George Rebane
Promoting public benefits without including public costs is the hallmark of charlatans and evil politicians. Accepting public benefits without inquiring about their public costs is the way of the useful idiot and the ignorant.
More evidence pours in that our military under progressive federal governments no longer considers national security as its prime and overarching mission. The latest comes from the Pentagon which recently sponsored and hosted ‘Responding to China: The Case for Global Justice and Democratic Socialism’. (more here)
The event featured the French socialist economics professor Thomas Piketty whose widely panned ‘masterwork’, Capital in the 21st Century (2013), is still celebrated by progressives everywhere. Most real economists and students of economics – certainly of the Austrian and Chicago schools – consider ‘socialist economist’ to be a demonstrated oxymoron.
The Pentagon event was put on by DoD’s Institute for National Strategic Studies and featured Piketty’s ideas about how the west should reorganize its socio-economics for the remainder of the century, and specifically to successfully “meet the challenge of China”. Piketty also wrote Time for Socialism (2021) in which he argues “that the right answer in addressing China's growth lies in ending Western arrogance and promoting a new emancipatory and egalitarian horizon on a global scale, a new form of democratic and participatory, ecological and post-colonial socialism," … "If they stick to their usual lecturing posture and a dated hyper-capitalist model, Western countries may find it extremely difficult to meet the Chinese challenge."
The obvious thrust of what our Pentagon mavens now promote is that to counter communist China and its new approach to state-capitalism, the west must become a socialist society and also develop a form of state-capitalism on its road to a Marxist world. (here) Most free-market economists and business leaders not yet in the embrace of corporatism see such nostrums as advising us to destroy our economy in order to save it. (There’s more to be said about that as we consider what is happening under the aegis of the Great Reset.)
In today’s military we take valuable hours from the training day to devote to ideologically indoctrinating our soldiers, sailors, and airmen to correct modes of collectivist groupthink. Since the Obama administration, we have increasingly started doing this instead of increasing and honing our troops’ warfighting skills with the ever newer and more complex technologies that already dominate today’s battlefields, and which demand a more highly trained warrior cohort to meet the enemy with modern weapon systems instead of ideological indoctrination.
The new emphasis from such programs is not the continued maintenance of a secure and powerful America as a sovereign nation-state and world hegemon.
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