Marx’s Ghost
Once in power, the Democratic Party began an undercover effort to transfer the country’s private economy into the government’s hands. The process started with the automobile industry, which had been almost bankrupted by the United Auto Workers, a labor union representing workers in the United States and Puerto Rico. In the summer of 2009, the federal government gave General Motors $49.5 billion in “aid.” In exchange, the government took roughly 61% ownership of GM. Chrysler was bailed out in 2009 as well, receiving $30 billion from the U.S. government with the condition that the UAW receive a 55% share of the company.
On Christmas Eve 2009, the Democratic-led U.S. Congress empowered the government — secretly, at midnight — to take over most of the U.S. health care system.
A Democratic Party victory in the 2012 elections would dramatically intensify the transfer of America’s private economy into the government’s hands. In other words, stealing would become a governmental policy in the U.S., just as once happened in the Soviet Union, in South America and in every other part of the world where the Marxists have been able to take the helm of the government into their own hands.
On February 15, 2003, an estimated one million young people took to the streets all over Europe, not to celebrate the freedom they enjoy because the United States protected them from becoming Soviet slaves, but to condemn the evil American capitalism portrayed by a disgusting book called Empire.[vii] Its co-author, Marxist professor Antonio Negri, was a KGB asset back when I was at the top of the KGB intelligence community. He served time in jail for his involvement in kidnapping and killing former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. The New York Times called Negri’s modern-day Communist Manifesto “the hot, smart book of the moment.”[viii]
As I watched the television spectacle showing those young people demonstrating against capitalist America, I could picture myself among them. They belonged to a new generation, but they were condemning the same kind of fabricated American capitalist monsters as I had done back in the 1950s, and they were just as many thousands of miles away from the real America as I had been.
Looking back on that time in my life, I realize how much easier it is to change one’s view of America at 25 than at 50, especially when America is some vague place thousands of miles away. Alas, now even young Americans born in this country seem to be as far from the real America as I was fifty years ago, and as caught by the siren song of Marxism as I was at 25.
A few days ago, PJMedia published an extremely important editorial: “Changing Minds in Crunch Time.” Its bottom line is disarmingly sincere: “I was a liberal once,” wrote PJMedia’s CEO, Roger Simon. “So were many others I could name and still more I have never met or heard of.” But we changed. “The question is not wheter to change people or whether they can be changed. The operative question is how they can be changed. We at PJMedia think about this every day. One of the things we consciously attempt to do is provide you with some ammunition.”
Remember the Reagan Democrats who played a vital role in defeating Jimmy Carter’s undercover Marxism? They switched to Reagan because he had also purged himself of his own youthful infatuation with Marxism. There are still a lot of the old, non-Marxist Democratic Party members around who remember President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address: “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” Let’s help them become “Romney Democrats.”
[i] ” They want four more years of hell,” Teresa Heintz Kerry, responding to a Bush supporter yelling ‘four more years’ at a Democratic rally in Missouri,” TIME, Special Report, August 16, 2004, p.19.
[ii] Fred Barnes, “The Republican’s Best Weapon,” The Weekly Standard, February 2, 2009, p. 8.
[iii] Edward Marshall, “The War an Economic Disaster,” The New York Times, Magazine Section, June 6, 1915, p. SM15.
[iv] Angus Mackenzie, “Jaguar XK/XKR, A healty helping of cat-scratch fever,” Motor Trend, December 2008, p. 168.
[v] Ross Kaminsky, “What Will Obama’s Plans Cost the Nation?” Human Events, March 17, 2008, p. 1.
[vi] Ross Kaminsky, “What Will Obama’s Plans Cost the Nation?” Human Events, March 17, 2008, p. 1.
[vii] Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (London: Harvard University Press, 2000).
[viii] David Pryce-Jones, “Evil Empire, The Communist ‘hot, smart book of the moment,’” National Review Online, September 17, 2001
Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much about producing energy
Don’t know much about an economics book
Don’t know much about the constitutional law I took
But I do know that I would love imposing Marxism on you
And I know that if you would just love Lenin too
What a wonderful socialist country this would be
La ta ta ta ta ta ta (History)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (Producing energy)
La ta ta ta ta ta ta (Economics book)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh (Constitutional law I took)
But I do know that I would love imposing Marxism on you
And I know that if you would just love Lenin too
What a wonderful socialist country this would be
Today with Marx he will brew, tomorrow with Engels he will bake
And then the hopes and dreams of millions, he will take
For not enough yet know his sly little game
That Hussein Vissarionovich Obama is his real name!
Great job of quantifying the massive redistribution of wealth that has already taken place as well as the results of Taxmageddon for the average citizen. These numbers need to be trumpeted from the rooftops on a daily basis.
If anyone is still ignorant enough to wonder why private sector growth is stagnant and businesses are reluctant to expand and hire new employees, they need only refer to data such as this.
It’s not the Europeans and it’s not the republicans in congress. This clearly shows it’s the liberal democrats and Obama administration agenda that is driving this bus.
Just returning the Social Security taxes to the old rate and eliminating the 10% tax bracket will take 2% of gross salary+$300 out of people’s pockets. For me, that would be about $1400/year.
According to the US Treasury web site, “Treasury Debt to the penny” this is what was borrowed in the past 6 years to cover deficit spending:
Year Ending_____________ $ Annual deficit
December 31, 2007_________ 548.9 Billion
December 31, 2008_______ 1,470.6 Trillion
December 31, 2009________ 1,611.5 Trillion
December 31, 2010________ 1,713.8 Trillion
December 30, 2011________ 1,197.7 Trillion
Jan to May, 2012 ______ _____547.7 Billion
Deficit total: 2007 to present____$7.090 ‘Trillion
That’s a lot of cash. Where did it go and which party cadres carried off the most?
That goes to the heart of it. What did American citizens get in return for all that money?
That’s a lot of cash. Where did it go and which party cadres carried off the most?
I’m afraid they do not plan to carry it off. They plan to carry us off.
What I find astonishing beyond comprehension is that it has taken over 3 years of overt effort to bring down capitalism in our Republic to bring the voices of conservativism to identify Obama as a dedicated doctrinaire Communist. Born of an activist Communist mother. Mentored through adolescence by an ILU firebrand. Author of book dedicated to the openly Stalinist dreams of an African father. Proud professional Community Organizer, a career choice identified with the Alinsky school of the Communist Party of the USA. Supported and sponsored in the Daley Machine by the unrepentant Bomber Billy Ayers. And right-wing pundits like Bill O’Reilly are blithering, “Could he possibly be somewhat of a Socialist?” And GOP candidates refuse to use the word “Socialist” because it it might be considered offensive by Democrats!!!
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For far too long conservatives too easily shied away from the one real weapon the left had to keep them at bay – the word racist. More and more conservatives are braving that word as the left increasingly dilutes their weapon – like the kid who cried wolf one time too many – and the populace more often than not takes no notice of it’s use.
