How to Become A Communist September 8, 2009
Posted by Dwight Furrow in Current Events, Dwight Furrow's Posts, politics.Tags: Max Weber, Obama’s address to school children
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On Tuesday, Obama intends to broadcast a message to the nation’s schoolchildren stressing the importance of hard work and staying in school.
Conservatives are apoplectic about this:
Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer released a statement this week accusing Obama of using taxpayer money to “indoctrinate” children.
“As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology,” Greer said.
I have read my Max Weber and was under the impression that an ethic stressing hard work was the unpinning of capitalism.
So the Protestant ethic leads to socialism? Who knew?
It’s clear to me that a sizable portion of the Republican Party has demonized Obama and an element of that demonization is racial.