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NOVEMBER 4, 2012 |
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Which American Dream? |
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www.MyGrandchildrensAmerica.com |
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Today's guest:
Do Jans |
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DON JANS |
Don Jans, the author of "My Grandchildren's America", believes
that America is great because of it's promises of individual
freedom and opportunity. Like most grandparents, he believes his
grandchildren will have the ability and desire to excel, if that
opportunity is still available. Will the changes promised and
happening now, limit these freedoms and opportunities?
Don has been a student of history for over 40 years. He has
concentrated in the study of European history with an emphasis
on Russian history. This led him to his study of Karl Marx and
Marxism. In addition to being a popular speaker on Marxism, Don
has also had articles published on the topic. He also has been a
guest on regional and national media broadcasts. |
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To purchase Don's book visit:
www.MyGrandchildrensAmerica.com |
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Which
American Dream? This week-end, amid all the
typical campaign rhetoric and meaningless slogans, two comments
were made that truly define why this election is so critical. I
know we hear that every presidential election is the most
crucial of our time; this one may just be the most important
because it will determine which course America will take. |
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Obama said “…a new vision of an America in which prosperity is
shared.” Ryan said “We promise equal opportunity, not equal
outcomes.” |
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This has been the aged old argument. It has been argued from the
beginning of recorded history in one form or another. Is it
societies
responsibility to give somebody a fish to feed him today, or to
teach him how to fish, so if he chooses, he can feed himself for
life? This is the argument made by Karl Marx in his famous quote
of “From each according to his abilities, to each according to
his needs,” or prosperity shared. |
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We heard Obama say when endorsing the Occupying Wall Street
protestors in October of 2011, that these protestors are “giving
voice to a more broad based frustration about how our financial
system works.” In November of 2011, Obama stated again, about
the same group, “Young people like the ones here today, are the
reason I ran for office in the first place.” |
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What was Obama endorsing? Prior to his endorsement, a list of
“demands” had been given by this group. These “demands”
included, restoration of the living wage which includes raising
the minimum wage to twenty dollars, guarantee a living wage
income regardless of employment, free college education, end the
fossil fuel economy, one trillion dollars in infrastructure
improvements, open borders migration so anyone can travel
anywhere to live and work, immediate across the board debt
forgiveness for all, union elections at anytime the union wants
to hold them, and a universal single payer healthcare system. |
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Karl Marx also endorsed these “demands” in his writings. In
fact,
most of these “demands” are at the heart of his call for a “fair
and
equitable classless society.” In the “Critique of the Gotha
Program,” Marx stated that the economic system of wages should
run based on his famous quote of “From each according to his
abilities, to each according to his needs.” He then went on to
describe how the “total social product” should be distributed.
Even before the worker receives his portion of the distribution,
a livable wage is distributed to all those not working for any
reason. He states that those who are working will produce to
their maximum ability because, in this highest phase of society
labor
has become not only a means of life, but life’s prime wants. THE
AMERICAN WORKER WILL WANT HIS PROSPERITY SHARED?????? |
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In the Gotha Program, Marx also said that not only should all
elementary education be free and universal, but this free and
universal education should be extended to include at least
technical schools, both theoretical and practical. |
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The heart of the Fundamental Transformation to the classless
society of Marx is internationalism. The closing statement in
“The Communist Manifesto” calls for the workers of the world to
unite. National identity and allegiance is counterproductive to
a Marxist movement. The transformation, to be successful must be
international. Free and unrestricted movement of the worker
between borders is a critical element. |
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Marx asserted that capitalists are responsible for debt. This is
because the capitalist does not pay the worker the full value
for his
labor. The essence of capitalism is the capitalist keeping a
portion
of the workers wage according to Marx. He calls this “surplus
value.” This value is received by the capitalist for which he
did nothing. He also criticized the capitalist because he would
reinvest this “surplus value” to create even more capital. Marx
asserted that the capitalist forced the worker into debt,
because he forced the worker to consume more commodities than
value he received. The worker is not responsible for his debt. |
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Marx, like FDR, Obama and the Marxist/Progressives, believed
that the state should determine how the total proceeds of labor
should be distributed, or what is commonly called “Central
Planning.” It is the state who should determine what portion of
proceeds should be allocated to public works, allocated for
replacement of necessary productive equipment, and control use
of all natural resources since they are after all the property
of the people. We can view with 20/20 hindsight how this
“Central Planning” process and governmental control of the
economy in fact hinders economic recovery. An objective review
of the 1930’s can only reach the honest conclusion that these
policies used by FDR, not only restricted recovery growth, but
led to an even deeper recession in 1937 and 1938 than the one in
1929. FDR’s policies also kept the unemployment rate in double
digit figures. Are we making the same mistakes today? |
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Marx was the “party boss” of the first international workers
union. He wrote in 1853, after a wave of workers strikes, how
important the organization of workers is to ending the
enslavement of the worker and abolishing the wage system. He
called these strikes and struggles a war, and that the trade
union is the essential point around which the battle is built.
Tactics in these struggles, strikes, demonstrations, protests
and riots are not important. Only the result is important. The
trade union is to the war on the capitalistic system, what the
family is to the survival of society (this was not stated by
Marx but is attributable to the author). |
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Yes, this election is crucial to America. Will we follow the
path of
shared prosperity called for by Marx, Obama, Occupying Wall
Street, and all Marxist/Progressives, or will we REVERT to the
concept of equal opportunity, not equal outcomes? |
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Don Jans, author of
MY GRANDCHILDREN’S AMERICA |
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To purchase Don's book visit:
www.MyGrandchildrensAmerica.com |
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Websites mentioned on
today's program: |
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http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121026/NEWS02/210260306
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www.oregongold.net/tag/tom-kitchar/ |
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http://westernminingalliance.org/ |
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NOTE: check this website
out:
www.DailyJobCuts.com |
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