[Marxism] Forward, comrades, to "socialism"

[Matthew Russo]

The New Yorker, reporting from Fake America East on Sarah Palin, the Redneck
Welfare Queen:

For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama "Barack the
Wealth Spreader," seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She
is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism
with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax.
I*nstead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies* that lease its oil
fields[what, they don't OWN the fields?!?]. The proceeds finance the
government's activities and *enable it to issue a four-figure annual check
to every man, woman, and child in the state*. [Multiple checks per family!!]
One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that *she added an
extra twelve hundred dollars to this year's check*, bringing the per-person
total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President,
she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that
"we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's *collectively
Alaskans own the resources*. So we *share in the wealth* when the
development of these resources occurs." Perhaps there is some meaningful
distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it ("collectively," no
less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.

 :-D :-D :-D Alaska seems like a genuine "worker's paradise", and Palin
sounds more "redistributive" than Obama the pinko-commie!

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/11/03/081103taco_talk_hertzberg

I can't recall a time before in my life where all the favorite terms have
gathered so thickly in the public ether as they have now.  Forward,
comrades, to "socialism" :-D :-D :-D

Now who was that who said that about history appearing second time as a
farce?

-Matt, from Fake America West