It is a terrible and awesome thing when a man sets out to create all other men in his own image. Such became the goal and all-consuming ambition of Karl Marx. Not that he would have made each man equal to himself; in fact, it was quite the contrary. The image he hoped to construct was a great human colossus with Karl Marx as the brain and builder and all other men serving him as the ears and eyes, feet and hands, mouth and gullet. […]Lenin’s ideas were of course not original, formed by himself alone.
… (Marx) visualized a regimented breed of Pavlovian men whose minds could be triggered into immediate action by signals from their masters. He wanted a race of men who would no longer depend upon free will, ethics, morals or conscience for guidance. Perhaps, without quite realizing it, Marx was setting out to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.
Producing such a race had been the dream of power-hungry men for more than 4,000 years. Nimrod had projected the design, Plato polished it, Saint-Simon sublimated it — now Marx materialized it.
Today this breed of criminally-conditioned man walks the earth in sufficient numbers to conquer countries or continents, to change laws and boundaries, to decree war or peace. …
— From “The Naked Communist”
If one studies the methods of the communists used
during the beginning of their reign, one can see
the same process in use today...glossed over and
smoothed into a sugary shell for easier consumption.
They realized early on that the same brute methods
used on their people would not work in a nation of free men,
so have been shaping the battle field for the last
100 years and have almost succeeded. The outcome remains
to be seen...I would like to believe that they have acted
prematurely but they apparently do not think so.