Communism

Earlier this week, my local Tea Party group (The Daisy Mountain Tea Party Patriots) had the privilege of listening to a panel of three people who had lived under separate totalitarian rule at some point in their lives. They discussed how they survived, as well as their appreciation of America and concerns for her safety today. The first speaker was Ms. Zina Brodovsky from the former Soviet Union.

Ms. Brodovsky moved to America 24 years ago, at the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. For a long time, she was indifferent to politics here in her new home (likely because the economy was much better and the Soviet Union was beginning to fall apart.) She said she was “brainwashed” in school to believe that “socialism and communism (were) all these great things.”

Of course, as she would later discover the hard way, she was lied to throughout her free education. People were starved and imprisoned in concentration camps. Essentially, everything belonged to the government, the only employer in the neighborhood. Overcrowded hospitals had absolutely no privacy, as Zina saw for herself when a close relative needed surgery. There was practically no medical care post-surgery, even though hospitals were free to use and medicine was relatively cheap. People would become so hungry that they would engage in cannibalism when necessary.

As a Jew in Siberia, Zina felt like she was singled out for public ridicule by the authorities. When she tried to leave in the 1980s with her 17 year old daughter, she witnessed the officials at the airport attempt to convince her daughter to stay behind; this could have been the most sickening event Zina witnessed, even though no one was physically hurt.

In her own words, communism was “an absolutely deadly, deadly, deadly movement” and “evil.” She said that “in reality, we didn’t have any freedom.” Essentially, “we were slaves.”

Needless to say, Zina is very grateful to be an American today. Unfortunately, she  sees America embracing communism. Zina especially sees this in aspects of our way of life from health care to education. A teacher, she has seen that “American teachers brainwash Americans the same” like she was during her formidable years. In fact, she claimed that when explaining to a fellow (younger) teacher one time about how growing up in the USSR was really like, he looked at her like she was from another planet. In her opinion, such a reaction indicates how ignorant a lot of adults are about what is happening to our country as well.

Zina especially feels sorry for the Occupy Wall Street crowd, as she says that “they have no idea what they are asking for.” What they advocate for is “all bluff, myth, and lies…there is no such thing as social justice.” She stressed the need for more young people to participate in the Tea Party movement but fears that it is too late.

Throughout her talk, Zina teared up and was shaking. Clearly, it was not easy for her to come forward with her story; words probably couldn’t even begin to describe this difficulty. But I very much appreciated her telling us what it really was like living under totalitarianism, as I am sure almost every other audience member did.

(Part 2 coming soon…)

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PS The Daisy Mountain group is not mine ..I have been asked to speak at my local group about my experiences with the UK national healthcare which Obamacare is based upon.

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According to Frances Fox Piven:

    The Occupy Movement is made up of “All parts of the Left.”
    That includes proudly: “Democrats, Socialists, Communists, Anarchists.”
    Must all work together because of the “Huge task of transforming America and the world.”
    “We are all together”


At last weekend’s Left Forum 2012, the annual pep-rally for liberal thought, renown leftist professor and activist Frances Fox Piven shown some light onto the makeup of the current America Left. , Piven tells the packed auditorium which worldview philosophies embody their movement:

“There is room for all of us. Religious leftists, people who think peace is the answer, those who think that wholesome food is what we really need, ecologists and old-fashioned Democrats, Democratic Socialists, Socialists and Communists.”

Piven goes on to discuss the major undertaking that the leftist movement is working on and why these ideologies must unite:

“We can work together because we have a really huge task before us, transforming America and the World.”

Both statements were met with applause and agreement from the audience of over one thousand.

The genesis of the Occupy movement was a theme that gripped the Forum this year. The evicted movement has made some dark predictions over their plans for this spring. However, Piven’s comments were just one of many revealing facts about the movement to come. Stay tuned.

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I feel like this is implying that Democrats are pro Communism?  That's a huge stretch and pretty insulting.  I'm a liberal but certainly not a socialist of a communist.

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No when I speak I  speak for America only.........

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the purported founders of communism, established in the 19th century a government paradigm that transformed Europe and other regions in the eastern hemisphere, adding to an already expansive repertoire of political ideologies. And the seemingly farfetched assertion that communism could someday take control of America seems, quite simply, unfathomable. But is it really that improbable, or furthermore, has it already ensnared certain sectors of society?

Writing for The Blaze, Tiffany Gabbay recently produced a thoughtful exposé entitled “Are We Headed Toward the Constitution or the Communist Manifesto?” that breaks down the 10 tenets of Marx and Engels’ infamous 1848 publication and describes how those 10 steps or “planks” to establish communism are slowly being woven into American society. In prefacing her piece, which was published on Saturday, Gabbay quotes the British philosopher Anthony Flew, who exploited Marx’s blatant disregard for the truth:

… the first and only volume of Das Kapital to be published in the lifetime of Marx was, in his own words, to demonstrate that “In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the labourer must grow worse. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation at the opposite pole.” But by 1867, when that volume was first published, Marx had known for 15 or more years that this thesis was false.

In describing how the Communist Manifesto’‘s key tenets stack up against the U.S. Constitution, and society as a whole, Gabbay’s argument should provoke alarm, as the republic founded centuries ago, which was built on the concept of freedom and justice, has been tainted with characteristics of an illegal and despotic political structure.