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Marx in the American Academy: When Will its High Priests Ever Learn?
For some reason, every time a modern capitalist economy faces a problem such as our current fiscal crisis here in the United States, members of the academy trout out Karl Marx as the solution. The latest example comes from The Chronicle Review, the literary supplement of The Chronicle of Higher Education. It is written by the British activist and writer Terry Eagleton, and is based on his new book, Why Marx was Right.
We all are all too familiar with the fact that while the world is moving away from social democracy, not to speak of Marxism as a philosophy, it always remains alive and well in our institutions of higher learning. Eagleton is too smart to not be unaware of the serious challenges to Marxism, especially the major defeat it suffered after the fall of the Soviet Union. So he acknowledges this at the start. He writes:
"Were not Marx's ideas responsible for despotism, mass murder, labor camps, economic catastrophe, and the loss of liberty for millions of men and women? Was not one of his devoted disciples a paranoid Georgian peasant by the name of Stalin, and another a brutal Chinese dictator who may well have had the blood of some 30 million of his people on his hands?"
You know what is coming next, if you are even slightly bit familiar with the Left's fallback position: Marx was not responsible for the wrong interpretations made of his work by the totalitarians of the last century. Sure enough, Eagleton argues that "Marx was no more responsible for the monstrous oppression of the communist world than Jesus was responsible for the Inquisition."
Eagleton asserts that Marx would have scorned the idea that anyone could ever believe that the socialist system he desired could be built in a backwards society like Russia or China that had not yet been modernized by the forces of capitalism. So why, then, did all of Eagleton's comrades like the British historian Eric Hobsbawm support the Soviet Union through thick and thin, and bemoan its passing after it came to a crushing end?
Bypassing an answer to that query, Eagleton argues instead that Marx was right about what counted: the failure of capitalism to attain justice and prosperity for all; the failure to end colonialism and imperialism; etc. As he puts it, "Why is it that the capitalist West has accumulated more resources than human history has ever witnessed, yet appears powerless to overcome poverty, starvation, exploitation, and inequality? What are the mechanisms by which affluence for a minority seems to breed hardship and indignity for the many? Why does private wealth seem to go hand in hand with public squalor? …is it more plausible to maintain that there is something in the nature of capitalism itself which generates deprivation and inequality…?"
Capitalism, Eagleton continues, was great at ending feudalism and modernizing the economies in the age of industrialism, and that is why Marx was "extravagant in his praise for the class that created it, a fact that both his critics and his disciples have conveniently suppressed." That class, he writes, did a lot of good things: emancipated slaves, fought for human freedom, and created a global civilization. Max appreciated and understood this, considering it a major "historical achievement."
But to Eagleton, once having developed society, the new developments brought forth new "possibilities of barbarism." Hence, Eagleton — along with Marx — sees the solution in the social revolution Marx hoped would be carried out by the oppressed proletarians or working classes of the capitalist social order.
As one reads Eagleton, it is fairly clear that all he is offering is a re-written Marx for beginners. There is virtually nothing in his Chronicle Review article that presents anything a first year student of Marx would not have learned for himself upon a cursory reading of the Marxian classics. One thinks, therefore, that the editors of the learned weekly hoped that offering up this essay would again inspire more followers for Marx on the campus, as if there were not enough already.
The rest of Eagleton is apologia for Marx and rather unconvincing answers to the Left's critics. If you point to "the proper outrage to the mass murders in Communist Russia and China," Eagleton has the easy answer: what about the "genocidal crimes of capitalism"? Fascism, resulting from capitalism, he reminds readers, was fought and defeated by "the self-sacrifice of the Soviet Union." Does he actually believe that the Nazis lost because the Russian people believed in Communism? Does he not know that Stalin assumed the mantle of Russian nationalism, and that people fought to preserve Russia from submission to Nazi slavery, and not to create the Communist world believed in by Stalin?
As for his answer to Communist mass murders, he neglects the obvious fact that its supporters argued they were going to create a humane alternative to the horrors of capitalism, not a society that slaughtered millions in the name of their theory, and perpetrated deliberate horrors that were the byproduct of the system they created.
He also brags that Marxists warned "of the perils of fascism" while the leaders of the "so-called free world" where whitewashing Hitler. Again, he conveniently forgets the phony anti-fascism of Stalin, which masked his own preparations for mass purges, as well as his years of cooperation with Hitler that allowed fascism to triumph in Germany. And he has the nerve to argue that while today's Marxists have no love for Stalin and Mao (he ignores those who still do, of course) non-Marxists defend Hiroshima. The latter is of course a historical question as to why the a-bomb was dropped, and has nothing to do with an economic and social system's dependence on mass murder.
Next he compares our 9/11 to the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile on 9/11 thirty years earlier than 2001. Despite the similarity of the date on which both events took place, again there is no valid comparison.
63 Comments, 40 Threads
1. selwyn mills
A brilliant article…not a wasted word. If Karl Marx were alive he would he would agree with you.April 14, 2011 - 6:19 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The Root '83
If Karl Marx was alive today, I'd be in jail for shooting him
April 15, 2011 - 1:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Well then Marx wouldn't be alive, would he?
Unless you're a poor shot.
April 16, 2011 - 12:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"What's Really Reactionary?"
April 18, 2011 - 6:56 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Nate Whilk
I was absolutely floored by how Eagleton's essay was so divorced from reality. Sample: "The other must become the ground of one's own self-realization, at the same time as he or she provides the condition for one's own. At the interpersonal level, this is known as love. At the political level, it is known as socialism."
Socialism = Love ???????
This is yet another occasion to trot out my favorite Orwell quote: "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool."
April 14, 2011 - 7:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Very True! Orwell also recognized that those in "the intelligentsia" easily fall for this dreck because so few of them have ever spent time in the world outside of a faculty lounge and a hermetically-sealed world of like-minded individuals. At the risk of restating the obvious, this has been perfectly ilustrated by Mr. Obama who has contrived to be of the world but not "in" the world.
April 16, 2011 - 11:25 am Link to this Comment | Reply
3. Dan Simon
I don't think it's laziness that attracts academics to Marxism, but rather vanity. The idea of the proletarian vanguard–a uniquely enlightened elite, morally entitled by virtue of their superior understanding to seize power and impose a wise and just totalitarian dictatorship on the rest of the population, for the latter's own good–fits the typical academic's self-image perfectly.
April 14, 2011 - 9:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Good point. Marxism is the atheist religion of the Enlightenment, and every Marxist gets to be a little Messiah – a hero leading the poor and the ignorant toward salvation. Feels good, don't it?
April 15, 2011 - 7:28 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Robert L. Mayo
Hey, don't bring us atheists into it. I'm a patriotic, non-god fearing, capitalist American thank you very much.
April 15, 2011 - 7:42 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Sorry, didn't intend to insult atheists. I meant that for true believers, Marxism is a religion without a deity.
April 18, 2011 - 7:39 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Ken Yangottago
Mr Mayo – you must mean agnostic. You sound too intelligent to be an "atheist." It's a big universe. He may just be somewhere you haven't looked yet.
Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, There is no God.
April 18, 2011 - 12:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Many, if not most, atheists have looked more widely than you.
And, if I may, far more widely than you can, thank you very much.The saving grace of your Christian culture is not mere surety- Marxists have an excess of that- but focus and consistency (along with a great deal of goodness and effort).
Mr. Bugs, I do appreciate your gracious reply.
I quite agree; throughout history, the new religion must cast down the old
in order to take it's place.The 'face of the father of the people'- that will come in time, for sure.
April 20, 2011 - 8:45 pm Link to this Comment
4. stuart williamson
Thank you for this excellent exposition on the mind of the Marxist "scholar", indeed all high priests in their faith, arrogant in their surety of intellectual superiority, lolling in their tenured affluence. Marxism as a cause is long dead.
Eagleton is a neo-communist, as are Ayers and Obama and cling to the lenin/Stalin denomination of the post-Marxian religion.This President, in my perception, is a great admirer of Mao, and sees China as the exemplar of successful Communism, the Socialist Republic that Stalin strived for but failed to achieve. Now that the great eader has gone. it is ruled by a cadre. with a compliant, strictly policed proletariat. What it has done is what Stalin failed to do: abandon management of industry and commerce and permit entrepreneurial types to run them and personally profit from them so long as they pay the tribute and remain deferential to the Party, Today their government is building enclaves of mini-palaces, many o them designed by American architects, to reward high performers. There does not appear, unfortunately for Eagleton's ilk, to be comparable pampering of academics.
