Posted on 11/04/2017 10:15:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
‘Red October” was the name for a great Cold War movie. It’s also the name for the Communist takeover of the Russian government on Oct. 26, 1917, when Bolshevik forces stormed the Winter Palace in today’s St. Petersburg. That’s according to the old-style calendar; in the new calendar, the 100th anniversary of the Revolution is Tuesday, Nov. 7.
We had our own revolution, a year ago. Which makes it a good time to compare Red October with red-state America, the Trump revolution in American politics.
I got a heads up about the comparison at a 2015 dinner, when I heard a congressman complain about the members of the House’s rambunctious and very conservative Freedom Caucus. “Right-wing Marxists,” he called them. Aha, I thought. That’s me.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m as aware as anyone of all the misery communism gave us, the murders, the twisted lives. I don’t even buy the idiotic notion that this was justified by good intentions. But in one respect Karl Marx understood something about America, something that explains the Trump revolution.
With all the horrors of communism, with all the misery it unleashed on the world, Karl Marx still has something to tell us. Something about the problem he had with America. It didn’t fit with his theories. He said society progressed in stages: first feudalism, then capitalism, then socialism. But in 1852, when he wrote “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon,” the most advanced capitalist society was that of the United States, and it was nowhere near socialism.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Right Wing wants social mobility and the left want to control people. This was a revolt against the social control of the left.
"What Happened" - and she still doesn't understand, after a fullyear !
Talk about being 'hard-headed'
Go figure !
Who is this idiot
There’s a fair amount of truth in this, I surprisingly still have a few friends who are old-guard former McGovernites and they’ve plainly stated that they envy Trump’s ability to mobilize for revolutionary change. They’re so alienated by the modern DNC and Clinton dynasty that they couldn’t vote for them, couldn’t vote for any of them but are actually warming to Trump. Can’t admit it in public though, they’d likely be harassed out of their employment, with the USPS and municipal chamber orchestra, respectively.
Canadian born and educated. This guy does not understand the US at all.
He may live on Va and teach at George Mason but he is the perfect example of book smart and zero knowledge
Support with Marxism is incompatible with being a good citizen of the Republic.
Any Marxist in the country should be arrested and deported.
F.H. Buckley teaches at Scalia Law School. His next book, “The Republic of Virtue,” is due out in December.
I think the fact that his putting the word Marxist in quotes indicates he is being tongue in cheek when using that term. That is after all what the true Marxists are calling us, so he is jokingly accepting their accusation, but not really as he then refutes their baseless accusation.
The very slogan "Make America Great Again" suggests that this election was not in pursuit of any turnover of society and the inevitable progress of history, rather it was an affirmation of what once was considered to be the status quo, fictive or not. That isn't at all what happened in 1917.
Yes, the article was about Marx theory about why there was not support for Marxism in the USA like there was in UK. Marx thought it was because there is social mobility here. And it is the progressives who try to regulate things which stifles mobility.
Even today if you go to a factory in what was Prussia you see what you see here: a large parking lot with automobiles bought on credit. The proletariat could never do that, by definition. What actually happened was that virtually the entire working class moved up a notch. He was correct about that being an impediment to revolution, however - now they had something to lose.
If you advance that already creaky model to 21st century America you see even bigger cracks in it - workers with pension funds in the U.S. are some of the biggest investors in common stock in the country - they're literally capitalists. And they voted for Trump, to bring this back to the author's original thesis. And the Dems just can't seem to figure that out.
“Foundation Professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he has taught since 1989.
That’s what his cv says
I unde stood his article. He is incorrect in his analysis and more than a little condescending to the good voters of the US
idiot?...the guys dead on right .. try reading it...
he’s not talking about Marxist as socialism
He’s talking about the class Revolution
That is what is at the bottom of the article.
I read it. I understood it. I don’t agree with his analysis
Francis "Frank" H. Buckley is a Foundation Professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he has taught since 1989. Before then he was a visiting Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He has also taught at Panthéon-Assas University, Sciences Po in Paris and the McGill Faculty of Law in Montreal...He has written on issues including constitutional government, the rule of law, laughter and contract theory. He is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator and other magazines and newspapers....
According to National Review, he is unrelated to conservative author William F. Buckley Jr.
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