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Resurgent Communism, Exhibit 1,103: Greece

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Robert Brager Posted: Tue, May 4 2010 6:40 PM

Amid all of the social upheaval and dislocation knocking on our door, wherever we find ourselves in the world, some of the more ominous specters are lurking.  It's unfortunate that the fellows who raised this banner haven't familiarized themselves with Austrian theories of money and credit.  Otherwise, perhaps they'd understand that at the center of the economic upheaval underway is the nearly global implementation of the fifth of ten planks of the Communist Manifesto.  

Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

 5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
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If you want to see resurgent communism, look at Spain.

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Rise up? As opposed to rise down?

To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!"
Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."

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Esuric replied on Tue, May 4 2010 7:45 PM

Yeah, the people of Europe should "rise up" because Greece can't pay its debt. Leftist idiots.

"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."

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Merlin replied on Wed, May 5 2010 1:42 AM

That’s what happens when you try to impose corporatism to a communist-minded people: they strike back with e vengeance. Serves the Greeks well.

The Regression theorem is a memetic equivalent of the Theory of Evolution. To say that the former precludes the free emergence of fiat currencies makes no more sense that to hold that the latter precludes the natural emergence of multicellular organisms.
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Should the bourgeois rise up too? They got this banner all wrong thus once again proving that communists can't plan. 

'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael

 

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Bert replied on Wed, May 5 2010 11:13 PM

Should the bourgeois rise up too?

Someone should photoshop this picture and replace KKE with LvMI and change the hammer and sickle to something bourgeois.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way. - Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols
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