Obama is infatuated by it all. That is why he is so deferential to them. That is why his daughters are learning Mandarin. He believes this is the Chinese Communist Century. His dream is to shape our Republic in its model.
It probably totally escapes him that he is not the type that they would reward. They are looking for achievers. In their priesthood he might not even make monk.
And thank you for introducing me to Kolakowski.
April 15, 2011 - 1:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
"his daughters are learning Mandarin"- What!?!
I knew it. China was raised to replace a fallen USSR.
Investor's Business Daily did a series exposing the opportunistic hard Marxist, Bill Clinton, as China's Number One spy- and the unnoticed, backwater Arkansas fiefdom as home to over 1,000 Chinese front companies.
I believe he raided the various government pension funds in order to give the Party their seed money- Phil Gramm, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and the Chicago "New Party" Democratic Socialist Alliance that ruled the Pelosi/Reid Congress then hired GoldSachs types to reflate the depleted funds using mortgage-based derivatives schemes.
April 20, 2011 - 9:02 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
apologies- correction: "The DSA that Came To rule the Congress"-
as with all closet communists, the mutating New Party's fortunes were advanced in conjuction with the rise of China- San Francisco, Pacific trade, Wall St. leverage, Treasury bond sales, Pelosi's husband's banking ventures in China, Q-class nuclear secrets, etc.I honestly don't believe China vaulted ahead because of scientific socialist management of the economy- industrial espionage, theft, corrupt Democrats and 'eager' Republicans seem just a tad more likely.
April 20, 2011 - 9:13 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
5. Moira
Excellent article. Thank you so much! It's such an important, on-going discussion because it underlies so many other important discussions.
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6. Lawrence Kohn
Read the late John Roche's superb and slim book, The History and Impact of Marxist-Leninist Organizational Theory, to learn more along the lines Ron Radosh explained.
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7. Bugs
In Daniel Gardner's terms, Eagleton and his fellow academics would be called "hedgehogs." They know "one big thing" – Marxism – that they believe explains everything and provides the answer to every problem. It doesn't matter that every implementation of Marx's ideas in the real world has resulted in misery and ultimate failure. The idea, the vision, is still Platonically pure in the Marxist's mind. THAT is reality, not the chaos and disappointment of the real world. It must be defended, its failures explained away. Otherwise…what have you got?
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8. Scott Marney
"the failure of capitalism to attain justice and prosperity for all". Trying to achieve that unobtainable goal always results in misery, death and destruction. Always.
April 15, 2011 - 6:58 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
9. don
"Marx in the American Academy: When Will its High Priests Ever Learn?" You might better ask why they never learn? Follow the the money!
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10. Pedro
Hate is a very powerfill emotion.Mr. Radosh you know in your heart of hearts how this will end,and it won't be pretty. We have passed the tipping point,let it burn.
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11. Eric R.
"When will its high priests ever learn?"
Ron,you know the answer better than anyone.
These Marxists are genocidal religious fanatics, willing to destroy their institutions rather than lose power in them.
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12. Jack Olson
One of the best and clearest analyses of Marxism was the book by that title by Thomas Sowell. Sowell points out that Marx never defined one of his key terms, "class".
Milton Friedman, though, refuted Marx in an even more concise way. Marx wrote that the advance of capitalism inevitably reduces the working class, the people whose income depends primarily on their labor, because the only way the capitalist class can increase its profits is by reducing wages. Result: Inevitable misery for the workers. Did that work in practice, in a highly capitalist country, the U.K., in the 19th Century? Obviously not, Friedman said, since the British working class was vastly better off in wealth, health, education and standard of living in 1900 than in 1800. Marx had predicted the immiseration of the working class under capitalism and what happened was the exact opposite.
April 15, 2011 - 2:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
And yet – not sure why – leftists, liberals, the unions do insist that the workers ARE immiserated. Or, at the very least, that without constant vigilance and agitation from the left, the workers WILL BECOME immiserated. As far as I can tell, the source of the misery is no longer basic living and working conditions – it's *unequal* living and working conditions. There doesn't seem to be much talk about the political classes that Marx defined. Instead, it's "the rich" and "big business."
April 15, 2011 - 4:00 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
13. Snorri Godhi
[Eagleton] also brags that Marxists warned "of the perils of fascism" while the leaders of the "so-called free world" where whitewashing Hitler.
It would be more correct to say that the nazis warned of the perils of communism while the New York Times whitewashed the Holodomor.
It would also be correct to say that the Western whitewashers of Hitler were mostly academics like Terry Eagleton.So why, then, do so many serious and learned people in the American academy swear by Marx, and urge his theories be adopted?
THIS is where Marxist class analysis comes in handy: the plain fact is that Marxism serves the class interest of the intelligentsia.
(I understand it was the anarchist Machajski who first applied Marxist class analysis to Marxism.)April 15, 2011 - 2:35 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
14. ZeitTrash
"When will the editors of the journals of the American academy realize this, and stop using their presses to continue to lie to us?"
They realize perfectly well that Marxism is a tyrannical and brutal system in all its guises and they don't care. They are like the old Southern plantation owners who saw slavery as in the best interest of their slaves. In my opinion, all Marxists are egomaniacal sadists.
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15. daxypoo
i have been spamming some vintage milton friedman youtube videos lately and it's sort of twilight zonish
first of all, there are several clips of a bunch of snotty students (one was michael moore btw) and friedman calmly and utterly makes mincemeat of their arguments
the problem (what we are experiencing at this very second) is that these snot nosed twerps didnt even listen to friendman and now they all have positions of power in our government, schools, and every other walk of life applying their misguided ideology
they are in a state of permanently arrested development refusing to see reality or, even worse, existing in a parallel universe where up is down
is strongly suggest a rehash of all these clips of friedman as their relevance can not be understated
(should have linked this to 12 lack olson)
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16. Ozzy
Aren't you afraid that in this despotic country that we live in, that you will be jailed for such a radical opinion?
April 15, 2011 - 3:29 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
not afraid, because once despotic we are authorized by the constitution to kick some statist ass
April 16, 2011 - 4:18 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
17. proreason
"Why is it that the capitalist West has accumulated more resources than human history has ever witnessed, yet appears powerless to overcome poverty, starvation, exploitation, and inequality?"
Because they define the bar, and it always moves. By the standards of even 50 years ago, there is no poverty in free-market economies.
Maybe Karl Marx beleived in marxism, but he's about the only one. To everybody else, it's the perfect tool to rule the world because it's a great con to trick the rubes into supporting you. Stripped of the high-falutin bs, marxism in a nutshell is "Support us marxists and we won't jail you for rolling the rich guys, or the jews, or the white guys, or whoever it is you would like to roll." In other words, it formalizes barbarism in return for political support. Of course, after the power is acquired, everybody but the commissars better run for the hills, because the next peaceful commissar you meet will be the first one who has ever lived.
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18. EscapeVelocity
Today's Brownshirts wear Black Hoodies…and call themselves Anti-Fascists.
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19. James May
Here is my own theory for Mr. Eagleton to ponder:
Some people are smart and some people are stupid.
Some people work hard and some people are lazy.
This is called 'Occam's Razor' and you don't have to run all over town like Sherlock Holmes or create dizzy philosophies the masses like cuz it explains why they are the masses and not individuals who can think for themselves without leaning all over a Civil War era intellectual like a drunk hooker at a miniature golf course.
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20. Dianna
A few weeks before, the Chronicle Review had essays on "The Dismal Future of Capitalism." The cover stories tend to be so anti-capitalist, anti-American and anti-freedom that I read them with a sense of unreality.
Of course, I'm just a nonprofit worker, not an academic.
Perhaps one has to live in a world of unreality sustained by the very young to accept that lunacy flows with the fountains.
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21. Alert1201
For some real laughs read the reviews and comments at Amazon. They are acting like Eangleton is their log awaited Messiah; that finally someone has come to explain what they never really could.
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22. Bogdan from Australia
There is a very simple explanation of the genesis of Singleton's nonsensical crap.
