{"id":9551,"date":"2014-04-24T16:35:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-04-16T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:18:37","slug":"the_left_is_giddy_over_new_marxist_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/04\/24\/the_left_is_giddy_over_new_marxist_book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left is Giddy Over New Marxist Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s something that I want to spend some time on — if it takes the next two days discussing with you, and it may. There\u2019s a new book out. I became aware of this while I was out, post-op. Some French socialist, Marxist, communist economist has published a book, and the left in this country is having orgasms over it. It\u2019s the number one book on Amazon. The guy\u2019s name is Thomas Piketty. It is timed coincidentally — maybe not coincidentally — you know, the Obama Regime and the Democrats are all on this big kick of income inequality and what to do about it. And this guy\u2019s book gives them ammo.<\/p>\n


\nIt\u2019s the most outrageous set of assumptions that I have ever read. In fact, it\u2019s nothing new. It\u2019s just repackaged, but I\u2019m telling you the people on the left can barely contain themselves with their giddiness over this, and it portends grave danger for this country if any of this guy\u2019s suggestions were to ever become adopted. And Obama is on his way to trying to adopt some of them, all on the basis of getting rid of income inequality. Can somebody tell me, when has there ever been income equality, and if you can tell me when there has been income equality, can you tell me what kind of lives those people had, and what kind of country they lived in, and what kind of liberty and freedom they had.<\/p>\n

This guy is suggesting an 80% tax rate on incomes over $500,000 a year. Not to raise revenue for the government, but to eliminate those incomes. This guy\u2019s objective is to simply wipe out the wealthy. And supposedly everybody is gonna be deliriously happy after this. It is absurd. It\u2019s stupid. It\u2019s dumb. It\u2019s ignorant. It\u2019s been tried, and it is being tried in every place in the world you wouldn\u2019t want to live. And yet the left in this country and the Democrat Party and the media, they\u2019re just chomping at the bit, excited as they can be. And I want to go through some actual factual analysis of incomes in this country and wealth and census data evidence that proves that this is the land of opportunity.<\/p>\n

The top 1%\u2019s not a static group. The top 10%\u2019s not a static group. People move in and out of income groups all the time in this country. People make and lose fortunes all the time. They make a lot of money, they lose it. It\u2019s not the same 1% for 50 years. It\u2019s not the same 1% for four years. People move in and out all the time. It really is problematic what this guy is suggesting and the way it\u2019s being embraced in this country by the movers and shakers of the left is what harbingers ill will. I just want to inform you of it so that you\u2019re up to speed on it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a new book that the left has embraced. It\u2019s by a French Marxist economist named Thomas Piketty. Now, you may have heard this discussed. I first heard of this a few days ago. It\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019ve been chomping at the bit to get back here and discuss this. The reason it\u2019s being embraced is not just that it\u2019s Marxism and socialism and communism. It\u2019s embraced because it happens to coincide with Obama\u2019s big push here on income inequality. I\u2019m told he pronounces the name Piketty. Piketty, Piketty, I couldn\u2019t care less. He\u2019s a wuss. Okay, Thomas Piketty. Fine, okay, that\u2019s how he pronounces his name. We\u2019ll give him that.<\/p>\n

Obama is embracing this, and the left is embracing it because of Obama\u2019s push on income inequality, as though there\u2019s some moral sin in income inequality. There\u2019s some moral sin in capitalism, and therefore there is a moral sin in the United States of America. The United States of America is a moral sin. It\u2019s flawed deeply and morally because of the concentration of wealth in the top 1%. They are hoarding it. They are taking it from everybody. They are stealing it. They\u2019re not sharing it, not redistributing it, giving it away. They\u2019re not paying people enough and so forth.<\/p>\n

To the extent that there is any concentration of wealth taking place in this country, let me tell you where it\u2019s happening. Government. The richest counties in this country used to be in Florida, in California. They are now the suburbs of Washington, DC. Wealth is being concentrated in the hands of people who are in or associated with government. They are the 1%. This is conveniently ignored by people who thrill with delight at Piketty\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

