Some facts about Communism.
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Some facts about Communism. - Video
Trevor Brookins
*There is a very vocal group of conservatives in the United States that also openly avow their religious affiliation as Christian. And from the way they speak so confidently about the conservative principles and their religion you wouldnt think there was a major contradiction. But there is.
The plain truth is that Jesus did not proclaim any political philosophy, but if he did it wouldve been communism.
I realize this is hard for most people to accept. But that is mainly because of Cold War politics and the way it twisted our understanding of communism. Lets refresh. Most of us have been taught in school and socialized in general to believe that the economic system of capitalism is the equivalent of freedom, that capitalism is designed to ensure that all people can succeed; communism by contrast is an evil system that takes away individual freedoms and choices. In reality communism is an economic system (not a political system) based on sharing resources and the absence of private ownership; communism in theory is an economic system that arises once the people implement it.
Such perspective of capitalism and communism is typical in the United States because of position in the Cold War in which we opposed the Soviet Union for the second half of the 29th century. We have been taught to conflate the economic and political systems that the two countries used.
The United States employed the economic system of capitalism which in reality encourages that only a few will prosper. At the same time American politics has always been based on an inclusive citizenry that participated in the political process. The Soviet Union operated a pseudo-communist system but definitely under a totalitarian political setup thus giving communism a bad name.
Jesus was someone who led a movement based on giving away a gift. Jesus instructs people to give away all they have. He confiscates lunches and redistributes the resources among the attending group. In short he embodied an individual giving away what he had for the benefit of others and encouraged his followers to do likewise.
Without the element of the Cold War and their bastardized version of communism we would be better able to accept communism and see its basis in Christianity.
The contradiction of conservatives in this country espousing capitalism while professing to be followers of Jesus and his teachings is ironic because I do not believe that most people doing this truly understand capitalism, politics, or Christianity. Most are merely following the economic, political, and religious traditions they were taught as children and surrounded by as adults.
The irony stops the situation from being tragic and ugly as if folks were engaging in the contradiction intentionally.
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Anti-Communism and Counterintelligence: Poland, 1918-1944
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Anti-Communism and Counterintelligence: Poland, 1918-1944 - Video
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) Twenty-five years ago this month two remarkable events took place in Washington.
On Sept. 27, 1989, in the musty embassy ballroom of the Polish Peoples Republic on upper 16th Street, Leszek Balcerowicz, finance minister in the new non-communist government, outlined a plan to transform Polands economy from communism to capitalism. Shock therapy would be launched in three months.
Balcerowiczs message was breathtaking. Prices would be decontrolled, individuals allowed to start businesses, the survival of state enterprises determined by the market. There was more the printing press would be shut down halting hyperinflation, the worthless Polish currency redeemed USDPLN, +0.14% .
Financial journalists in Washington for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund were astonished. Some sprang from their seats to file stories after the modest man in the ill-fitting East European suit stopped talking. For those of us remaining the room was electric. One reporter said, there are lots of books about transforming capitalism to communism, none for going the opposite direction.
This was six weeks before the Berlin Wall came down.
On Oct. 19, 1989, 34-year-old Jeffrey Sachs, the Harvard economist advising the Polish government, made an emotional plea to Washington insiders. At a Willard Hotel dinner arranged by the Institute for International Economics, Sachs said Poland required a cash injection to leap across the chasm from disintegrating communism to capitalism. The next six months, he said, are critical in determining whether Eastern Europes first non-communist government since World War II succeeds.
Sachs had made his name by helping to end hyperinflation in Bolivia. He essentially shamed his Washington audience into action, excoriating the U.S. government, the IMF and World Bank for dragging their feet. It was imperative, he said, that the Polish experiment succeed.
The debate over big bang and shock therapy essentially began that night.
J.P. Morgan Funds global market strategist James Liu explains how investors can stay disciplined during constant global unrest. Photo: AP.
Sachs had offered his services to Poland only weeks earlier and was just off the plane from Warsaw, where there was chaos and anger over shortages of basic commodities, including food. Few outsiders thought the planned reforms, which in the short term would further depress living standards had any chance of working. Sachs said later, It was a terrifying and unpredictable period.
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