Editorial
Society as an Organic Body
Karl Marx, in his posthumously published work Grundrisse identified his view of humanity very clearly. Humanity is an organic whole (or body). People aren't individuals but the cells of this organic entity whose development and maturation Marx tried to chronicle in his works.
When you have an organic body you are looking out for, if some part of this body is faltering another part may need to be called upon or sacrificed so as to help mend it. Just as with human beings sometimes a part of their bodies are utilized to fix another part, so with humanity – or society, if that is all you have available to manipulate.
Mr. Obama was educated and raised as at least a crypto communist, someone who holds this Marxian view. As he expresses it now, "We are all in it together." We are like a hive or colony of tiny critters and so none of us can have any rights that give us the sphere of independence that an individualist view of society aims to establish and protect for each citizen.
This is a serious position, not something frivolous. Mr. Obama is not perhaps a card-carrying member of the communist movement but shares its central tenets. The idea that individuals matter as individuals is very far from his worldview. At most it is classes that count but not individuals. If some segment or part of society – or the country – is in need of support, another may be imposed upon to supply it.
I recall when Welsh actor Richard Harris injured his nose doctors took bones from his hip so as to repair it. It all went swimmingly.
Political leaders – rulers – in collectivist regimes see themselves as assigned the job of keeping the body politic intact. So if some element of society needs to be contracted or even cut out so as to remedy or mend another part, they see themselves as obligated to carry out the job. They cannot be bothered by what they regard as the fiction of individual rights!
A matter like this needs to be kept in mind when politicians are evaluated. It needs to be kept in mind in the current presidential election, too.
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Posted by Merridth80 on 10/20/12 08:57 AM
What I wonder is, if we are a hive or colony, Do Politicians never have to live under the laws they pass or are they exempt of that for the rest of their lives?
And can anyone tell me= Why barry signed a contract for our election votes to be counted by a Chinese Company that Soros has just purchased???
Rush nor Laura dooesn't seem to be interested! So is this barry's way of winning the election????????????
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Posted by sama81 on 10/18/12 01:37 PM
Isn't it strange, these Marxist want everyone equal... ... .with the exception of themselves.
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Posted by Danny B on 10/18/12 11:04 AM
Well, now we see the French part of the body-politic DEMANDING a large chunk of the German part because the Frenchies don't want to have to do any actual work.
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The Netherlands part of the body-politic has more debt than Greece or Japan but, has managed to stay off the radar,,, for the moment. One segment of the body politic is on drugs and claims that all will be well by November;
http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-68-is-available-Global-systemic-crisis-Autumn-2012-Welcome-to-the-weeks-of-the-big-swing-Geopolitics-trigger-of_a12456.html
The European body-politic has been forcibly changed into a Frankenstein monster where all of the parts are battling each other. The forced extraction of blood (money) has made even the healthy parts of the Frankenstein look sick;
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It's one thing to help part of the body politic to get past a big, TEMPORARY problem. It's quite another to shift resources to a weak part just so they can live the good life.
