The Soviet Chamber of Horrors: Reminders on the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution

Twentieth-Century Socialism Is a Story of Crushing Tyranny and 64 Million Deaths

NOVEMBER 01, 2007 by RICHARD EBELING

Pundit in Wonderland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007 by SHELDON RICHMAN

In one ofthose boilerplate articles about the deteriorating American middle class, Washington Postcolumnist Harold Meyerson points out that a new Pew Research Center surveyreveals that an increasing number of people think we live in a country dividedinto "haves" and "have-nots" and that more people now put themselves in thesecond group. Have and have-not what exactly? Meyerson has little to say aboutthat rather obvious question beyond mentioning job stability and retirement security, asthough being without those things is equivalent to being in poverty.Nevertheless, he offers an explanation for why Republicans are morereluctant than Democrats to acknowledge this great division in our land: "Apparently, so great is Republicans'loyalty to the Bush presidency that they're willing to overlook their ownexperience. And, in many cases, to attribute the nation's transformation solelyto immigration, rather than to the rise of a stateless laissez-fairecapitalism over which the American people wield less and less power"(emphasis added). Excuse me? More . . .

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