[Peace-discuss] Guess the author (no googling)

[C. G. Estabrook]

You're wrong to be so censorious, John: I think Stuart has already occasionally
said actually sensible things...

And your low opinion of your fellow citizens in this case betrays you: almost
half of Americans believe that "From each according to his ability, to each 
according to his need" is enshrined in that Sacred Document, the Constitution.

We don't have to make them interested in the "communist creed" because they 
already are; they see it as an American (and hence universal) ideal - at least 
until it can adequately besmirched as "Communist" by a Good Education...


On 5/8/10 4:46 AM, John W. wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:22 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>
> ... the remarkable unwillingness of supporters of the administration even to
> hear the complaints of people like Stack is the real problem.  The
> willingness of the bien-pensant simply to dismiss them is outrageous and even
> dangerous.
>
> Stack wrote, "The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to
> each according to his need. / The capitalist creed: From each according to
> his gullibility, to each according to his greed."
>
> We don't make progress toward the former by acquiescing in the latter.
>
> So what do you propose, Carl?  The bien pensant, as you call them, are not
> INTERESTED in the communist creed, either in theory or in practice. They're
> INTERESTED in the capitalist creed as articulated by Joe Stack. All of our
> laws and our customs and our culture and our social policies support the
> capitalist creed.  Short of flying an airplane into a building (which is
> ineffective anyway), how do you propose that we MAKE them interested in the
> communist creed?  How do you propose that we move America in the direction
> of the communist creed? Wayne, why don't you weigh in, too?  Quote some
> Chinese, make some esoteric puns. And then maybe Stuart will have something
> to say that is actually sensible.

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