World War Z Thought of the Day

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I needed every idea, every word, every ounce of knowledge and wisdom to help me fuse a fractured landscape into the modern American war machine. If my father had been alive, he probably would have laughed at my frustration. He’d been a staunch New Dealer, working closely with FDR as comptroller of New York State. He used methods that were almost Marxist in nature, the kind of collectivization that would make Ayn Rand leap from her grave and join the ranks of the living dead. I’d always rejected the lessons he’d tried to impart…..Now I was wracking my brains to remember them.
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World War Z, page 138
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I think it ironic the mention of Marxism here. Karl Marx thought he was able to demonstrate scientifically that things were different in his day. He set out to develop a system of government that he thought would lead to true freedom, not new oppression. This was the beginning of communism, the most oppressive of all systems to date! The people’s communes of Red China are proof enough of the severe yoke those people bear, for about 98% of China’s peasantry have been herded into a system of forced collectivization. All their personal rights, freedoms and belongings have been surrendered to the State. This is the fruit of a system that Marx believed would do away with oppression and bring true freedom to all mankind.