Posted on 10/16/2017 7:50:39 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Colin Kaepernick and his supporters may not realize it, but their ideas originate in a nineteenth-century German who interpreted the world as a struggle between oppressors and oppressed.
When Colin Kaepernick, then a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand for the national anthem in 2016, he probably had no idea what he was starting. But Kaepernick also probably had no idea where his own ideas originated. Like so many left-wing beliefs, Kaepernick’s intellectual odyssey begins with the nineteenth-century German philosopher Karl Marx.
Marx explained the world through exploitation and oppression. A struggle between oppressor (evil) and oppressed (good) guides every society, in every age, he said. Marx specifically argued that a “veiled civil war” exists within society between these two groups. Whereas, say, Catholics interpret the world as a struggle of good versus evil, Marx materialized this struggle, insisting it rages between groups of people. The evil oppressors initially have the upper-hand, but Marxism says this will change.
How does Marx recommend bringing change? First, by raising consciousness about this raging social conflict. For Marxists, the oppressed and exploited must be taught that they are victims. Then, they begin—sometimes peacefully, sometimes violently—to challenge and change the existing oppressive social structure.
Current NFL chaos provides the most recent example. Thousands of activists across the country have dedicated their lives toward promoting awareness of this struggle by creating social unrest in the name of justice. Marx contends their efforts will be rewarded because, as he famously declared in the Communist Manifesto, the victory of oppressed “is inevitable.” Racial Justice, When Characterized in Marxist Forms
Kaepernick and millions of others who sympathize with him have never read Marx. No matter. We learn not just by directly reading sources, but from friends, teachers, and the media....
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
They realize it. They’re Marxists.
They might realize they’re Marxists, but will never openly admit it.
Marxists will never have enough confidence in their ideas to be able to speak openly about them.
These players aren’t even smart enough to be Marxists. They’re just professional malcontents.
Whereas, say, Catholics interpret the world as a struggle of good versus evil, Marx materialized this struggle, insisting it rages between groups of people.
>To summarize the heart of the issue...except the writer is wrong using Roman Catholicism to represent the struggle between good and evil. The current Marxist Pope, and actually most Catholics, see the struggle between good and evil as the Marxists see it.
It is Protestants who see the struggle between good and evil as the Bible portrays it.
“These players aren’t even smart enough to be Marxists. They’re just professional malcontents.”
...agreed 100%! These idiots don’t know Marxism from Socialism to Fascism to Freedom. Standing up in the UK for “God Save the Queen” but kneeling for the National Anthem tells you all you need to know about their knowledge of history.
Reference: see the suppressed musings of Marx on the subject in Paul Johnson's book, Intellectuals.
The author of this piece has really matured - quite a difference between the lyrics of “Life During Wartime” and this article.
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The author of the article is “brilliant” and says they are a bunch of dumb black football players?
Different DB.
The nfl, its "games", their "scores", the players are ALL totally irrelevant and utterly meaningless.
The nfl has become like the ancient gladiatorial games, the Circus Maximus; the famous gladiators and the charioteers of "renoun" from the ancient Romance Empire.
Their arenas are nothing but crumbling ruins and who can recall or name any of their "famous" gladiators or charioteers? The answer is no one! This is the fate that awaits the once "glorious" nfl:
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is the future that awaits the nfl, and they destroyed it all with their own hands!
ALL THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT IS THE MONEY, THAT IS ALL!
They literally strangled to death their fan base "goose that laid all of their billion dollar nfl solid gold eggs" with their own hands. The goose is permanently dead and they killed it! Now, all too late they want to put Humpty Dumpy back together again and resurrect the goose from the dead.
This is rich, the National Felon League chose to side and kneel with hate America, only blm, sjw, hate whitey, communist anarchists over America and their own nfl fan base and now their fan base has been totally alienated and the very monsters they willingly aligned themselves with have turned on them and are now eating them alive.
All too late the nfl has awoken to the reality that the entire league, has an INCURABLE CASE OF SELF INFLICTED FINANCIAL EBOLA and is hemorrhaging money out of every conceivable orafice to the tune of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A WEEK with no way out and no end in sight.
The once financially lucrative nfl is circling the toilet bowl into obscurity and is quickly becoming totally irrelevant and financially worthless.
We choose to STAND with Americans for America; we choose love of country, we choose patriotism, we choose to "Live Free or Die", rather than "huddle up", "bend the knee" and subjugate ourselves, our families, and our beloved nation to the black racist, socialist, sjw, PC tyranny and perverted ideology of the National Felon League.
They want us to compromise our patriotism, our love of country, flag and nation and symbolically join the NFL in show of rebellious "unity" but "What fellowship does light have with darkness, good with evil (and subjugation for the sake of 'unity')?"
The answer is a resounding NOTHING! We can have no "unity" with those who hate our nation, its flag, its values and with those who despise us.
The anti-American National Felon League has, to quote Admiral Yamato: "awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve".
We are at war; the NFL started this cultural war against US, against America and they are attacking EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR, BELIEVE IN AND HOLD NEAR AND DEAR.
Like WWII, there can not be any, truce, or "compromise" for the sake of their false notion of "unity", no "cessation of hostilities" with the nfl and those who have made themselves our enemies with out a cause.
We Americans who love our county more than any game have now taken up the fight forced upon us by the nfl and like "the greatest generation" we too will settle for only one outcome: NOTHING LESS THAT THEIR TOTAL SURRENDER!
AKA useful idiots used by the real Marxists pulling the strings.
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