A PARASITE will attach ITSELF to any ideology or religion that will allow IT to live ITS PARASITIC LIFE at the expense of the HUMAN OF SMART AND HONEST WORK.
The vomit he produces: "The right to lie around all day in a loose crimson garments" speaks for itself.
What deranged mind of a PARASITE is eternally incapable of grasping is the fact that someone else has to work DOUBLE to provide a PARASITE with that kind of lesurely style of life, he believs he deserves.
The roots of that self delusion lie in the fact that the PARASITES are simply quasi-humans who still linger mentally and "intellectually" in the world of animals.
One of the elements of animal's struggle for survival is the opportunity to steal other animal's food, lair or female.
Some quasi-humans who chose to act like predators will brak into our homes, mug us at the autobank, pick-pocket us or the more cuning will resort to fraud.
All those sub-human activities are liked to a considerable risk though; If you break to my home, I shall give you a welcome with a few unces of a lead into your hooded head.
Or at best the thief will end up in a prison.
A human PARASITE who is cuning and patient enough will be working eternally and determinetly on the creation of a socio-political construction that will enable IT to live a premanent life at the expense of the PEOPLE OF A SMART AND HONEST WORK without taking any risk of being held accountable for their criminal activities.
Marxism is just that, a perfect ideology of PARASITISM.
Transfered onto the American ground, Obama is just that; a PERFECT PARASITE who has NEVER did a single day of honest work.
In order to avoid being held accountable for the theft of some 10 trilion dollars he is busy with working on a deformed and degenerated "legal construction" that shall protect him and his cronies.
One can only hope that the American people shall hold him accountable for his crimes against America and her Constitution.
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Larry J
My wife and I visited Vietnam last month. At one point, our guide said, "After reunification in 1975, we were socialist. You know what socialism means? It means if I work hard and someone else doesn't, we get the same thing. So why would anyone work hard? No one did. About 20 years ago, the government allowed us to keep what we earned. Things are much better now."
There are two basic categories of people who support Marxism/socialism:
1. People who what something for nothing and think everyone else should provide for their leisure. These are the primary parasites you describe.
2. People like academics and bureaucrats who believe they'll be in the ruling elite and get to tell everyone else how to live.
Neither of these groups can be trusted. We're seeing in the Obama administration what happens when the second group is given positions of power.
April 18, 2011 - 7:38 am Link to this Comment | Reply
23. John Pepple
There's a simple way to get through to people like Eagleton. Point out that some college teachers get a lot of pay, while others don't. This inequality has a simple, egalitarian solution:
1. Pool all the earnings of every college teacher.
2. Divide by the number of college teachers.
3. Distribute to each teacher his or her equal share.Would Eagleton be in favor of this? Of course not.
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24. investorcs
The egalitarianism of Marx went underground and re-emerged as progressivism. Progressivism has taken over almost every institution in the West.. it is far from being unsuccessful.
How do you counteract the easy slogans and ideas of equality? It is so attractive to appeal to a one-size-fits-all solution, i.e., just make everybody and everything equal. There don't seem to be any equally easy slogans and memes for liberty and free enterprise. Those things are never the easy way out, nor do they lend themselves to easy descriptions.
I wish I knew how, but until conservatives and traditionalists can fight with pithy slogans and memes, we will continue to lose ground against egalitarians and redistributionists such as the vile Obama.
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25. Ben
Marx was rather a writer the the economist.His brillian aphorisms are known better than his theory of value.Today`s marxists have nothing with the science.They are often the fashionable writers demonstrating their "bleeding hart".These talkers are absolutly irresponsible and don`t see any Marxist guilt in 20th century terrible crimes.
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26. Ben
No one social structure provoke more hate than the "capitalism", though money and the capital is the eternal good for all.This paradise for parvenus,the abundance alternating with poverty, the yesterdeys schoolfellow becoming the emplouer! The permanent challenge of our human collectivistic and traditionalistic nature!But what the great fruits!
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27. grrr
Re: "When will the editors of the journals of the American academy realize this, and stop using their presses to continue to lie to us?"
Oh, I do not know…. may be when they become honest and read a very short booklet named "Communist Manifesto" using elementary math. thinking. Let me elaborate: there 2 parts, the 1-st part ANALYSES than existing society and the analysis is precise description of than existing facts. The 2-d part PROJECTS this contemporary analysis into the future and comes with a single static "solution" which is to break it up and build something artificial. It is classic interpolation vs. extrapolation problem: while using one's chosen function the interpolation can be made as precise as one wants (e.g. fits all available points), the extrapolation usually fails and the more precise the interpolation the more spectacular is failure of extrapolation. The problem is that one NEVER learns the mechanism of any process by interpolating existing measurements. Unfortunately for M&E (Marx & Engels) they did not (actually could not and it is not their fault) anticipated the dynamic nature of human society and the fact that capitalism unleashed technology that increased productivity so much that human conditions can be dramatically improved without any drastic changes (aka revolutions). In other words, their description of how society works turn out to be wrong.
PS. But many of their works are interesting. I particularly liked (when I was young) the "Anti-During" and the "Origins of family, society and state". Both are written by F. Engels.April 16, 2011 - 9:21 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
28. nickel
Having had to put up with too many of these self centered jerks in academia and out, I think the primary ingredient of all Marxists is first a blind level of personal narcisism and second a strong dislike for all those "lesser" peons who fail to realize their superiority.
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29. JamesG
One reason to advocate Marxist governments is their proven efficiency in controlling population growth.
Just imagine how many more humans would be alive today if Mother Marx had smothered the little creep in his crib. None of his followers would have managed to murder and eliminate via famines the 20th century's 100 million.
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The problem with all those Marxist idiots, oh, sorry, intellectuals, is that they did not even learn the early history of the Marx's theory implementation: the Bolshevik Russia BEFORE the Stalin's machine of mass murder has been ignited.
Lenin HIMSELF acknowledged that Bolshevism as the purest Marxism implementation failed. That's why he introduced so-called "NEP" (in Russian – НЭП: New Economic Policy), which had swiftly dragged out Russia from the deadly morass of Communism.
When Stalin came to the power, he dismantled that NEP, and the famines started again, as before NEP.
Not knowing or ignoring that history is nothing but IDIOCY of a medical nature. Therefore, we have all rights to call those "intellectuals" imbecile idiots.
Forget about the [im]moral side of Communism with its dozens of millions of murdered COMPATRIOTS (not even foreign enemies!)April 16, 2011 - 11:05 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
I forgot to add: mass murder in Russia started not with Stalin, but with and by Lenin and his accomplices.
The concentration camps were built long before Hitler's and Stalin's camps: by a Trotsky's order in May 1918. So, please, please, stop mumbling about 1937 and Stalin's purge! It's a bullshit invented by morons like this Terry Eagleton and the likes.
And the number of Chinese murder by Mao and his satraps is also not 30 Million, but roughly 70 Million. Any honest person can easily check and prove it: the only thing needed is honesty, which this country is in a drastic deficit.April 16, 2011 - 11:14 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
"The concentration camps were built long before Hitler's and Stalin's camps: by a Trotsky's order in May 1918."
In time the camps and the slaves in them became an integral part of the economy. Hitler's V2′s were built by slave labor. Many things in Hitler's Germany were produced by slave labor. You must know that the Gulags became an integral part of the Soviet economy. In the U.S. slaves were used to the same end. The only difference was that one didn't have to accuse somebody of high treason to get a slave. Slaves could be easily bought from the Arab "black ivory" traders. But I digress. The truth is clear: when a society institutionalizes inequality (="you work hard, I won't work and enjoy the fruits of your labor") then something's gotta give and the bodies to do the hard work sooner or later appear. It's the "invisible hand" that has moved every economy since the dawn of history.
Now it's illegal aliens, before it was Gulag, Treblinka, docile American aboriginals, African men and women, all the way back to and beyond the Roman Empire when they used prisoners of war.
The best lesson in Economics I got it from St. Paul: "If man will work, he may eat; if he do not work, he neither can eat, nor should he eat." (2nd Thessalonians, 3) The beneficiaries of schemes to avoid the harsh reality of work simply pass the back to someone. For each one of us who does not carry his own weight someone has to carry twice the weight by working for half the money or double the time. Eventually some kind of violence erupts and after enough people die we start all over again.
