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I. Karl Marx, Prophet of Destruction
A. Marxist Overview
Karl Marx, who lived from 1818-1883, is the greatest name in the history of socialism. This is inconvenient for socialists given the bloody failures of the USSR, China, etc. It is quite important to understand that Marx demanded the destruction of Capitalism. This means communism is not just in competition with Capitalism, or a mere critic—but its mortal enemy. Therefore, the first goal of any committed Marxist is the evisceration of capitalism.

Marx taught human history was the story of “Class Struggle.” He believed wealth the only measure of human worth. Marx prophesied an inevitable economic cycle: After medieval feudalism was replaced by capitalism, it would then inevitably be overthrown by a Proletarian (ie worker) Revolution, resulting in a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This would eliminate the “alienation” caused by capitalist barons robbing workers of the fruits of their labors. The net result would finally be a classless society. Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” encouraged all global workers to unite for the worker’s historic mission. Marx taught religion was evil, and so his state becomes a god by default.

B. Hegel & Heraclitus
Patron saints of atheist Karl Marx were the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus and his near-contemporary George Hegel. Marx borrowed from Hegel his entire theoretical framework, simply replacing God with wealth, creating a closed atheistic system. Hegel’s philosophy does not differentiate between peaceful versus violent means. In Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, there are no civil rights against any state action. Therefore, all government acts are acceptable to Hegel, regardless how bloody. Marx wholly concurred.

Heraclitus’ “Flux” equals conflict and destruction, the source of all good things. His philosophy presumes violence, as he wrote, “War is the father and king of all, and has produced some as gods and some as men, and has made some slaves and some free;” and “We must know that war is universal and strife right, and that by strife all things arise.” He also said, “They say that it is unfitting that the sight of wars should please the gods. But it is not so. For noble works delight them, and while wars and battles seem to us terrible, to God they do not seem so.” Here one sees Marx’s intellectual forebears and the idea destruction is the father of all.

C. Destructive Tendencies
Marx claimed there is no God or human soul; only the group matters. Therefore, people are mere pawns in a game. In achieving classless society, does it matter how many persons are destroyed, if it helps the outcome? Most chilling, a Marxist leader will see only opportunity in catastrophe, whereas a genuine leader would view such strife, destruction and death with grief and a desire to help.

II. Marxist Leaders
This section describes disasters created by notable Marxist leaders. The first debacle is obviously embracing Marx’s nonsensical economics. Technically, there is no “Marxist economics” in that Marx only articulated a negative critique of capitalism. The most obvious reason is Marx’s ideas are unworkable in the real world. Every historical attempt shows them impossible.

The best explanation for continued global enthusiasm for socialism and communism, despite relentless failures, is need for religion in the lives of godless Marxists, as described by Eric Voegelin. Marxist’s mindless attacks upon capitalism are reminiscent of similar Islamic denunciations. Capitalism is simply human freedom applied to the marketplace, Therefore, totalitarianism is itself greatly disturbed by free-market enthusiasts attempting productivity without guidance from the mother ship.

A. Lenin
Vladimir Lenin lived from 1870-1922, establishing the first communist state after Russia’s 1917 revolution. There was no “Good Lenin” as Marxists now tell themselves, according to Robert Gellately in “Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler; The Age of Social Catastrophe.” Lenin fathered all subsequent devils, erecting the philosophy and machinery of tyranny, terror and death used by Stalin, then mimicked by Mao. Lenin was outside Russia for ten years when the Russian Revolution started. He took the famed “Sealed Train” back home with $10 million to fund the revolution.

Virtually every decision Lenin made after coming home was a disaster. Instead of playing peace-maker, he fomented civil war, knowing this would increase Bolshevik chances for power. He cared not about defending Russia in WWI, only that his Bolshevik’s would profit from the opportunity. After gaining power, he personally wiped out any chance for liberal democracy, jailing, torturing and murdering his principled opposition. He insisted Marx’s Tyranny of the Proletariat be installed, and set up the Cheka secret police and prison camps. While Stalin died relatively young, he didn’t achieve more evil simply for lack of opportunity.

