Posted on 10/03/2025 4:45:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Can anyone dismantle the administrative state?
Only one president has had both the desire and opportunity to crush and disable the administrative state, but more importantly, end the Marxist dialectic that has infected and subsumed this nation and post-modern Western civilization.
Nixon wished to shrink the federal bureaucracy, but enemies inside the government would never allow him the opportunity, while Nixon himself, at the same time, enlarged the administrative state by creating the EPA. Reagan could have engineered the opportunity, but never gave his Office of Management and Budget director, David Stockman, enough power to go beyond just designing tax cuts and small-ball regulatory reform.
President Trump and his Office of Management and Budget chief, Russ Vought, have maneuvered and neutered the opposition, positioning the so-called government shutdown, allowing Trump and Vought to seize nearly unlimited Article II power and prerogative to eliminate half of the federal workforce and erase the bureaucracy to levels not seen since Calvin Coolidge.
If not Donald Trump, then who?
How did we get here? And why is this the moment to fulfill the counter-revolutionary dialectic reversing Karl Marx’s force of destiny?
Marx’s struggle actually wasn’t between the propertied class and the proletariat, according to the late sociologist Alvin Gouldner in his work, The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class.
The proletariat were mere pawns in the real war for power between the property-owning class and the upcoming rival—the mercenary technocrat and intellectual class, as Professor Darren Stallof remarks in his YouTube reading of Gouldner’s argument.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The proletariat were mere pawns in the real war for power between the property-owning class and the upcoming rival—the mercenary technocrat and intellectual class, as Professor Darren Stallof remarks in his YouTube reading of Gouldner’s argument.
I'm surprised I had never heard of either Gouldner or Stallof. Turns out YouTube has a lot of Stalloff videos. Seems like an interesting lecturer. Gouldner was a noted sociologist 50 years ago or so.
Interesting analysis that Marxists stopped caring about the Proletariat a long, long time ago. It became a struggle between rich people and the "intellectuals". Everybody wants to rule the world. College students and professors see people like Elon Musk having real power and influence (and $500B) and they get upset and want to become behind the scene bureaucrats so that they can "bring down the system" with their superior brains. Elizabeth Warren seems like a good example. Meanwhile, the farmers and factory workers just get screwed because the intellectuals could care less about ordinary people.
I hope Trump hollows out the Progressive State. End the power the intellectual class and spark an economic renaissance that lifts all boats.
SNAP payments cease about this time next month.
Calendar zombie uprising.
Anything to do with Marxism or it’s stupid ‘updates’ is crap. It’s a toxic tree that bears poisoned fruit.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.