That's the game we are born in. Our Founding Fathers devised a system to prevent that evil as far as it is humanly possible. It served us well for a while until the Progressives arrived.
Now we are screwed. AGAIN!
April 16, 2011 - 8:06 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
I meant to write "pass the bUck". My apologies.
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"The only difference was….."
No, the MAIN difference was that camps under Commies (and under Nazis but more concerning specifically Jews) were used as a twofold function: to use slave labor AND to murder by fully exhausting a person.
April 16, 2011 - 8:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
32. Christie Davies
Eagleton like all Professors of Cultural Theory does not understand quantity. All things exist to some extent.They do not properly understand this and are almost without exception innumerate.
Someone ought to send Eagleton, a Salford Irishman, a selection of Marx's writings about the Irish. The Irish have had their revenge for it is Irishmen like Archbishop Mannix and Senator McCarran who have drummed the Marxists out of power.April 16, 2011 - 11:29 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
33. Bernie
It's a waste of time trying to convince those faithful to the secular religion of Marxism that they are wrong. It's likely trying to convince a Muslim Jihadist that he should convert to Judaism or like trying to convince Bill Press and Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow to become Evangelical Christians.
April 16, 2011 - 11:48 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
maybe we could try to initiate a "pilgrimage" or "mission" for the devout statists to go to their holy lands then change the locks on their way out
April 16, 2011 - 4:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
34. rabbit
Truly one of the great wonders of the age is how a political philosophy could result in brutal impoverishment, sole-crushing despotism, and tens of millions of needless deaths, and still find support among the "intelligentsia".
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Mr Radosh paraphrases and quotes Eagleton thus:
"Fascism, resulting from capitalism, he reminds readers, was fought and defeated by 'the self-sacrifice of the Soviet Union.'"
It is my understanding that Fascism was the brain child of long-time Socialists such as Mussolini, and that their idea of it was National Socialism, as in the German Nazi Party. They took control of industry, but did not most industrialists and the upper class disdain street thugs like Il Duce and Hitler. Wouldn't it be more correct to say the the Soviet Union helped defeat the racist, anti-Semitic National Socialists?
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Says TG, "Wouldn't it be more correct to say the the Soviet Union helped defeat the racist, anti-Semitic National Socialists?"
Let me bring to you an example:
You see a dead man. One passer-by says the man was hit by a brick fallen from the roof. Another passer-by says the man was shot by a thug who just escaped.
Is there any difference? The man is dead, right?
But any sound person would say there is a huge difference, even though for the dead man there isn't.A stupid parallel, but this is approximately what happened with the USSR versus Germany. More precisely: with Stalin versus Hitler and vice versa.
The USSR not just "helped defeat", as you said (what a shocking illiteracy in the history of the WWII! Or, more precisely, what a shameless American mythomania regarding the WWII: the USA lost 480,000 military and the USSR – over 8 Million military {I don't count civilians}. So, who helped whom?). The USSR has carried out the biggest and heaviest part of the fighting labor.
But the most abominable part of the entire WWII story was that the very war has been prepared and provoked by Stalin because of his monstrous plan to establish hios personla rule over the entire Europe.
And as you probably know, he did succeed: he established Communist system in Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and quasi-Communism in Greece. Moreover, he implanted his agents-of-influence all over the rest of Europe. Remember: even Monrach England became a "monarch Socialist" country with its 90% taxation of anybody slightly above the survival level.Stalin forced us to fight not AGAINST National Socialism (he was even in "friendly" relation with "Uncle Adolf"), but FOR his personal power over the World.
Do you smell the difference?April 17, 2011 - 8:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Interesting points, Constantine. However my main point was that fascism was not a natural outgrowth of capitalism, but rather a nationalist-socialist takeover of the means of production. As you note, Uncle Joe was monster, and it makes one wonder why the intellectual class in Western Europe sided with the USSR after the war, and turned on the US, which protected it from becoming citizens of another Soviet satellite state. Also worth noting is that WWII was not on American soil, as it was on the USSR's. How many other countries, at that time would and could have made the massive effort to go so far abroad to fight the fascists? – Best, TG
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Dear TG, if I have to explain my points, this is it:
1. Soviet Socialism and National Socialism are actually twins in their methods and final goals, even though purely philosophically they have some differences. Not very significant, though.
Both are so-called "workers movement", which is clearly expressed in the very name of both the Lenin's and Hitler's Parties:
in Germany – Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP; or in English: The National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party, which is an abbreviation of Nationalsozialist. (It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) prior a change of its name in 1920);
in Russia – Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party.The main difference I see between these two monstrous human inventions is that German Socialists were "National", while Soviet Socialists were "International."
By the way, the further spread of that brain cancer proves my point of view.
2. The USSR did not "help defeat", the USSR was the MAIN fighter against Germany, starting from June 22, 1941.
The USA were fighting mostly against Japan from December 7, 1941. On the European theater, the USA appeared only on June 6, 1944, D-Day.3. The USA have provided an invaluable aid to the USSR in form of lend-lease.
I still remember American tinned stew, without which my family wouldn't probably survive.April 18, 2011 - 6:54 am Link to this Comment | Reply
36. PAthena
David Hume, in the chapter on Justice, in his Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, described the effects of Marxism in a few paragraphs: the principle of justice that all goods be distributed equally, leads to poverty – since it takes away incentives to produce – and tyranny – since those who will enforce this principle will be tyrants.
Marxists like Eagleton are snobs who want power.April 16, 2011 - 4:09 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Snorri Godhi
Thank you for the reference, I am keen to read it!
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37. jojo
Why do the Marxists in academia, media, law and government have to learn anything. They have successfully gulled for the past half century otherwise thinking people, ie. ordinary practical and ingenious Americans, with their fairy tale of the free lunch to feed off the trough of unearned benefits. Have insinuated into pivotal position is ALL civic institutions in the USA, even if you can believe it the otherwise feet on the ground military. AND consolidated their positions and theft of the Rights of Americans into "Law" in vacuous entirely unnecessary race and gender "amendments". Have played class cards eg elite/best and brightest versus racist, sexist, astro-turf, gunhappy cowboys and "Christians".
A textbook practice in undermining a society of free citizens by pitting one against the other. The icing on their cake of political/social rubble, the "economic catastrophe". Copying the end in Weimar Republic even with the Leni-Riefenstahl like photo-essays in the Media. Current media stars/comedians in all but brown-shirt uniform and videos of triumphant progress through Europe, a socialist stronghold. Before their "New Kennedy", their "Messiah's" election. We need not be reminded of the effects of that chapter in the history of the West, Nor that it was a prime example to undermine/overthrow a civilised and generally coherent social structure/people. The Germans were one of the most civillised and cultured
people in the world at that time. The costs of that destruction are still paid in money and blood by the West, especially the American West.And now Libya on the template of Vietnam a la Kennedy the First / Johnson. With the same behaviours from establishment Media and a craven Congress which does not as in the 1960s fight their own corner in demanding that WAR may be made, a la the Constitution of the USA, ONLY with advise and consent of Congress. War whatever Kennedy the First and this New Kennedy call it still requires the sacrifice of young – non-elite/ordinary/common – men, and now women in combat. A "rose by any other name…"
Where are the brave "representatives of the People", insisting on their prerogative. We are inured to their continual failure to Uphold and Defend the Constitution in protection of Rights of "common" Americans. But that they do not even protect and fight for their own rights is simply incredible. What a brave, trustful, truthful lot of people the Americans elect to represent them to themselves and the world. Effects ? of the past 50years of these Marxists insinuation into the civil affairs of the nation. Do these persons in Congress REALLY represent those generally admirable and ingenious people the world has admired for 2 centuries until the hyenas of Marxism targeted them as the most juicy prey in the international jungle.
How Americans have failed to heed those first admonitions to beware entanglement in foreign affairs. But things CHANGE, don't they?April 17, 2011 - 4:27 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
38. John Frary
Attribute every human failing and imperfection to the "capitalist system" and you must advocate its destruction. The oppression, the cultural vandalism, the butcher's bill, the environmental degradation, the economic dogmesses arising from Marxist experiments are all mere mistakes which can be corrected if we put our faith in Marxism—not Marxism as practiced, but the opposite kind.
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39. Taxguy
"Why is it that the capitalist West has accumulated more resources than human history has ever witnessed, yet appears powerless to overcome poverty, starvation, exploitation, and inequality?"