I want to start with several analysis pieces here before I share with you my own thoughts. I want to start with a piece here by David Harsanyi, and my bad, I neglected when I printed this to make a note — he\u2019s a scholar, a think tank contributor, blogger somewhere, and I just neglected to print, make a note of where. Here\u2019s how he begins his analysis.<\/p>\n

“As I write this, Thomas Piketty?\u2019s book ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century\u2019 is #1 on Amazon. It?\u2019s been deemed an ‘important book\u2019 by a bunch of smart people. Why not? It validates many of the preconceived notions progressives have about capitalism: Inequality is growing. Mobility is shrinking. Meritocracy is dead. We all live in a sprawling zero-sum fallacy. And so on.<\/p>\n

“The book, as you probably know, has also sparked nonstop conversation in political and media circles. Though it?\u2019s best to let economists debunk Piketty?\u2019s methodology and data, it is worth pointing out that liberal pundits and writers have not only enthusiastically and unconditionally embraced a book on economics, or even a run-of-the-mill leftist polemic, but a hard-left manifesto.”<\/p>\n


\nNow, my point with starting with Mr. Harsanyi is that I think he is typical in that he is surprised at how far left the American media is today. He is surprised at how far left the Democrat Party is today. You and I are not. We know they are deeply committed Marxists. They are fascists. We see it. We\u2019re the victims of it. We\u2019re the ones they try to shut up. We\u2019re the ones who are not allowed to dissent. We are the ones, the Catherine Engelbrechts, you name it, the Tea Party, we are the ones that the powers that be on the left try to eliminate. Not converse with, not debate, none of that. We know it.<\/p>\n

The only thing that\u2019s new about the left is in the last 20 years the media has thrown off their cloak of camouflage and they are now openly acknowledging who and what they are. Oh, yeah, Harsanyi is from the Federalist.com. He says, “Now, I realize we\u2019re all supposed to accept the fact that conservatives are alone in embracing fringe –” He\u2019s being sarcastic here — “Now, I realize we?\u2019re all supposed to accept the fact that conservatives are alone in embracing fringe economic ideas. But how does a book that evokes Marx and talks about tweaking the Soviet experiment find so much love from people who consider themselves rational, evidence-driven moderates?”<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not rational evidence driven moderates, Mr. Harsanyi. They are hard-left, committed socialists. It\u2019s just a point of frustration for me. Here, grab sound bite 16. As a bit of illustration here, former Senator Bob Bennett, who was defeated by Senator Mike Lee, Utah, he went to the Kennedy School, the Kennedy library March 26th and had a panel on political reform. This is a Republican, Senator Bob Bennett. And when it was his turn to speak — this panel was on reforming, on getting along, bipartisanship, cooperation and all of that rotgut. And it\u2019s a joke. The left is not about any of that. But people like McCain and this guy Bennett fall for it (imitating McCain), “I can cross the aisle. I know how to work with the other side.” They\u2019re not interested in that. Here, just listen to the bite.<\/p>\n

