Marie Claude,
Marxist Socialism is the anti-Declaration of Independence; it is an anti-American system in all respects, and Karl Marx was the anti-Thomas Jefferson. Marxist Socialism does not lead to social justice or human equality; it sets up an elite Socialist governing class of “Philosopher Kings” who are above the law. Marxist human equality is the same as French Revolutionary human equality, i.e.: government-forced economic equality (of a low order – the economic equality of serfs).The ruling Marxist/Socialist elites will of course ensure their own wealth, thus the phrase “equality” is Orwellian. Since Marxist Socialism is built upon the religion of Marxist atheism, there are also no God-given human rights; no unalienable right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for serfs you know. What human rights the Marxist Socialist State grants to serfs can be ignored or rescinded by law, which of course is simply the word of the Marxist/Socialist oligarchic leadership. As Fjordman says: “Marxist ideals of forced equality can only be enforced by a government with totalitarian powers, and will thus inevitably lead to a totalitarian society. There is no “enlightened Marxism,” and the idea that there is has ruined more lives than probably and other ideology in modern history. Marxism is an organized crime against humanity.”

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2125/print

Marxism is the core ideology of Socialism. Karl Marx believed that social justice required government enforcement of economic equality; an idea he picked up from Rousseau and the French Revolution, and before that from Plato. When the French and other Socialists speak of “equality” you should realize the meaning in an Orwellian way. The middle class will be gradually brought down to the level of the existing poor, and there will then be equality: The equality of serfs; except of course for the ruling Marxist/Socialist elite, and thus you have Orwellian equality, i.e.: inequality. Karl Marx did not believe in equality before the law; that is the understanding of human equality enounced by our founding fathers. The Marxist/Socialist governing (ruling) class is above the law; they are the law, and thus there is inequality before the law, i.e.: Orwellian equality. This differentiation was well described by Igor Shafarevich because he lived under this system of social injustice. Eastern European dissenters have lived under this unjust system which is tilted toward tyranny, and they know the smell of a corpse. Our founding fathers understood that human liberty results in economic inequality; that is just human nature. What they desired; and what they devised with our Constitution was a system of government, not to force economic equality, but to provide for equal opportunity, i.e.: equality before the law. There are those among us, primarily leaders of the Democratic Party, who wish for us to transition from American equality to Marxist equality. This, if we allow it to continue, will not occur in the same way as in the Soviet Union; but the end result is likely to be similar.

“The revolutionaries who drew up the “Conspiracy of Equals” understood equality in such a way that they alone formed the government, while others were to obey implicitly–and those who did not were to be exiled to certain islands for forced labor. In the most popular work of Marxism, the Communist Manifesto, one of the first measures of the new socialist system to be proposed is the introduction of compulsory labor…Plato argues for the necessity of communal property and wives, since only under these conditions will the citizens take joy in and grieve over the same things. In other words, he considers the communality of property and the abolition of the family as means for achieving equality. He regards equality, however, not in the usual sense of equality of rights or opportunities, but as identity of behavior, as the equalization of personalities. Both these traits–the abolition of private property and of the family as a means to achieve equality, and this special understanding of equality–run through the majority of socialist teachings…The usual understanding of “equality,” when applied to people, entails equality of rights and sometimes equality of opportunity (social welfare, pensions, grants, etc.). But what is meant in all these cases is the equalization of external conditions which do not touch the individuality of man. In socialist ideology, however, the understanding of equality is akin to that used in mathematics (when one speaks of equal numbers or equal triangles), i.e., this is in fact identity, the abolition of differences in behavior as well as in the inner world of the individuals constituting society. From this point of view, a puzzling and at first sight contradictory property of socialist doctrines becomes apparent. They proclaim the greatest possible equality, the destruction of hierarchy in society and at the same time (in most cases) a strict regimentation of all of life, which would be impossible without absolute control and an all-powerful bureaucracy which would engender an incomparably greater inequality.” Igor Shafarevich

http://www.robertlstephens.com/essays/shafarevich/001SocialistPhenomenon.html

Marxist/Socialist economics boils down to property rights. The free enterprise system of our founding fathers ultimately derives from the Bible, whereas Marxist/Socialist property rights derive from the Communist Manifesto, the holy book of Socialists. And what exactly is the purpose of Marxist law on property rights? The goal is government-forced economic equality; but this turns out not to be social justice, only economic equality of a low order, the economic equality of serfs. Marxist government turns out to be a self-serving, gun-clinging, giant tyrannical Robin Hood; redistributing what it robs from Peter to pay Paul. This arrangement suppresses the human work ethic – the human impulse to be creative – to creatively pursue happiness. Marxists know too, that by setting themselves up in this catbird seat they’ll always have the vote of Paul; and may therefore become a permanent form of self-enrichment and tyranny. This is what Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky agitated for, and what the Democratic Party is now pursuing: Marxism in the United States. You can expect freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and many other sacred human liberties to fall in tandem with your God-given rights to own what is created by the sweat of your brow. Human rights which derive from human government are not sacred, and are not unalienable. Marxism is un-American because it directly contradicts our highest law: The Declaration of Independence.

Contrast the idea of property rights as described by Karl Marx, i.e.: no or minimal individual property rights, with that of Moses and the American Founding Fathers:

Moses/Bible on property rights:
• “You shall not steal”
• “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

American Founding Fathers on property rights:
“The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.” James Madison

“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.” James Madison

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” James Madison

“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.” John Adams

“Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.” John Adams

“Now what liberty can there be where property is taken without consent?” Samuel Adams

“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.” Samuel Adams

“In the general course of human nature, a power over man’s substance amounts to a power over his will.” Alexander Hamilton

“In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.” Chief Justice John Marshall
“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association–the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” Thomas Jefferson

“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.” Thomas Jefferson

“The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.” Thomas Jefferson

“Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” Thomas Jefferson

“The Constitution of most of our states, and of the United States, assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press.” Thomas Jefferson

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.” Thomas Jefferson

“Property is the fruit of labor…property is desirable…is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” Abraham Lincoln