WALL1952 ISN'T ALONE

WALL is a crackpot who posted many times on AOL that there was a Liberal/Marxist/Jihadist Axis of Evil and I didn't realize that he represents a significant number of wingnuts.

Donald Douglas of American Power (nice imperialistic title, huh?) writes:

In previous essays I've noted that Islam is a "religion of victory," and I've highlighted the alliance of socialism and Islam against the West.

Douglas has little knowledge of the history of socialist thought in the West and apparently knows nothing about Liberalism. First, Plato held that the Guardians should own no private property and suggested that communism will be widespread in the ideal city. Aristotle informs us that before Plato,

Phaleas of Chalcedon who, he says, “was the first to affirm that the citizens of a state ought to have equalpossessions,”

After Plato, Iambulus (ca. 150-50 B.C.) was one of many Greeks to describe a communist Utopia.¹ After Iambulus, we have no less than the Apostles and the earliest Christians:

Acts of the Apostles

(New Revised Standard version)

4:32 Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.

4:34 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold.

4:35 They laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.

The point I am trying to make is that socialism (or communism) has deep roots in Western Civilization.


¹Alexander and the Stoics: Part I
M. H. FischThe American Journal of Philology, Vol. 58, No. 1 (1937), pp. 59-82 Page 4.