If Only It Were Groucho

[PoliticalChic]

The world would not be in such a snarl
Had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl
Irving Berlin.


Perhaps the most significant political figure in the world in the last several centuries....born this date.

Karl Marx
GERMAN PHILOSOPHER
BORNMay 5, 1818
Trier, Germany
(Birthday tomorrow)
DIEDMarch 14, 1883 (aged 64)
London, England

To many on the Left, Karl Marx was the messiah, well before Democrats named Hussein as their latest messiah.



Having just finished historian Paul Johnson's book, "Intellectuals," I will provide a tutorial on the life of this evil iconoclast.


The Most Deadly Intellectual

The only way not to guess the name from the title would be if one had no knowledge of the 20 century.


1.”KARL MARX has had more impact on actual events, as well minds of men and women, than any other intellectual in modern times. The reason for this is not primarily the attraction of his concepts and methodology, though both have a strong appeal to unrigorous minds, but the fact that his philosophy has been institutionalized in two of the world’s largest countries, Russia and China, and their many satellites.

… the kind of personal dictatorship he envisaged for himself (as we shall see) was actually carried into effect, with incalculable consequences for mankind, by his three most important followers, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse-tung, all of whom, in this respect, were faithful Marxists.” Paul Johnson, “Intellectuals”


2. Just as The Enlightenment led to the French Revolution, with the mistaken view that embracing science necessitated abolishing religion, Marxism became popular with the mistaken view that it was based on science.
For a general audience, science was magic, and it would allow man to not just understand the universe, but to control it.


3. And a particular branch of science carried Marxism over the finish line!
One of the first readers of 'On the Origin of Species' was Friedrich Engels, then living in Manchester. He wrote to Karl Marx: "Darwin, by the way, whom I’m reading just now, is absolutely splendid. There was one aspect of teleology that had yet to be demolished, and that has now been done. Never before has so grandiose an attempt been made to demonstrate historical evolution in Nature, and certainly never to such good effect."
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Marx-Engels Collected Works" , vol. 40, p. 441.

Teleology is the idea that nature, or history, actually has a purpose, a design. Most theology presupposes a teleology
Marx, backed by Darwin and Freud, changed the world.....and not for the better.



4. “Marx was a child of his time, the mid-nineteenth century, and Marxism was a characteristic nineteenth-century philosophy in that it claimed to be scientific. ‘Scientific’ was Marx’s strongest expression of approval, which he habitually used to distinguish himself from his many enemies. He and his work were ‘scientific’; they were not. He felt he had found a scientific explanation of human behaviour in history akin to Darwin’s theory of evolution. The notion that Marxism is a science, in a way that no other philosophy ever has been or could be, is implanted in the public doctrine of the states his followers founded, so that it colours the teaching of all subjects in their schools and universities.

This has spilled over into the non- Marxist world, for intellectuals, especially academics, are fascinated by power, and the identification of Marxism with massive physical authority has tempted many teachers to admit Marxist ‘science’ to their own disciplines, especially such inexact or quasi-exact subjects as economics, sociology, history and geography. No doubt if Hitler, rather than Stalin, had won the struggle for Central and Eastern Europe in 1941-45, and so imposed his will on a great part of the world, Nazi doctrines which also claimed to be scientific, such as its race-theory, would have been given an academic gloss and penetrated universities throughout the world. But military victory ensured that Marxist, rather than Nazi, science would prevail.” Johnson, Op. Cit.


The result has been both disastrous, …..and ongoing.

 

[alang1216]

The world would not be in such a snarl

Had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl


3. And a particular branch of science carried Marxism over the finish line!
One of the first readers of 'On the Origin of Species' was Friedrich Engels, then living in Manchester. He wrote to Karl Marx: "Darwin, by the way, whom I’m reading just now, is absolutely splendid. There was one aspect of teleology that had yet to be demolished, and that has now been done. Never before has so grandiose an attempt been made to demonstrate historical evolution in Nature, and certainly never to such good effect."
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Marx-Engels Collected Works" , vol. 40, p. 441.

Teleology is the idea that nature, or history, actually has a purpose, a design. Most theology presupposes a teleology
Marx, backed by Darwin and Freud, changed the world.....and not for the better.

Or had Lenin been John instead of Vladimir

Killing teleology was a tragic loss to the "divine right of kings" doctrine. Oh wait, the Founding Fathers already got rid of that one. Nevermind.

 

[Marion Morrison]

The world would not be in such a snarl

Had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl

Irving Berlin.


Perhaps the most significant political figure in the world in the last several centuries.

