While two in five Canadians overall subscribe to the idea of socialism—with that number even higher for younger Canadians—few are willing to pay for the tax increases required to finance such a system, says a study by the Fraser Institute.
Among 1,006 Canadians aged 18–34 surveyed, 46 percent of respondents picked socialism when asked “What is the ideal economic system.” The number drops to 43 percent among respondents aged 35–54, and to 38 percent among those over 55.
A new Fraser Institute poll found 42% of Canadians — and as many as 50% in the 18-24 age range — are in favour of socialism but few want to foot the bill for it.
The study, done by Leger for the Institute in the fall of 2022, also found socialism support drops to 38% among Canadians over the age of 55.
If we judge a political system purely on its promises rather than its actual consequences, why not give feudalism another shot?
The lines of ink of the Communist Manifesto, published 175 years ago today, have led to oceans of blood. Since Karl Marx issued his promise that workers who embrace communism “have nothing to lose but their chains,” regimes inspired by his philosophy have afflicted hundreds of millions of people — including the workers who are supposed to benefit from communism — with things worse than chains: gulags, famines, and firing squads.
People’s commission report on 2022 convoy protest describes ‘human rights’ failure by officials
Facing an occupation of their neighbourhoods in January and February 2022, the people of downtown Ottawa were abandoned by police and all three levels of government, an abdication of responsibility that was nothing less than a human rights failure.
Activists are holding rallies across the country to oppose Canada’s plan to buy several new fighter jets.
In Montreal, a demonstration took place downtown, where chants of “no new fighter jets,” could be heard outside of the offices of Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.
Might just be a coincidence, but in 2021 World Beyond War led a campaign against "The Arrest of Meng Wanzhou & the New Cold War on #China" https://t.co/ylb4rCT9NK
— Greg Renouf 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 (@grenouf) January 7, 2023
Alas, its terrible descendants still survive in Asia.
Acentury ago, on December 30, 1922, Russia signed treaties with Ukraine, Byelorussia (now Belarus), and Transcaucasia (combining Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) to form the Soviet Union. The latter continued to expand, reaching its apogee after swallowing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as part of Moscow’s booty from the Hitler-Stalin pact.
Of course, the 1922 treaty was not really the start of the USSR, but rather, the end of the beginning.
Fifty Christmasses ago a 15-year-old boy and his father slipped into the nerve centre of the West German government, dispensing presents of wine and cognac to the doorkeeper and the caretaker.
In the darkness they walked together through the half-deserted corridors, stopping to look in on the cabinet room and the few senior officials who were still at their desks on Christmas Eve. It was one of their last happy shared memories.
Sixteen months later the father, Günter Guillaume — the right-hand man to Willy Brandt, the country’s hugely charismatic chancellor — was arrested and convicted of spying for East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi.
“Liberalism built its political order on private property, consecrating it as a natural right, while Communism emerged as liberalism’s political rival and historic arch-enemy.”
Thus it is that land ownership is a defining factor in systems of governance. The socialization of property in 20th century communist regimes such as Soviet Union, China, and Cuba was fundamental in their transition to authoritarianism.
Professor Susan Michie, Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, will chair the WHO’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health.
The UCL academic, who is a frequent contributor on the BBC and ITV, has been a member of the Communist Party of Britain for more than 40 years.
She made headlines last year after she advocated for stringent Covid-19 restrictions on life in the UK and “maximum suppression” of the virus around the world, including saying that face masks and social distancing measures should continue “forever”.
SOFIA — At the end of I See Red People, a 2018 documentary that follows a young Bulgarian woman’s search into her family’s communist past, the mother of the filmmaker reprimands her daughter: “My truth,” she says, “does not belong to you.”
By that point, relations between director Bojina Panayotova and her mother, Milena Makarius, are at rock bottom following the discovery, over the course of filming, that her mother was listed in the state archives as a collaborator of the communist-era secret police.
A prominent pro-abortion activist group downplaying its association with the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) shares significant infrastructure and leadership with the radical outfit’s other offshoot groups, a Daily Caller analysis has found.
Although RiseUp4AbortionRights seems like most other pro-abortion groups at first glance, other pro-abortion activists released a statement in late June asserting that RiseUp is a front for a “pyramid scheme” and cult of personality. The Daily Caller’s examination of the organization’s leaders, online presence, and fundraising platforms lend credence to the claim that RiseUp is an offshoot front group for the RCP.
The deadliest Marxist guerrilla force is fighting the biggest socialist regime.
“Socialism, this is the path to save the planet, I don’t have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell,” Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez told the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference.
Rhetoric like that won the socialist dictator the admiration of socialists from Barack Obama to Noam Chomsky. But the dirty little secret of the socialist revolution in Venezuela was that it was a front for a massive drug smuggling operation. Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, gutted Venezuela’s rich oil resources and turned the country into a socialist drug cartel.
Save the world from free speech. Before it’s too late.
If you blinked you might have missed the momentous occasion of the release of the second part of the UN IPCC’s sixth assessment report of how we’re all going to die unless we all board jets and attend global warming conferences. Or give lots of money to those officials who do it for us.
Since no one reads these things anyway, by the time the fourteenth chapter of the second part of the sixth assessment rolled around, everyone was drunk and decided to take shots at conservatives.
Should EVERYONE take this quiz? No. For instance, if you were angered at the Canadian truckers having fun in hot tubs, enjoying pig roasts, and playing hockey in what is possibly the world’s most peaceful protest, but cheered on Antifa and BLM as they shot 12 cops and then shot 12 more, and caused over $1 billion in damage, well, you should save time and start learning the Chinese alphabet.