I just hope the word socialist – marxist – or communist doesn’t dull the senses of the average voter – but it needs to be used in context with what the democrats are doing in some sort of show-and-tell. Lets pin the tail on the donkeys and watch and listen to the braying.
To complete my comment above, accidentally submitted.,
The single thing the Democrats fear is to be labeled “Socialists”. The single best thing that the conservative candidates can do is point to all the evidence that this Administration is aggressively pursuing a Socialist course.{ actually Communist, but it would be a strategic mistake to employ that term with its echoes of Joseph McCarthy.}
We condemn Obama for his ineptitude. From his point of view and the entire Ayers/Axelrod?Alinsky team, he has displayed a high level of aptitude -for the furthering of the Marxist cause. He’s not lying when he claims he has been a great success, because he has been achieving his dreams, his father’s dreams, Alinsky’s dreams, Rev. Wright’s dreams, and Bill Ayer’s dreams: jamming Socialist legislation and regulation and “justice” as hard as he can down out throats.
The efforts to bring this all-out assault on our Constitution and Free-Enterprise system to an abrupt ending before 2013 should hammer on his Socialist agenda. That is not “negativism”; that is Positivism founded on truth and the lessons of history and the European debacle. “Niceness” is a lousy strategy when your cherished way of life is at risk.
Opposing Obama may indeed be a losing strategy. But opposing the Democrat party on ideological grounds will probably be even more difficult. The young and no-so-young in this country have been relentlessly indoctrinated by academia and the media for decades to the point where the majority of the voters are Americans in name only. Minds can be changed, but the enemy firmly controls the propaganda machine. And the people of this country are so insulated from reality and history that they can’t imagine the horrors of life in a Marxist society. In their minds Marxism is just a meaningless and hateful label used by right-wing wacko extremists. Leftism is a religion that fills a void in many empty hearts and minds.
The Soviet Union and many other Marxist countries fell apart partially due to rot within, but their collapse was also due to pressure from without. In the case of the United States there is no one left to create the external pressure. A very likely outcome is that while we rot and fight among ourselves the Chinese will step in and take the resources we squander and fail to appreciate.
With all the information and knowledge available to us, the real tragedy is that we’re just throwing it all away.
“Why would so many citizens of the United States, a country that for most of the last century sheltered capitalist economics and law-abiding freedoms from the evil plague of socialism, now suddenly be succumbing to Marx’s noxious charms?”
There is a one word answer to that: Obama. For the past four years (more if you include the run up to the 2008 campaign) we’ve been bombarded by Marxist ideas like “wealth redistribution” and “social justice,” code words for Marxism. Basically, you take money away from the people who produce wealth and capital and you give it to the people who don’t. Problem is, the producers within the economy begin to wonder why they should work so hard when all their money is simply going to be taken away from them to support the people who don’t work hard at all. So these producing members of society either move to another, more hospitable, economic environment, or they just make less money. Either way, it’s bad for tax revenues which creates larger deficits in Washington. So with lower revenues and higher spending, you eventually end up like Greece, which is bankrupt right now.
But for years now we’ve had a president that has been saying that government is the answer to all problems, government should supply you with everything you need from cradle to grave (from schooling to health insurance), and government should control every aspect of your life because, after all, “It’s for your own good.”
Over the years government has become more and more powerful while individual rights have been destroyed. Obamacare is probably the greatest example of that. Because, if the government can force you to buy insurance, it can force you to buy anything. And if the government is paying for your insurance, it can tell you how to live, what to eat, what medications you can and cannot take, what operations you can and cannot have, and it will determine if your too old and just not worth saving anymore. Because if government is paying for all your health care, then it can determine what health care you will be getting, and THAT my friends is literally the power over life and death.
That is NOT what we’re all about, and most clear-thinking Americans know that. We do NOT want some nameless and faceless bureaucrats in Washington determining whether or not people are going to live or die. Somewhere along the line the far left in this country embraced to vile teachings of Marxism and are now trying to force it down our throats. Time to put a stop to it in November. Vote every liberal Democrat, especially Obama, out of office and replace them with Conservatives. It’s the only hope we have left of saving this nation. Because, if we don’t, Marxism will have won and our Constitution will have died. And if that happened, I wouldn’t be able to look at another picture of George Washington or John Adams without feeling ashamed for this country.
“For the past four years (more if you include the run up to the 2008 campaign) we’ve been bombarded by Marxist ideas like “wealth redistribution” and “social justice,” code words for Marxism.”
The sad truth is, while, yes, for the past four years we’ve been bombarded with those ideas and words … the sad fact is that, in so many ways, we were already living those ideas — just without the acknowledgment. The past four years have only been an escalation — a flood — of the path we were already on.
Now that the words are “out” — it’s worse, because, although the response of many has been horror, the response of many others (lead by the MSM and their Universities — and Unions) has been “Oh, yeah, that’s right — Redistribute — that’s good.” So now it’s out of the box in words too. On the one hand, it’s very sad and bad, on the other — it clarifies what needs to be fought. But … it’s very late … the fever has spread far and wide.
“Problem is, the producers within the economy begin to wonder why they should work so hard when all their money is simply going to be taken away from them to support the people who don’t work hard at all. So these producing members of society either move to another, more hospitable, economic environment, or they just make less money.”
It’s worse than that. The young people — they will have no dreams (as I’ve seen lacking in so many young ones in Europe.) They won’t be dreaming of what they could create — accomplish — and their future pride and joy in the rewards of their own ingenuity. Instead, they’ll live day to day, just expecting to receive what they are taught to believe is their “due” — their “rights” to equal “results” (not even aware of cause and effect or where what they receive comes from — as we’ve seen in the attitudes of the OWS children.)
America — and the dream of rags to riches and all the wealth (and health) it has produced for so many (it’s already become harder and harder) will be over.
Even worse are the ones who won’t repress that “spark” — the only place for them to express it will be through political power over others through “government” jobs.
Aqua, You wrote a good illustration of what it means to be demoralized, in the fundamental sense of the word: deprived of morality. Back in the cold war, the soviet propaganda was aimed at demoralizing the American youth (and the western European youth), because that was a cost-effective way of weakening their planetary adversary. Not a quick return strategy, but a very effective one, over time. What you describe is how successful this effort has been: The youth of the 60s is now in positions of power (media, academia, entertainment) and we are living with the consequences.
What we need is a revival of optimism, confidence in divine providence, and respect for ambition and success, and everything else (courage, etc…) that comes with morality. Our current president is not an incarnation of the devil, he is only a symbol of how low we have sunk, and how self-destructive we have become for stupidly electing a man of inferior character. What we need is a leader who will motivate us to climb out of this hole, someone who speaks to the greatness of our fundamental principles, and release our latent energies, in the spiritual sense as well as the physical. Calvin Coolidge is not coming back, so we have to do with the available. So far, Romney has done a good job avoiding flamboyance and other forms of self-importance, providing a valuable contrast.
