Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 18, 2008

Decades ago, Russian economist Yuri Maltsev was briefly an economic adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev.

Maltsev?s desire was to bring about genuine liberation by dismantling the command economy. Gorbachev?s intention in carrying out his ?Perestroika? campaign was merely to streamline oppression by making the state more efficient.

In a recent essay, Maltsev ? now a college professor in Wisconsin -- commented that the undisguised leader-worship being directed at Barrack Obama ? like that once directed at George W. Bush -- reminds him of similar spectacles in Soviet Russia.

Interestingly, Maltsev?s former boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, has predicted that Obama could carry out his own program of Perestroika in the United States.

Gorbachev?s reforms were largely cosmetic. The same is true of the much-vaunted
?change? Obama promises, which would merely repackage the same degenerate -- and rapidly disintegrating --system of corporate socialism. All of this must strike Yuri Maltsev as tragically familiar.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.