There were very few “Marxists” writing history books or any other in the US actually until late in the 20th century. A lot of Leftists but not Marxist. Eugene Genovese was the only true Marxist of note. Howard Fast wrote fiction and there were a few screenwriters. Marxism has had little direct influence on our politics or culture.
The drive for power is not limited to Marxists, actually what we are seeing is more nihilism than Marxism. The only thing the ruling elite seems to value is power. If it can use Marxism it will. If it must fight Marxism it will.
Surely you are not gullible enough to think that any rational human now is striving for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat or the victory of the working class?
Marx believed the state would wither away not become all powerful. Apparently you don’t know much about Marxism and likely have read little of his works but take these wild hyperbolas by KNow Nothings as having more meaning than their hot air would justify.
Patton was in no way destroyed by “public opinion”. MacArthur self destructed as well by going outside his role as a General. We do not live in a Roman Empire where regional generals often ran the whole show. He forgot that.
Another example of your ignorance of real Marxist thought is the idea that it accepts the Great Man in History theory. It does NOT but claims the class struggle is what changes history. Classes shaped by gigantic economic forces, production relations, which are far beyond individuals not insignificant, soulless individuals.
Communism has in fact LOST. Its home, the USSR, is destroyed. Capitalism has replaced communism all over Eastern Europe to such an extent that many of those nations are giving the US military cooperation. China is becoming more and more capitalistic day by day. Within the next decade or so it may drop the fig leaf.
This is what is particularly frustrating - seeing the US turn left as the rest of the world turns right.
I am not an enemy of McCarthy but he had to know that his vices would undermine those things he was trying to publicize and make it easy to destroy him. With that kind of crusade one must have his facts down cold and be ready to present them with iron discipline.
In Russia, China, South Korea, and now America, what we are seeing is less like capitalism and more like crony capitalism (previously known as the economic policies of facism). "An inherent aspect of fascist economies was economic dirigisme,meaning an economy where the government exerts strong directive influence, and effectively controls production and allocation of resources. In general, apart from the nationalizations of some industries, fascist economies were based on private property and private initiative, but these were contingent upon service to the state."
No, you are absolutely wrong on that...that is why your whole premise is faulty. Read the most brilliant book written in the 20th century....The Closing of the American Mind. I did and my understanding of this world and what is going on did a 180 degree turn.
I was like you....I believed that most people are decent human beings and want the truth—they would NEVER try to censure and make people believe outright lies—destroy the intellectual development of children with cognitive dissonance—make children dumb (useful) idiots on purpose. (There is so much proof that the curricula is designed to destroy the intelligence of children it makes me sick—intentional—and with that I understand the EVIL of these ideas.) Read just the beginning of Witness by Chambers.....he is really describing the Atheism—the godlessness—the fear of an ideology where “The End justifies the Means”. It is UGLY and antithetical to America where rights come from God. But that is it—destroy those rights.
I don’t know if Patton was assassinated—but (I read Patton and much more) and I think it is reasonable to think he was eliminated. He was a danger to the puppetmasters who had control of the worldview—Communism is good.
He not only understood the lie—he knew HOW evil it REALLY was—not some dear old philosophy of Uncle Joe. It reduces man to an animal, just like the Nazi’s did but Patton saw remnants of Christianity in the German people so didn’t revile them nearly as much. Patton was VERY clear on his intentions to clear up the “thinking” of Americans about just what ugliness Communism was—Patton would have killed them with his speeches in Congress and his speaking tours. In no uncertain terms, people would not still think that Communism was that philosophy that “meant” well but was misguided.
Parents don’t understand the world they are living in—the Marxist Matrix is my take—that vile sick philosophy of the Postmoderns—moral relativism. Children’s ability to reason and use logic has been targeted since Dewey. I could direct you to a dozen well-documented books that give the names of the actual Communists who designed the curricula using BF Skinner. It is all about conditioning to certain ideas. Study Cultural Marxism and the sick ugly mind of Marcuse.