Very simple. Capitalism is a system for individuals, not for masses. No one invented capitalism. It is the natural outgrowth of human nature engaging in commerce.
The one fundamental problem with Marxism, and the reason it and idiots like Eagleton should be ignored is that it assumes a false concept of human nature. Human will not sacrifice for the good of society as a whole, exept for national defense and similar threats. On a day to day basis, people want to own what they produce or they will simply not produce. People will not sacrifice hard work so others can be lazy.
The problems with capitalism are the problems of human nature. And it is governments, not capitalism that have created the problems we face today. There is nothing inherent is capitalism that requires the enormous borrowing our government undertakes. It is politicians distorting capitalism with Marxist goals of "economic and social justice".
Let capitalism be capitalism. If people want economic and social justice (whatever those things are) they can work as hard as they want to achieve them and not expect someone else to give it to them.
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40. ari
Thank you for these essays. Thank you for the solid, substantial education in leftism.
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Quite. My first reading of Radosh. Well done!
And these commentors- first rate!
I wanted to reply to each one!(With slight apology to Mr. Yangottago-
we fools can be a bit sniffy, old chap)April 20, 2011 - 10:15 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
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Wow. I can't believe how tough it is to find those little suckers. I shiver at the thought.... sounds like it's time for some bed bug control Minneapolis.
Bedbugs started making themselves at home in his buildings about three years ago. Since then, he's spent gobs of money trying to eradicate them, using chemicals, heat treatments and dogs. "It comes down to hand-to-hand combat with those suckers," he says. But time and again, his efforts fail because the tenants don't do their part to stop the problem, he explains. They continue to dumpster-dive and pick up secondhand furniture. They're not vigilant about washing and drying their clothes at hot temperatures, and they don't vacuum and clean their apartments as required prior to extermination.
"The residents feel like victims because they have all these bedbugs," the landlord says, "but we're the ones taking care of it."
The city's housing code puts the onus on both the owner and the occupant. In the section titled "Extermination," it says that occupants shall maintain their dwellings free of insects. But the question of responsibility gets trickier in a multi-unit building. In that case, the code says that the occupant is responsible for extermination if their unit is "the unit primarily infested." In a case where two or more units are infested, extermination is the responsibility of "every owner and every operator" -- not the occupant.
Of the 305 bedbug complaints recorded in Denver in 2010, most of the repeat offenders -- properties with more than three complaints -- were multi-unit apartment buildings. The pattern could be chalked up to simple math: More units equals more chances for complaints. Or it could be that bedbugs spread more easily in big buildings. Attracted to the carbon dioxide humans exhale during sleep, bedbugs who have lost their food source (perhaps because someone moved out) will seek a new one next door.
Viviana Aguilar manages a 660-unit apartment complex in northeast Denver. Last year, the complex was the subject of six complaints from five different residents; one woman filed two complaints, four months apart. Her second complaint was recorded as this: "Bed bugs. Threw away children's beds. Sprayed twice but still present. Tried everything on her own to get rid of them herself. Caller 6mos pregnant."
Aguilar says the apartment complex bears the cost of extermination, which she estimates at about $2,000 a month. For years, she only sprayed apartments whose residents complained. But after countless sprayings and re-sprayings, she found that method wasn't working. Inevitably, there'd be one resident who didn't mind living with bedbugs or who didn't want to bother with the elaborate pre-spraying preparation. Even if they rid the rest of the building of pests, that one untreated apartment would cause another widespread infestation. "It all depends on how your neighbor lives," she says.
As of January 1, the complex has imposed a mandatory extermination policy, meaning that every single unit in all 64 buildings -- no exceptions -- will be treated, Aguilar says. Residents are given notice of when their apartment will be treated and assessed a $75 fine if they don't follow preparation instructions.
"We won't get rid of the problem on one treatment," she says. "But at least we're going into every single unit and making sure it's not a sanitary problem. If it is, we take care of it by making sure the resident cleans up."
Don Brennan, a partner at Denver-based Pinnacle Real Estate Management, says his company took a more aggressive approach. In July, Pinnacle assumed management of a 33-unit apartment building in Capitol Hill that was the subject of five complaints last year. One of the complaints was from Paul Farris, a 59-year-old former gardener who says he was once the assistant manager of the building. The company that managed the building before Pinnacle refused to thoroughly spray for bedbugs, Farris says. "You cannot spray just one apartment...and think you're going to get rid of them. If you spray one area, they span out. If you try to do a checkerboard, they go to the places where it hasn't been sprayed."
Farris figures he picked up the bugs from his neighbors. As part of his job, he was constantly in and out of apartments, fixing leaky faucets and squeaky doors. The infestation was bad, he says. One of the residents, an older military veteran who was often hospitalized for diabetes, had a futon that was crawling with bugs. Farris describes a pouch on the underside of the futon, which was for storing the futon's detachable wooden feet. "You open up that pouch and there were so many bedbugs that started coming out, it was like an invasion force hitting the beach in Normandy," he says.
In June, several residents called the city to complain. A city inspector determined that the complaints were founded and ordered the landlord to take care of it. "There is a bed bug infestation within this dwelling structure," the inspector wrote in a letter. "Live bed bugs were observed in units 108 and 109. Unit 104 is self-treating, 308 complained of bites, and 310 tenant provided numerous dead bed bugs in a pill bottle."
That month, the building owners fired the old management company and hired Pinnacle, which spent $5,745 on extermination over a six-month period. But not without some heartache: Residents who refused to comply with mandatory spraying were evicted. "Most people don't want to live in an environment where it's dirty and there are bedbugs," Brennan says. "The people who do usually aren't your best tenants. We had to go through the process of moving people out who didn't want to deal with the problem."
Wow. I can't believe how tough it is to find those little suckers. I shiver at the thought.... sounds like it's time for some bed bug control Minneapolis.
My bedbud infestation is so bad I had to toss all my furniture, books, and anything made of paper, and move to another apartment.
Heat treatment is the only thin that works. If you or your building has bugs Heat will kill bugs eggs colones. Yes they colonize. There are videos on you tube. It looks like a bee hive but its a bed bug hive under the carpet.
I stayed in the same Hilton Homewood Suites Sunday through Thursday almost every week from January 2011 to September 2011. Two weeks before the end of my project, I woke up 1:30 AM to severe itching. I searched and actually found a blood filled bedbug. I looked up on the internet to see for sure what bedbugs looked like. I was unable to get another room that night so I checked out at 3:00 AM and headed for the airport. My wife made me strip in the garage and she sprayed all my clothes, shoes, suitcases etc. Everything went into the wash. She counted 82 BEDBUG bites! After a couple weeks the itching finally subsided. However, I was suffering from headaches. A doctor's visit had me with high blood pressure. Two weeks of blood pressure medication and of course the side effects of this, my blood pressure is back down. I still have headaches and it appears that my blood pressure jumps from time to time. I truly believe that the overwhelming amount of bedbug bites put enough toxins into my body to cause the high blood pressure and headaches.
I checked the Orkin list and three cities in Ohio are the most bedbug infested. This state should do more to stop the spread and find ways to eliminate the bugs altogether.
Bedbugs are very annoying..Even if we do something to killed them all but we won't win because even if the were just a bugs but a wise one as well...
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I came home from a hotel and think I must've had bedbugs in my luggage. 2 days later and a many bites later, I didn't know what it was until I found one on my bed. I took everything (and I mean everything) I owned that was fabric to a laundramat and washed it in hot water. Probably 10 garbage bags. I bagged up and drycleaned my down pillows. Threw out the luggage and had my apartment sprayed. Bought a somewhat expensive bed cover and express mailed it. Put up double sided tape from my bed to where I was sleeping until it came. Yes, It seemed pretty extreme and almost an over reaction with how fast I acted but I've never had a problem since. I'm also lucky I have very responsive landlords that were really helpful. Either way, It worked and was worth it in the end. Good Luck!
hey bed bugs suck really bad ,but there is ways to help stop them. Like baby powder also rubbing alcohol is a very good way to keep them out n away.Just put it in a spray bottle n spray it down n its alot cheaper too. thanks
You can`t spray and kill the bedbugs because they quickly transfer to the other aprtments next door stupids! I can`r believe these sprayers are that ignorant. That is why the bedbugs always comeback. We have them at Shadow Brook apartments in Salt Lake City and you see is thrown out beds and couches everywhere.