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Karl Marx
GERMAN PHILOSOPHER
BORNMay 5, 1818
Trier, Germany
(Birthday tomorrow)
DIEDMarch 14, 1883 (aged 64)
London, England

To many on the Left, Karl Marx was the messiah, well before Democrats named Hussein as their latest messiah.



Having just finished historian Paul Johnson's book, "Intellectuals," I will provide a tutorial on the life of this evil iconoclast.


The Most Deadly Intellectual

The only way not to guess the name from the title would be if one had no knowledge of the 20 century.


1.”KARL MARX has had more impact on actual events, as well minds of men and women, than any other intellectual in modern times. The reason for this is not primarily the attraction of his concepts and methodology, though both have a strong appeal to unrigorous minds, but the fact that his philosophy has been institutionalized in two of the world’s largest countries, Russia and China, and their many satellites.

… the kind of personal dictatorship he envisaged for himself (as we shall see) was actually carried into effect, with incalculable consequences for mankind, by his three most important followers, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse-tung, all of whom, in this respect, were faithful Marxists.” Paul Johnson, “Intellectuals”


2. Just as The Enlightenment led to the French Revolution, with the mistaken view that embracing science necessitated abolishing religion, Marxism became popular with the mistaken view that it was based on science.
For a general audience, science was magic, and it would allow man to not just understand the universe, but to control it.


3. And a particular branch of science carried Marxism over the finish line!
One of the first readers of 'On the Origin of Species' was Friedrich Engels, then living in Manchester. He wrote to Karl Marx: "Darwin, by the way, whom I’m reading just now, is absolutely splendid. There was one aspect of teleology that had yet to be demolished, and that has now been done. Never before has so grandiose an attempt been made to demonstrate historical evolution in Nature, and certainly never to such good effect."
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Marx-Engels Collected Works" , vol. 40, p. 441.

Teleology is the idea that nature, or history, actually has a purpose, a design. Most theology presupposes a teleology
Marx, backed by Darwin and Freud, changed the world.....and not for the better.



4. “Marx was a child of his time, the mid-nineteenth century, and Marxism was a characteristic nineteenth-century philosophy in that it claimed to be scientific. ‘Scientific’ was Marx’s strongest expression of approval, which he habitually used to distinguish himself from his many enemies. He and his work were ‘scientific’; they were not. He felt he had found a scientific explanation of human behaviour in history akin to Darwin’s theory of evolution. The notion that Marxism is a science, in a way that no other philosophy ever has been or could be, is implanted in the public doctrine of the states his followers founded, so that it colours the teaching of all subjects in their schools and universities.

This has spilled over into the non- Marxist world, for intellectuals, especially academics, are fascinated by power, and the identification of Marxism with massive physical authority has tempted many teachers to admit Marxist ‘science’ to their own disciplines, especially such inexact or quasi-exact subjects as economics, sociology, history and geography. No doubt if Hitler, rather than Stalin, had won the struggle for Central and Eastern Europe in 1941-45, and so imposed his will on a great part of the world, Nazi doctrines which also claimed to be scientific, such as its race-theory, would have been given an academic gloss and penetrated universities throughout the world. But military victory ensured that Marxist, rather than Nazi, science would prevail.” Johnson, Op. Cit.


The result has been both disastrous, …..and ongoing.

He was a couch-crashing turd. All hat and no cattle.
That French Revolution? They were commie before there was commies.
They burned bibles and books..bad bad bad.
I just learned that within the last month.

 

[PoliticalChic]

5. There is this interesting irony associated with both Darwinism and Marxism……neither has been proven correct, and, in fact…..evidence and experience prove both wrong.

"And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field."
Dean H. Kenyon (Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University), affidavit presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, No. 85-1513, Brief of Appellants, prepared under the direction of William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, October 1985, p. A-16.

"There are no laboratory demonstrations of speciation, millions of fruit flies coming and going while never once suggesting that they were destined to appear as anything other than fruit flies.
More than six thousand years of breeding and artificial selection, barnyard and backyard, have never induced a chicken to lay a square egg or persuade a pig to develop wheels or ball bearings."
Berlinski



And, after the slaughter of over 100 million human beings in order to institute Marxism and produce a new human nature….

“Culture is a stubborn opponent. The Soviet Union attempted to create the New Soviet Man with gulags, psychiatric hospitals, and firing squads for seventy years and succeeded only in producing a more corrupt culture.”
Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 198

 

[alang1216]

5. There is this interesting irony associated with both Darwinism and Marxism……neither has been proven correct, and, in fact…..evidence and experience prove both wrong.

