Every now and again, I'm reminded of how tired, stale, and unsuccessful left-wing ideas are. I recently came across the following passage:

"I now declare to you and to the world, that man up to this hour has been in all parts of the earth a slave to a trinity of the most monstrous evil upon the whole race. I refer to private or individual property, absurd and irrational systems of religion and marriage founded upon individual property, combined with some of these irrational systems of religion."

Robert Owen spoke these words in 1826. One-hundred and seventy-eight years later, the Left is still harping on these institutions--the free market, religion, and marriage. Their ideas were as stupid then as they are now.