Thank you for your column.
We must be able to explain to our friends, families, colleagues, co-workers and especially to the young people indoctrinated by the schools and universities that the only reason for the continuing success of marxism in the battle of ideas is that marxism is a primitive thought, very simple and very paranoid.
Marxism is unable to understand how wealth is created and it reduces the whole discussion about the society to a simple sentence: capital creates wealth by extracting it from work, i.e. it steals it from work.
If we are able to explain that this is not true we win, if not, Freedom will loose.
Ooops.
Sorry.
“Freedom will lose”
Thank you, Ion, for your voice, your experience, and your courage.
I think a persuasive argument can be made by comparing the primitive hunter-gatherer economy to the agrarian and industrial economies. There is no wealth creation when the land that you depend on has just so much sustenance in it, and no more. In such a case, a community must share to survive. Recall how Michelle Obama likes to lecture us about the rich having to give up some of their share of the “pie;” she can’t seem to make the conceptual leap to just making more “pies.” Wealth creation should be presented by enumerating all the inventions that enrich our lives, and showing just how close we are to a stone age existence if a few essential services are removed.
Another tack to present the basic difference between free markets (I think we should use this term, rather than “capitalism,” which was coined by Marx to be pejorative) is to explain the precept “To each according to his need, and from each according to his ability” is entirely appropriate in a family. The children are the needy ones, and the parents are the ones with the abilities. But the children are not to be perpetually dependent, they are supposed to grow up into adults so they can stand on their own two feet. To adopt this precept for the government of a nation will produce impotent people crippled by learned dependence.
Finally, I see the basic error of socialism to be the implicit idea that the government is the source of goods and services. Any government is but a parasite on the people, who are the real source of goods and services. The left makes government their god, even thinks of it as a legitimate source of jobs. We must explain that government jobs cannot add to the gross domestic product, by their very nature. Socialist/communist government does nothing other than hijack goods and services and enslave the people.
I like to use “capitalism” because by using it in a positive context I can astonish the indoctrinated.
Capitalism does this: work plus capital (money in advance for salaries, machines, raw materials,etc.) =
more than work and capital (i.e. profit).
Capitalism is: 1+1=3
The marxist idiots deduce from this that capitalism “steals”, steals 2 from the supposed 1 (work).
Capitalism can do 1+1 =3 because it revolutionizes the whole world. It transforms dead “things” in a dynamic network of relationship ( that we call “production” but we don’t understand in its deep logical structure if we reason in primitive, i.e. marxist, terms.)
Capitalism is the revolutionary transformation of things in relations. Human beings become workers and consumers, money becomes an engine of investment, things become able to produce more things.
All this is made possible by the idea of profit. Without which, we would fall back into the ancien regime, into sheer poverty (see the Soviet Union).
Without profit, things become again mere things. Workers become laborers. Money remains money, no longer active.
Capitalism is difficult to understand, that’s why the primitive and paranoid thinking of marxism has spread so fast.
Making a computer will allow you to make a more powerful computer tomorrow. But that will never happen if profit is not the goal.
Thank you Ion. Every word true, every word unassailable.
Except perhaps, of the strategy of not telling the truth about Obama. Making this about Obama alone may be seen as “overselling” the truth.
But failing to make this about Obama runs a much greater risk in my mind. Obama is a Fabian. No way could he have won the White House as the “Radical-In-Chief” that Stanley Kurtz uncovered.
America’s great shame comes not from being fooled, but would come from being fooled again.
America’s biggest hurdle is not competing against the death spiral that Marxism has wrought, but against the traitorism it has infused into the body politic, the entirety of the Democratic Party, our DOJ, our NLRB, our EPA, our Department of Energy, and in many of our state and local municipalities.
And, finally, America’s greatest threat comes not from an unwillingness to accept the ugly truth about Marxism, but rather, from an inability to obtain it from our mass media outlets, our halls of academia and from our entertainment industry.
The Unholy Trinity of Propaganda, Lies, Distortion and Indoctrination…the most virulent carriers of the traitorism disease.
Marxism in America hides in the weeds when it rises to power. We obtained a government by ambush in 2008.
Bill Ayers calls it “small c communism” because it does not overtly seek brutal expansion into foreign nation states, it instead poses as a peace-seeking “One World” holding hands enterprise.
Drone killing identified enemies and anyone unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity doesn’t neatly comport with they soft pastels that the unrepentant domestic terrorist likes to paint, so the Ministry of Propaganda, Lies, Distortion and Indoctrination must work overtime hiding the truth from the people.
Stanley Kurtz has correctly identified Obama as a stealth warrior in this game of “hide the communist” masquerade.
“Small c communism” abounds, tearing down our economy and assaulting businesses and business success at every turn.
It is nothing less than traitorism, however, when it equally assaults our Constitution, our freedoms, our liberties and our checks ans balances that made America different from every other place on earth.
The Presidency you so admire only works, Ion, when the man who fills it fights to defend and preserve the elements that give meaning to that office. He must come into that office believing he is a servant to those principles and not their master.
Obama does none of the above. And THAT…Ion, is worth saying, if this land of ours is worth saving.
“America’s great shame comes not from being fooled, but would come from being fooled again.”
Even Star Trek, generally considered a rather liberal program, made that same observation when Scotty said “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME.”
I say that without any intention to trivialize your points, which I agree with completely.
I told my daughter just last week that “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me,” should be the most utilized bumper sticker from now until November when we oust the great deceiver.
“’A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.’ According to Derrida, Marx began The Communist Manifesto with specter because a specter never dies.”
The Ghost of Karl Marx will never die, but it will descend into the abyss of eternal justice. Do not fall for Marx’s Ghost.
“I have lost heaven, and know that for sure. My soul, once faithful to God, now is destined for hell… And still, you personified mankind. I may take you by the power of my mighty hands and crush with fierce force. In the meantime, as the abyss gapes before me and you in the darkness, You will fall in it and I’ll follow you, Laughing and whispering into your ear: “Come down with me, friend!” Karl Marx
http://www.forerunner.com/predvestnik/X0013_Karl_Marx.html
One thousand thanks for this cite !
This perverse, inverted view of the world is sadly common amongst a species
new come and uncomfortable with sapience; It looks on the world will horror
and nausea, and is thereby motivated to indulge another human failing:
To make the wrong choice, the one most likely to make things worse.
Strange, is it not, to find this common characteristic in Communism,
Progressivism…and Islamism ? >:)
So, so true. The founder’s little piece of work happens to be the radical doctrine of all time –it has put subsidiarity supreme, and a nation made of these self-powering individuals is as far to the classical liberalism as a government that can exist can be.
So along comes, say, just to put a couple of high-relief paradoxicals into the image, Bill Ayers and Barack Obama, who live their very warps and woofs of life safe and stimulated deep inside the warm body of prosperity and civility and security created by that radical document –and what do they do?
