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To: bentway who wrote (703195)	3/7/2013 7:19:18 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572999

Saul Alinsky and the Paradox of Selfishness Over the years Saul Alinsky has attracted a legion of admirers, including Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton. Most recently,Michelle Obama and Van Jones extolled Alinsky's vision in which he extolled unbridled selfishness and condemned altruism as a misguided instinct.

To: bentway who wrote (703195)	3/7/2013 9:18:41 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572999

I note that John Locke is a villain to the left. That individualism, free markets and property rights are bad things, as was the demise of the Soviet Union. Given the legacy of John Locke's antisocial individualism in this country ..... As Paul Krugman observed in his book, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, the demise of the Soviet Union, and with it, the socialist vision, has left the liberal project triumphant and destroyed our capacity to imagine "a plausible alternative": "For the first time since 1917, then, we live in a world in which property rights and free markets are viewed as fundamental principles, not as grudging expedients; where the unpleasant aspects of a market system--inequality, unemployment, injustice--are accepted as facts of life..." Yes, our leftists are at heart, communists.