[Capitalism + Communism = Communitarianism]
“While governments across the world search for a new political synthesis, the theoretical debate has offered little those interested in a new framework for progressive politics. This essay presents an account of what the Third Way really means, and roots it in a communitarian vision of the good society. It argues that such societies achieve a dynamic balance between state, market and community...." Amitai Etzioni, Communitarianism: A Third Way to a Good Society
Relevant articles: Mandatory Training in Orwellian Thinking Deceit, Delusion and the Destruction of America "Service Learning" through Soviet Brainwashing Faith-Based Partnerships ban Truth and Freedom Warren's P.E.A.C.E. Plan | Reinventing the World | Communitarianism |
January 2010
Abortion Raises Questions for Health Care Reform: "...who should make the choice. The answer, they say, is: the patient and her doctor.... That stands in rather sharp tension with Democrats' communitarian approach to health care reform generally -- much of which involves directing individual choices to make things (ostensibly) better for society as a whole. As President Obama put it... Americans are 'going to have to give up paying for things that don't make them healthier.'" See Communitarianism: A Third Way to a Good Society
April 2009
Democrats Bury ‘Community Transformation’ Plans in Health Care Bill: "In the bill, the Affordable Health Choices Act, community transformation plans would be carried out using federal money and be overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC would distribute the money as well as coordinate the various state, local, and 'community' entities responsible for carrying out the plans.
"...both state and local governments are eligible for the grants, as are 'national networks of community-based organizations'.... The transformation plans must include 'activities' for all ages, beginning in public schools, which focus on eating healthy food, adequate amounts of physical activity....'
“Every time our friends on the other side start talking about community organizations, we usually think ACORN, and they do to..." See "Agenda 21: The U.N. Plan for Your "Sustainable" Community" It begins with this quote:
"...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable. A shift is necessary. which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations..." Maurice Strong , opening speech at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development
April 2009
Communism… Alive and Well? "These ideas incorporate all inclusive social engineering, whereby all ideas, lifestyles, moral or immoral behaviors have equal merit, equal status, and all doctrines of individualism are set aside in favor of a supposed collective interest. Like in the workplace, this concept requires a central power for collection and distribution of resources. A power to determine what is fair for all, collect the resources necessary to provide that equality, and distribute it accordingly.
"In the case of Communism, that central power is the government. Anyone who has ever worked in a union job can tell you, the result of this form of equality is the unlimited reduction in productivity and resources. People with low ambition and poor work habits are elevated to equal status with those who carry the lion’s share of the load. ... No communist country has ever been able to feed itself long term, ultimately collapsing under the weight of its own lack of productivity." See Current Communist Goals
These two Communist goals -- "11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind" and "28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools..." -- are already replacing Biblical hope with hope in human effort and a world government.
Goal 41-- "Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents...." -- have replaced Biblical morality with amoral education that devalues life. Here is one of the results:
Join the "Quiet Revolution": "The official federal Office of Community Oriented Policng Services (COPS) was established in 1994, authorized under the Violent Crime Act. Clinton gave it the big 'push.' Over the next several years 100,000 COPS were hired in cities and towns across America. At the same time, Community Policing was introduced in the UK, South Africa, and across the globe. (A year later the Domestic Violence Act was introduced across the world in much the same pattern, in GB and the US on the same day, and expanded on the POP philosophy). The political ideology behind community policing is called The Third Way. The Third Way is a synthesis of the right and the left that originated from Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Lynn Forrester (later de Rothschild), Michael Steinheart and Al From. ... When Clinton and Blair won, the New Democratic Movement transcended the right v left conflict and reinvented the world." See Community Oriented Policing
March 2009
Regulating the pursuit of self: [Amitai Etzioni, Communitarian guru to presidents] "In general, the social market reflects this notion of the necessity for some kind of a balance between capitalism, individualism, pursuit of self and some kind of social regulation.... Communitarianism is actually associated with.... communism in East Asia.... But we just couldn't come up with another term that would speak for community and common good. ... It's a particularly key point at the moment, because there is no philosophy that better describes Obama's position than communitarianism." See What the Communitarians Stand For
Obama's Ideological Father: "Gramsci... organized the Italian Communist party in 1921.... Since this was four years after the Russian Revolution, Gramsci assumed Italians would welcome a Bolshevik convulsion of their own. But it didn’t happen.... He found three explanations: Christianity, nationalism and charity. ...the way to set the stage for a Marxist revolution was in coming to grips with these three conditions....