They want to be seen as subversive –but the subversiveness flows from a deeper perversiveness.
The hellishness of it all. Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ on the same Lucifer (”the light-bearer”) that Alinsky dedicates his ‘Rules for Radicals’ to, that secret societies carve into stone and advertise in corporate logos as elements of and allusions to the flaming solar disc: “Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more imbroils the fray By which he reigns” –!
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What’s ‘new’ about their New Party is that it has allied the mafia and communists foreign and domestic with several foreign secret services to incorporate entities of American business and commerce –which coordinate closely with subversive/perversive office-holders in D.C. and senior editorial staffs in the communications industry. “Journolist-ism” is treated as a joke, an embarrasment to the blinkered workers in the new trade, but it’s in truth deadly serious –it is marketing the coup d’etat. Lending ol’ Lucifer a hand. Why? Dunno –but the thing about Lucifer, he wants you to not believe in God –because he does.
I think the appeal of Marxism is grounded in our own idea of our obligations to our neighbors. We are a Chrisitian nation, and we have taken the two great Commandments to heart, as part of our idea of government. Those commandments are “Love God” and “Love Your Neighbor.”
We handle the “Love God” part by recognizing that people have a duty to God that is distinct from our duties to one another. It is individual, and it transcends our duty to one another. For that reason, our Congress is denied the power to make any laws restricting our freedom of religion.
The “love your neighbor” part is where we argue. Marxism has a slogan that, on the surface, encapsulates something we all agree to: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” is embedded, for example, in our tax system, which is not only heavily progressive, but which “refunds” taxes to the lower levels that were never paid by them.
The problem with Marxism as it has been practiced in every Marxist regime to date is that the underlying question of “who decides what each shall give or get” has been decided by dictators or oligarchies, neither of which have proven to be capable of just or even wise decisions.
In America, we recognize the efficiency of having individuals make their own decisions, and we also recognize that many people with extra resources will be anonymously generous when they find a worthwhile cause. These concepts have been rejected by every Marxist regime to date, and vastly to their detriment.
I have seen inexperienced people light up with the notion of social justice in the Marxist formulation, especially if they’ve been told about the “horrible injustices perpetuated by The System” or some such trash. Because they don’t yet know either our system or the history of what other countries have done with Marxism, and because they trust teachers who feed them bad information, they’ll fall for it, for a while at least.
A few doses of history can change their point of view.
In America, we value decision-making by ordinary, individual human beings. That is the great secret to our success. That is what Marxists don’t understand. They think we need The Best and the Brightest to make our decisions for us, on a collective basis.
–and as history shows, so often the ‘best brightest’ somehow fail to note that the population of Utopia is people, and that people are wont to fall quickly into famine upon the sudden dissolution of the previous ‘it feeds them’ system; famine which the best brightest then solve (actively or passively) by reducing the number of the people. Thus the composition of the unfortunate subtrahend becomes the ‘real’ theme of the new regime ‘word’ theme –relocating Utopia, so to speak, from the front end of the digestive system to the other.
Ion, I appreciate your reasoned point of view.
However, I do not and have not had pictures of any president or any other political official in my home. To me, a picture represents the individual in the office, not the office itself.
So I choose to have pictures of the art my wife (my wife is an artist) and children made, of family, and souvenirs of our hunts and travels.
I respect the office, no matter who is in it. But I respect my family more.
George Bernard Shaw, Fabian Socialist and the dreams of the Left!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93eir00rOho
As bad as Obamacare is, one of the primary architects of the education fiasco in both K-12and higher ed and the colleges of education noted gleefully last fall that people would be even more upset about Obama’s education agenda. If they really understood it.
Well I understand it, am writing about it, and Ion would recognize it. I know because I have told parts of the story to immigrants from irin curtain countries whose eyes tear up that it could be coming here.
The insistence of the state in making forming and remaking the personality the primary purpose of education. Are the views acceptable?
Anything that cultivates the ability to conceptualize and think abstractly must be minimized. Responding from emotion as a reflexive habit must be cultivated. Socializing is primary and one’s mind develops from interactions with others. It does not and must not exist as its “own place.”
All coming out of policies long sought but finally enacted in that awful Stimulus Act of 2009. What was really financed was our own demise if we do not begin to understand what a weapon education has become.
The proletariat [lazy, tax-eating, non-disabled government-dependents] will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital [property] from the bourgeoisie [laboring, tax-paying middle class and entrepreneurs], to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state [self-serving Marxist Government and intellectuals]… Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property.” Karl Marx
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
When Karl Marx advocated economic class struggle, “From each according to his abilities (middle class), to each according to his needs (proletariat class),” he failed – I believe intentionally – to account for the facts of lower human nature – the lazy and greedy aspect of human nature. The ordinary man desires to labor creatively for his property in the pursuit of happiness. The laboring man who desires and is satisfied with the fruit of his own labor is not a greedy man; his happiness is a natural sign of self-ownership and earned self-esteem. The proletariat class, and the Marxist ruling class, do not desire to labor – they desire the fruit of labor of the laboring man – that is greed. Karl Marx ignored or concealed the fact that the proletariat class becomes the lazy and greedy class – along with the Marxist ruling class – greedy for the labored-for property of the hard-working middle class. When the non-disabled man fails in his sacred duty to labor creatively he becomes needy for property, and must either beg or steal property to satisfy his need – or he can vote for Marxist-type government to do the dirty deed through unjust, excessive taxation of the laboring man. The needs of the lazy man are manifold – so under Marxism the laboring man must pay according to his ability – he must be forced to pay – he must pay without limits – because the lazy man has unlimited needs.
Stonewall-that is precisely right on the property which is why they heavily regulate the use of what is still technically private property. And use property taxes that are owed no matter what to finance the assault through education to create the desired mindset. Without us knowing our minds are being turned into prisons of emotions and instinct.
One of the reasons I have been able to know where to look to find actual confessions is the obnoxious “You can touch me” behavior of the administrators and other public officials.
I wrote this post a few weeks ago explaining that the confessions meant I had an express intent by govt officials to take property under James Madison’s definition at the time the US Constitution was written. And that was a no-no that does have a remedy. Once the real nature of what is going on is better understood.http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/if-the-system-seeks-to-destroy-the-ability-to-think-can-james-madison-save-us/
Did you know John Dewey developed Marxist education philosophy far more than Karl himself did?
So when an education official announces we are finally going to enact Dewey’s dream for education in the US that’s what they mean.
An informed public at the ballot box is the best chance we have for our country. If you google, “Accomplishments of President Obama,” you have staring right back at you a swollen amount of ‘outstanding historical achievements of President Obama.’ At the same time, we can google, “Mistakes of President Obama,” and we get some colossal informative links. Most of us are not intellectuals or economists, and it is a little frightening to realize that such a pivotal election will be moved along by the mercies of an informed or misinformed public. But this is the American system.
