"It seems obvious to me now - though I was slow coming to the conclusion - that the institution of private property, the dispersion of power and importance that goes with it, has been a main factor in producing that limited amount of free-and-equalness which Marx hoped to render infinite by abolishing this institution."
Max Eastman, Marxist

"What is the present family based on? On capitalism, the acquisition of private property. It exists in all of its meaning only for the bourgeoisie... and will vanish when capitalism vanishes. Are you accusing us that we want to end the exploitation by parents of their children? We confess to that crime... The bourgeois sees in his wife nothing but an instrument of production."
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.  Columnist Richard Poe pointed out the feminist movement heralding back to, and cynically symbiotically linked with, Marxist ideology.

"When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."
Bill Clinton, in a 1993 speech justifying random weapon sweeps by police acting without search warrants in public housing

"A fearful people are the easiest to govern. Their freedom and liberty can be taken away and they can be convinced to believe that it was done for their own good - to give them security. They can be convinced to give up their liberty voluntarily."
Gene E. Franchini, retired chief justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, Sept 12, 2003

“In 1896 the famous John Dewey, then at the University of Chicago, said that independent, self-reliant people were a counter-productive anachronism in the collective society of the future. In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations — not by their own individual accomplishments.”
John Taylor Gatto

“In such a world [see previous quote] people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts. Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork. He advocated that the phonics method of teaching reading be abandoned and replaced by the whole word method, not because the latter was more efficient (he admitted that it was less efficient) but because independent thinkers were produced by hard books, thinkers who cannot be socialized very easily. By socialization Dewey meant a program of social objectives administered by the best social thinkers in government.”
John Taylor Gatto

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