{"id":14883,"date":"2018-03-22T23:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T04:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14883"},"modified":"2018-03-22T23:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T04:10:02","slug":"as-the-a-religious-become-religious-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/22\/as-the-a-religious-become-religious-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"As The A-Religious Become Religious, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader reacts on Ana Stankovic&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/21\/as-the-a-religious-become-religious\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comments<\/a> on Marxism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">I think Ana doth protesteth too much. It&#8217;s hard to tell exactly what she&#8217;s trying to say, other than to slam Marx, apparently for criticizing the Slavs (of which she is one, so it&#8217;s personal). Her writing is clever and colorful, but her organization and continuity suck the sense out of her essay.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it was the criticism, or the occupation by Soviet forces (if in spirit only), which motivates her criticisms. But I do agree that it wasn&#8217;t entirely easy to follow her argument, although I tend to agree with her initial statements. Apologists for Marx do not appear to understand that designing new government systems requires thinking about the ruthless, ethics-free power-seekers, and how to keep them out &#8211; or at least under control. The purges and assassinations that tended to mark the march up the ladder of numerous Soviet personalities are symptoms of a maladroit system.<\/p>\n<p>The saddest thing is that it might still have been better than the preceding monarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader reacts on Ana Stankovic&#8217;s comments on Marxism: I think Ana doth protesteth too much. It&#8217;s hard to tell exactly what she&#8217;s trying to say, other than to slam Marx, apparently for criticizing the Slavs (of which she is one, so it&#8217;s personal). Her writing is clever and colorful, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/22\/as-the-a-religious-become-religious-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14884,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883\/revisions\/14884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}