B. Stalin
Joseph Stalin lived from 1879—1953. Many of his decisions rank among the worst ever. As Lenin’s colleague, he saw the birth of the USSR. He went on to become one of history’s most paranoid and bloody despots. His achievements included development of the police state to its logical conclusion, and murder of perhaps 70 million of his countrymen. Stalin’s Five-Year Plan to upgrade the economy failed so spectacularly it led to the largest drop in GDP in recorded history, according to Alec Nove. His subsequent war against the hated, defenseless Kulak peasants was preceded by Lenin starving 5 million to death. Stalin removed the Kulaks from the land, essentially making them indistinguishable from medieval serfs. His decision to sell all grain, not even leaving enough to keep the Kulaks alive, meant 6-8 million more starved to death in a year, according to Robert Conquest’s “Harvest of Sorrow; Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine.”

Stalin’s Great Terror was a bureaucratic decision to create chaos, destruction and death throughout the land so the tiny ultra-minority Bolshevik could better keep power. While Stalin used the KGB and kangaroo courts to remove enemies, after awhile the process began to feed upon itself. Stalin became convinced murder itself was life-giving. He demand each division send a raw number of persons—say 100,000—to be arrested, imprisoned or executed. Invariably, these people were often just unlucky folks randomly plucked off the street without committing a single crime. Stalin was so paranoid, ruthless and unfeeling, virtually every decision made by him debased the country, yet he was able to keep power for decades simply via sheer terror.

C. Mao
Chairman Mao Zedong lived from 1893 to 1976. He began as a rebellious boy and never gave up the mindset. After leading the People’s Liberation Army, he set up communist China. Initially trained by the Russians, he found their methods lacking. Mao went on to author some of the largest man-made catastrophes in history, including the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. In the Great Leap Forward, Mao tried to “supersize” his economy in a very short period of time by forcing the peasants to enrich the country’s treasury. Zedong demanded massive growth in both agriculture and technology. But his goals included no educated plans, so his scheme was a staggering failure. Seven hundred million peasants were moved off their farms into agricultural communes, but instead of increasing food production, it plummeted. Experts believe some 40 million Chinese may have starved to death during the man-made famine, according to Jasper Becker’s “Hungry Ghosts.”

Mao never got over the astounding failure of his Great Leap Forward. In time, he chose a classic Marxist maneuver, attacking society’s movers and shakers. His Cultural Revolution was a direct assault against the institutions of China—family, educators, politicians and artists. In fact, Mao even canceled university classes for a few years so students could properly assault the bourgeoisie. A crazy but typical outcome: In some hospitals, janitors were forced to switch places with surgeons, to predictable results. Yet Mao was more interested in settling scores, and he made sure long lists of his enemies were liquidated before it ended, according to “Mao, The Unknown Story,’ by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.

III. American Leftist Jimmy Carter
A. Overview
This is no attempt to place Jimmy Carter into the same league as Lenin, Stalin and Mao in terms of evil deeds. That would be absurd. But leftist commentators subtly insist there is no connection between US socialists and communist regimes, since Marxist leaders were mass-murders. But there is yet a transparent connection, nonetheless. All leftists draw inspiration from early socialist writers, such as Marx, Engels, Proudhon, etc—either directly, or indirectly. These form the backbone of modern leftist thought. But one can never escape Marx being at the center of the canon.

Yes, there are many intellectuals associated with world socialism, but not many core ideas. These notions include desire to see humanism gain permanent preeminence over religion; and the call for non-freewill sharing of material goods. Another includes the felt need for a strong, centralized government coordinating all life for society. Others beliefs include demand for socialized medicine, disarmament, blanket application of a welfare state, a one-world system replacing nation states and a generally non-competitive society. Overall, they seek a society built without reference to God, seeking total equity in sharing all things, ie attempting to erect a heaven on earth. Yet history show applying these ideas is cancerous.

B. Jimmy Carter Bio
Peanut farming President James Earl Carter was born in 1924, serving a single term as president, from 1977-1981. Carter was elected after the Watergate affair and so ran upon a platform of reform and probity. Yet Carter’s term came to represent the worst of personal vanity and self-righteousness, liberal naivite’, and poor strategic decisions, both home and abroad. In other words, his judgment and values seemed to mirror that of other socialists and communists, which is why the conservative Ronald Reagan was able to win office by a landslide in 1981.

Jimmy Carter was a self-declared “Born-Again” Christian of a liberal strain. His beliefs allowed for abortion rights and support of many leftist causes and politicians around the world. He has been identified as a Hegelian, aka Marxist in his thinking. According to Mike Evan’s study of the man called “Jimmy Carter; The Liberal Left And World Chaos,” Carter was the father of many poor, unethical and even illegal decisions putting America at grave risk.

