Posted on 05/30/2021 8:33:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
China President Xi Jinping last week congratulated the World Symposium for Marxist Political Parties, saying China stands ready to help the cause of human progress and community building.
His new partners in Washington are actively following his call with ungodly spending, failure to secure borders, laws through executive fiat. All part of the left’s version of a new world order theocracy with big government grabbing the role of “the new god.”
And here is the kicker, it’s all in the name of Utopia! Human-made heaven on earth.
In researching my new book, To Hell with Karl Marx (not a sprint but a marathon, given Marx’s prolific output), I had to take a breather for two reasons:
He’s derivative mainly. Hence, it matters to expose his antecedents, to know the origin of his opinions. He’s one of the most influential religious thinkers who has ever lived, rivaling the original Apostles! The Apostle Paul and his early desire to usher in the eschaton, the end of the known world, inspired his gospel Odyssey. He would have called it the Kingdom of God, a transformed state of being. Marx operated the same way through proclaiming his beliefs in the name of his new “gods” of science or materialism.
If we look at all ideological thinking as precommitments (deep [apriori] choices) that form worldviews, they are cultic in their roots. Subjective, initially, they may become more nuanced with the evolution of time and history, but it’s what sparks a religious and political revolution.
Paul’s eschaton did not arrive, and over time his movement slowly immanentized the transcendent in his teachings toward the “this-worldly,” with the Church as an institution. When Marx’s revolution never came, and western Capitalism did survive, his economic predictions all seemed dead and buried, but like Paul, his ideas were institutionalized.
The power of Marx’s gospel is not a class struggle; it’s not economical at all. It is profoundly and darkly religious, not biased toward an idealized harmony for humanity, but the deep feelings of envy and resentment that have now metastasized into issues of race, gender, and new forces we’ve yet to witness.
As brilliant as he was, Marx lacked or missed the power of human empathy or even self-awareness, as evidenced in the breakdown of most of his relationships, along with his inability to find commitment or contentment. Instead, he perfected his work on Utopia by exploiting human conflict, more storyteller than a thinker.
One could argue Marx was more Dante than Adam Smith.
Perhaps it was genuine feelings of alienation, born the son of a converted Jew in a Catholic Prussian landscape. Perhaps, his revelations caused him the isolation of a visionary, but that’s not his explanation. He cast his shortcomings onto the outside world and became an exiled activist because of his deviant teachings.
A rather sad figure, in his youth, he made poetic pacts with the devil and carried the boils of a bookish bohemian, but that’s not the problem. Even these extremities found in tortured souls are not what caused our dilemma.
Human imperfections are never the necessary cause of individual wealth, poverty, or inequality, all vital but not determinative factors.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who survived eight years in the Marx-inspired Gulag, counters with “people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find the strength to rise and free themselves, first in spirit and then in body.”
He continues, “those who have remained were tortured ever more but did not yield an inch, these are your best people. These are your foremost heroes, who, in solitary combat, have stood the test.”
Despite Marx and his modern disciples, we can embrace the sting of life lessons, whether political or personal and still not plant seeds in the soil of anger and blame, ignoring the tragic.
Neo-Marxism and the new woke movement manifest the same spirit of envy and resentment in the new garb of critical race theory and gender studies. Remaining at the spiritual core of this reeducation program is blame, the drink of choice for political opportunism.
They strive for their nefarious eschaton, cultish, pregnant with greed and debt, unconcerned with the collective good, and standing on an illegitimate calling for statehood.
Marx laughs. He knows his dark insights are accurate.
Not only did he predict the fall of Capitalism under the weight of high-tech globalism, but he even mocked the socialists, blinded by inflated hopes, to identify their benevolent messiahs in Stalin and Mao.
Paul did not live to see his kingdom, but he left a legacy that has transformed a dark and fallen world into one of freedom because he knew one simple fact: “when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”
Until the kingdom arrives, keep your sword sharpened and your constitution near. Be very cautious of Utopia via foreign entanglement. Finally, put on the “full armor; our struggle is not against flesh and blood.”
The enemy is not only in the gates but in our schools and homes.
THESE PARAGRAPHS I found so true!!!
“The power of Marx’s gospel is not a class struggle; it’s not economical at all. It is profoundly and darkly religious, not biased toward an idealized harmony for humanity, but the deep feelings of envy and resentment that have now metastasized into issues of race, gender, and new forces we’ve yet to witness.
As brilliant as he was, Marx lacked or missed the power of human empathy or even self-awareness, as evidenced in the breakdown of most of his relationships, along with his inability to find commitment or contentment. Instead, he perfected his work on Utopia by exploiting human conflict, more storyteller than a thinker.”
Very few followers of Marx have ever read him. He is what ever they want him to be.
Amen. Most left-leaning people I know are the most bitter. They rage and complain and are simply never happy with anything, ever, and they don’t really understand why.
