsidized housing by conservative Pres Bush. Consider the wide usse of businessmmen as automatic villains in film and TV. Keynesian economics, dominant for decades in many nations for deficit spending to support the welfare state is Marxism Lite. Philosophy spreads from universirties to poorly educated people in a non-intelleeectual concreete form. The current Rep platform is dominated by govbt-provided economics, w/virtually no respect for individual rights. Marxism.
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  3. > Douglas Murray - Why Marxism Is So Popular in the West Christianity.
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  4.  @AaronMichaelLong  In the communist utopia, everyone will be sophisticated, with excellent taste and a PC weight-to-fat ratio. Everyone will live in Beverly Hills. Nerds will be required to go to a re-education camp.
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  5.  @suningchen  True but very superficial. Marxism is influential.
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  6. Desire is the effect of ones use of ones mind. She opposed mindless desires.
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  7.  @TheWhitehiker  We need an individualist culture in which people havve free will and no innnate ideas.
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  8.  @KRSapphire  Man has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Slavery is not an obligation.
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  9.  @JanPBtest  Your hatred of your own mind has produced a bitter senility. Its a warning,not a reward.
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  10. How many anti-communists challenged virtually the entire history of philosophy and solved most of its basic questions? You drop her context, substitute yours and condemn that. You are superficial. Rand has a radically new philosophy owing nothing to communism. You evade that. You evade identifying her ideas.
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  11. Altruism is self-saccrifice, not helping others. You buy food from people seeking selfish profit.They help you but not at a sacrifice.
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  12.  @gregregregregregre  Marx was refuted in the late 19th century by Bohm-Bawerk and later by Hayek and Mises. Marx destroyed economics. Economic value is the product of the mind, not mindless bodies. Marx is merely a rationalization of Original Sin and of the hatred of intellectual pride.
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  13. Morality is for life, not the sacrifice of life.
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  14. > She had no regard for lower level employees. evidence?
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  15.  @KRSapphire  Indivduals have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They are not social slaves. Focus your mind and produce values.
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  16. Rand is way,.way beyond anti-communism. She values reason.
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  17.  @JanPBtest  Similarities are contextually important. Both you and Hitler wear shoes but that doesn't mean that you are a Nazi.
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  18.  @Jorbz150  You define by non-essentials. Nihilist-Modernist culture is based on the unfocused mind. Marxism is intuited dialectical processes. Rightism is faith and tradition. Marx, prior to his advocacy of industry, attacked capitalism in a way virtuaally identical to attacks by religious conservatives of his time. Post-Marx Leftists and Rightists both hate scientific-industrial-capitalist civilization. They favor the Christian Dark Ages or tribal culture.
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  19.  @Jorbz150  Left=Right in their fundamental acceptance of the unfocused mind. Both Marx and Hitler explicitly based their politics on intuition. Ie, both rejected the rational Enlightenment and its application as Locke's inidvidual rights.
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  20. Good for society is merely a means to good for me. Its not an end.
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  21.  @Stormer-Europa  Sometimes I associate ham sandwiches with orange cats. Theres no cause and effect, no reasoning. I just associate them in my imagination.
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  22.  @Stormer-Europa  He did not imply that. Definition by non-essentials, ie, superficiality. You randomly associated things by a superficial property.
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  23.  @TJ-kk5zf  And, yet, curiously, very curiously, you dont say what they are.
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  24.  @NikosKoutsilieris  Capitalism as alleged concrete example of Marxist mysticism. Its reallly an imaginative association, no more realistic than flying saucers, Dracula, Santa Claus, and Bigfoot. Marxist dialectics is an abstraction from a mystical ideal, not from observation. Marx threw in enough real economics into his pseuido-rationsl gumbo to provide plausibility. Bohm-Bawerk refuted Marx in the late 19th century. Also see Mises and Hayek.
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  25.  @TheWhitehiker  Marx was a mystic. The Dialectic is a supernatural God known by intuition, not reason.
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  26. But social climbing contradicts personal values. Should one ignore a friend one respects for social climbing w/fools?
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  27. Mutual self-interest is a common human experience evaded by altruists. Rand identified it. She did not invent it.
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  28. Your fear seems to contradict happiness.
