Dr. Ben Carson lists 7 ways communism has won in America

Retired neurosurgeon, academic, author and politician, Dr. Ben Carson, who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021, speaks about the importance of education at the Pray Vote Stand Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 2023. | The Christian Post/Nicole Alcindor

WASHINGTON — Dr. Ben Carson warned that many of the decades-long goals of communism have come to fruition in the United States as he urged the American people to have courage and fight back against efforts to subvert the nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage.

Carson, a former neurosurgeon and presidential candidate who served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration, addressed the crowd at the Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand Summit Friday. He told the audience that troubling events in American society “have been going on for quite a while.”

During his speech, Carson read aloud a portion of the Congressional Record from Jan. 10, 1963, which included a list of “Current Communist Goals” as laid out in an excerpt of a book titled The Naked Communist. He drew particular attention to the goal to “capture one or both of the political parties [in] the United States,” lamenting that it “seems like they’ve done a good job there.” Carson’s analysis reflects the belief that communism has taken root in the Democratic Party.

Carson also highlighted how communists sought to “get control of the schools” and “use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda.” He read about how communists worked to “soften the curriculum,” “get control of teachers’ associations” and “put the party line in textbooks.” He identified another one of the goals as to “infiltrate the press, get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.”

After he outlined another one of the communists’ goals to “gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures,” he encouraged the audience to “think about that.” The Congressional Record from 1963, as shared by Carson, identifies the 32nd communist goal as being to “support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture — education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics.”

The 40th installment of the list of “Current Communist Goals” consisted of an effort to “discredit the family as an institution” and “encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.” The 41st item on the list emphasized “the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents” and “attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.”

“Does any of that stuff sound familiar?” he asked. “This is all the things that are happening in our society today,” he added, noting that “we think we won the Cold War.” Carson surmised that allies of communism “had a longer plan.”

Enterprise and Social Benefits after Communism

• Historically, enterprises were an important delivery vehicle for the administration and financing of many programmes of social protection in the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In most cases this was through systems mandated by the state. When the Central and East European countries (CEECs) began their reforms many expected enterprises to quickly eliminate the benefits they had provided to workers once freed from the encumbrance of state control. This volume, originally published in 1997, investigates the size of these benefits and the forces producing changes in them. Each chapter covers a specific country, exploring the scope, scale and change of benefits in the respective countries,and investigates their determinants. Surprisingly, they find only modest declines and even some increases in aggregate benefits, rather than rapid change. Change is more visible in the details. This volume examines social functions, like early retirement, in both established and newly privatized enterprises.
• First volume to highlight the importance of non-wage benefits in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
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• Addresses the neglected social aspect to enterprise restructuring and privatization

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• Table of Contents1. Introduction Martin Rein, Andreas Wörgötter and Barry L. FriedmanPart I. Distinctive Analytic Frameworks:2. The provision of social benefits in state-owned, privatized and private firms in Poland Saul Esrtrin, Mark E. Schaffer and I. J. Singh3. Do East European enterprises provide social protection? John S. Earle4. Wage and non-wage labour costs in the Czech Republic – the impact of fringe benefits Randall K. Filer, Ondrek Schneider and Jan Svejnar5. Firms and government in the provision of benefits in Russia Simon Commander and Richard Jackman6. What comes after enterprise-centred social protection? The case of East Germany Martin Kohli7. Enterprise social benefits and the economic transition in Hungary Martin Rein and Barry L. FriedmanPart II. Institutional Analyses:8. Fringe benefits in transition in Hungary Gaspar Fajth and Judit Lakatos9. Social security in companies: the case of the Republic of Slovenia Sonja Gavez and Marina Letonja10. Social protection in enterprises: the case-study of Albania Emira Brahja, Edmond Leka and Rubin Luniku11 Social protection in the enterprise: the case of Slovakia Jan Planovsky and Andreas Wörgötter12.The enterprise social wage in the transitional economy of Ukraine Irina Tratch and Andreas Wörgötter13. Social protection and enterprise reform: the case of China Zu Liu HuIndex.
  

  NYT Calls For “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”

  Saving the world with new tech would require ending capitalism.One For All

  Lab-grown meat could feed the world. Renewable energy could power it. Automation could save us from mind-numbing jobs.

  But only if capitalism is replaced with a form of communism that deploys these technologies to the benefit of the many. At least, that’s the argument in a new New York Times op-ed, where author Aaron Bastani makes the case for what he calls “fully automated luxury communism.”

  Techno-Optimism

  Workplace automation is a polarizing issue. Many warn that replacing employees with robots will be disastrous for the displaced workers. Others, like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say that, with the proper support systems, automating menial tasks could let people better enjoy their lives.

  The latter view mirrors Bastani’s — he argues that with a bit of imagination, people could develop technology in the near future that would help eliminate hunger, disease, and global warming. Yes, the technology would also eliminate jobs, but the right social structure would mean that people are still provided for.

  “We can see the contours of something new, a society as distinct from our own as that of the 20th century from feudalism, or urban civilization from the life of the hunter-gatherer,” Bastani wrote in the NYT. “It builds on technologies whose development has been accelerating for decades and that only now are set to undermine the key features of what we had previously taken for granted as the natural order of things.”

  READ MORE: The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism [The New York Times]

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