The happiest people I know are mostly the ones that don’t follow the news, and have a faith I am envious of. I’m not envious in a bad way, more like they seem to have achieved a goal that I’m striving for.
Marx and his modern disciples
Hello democrat party
What do Nazi soldiers and atrocities have to do with Marx?
Hitler and the socialist dream
He declared that ‘national socialism was based on Marx’ Socialists have always disowned him. But a new book insists that he was, at heart, a left-winger
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html
NAZI -National Socialist Workers Party.
Hitler was a National Socialist. Stalin was an International Socialist. The left in the USA loved Hitler until he attacked the Soviet Union who they thought had a more pure form of communism planned.
I have read the Communist Manifesto. My take was that even Marx saw it as non sustainable (ah, that favorite word of the Left). He saw that it was necessary for the capitalists to build up the industries before the great confiscation, after which the “dictatorship of the proletariat “ would be lucky if they could just maintain status quo. Stalin did “expand” the economy in the USSR, by brute force and leaving a trail of ruin.
It was from the beginning an economic and social system that was doomed to failure.
His new partners in Washington are actively following his call with ungodly spending, failure to secure borders, laws through executive fiat. All part of the left’s version of a new world order theocracy with big government grabbing the role of “the new god.”
And here is the kicker, it’s all in the name of Utopia! Human-made heaven on earth.
Yes, yes, yes ....... China President Xi Jinping & U.S. "President Sleepy Joe" Biden both totally agree with each other that the worse off "the people" are (in one way or another), the more "the people" desperately depend on their "President" for "free" hand-outs and survival. Thus: Free enterprise? Religion? Democratic Republic & Multi-Party Political System? Self-Determination & Family Values? Capitalism? The obvious goal of those two best bud "Presidents" (Xi & Biden) is, as clearly stated in the above quoted section (in bold and underlined): "It's all in the name of" Hell on Earth!
And when you end up with Xi's & Biden's "Hell on Earth," you desperately depend on your so-called "President" for everything: Oh holy biden & oh holy xi, please give us more of "your" free money, please give us more of your "free" hand-outs, please give us more of your totally fabricated "rights" to this, that, and the other, please give us more of "your ........ Hell on Earth!" ...
Imagine there's no Heaven ... Above us, only sky ... Imagine there's no countries ... And no religion, too ... Imagine no possessions ... And the world will be as one ...
Forget the Fab Four: John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Instead, think Fib Four: John, "Sleepy Joe," Jinping, and Karl.
Not /s.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who survived eight years in the Marx-inspired Gulag, counters with “people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find the strength to rise and free themselves, first in spirit and then in body.”
He continues, “those who have remained were tortured ever more but did not yield an inch, these are your best people. These are your foremost heroes, who, in solitary combat, have stood the test.”
When he was living in London he spent a lot of time at the library reading Adam Smith. He read what he considered at the time the foremost author on capitalism. Why did he do that? Turns out he was learning in order to smash it. Not a dummy. He was trying to figure out a way to recreate the French Revolution. And, he wanted to create a world which would enslave all but the ones most worthy. And, all would worship Satan whether they knew it or not.
From Rev. Richard Wurmbrand we learn that Marx was possessed by Satan from his book Marx and Satan.
Turns out he was learning in order to smash it.
There was a psychology experiment that has been scrubbed from the internet. It was designed such that there were two possibilities.
1) each of two participants received 50% of the reward.
2) you could destroy the reward to prevent the other guy from getting anything even if it meant you got nothing.
70% of participants chose option 2.
“Paul’s eschaton did not arrive, and over time his movement slowly immanentized the transcendent in his teachings toward the “this-worldly,” with the Church as an institution.”
Anybody?
Today’s woke generation is built on envy and resentment but lacking personal responsibility. Heading to tyranny, not utopia.
From each according to his ability,to each according to his needs and wants
You can read Upton Sinclair’s 1934 End Poverty in California brochure at:
https://www.ssa.gov/history/epic.html
Note that California has higher taxes than ever before, and more poverty than ever before.
I’ve read it a few times myself. It’s good to be familiar with the enemy.
Australian house auctioneer:
“It’s only a number,” he says at $1.3m. “Let’s surpass it”.
“Don’t get caught into the lower denominations, sir, it will just cost you more in the long run….60 or 70, do the knockout punch.”
Smack! -> $1.36 million
Australian house hunter:
“It is just almost impossible.”
I guess that is where religion or faith came in for Marx. Or maybe better said, philosophy. He thought his revolution would resolve the contradictions of previous social orders and create a new man and a new society that would be utopian. He wasn't looking at the economic details and nuances because he was so blinded by his own vision. He didn't even consider that the foundation of his view of history -- that human conflict was inevitable -- made the utopian dream impossible.
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