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Karl Marx: The (Modern) American Apostle?
Townhall.com ^ | May 30, 2021 | Robert Orlando

Posted on 05/30/2021 8:33:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/30/2021 8:33:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

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.”


2 posted on 05/30/2021 8:45:36 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Kaslin

Marxism/Communism is a monument to evil


3 posted on 05/30/2021 8:47:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: goodnesswins

Very few followers of Marx have ever read him. He is what ever they want him to be.


4 posted on 05/30/2021 8:48:29 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Kaslin

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.


5 posted on 05/30/2021 8:50:07 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Kaslin

Marx and his modern disciples

Hello democrat party


6 posted on 05/30/2021 8:52:08 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: MtnClimber

What do Nazi soldiers and atrocities have to do with Marx?


7 posted on 05/30/2021 8:58:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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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


8 posted on 05/30/2021 9:01:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PIF
What do Nazi soldiers and atrocities have to do with Marx?

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.

9 posted on 05/30/2021 9:05:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: vpintheak

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.


10 posted on 05/30/2021 9:06:12 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: 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.

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.

11 posted on 05/30/2021 9:10:15 AM PDT by gw-ington (The Office of the President-Elect gw-ington and Vice President-Elect Loch Ness Monster)
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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.”


Marx never went through what he wrought...............


12 posted on 05/30/2021 9:18:39 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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I have read Marx. And, some history of his life.

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.

13 posted on 05/30/2021 9:35:51 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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Turns out he was learning in order to smash it.


And that is the essence of all liberals, today and throughput history.

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.


14 posted on 05/30/2021 9:41:18 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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“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?


15 posted on 05/30/2021 9:46:05 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Kaslin

Today’s woke generation is built on envy and resentment but lacking personal responsibility. Heading to tyranny, not utopia.


16 posted on 05/30/2021 9:47:17 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Kaslin
Upton Sinclair-ism:

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.

17 posted on 05/30/2021 10:10:59 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Fred Hayek

I’ve read it a few times myself. It’s good to be familiar with the enemy.


18 posted on 05/30/2021 10:26:37 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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Australian house auctioneer:

“It’s only a number,” he says at $1.3m. “Let’s surpass it”.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/may/29/its-been-hell-underquoting-in-hot-housing-market-frustrates-young-buyers

“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.”


19 posted on 05/30/2021 10:29:17 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Fred Hayek
My take was that even Marx saw it as non sustainable (ah, that favorite word of the Left).

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.

20 posted on 05/30/2021 10:42:26 AM PDT by x
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