Conservative Communism

[Hamlette]

I’m planning on writing a book called “Conservative Communism: The Collectivist Temptation from Mao Zedong to the Hoover Institute”. Basically, the premise of the book is that even though people think that Communism is a phenomenon of the Left, it should be obvious to any serious scholar that Communists have more in common with today’s conservatives than they do today’s progressives. I mean, Lenin outlawed prostitution, and Focus on the Family wants to keep prostitution outlawed. Mao thought all businesses should be supported by the government, and modern conservatives think that the government should avoid taxing businesses and give them all kinds of grants and free money. You can see that they’re basically the same thing. Anyway, I’ve only just started working on this, but I can guarantee you that this argument has never been made in such detail or with such care.

http://www.sadlyno.com/

For those of you following the Jonah Goldberg disaster.

[whistle]

1. Isn't fascism conservative communism with a bizarre twist?

...from the many to the few

[stimbox]

2. Why not write one about extreme centrism?

Oh wait, that's the DLC platform.

[TexasProgresive]

3. You might be close to the mark

Try comparing corporate structure and policy with communism.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. It's an excellent idea and the arguements are closer to reality than Goldberg's.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

5. Well, fascism is corporate-controlled governance. I suppose where the government spreads the wealth

,...redistributes wealth (only from the public to a few corporateers) that could be viewed as a communistic action.

I'll have to try and wrap my head around what your proposing, remembering the distinction between a form of government and an economic system, although they obviously cross-over.

P.S. I do believe our elites have created an new critter as they did everything imaginable to work around the human progress of the 20th C.,...that's for sure.