"The first stratagem was the assault on Christianity by arguing religion should not inform or be employed in public discourse. Gramsci realized that if religion were confined to private worship, its hold on Italians would dissipate.... Second... Gramsci contended Italians were part of a grand global mission.... [Last], Gramsci engaged in efforts to persuade Italians that the way, the only way, to express humanitarian concern for the poor or those left behind as the detritus of capitalism is through a government that can be benevolent....
"Obama through...has suggested overtly and tacitly that religion should be a matter relegated to private worship outside the confines of public life.... [T]hrough his proposal to deny tax deductions for charitable gifts, government is being converted into the only public charity. Moreover, the transfer of wealth in the stimulus package and the increased tax burden on the most productive element of society will inevitably decrease incentives and expand the size and influence of government....
"The progeny of Gramsci are alive and well and now reside in the White House. They believe in big government, one worldism, distrust of religion.... Our leaders may not identify themselves as Gramscians and may even mock the designation, but make no mistake: Gramsci’s DNA is in their bloodstream." See From Marx to Lenin, Gramsci, Alinsky & Obama
February 2009
The New Global Civility, Part 2: Manifestos, Declarations and Covenants: "Be prepared for an onslaught of global 'common ground' and global 'civility' documents in the days to come. These carefully-worded manifestos always cite pressing crises....
"These are well-funded groups that cover the entire political spectrum from Left to Right, and play out a well-orchestrated dialectic dance. The ideology behind this, however, is unified – at its core this is raw, unadulterated Communitarianism with all of its corresponding beliefs."
See Reinventing the WorldObama's Faith-Based Partnerships Ban Truth & Freedom: "Obama's 'faith-based partnerships' are not based on faith in our God! The phrase is designed to deceive Americans, eradicate 'divisive' truths, replace Christian ministries with secular community service, and silence the gospel among those who most need it."
Ban Truth - Reap TyrannyJanuary 2009
The New Global Civility: "...the old polarizing political debates are destined to subside when the new era of global civility takes over. Existentially one will be permitted to hold their own beliefs, but beliefs are not to become manifest in the public square unless they fit the prefabricated criteria of 'tolerance,' 'justice' and 'responsibility.' And it must all be done under the banner of a mushy feel-good 'love,' accompanied by the prerequisite community service." See Glossary of Communitarian Words and the first two links HERE
March 2007
Hillary’s College Thesis Finally Revealed (from newsmax email): "The research paper examined the work of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, whom she called 'a man of exceptional charm.'... In the paper, Clinton wrote: 'Much of what Alinsky professes does not sound ‘radical.' She also opined: 'If the ideals Alinsky espouses were actualized, the result would be social revolution.' She closed the thesis by stating that she placed Alinsky in 'the pantheon of social action.'" See An Analysis of Community Oriented Policing
February 2007
The Origins of Networking: “Networks and networking are the structures and processes through which the ideas and values come alive... inspired by a vision of a peaceful yet dynamic planet, an entirely new culture is emerging in our land. It is connected by casual, ever-changing links among millions of people.... Networks are stages on which dissonance is not only tolerated but encouraged, yet consensus is a common goal.”
