Posted on 10/26/2025 5:12:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Much is being written about how leftism is really a religion since its adherents cling to their dogma in spite of the obvious contradictions constantly being presented by the real world. This was really brought to mind in the chapter about the Communist Second International (1889) in Sean McMeekin’s To Overthrow the World. At that time, Eduard Bernstein, who had been Karl Marx’s protégé while they both lived in exile in London, had by the mid-1890s broken from the pack.
Bernstein eventually saw through the web of deception that was Marxism. Rather than resulting from the proposed seizure and authoritarian micromanagement of the means of production, prosperity was already being expanded all across the population by nothing more complicated than improved productivity due to advances in technology.
Years ago, I personally experienced this phenomenon when we invested in new printing presses that vastly improved our shop’s productivity. Although much more expensive than the presses we had been using, the increased efficiency vastly added to the company’s profitability. This also increased the value of the time being spent by the trained staff — making personnel turnover even less desirable. In addition to increased pay, we helped retain our workers by providing them with health insurance, paid vacations, and holidays, and the increased profitability remained substantial.
Two other experiences that showed me how committed leftists strive to tune out reality when it challenges their faith in collectivist dogma happened while chatting with friends. The first happened when visiting my best friend’s parents. All along, I knew they were “fellow travelers,” though we were still very good friends. At some point in the conversation, they insisted that I broaden my perspective and familiarize myself with the people struggling in the lower strata of society. My response went sort of like this:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
There are people that logic cannot reach.
Leftists everywhere have one key belief: “This time it will be different.”
Ignore reality. Ignore the evidence. Because this time it will be different.
But of course it never is.
Believers in Marxism remind me of the oft quoted statement which so totally identifies those clowns: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
Marxism and it’s trannie twin - socialism never will succeed. They are college marshmallow major’s version of thinking you can get into a basket and fly by pulling on its handles.
Leftist: “If people like me are in charge, it will work.”
They don’t really care if it works or not — they just want to be in charge.
They always blame the people implementing Communism.
They got it wrong
We have figured it out.
we will be successful, this time!!!
Communism and Marxism is all about the journey, never the destination
I just watched Kentucky Governor Besher on Bill Mahre last night. Said all the wordsmith things just like the Kenyan/BJ. He’d be formidable because women will chose his looks over JD’s.
Stupidity should be difficult...
My son caught a Stage 4 case of TDS during COVID and never recovered. He is in the left wing social media echo chamber and it seems like his sources for things are “trust me, bro…”.
No concept of economic theory, just a Bernie clone that thinks “millionaires and billionaires” are the problem.
They very much treat Marxism and Socialism as ther religion. It’s their “faith system”, flawed, misguided, and lethal to a free society.
Great article.
Marxism behaves as a secular theology, where “History” replaces “God,” the “proletariat” stands in for the “chosen people,” and the “classless society” becomes the eschatological paradise
Long ago, I read of a fascinating study of domesticating wild gray foxes that convinced me that the modern domesticated dog simply has a vastly enlarged juvenile phase of its life, essentially. When and where juvenile behavior and thinking switches to the adult is something widely dispersed in all species, I believe. I think that it is also quite adaptive and malleable.
There is an old saying, something to the effect of, if you are not born a Liberal in your youth, there is as much wrong with you as someone who fails to become a Conservative with age and experience.
This is the crux of what we are seeing, I believe. The liberalistic ideals of youth are expressed in an elongated phase of development. Much of this is intentional.
Marx did have some important insights, and it is a mistake to reject him wholesale. Where Marxists go wrong is in believing that one can jump start history and move directly to a utopian society. Marx was fundamentally a Hegelian and predicted that society would eventually progress through a tedious dialectical process with each step forward being the result of a rise in social consciousness. If we look at just at how our general view of the role of government has evolved since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, one can see this and extrapolate where we will be in the future. But again, the common error is to assume that by bloody revolution, or something similar, we can can skip over the intermediate stages. We cannot. Societal consciousness has to evolve naturally, perhaps over hundreds of years.
“Where Marxists go wrong is in believing that one can jump start history and move directly to a utopian society.”
I agree that Marx had important insights, the best of which was the enormous influence of economics on driving society and history. But “jump-starting history” was Lenin’s Bolshevik program, essentially a heresy of Marxism. Marx had it that “stages” defined by a dominant economic method (like Feudalism or Capitalism) pass away organically when the productive potential of the stage has been maximized and wealth concentrated in so fews hands that economics ceased to work. It’s true though, that Marx got so wee-weed up by the Paris Commune that he wished away his own principles.
Bkmk
If only.....
I agree, you have it exacty.
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