Craig Reucassel Quotes
From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability.
While Blanc appears to have originated the famous phrase 35 years earlier, most people associate it with Marx. While not quite the exact same meaning, compare with Thoreau: {35837}
This line was used at his trial to show that he had communist tendencies. He and the 9 others refused to answer a Congressional Committee’s questions about their political beliefs and affiliations. Trumbo served a year in jail for Contempt of Congress and then was blacklisted for years, but he was so good that Otto Preminger broke the Blacklist and hired him whereupon he was employed in many of the major films. He had actually won an Academy Award writing under the name of Robert Rich.
This was the basic document issued after the Russian Revolution establishing the basic legal and economic structure of the new Soviet State.
Ironically, at the time the great worry was the ability to produce sufficient food for the whole world. Today, we find that task relatively easy, but we still have malnutrition and starvation on some parts of the world. Supply is only one factor. Distribution is as critical.
This quotation is a use of language that is very dangerous for politicians and those who would interact with them. The first three sentences are absurd and Friedman makes that point without ever saying it in the last sentence. However, if someone had quoted the first three sentences without the fourth, one would think that Friedman was a hopelessly naïve socialist and not the anti-socialist that he was.
Craig Bruce Reucassel is an Australian radio and television presenter and comedian. He is currently the presenter of Breakfast on ABC Radio Sydney. He was an original member of the satirical team, The Chaser.