Intellectually informed or not, I am hoping that the majority of Americans act on their “gut impression” that something is terribly wrong with the direction this president is leading this country. I am hoping the Republican camp exposes to the American voting landscape, what the Obama apologists cannot argue, namely that his mixed-up and confusing Keynesian/neo-Marxist Obamanomics are not working nor will they ever work on an American free market, capitalist economy. I am hoping that maybe we would understand more clearly a concept President Ronald Reagan once stated, “…there is no such thing as left or right. There is only up or down. Up to man’s age old dream — the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path…”
Thank you, Mr. Pacepa, for informing us on a “real” level that we can all understand.
Let’s list some of the falsehoods and highly dubious statements in the article:
1. The president of the United States symbolizes this greatest country on Earth, and he embodies the essence of our unique democracy: a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
2. For the first time in the history of this country, the voters will decide whether to preserve America’s traditional capitalism, which made the U.S. the undisputed leader of the world, or to transform the U.S. into a permanently debt-ridden socialist realm marching to the tune of Marx’s utopian “to each according to his need.”
3. They were also overcome by Obama’s unparalleled self-confidence on stage and by his outstanding oratory, a combination that succeeded in neutralizing even such incredible disasters as the one caused by the Marxist Rev. Jeremiah Wright — the “adviser for change” of Obama’s 2008 electoral campaign who was caught on videotape screaming “God damn America.”
4. Unity in a time of war is what made America the leader of the world.
5. During World War II, 405,399 Americans gave up their lives in order to defeat Nazism and the Holocaust
6. The United States, a country that for most of the last century sheltered capitalist economics and law-abiding freedoms from the evil plague of socialism…
7. Each of the World Wars caused a brief economic letdown and induced people in some countries, those more heavily affected, to seek Marxist solutions to their economic problems.
8. [The] Soviet Empire, which dispossessed all inhabitants of Eastern Europe of their property and transformed that part of the word into a gulag empire, was created at the end of World War II.
9. They … brought in Clement Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party. [...] The powerful British Empire passed into history.
10. Socialism, which is simply a smiling mask hiding the ugly face of Marxism, has dramatically changed the geopolitical map of the world.
By virtue of your incomplete and childish rant you have proven yourself incapable of sitting with the adults and participating in this discussion.
Put your cap back on and go sit in the corner… Stanley.
You assert that the quotes you’ve cited are false or dubious. In what way are they false and dubious? If you can’t tell us, how do you hope to persuade us that you are right?
A list of assertions is one of the weakest arguments a person can make. In a nutshell, you are wasting your time and ours.
It’s the media. Not young minds. Not intellectuals. Not even the marxist masters themeselves. It’s the media.
The media is on 24 hours a day, every day, every month, every year.
The single stroke of genius the communist architects had was to capture the American media. Even now, dimininshed 200% by the new media, Cronkite’s masterwork still rules. My wife, further right by nature than Attila the Hun, but without the time or inclination to follow events closely, is enamored with PBS and NPR and simply does not believe they do are not objective journalists. “Why would they lie?” she says.
Now the media manipulators are like cockroaches; you can’t get rid of them, they have no capacity for shame, and most are so indoctinated to marxism that it like air to them.
Except the disease these cockroaches carry is marxism.
We may eke out another couple of decades of rapidly dimishing freedom. But unless the cockroaches are eliminated, the end-game is a foregone conclusion.
Who is with your child more than their parents? If the answer is no one then the chances are great that your children will grow into healthy and prosperous adults capable of making learned decisions. If it isn’t you and your wife/husband then the chances drop precipitously in your child’s successful transition to adulthood and prosperity.
Review your choices and change those that do not meet your needs and those of your children.
Be Prepared.
The American Constitution is a G-d given document. What G-d has given, no man can take away.
This world system is about control. The world system must limit G-d, or replace G-d, and his laws. The State gives, and what the State gives, the State can take away.
School prayer? Gone. The pledge to our country under G-d? DaOne can not even say it. Murder? Sure, it is your right, and it is called abortion. Is it OK to pack fudge? It’s a legal way of life. A man works for his bread. What? Are you crazy? Here, get on the government sugar tit, and we will grow together. Now, bring in Islam, and illegal aliens by the millions. They are already Marxists.
There, the 7 regions of GATT are almost where they are wanted. There are 10, but one region needs to become a Union. A North American Union.
Unfortunately, our conservative movement has focused this critical electoral campaign almost exclusively on an anti-Obama strategy. This may not be a winning line of attack.
But do talk about this historic political economy showdown would be confusing and boring to the people. Plus, any good news entertainer knows that the people are more interested in people in current events (“news”) than it intellectual stuff best left to bigshot lawyers and the academics, and doggone it those two have done a very impressive job over the decades.
Marx pulled off a stastical fraud as an economist; Cronkite’s fraud was more modest, he just substituted opinion for fact (see Tet). But they both were the same things: self-important and very harmful.
Countdown to 2012 – The Clueless Generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WHiYmOqTQ&feature=relmfu
Marx began The Communist Manifesto with specter because a specter never dies.
Maybe. But like a spectre, it would stop having power if everyone stopped believing in it.
When you read the 42 Bande Marx Engels Werke over many many years it becomes clear that no communist party understood Marxism whether or not authorized by a Marxist Academia. It always remained just an interpretation. In South Africa the ANC (SACP, Cosatu etc.) calls this interpretation: “from an African point of view”. Anyway. Marx developed within the dialectical philosophy (Aristotle, Hegel) a critique on Adam Smith’s, Ricardo etc. labor theory of value ..
But the intellectual concept of property is higher than labor value in relation to it’s labor contract …
This misunderstanding of property (being the higher order) leads to the Marxist misconception that the random virtual predicate ‘class’ as a real concept is thus wrongly projected on the laboring community.
But the truth is that the laboring community is NO class.
In classic economical terms ‘class’ can only be those possessing ownership over the means of production. (MoP. buildings, machines, raw material)
These MoP produce all the (millions of) goods and (except raw materials) once where products themselves.
All products and raw materials are outside the human body. But Marx thought that the internal human ‘forces’ physical power and intellectual property also where to be perceived as MoP.
But the laboring community is not a class and the labor contract is a different legal construction than the documents regarding ownership of MoP.
That is why Marx – although naive – did not want a communist political party but merely a communist Trade Union and why Lenin differed with Marx on this point.
And which is why the communists re-interpreted this contradiction into the ‘dialectical’ term: ‘Marxist-Leninist’ ideology and the German fascists into the term national-socialism although socialism is fundamentally international in doctrine.
2. Modern capitalism is the decreasing balance between crony re-distributive syndicalist capitalists who use ‘communists’ as infiltrator agent provocateurs and who are mainly focused on optimized profit by balancing of prices and wages,…. versus the venture capitalists or innovative entrepreneurs.
Innovation is the only source of wealth.
