I watched this hour long video in its entirety last night, originally planning only to watch it in chunks. I just had to keep listening and hear the rest.
Oleg runs the hilarious satire site
www.thepeoplescube.com. Prior to immigrating to the US in 1994, he had worked as an agitprop artist in the USSR. In this video he describes many of the parallels he sees between the old Soviet system he lived under, and the would-be Soviets here who call themselves progressives.
In particular he makes an interesting argument that I had not really thought of before, but now it seems self-evident. He talks of the trendy demands for things like "right to health care", "right to a job", "right to housing", and notes that the Soviet constitution contained all those things. He argues that when the government is compelled to provide you a material right such as these, it is likewise compelled to dictate your existence to you so that it can provide those "rights". For example, the "right to housing" becomes -- in reality -- the government telling you where you will live. The "right to a job" becomes -- in reality -- the government telling you where you will work.
If you have a bit of time, this is quite interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G_aNNT7cFuQ