January 2007
Obama enters US presidential race with attack on 'smallness of politics': "'Challenging as they are, it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most,' said Mr Obama. 'It's the smallness of our politics . . . Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions.'... He is distinct from many of his competitors in that he is comfortable talking in the language of faith and religion without alienating secular Democratic activists. Born a Muslim, Mr Obama is now an ardent Christian." Is he really? See Obama, Warren, and the 'Covenant for a New Americaand the next link:
repeat Obama Asks Evangelicals To Assimilate: "Obama... told left-leaning religious leaders at the Call to Renewal’s 'Building a Covenant for a New America' conference June 28 that in order to sort through some of the 'bitter arguments' about religion in America today, evangelicals need to water down their views to fit in better with the rest of society. 'Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values,' Obama said ...'Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, as many evangelicals do,' he added. 'But in a pluralistic democracy, we have no choice.'" Not true! We do have a choice! But those who refuse to trade Biblical truth for universal values may face pressures and punishments that would have been unthinkable in our "free" nation some years ago."November 2006
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ("Appraisal of the relations of the more influential philanthropic foundations and educational institutions."): The study uncovered a lack of honesty on both sides. 'There exists an unspoken collusion... when schools, colleges and universities seek foundation support and when foundations turn to them to carry out the ambitious agendas they develop,' say Ray Bacchetti and Thomas Ehrlich, who directed the Carnegie study and are editors of a new book that seeks to find innovative ways for education and foundations to work together.... Support for the project was provided by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Lumina Foundation for Education, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.... Reconnecting Education and Foundations: Turning Good Intentions Into Educational Capital is a joint publication of Carnegie and Jossey-Bass." The latter publishes Peter Drucker information and many Christian Leadership" books. See Small Groups and the Dialectic Process and Warren's P.E.A.C.E. Plan and UN Goals - Part 2
October 2006
Harvard study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity: "Robert Putnam, one of the world's most influential political scientists... shows that the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust anyone - from their next-door neighbour to the mayor. ... [Harvard] Prof Putnam stressed... that trends 'have been socially constructed, and can be socially reconstructed'. ... Prof Putnam said: 'What we shouldn't do is to say that they [immigrants] should be more like us. We should construct a new us.'" See Re-inventing the World
September 2006
Carnegie Council: Darwin's Cathedral: "In 1914, Andrew Carnegie gathered a group of religious leaders, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish to discuss 'How Religion can be made to function for Peace.' The group called itself 'The Church Peace Union.' He endowed the group with two million dollars....
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[F]rom 1962 to 1986 Carnegie's foundation was known as The Council on Religion and International Affairs. And then in 1986 religion was taken out of the title altogether, and Carnegie's Church Peace Union became what it is today, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs... Religious and political leaders may dream of a time, says Wilson, when religions will encourage a sense of our common humanity, but history and contemporary events seem to be proving to us that such dreams ignore the divisive social forces that substantiate religions." See also Real Conspiracies - Past and Present
The next link takes you to the Council on Foreign Relations, which -- together with similar councils in England, Mexico and other nations -- has been guiding global policy for almost a century. See Real Conspiracies -- Past and Present
Bush, via dalla pazza Europa: "Until the last few weeks, the communitarian agenda was the provenance of the Democrats. A host of mostly liberal scholars, with the help of the Clinton Administration, has been seeking to reverse the decline of civic engagement in the United States. The restoration of a communal spirit and the nurturing of a new civic responsibility, they have been arguing, are central to social cohesion and the effective functioning of liberal democracy. ...
He is also adding religion to the equation, presuming that faith-based institutions offer the best way to rebuild social capital. Here, Bush is breaking with many communitarians, but at the same time recovering the link between religion and community that existed during the Republic’s early years."
With the government rules on "tolerance" that follow faith-based partnerships, it fits right into communitarianism. See Reinventing the World
August 2006
George W. Bush Executive Order 13397 - Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security With Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives: "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to help the Federal Government coordinate a national effort to expand opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations and to strengthen their capacity to better meet America's social and community needs, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment of a Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the Department of Homeland Security. ...
"Sec. 2. Purpose of Center. The purpose of the Center shall be to coordinate agency efforts to eliminate regulatory, contracting, and other programmatic obstacles to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the provision of social and community services."