BENNETT: We had 19 cosponsors, including 10 Republicans, including two members of leadership who were willing to work on a bipartisan solution because we believed that the current health care structure was impossible, terrible, bad for Americans, needed to be changed. We were frozen out of the conversation and told to go away. This was one place where I chalk it up not to anything evil. I\u2019m not Rush Limbaugh. I\u2019m not somebody who says he hopes the president will fail. I think this was an example of the president\u2019s inexperience of dealing with a Congress. He had a great opportunity and he muffed it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This guy couldn\u2019t be more wrong, and it\u2019s why he was defeated. So he says (imitating Bennett), “Obamacare, nah, the president, he had a great opportunity and muffed it. He was just inexperienced. He just didn\u2019t know how to get any Republican votes. The fact that they weren\u2019t letting us in the meetings just is inexperience.” And it\u2019s this kind of ignorance and this head in-the-sand acknowledging good intentions on the part of these people is gonna be our ruination. He has to go on here and mischaracterize what I said about hoping the president failed as evil.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not going to chalk it up to anything evil. I\u2019m not Rush Limbaugh. I\u2019m not somebody who says he hopes the president will fail.” I still wish this guy would fail, folks! I don\u2019t want anything that he\u2019s doing! I wish Obamacare hadn\u2019t happened. I wish the stimulus hadn\u2019t happened, and everybody who heard me say that knew exactly what I meant by it. They still took it as an opportunity to run with it in a totally different direction. Everybody knew what I meant by that, but they chose to mischaracterize it on purpose for their own selfish, personal political reasons, but it couldn\u2019t have been more rational. “I hope he fails.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>The Wall Street Journal wanted 400 words on — I forgot what the question was. Something about 400 words on what you hope the president — I said, “I don\u2019t need 400 words, I need four. I hope he fails<\/a>.” ‘Cause I knew what he was. This is my point. I knew who Obama was. I knew what a committed socialist was. I knew what an Alinskyite he was. I knew what he was going to do if he was not opposed. I knew what he was gonna do if he had clear smooth sailing. I knew what his intentions were. I knew what he thought of this country, I knew it.<\/p>\n

Robert Bennett should have known it. Every Republican in Washington should have known exactly what Barack Obama was. It was right out in the open for anybody to know. It was not a mystery. It didn\u2019t require deep investigation. It just required commitment to believe it. And they couldn\u2019t get past the man\u2019s skin color in order to accept the truth. They were paralyzed by that, and I don\u2019t mean to be harping on David Harsanyi<\/a> here. It\u2019s not my point, but he is like in a way Bennett here. He\u2019s shocked that modern-day Democrats are accepting a Marxist socialist economics book.<\/p>\n

He said: “It?\u2019s unlikely that Democrats would have praised a book like this 20 years ago — or even 10. Nowadays, Jack Lew — better known as the Treasury Secretary of the United States of America — takes time to chit chat with the author.” This is my point. It is very likely Democrats 20 years ago would have behind the scenes been embracing — the only thing new is that they are no longer hiding who they are. They\u2019ve always been who they are.<\/p>\n

There are reasons for why the mask of camouflage has been dropped, and I really do believe it\u2019s because of the loss of their media monopoly, which has forced them into sort of a competitive mode. They\u2019re now having to compete and they no longer get away with this phony objectivity that they always were granted. They always benefited from the assumption that they were objective. Yeah, they might have been liberal, but they were fair. They never were. They were always hard leftists. They always have been hard leftists, and now all they\u2019ve done is come forth and admit it.<\/p>\n

“How does a book that evokes Marx and talks about tweaking the Soviet experiment find so much love from people who consider themselves rational, evidence-driven moderates?” Have people not been paying attention the last seven years, or six, whatever the hell it is this guy\u2019s been in office? Have people not been paying attention to what\u2019s happening, or is it they choose not to notice it? And I\u2019m not harping on Harsanyi. Please do not anybody send him a note that I\u2019m ripping him to shreds. This is serving here as an object lesson.<\/p>\n

He goes on to say: “Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, argues that capitalism allocates resources efficiently but unfairly apportions income. And the excessive accumulation of wealth by the one percent … is not only corrupt, but an inequality that makes democracy unsustainable. And it?\u2019s going to get worse. So only a massive transfer of wealth could make our nation whole again.”<\/p>\n


\nWell, hello, this is Barack Obama. This is Saul Alinsky. This isn\u2019t anything new. I guess it is new to some people to see every day on cable news your average, ordinary guest agree with this stuff, but that\u2019s what\u2019s new. It\u2019s just new that they\u2019re admitting it. They didn\u2019t in the last 20 years go from moderate to fascist. They\u2019ve always been liberal fascists. It\u2019s why I keep harping on the importance for people learning and understanding ideology and how to associate it with people so you know what\u2019s coming. Note it Mr. Piketty is not giving his book away. He\u2019s charging $39.95 for his book. Why? Why does he need the money? Just a little side question.<\/p>\n

