The
Left is just like the Millerites, the Seventh Day Adventists, the
Shakers, the Zealots, Diggers, Levellers, and the Jehovah's
Witnesses.
Some
of my readers wish I would stick only to business. But I came
to have a unique overview of business (a) because I consulted with
several thousand businesses and (b) because I spent nine years
producing the national public radio program Social Thought. The
two go together.
My
interest in the structure of institutions (social thought) applies to
many areas.
Many
friends ask me why the Left hasn't died out; the Leftist ideology was
tested and failed in the 20th Century. Nothing could be more
obvious than the recent G8 conference where our Leftist ideological
American president told the leaders of other industrial nations to
follow failed Keynesian
policy and increase deficit spending.... and 20 other leaders ignored
him.
The
sorry fact is that movements have momentum. I gave examples, in the first sentence,
of the various millenarian movements that predicted the end of the
earth, and when it didn't happen they survived for decades or in many
cases, for a few centuries after their ideology had failed.
The
Left has spent a century trying to show that citizens can be changed
by appropriate government policy. Having killed a few hundred
million people, they have still failed.
Like the many failed millenarian religions, the Left can survive for a century on a failed ideology.
Every
time somebody tries to hand you a Watchtower remember the Left... we
are stuck with their blind ideology for several more generations.