That may sound good, but the federal government will still control and assess what churches and faith-based partners can say and do. It needs servers, but its servers must now conform to new global guidelines for unbiblical tolerance and respect for all kinds of "diversity." See Faith-Based Compromise and Warren's P.E.A.C.E. Plan - Whom do you serve? and the next link:
Purpose-Driven Church. The purpose-driven Rick Warren: "Nobody has solved these five problems because [the solution needs] a three-legged stool. For the stability of a nation, you must have strong healthy government, strong healthy businesses, and strong healthy churches. ... So I’m going from country to country teaching business its role, teaching church its role, and teaching government leaders their role—you’ve got to work together! We cannot solve the problem in your country or in the world if we won’t work together."
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his three legged Communitarian "partnership" is the new global management system. Guess which partner would be in control. See Re-inventing the World and Equipping Leaders to 'Lead like Jesus'?
Kidtrax "is the leading facility and membership management tool for enhancing the productivity and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations world-wide. Providing an easy-to-use web-based application, KidTrax can simplify your membership management and help you show greater impact within your community. Used in over 3,500 locations world-wide, KidTrax has been assisting youth-serving organizations to manage their constituents and to measure their outcomes for over a decade.... KidTrax makes it easy to track virtually any information you require for your members from basic demographics, such as birth date, sex and ethnicity, to more targeted types of data like participation in government assistance programs, jersey sizes, and non-insured status." See The Pizza Choice Game
July 2006
How Schools Are Designed & Built: "Everyone now accepts the notion that schools can and should be 'centers of community.'... We now expect schools to do a great deal more to knit together communities, generations, and the incredible diversity that cities have....
"Joint use has occurred where folks have engaged with education and understand the idea that the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.... We need to rethink education and decide whether we're being responsive to new models...."
Since the "partnerships" in this evolving system are usually hierarchical, they may look like "local control" through local partnerships, but in reality the flow of money forces compliance with state, federal and international standards and policies. See Molding Human Resources for the Global Workforce and the first link here.
From the current G8 Summit - Education for Innovative Societies in the 21st century: "We will aim to maximize the human and social capital of all people.... Successful social cohesion policies, including education for democratic citizenship, will help to combat intolerance and discrimination." See UNESCO's Declaration on Tolerance
Lewis Builds Social Infrastructure Into Master Planned Communities: "...many people seek out communities with a strong social infrastructure that gives them a sense of pride and engagement in their community.... The third thing we try to do involves partnerships and programs. We try to work with the cities and the nonprofits, such as YMCAs or school districts, to determine what programs we can bring to our residents to help them live healthier lifestyles....
"...schools need to be the center of the community. Schools are not just for families with children. Schools are clearly the best place to make a difference for those families, but joint-use gyms, community centers, and libraries can benefit everybody in the community. So all of our planning efforts start with the school...."
The larger vision behind the nice-sounding plans has to do with molding and managing a new kind of society. See Re-inventing the World & The Habitat II Agenda
June 2006
Foundation Imperialism: "...these foundations are promoting a form of Western imperialism that more closely reflects the values, goals and agendas of the United Nations, especially the UN Millennium Development Goals. Ground zero for the world's leading philanthropic efforts happens to be the continent of Africa. It is here where Bill Gates, Rick Warren, Ted Turner, Bono, Brad Pitt, the United Nations and an incredible array of multi-national corporations, think tanks, philanthropic groups, agencies, mission groups, churches, etc. have all focused their attention. The main public priority is global health issues, but underneath lurks all sorts of other agendas."