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  29.  @waichui2988  via con dios muchachas
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  30.  @waichui2988  You evade evidence.
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  31. Rands selfishness is based on the focused mind, not the conventional, unfocused mind. A real conservative sits downwind of Trump.
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  32. Yes, Nazism, biut not Marxism, is a culturally pervasive symbol of evil. Youve never seen a movie attacking economic equality. But you may have seen the Bogie movie, To Have And To Have Not, from a pro-commiunist ,Hemingway book on the Spanish Civil War
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  33. Politics is superficial, an application of whaat man does w/his mind. As Ayn Rand identified in "The Comprachicos," online, modern education is a principled attack on the integrated mind. It disintegrates the mind. Marxism, in response, is a mystical transcendence of modern intellectual disintegration. Like all religion, its the use of fantasy to evade willful stupidity. For The New Intellectual-Ayn Rand, online.
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  34.  @unbreakable7633  And Karl never had his own TV show with a $100 bird.
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  35.  @williamweb9782  The NYT has never apologized for hiding Stslins, mass murders
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  36. You evade your power to focus your mind or evade focusing. Social influence cannot affect that.
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  37. > What is so hard to understand about rational self-interest? Its hard w/an unfocused mind.
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  38.  @Ubu987  That, too, altho not basic.
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  39.  @mustang607  I am the God Of Hellfire!
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  40.  @iuvalclejan  Pre-capitalist societies had no privacy, a high price for the alleged lack of loneliness. Independent thought was discouraged and punished, causing a superficial sociability among basically mindless people who regarded life as evil. Original Sin is not original to Christianity. Your claims are about coincidences , not causes. Capitalism is individual rights protecting mans independent mind. But a century+ of Leftist schools have radically fragmented the American mind. People don't want to suffer other people's irrationality, thus loneliness. Marxs economic determinism is a pseudo-rational mystical revelation from beyond the mind. Capitalism protects the right to form associations. In 1835, de Toqueville ,in _Democracy In America_, discussed the unusual amount of private associations in America.
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  41.  @TheWhitehiker  Villains are squeaky clean? Film and TV writers are Leftist-educated. Dont forget businessmen as automatic villain who is evil because he is, eg, for development. Have you ever seen a communist as villain in a drama? Or seen economic equality as a cause of destructiveness in a drama?
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  42.  @TheWhitehiker  squeaky clean villains?!
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  43.  @heynow_mt  They think its a party of drunk and stoned flies.
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  44.  @mrsamtheman80  DEI is a nihilist attack on all values. Its not idealism. See Peter Schwartz's three discussions. Also see some of Yaron Brook's shows.
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  45. @ClarenceChristmas Your sleazy skill in evading the BASIC similarities between Marxism and Christianity is noted. Both faith in supernatural (Marxism: intuition of dialectic). Both reject independent focused mind for revelation into unfocused, passive mind. Both demand sacrifice to other people. Both are short-range and demand or promise equality in Heaven or at end of history. The anti-capitalism of the early Marx is virtually identical to that of the religious conservatives of his time. Eg, Marx condemns money as relationship among people, a mere restatement of the Christian condemnation of selfishness. The basis of Christianity is faith, the acceptance of ideas without evidence from the senses and mind. Anything can follow from that. When a Christian talks, he pretends his emotions are the voice of God. He is lost inside his unfocused mind, which he calls God. He is dying, his explicit goal. Look OUT at reality, not INWARD. Focus your mind. Economic And Political Manuscripts-Marx, online. Ethics is for life and happiness , not sacrifice and suffering. BASIC ETHICAL VALUES: REASON, PURPOSE:, SELF-ESTEEM: BASIC ETHICAL VIRTUES: RATIONALITY, INDEPENDENCE, INTEGRITY, HONESTY, JUSTICE, PRODUCTIVENESS, PRIDE
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  46. Correct for a morality of death.
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  47.  @AndSendMe  > an adult thinking that the only morality is altruism is making a cognitive error. Or dishonest
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  48.  @paulsacramento5995  Good is relative to life, not mystical ideals
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  49.  @BalthasarCarduelis  Mysticism and subjectivism both reject ones one life as ones moral purpose.
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  50.  @paulsacramento5995  look out at reality, not inward. focus your mind
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