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Bureaucratic Socializers - Max Eastman

It is the bureaucratic socializers who constitute a real and subtle threat to America’s democracy.

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On Karl Marx - Max Eastman

If he (Karl Marx) ever performed a generous act, it is not to be found in the record. He was a totally undisciplined, vain, slovenly, and egotistical spoiled child.

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Lenin's Methods - Max Eastman

I still regarded Stalin’s totalitarian dictatorship as an enemy, rather than a result, of the policies of Lenin.

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Pathological and Parochial Altruism in the Age of Fear

"A healthy altruism already resides in the concepts of liberty, free markets, free trade, and exchanges that are beneficial to each individual. If in the spirit of entrepreneurship, the defectors from the status quo, the disruptors and ingenious can rise up to challenge the “new normal” and...

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Anthem

What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it?  What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me?  What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters?  What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?

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Fifteen Signs You’re in an Abusive Relationship with the Government

"The use of fear and enforcement tactics to shut down dialogue and debate have never led to positive outcomes in any personal, societal, or global interactions." ~ Micha Gartz & Lucio Saverio-Eastman

14. Dismiss your opinions

If shaming or gaslighting you doesn’t work, then dismissing your opinion is the next best option.

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Free Lunch Project >> Dependence in our Lifetime

Get in line! Everyone gets a free lunch...eventually

Get in the bread line!

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Fifteen Signs You’re in an Abusive Relationship with the Government

"The use of fear and enforcement tactics to shut down dialogue and debate have never led to positive outcomes in any personal, societal, or global interactions." ~ Micha Gartz & Lucio Saverio-Eastman

I'm in one, you're in one (yes, you), we're all in an abusive relationship (with the government)

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Solo trip to Estonia, November, 2019. Memorial to the Estonian victims of Communism. Estonia lost 1/5 of their population to the terror and Russification policies of the Soviet occupiers. The bullet holes in the wall were lit up and as you got closer, there was a portrait/photo of an individual victim in each one.

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Tallinn, Estonia November 2019

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A lot has happened since last time I checked in here... Got a new job https://www.aier.org

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So, I got a car... (back in September)

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Victims of Communism Memorial, Estonia

The memorial is dedicated to the Estonian people who suffered from Soviet terror. Estonia lost the fifth of its slightly over one million inhabitants, with more than 75,000 assassinated, imprisoned, or...

A total of over 75,000 people from #Estonia were murdered, imprisoned or deported. Estonia lost every 5th person of its population of slightly over a million. The memorial was established in 2018 in memory of Estonia’s #victims of #communism.

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Prince Edward Island 🇨🇦

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🇨🇦 Prince Edward Island 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