"And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field."
Dean H. Kenyon (Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University), affidavit presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, No. 85-1513, Brief of Appellants, prepared under the direction of William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, October 1985, p. A-16.

"There are no laboratory demonstrations of speciation, millions of fruit flies coming and going while never once suggesting that they were destined to appear as anything other than fruit flies.
More than six thousand years of breeding and artificial selection, barnyard and backyard, have never induced a chicken to lay a square egg or persuade a pig to develop wheels or ball bearings."
Berlinski



And, after the slaughter of over 100 million human beings in order to institute Marxism and produce a new human nature….

“Culture is a stubborn opponent. The Soviet Union attempted to create the New Soviet Man with gulags, psychiatric hospitals, and firing squads for seventy years and succeeded only in producing a more corrupt culture.”
Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 198

You should stick with politics and leave science to the scientists. Attacking evolution just puts you into the anti-science, radical fringe and explodes any credibility you might otherwise have. Just saying.

 

[PoliticalChic]

5. There is this interesting irony associated with both Darwinism and Marxism……neither has been proven correct, and, in fact…..evidence and experience prove both wrong.

"And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field."
Dean H. Kenyon (Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University), affidavit presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, No. 85-1513, Brief of Appellants, prepared under the direction of William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, October 1985, p. A-16.

"There are no laboratory demonstrations of speciation, millions of fruit flies coming and going while never once suggesting that they were destined to appear as anything other than fruit flies.
More than six thousand years of breeding and artificial selection, barnyard and backyard, have never induced a chicken to lay a square egg or persuade a pig to develop wheels or ball bearings."
Berlinski



And, after the slaughter of over 100 million human beings in order to institute Marxism and produce a new human nature….

“Culture is a stubborn opponent. The Soviet Union attempted to create the New Soviet Man with gulags, psychiatric hospitals, and firing squads for seventy years and succeeded only in producing a more corrupt culture.”
Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 198

You should stick with politics and leave science to the scientists. Attacking evolution just puts you into the anti-science, radical fringe and explodes any credibility you might otherwise have. Just saying.

You can trust me on this.....I promise to give your suggestion all the consideration it deserves.

 

[alang1216]

You should stick with politics and leave science to the scientists. Attacking evolution just puts you into the anti-science, radical fringe and explodes any credibility you might otherwise have. Just saying.

You can trust me on this.....I promise to give your suggestion all the consideration it deserves.

Finally a truthful response. Thank you.

 

[Marion Morrison]

You should stick with politics and leave science to the scientists. Attacking evolution just puts you into the anti-science, radical fringe and explodes any credibility you might otherwise have. Just saying.

You can trust me on this.....I promise to give your suggestion all the consideration it deserves.

Finally a truthful response. Thank you.

It deserves about 1/2 of a second of consideration before dismissal.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Certain things tend not to be taught.


6. Karl Marx was a descendant of scholars. Both his parents came from rabbinic families, and his father was a lawyer.

In America, the education industry has been co-opted by neo-Marxists, yet they find it advantageous to keep this fact from view. This might explain why very little emphasis is placed on the totalitarianism that came from the French Revolution, and the godfather of statism, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Anti-Semitism caused the family to convert, and become Protestant.

Karl was six when his father converted the family, and never believed he was Jewish, nor did he ever study Judaism. He was, per his writings, anti-Semitic to the core.


Karl Marx’s “father Heinrich Marx, a lawyer, whose name originally was Hirschel ha-Levi Marx, was the son of a rabbi and Talmudic scholar, descended from the famous Rabbi Elieser ha-Levi of Mainz, whose son Jehuda Minz was head of the Talmudic School of Padua. Marx’s mother Henrietta Pressborck was the daughter of a rabbi likewise descended from famous scholars and sages. The family was quintessentially middle-class and rising in the world. The father was a liberal and described as ‘a real eighteenth- century Frenchman, who knew his Voltaire and Rousseau inside out’.” Paul Johnson, “Intellectuals.”



7.Coulter:
Why is it that the majority of liberal arts universities neglect teaching the French Revolution? Harvard has one course, UCLA none, Cornell none,…how to explain this? Shouldn’t the French Revolution be the cautionary tale for any civilized society, as it is the template for every bloody totalitarian dictatorship in the modern world?

Why does the liberal establishment, the segment that controls the colleges and universities, wish that American students ignore, remain ignorant about, this historically critical event???