BEDBUGS TO DEADBUGS, We killed them at our house, and can do the same for you.MATT or JOHN 303 363 9174.
Call Envirozone if you have bedbugs, they are the only state licensed pest control to be performing this service around Denver. I had bedbugs for over 6 months and the chemicals didn't do anything. Envirozone came in here and completely eradicated my problem in one day, it's been over 3 months since I've seen a bug! They offer a 90-day guarantee and stand behind their work.
I've had these bugs. Last summer my situation was kind of dire and I had to move fast so I picked any old apartment, the first one I could get. A few weeks after move in, I was constantly waking up covered in itchy red bites. I never even knew bedbugs were still around until I did some research and discovered the scope of this epidemic. My advice to anyone infested would be to not panic and not stress - it is a problem that is totally easy to handle. I had a small budget so there wasn't the option of hiring an exterminator, and my landlord was in extreme denial that her apartments had been the issue ("How do I know you didn't bring them in?") Most home improvement stores have fixes that can cure mild to medium infestations. Petroleum jelly on the bedposts, wash your bedding in HOT water, pull the bed AWAY from walls they could climb on. Vacuum out the mattresses once a week looking for little brown egg piles. Plus put little bowls or trays under your bed legs - they can climb in the bowls but not climb out. Also there's some stuff called JD's Bedbug killer sold in blue bottles at Ace Hardware that works amazing. Some people would advise alcohol but that stuff only kills on contact and has no long lasting effect so don't depend on it entirely. And, do try to keep the infestation contained. If you move to the guest room, or the couch they will follow you and then you have a bigger issue then before.
People who accuse ghetto's and unclean people of bedbugs are stupid. Bedbugs aren't attracted to dirt, they are attracted to warm-blooded people. Whether your someone with a lot of money and a nice home or not, you can pick them up and have them terrorize your home. The only reason they are found in poorer areas so much is because lower income people are more likely to live in large, crowded apartment buildings where infestations are harder to contain and treat. Accusing poor immigrant people is just ignorant and stupid.
The last place I lived and my current residence, neither bothered to mention to me that they have a serious bed bug and cockroach infestation. My complaints to my former landlord ultimately resulted in my being evicted. Currently, and with the last place I lived, I rarely do any cooking because of the bugs. Although I haen't seen any bed bugs in my apartment, I am careful not to let just anyone into my crib, knowing that they live here, but not knowing what is living in their units that might travel to my home by way of them. In Colorado residential property owners and management companies are obligated to exterminate known infestations, and tenants are required to keep their units clean ... Personally, I believe that cultures play a significant role in the spread of these bugs, both from one home to another, from one building to another, and from home to businesses, often where tenants work or go to often. First, apartments need to be certified as bed bug (and cockroach) free by a licensed, bonded and insured extermination company, accredited by the BBB. All buildings known to have had an infestation need to cataloged by an appropriate government agency. Additionally, management companies need to put in place policies and procedures that prohibit tenants from bringing items from the trash back into the building, and local governments need to enact legislation or ordinances that prohibit this conduct, and carry fines for viiolators. When considering potential new tenants, a landlord can reference the data base on known buildings having an infestation. Not only do the buildings need to be treated, but the tenants need to be treated, treated with the knowledge of how dangerous it is for all living there, if only one tenant doesn't try to have the pest eradicated. Pamphlets need to be regularly distributed throughout the residences, as well as social services sites, clinics and hospitals, schools and bill boards. Films should be shown to tenants living in infested properties, as well as non-infested ones, that people can become aware of them and what they cause humans to suffer. These and significant other measures may be undertaken as part of an over-all campaign to totally rid these critters from our cities. Consider this, in Denver, many restaraunts and other businesses are regularly closed by the government owing to some sort of an infestation, be it rats, bats, roaches or unsanitary conditions; but residential rental properties seem to avoid these closures. I ask myself, is the local code enforcement agency siding with owners and management companies, sympathising with their expenses for professional extermination companies, over the sufferings of hundreds and hundreds of individuals and families, including children. ARE THE BED BUGS HERE TO STAY! Let them tell it, hell yes! It is the blood of humans sacrificed that will ultimately discern how long they shall remain amongst us. The only people suffering from this massive infestation, city wide, are the residents, their visitors, and the entire neighborhood around any given infested property. A system of identifying the origins of massive infestations needs to implemented, followed by a system of tracking their movements via human beings, given that they don't fly, they don't jump, say, like grasshoppers or some spiders, and they don't move fast. Personally, I believe that until people begin to accept that they are a major problem for this community, and they dismiss the cost factor, we can move towards eradicating them. Government sees these infestations as "job creating" opportunities, which translates into votes for them come time for reelection. If government mandates certain legislation ... professional extermination companies will complain about a lull in the industry, lay offs and let goes. property owners and large property management companies bitch about the cost factor of ridding their buildings of these pest, and both ignore the suffering inflicted upon the unsuspecting tenants. Many tenants rent fruniture and, once done, they return the furniture, only for it to be rented out to others. An infested piece of furniture, say, from the far east side of town, ends up on the far west side of town, in a property never before having had a bed bug infestation problem. I work for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, as a "mover." In this capacity I simply load and unload clients belongings into or out of their residence, or storage unit. We will not, as a matter of policy, move clients into buildings known to have an infestation, nor will we allow for them to move their furniture and other items from a site that has been determined to have an infestation. They must get rid of their property, and we will get them some more stuff. The properties that CCH owns outright are regularly inspected for cleanliness, which includes any bed bugs and cockroaches and, if a tenant shows repeated non-compliance with directives to marginalize their existence, that tenant is ultimately evicted, for the betterment and benefit of the remaining and future tenants. I believe that the most damaging thing about all of this infestation issue is a lack of serious attitudenal commitment by both government and the private rental sector, as well as the individual renters, those who apparently don't mind living with them, sheltering and providing for them, while being consumed by them. On South Federal Blvd., many of the residents have been moving from one place to another, while staying largely within the same general area, or neighborhood, for years, often times bringing their extended famalies, friends and, guess what else, bed bugs, with them. Pin this: An otherwise homeless individual rents a motel room, after having been workingn for days, even weeks, to get the money. They eventually are hired by a large hotel, or restaraunt, or nursing home, or hospital, of school and, soon thereafter, those places begin to note the bed bugs, largely from complaints from clients. But, they don't try to determine the origins of the infestation, nor do they do anything about it I am currently living in a highrise building that has a quite serious problem with bed bugs and cock-a-roaches. I moved here during the month of November, 2010. On December 20th, 2010, they conducted a building wide extermination, involving more than one hundred single units, and, let them tell it, they did this, efficiently, within less than a few hours. I say IMPOSSIBLE!!! What you say!!?
I have read an article that the bedbugs are being brought in by foreigners who aren't as clean as they should be. Other countries are simply not as hygienic as America, and, therefore, spreading bedbugs and other filth into our country. There is not the check points anymore at our entry ports to make sure these people are not spreading diseases and germs when they enter our country.
I am a bedbug. I am small. It took me forever to read this article and even longer to type this comment. I am a humble bug, just trying to feed my very large family. I hope you understand. --Jeffrey.
Bedbugs, not surprisingly, lay eggs; the eggs are unaffected by bug spray. So, one application of bug spray is guaranteed to be ineffective in solving the problem. The exterminator must have known that, and so should the landlord. The fact that they balked at further action is substantial proof they weren't trying.
We have been suffering with bedbugs since last year and just when we think they are under control new ones surface.I am covered in scars and welts from them and we have thrown out beds changed sheets daily, washed everything in our house, had exterminators and even bought stuff ourselves that say that they are all guaranteed to work, but the other tenants in our building keep bringing stuff that people have thrown out full of bedbugs back into the complex and no one says a thing about it. So we face the dilema of moving which I really cant afford to do right now or suffering through this. We need to have this stuff picked up and burned to kill the bugs not just thrown out where someone else will pick it up and take it back in to start the process all over....