“Most of those people are likely to vote for President Obama again, unless our conservative movement will change its current electoral strategy of portraying him personally as the enemy.”
While I agree that you can’t beat Obama by portraying him as the enemy it seems the only tactic he has against Romney is Romney as the enemy. Those voters who went for Obama in 2008 may not vote in the droves they did then – many of them may not vote. The luster has worn off the ‘hope and change’ he promised us. Do you think that woman who was whooping and hollering in 08 about how he was going to her fill the tank (she was at a gas station at the time) and pay her mortgage is going to be so enthusiastic this go-round? I’d love to see what she thinks about $4+ per gallon gas – or the inability to refi a home mortgage when you’re upside down on it.
Thinking people will at least ask that age-old question as they enter the voting booth – “Am I as well off today as I was 4 years ago”? I don’t know but one friend of mine that can honestly say “yes” to that question and they won the Mega Millions in Jan 2011. Not many of us in that category is there? I have to think that of those 64 million that voted for this fraudulent a-hole there would be at least 10% that will ask themselves that question – and answer it honestly.
I think the best person to beat Obama is Obama. The record speaks for itself and he is singularly to answer for it.
Prediction: Romney in a 5-6% ‘squeaker’. And I’m calling it that only because Scott Walker won in a ‘squeaker’ in Wisconsin. For the MSM to call it a ‘landslide’ it’ll take at least a 10% margin.
PJM’ bio of Mr Pacepa is a joke:
“Lt. Gen (r) Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking official ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc. He is currently writing a book on disinformation together with Prof. Ronald Rychlak.”
I wonder why my favorite blog sells its readers so short … The bio doesn’t even begin to tell Pacepa’s complex story. Those who haven’t read his book, “Red Horizons,” or have no knowledge of Eastern European cold-war politics, are likely to have a distorted impression of Pacepa’s life and works (commenters, please, don’t call him “Ion”; he goes by “Mihai” himself and back home)
I’d have to trust Pacepa when he says his daddy worshipped Americans. That didn’t stop young Mihai from joining Ceausecu’s Secret Police and rising thru the ranks to become the chief intelligence officer, responsible for industrial espionage and the architect of Ceausescu’s support of Arafat, the PLO, and scores of leftist African dictators. Just read Red Horizons. Pacepa’s acts as Ceausescu’s Household/Spy-In-Chief have caused untold misery.
Glad Pacepa’s “seen the light,” but that doesn’t excuse PJM from hiding his past.
Finally, as a Tea Partier, I can only say Pacepa’s evaluation of our worth and work is pure fantasy. We are stronger than ever.
Mihai,
Article 33 of the 1965 Socialist Republic of Romania Constitution stated:
Secretul corespondentei si al convorbirilor telefonice este garantat.
In English, “The privacy of mail and phone comunications is guarranteed.”
Then why was there a unit in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, under your directorate, dedicated to listening on citizens’ phones and opening their mail??? My daddy was your underling in that unit,00120 or something, a man who couldn’t talk honestly to me unless we were walking in the park,certain that he was under the same Orwellian watch himself. My dad was a weak,spineless follower of Commie authority like the likes of you.
Sorry, Mr Pacepa, but your conversion to Liberty and American values means little to me.
Dear Cristina,
Well, Mr. Pacepa’s “conversion” to American values and liberty is invaluable to America and to many, many Americans. Just as valuable as your American status, if you are now an American. If your Father ever received the opportunity to live in America, and embraced this country, America embraces him back.
Inima ta poate fi pace.
Marxism and Islam are the only doctrines today that are accepted with absolute, blind faith. That makes them natural allies. They work together to fight against freedom and Israel.
http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/ChinaIran.html
Romney and the Republicans MUST run against Leftism. Romney has made some defining statements but he needs to hit home that the Democrat Party has become the party of the Left. One example is the Left’s hatred for the Middle Class, the Bourgeosie. RE, Biden’s “f” this and that, foul comedians in the White House, disgusting state dinners and other functions featuring low life musicians, the courting of foul actors and such in Hollywood. Just play a video of the Correspondent’s Dinner on TV and have Romney identify it as the Left. The message would be loud and clear
I heard of a class that decided to earn their grade for a class ” collectively.” I don’t think it was initiated as an object lesson by the teacher, because she, in the end, held them to their agreement. At first, the grades were all pretty high, and the C students were delighted because the A students were pulling them up. Then the C students blew off studying, expecting to be carried by the better students again, and the class average went down. Then, the A students stopped studying because they felt like chumps, and the class average went even lower.
It goes to the orientation of those commenting here that the most interesting comment of Mr. Pacepa does not seem to have been mentioned! Isn’t anyone interested in his claim that a genetic mutation is responsible for our current politcal circumstances?
When I googled the A1 mutation, I got a discussion of a polymorphism of the A beta-casein gene – A1 and A2 – that exists in cows, with the claim that the A1 variant being is to blame for the increase in autism, schizophrenia, diabetes and heart disease. As we should know by now, conspiracy theories need more proof than mere assertions. What we need here is Mr. Pacepa’s citations for the claim he is making, so that we can evaluate them for ourselves.
That being said, we know from Russian work on mink, that breeding can change characteristics in unexpected ways: Mink apparently are vicious little critters. So the Russians who are fond of mink hats, coats, boots, and underwear took it upon themselves in a concerted breeding program to choose the most docile mink in experimental litters. The most docile were mated with the most docile over numerous generations until they had puppy-dog mink. Problem was that many physical characteristics were changed as well, including facial and jaw changes. Apparently, docility is a trait that is in someway causative of or correlated with or caused by other physical changes.
We may fairly speculate that we are engaged in similar but unintended breeding programs through the forms of behavior in which we engage. Homosexuals used to have children in normal families; college marriages are a form of inbreeding since only certain types of males finish college – unrelated to intelligence; a large number of men are imprisoned and thus unable to bear children, money-marries-money, intelligent people deciding to assist the world’s overpopulation problem by refraining from having children, etc.
Yes, Mr. Pacepa may be correct, but we need to have an informed discussion (quickly) about the grenade that he threw in his article.
Little Wing,
Your Romanian is a little rusty. We don’t say “Inima ta poate fi pace,” but “In inima ta poate fi pace.” Even as it is, your statement sounds contrived. Hard to encounter in common or literary speech. Translated, for the readers,it means: “You can have peace in your heart.”
Other than that, as I’ve written before, I only wish PJM and its readers are fully aware of Pacepa’s past. In “Red Horizons” he comes across as an egotist, in love with his own manipulative powers, whether in stealing automobile-making secrets or setting up Ceausescu-Arafat/PLO schemes. Pacepa, like so many commie opportunists (we used to call them “politruci”) enlisted in the Secret Service willingly, and followed its agenda to the T, until he, allegedly, “saw the light” in 1978.
