“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects – his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.”
― Henry Hazlitt
Some may think that the Western world has learned its lesson about the follies of Marxism. However, this ideology has is appearing again in new forms under different names mostly ending with ‘ism’. We may repeat the mistakes of the past. Evolved, globalist Marxism is having a powerful influence.
Communism, Marx’s evil offspring, has been a blight on our world everywhere it has been implemented. In the 1999, The Black Book of Communism from Harvard University Press attempted to tally up the death toll of Marxist-Leninist Communism in various countries. Their tally was around one-hundred-million dead humans!
- USSR: 20 million deaths
- China: 65 million deaths
- Vietnam: 1 million deaths
- North Korea: 2 million deaths
- Cambodia: 2 million deaths
- Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
- Latin America: 150,000 deaths
- Africa: 1.7 million deaths
- Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
- The international communist movement and Communist parties not in power: about 10,000 deaths.
These figures are conservative estimates. Many speculate that the numbers are much higher! Alexander Yakovlev, a high-level Soviet official and one of Michael Gorbachev’s chief reformers, estimate the victims of Joseph Stalin’s regime. He came up with a number between sixty and seventy million persons!
Ronald Reagan described communism as neither an economic nor political system, but rather as a form of insanity. I have described Karl Marx’s theory as a method to destroy a nation, not as a way of running a nation.
I have often wondered if Marx studied women’s habits. Females in the animal kingdom need support during pregnancy, birth, and upbringing. They thus find it natural to use the facilities provided by others or whatever is available and allow the costs to be carried by others. Males tend to cover their own costs. Males are closer to Capitalism and women closer to Communism. However, both are ‘ism’s. One is dominated by those that control the money supply, with its influence over corporatism, with its influence over politicians tied in with influence over media. The other is forceful control as totalitarianism disguised as Communism disguised as ‘for the common good’.
Many movements today have strong elements of Marxism. These include
- Critical Race Theory
- Leftist and Socialist policies held by liberals
- Radical Third-Wave Feminism,
- Post-colonial Theory,
- LBGTQ agenda,
- Queer Theory
- Fat Embodiment
- Disability Studies.
These ‘agendas’ are what many term as ‘Cultural Marxism’. Classical Marxism ideas have been applied to the social and cultural issues of current times.
