Go here to read the rest. People who claim to be on the right side of History usually have read very little of it. History tends to be convoluted and full of twists and turns and surprises, which makes it highly interesting to study.
Right Side of History
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
This is something James Lindsay has gone over several times. Remember always that communists use your words – but not your meaning.
“Right Side of History” is just the name for Marxism’s god. Remember that it’s a materialist philosophy without a proper deity but it still has a need for one.
“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.” –Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Thus since communism is the scientific solution to history and is inevitable, to them “Right Side of History” is just the judgement of whether you helped the revolution bring about utopia or not. That is the final judgment of the marxist.
Trying to argue against them how history really is would be the equivalent of someone approaching you Don and trying to explain in detail how God is a singular woman. You’re so far afield from their core theology you may as well be whistling dixie.
That is the final judgment of the marxist.
If we could bring Marx forward to our time I wonder if he would still hold to the historical inevitability of Marxism. An unanswerable question, but Marx was a scholar as well as a true believer.
One of Andrew Klavan’s chief interests is the Romantic Era, which is very similar to the 1960’s in its views on religion and sexuality. It was followed by the Victorian Era of propriety and empire.
In his Christmas show, he said the following about conservatism: “But I have no interest in going back to the past, I just came from there, believe me, it was not as good as people think it was….What I’m trying to conserve is not the way things are, ‘cause things can get better and things can improve; I want to preserve the eternal values so that we can imbue the everchanging world with those values that never change.”
There is brotherhood in Jesus Christ. There is no brotherhood in communism, fascism, nazism, atheism, agnosticism, and all other isms that exclude mankind as brothers in Christ.
Dunno if you mean that as praise or damnation. 😉 One thing I have gathered from summations of his letters is that above all else, Marx was incredibly lazy. Communism was essentially his overlong complaint at needing to work for a living. So I think he would say whatever he needed to to keep the gravy train rolling. 😉
Marx had an aristocrat’s disdain for manual labor, and always fancied himself as merely temporarily distressed for funds. To be fair his scholarship did involve a lot of work. He was the secular equivalent of some Talmud scholars whose life is their study and as a result their families live in poverty. Engles, a factory owner, occasionally lost patience with the pretenses of Marx, but continued to save the Marx family from dire poverty.