Economic determinism is based on secular materialism, a theory that humans are just a bag of chemicals, pushed around by economic and environmental circumstances.
The left always blame the capitalist oppressors and economic inequalities for the bad guys. They are echoed by academics who prowl the university departments of social and political sciences, philosophy and history, even theology. You can hear their drivel in any University faculty lounge. Even Marx was not so stupid as to say that economics determined culture and societal dynamics, but his emphasis on class struggle and revolution influenced later marxists to emphasize economic determinism.
If you believe that humans have no ability to make moral choices and the economic dynamic is determinative, then you can subscribe to the idiocy of the bamster and his gang of morons–that people who are evil savages are victims of economic oppression, and if capitalism, as exemplified best by the United States, can be destroyed or weakened to insignificance, then the world will be a safe and wonderful socialist paradise. Or at least it won’t be an evil garden of capitalism with no social justice.
Imagine that, United States of America saves civilization and 68 years later has a president who think America is the problem, not the solution. Clarice explains this crazy talk about jobs programs for savage jihadis and who points out event the left is getting uneasy with the airhead in chief.
Read this essay below and review the Wood article on ISIS from the Atlantic.
"Consider that even the lefties are beginning to tire of the stupidity of this affirmative action bozo who is all attitude, no substance. I can’t imagine how empty his head is and the heads of his ideological soul mates. He thinks that the cobra in the sheets won’t hurt him and the country he is responsible for if we just give them more and stop opposing them–give them a bomb, hey, they deserve it. They are oppressed."
** Rich Lowry, Nov 30, 2014 on “Meet the Press” Sunday, National Review editor
Stop trying to make the Ferguson protests something they weren’t. And, just as importantly, stop trying to make Michael Brown, the man shot to death during a fight with police Office Darren Wilson in August, something he wasn’t.
“If you look at the most credible evidence, the lessons are really basic ... don’t rob a convenience store. Don’t fight with a policeman when he stops you and try to take his gun. And when he yells at you to stop, just stop.”