Why—to kill God so man can be god and control you. The encroaching Atheism is a result of worldview—and since the God-filled curricula of McGuffey Readers was thrown out—moral relativism was inserted in its place. You can not believe in God if you are taught MR as a child—easy as that. Get the minds of the children and you own the future (Lenin).
It is God vs. man —Chambers said it in his book. He knew the Communists plans—they are long term. He said in 54 that the Communists were winning (the world of ideas). (Why would he think that?????) Moral relativism was becoming the New America—not Moral Absolutes.
WF Buckley wrote about it in 1951—why are all my textbooks forcing the atheist paradigm at a Christian school and why are they pushing collectivist economics—by the sodomite, collectivist, socialist John Maynard Keynes. (They never stopped). By 1950 all text books were completed written by Marxists in our public schools. Values Clarification, Situational Ethics, etc. all to deliberately destroy moral absolutes (Bloom’s book above documents this.)
So does Eakman’s book on education. So does the Long March (through the institutions).
You are right about Power. It is Postmodernism (which includes Marxism) which says “Might makes Right”—that “feel good, do it” (Marcuse) and that emotion is real—God is not. There is no God.
Christianity understands the evil of power—why the Sir Acton quote—”Power tends to corrupt; Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Christian ideals fight that natural urge of man to control other people. If you raised children you understand this about the nature of man—that need to manipulate and control is obvious in every two year old.
Lenin with friend knew the power of controlling how and what people thought by the complete control of information. In 1920. Control of ideas (overt suppression of truth) has been going on ever since—not that the Church doesn’t try to control the truth—history of the world, sir.
Now, it is not God-fearing people who control the ideas....Nietzsche recognized it in the 18th Century===YOU KILLED GOD! Why was he so upset????? with the ignorant Postmodern philosophers.....They killed off the only value system of man—God’s.—and without one they are just nothing but animals—and they will act like animals then. He predicted Stalin, Mao Lenin, Hitler—all the atheists/occultists/men who replace the god that is missing in man.
Postmodern ideas took over the Continent first—then England and by the 1930’s was totally infiltrated and targeted-—key word—targeted (all institutions, Foundations, schools, media, books)
Bloom explains this “paradigm shift” of thinking-—from Moral Absolutes to Moral Relativism. It is quite easy to see the evil by the censuring and promoting done by Rockefeller, Carnigie Foundations that paid for the books written and with the publishing houses decided what and what could not be published.
WF Buckley, Jr had to go “outside” the system to get his book published and that was in 1950. Listen to the producer’s son sometime—that one who made “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”. The movie never would have seen the light of day had popular opinion not prevailed. But before it was released is the real story. People weren’t conditioned thoroughly by the 1950’s to kill that ingrained belief in a God, yet...their parents had complete control of their worldview when they were babies—no TV.
The fifties, media, schools all injected Freud, Kinsey, Marx, Hefner into everything-—very subtle at first—there would have been outrage-—they hired psychologists to design the media and with it perceptions of the world—but Marx’s perceptions—not people of God.
It is all about worldview—that nasty filthy Postmodern German Philosophy whose sewage flowed from the Rhine and infected the world.
Germany was hardest hit with Postmodernism—that is where the Frankfurt school and the ‘God Killers’ collected. The ideas came to Columbia U in 1880’s and spread like filth in a river. The ideas started in the Universities and the Foundations by 1900’s funded those ideas in books and in curricula. John Dewey had complete control of the content and design of our public schools and he was a socialist. It is all documented—the curricula is there to examine: They threw out the Universal Truths and replaced it with Marx’s truths—like white men are oppressors and (Kinsey) all men are perverts and The Beats—sodomy is good esp. with boys.
All this was corrosively taught by the 50’s—and led to the 60’s revolution. It is all about ideas—worldview and they twisted and conditioned children into “emotional” response to the world, and destroyed their intellectual ability—on purpose. So Patton’s death might have been on purpose too. He was killed before he could be heard by the American people. And he was dangerous—because he had the Truth and he was popular and respected, even though propaganda (slapping) was rampant and they were trying to destroy him in the public square as he was trying to kill the enemy....and spotted the REAL enemy.