Benj, there’s no getting around it; Karl Marx was a philosopher of tyranny.
“The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state… Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property” Karl Marx
Karl Marx worshiped and cradled the elite and all-powerful socialist state, which engendered a far greater inequality between the socialist master class (an oligarchy) and all others – worse than the inequality between the old bourgeoisie and the old proletariat. Marxism simply created a new socialist bourgeoisie and a new socialist proletariat.
Karl Marx directly called for a totalitarian socialist state whose main purpose was the violation of human rights to property, which is to say our God-given right to the creative pursuit of happiness; and by doing so without their consent; Karl Marx called for the creation of unjust and tyrannical government power. Karl Marx was pathologically and irrationally fixated on the socialist state, which through tyranny, became the owner of an individual’s creative labor and its fruits while ignoring man’s God-given unalienable right to be creative and to be free.
Benj, you’ve hitched your wagon to a European philosopher of totalitarianism, a philosopher of tyranny; a philosopher who counsels the violation of unalienable human rights and government power without the consent of the governed. Marxism is a foreign and un-American philosophy and system of law and government, and by adhering to this you become anti-American.
As for George Orwell, your quotation does not prove any love for Karl Marx; if anything George Orwell was an anti-Marxist because he understood the direct connection between Karl Marx and totalitarianism.
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.” George Orwell
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell
As for “Democratic Socialism” I don’t believe there is such a thing; there is only Democracy, human liberty and creative free enterprise vs. Socialism. Even some Europeans are waking up the nightmare of “World Socialism.” Even some Europeans realize that “World Socialism” is simply the nanny state which is morphing into the tyrant state; it is a velvet glove concealing the iron fist of totalitarianism.
“It is no accident that the European Parliament, for example, reminds me of the Supreme Soviet. It looks like the Supreme Soviet because it was designed like it. Similary, when you look at the European Commission it looks like the Politburo. I mean it does so exactly, except for the fact that the Commission now has 25 members and the Politburo usually had 13 or 15 members. Apart from that they are exactly the same, unaccountable to anyone, not directly elected by anyone at all. When you look into all this bizarre activity of the European Union with its 80,000 pages of regulations it looks like Gosplan…. If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union. Of course, it is a milder version of the Soviet Union. Please, do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that it has a Gulag. It has no KGB .. not yet .. but I am very carefully watching such structures as Europol for example. That really worries me a lot because this organisation will probably have powers bigger than those of the KGB. They will have diplomatic immunity. Can you imagine a KGB with diplomatic immunity? They will have to police us on 32 kinds of crimes .. two of which are particularly worrying, one is called racism, another is called xenophobia. No criminal court on earth defines anything like this as a crime. So it is a new crime, and we have already been warned. Someone from the British government told us that those who object to uncontrolled immigration from the Third World will be regarded as racist and those who oppose further European integration will be regarded as xenophobes.” Vladimir Bukovksy
brusselsjournal.com/node/865
Quotes of Vaclav Klaus:
“It is based on big and patronizing government, on extensive regulating of human behavior, and on large-scale income redistribution….There is always a limiting (or constraining) of human freedom, there is always ambitious social engineering, there is always an immodest ‘enforcement of a good’ by those who are anointed on others against their will, there is always the crowding out of standard democratic methods by alternative political procedures, and there is always the feeling of superiority of intellectuals and of their ambitions.” President of the Czeck Republic, Václav Klaus
“These alternative ideologies are successful especially where there is no sufficient resistance to them, where they find a fertile soil for their flourishing, where they find a country (or the whole continent) where freedom (and free markets) have been heavily undermined by long lasting collectivistic dreams and experiences and where intellectuals have succeeded in getting and maintaining a very strong voice and social status. I have in mind, of course, rather Europe, than America. It is Europe where we witness the crowding out of democracy by post democracy, where the EU dominance replaces democratic arrangements in the EU member countries, where [some people] do not see the dangers of empty Europeanism and of a deep (and ever deeper) but only bureaucratic unification of the whole European continent. They applaud the growing formal opening of the continent, but do not see that the elimination of some of the borders without actual liberalization of human activities ‘only’ shifts governments upwards, which means to the level where there is no democratic accountability and where the decisions are made by politicians appointed by politicians, not elected by citizens in free elections.” President of the Czeck Republic, Václav Klaus
brusselsjournal.com/node/206
