{"id":4464,"date":"2014-03-06T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:47:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:47:18","slug":"happy-birthday-karl-marx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/happy-birthday-karl-marx\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Karl Marx"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The more we learn behavioral psychology, the more we understand that ideologies are as much a product of people&#8217;s nature as of observed experience. The perverted doctrines that actuated the Bolshevists may be immanent in a portion of humanity. Some people are determined to see every success as a swindling of someone else, every transaction as an exploitation, every exercise in freedom as a violation of some ideal plan, every tradition as a superstition. How delicious that, as we approach the bicentenary of his birth, Karl Marx should have turned into the thing he loathed above all: the prophet of an irrational faith.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Daniel Hannan, <em>Inventing Freedom<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more we learn behavioral psychology, the more we understand that ideologies are as much a product of people&#8217;s nature as of observed experience. The perverted doctrines that actuated the Bolshevists may be immanent in a portion of humanity. Some people are determined to see every success as a swindling of someone else, every transaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-leftism","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}