Steve Lonegan’s current installment of The Left Marches Onfeatures a lesson on Marxism. Mr. Lonegan begins:
“Capitalism is responsible for the current food crisis and starvation around the world,” the voice on the radio said. “Attend our Introduction to Marxism conference this Friday and learn about the merits of Marxism.” Driving up the New Jersey Turnpike, I was shocked to hear this commercial on a popular radio station, though I shouldn’t be. The Left is on the march and more emboldened than ever. So, like any good capitalist wanting to learn what the radical left is up to, I registered.
Mr. Lonegan’s adventure at the Marxist conference yielded ominous parallels with political activity in Trenton.
Reality: The Corzine Administration is taking charge of the housing industry by forcing taxpayer-subsidized low-income housing mandates across the state, taking control of the means of distribution and leveling all citizens to the same standard.
Mr. Lonegan’s remark recalls a memorable line from Jason Lewis, Minnesota’s Mr. Right and guest host for Rush Limbaugh: “[Communism's goal is] an equality of outcome.” Marxist un-equality becomes attractive when an electorate uneducated in our heritage equates Marxist equality of outcome with American equality of rights. The American Declaration of Independence reads, in part, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” There is a big difference from the American acknowledgment of man’s natural equality and the Marxist encouragement for government to take from those who have and give the plundered goods to those who do not have.
Trenton borrows another idea from their comrade, Karl Marx:
Reality: In New Jersey, how can we allow some people to live in upper class neighborhoods, affluent suburbs or trendy urban areas? The New Jersey Legislature will see to it that there is no allowance for different classes. Low-income individuals are to have a mortgage on the success of those who produce.
Has not the sub-prime mess taught us a lesson? We all suffer when government forces mortgage lenders to loan money to people not qualified to borrow it. Race and ethnicity does not qualify one for a mortgage.
Mr. Lonegan concludes:
When you go to bed at night, know every single day that your precious children and grandchildren are trusted to the government school system and that they are being taught about the need for each one of us to work for the ”Common Good.” The New Jersey Education Association is making sure of that.
Individual liberty is an obstacle to implementing the Marxist agenda. The government needs to roll over this concept for their greater purpose, the “Common Good.” After all, aren’t these sacrifices a small price to pay for the vision of the Marxist Planners to become reality, comrade? Utopia is right around the corner.