C. Domestic Policy
Carter’s failed foreign policy affected his domestic agenda. After US hostages were seized by Iran, 6 million barrels of oil were removed from the US economy per day. This caused long gas lines and spiking prices, but his oil price controls oversaw a doubling in gasoline prices. Carter slashed the defense budget by $6 billion, including dumping the B-1 Bomber, to make the Soviets understand America was no threat to them and wanted peace. He increased deficits over his predecessor by twelve times and grew the government 42% during his four-year term. Carter had planned a national health insurance program which would have really ballooned government spending, but he was too weak to pass it. By 1980, US interest rates stood at 21%, inflation hit 13.5%, unemployment was 7%, and Carter’s own invention, the so-called “misery index”—measured over 20%. His albatross was stagflation, a combination of high inflation and unemployment.

During the energy crisis, Carter affected a strangely weak, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood styled persona that saw him wearing cardigan sweaters for fireside chats, extolling Americans to turn down the thermostat. The net effect was amplified weakness, and Carter became a worldwide laughingstock. He gave a speech called a “Crisis of Confidence” which became emblematic of his pessimistic political messages, chastising America for a selfishness consumerist mentality. This so-called Malaise speech projected his incipient socialist tendencies and the overall sense he was in over his head as president. This was best symbolized by Carter’s self-described encounter with a giant, menacing “killer rabbit” while fishing.

D. Foreign Policy
Foreign policy was truly Carter’s bete noire, given his many mistakes that still affect the West today. According to Dr. Evans, Carter gave four successive checks of $150 million each to the Ayatollah Khomeini while the Muslim cleric was living in exile in Paris. Then the Ayatollah returned to Iran, flush with cash, to overthrow the Shah, one of America’s closest allies. Carter double-crossed the Shah, believing the Ayatollah a religious freedom advocate, and a Gandhi-esque peace lover who wanted to create a liberal democracy. Carter also gave $500 million to the Muslim Brotherhood freedom fighters who later became the Taliban and al Qaeda. Late in his reelection campaign, sensing defeat imminent without a resolution, Carter wire-transferred $7.9 billion to buy-back hostages after 444 days of humiliation. But the hostages were not released till after Reagan was elected.

After Iran’s Shah fell, all hell broke loose. Many of America’s allies were scorned, such as Anastasio Samoza of Nicaragua, allowing the communist Sandinista Guerrillas to take over. Carter gave away the strategic, American-built Panama Canal for no clear reason. Because of Carter’s weakness, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, and gave the North Koreans military aid. Mr. Carter opened the door for modern terrorism as we understand it today. His Camp David Accords pressured Israel to surrender land-for-peace to eternal enemies. Modern Western criticism of Israel finds leadership in Jimmy Carter. He personally and illegally funded radical Muslims who later attacked America. And this was all avoidable had he just not been so proud, self-righteous, and had exercised a little common sense. But there can be no doubt that Carter errs on the same side of the political aisle as the other Marxist leaders, sans the executions.

CONCLUSION
Why do Marxists always fail? Three reasons:

A rebellious nature that first draws them to socialism, being a total opposition to capitalism, freedom and human rights;
Normally, an utter lack of traditional leadership experience;
Typically, being blinded by megalomania; ie manic self-love.
Before listening to White House advisers Anita Dunn and Van Jones extolling Chairman Mao Zedong, we ought to recall leftist dictators probably murdered somewhere between 150-200 million innocent souls last century. Does that stand for nothing? Can anyone argue, in the face of such pure evil, that Mao, Stalin, or Lenin ought to be described as role models in any conceivable scenario?

Where does Barack Obama fit in here? The answer is in the eye of the beholder. We know he has been surrounded by socialists and Marxists his entire life. His manifold screw-ups might all be explained by the above Marxist world view, that takes comfort only in the collapse of Capitalism, or the erection of a socialist state. Does not his Obamacare mania settle the question of his political orientation all by itself? If the man is as intelligent as advertised, and not an ideologue—as he claims, he may learn from his countless avoidable errors. Contra, if he really does have Marx in his heart, all bets are off, and we are on notice that anything could happen before he leaves office…

Cont’d.