“Here is his thesis, boiled down: When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.”<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no data to support any such claim. I\u2019ll get to that in minute. He goes on, Piketty goes on to suggest an 80% tax rate to fix this inequality business, an 80% tax rate on incomes starting at $500,000 or one million a year. Not to raise money for education. Not to raise money for mass transit. Not to raise money for AIDS research. Not to raise money for anything. Not to increase unemployment benefits. Piketty argues for an 80% tax rate to put an end to incomes over $500,000 a year.<\/p>\n

And we have people in America today who can\u2019t believe that this is being supported by modern-day Democrats. And that\u2019s what surprises me. Do they not hear what modern-day Democrats say? Do they not know what Obamacare is? Do they not know what the outcome of Obamacare is? Do they not see where the president wants to take tax policy, do they not listen to what he says? Do they not know when the president of the United States makes a big deal about income inequality, do they not know what that means?<\/p>\n

When has income ever been equal? If you don\u2019t believe in free will and independence and liberty in a general sense, if you don\u2019t believe in those things then you will find arguments about beneficent and wise, Big Government alluring. If you\u2019re a coward; if you\u2019re afraid to strike out on your own; if you\u2019re afraid to take a risk; if you\u2019re afraid to go for it; if you\u2019d rather have the security of knowing you\u2019re gonna be taken care of and at the same time somebody who did take a risk and it pays off and they become wealthy, they\u2019re gonna be gotten even with, then Big Government\u2019s for you.<\/p>\n

But if you believe in free will — we\u2019ve got 200, 300 million people in this country and every one of us is different. There is nothing about any of us that is equal. That is what the law is to do. But there is no guarantee, there can\u2019t be a guarantee, there never was a guarantee, it\u2019s not godly or humanly possible for there to be equality of outcome.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the question, folks. How many more people must suffer under these Marxist, socialist, liberal theories before a free people like those of us in this country aggressively and permanently reject this nonsense? I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m really bothered, look, I\u2019m conflicted. I\u2019m glad people\u2019s eyes are being opened, and if this book is opening people\u2019s eyes as to just what the current left is, fine. But I\u2019m a little sad that it\u2019s taken six years. ‘Cause look what\u2019s happened in these six years. Real deep damage has been done to the underlying foundation, and I mean foundation, founding of this country.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna get you the numbers here before this program ends. You compare the suffering, the human suffering under communism, socialism, Marxism versus the human suffering under capitalism, there is no comparison whatsoever, none. The human suffering that occurs in communism and socialism knows no comparison. The suffering that occurs in capitalism can\u2019t even make a dent. Now, of course free markets create unequal results. Sorry, folks. That\u2019s what freedom does.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now back to this lamebrain Piketty from France. I\u2019m yukking it up with this guy. I\u2019m telling you, this is serious stuff because many more people than apparently a lot of people realize are eating it up and want to implement it in this country. And, folks, the reason it scares me is the last six years were not necessary. This could have been avoided. Obama could have been defeated with just a little honesty about who he was because we are not the minority in this country.<\/p>\n

We are being governed and ruled by a really small minority of people. They happen to control the media which makes them look big. They are mean, they are vicious, and they do not tolerate any dissent whatsoever. They are the modern day Marxists, fascists. From this poor guy at Mozilla, to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, I mean the list is long of people who have been silenced, intimidated, threatened in the United States of America, by other so-called Americans. Obama didn\u2019t have to win in 2008, he didn\u2019t have to win in 2012, and Hillary doesn\u2019t have to win in 2016. She\u2019s one of them. She\u2019s no different than any of the others. They\u2019re all in on this stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/map>\n

What does inequality of income mean? Has there ever been equality of income? The Pilgrims tried it. It\u2019s right there in Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims<\/a>, my first ever children\u2019s book. Didn\u2019t work. True story. The actual story of the first Thanksgiving is socialism\u2019s failure and William Bradford and the gang\u2019s thanks to God for seeing the light.<\/p>\n

They tried income equality. Everybody got the same. The same amount of land. Everybody got the same income. No matter who worked harder, everybody got the same. They thought that would be fair. They just arrived in a new place, what could be fairer? Everybody ends up with the same thing. Guess what? The slackers slacked. The lazy lazed and they lived off the hard work of the industrious. And the industrious continued to be industrious because it was their nature.<\/p>\n

