Sparks Commentary

“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer t...

Note: Some photos in this particular blog post may be anachronistic. They are intended only to enhance the humor, and are not intended to re...

“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. H...

I once read “The Communist Manifesto”  itself in English translation in 2012, because it is a shorter work that requires very little time...

“The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, 'This is mine,' and found people simple eno...

"While the Wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system - for all the world to see - we...

"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate ... Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall !" - President Ronald Reagan, standing at the Brandenbur...

"That all Acts of the United States in Cuba during its military occupancy thereof are ratified and validated, and all lawful rights ...

One of the basic facts about China today is that most of it is communist - the part that most of us hear about. Thus, it surprises some p...

Americans have rightly been interested in their own country's history for a long time - both for the moving stories it contains, and ...

"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible ove...

"The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But mod...

One of the central tenets of Marxism is the "labor theory of value," which is the idea that the economic value of something is d...

"Competition engenders misery, it foments civil war, it 'changes natural zones,' mixes up nationalities, causes trouble in fa...

Tiananmen Square , China 1989 "China isn't all that bad," some say ... The critics of communism have long pointed o...

I  posted earlier that one of the most sacred tenets of liberalism is the goal of equality of condition: the idea that there should be no...

One of the most sacred tenets of liberalism is the goal of equality of condition: the idea that there should be no rich or poor, but that ...

Ronald Reagan "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-commun...

Karl Marx, the chief founder of communism Does communism cause poverty? And how can this be tested? Karl Marx What counts as...

" A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism . All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcis...