Andy Semple: Fun Stuff

Birds of a feather flock together

Posted by Andy's RANT! on 14 April 2013 at 01:56 PM in ALP, Fun Stuff, Humour | Permalink | Comments (0)

It’s too late!!!

Posted by Andy's RANT! on 14 April 2013 at 01:31 PM in ALP, Fun Stuff, Humour | Permalink | Comments (0)

Is Wayne Swan channelling Karl Marx? You decide

THE federal government has been accused of engaging class war rhetoric and stirring up divisions in society with its policies targeting big business and wealthier Australians.

But is this really fair?

To find out The Daily Telegraph's new star reporter Information Officer 1 has selected comments from Treasurer Wayne Swan and excerpts from the 1848 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

See if you can tell which is which!

1 "I fear our country's extraordinary success has never been in more jeopardy than right now because of the rising power of vested interests. This poison has infected our politics and is seeping into our economy. Though these vested interests have not yet prevailed, every day their demands get louder."

2 "Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."

3 "It's a society where the very rich feel entitled to buy and sell political parties and media interests to misrepresent their personal interests as the national interest. That's what an entitlement society really is: an entitlement to special treatment for the very people who don't need it."

4 "The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors', and has left no other nexus between people than naked self-interest, than callous 'cash payment'."

5 "The rising influence of vested interests is threatening our country's egalitarian social contract."

6 "The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones."

7 "We must fight a pitched battle against the influence of vested interests that seek to shape public policy to their own excessive benefit and at the expense of our middle-class society."

8 "Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. Proletarians of all countries, unite!"