All I wanted to do , with my postings, was to urge PJM readers to take Pacepa’s articles with a good dose of skepticism. He may have been a gold mine for the NAS or CIA after he defected, but now he seems to try to be relevant as a former intelligence /Cold War hero/honcho, while he has little to say these days. Yes, I’m a proud American now, and a Tea Party member. Pacepa’s silly criticism of the Tea Party only proves his intellectual poverty.
Who are you, MIHAI PACEPA, to have the nerve to criticize the Tea Party, with your history and your undercover life?
–it IS important to keep in mind that information and its framings which may have ‘little to say’ to someone with direct experience of the topic, may have more to say, even enormously more to say, to someone without that experience.
Sure, buddy, but, given that my last message was removed, may I be allowed to add that “information and its framings” depend, largely, on who controls them?
Pacepa was a master at “disinformation,” so that’s why he’s writing a book about that subject, I suppose with the detached, objective eye of a reformed freedom-lover.
Christina, okay, i think i read you –it’s something like this, right?
The Story of (Y)our Enslavement – Stefan Molyneux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27bJ5pqPtF4&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLShkXwJQJ5IPVSb7px0EjlA
“…Once in power, the Democratic Party began an undercover effort to transfer the country’s private economy into the government’s hands. The process started with the automobile industry, which had been almost bankrupted by the United Auto Workers, a labor union representing workers in the United States and Puerto Rico. In the summer of 2009, the federal government gave General Motors $49.5 billion in “aid.” In exchange, the government took roughly 61% ownership of GM. Chrysler was bailed out in 2009 as well, receiving $30 billion from the U.S. government with the condition that the UAW receive a 55% share of the company.
On Christmas Eve 2009, the Democratic-led U.S. Congress empowered the government — secretly, at midnight — to take over most of the U.S. health care system.
A Democratic Party victory in the 2012 elections would dramatically intensify the transfer of America’s private economy into the government’s hands. In other words, stealing would become a governmental policy in the U.S., just as once happened in the Soviet Union, in South America and in every other part of the world where the Marxists have been able to take the helm of the government into their own hands…”
“Who are you, MIHAI PACEPA, to have the nerve to criticize the Tea Party, with your history and your undercover life?”
Where did he criticize the Tea Party?
Ask PJM
Russian bombers are back in Cuba? Can’t find it on Google. Is this a secret known only to former KGB?
Pacepa is just being old kgb. They disseminated misinformation, knowing most people would not or did not have the means, to fact check. Old habits die hard.
Pacepa will need to respect the informed among us or he won”t be on PJM for long.
de opresso liber
I posted a message thanking you for your comment.
It’s gone down the drain. It was perfectly civil and cerebral, but it contained, probably, more of a critique of PJM’s choice of Pacepa as a guest writer than the Editors could stomach.
Noting the above postings, I would say that Ion Mihai Pacepa scares the hell out of our adversaries on the left. ABO2012
I have to agree. Lots of second channel info coming in.
We need a second term Obama to ditch Israel in favor of a nonaggression pact with Iran. That is enough reason to reelect him. I thus overlook his other faults
ah, i belief that was also Reinhard Heydrich’s priority.
To answer “….Why would so many citizens of the United States, a country that for most of the last century sheltered capitalist economics and law-abiding freedoms from the evil plague of socialism, now suddenly be succumbing to Marx’s noxious charms?”
Ayn Rand said:
“Contrary to the prevalent views of today’s alleged scholars, history is not an unintelligible chaos ruled by chance and whim—historical trends can be predicted, and changed—men are not helpless, blind, doomed creatures carried to destruction by incomprehensible forces beyond their control. There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man’s rational faculty—the power of ideas. If you know a man’s convictions, you can predict his actions. If you understand the dominant philosophy of a society, you can predict its course. But convictions and philosophy are matters open to man’s choice….”
“…Just as a man’s actions are preceded and determined by some form of idea in his mind, so a society’s existential conditions are preceded and determined by the ascendancy of a certain philosophy among those whose job is to deal with ideas. The events of any given period of history are the result of the thinking of the preceding period. The nineteenth century—with its political freedom, science, industry, business, trade, all the necessary conditions of material progress—was the result and the last achievement of the intellectual power released by the Renaissance. The men engaged in those activities were still riding on the remnants of an Aristotelian influence in philosophy, particularly on an Aristotelian epistemology (more implicitly than explicitly).”
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/history.html
The author is correct- we have not seen ‘creeping socialism’ from this President but a full throated assault on capitalism. Even the Repubicks accept the rhetoric- tax the rich (but even if we take ALL their money this would only fund the government for 18 days), hate the successful (because everybody gets their job from a welfare recipient after all), redistribute wealth (because they “stole” it from the poor which is straight from the Communist Manifesto.
As a Sociologist I am by necessity a student of Marxism which completely dominates the study of social systems in the U.S. In many respects it is a beautiful idea. The world Marx envisioned is very similar to Star Trek. Everybody gets to do whatever they want, when they want. Nobody even has to work! Marx said you can be a painter in the morning, a Gardner in the afternoon, and a philosopher at night. All we have to do is take away the ‘surplus capital’ from the EVIL capitalists and everybody will be equal and happy (surplus capital is what sane people call “profit”).
Marx and Marxists do not live in the real world. They always say Marxism could work if only….if only people were not so greedy…if only the right people were in charge (witness Obamas: “we are the ones we have been waiting for”)…if only people were taught to be selfless and love their neighbor.
Yep..if only we had matter replicators we could screw around all day, produce nothing, make nothing, accomplish nothing (except another level on X-box) and THEN you could just go the the matter replicator at the end of the day and get whatever you want.
If only gravity were not the law we could get into space so easy. If only human nature were as we imagine it COULD be someday over thousands of generations then we would have Utopia.
And then you woke up- hopefully enough of us will wake up from the dream and realize it was really a nightmare.
Romney, the GOP, conservatives MUST find a way to articulate the blessings of the free market and our Constitutional Republic.
Our youth have been indoctrinated.
They dislike capitalism because their (also indoctrinated) teachers and textbook authors have denounced the free market as filled with greedy, selfish, big-business tycoons (much of this arising from Dewey, Counts, and company). Never mind that there are greedy, selfish, big-government people who are willing to destroy economies in exchange for votes and power.
Our youth do not understand the “Road to Serfdom,” nor do they understand what they lose in exchange for a lifetime of govt. mismanagement.
Our youth do not understand the free market, small business, etc.
But our youth haven’t lost the ideology that comes with youth. They can still be reached. I hope.
It takes the articulation of a Reagan. Of a Rubio. We must tell the Truth.
I hope someone gets the message to Romney.
Thank you for this piece and your others. It’s sad when immigrants to America understand what’s at stake better than many of those born here, but at the same time I’m thankful to hear the voices of those who’ve chosen to be citizens. Please keep writing. Your insights are extremely valuable.
