‘The Very Best Form of Socialism’: The Pro-Slavery Roots of the Modern Left

by Jarrett Stepman & Inez Feltscher
6 Aug 2013

The left has been waging a decades-long smear campaign against conservatives, painting them as bigots who have been on the wrong side of history on every issue, including America’s greatest sin – slavery. Vice President Joe Biden even went as far as to suggest during the 2012 election that a Republican victory would re-enslave African-Americans.

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Leftist academics and historians have gone to great lengths to bury and distort the names and legacies of the men who defended the ugliest of American institutions; men whose philosophy on government, rights, and liberty, as it turns out, is uncomfortably close to their own. A modified but nonetheless similar tendency to subjugate continues to run through liberal policies today, replacing slavery with a cradle-to-grave entitlement system that trades liberty for material security, and the plantation master for government itself.

Ann Coulter, Kevin D. Williamson, Sean Trende, and others have pushed back on the idea that the modern Republican Party is primarily built on racism. However, a further examination of what makes the modern parties, and more importantly, the modern philosophies of conservatism and progressivism, is essential. Little attention has been paid to the thinkers who made Democrats the party of slavery in the lead-up to the Civil War, and their influence on modern liberal ideas.

Conservatives and liberals alike may be surprised to find that in reality John C. Calhoun, a South Carolina antebellum statesman and political theorist, and his pro-slavery allies, stand firmly as the intellectual forebears of the political philosophy of Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and the modern left. Calhoun and the antebellum thinkers behind the positive defense of slavery in the nineteenth century represent the first major criticism of American founding principles – principles the American conservative movement seeks to preserve – as well as the intellectual seed for the later Progressive movement and what is considered modern-day liberalism.

Obama, FDR and the Second Bill of Rights
By Cass R. Sunstein Jan 28, 2013
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-28/obama-fdr-and-the-second-bill-of-rights.html

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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/06/The-Pro-Slavery-Roots-of-the-Modern-Left

As we see further. Progressives now use their plantation slaves to incite racism. People like Jackson, Sharpton, Holder and Obama himself.

 

It's open to discussion. However no one seems up to job.

 

What are you talking about? Calhoun being the forebear to liberalism? That's weak. If anything, he is more of the modern day republican party from the notion of state's rights.

Then you said this:

"Calhoun and the antebellum thinkers behind the positive defense of slavery in the nineteenth century represent the first major criticism of American founding principles "

Antebellum is basically romanticism, a sharp contrast to the Enlightenment foundings. The notion of progress was questioned, by the simple idea that nature was supreme, and over coming it was the next step. Frederick Douglas's narrative illustrates that by how he escapes. And the anti-slavery antebellum thinkers would also go against what the founders wanted. After all, they're the ones that wanted slavery, and thought they were property. The idea of an escaping slave, and the rise of Christianity (Once again, Antebellum) lead rise to the anti-slavery movement, not the notion of all men were created equal.

 

Slavery is one of America's greatest traditions. I am sickened by how willingly people throw their country's glorious past under the bus to appease PC censors.

 

According to Joe Biden's wikipedia page, he's supposed to be a Roman Catholic. He might want to go back and re-read the Ten Commandments. Because he clearly missed the one about "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor."

This man is flat out lying. And he knows he's lying. And he doesn't care. He's deliberately trying to manipulate people into voting for his ticket by telling them something about the other side that he KNOWS is patently untrue.

That just makes me sick.

 

You know, that IS a good way of looking at it.
Slavery NOW would be horrible. Slavery back then was not seen as horrible any more calling women the 'b' word in rap is horrible these days. And to keep seeing it as horrible in the past is a kind of moral-judgement masturbation.

Mankind wasn't as smart then. They can't be blamed for slavery any more than we can blame some tribe somewhere who used to sacrifice their members to the farming god.

And the intelligent person should look at slavery, holding to the knowledge and hope that American humanity has learned that slavery is wrong, but that it was part of America's history, and there is no reason to apologize for it over and over.

 

I agree with this so completely. And it is so well-worded. And I'm not really the sycophant I seem to be. ha ha (I'm just wondering, who is this Unifier guy and is he just going back to previous posts of MINE, and just copying and pasting them with his own name on them, or do we agree on topic AND wording? )

And "sick" is almost literally true. It makes me sick that a man like Biden will do this to himself for selfish reasons, especially when it hurts the entire country at the same time.