DEWEY (1859-1952) AKA "JOHNNY SOCIALISM-SEED"
John Dewey (1859-1952) was a totalitarian socialist
who wanted government to take over all education via government schools.
He praised Edward Bellamy as his “Great American Prophet” after Bellamy wrote
the book “Looking Backward” wherein Bellamy penned his totalitarian vision.
Edward Bellamy was the cousin of Francis Bellamy, another national socialist
in the U.S. who, in 1892 created the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag (originating
a straight-armed salute http://rexcurry.net/pledge1.html)
to promote government schools. They all wanted the government to take
over all schools and create an “industrial army” of totalitarian socialism
as described in “Looking Backward” (a bestseller written in 1887 http://rexcurry.net/pledgebackward.html).
Government-schools spread and they mandated racism and segregation by law
and did so through WWII and beyond (http://rexcurry.net/stopthepledge4.html).
Dewey was “Johnny Socialism-Seed” as he planted the ideas
of the Bellamy boys at home and abroad.
Dewey was fascinated by the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics and between 1920 and 1928 wrote many articles praising the “new”
educational system imposed by the totalitarian socialists. At the invitation
of the Commissar of Education in 1928, Dewey traveled to the fledgling police
state. None of the socialist “utopia” espoused in 1917 had developed.
Their educational ideal of “collective liberation” was in tatters. The individual
(student)-collective (society) creed of Dewey’s socialist education appealed
to the Soviet socialists. Dewey studied their educational system, prepared
educational surveys, and wrote several articles and a book on the topic.
After the First World War, Dewey also studied education
in China and lectured there from 1919 to 1921. The Chinese literary
reformer Hu Shih (1891-1962), completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at Columbia
University under John Dewey in 1917. He was greatly influenced by Dewey
and became a lifelong advocate of Dewey’s ideas.
Dewey and his “new” educational system expanded government-schools and totalitarian
The socialist Wholecaust followed shortly after the worldwide
impact of Bellamy’s totalitarian ideas. While the Holocaust was monstrous,
it was part of the bigger Wholecaust. Under the industrial army of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics, ~60 million people were slaughtered;
the People's Republic of China, ~50 million; and the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party, ~20 million (numbers from Professor R. J. Rummel's article
in the Encyclopedia of Genocide (1999)). http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg
Dewey was also interested in the socialist economic experiments
in the Union of the Soviet Socialists Republics. He imported their cockamamy
ideas, after exporting his own.
Dewey’s ideas have also been criticized for their neglect
of the basic skills of literacy and numeracy.
It is a tragedy that he is considered a "great philosopher"
in the U.S. He was probably also considered a "great philosopher" by
the totalitarian socialists in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
and the Peoples' Republic of China.
Socialists are wimps. They don’t have the guts to personally take
money and property from other people. That is why they have the government
do it for them. http://rexcurry.net/socialistwimps.html
That's why they support price controls, taxation, laws against self-defense,
the socialist slave system, etc., Socialists don't think ahead, and don't
make arrangements for their wives, children or grandchildren (they steal
from their children and grandchildren and everyone else’s) as they whine
for government to steal money from other people to give to them. Socialism
is simply a government system of theft and violence by cowardly criminals,
and that is why it causes shortages, poverty, misery, starvation, atrocities
and mass slaughter. Socialists are cowards who always get the government
to do their dirty work for them --to steal goods and services from other
people. Socialists don't have the balls to steal goods and services
on their own because they know what would happen: the individual right of
self-defense and the 2nd amendment from free people who are preserving their
own lives and the lives of their own wives, children and grandchildren, by
protecting their own goods/property/assets. That's why cowards are socialists.
So the next time you hear a socialist advocating yet another government tax
or program, say to him/her, “why don’t you have the guts to come over here
and try to take the money out of my pocket yourself ? Are you so much of
a coward that you have to get the government to steal for you?”
A search for the phrase “socialists are wimps” on the
web and newsgroups reveals that http://rexcurry.net is one of only three locations
to express the sentiment, and is the only site to express the sentiment in
the manner above.
There is one other website that came close with the
phrase “democratic socialists are cowards.” The sentiment also applies
to republican socialists who are outspending the socialist Clinton by more
Editor, The Wall Street Journal 24 January 2009
200 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
The headline of your report on Mayor Lawrence Morrissey of Rockford, IL,
spending time in Washington begging pooh-bahs there for money speaks volumes:
"Wish List in Hand, Mayor Travels to Washington and Finds He’s Not Alone"
Mayor Morrissey's use of his time seeking government handouts is an ideal,
if unintentional, tribute to a great son of Rockford, the economist Gordon
Tullock. Forty-two years ago, in one of the most important papers published
in economics during the 20th century, Tullock identified the phenomenon of
"rent-seeking."* Rent-seekers generate huge amounts of waste by using
resources to plead for handouts. It's not so much the actual transfers
from taxpayers to successful supplicants that are wasteful, Tullock showed,
but the fact that the prospects of receiving these transfers prompt producers
to form themselves into special-interest groups. These interest groups
divert the time and resources that they, as producers, would have spent doing
socially productive things - such as administering cities efficiently - into
lobbying for government favors. Successful rent-seekers benefit, but
the diversion of resources from productive uses into pleading and pandering
at the feet of politicians makes society poorer.