And once again we found ourselves fighting a proxy war for the Saudi Royal Family.

Muslim terrorists attacking Westerners in order to force them to do their dirty work for them
This was hardly the first time that Muslim terrorists had attacked Westerners in order to force them to do their dirty work for them. The PLO had made that the linchpin of their strategy, hijacking airplanes and setting off bombs, in order to force Europe and America to pressure Israel into giving them a state. And what’s more is that the strategy worked. By now, it has become routine for Islamist groups to target foreigners, whether it is Australians in Bali or Israeli tourists in Egypt or American tourists in Israel or French tourists in Mauritania. The pattern is the same. The wannabe Bin Ladens murder Westerners, knowing that their governments will eventually get around to helping them achieve their goals either through diplomatic pressure, or another proxy war that will rally other Muslims to their side.

And how it got this way is very simple. The balance of power shifted, just as it did in the Roman Empire, and the rulers became the ruled. It didn’t happen through overwhelming force. It happened because we let it. It happened because our politicians were too cowardly to stand up to medieval tribal leaders in burnooses, until a generation later, those same tribal leaders now controlled their entire economy. And immigration plus demographics adds the second potent threat of a voting base that doesn’t mind torching cars when they don’t get their way, or even when they do. This is the game we’ve been playing, or rather the game that’s been playing us.

After Israel stopped a Gaza bound ship funded by an Islamist group, Labor’s Harriet Harman demanded of UK PM David Cameron, what he intended to do about the British detainees. Cameron of course took the Londonistan line, as has every British PM in quite some time now. Now mind you, the British citizens imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and Dubai had not occasioned that kind of firm response. Rachel Thaler, a British subject who was murdered in Israel, did not receive it. But then she was a Jew murdered by Muslims, which just made her hopelessly inconvenient. No questions were put to Brown over the arrest of a British citizen in Dubai for reporting her own rape. No high profile condemnations or concern for the British couple sentenced to jail in Dubai for reportedly kissing in public. And there were no angry denunciations of Sudan after it arrested a British schoolteacher for naming a teddy bear Mohammed. Which only stands to reason, no dog will bite his master’s hand.

The latest round of European denunciations of Israel are nothing more than Western governments acting like proxies of Islam
The latest round of European denunciations of Israel are nothing more than Western governments acting like proxies of Islam. Which is exactly what they are. And when Muslim immigrants treat European countries as their new colonies, those same governments react by treating them as their new masters, and like good native rulers, they silence all domestic dissent. After all who knows what the masters might do to them, if they spoke up. Who knows. Certainly not them.

The left enjoys accusing America and Europe of colonialism in regard to the Muslim world, but the reality is of course completely backward. How many Westerners are moving to Muslim countries, vs how many Muslims are moving to Western countries. And while Westerners in the Muslim world are expected to abide by the most repressive and sexist laws of the region, Muslims who come to the West bring their own laws with them, and expect us to abide by them. Which means that not only had you better not liquor up in Riyadh, but you had better not do it in parts of Minnesota either. Or anywhere in New York where Muslims decide to open up their mosques.

When the Saudi Royal Family decided to seize the assets of the US oil company that had made them wealthy, the United States Government did not send over a small fleet to explain to the burnoosed thugs living under US protection, just what belongs to whom. Instead the US government nodded its head, and repaid the shareholders using taxpayer money. And since then, that same oil company has gone on to become the invisible Saudi lobby with a number of Secretaries of State coming from its board. Ask yourself if this is how a colonizer or a colony does business?

The homelands of civilization have become colonies of the Muslim world, accepting and caring for their surplus populations. Our businesses and our economy depend on them. And we go off every now and then to die for them. And at their hands. Of New York City’s three tallest skyscrapers, two, the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, are partially owned by Muslims. The third no longer exists. It was known as the World Trade Center. I ask you again, is this how colonizers or colonists live?

Every major war we have fought since Vietnam has been a proxy war for Muslims
Every major war we have fought since Vietnam has been a proxy war for Muslims. Whether we were bombing Saddam on behalf of the royals of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, or bombing our former allies in Yugoslavia on behalf of Muslim Albanians, or dying in order to provide electrical generators to downtown Baghdad and ferry schoolteachers into Kabul. We have not fought a single significant war since Vietnam that was not on behalf of, or intended to benefit Muslims. Not a single one. The Ottoman Empire had a name for this. It was Janissary.