April 2006
Communitarianism - A three-level con job: "It combines every opposite theory in the history of the world. It's a projected vision for a new global order by the year 2020.... The communitarian solution is the ultimate synthesis in the 1812 Hegelian dialectic.... Political communitarianism was introduced to the world as The Third Way in the 1990s." See Solidarity and Re-inventing the World
January 2006
Cafta, the EU & Communitarian law: "CAFTA, like most international trade agreements, is based entirely in the supremacy of communitarian law. This isn't Bush and Clinton quietly slipping in communitarian programs like Local Agenda 21 that bury communitarian laws deep inside hefty grants and incentives. The U.S. Congress has officially denounced their own Constitution as Supreme Law. When the United States Congress approved CAFTA they endorsed a regional trade agreement that places U.S. Constitutional Law below Communitarian Law.... CAFTA officials openly discuss using the EU as their model for communitarian case law." See Social Change and Communitarian Systems
November 2005
Indian faith based organisations commit co-operation for development: "Over twenty organizations representing different faiths - including Art of Living, Brahmakumaris, Ramakrishna Mission... World Vision India, Bharat Sokagakkai, Bahai National Spiritual Assembly, and UNESCO Parza and the World Interfaith forum - participated in an inter-faith connectedness on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).... OneWorld is convinced that the Faith Based Communities of Practice do have vital contributions to make on each MDG and they look forward to facilitating partnerships and initiatives that will enhance and support them." SeeWarren's P.E.A.C.E. Plan & UN Millennium Goals (1): The Emerging Global Church
October 2005
What the Communitarians Stand For: "With the demise of true socialism as a viable intellectual force, communitarianism is now the most active philosophical opposition to libertarianism. Communitarianism is usually presented in a vague terms, but it is probably best understood as a mild form of collectivism or 'democratic socialism.'"
April 2005
Catchword For Bush Ideology; 'Communitarianism' Finds Favor: "His actions have less to do with the left vs. right, they say, than with his embrace of many of the ideas contained in the movement known as 'communitarianism,' which places the importance of society ahead of the unfettered rights of the individual.
"'This is the ultimate Third Way,' said Don Eberly, an adviser in the Bush White House, using a favorite phrase of President Bill Clinton.... This is a new way to rethink social policy: a major reigniting of interest in the social sector.'
"'Communitarianism,' or 'civil society' thinking (the two have similar meanings) has many interpretations, but at its center is a notion that years of celebrating individual freedom have weakened the bonds of community and that the rights of the individual must be balanced against the interests of society as a whole....
"'We need to connect with one another. We've got to move a little more in the direction of community in the balance between community and the individual,' said Robert D. Putnam of Harvard University, a leading communitarian thinker. ...
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Bush's inaugural address, said George Washington University professor Amitai Etzioni, a communitarian thinker, 'was a communitarian text,' full of words like 'civility,' 'responsibility' and 'community.'" See Social Change and Communitarian Systems
March 2005
Blair shuns US religion politics: "Mr Blair was speaking to church leaders, other faith representatives and community activists in London about his vision for the role of faith in the UK.... Blair was asked about reports that Alastair Campbell had once told an interviewer who asked about Mr Blair's faith: 'I'm sorry, we don't do God.'...
"Mr Blair said faith was very important on a personal level but could quickly become misinterpreted. 'I don't want to end up with an American-style type of politics with us all going out there and beating our chests about our faith'.... He said churches made a 'visible, tangible difference'
for the better in society. 'I would like to see you play a bigger, not a lesser, role in the future...."Mr Blair said he wanted to 'recast' the 1945 welfare state for the modern age. But governments could only do things in partnership with others, including faith groups who were helping the 'millions' of young people who failed to fulfill their potential. He also praised churches for being at the forefront of attempts to fight world poverty and injustice." See
Social Change and Communitarian Systems
February 2005
revious links and excerpts on this topic: Communitarianism (2002-2004)The Ward Churchill money trail: "To the casual observer, now-infamous University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill—who labeled 9/11 victims 'little Eichmanns'—would seem little more than an unfortunate speck on the fringe of the far left. ...
"Churchill adapted his essay into a book, 'On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,' which earned honorable mention for a human rights award from the Gustavus Myers Center in Boston...
"...the Myers Center is anything but fringe. Listed on its website as 'sponsors' are mainstream liberal organizations such as the NAACP, the Urban League.... The top funders of the Myers Center’s sponsors, and the amounts they gave in total since 2000, are: ... almost $5 million from Lilly Endowment, which was founded by heirs of the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune. Though not typically known as a left-wing foundation, it has given, for example, more than $700,000 to Planned Parenthood." See Social Change and Communitarian Systems
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