The lazy continued to be lazy \u2019cause it was their nature. And finally unrest started to happen and the colony wasn\u2019t gonna hold together. So they had to change it up. They had to recognize that people were going to only get a portion of what they produced. What they produced was theirs, and that made everybody industrious, voila. It\u2019s right there in William Bradford\u2019s journal. The lesson is that old, but this lesson is biblical. The failure of socialism is biblical. Socialism is not charity. Socialism is not kindness. It\u2019s not compassion. It\u2019s the exact opposite. The Democrat Party is not kindness, it\u2019s not compassion. The Democrat Party is punitive.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party has an enemies list and it\u2019s anybody who succeeds who is not a member of the clan. What does equality of income mean? How would you do it? Would you base it on family size? Would you base it on hours worked? Would you base it on what somebody supposedly needs? Would you base income equality on society? I mean, if you\u2019re gonna have income equality, everybody\u2019s gonna have enough income to do what? To buy what? Everybody\u2019s gonna be able to own what? Who\u2019s gonna decide this? The places and the countries that have tried this nobody owns anything except the leaders. There is no property. Nobody\u2019s allowed to own property.<\/p>\n

<\/a>So that question\u2019s dealt with right off the bat. Nobody\u2019s gonna have to enough to own anything and nobody\u2019s gonna be permitted to own anything. The state is gonna own everything. And if you stay in good graces with the state then you\u2019ll be okay as far as okay gets you. But if you\u2019re not, you\u2019re an enemy of the state, and that\u2019s what we are today. Anybody that\u2019s not an Obamaite is an enemy of the state. Anybody that\u2019s not all-in with Eric Holder is an enemy of the state. Talk to Catherine Engelbrecht, talk to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, talk to Brendan Eich<\/a>, Condoleezza Rice, Dropbox<\/a>. They tried to get her forced out of Dropbox, named her to the board of directors. She\u2019s an enemy of the state in the United States of America.<\/p>\n

And here comes this idiot Piketty with his book and these clowns are all addressing it, embracing it. Who\u2019s gonna make these determinations of who gets what? Who\u2019s gonna make these determinations of what we all need to be equal? The same people who brought us Obamacare? The same people who run the DMV? The same people running the climate change movement? Who are these people gonna be? The people that can routinely get a CEO fired for giving a thousand dollars to a proposition that says marriage is that between a man and a woman? Can you imagine believing that marriage is between a man and a woman is enough to get you exiled in the United States of America today? But it is?<\/p>\n


\nMy point is, this is not new. The sentiment is not new. The desire is not new. The bravery is new because there\u2019s no opposition to it because everybody\u2019s scared to death to oppose it. There are graves, there are gulags, there are homeless shelters filled with human beings who have suffered under these experiments, socialism and communism. In North Korea, in China, in Cuba, it\u2019s all over the world. That\u2019s what is exceptional about the United States of America and that\u2019s what American exceptionalism is. We are the exception to living the way most people have since the beginning of time.<\/p>\n

Liberty and freedom are taken for granted by people who are born to it, and, as such, they\u2019re the last to recognize it being encroached upon. But it is in the process of happening. Daily people are losing liberty. Daily people are losing freedom. Daily more and more people are afraid to tell you what they really think about something. We are being ruled, we are being governed by a genuine minority. The latest polling data on the Keystone pipeline, 61, 62% want it. The left is not the majority in this country. But they\u2019ve made themselves look like they are with the help of the media, who are perhaps the leaders by design in this thing.<\/p>\n

I gotta take one final time-out here. Well, I\u2019ve got to take another break, but I want to go through some stats about the wide range of income and who makes it and who loses it in this country. There is not a constant top 1%. It\u2019s not the same people from birth to death. There\u2019s not a 1% that you can never become a member of. There\u2019s not a top 10% that you can never — wait \u2019til you hear these stats, based on census data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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