There are people that logic cannot reach.
Leftists everywhere have one key belief: “This time it will be different.”
Ignore reality. Ignore the evidence. Because this time it will be different.
But of course it never is.
Believers in Marxism remind me of the oft quoted statement which so totally identifies those clowns: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
Marxism and it’s trannie twin - socialism never will succeed. They are college marshmallow major’s version of thinking you can get into a basket and fly by pulling on its handles.
Leftist: “If people like me are in charge, it will work.”
They don’t really care if it works or not — they just want to be in charge.
Stupidity should be difficult...
My son caught a Stage 4 case of TDS during COVID and never recovered. He is in the left wing social media echo chamber and it seems like his sources for things are “trust me, bro…”.
No concept of economic theory, just a Bernie clone that thinks “millionaires and billionaires” are the problem.
Great article.
Marxism behaves as a secular theology, where “History” replaces “God,” the “proletariat” stands in for the “chosen people,” and the “classless society” becomes the eschatological paradise
Long ago, I read of a fascinating study of domesticating wild gray foxes that convinced me that the modern domesticated dog simply has a vastly enlarged juvenile phase of its life, essentially. When and where juvenile behavior and thinking switches to the adult is something widely dispersed in all species, I believe. I think that it is also quite adaptive and malleable.
There is an old saying, something to the effect of, if you are not born a Liberal in your youth, there is as much wrong with you as someone who fails to become a Conservative with age and experience.
This is the crux of what we are seeing, I believe. The liberalistic ideals of youth are expressed in an elongated phase of development. Much of this is intentional.
Marx did have some important insights, and it is a mistake to reject him wholesale. Where Marxists go wrong is in believing that one can jump start history and move directly to a utopian society. Marx was fundamentally a Hegelian and predicted that society would eventually progress through a tedious dialectical process with each step forward being the result of a rise in social consciousness. If we look at just at how our general view of the role of government has evolved since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, one can see this and extrapolate where we will be in the future. But again, the common error is to assume that by bloody revolution, or something similar, we can can skip over the intermediate stages. We cannot. Societal consciousness has to evolve naturally, perhaps over hundreds of years.
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