Posted on 07/31/2020 5:22:13 AM PDT by The Houston Courant
Not long after the push to remove Confederate statues from public spaces was revived this summer, social-justice warriors now seek finer prey. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Christopher Columbus arent safe, nor even are Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses S. Grant.
The campaign against such men forces a reckoning: Can we celebrate past exemplars, despite their moral failings? U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-2) argued persuasively last month in National Review Online that we must, and that failing to do so will sap our civilizational strength. The touchy sympathies of political correctness were always just a base from which to launch a cultural revolution, a purge of traditional American narratives and icons, Crenshaw wrote.
Todays leftists, of course, exalt icons of their own, Karl Marx among them. Communisms intellectual leadoff is enjoying a comeback, manifested most notably in Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullorss 2015 self-description as a trained Marxist. Lest Cullors be thought unique, behold: Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson, in his messy apologia Why You Should Be a Socialist, gushes, Marx has a way of showing things as they really are, of getting to the heart of the matter using powerful and original language . Throughout Marxs writing one finds staggeringly original descriptions of everyday phenomena that cause us to examine them anew. Jacobin magazine praised Robinsons book generally, but criticized its treatment of Marxas too disapproving. We Americans havent (yet) erected any major statues of the Prussian quasi-scholar, but a half dozen exist in Europe; one went up just two years ago in Marxs birthplace of Trier, with European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker keynoting the unveiling, no less. The Marxist appellation hasnt compromised the careers of the English literary scholar Terry Eagleton or the American sociologist John Bellamy Foster. (Indeed, where would they be without it?)
In other words, devotees of political correctness who would scrub our pathfinders from the landscape willfully ignore their own political forbears beastly racism toward blacks and grim legacy for Africans.
All but total know-nothings recognize the ruination Marxs adherents wrought during the last century in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America, but their impingements on Africa also warrant infamy. Communist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam conducted a genocide in the 1970s and 80s that killed half a million Ethiopians, including many students and intellectuals; all the while, famine killed nearly as many of their countrymen. Overthrown in 1991, Mengistu was granted asylum by fellow Marxist despot Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe where the orchestrator of Ethiopias Red Terror still lives.
Communism similarly devastated Angloa and Mozambique, vestiges of Portuguese imperialism where anti-colonial sentiment ran understandably high. (Afrocommunism is yet another instance of racist whites exporting an oppressive ideology into nonwhite nations.) Flooded by Soviet and Cuban political advisors, the Angolans would see their country engulfed in civil war between the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the quasi-Maoist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Mozambique meanwhile fell under the radicalized Mozambique National Liberation Front; under this partys governance, food shortages alone are believed by UNICEF to have caused 600,000 deaths.
Contemporary Marxists, who hew to a no true Scotsman refrain about real-life communist tyrannies, wont ascribe blame for this to Marx himself, and they certainly dont judge their lion a bigot, but his own racial animus is a matter of record. In letters to his writing partner Friedrich Engels, Marx called his admiring Cuban son-in-law Paul Lafargue a (n-word expletive) and the social democrat Prussian Ferdinand Lassalle a Jewish (n-word expletive). This was the man Robinson lauded for elucidating things as they really are, of getting to the heart of the matter using powerful and original language.
Careers are being shattered today for far views far more benign than Marxs racism, and still he is venerated by tomfools near and far. They should make their cancel culture useful and turn it on their hero.
I’m sure Lenin, Stalin and Mao are safe.
Lenin still stands in Seattle.
cannot access Millie Weaver’s own video on this, so posting what is a relatively sober interview from Alex Jones show. vitally important everyone sees this. I have been trying to show connections between the BLM/Antifa riots and The Sunrise Movement. Millie has the story. her Skype cuts out briefly a couple of times:
VIDEO: 1h31m in to 2h12m: 30 Jul: Millie Weaver on undercover in Sunrise Movement/100 Day Siege plan - to hit homes of Republicans etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCNyMVVamHM
hope someone can access Millie’s own video and post it.
The Marxists know that BLM is an acronym for Burn, Loot and Murder.
This article is a good history of how BLACKS suffer death & destruction BY Marxists
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