“...a big step forward in the planet’s banishing this horrible philosophy once and for all...”
There is a reason why (for good or for ill), Karl Marx is sometimes ranked as the single most influential man of the past thousand years, and also ranks amongst the top five most influential men, who ever lived. Even if one utterly despises the man, and nearly everything he preached, it still simply CANNOT be denied that, as a doctrine, psychology, and as a philosophy, Communism is seductive on a truly demonic level. More so because it spreads through seduction rather than via the edge of the sword, like Islam. The difference between Islam and Communism is that Islam waves its blades instead of hiding them. Communism saves theirs for later.
Communism is also as hard to eradicate as Kudzu, and every time it gets damaged, it gets picked back up, and rescued by dusting it off, giving it a bath and a new set of clothes. One could lose count of the times that Communism has been fished out of the sewers, rescued and repackaged for each new generation.
Yes, Communism is like herpes, B.O., crabgrass, athlete's foot.
A part of our fallen nature to be sure.
Moose Limbism is something specifically concocted by the evil One to counter the initial successes and strengths of the early Church.
Communism was concocted by the same evil One to counter the post-Vienna Congress liberalization of capital availability and the incipient boom which followed (Milei the economist has spoken of this rather elegantly in his CPAC speech of 2024 in National Harbor, and others have recognized this). Marx bloomed after the Birth of the Modern era (see Paul Johnson) as a specific counteroffensive to the freedom and posterity which was about to occur worldwide.
What about today? Why suddenly do we have AOC, Mamdani, that wretch from Maine, and all the other DSA candidates suddenly appearing?
To me it is preternatural. A counteroffensive concocted by the evil One because the successes of republicanism and economic freedom have been so prodigious over the past 80 years that any sentient being ought to have abandoned Communism years ago. No worthy argument exists to promote Communism or Socialism or the Rat party. None.
This counteroffensive is indeed in response to the Fifth Great Awakening PLUS the great increase in economic productivity and wealth that we are seeing worldwide.
The desperation of the Rats, the Camp of the Saints immigration, the crazy flailing Gay-Trannie axis, the nihilistic bad music/porn/tattoo/drug/vagrancy/sport murder/lame racism claim culture: These are all merely various phalanges or tranches of the same communist/jihadist/anarchic attempt to derail the progress of the Christian believers.
The Vatican 2/AmChurch/SSPX schismatic struggle is in the same global superset of issues but needs to go into another rant. -c