The Berlin Wall did not come down on its own because of the laws of entropy. Something had to give it a kick. Some crisis further to the East…

Any paradigm can collapse from its own internal contradictions. The problem with Communism and its Marxist variants is that they rest on a faith, not anything scientific. Of course any faith can reach a moment of disillusionment and this did in fact happen behind the Iron Curtain.

But, in the West, where Marxism has been rather successfully transplanted that moment or period of disillusionment has not happened yet. While yours truly is one of those Baby Boomers who did in fact undergo such disillusionment over twenty years ago, there are two generations of Americans behind us who are nowhere near that moment of disillusionment with socialism. They’re just getting started with their love affair with it. What’s worse is that many do not even know what it is they are enthralled with. Now, that Felsen fellow who is Obonga’s official weblog site manager is an open Communist (a Harvard graduate no less)and he knows the ideological framework. He knows where the ideas come from and where the bodies are buried. But the vast majority of the kiddies do not have the slightest clue – even if they are grads of elite universities – where those visions they’ve latched on to come from. I know. I’ve asked some of them. And when I tell them it’s Marxism they tell me I’m some old fart paranoid stuck in the Cold War mentality. It’s a New Age they tell me. Everything is new. A few say that they want to give Marxism a try because in its purity it’s never been tried before. Only some corruption of it.

So, we are not there yet. Not by a long shot.