The MARXIST doctrine of class struggle is FOREIGN & UN-AMERICAN. The so-called War on Women fraud, class envy - the coveting of thy neighbors checkbook, forcing thy neighbor to pay for your doctor bills & birth control pills, stirring up racial animosity & division for political gain, etc.; well, thats FOREIGN & UN-AMERICAN, too. Class struggle is a rip-off of the old degenerate creed of philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the bellum omnium contra omnes (i.e., the war of all against all). Mr. Jefferson found Hobbes sophistry (see *****) to be nearly as ridiculous as the writings of Plato. (#3.) - A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. *****Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. ****And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. THOMAS JEFFERSON to SAMUEL KERCHEVAL (Monticello - July 12, 1816) memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page049.db&recNum=259 ORIGINAL LETTER (Image): memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/049/0200/0260.jpg TRANSCRIPT - etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefLett.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=244&division=div1
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:25:49 +0000
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