Thank you for your article. Very informative and right on in many areas. However it seems to indicate that pest control companies using chemicals are not effective and that heat is the way to go. I've come to find many nightmare stories of heat treatment including thousands of dollars of costs, call backs, and destruction of property. There are good, experienced, licensed pest control companies that know what they're doing using traditional methods for far less cost and headaches. It comes down to knowledge and execution. It's kind of like roofers popping up after a hail storm. Everyone wants to make a buck but they don't know what they're up against. Do your research. Educate yourself. Don't let someone sell you something. You'll save time, money and heartache in the process.
Some people are buying diatomacious earth for this and you can get it at Earthdog Denver.
The apt complex I lived in a couple years ago had bedbugs. Building management was very rude and denied the possibility of bedbugs, instead they placed the blame on me. I began collecting bedbugs to give "proof" to my management they were real. When Terminex came, I learned that the unit across the hall from me has had problems with bedbugs and another unit on the second floor. The Terminex employee explained the bugs were coming from other units in the building as my unit did not have an infestation. Even though bedbugs do not transmit diseases, there are other side effects such as insomnia because you're too freaked out to sleep, paranoia because everyone tells you there are no bedbugs - that its all your imagination, depression, self-esteem. Its very difficult to feel comfortable in your environment after bedbugs have moved in. They are the hunters and you are their prey.
9...10...never sleep again
I lived with Bedbugs in Lakewood. You cannot get rid of them. You have to move. They lay eggs so quickly, they can live up to a year on the walls on no food. Best advice if you must stay - get a plastic mattress "encasement" and put all four bedposts in bowls of some sort of oil. You should be able to get some sleep this way whilst finding another place to live. Way stressful. A serious problem.
I wrote a big ol' thing about this a few months ago for Unseen Denver: http://unseendenver.com/bedbug...
Heat's the only thing that works to kill these things. The story here didn't hit too hard on how EASY it is to acquire and transport these things into your homes. On the soles of your shoes, cuffs of your pants, they can even crawl into your pockets when you're sitting at the movie theater.
It may not be energy efficient, but always wash on HOT.
I havent read the whole article but they should look for bat infestation. Bats carry a bug that is essentially the same as a bedbug (unless you look at it under a microscope and see an extra red dot on its head or something like that). The bats migrate, leaving the bugs, which still seek a host. Took me a year to figure it out and once I blocked all the places the bats could get in in my house, the bugs started to subside. Hard to kill with pesticide.
denver doesnt have bed bugs, just people who are too lazy to get outta bed....hencce the name.hahahahahah
@arcforce They will move with you guarantee, doesn/t matter where you go they will be with you.
Bedbugs don't care how clean you are or where you're from. If you have blood in you they want it. The only filth here is your thinking. Bet you're a tea party type. Ever ask yourself why those checkpoints aren't there. The answer is tax cuts for the rich that you were fooled into voting for by, guess who, the rich! Bedbugs ain't the only suckers on this board.
I agree I took care of my problem with the bb's in my apt. I tell people what to do but I feel as though noone is listing to me. They also need to get a mattress cover for their box springs. From now on I will do the diatomaceous earth before moving anywhere againe.
This is exactly why you just can't yourself an 'exterminator'. Not one pest management professional who knows what they're doing would just go in and spray. You should combine a variety of treatment methods with some practical supplements, i.e. encasements, climb-ups, monitors, etc. Then there is the education component which is just as important as the treatment. Just because you can spray doesn't make you qualified, and neither does owning a heater and a dog. Check with the NPMA to find a licensed, qualified pest professional in your area.
Oh I know They should have steam cleaned all the carpets and they barely clean the apts before they let people move in.. they are definately in my opinion slum lords here in Colorado
Obviously written by an exterminator.. The heat process takes one day, no damage, Guaranteed. Period! You can spray until the end of time and still not beat some infestations. Heat 100% works. Call us at Bedbug Blasters for any info on our process!
When Americans stop thinking about problem solving techniques as being republican or democratic, then shit will get done, and done the correct way, for the benefit of all. If your heat, water and electricity went out, would you call a republican or democrat to fix it Americans are far too reliant upon politicians to fix everything that is messed up and this just isn't going to happen.

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- You can now make your Google Reader tags public and add those sites to your blog as a blogroll. Nice! I still want a "timely dozen" like Photomatt used to have. Must look at Simple Pie ..
- I'm shocked. Alkos is writing on his blog. I thought the world ended when he used colour but this? What will happen next? Oh, great photography, as usual!
- Robert's girlfriend has only a few days to go and his nerves are starting to go. Good luck with the birth! He has also posted Super Cache benchmarks. Good results!
- Any world leaders reading? If you want to justify an outrageous pay rise, talk to Ireland's Prime Minister/Taoiseach. His pay rise takes him to the top of the list of top 30 OECD countries. Well done Bertie! Now where's the health service gone?
Ireland €310,000
The US €276,000
Britain €267,500
Germany €261,500
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Arlene F. (Roeder) Slack, 85, widow of Robert L. Slack, of Ziegler Road, Pennsburg, died Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Cedar Crest.
Born in Allentown, she was the daughter of the late George and Luella (Hagenbuch) Roeder.
She was a homemaker and a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Pennsburg.
She will be sadly missed by her two sons, Edward L. Slack, of Pennsburg and Jeffrey L. Slack and wife, Donna, of Green Lane, and her four grandchildren: Stacie Lampe, Shannon Ernst, Erin Slack and Rachael Slack.
A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, September 2, 2011 at the Mann-Slonaker Funeral Home, 222 Washington Street, East Greenville. Interment will follow in St. Mark's Lutheran Cemetery, Pennsburg. Family and friends are invited to a viewing from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Share memories and offer condolences to the family at www.mannslonakerfuneralhome.com.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions may be made in her memory to St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 81 N. Main Street, Pennsburg, PA 18073.
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I personally really like this foundation, but... not on it's own. It was the first foundation I was ever able to even find that doesn't just rub off over the course of the day. In saying that, it can rub off, but only if you touch your face a lot, unlike the other 50 foundations I tried before this which melted off on their own. NOT a good look. Lol. I'm very pale, and this, being the lightest color I can find in store here, is far far too yellow and dark for my skin. I have to mix it half-in-half with Manic Panic's white liquid foundation. On top of that, it needs to be set with matte powder of some sort, because it's quite shiny on it's own. I use manic panic virgin or moonlight. It's really expensive here (in New Zealand) going for about $50 a bottle in stores, and the packaging isn't amazing either. Still my regular, still better than anything else I've used.
I have been using this product for the last month as it is oil free and thought it would be good for my oily skin. This foundation has good coverage and the colour match is also good, however this foundation is NOT good for oily skin. It smudges VERY easily, even when applying powder. Recently I wore sunglasses for a little more than an hour and a half and when I took them off, I had 4 large marks where the foundation had literally rubbed away just from my sunglasses sitting on my face. As well as this I am convinced this makes my skin more oily, by the end of the day my chin looks wet were it is so oily. Also the foundation gets everywhere, it rubs off really easily onto clothes and does not set well at all. I am really disappointed in this foundation and would definitely not recommend it to people with remotely oily skin.
I recently bought this foundation and it is really so wonderful product. It does not break out my skin. It has very dewy finish and vanilla is really amazing color for fair skin. But it does not give matte finish for long, if u have oily skin it will make ur skin shiny in 2-3 hours so always use translucent powder on it. Hope this review help u guys....
I like this foundation if I want my skin to look amazing, it covers well and it's a nice consistency. It's a little on the expensive side but the packaging is nice and sturdy. The only thing is I feel as though I can't wear this when my skin is especially dry as it just seems to cling to dry patches and makes my skin look worse. But for someone with slightly dry or normal skin it is great.
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I purchased this a few months ago, and I use it every now and then. Being the obsessed makeup junkie that I am, I'm constantly buying new products and trying new things. Overall, I like this foundation. I bought it in the shade vanilla this past winter, because in the winter months I tend to be on the pale side. This foundation does a pretty good job at providing full coverage, and it blends nicely. I also like the slight yellow undertones in it, because I feel like it kinda helps to offset the pinkish undertones that my skin carries. This foundation also has a slight luminosity to it, and very, very fine sparkly particles within. It doesn't look like you fell face first into a pool of glitter though, the particles blend nicely and basically reflect light more than anything else. In the summer months, as I begin to tan and my skin darkens a bit, I'll probably just use this to blend my undereye concealer, or I may mix it with some of my true match liquid bronzer to darken it up a bit. Overall, I would repurchase it, and I think Revlon did a pretty good job with this one. Nice packaging, too!
