Rules of Engagement - Part VI

Be like Diane the Huntress and go looking for the larder where your opponents have secreted away some choice meats. When you find the hiding place, raid the entire stash. Tear into the meat like there is no tomorrow. Bury the bones deep or throw them far away. Do not feel even an ounce of pity that you leave your opponents with nothing to chew on. A hungry opponent can be easily squashed like a drunken fly.

P. J. Proudhon was born in January 1809 in France. He is another god being worshipped by the lefties. Although, he was not a believer in the kind of Utopia that most leftists dream about, Proudhon, however, firmly believed that wealth was to be shared by the society at large regardless of who accumulated it, and it was to be shared by whatever means possible. He considered himself a "moderate" anarchist. Don't laugh.

 From the 1000s of web pages devoted to this nut ball, I have taken some quotes of his for your disgust and yuck up:
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 ...dissolve, submerge, and cause to disappear the political or governmental system in the economic system, by reducing, simplifying, decentralizing and suppressing, one after another, all the wheels of this giant machine... the State.
We should not put forward revolutionary action as a means of social reform because that pretended means would simply be an appeal to force, or arbitrariness, in brief a contradiction. I myself put the problem this way; to bring about the return to society by an economic combination, of the wealth drawn from society... 
 We desire a peaceful revolution... you should make use of the very institutions which we charge you to abolish... in such a way that the new society may appear as the spontaneous, natural and necessary development of the old and that the revolution, while abrogating the old order, should nevertheless be derived from it... 

This guy believed that if you were an owner of a property, be it land or something else as tangible, then you were a thief. Sounds maddish? Of course, it does. But, this nutcase is someone who is looked up to by the leftosphere as they consider him to be a philosopher of high standing.

This fruitcake was a fast buddy of Karl Marx, until they fell out over some silly nonsense like little girls, as lefty philosophers in those days and now, usually do. Here's a quote from him about his belief that "Property is Theft". Judge for yourself whether we are dealing here with a sane person or someone who needs to be in a strait-jacket pronto and on his way to the nearest loony bin.

 "If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder!, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required . . . Why, then, to this other question: What is property? may I not likewise answer, It is robbery!, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?" 

 When Karl Marx accused him of stealing the "property is theft" notion from another philosopher and that the term was confusing, this madcap made it even worse with this explanation:

 "In writing this memoir against property, I bring against universal society an action petitoire [a legal claim to title]: I prove that those who do not possess to-day are proprietors by the same title as those who do possess; but, instead of inferring therefrom that property should be shared by all, I demand, in the name of general security, its entire abolition." 


The land of the leftists' gods is full of mad hatters. I hope to bring you more peeps into the leftist madness as we go along. Now for the usual feel nice quote. "Men in the game are blind, men outside see clearly." (Chinese proverb)