Posted on 05/05/2024 4:55:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
marx and engles wrote in the communist manifesto “From each according to his ability to each according to his needs” but the Americanized version is “From those who can and do to those who could but won’t, why SHOULD they when they can employ the police power of government to TAKE IT from those who can and do then GIVE IT to those who could...but won’t”. remember folks...John Smith tried the collectivist approach in hopes it would feed the pilgrims in their new land but the lazy marxists(before marx was even a gleam) caused mass starvation because marxists NEVER EVER do their part for the “collective outside of their hot air, which requires no heavy lifting, yet demanded to be fed like everyone else who DID the heavy lifting. sort of like the current crop of campus protesters who only work at destroying things but still want someone else to provide their Starbucks and chipotle. no work=no food is how Real life works and when the rest of society stops allowing themselves to become “guilt trip recipients”, there will be a BIG change...but not until. let me ask you One question punk...are YOU feeling guilty today? well are you PUNK?
“Why and how did this angry, odious, insufferable fantasist become the intellectual lodestar for the global left?“
They are God-less. That empty space in them must be filled. They fill it with anger and moral outrage and so they become gods. You serve Heaven or you serve hell. There’s no inbetween.
Good description.
I would say Marxism attracts those who want to control other people. Like Obama, Hillary, etc.
Needless to say, such violent fantasies often appeal to the young and disaffected. Although most of Marx’s contemporaries favored the incremental establishment of their ideology, those who were especially antisocial and disgruntled with the status quo found his illusions of brutal heroism cathartic and enticing. Much the same is true today, as it was in the period between Marx’s and our own…
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what has been the surprise of the week has been the more conservative patriotic response to the palestinian rioters by young college aged patriots such as:
<> protecting the flag at UNC
<> singing the star spangled banner across college campus
bfl
This is essentially the same green light given in Islam.
Many people are attracted to the idea of being able to do whatever they want, with hatred, jealousy, lust, greed, and vengeance as their motives, and feel morally justified while doing so.
Socialists today say "we'll do it right!". The hubris in assuming that you're brighter than everyone in the past two centuries seems dubious. US capitalism has lead to the highest standard of living anywhere in the world. Most of the illegals flooding into the US are from failed, semi-Socialistic countries. That in and of itself is enough to quash the bogus socialistic propaganda.
“Communism is intellectual cotton candy for people with childish minds. It’s economic junk food. Easy sell to people who possess no discipline at all.”
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This.
Because communism works, but only among small, trusted groups: like family, small circle of friends, maybe a classroom.
But as soon as the group gets large enough, corruption, laziness, lack of innovation (ie, no incentives), lack of accountability, and greed inevitably take over. Leadership then quickly morphs from altruism into tyranny.
But this is not taught in our schools, not exemplified in our media, not identified in the news, not recounted in history. The weak minded are then malinformed and exploited. Those who produce and have are vilified by those who consume and don’t have.
Nothing but old fashioned emperor worship re-packaged with modern techno-babble.
Marxism takes the seven deadly sins and binds them all together making a fascia, one of those axes with a handle made up of bound-together sticks that you see in coats-of-arms.
It's the origin of the word fascism of course.
Marx bound the sins into a philosophy, one with many ornate terms and specious arguments to make it perpetually interesting to academic morons.
But the key is this: Because Marxism capitalizes on the basest urges and nastiest human tendencies, it is really cake selling it to people.
It's like taking B.O., crabgrass, alcohol abuse, laziness, smoking, overeating, sexual licentiousness, theft, hate, lack of charity, lack of patience, etc., and binding it into a philosophy.
Most Marxists-in-the-rough when they encounter it immediately say, "What's not to like?"
So Marxism will always be popular, due to the grab-asstic, smelly, caveman, sociopathic tendencies of most humans.
It takes a heavy dose of education and fire-and-brimstone religion plus watching The War Room to stifle Marxism.
We must never quit eradicating Marxism the way we must never quit eradicating bugs and crabgrass.
Also interesting is that those committee members always have greater needs to be filled than you do. Not everyone is going to have a Black Sea dacha, but the Bernie Sanders of the party always seem to “need” a few.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
“I do not at all wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries, that what used to be called the ‘submerged tenth’ can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their level…”
Pretty much sums it up.
Somehow, the ‘submerged tenth’ have seized control and are engaged in a vindictive Jihad to take down our country, exploit and punish the other nine tenths and redistribute it's wealth.
With Marxism, it always comes down to misery and mass murder in the name of the greater good once the submerged tenth runs out of other peoples money to fund their unworkable Utopian dreams.
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Central to the ideology is the idea that the reason your life sucks, is because you are being oppressed by a conspiracy of the powerful, rather than due to any personal inadequacies.
This is a common factor with Marx, CRT, feminism, and other Leftist ideologies.
In what corner of the world do these nut cases live?
It only works in families and small groups of friends because of love: the willingness of those who can produce, to use their productive energies to benefit those they love.
The fact of the matter is that Marx was a loathsome person who hated nearly everyone and everything. He was aggressively lazy and didn’t have any knowledge of business, capitalism, or even any connection to the working class.
It’s why Marxism is a style for the parasites slackers with no shortage of laziness or stupidity.
Marx was a spoiled brat who resented his father and the system his father wanted him to become successful in. He was incredibly lazy, and washed out of every school/university to which his father sent him. He was driven by childish immature rebellion - something to think about when considering the actions of university students who embrace his pseudo-intellectual drivel.
Marx, and Marxism is what you get when you combine sloth, resentment/hatred, egoism, parasitism, arrogance, and a lack of respect for the opinions, rights, accomplishments, and self-determinism of other individuals.
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