A person wrote to me to argue that the National Socialist German
Workers' Party was not socialist. http://rexcurry.net/socialistNSGWP.html
The following is my response:
Your effort to defend and rehabilitate the National
Socialist German Workers' Party by asserting that they are not socialist is
bizarre. Granted, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics murdered more
people (~60 million deaths, 1917-'87) and the People's Republic of China murdered
more people (~50 million, 1949-'87) than did the the National Socialist
German Workers' Party (~20 million, 1933-'45), however that does not make
the latter "not socialist" simply because of the lesser numbers killed, nor
does it exclude the latter from the trio of socialist atrocities involved
in the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part) at http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg
This space receives so many comments from brain-dead socialists whose arguments
always reduce down to the same whine "Let the government do it." I have
penned a canned response I often use. Libertarians should feel free
to borrow it and use it in response to asinine comments from socialists.
You always use the classic reasoning used by totalitarian socialism (see
the socialist trio of atrocities at http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg).
If the issue is education, food, clothing, shelter, TV, widgets or any goods
or services, then a freedom advocate will point out how people provide for
needs in a free market economy, and the response of the classic totalitarian
socialist is that everything that people have in a free society can be provided
by a totalitarian government because "Don't government providers have to
answer to citizens too? Or at least to the provider board, who the citizens
It is frightening how commonplace that response has become and how the people
who provide that response to one subject (e.g. schools) NEVER OPENLY expand
the response as was done in the socialist trio of atrocities (the former
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the People's Republic of China, the
National Socialist German Workers Party) and their lessers (Cambodia, India,
Cuba, third world countries etc.). It is as if the people who use that
simplistic response do not know all the horrible ideologies that have used
that same response. Very frightening.
Every "problem" is perceived by you to need more government action, more
government spending, more taxation, more government programs, more laws. My
views are the opposite. Your views resemble the reasoning of totalitarian
When "problems" continue to grow, to you it is another excuse for yet more
government action, more government spending, more taxation, more government
programs, more laws. My views are the opposite. Your views resemble
Every problem you perceive is actually a result of, or was worsened by,
government action, government spending, taxation, government programs, more
Because socialism is the use of government violence and theft, it encourages
businesses to follow the socialist example. Anyone who wants to use government
violence and theft, whether he is a single individual or part of a business,
will support socialism. Socialism corrupts business in the same way that
your views corrupt the rest of society, by promoting in business the use
of more government action, more government spending, more taxation, more
government programs, more laws. My views are the opposite. Your views
resemble the reasoning of totalitarian socialism.
Socialism is the worst enemy of workers, consumers, the poor, the unions.
Socialism limits competition, reduces products and services, raise prices
and costs, destroy jobs and job creation, and make it costly or illegal for
anyone to go into business themselves. Socialism creates shortages,
poverty and misery for the neediest and it steals from them and gives to others.
Socialism holds all records for harming workers, consumers, the poor, the
unions. see http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg
Socialism not only grants monopoly powers to businesses, it provides government
contracts, government funding, tax subsidies, government programs, and protective
laws. Socialist laws and bureaucracy make it too expensive for small
or new businesses to compete with older established bigger businesses. Socialism
corrupts businesses and teaches them to use the government violence and theft
that is socialism. All the "problems" you perceive were created by
socialism. And your solution is never to reduce the government and end the
socialism, it is to layer on even more government action, more government
spending, more taxation, more government programs, more laws. You
have no end in sight. That is why your views resemble the reasoning
of totalitarian socialism.
Worse still socialism will sometimes go farther and take people from a market
economy and give them government positions, and/or government powers, in "government"
services, with government spending, from taxes, to operate the service or
provide the good as a government monopoly.
You believe that either a government monopoly or government-controlled
private monopoly would mean greater efficiency, less waste and better living.
You assume government officials have superior knowledge about the desires
of customers, the competence of entrepreneurs, the quality of service offered,
the potential of new technologies and other factors. You further assume that
established firms contribute more than new entrepreneurs. Finally, you assume
that even if government officials know what they are doing, that they won’t
be corrupted by lobbyists from established firms who want to suppress competition.
None of these assumptions is correct.
Often, you do not even know when you are doing any of the above. Worse
still, when you are doing the above, you believe that you are accomplishing
the exact opposite. That is the trademark of the socialist trio of atrocities
(the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the People's Republic of
China, the National Socialist German Workers Party at http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg
) and their lessers (Cambodia, India, Cuba, Korea, third world countries
You do not think philosophically about the range of your own comments, and
you simplistically rubber-stamp government programs that others start (because
you are not enough of a creative thinker to come up with your own ideas).
Point to any website or even other group posts where you attempt to explain
any political philosophy or philosophy of government that you hold (you hold
none, and the default is rubber-stamp statism) or point to any philosophical
defense of liberty (calling for the reduction of government programs, laws,
socialism) that you have ever made. You can point to nothing.
You are a rubber-stamp statist who uses cliches that are used by totalitarian