A history of violence

American Thinker ^ | 11 Sep, 2025 | J.R. Dunn

[MtnClimber]

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a horrific reminder that the left is based on nothing other than terror, violence, and aggression.

This has been true since Karl howled to Friedrich that the bourgeois would someday pay for his plague of skin boils. The history of the Left is a history of violence. Scarcely a single leftist government has gained power without violence or the threat of violence. No leftist government has ever remained in power without violence.

Violence is built into the very foundations of leftist ideology. Marx himself fantasized in print over the apocalyptic events that would accompany the revolution of the proletariat. Mikhail Bakunin preached the “propaganda of the deed” – political activism by means of bombing and assassination. Sergei Nechaev was so eager for blood that he began killing his own followers (he was also crazy enough to terrify even Bakunin). Pyotr Tkachev calmly asserted that 10% of the bourgeoisie would have to die following the revolution, a sentiment echoed by none other than Obama’s bestie, Bill Ayers. All this rhetoric came to a head in the next century thanks to Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Mengistu, and a legion of others, at the cost of 100 million dead or more. The Age of Massacre could not have occurred without the Left.

Leftists simply cannot attain their goals without bloodshed. They can’t so much as win an argument or prevail in a debate without threats and menacing behavior. They not only settle for it – they revel in it. Anyone doubting this can take a look at all the dancing and laughing memes and emojis that greeted Kirk’s murder or the victim-blaming from MSNBC and CNN. It was all Charlie Kirk’s fault, you see. He didn’t have to show up on campus.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; leftism

[MtnClimber]

It is a reminder that the leftists today are no different than the genocidal monsters of the past.

[logi_cal869]

I believe that it merits citation of what groups are silent in the wake of yesterday:

Progressives and their lgb/trans minions.

[MarlonRando]

I just hope that the investigation comes to a conclusion, and it doesn’t become another JFK, where you never figure out what is going on

[Telepathic Intruder]

How can you fight evil, let alone defeat it? St. Paul called Satan “the god of this world”, and he’s got the Left wrapped around his finger.

[V_TWIN]

Sounds a hell of a lot like muslims if you ask me......no compromise, no debate and if you disagree with them you must be destroyed....I don’t see much difference.

[laconic]

Lenin kept his promise and held a free election for the Russian Parliament after the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917. The Communists got 15 percent of the vote. Lenin dismissed the results and never held another election. Don’t think his admirers weren’t close to pulling that here. Thank God for Charlie Kirk whose registration and get out the vote efforts in places like Arizona and Wisconsin probably swung the 2024 election, otherwise, we would have a quasi-socialist government with all the oppression that brings.

[Lake Living]

Romans 12:21 and 12:19 come to mind.

[rlmorel]

Absolutely.

I keep seeing the 100 million dead due to Leftists, but I am of the opinion it is closer to 200 million.

But as the Leftists would say, what difference is 100 million murders if it advances the goals of The Party (Democrats)

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

They’ll never catch the shooter unless somebody talks and even that will probably be a false flag. There is already ample evidence of a conspiracy.

Somebody BIG planned and executed this, prolly state-sponsored.

RIP, Charlie Kirk. You are beyond all this now.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

They’ll never catch the shooter unless somebody talks and even that will probably be a false flag. There is already ample evidence of a conspiracy.

Somebody BIG planned and executed this, prolly state-sponsored.

RIP, Charlie Kirk. You are beyond all this now.

[central_va]

Soros and the globalist free traders are who I suspect engineered this assassination.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Those sound like good candidates.

[MtnClimber]

The FBI should start their investigation in Langley, VA.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”-Obama

Kirk’s sharp wit and tongue was too much for them, so he was shot.
“”When the debate is lost, slander(and murder) becomes the tool of the loser.”— Aristotle