Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Robert Welch
There are many stages of welfarism, socialism, and collectivism in general, but communism is the ultimate state of them all, and they all lead inevitably in that direction. In this final stage, communism, you have a society in which class distinctions are greater than in any other, but where position in these classes is determined by demagogic political skill and ruthless cunning. You have a society in which all those traits which have helped to make man civilized, and which our multiple faiths have classified as virtues, are now discarded as vices — while exactly their opposites are glorified. And you have a society in which every fault of government that we have discussed … is held to be a benefit and a desirable part of the framework of life.
Source: Welch, Robert, “The Blue Book of the John Birch Society,” p. 130, 1958.
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