It is only common sense to say that people who act like slaves, are slaves. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, eventually it’s going to end up on the menu of a Chinese restaurant. Or in this case a Kebab House. Those who have the power give the orders, and those who follow the orders are not the ones with the power.

By giving up our power, we became the proxies of Islam. We allowed ourselves to be subjugated politically, economically and culturally. The kids wearing their keffiyahs on the street are just acknowledging the new reality. The mosque loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer, where they will thank Allah that they are not Jews or Christians. The mosque going up near Ground Zero. The European leaders outraged that a few of their own Dhimmis might spend an extra hour in Israeli custody. The shrugged shoulders as the Muslim world develops nuclear weapons that will make all of 9/11 seem merciful by comparison. All of these are symbols of our colonization.

We have been colonized at the top. Our politicians have bowed to what they consider to be the inevitable. Many of our business leaders have done the same. In a time of crisis, it is usually the appeasers at the helm, because otherwise there would be no crisis. And the helm these days is so full of appeasers that there is no hope of ever seeing daylight in their midst. By comparison to them, Chamberlain was a man of courage and Petain was a roaring lion.

Oh we still have armies. And when the Saudi Royal Family needs us to fight a war for them, or entangles us in one, we’ll be sure to use them. We still elect our own governments, we just don’t have the power to tell them to stop the Muslim immigration flood or to ban a mosque at Ground Zero. We can even buy newspapers, so long as they don’t publish any Mohammed cartoons in them. Why we’re as free as India under the British Raj.

When did all this happen? It happened when we gave up control of our own destiny and our own economy. And then the Muslim countries stopped being our proxies, and we became theirs instead. The tail began to wag the dog, until it eventually it was the dog. Now the tail barks, and our elected officials ask, “How High?” We don’t have a terrorism problem, an immigration problem or an energy independence problem. We have a problem because we’ve become the dog’s tail. We stopped giving orders, and we began taking orders. We act as proxies of our Muslim overlords. We fight their wars. We enforce their policy for them. Our money goes into their hands. Our people go off to do their work for them. Their people come here at our expense.

It is hard for the human mind to spot change because it is trained to look for discontinuities. A radical transformation is hard to see if it happens gradually. So too a power shift can be invisible, until it is simply the way things are. That is what a wake up call is for. It’s the finger that points your attention to how bad things have gotten. It forces you to look at how high the water has risen. And asks you, how much more will you let it rise. 9/11 was a wake up call. Not the first or the last of them. Our leaders have chosen defeat. We must choose resistance.

Bingo!

I think not.

With “just” cause!

What a scumbag he is!

“Your post #20 couldn’t be more dead on balls accurate.”

Post #20 is gone.

Could you enlighten the rest of us who missed it?

You took the words out of my mouth, lol.

Thank you!

Thank you usmcobra!

This makes me feel a little better.

Personally, I’d like to see every home in America fly the U.S. Flag upside-down.

We are in great distress, & the worse is yet to come.

“what is that flag that is flying above the us flag?

do you know?”

I’m unsure myself.

Hoping someone else here will know.

The REAL issue here is that there’s another flag flying ABOVE the U.S. Flag!

http://www.breitbart.tv/upside-down-flag-stirs-controversy-in-florida-neighborhood

Member since 5/31/2010!

I heard yesterday that 46% of Americans approve of the job Barack Obama is doing. Who are these people and what planet are they living on. Can you believe that 46% of our population is a sleep or in a political coma?

Obama was advised not to release anything pertaining to his earlier life or record because politically running on no record was better than running on a bad one. This guy has been manufactured by the progressive leaders, who wish to control the United States. You don’t see George Soros talking politics for the record. Any honest study of this man would have to conclude that he is evil. Just look at how this administration is structured. The cabinet, although most are known lightweights, they not real controversial. The real power are the czars and advisers who were appointed by Obama and not reviewable by the congress. Everything about this administration should be odorous to all that care to take a whiff.

Obamas biggest ally in his makeover and takeover of America is the so called mainstream media. They should be held accountable by the American people. There is no ethical journalism left in this country, except on the internet. Even Fox news has changed recently. There slogan of “fair and balanced” is being practiced by debates with the most disgusting progressives they can find. They have either made a deal with the administration or are afraid of the administration. All you need do is look at who owns and controls the media.