I have dry skin, and this formula can show the cracks and crinkles at times. It does have a luminous quality, and full coverage, so there are times that I like to wear it ... but not always. That said, I would buy it again if I can get it free with coupons, because it serves a purpose at times.
This foundation is great, but not suitable for people with oily skin (like me). I absolutely love that there's a pump, and the formula isn't too thick. I like the coverage of the foundation as well. However, I get really oily and really fast after I use this foundation. If you don't have oily skin, you should give it a try
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I do really like this product and believe it would be perfect if I didn't have such oily skin. The coverage is perfect for me and the lasting power is very good and I really like the overall finish of this foundation. The only thing that really is a downer for me is that it has very little oil control and I find myself starting to look shiny in as little as 2 hours after application, on a normal day I will have to re powder at least twice. I will repurchase this in the colder months when my skin seems to be a little less greasy. I also use it with the Revlon photoready primer.
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This foundation really matched well with my skin tone but I feel it was cakey on my face. It didn't really blend INTO my skin like I wanted it too. I also like to not look oily and by the end of the day with this foundation I was def oily.
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I love this foundation . . . if only it didnt contain shimmer. I'm so happy it has a really subtle yellow undertone, and it matches fairly well with my NC20 skintone. i like the pump it has, despenses the perfect amount of product. I apply this foundation with the Sigma F80 Kabuki, and it buffs seamlessly into my skin.
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Building Go Free Range:
Looking inward.
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I'm part of a group of people, together we are building a company called Go Free Range.
Introspection, for the good of the company.
One of the nice things about Go Free Range is the feeling being part of a group, but that requires learning about and trusting each other. We are currently sharpening our focus on what is important to us as a company, and part of this exercise was to write down our personal viewpoint and goals.
I'd like to share what I wrote down.
I want to simplify my decisions.
I want to work on one thing [Go Free Range], because I have found that I'm not very good doing multiple things.
I want to establish a brand, a cohesive identify I can believe in, tell people about, and give myself to. Other than a group of freelancers, the loose association doesn't make me happy, nor does my singular existence as a freelancer. I have trouble with the term already, I think because my normal inclination is to be drawn into chaos, I prefer to discipline myself.
I want to refresh myself regularly, I feel I've stagnated since I left my agency, I used to think I was excellent, now I think I'm coasting as mildly good.
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I want to work full time, and because of that I will afford myself a set period of sabbatical.
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I want to share what I learn with others, and document what I learn, perhaps even publish something.
I want to become a better designer, and focus on front end development. Weirdly enough I do like javascript.
I want to work with engineers, and I want to establish working practices that will explore the idea of better integrating design into the software process.
I've realised that my original idea of allowing ideas to evolve, and prefer an organic approach is actually aversion and delusion of what I perceived to be freedom.
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My wish to travel and live outside of london (I have considered NY, SF, or Japan etc) is really just aversion, and is an attempt to create a focus by removing all other distractions.
I want to practice yoga, and meditation everyday, but I feel I can fit this around a structured work day.
I want to promote education and share knowledge with younger people, as I believe this will help the web / industry that I work in.
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It seems that some tomato varieties/cultivars require light to germinate, while others require darkness. For example, I have some rootstocks for a grafting experiment (Maxifort and Beaufort) that require light. I'm trying to compile a list of which vars need light and those that don't. Any help will be appreciated. |
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Seeds require oygen, water and a sowing medium for germination, the amount of light or dark is a very variable factor. Do you have any links to share to help hone in your needs? |
Most also require warmth. I think light or darkness is an either/or factor, rather than variable. No, I have no links. |
Have never encountered one that required light - tomato seed that is - and have germinated hundreds of varieties. The only reference I could Google up on light effect on tomato germination is linked below. Dave |
Here is a link that might be useful: Tomato Seed Germination: Far Red Inhibition
The rootstock seeds I have, Maxifort and Beaufort, were bred by DeRuiter Seeds who specify that the seeds require light. I have established that this is true by burying some in the "normal" way--they did not germinate. |
It's not either or. Do you not realize that for every day there is also the night? Mother Nature has been growing tomatoes on her own for a really long time. They reseed in our gardens without our assistance and outside there is both sunlight and darkness. Tomato seeds don't need only light or only dark to germinate. |
There is a link, and it says don't put the seed flats into a dark shed. They suggest greenhouse germination, shich, btw, is a structure with glass windows that allow in daylight during the day and at night, well, unless there's a moon or they've got a light set-up and timer going, there is no light once the sun goes down. How deep did you sow your seeds? Planting seeds too deep is one of the first culprits of failed germination--they have only so much energy to sprout and get to the top of the soil to begin photosynthesis. Did you maintain soil moisure, did the flat every dry out? How long has it been since you sowed your seeds? Patience is a virtue. Some seeds can take a few weeks, not a few days to sprout. |
Here is a link that might be useful: DeRuiter Seeds Instructions
Trudi, thank you for the advice. I should explain that I am not a novice. I have a degree in biology, I am a master gardener, a garden writer, and a commercial grower, so I know what seeds generally need. Note that the DeRuiter instructions say "Rootstocks are typical light germinators, which make the light the most important factor to achieve a more equal plant." Because rootstocks are F1 hybrids, it seems likely that at least part of their parentage is also photoblastic. What I am trying to find out is which specific varieties or cultivars (in addition to rootstocks) REQUIRE light to germinate, and which do not. |
Why don't you contact the National Agricultural Library in Belstville, MD and ask one of their librarians to look for some data that can assist you in narrowing down your search, specifically ask them is there are any photoblastic tomatoes. Or, you could do the logical thing, and ask DeRuiter what they specifically mean. Years back I went through the debunking that Delphiniums need dark to germinates. It was just silly that people would cling to such an idea when they reseed outside where there is both light and dark. The crap stopped after Dodswells Delphiniums not only linked to my site but approved the method for germination. My experience is that a tomato is a tomato is a tomato, germination requirements are the same for hybrids or OPs. Tomatoes are non-photoblastic. |
Here is a link that might be useful: NAL
Gan I dont know of a list of specific varieties but there has been research done that shows some varieties have seeds with sensitive phytochromes that trigger hormonal responses (and it goes both ways some need light, some don't). I have posted this info in the past with references. It seems to come up every year. Also, there are some varieties reported that are photosensitive for flowering/vegetative states. The reference for that would be the CRC Handbook for Flowering. I do not recall the specific volume for tomato. Many wild species are photoperiodic. I suspect that more modern lines, which tend to be more genetically diverse, might show more sensitivity. This is because these lines have been bred with wild species to introduce usually disease resistance and there can be genetic material (DNA artifacts) from the wild species still present. Recent molecular work has shown that even the backcrossing method that theoretically can remove 99% of the genes after several generations is not actually the case. This could be the partial reason why the rootstocks you are using are sensitive and may be why some other lines have been shown to be sensitive - they are the result of more recent crosses with wild relatives. |
Mulio, thank you. Your last paragraph gives me a clue, because I think at least some commercial rootstock F1's were bred from "wild" relatives. This is not conclusive evidence of course, but I do notice a physical similarity (size and shape) between the rootstock seeds and those of the currant tomato, L. pimpinellifolium, which also requires (or at least germinates much better) with light than without it. |
I think those rootstocks are probably from S. habrochaites (L. hirsutum) or S. peruvianum. Selections of S. peruvianum from mountain ecotypes tend to have light sensitives and S. habrochaites flowers around the equinoxes (similar to equatorial day lengths). |
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I've posted on the plant exchange several cacti that I think are unusual; at least they're rare in my area. I have neglected them and they are not looking their best but they are very much alive. They need to go to a more appreciative home. Given more attention and more light, they should be better than new in no time.
You can see my posts with photos here: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/explant/msg031204158502.html?4 I also have Adeniums for trade here: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/explant/msg0315252814281.html?1 Hoyas for trade are here: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/explant/msg032118331543.html I am not looking for more houseplants. I don't have the patience. Instead I'd like some named daylilies or other unusual plants. See my trade list for other plants I have to trade and for my wish list. Thank you for taking the time to look. |
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If you like large trades, I would take all of your Hoya and Adeniums that are left. I have an extensive list. Check it out. Thanks! |
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