Heaven vs. Hell
Thomas Sowell at RCP on progressives vs. progress:
Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves “progressives.” What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.
One wonders what they would do in heaven.
Sowell goes on to say we’re far from having produced a heaven on Earth in this country, though I’d have to say we’re thrashing the competition in that department, including, as recent racial and economic woes indicate, our socialistic Euro-cousins.
Sowell goes on to note that it is economic development, not socialism, that is raising millions out of wretchedness in the Third World, despite, I’d add, the kind of Dickensian problems that plagued our own rise. You have to ask yourself whether it is preferable for people to work through problems such as labor abuses, pollution, corruption, and social stratification than, say, seizure of property and collectivization, re-education camps, eradication of culture and religion, mass relocations, mass murder, etc., of the sort seen under every Marxist regime.  The weird hybrid of unbridled capitalism and communist repression we see in China underscores the point. China is being slowly forced by the market, by world opinion, to reform its backward labor, manufacturing and trade practices. The increased wealth and power of Chinese is a force the corrupt communist regime ultimately will be unable to control.
Topics: capitalism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:40 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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August 22nd, 2007 at 11:18 am
Web Reconnaissance for 08/22/2007
A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:38 am
“Domestically as well as internationally, the left has long had a vested interest in poverty and social malaise…Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves “progressives.” What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.”
(See Teddy Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and (more recently) John Edwards)
“When the poor stop being poor, they lose the attention of the left….Blacks who rise out of poverty are of no great interest to the left, unless the way they do so is by attacking society..”
(See Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who appear to have a vested interest in….”keepin’ the pain alive even when it isn’t”)
God bless the brain of Thomas Sowell.