With the greatest of respect I wish to add a note to Ion Mihai Pacepa’s reflections. Since the death of James Burnham, an ex-Trotsky-ite, I have not read any “bourgeois” intellectual (and I am a uberintellectual of impeccable bourgeois credentials) who thinks so concretely, thereby penetrating the platidues we bourgeois mesmerize ourselves with. Perhaps, this mode of thinking is inherited from Marxist days gone by. It certainly was so for Burnham. Marxism and its distant offshoot of Black Liberation Theology (and that brings us to Obama and his “church”) views the world as divided into victims and victimizers, caught in a titanic struggle which can only be ended with the demise of the victimizer or, in the framework of marxist/liberationist thinking, with the destruction of the system (of course, free enterprise, viz., capitalism, or as Obama was to say, the “remaking” of the system. The ability to dramatize, indeed, rhetoricize, either in manifestos or detailed economic critique (Marx) or the soaring platitudes of Obama (or the ranting cadences of HIS pastor, Wright) is a necessary means for spreading the marxist virus out into the world, even if the infectors do not understand themselves. Obtaining such understanding is, perhaps surprisingly, a mythic task. I wish to explain my words.
In the briefest of terms (at least for a longwinded prof.), the mythic/dramatic nature of Marx’s Marxism goes back to his pre-marxist days as a late Romantic poet. After completing my doctorate in German lit. and thought of the age of Goethe (ca. 1730-1830) I started reading the young Marx and was stunned by finding many features of the last and decadent phase of German Romanticism. Eventually I got to his poetry which formed the basis for my first book on Marx, namely: “Karl Marx, the Proletariat and Romantic Irony. The Mythopoetic Origins of Marxism”. As a college youth Marx (he attended awhile the Bonn Uni. where I have studied) was a 3rd rate poet, except for the expression of hate. Talent there! I would like to translate semi-prosaically two passages from the “poetic” fragment of Marx’s planned drama, “Oulanem”, though I will reverse the order of appearance.
“Bound, eternally, fearfully, splintered, empty, / Bound to the marble-block of Being, / Bound, eternally fastened, eternally! / The worlds grasp it and roll on, / And howl their eternal song of death, / And we, we apes of a cold God …” “Were there besides joy a Something which might devour, / I would jump in, even if I had to smash a world, / Which towered between it an me! /…/ I would sling my arms around hard Being / And, embracing me, it must mutely perish, / And downward, to beome immersed in Nothingness …”
In my first book I traced the “poetic” evolution of Marx as he slowly came to see capitalism as “the marble-block of Being”, the “hard Being” to be smashed to “Nothingness”. The “real” instrument of societal smashing was the “proletariat”, a totally ironic and irnonizing force of absolute annihilation. However such an incarnation of Romantic/mythic elements transformed them into economic terms, safely desguised from their poetic roots. THIS is, in my judgment, the true genius of Marx. He composed in economic terms a titanic drama of salvation, one that could even be taken up into Liberation Theology by “hard” thinking theologians (and than colored black by a certain pastor). In my second book “Prometheus Bound. The Mythic Structure of Karl Marx’s Scientific Thinking” I sought to show how this incarnated drama of absolute oppositon between the victim (proletariat) and victimizer (capitalism) played out in the “mature” Marx’s works, particularly in “Das Kapital”. Dry reading (the theoretical concepts used) becomes high salvational drama–and the hard thinking social analyst cannot see it because it has been disguised in secular terms. One becomes a “true believer” believing that one is but a clear and rational thinker, even if one is a theologian. It is just this drama that, I hold, keeps generating the socialist, viz., marxist resurgence over and over again, here and there and everywhere. It does not surprise me that a “Lumpen”-student from Harvard could, once immersed in Black Liberation Theology, become the most ideologically RADICAL president of the history of the USA. Obama has produced a rhetoric of loathing whose roots go back to the secularized drama of victim and vicitmizer, resolved by an ironic force. This entail, willy/nilly, a moment of hate! Why?
Following Marxism’s further course, I could not overlook a remark by Lenin (whom, alas, I had to read in English or SED approved German). Lenin once remarked that thre is no problem to ridding the world of bourgeois capitalists. Simple! One places them against a wall and shoots them. But the SPIRT of capitalism in everyone is another matter. That calls for harsher methods (and Stalin found them). Lenin’s problem is also Obama’s. Obama is waging an ironic war of salvation against the “selfish” individualism of capitalism in us all, a negative force through out our history until the modern ironist, Obama, has arrived on the scene. Obama’s rhetoric abounds in calumnizing (= ironically reviling) those who oppose them (not shooting them as was Lenin’s want). Loathing can be more effective than bullets, particularly in a democracy. At the moment, it is the GOP that is to be stripped of all integrity. In its heart of hearts, the problem facing Obama was the one bothering Lenin. How is “despicable” selfishness to be rooted out of us all? Part of the answer must be a second term as president.
I return to my unlimited admiration of ex-Marxists such as Ion Mihai Pacepa. They have been there. They know what is going on in the depths of socialism. They no how to think in a marxist, viz. socialistic manner. If I have done anything with this comment, it is to uncover the mythopoetic origins of a drama that once inspired Romania among so may misled lands. May it cease inspiring an errant America.
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Excellent. The word ‘mythopoetic’ is new to me and instantly useful –thank you for it.
This entire thread of comments is of course the work of people drawn to the topic. Several comments from about #40 on lament the difficulty of, or stress the need for, getting the word out into our wider circles. While no substitute for facetime and watercooler buttonholing, a website archiving hundreds of short but very chewy essays concerning the myriad of contact points where attackers meet, well, us, defenders –can be, depending on the impact of these three to five minute, invariably link-sourced essays, very useful –if for no other purpose than signaling your own increasingly serious attitude toward the force exerting power against the future of our ways of life.
I’m selling hard, i realize, so wish to state that I’m not connected to the site, nor the author, in any way –except as a longtime reader of the several-columns-per-month output, stretching back to the decapitation attack on the USA on 09/11/01.
This comment will get frozen if it contains too many hyperlinks, so let me just link the site, and recommend an hour’s reading, broken up into a dozen essay titles, all of them needing no more than five-minutes to read, all of them pieces from a dozen different dates scattered across the elapsed time since around the Obama election.
These titles all clanged a bell as I scanned down the archive list just now –but they’re only representative, not necessarily the top o’ the heap –just pieces that seem to me will be of interest to the writers of the comments on this thread:
Totalitarianism and the Empty Self –05/06/11
Those Who Know Will Understand –09/17/2010
Civilization’s Wrecking Crew –02/19/2010
The Danger Is Not Fully Appreciated –09/12/2008
A Short Philosophy of History –04/23/2010
The Science of Subversion –01/21/11
Voices of Destruction –11/07/11
Clouds In My Coffee –10/01/2010
The Web of Deceit and the Spirit of Sabinus –11/08/2008
Stone Age Genocide –05/22/2009
A Communist Conspiracy? –11/05/2010
The Sequence –08/28/09
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