Presented ostensibly as a description of how economics and history works, Marxism in practice served as an excuse for tyrants and would be tyrants to create movements that would impose regimes of slavery on populations that would put to shame every other form of tyranny dreamed up in the lamentable chronicles of human crime and folly.
Ironically, considering how infested with Marxism the Catholic left is, the main attraction of this superstition for intellectuals is largely the atheism that is at the core of Marxism. There is no God, merely an inevitable historical path laid out by Marx. Traditional morality was done away with: cooperating with the inevitable historical process, the ultimate triumph of Marxism, was moral, and anything that opposed it was immoral. Thus morality becomes a mere matter of political labels. How convenient that this allowed movements dedicated to Marxism to commit any crime, no matter how vile, in the scramble for supreme power. That Marxism has never been anything but a transparent fraud, with no more intellectual validity than a tale from The Arabian Nights, is a damning indictment of the human capacity to embrace any fable if it gives an excuse to engage in wretched conduct with an ostensibly clean conscience
Atheistic Marxism denies the reality of our human nature, the rational, immortal human soul. The Nazis did this to the Jews. Marxist communism does this to everybody.
Free will be gone. Sovereign personhood be gone. Conscience and freedom be gone. All civil rights be gone.
Communism wants utopia and we better give utopia to it…or else.
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Some tales of the Arabian Nights show great insight into human nature, unlike Communism which evidences no such thing.
The bad actors in our public life don’t know Marxism from meringue. It’s of academic interest, like psychoanalytic thought.
Had a long conversation today with a lady who is married to a Ukrainian man. The man and his family had fled Ukraine shortly after the collapse of the USSR.
The woman told me of her mother-in-law’s reaction whenever she was asked what it was like to live under Communism: “It wasn’t a communist regime, it wasn’t a marxist regime; it was a totalitarian regime. The marxist slogans were there to excuse the brutality”.
Sounds about right to me.
Oh, and that lady’s mother-in-law also thinks the overwhelming majority of Americans have no idea what totalitarianism really means.
To me, it sounds like the lady should be giving talks at high schools.
If they can deny us free speech, ban public assembly, the 10% or 25% can steamroll the 90% or 75%. We see it everywhere every day with LGBTQDUCK+, Antifas, BLM, etc, They don’t even have to confiscate our 400,000,000 gins.
That’s one reason they gave Tucker the boot. It’s backfiring.
Per [at Zero Hedge] a former US Army psyops specialist. They want to keep as many people as possible semi-lobotomized and semi-retarded [like any Democrat voter].
“Real Communism” has already been tried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEaeH6b5SgU
Lenin called his henchmen “useful idiots” and they were the best of the best communists having murdered the Czar and his family, who very easily might have been exiled and lived. Communists enjoy murdering people. Communists love murdering people. Killing sovereign persons makes them feel “more equal”.