Possibly because students might put two and two together and see this pattern: a) psychopaths like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fidel, and Chavez use a mob of rabble to gain power, b) with the same justification, the same objectives, and the same bloody results. And, might then notice that c) all were praised in the pages of the New York Times, and d) all were supported by the Democratic Party.

 

[alang1216]

Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fidel, and Chavez [...] were praised in the pages of the New York Times, and [...] all were supported by the Democratic Party.

Very damning if true. Got a link?

 

[alang1216]

Certain things tend not to be taught.


6. Karl Marx was a descendant of scholars. Both his parents came from rabbinic families, and his father was a lawyer.

In America, the education industry has been co-opted by neo-Marxists, yet they find it advantageous to keep this fact from view. This might explain why very little emphasis is placed on the totalitarianism that came from the French Revolution, and the godfather of statism, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Anti-Semitism caused the family to convert, and become Protestant.

Karl was six when his father converted the family, and never believed he was Jewish, nor did he ever study Judaism. He was, per his writings, anti-Semitic to the core.


Karl Marx’s “father Heinrich Marx, a lawyer, whose name originally was Hirschel ha-Levi Marx, was the son of a rabbi and Talmudic scholar, descended from the famous Rabbi Elieser ha-Levi of Mainz, whose son Jehuda Minz was head of the Talmudic School of Padua. Marx’s mother Henrietta Pressborck was the daughter of a rabbi likewise descended from famous scholars and sages. The family was quintessentially middle-class and rising in the world. The father was a liberal and described as ‘a real eighteenth- century Frenchman, who knew his Voltaire and Rousseau inside out’.” Paul Johnson, “Intellectuals.”



7.Coulter:
Why is it that the majority of liberal arts universities neglect teaching the French Revolution? Harvard has one course, UCLA none, Cornell none,…how to explain this? Shouldn’t the French Revolution be the cautionary tale for any civilized society, as it is the template for every bloody totalitarian dictatorship in the modern world?

Why does the liberal establishment, the segment that controls the colleges and universities, wish that American students ignore, remain ignorant about, this historically critical event???

Possibly because students might put two and two together and see this pattern: a) psychopaths like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fidel, and Chavez use a mob of rabble to gain power, b) with the same justification, the same objectives, and the same bloody results. And, might then notice that c) all were praised in the pages of the New York Times, and d) all were supported by the Democratic Party.

Hmmm. Maybe there is a correlation between education and liberalism?

• Jews tend to be better educated than the average and they tend to be Democrats
• University professors and staff are also better educated and they tend to be more liberal than average

Coincidence?

 

[PoliticalChic]

8. Contrary to the family background, and pertinent to Marx’s thesis…Marxism…his Jewish heritage was pivotal to his …communism...in a contrarian way.
He was baptized at age six, and never studied Judaism.

The fact is, anti-Semitism led his perspective.

“This found expression in Marx’s first serious writings, two essays ‘On the Jewish Questions’ published in 1844 in the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher. Hegel’s followers were all in varying degrees anti-Semitic, and in 1843 Bruno Bauer, the anti-Semitic leader of the Hegelian left, published an essay demanding that the Jews abandon Judaism completely. Marx’s essays were a reply to this. He did not object to Bauer’s anti-Semitism; indeed he shared it, endorsed it and quoted it with approval.

But he disagreed with Bauer’s solution.

Marx rejected Bauer’s belief that the anti-social nature of the Jew was religious in origin and could be remedied by tearing the Jew away from his faith. In Marx’s opinion, the evil was social and economic. He wrote: ‘Let us consider the real Jew. Not the Sabbath Jew…but the everyday Jew.’ What, he asked, was ‘the profane basis of Judaism? Practical need, selfinterest.

What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money.’
The Jews had gradually spread this ‘practical’ religion to all society: Money is the jealous god of Israel, beside which no other god may exist. Money abases all the gods of mankind and changes them into commodities. Money is the self-sufficient value of all things. It has, therefore, deprived the whole world, both the human world and Nature, of their own proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man’s work and existence: this essence dominates him and he worships it. The god of the Jews has been secularized and has become the god of the world.

Thus far Marx’s explanation of what was wrong with the world was a combination of student-café anti-Semitism and Rousseau.”
Paul Johnson, “Intellectuals”


Again?

It is not the religion of Judaism that Marx railed against......it was the importance of money that has corrupted society. This was an echo of what Rousseau had argued as well.

 

[alang1216]

8. Contrary to the family background, and pertinent to Marx’s thesis…Marxism…his Jewish heritage was pivotal to his …communism...in a contrarian way.
He was baptized at age six, and never studied Judaism.

The fact is, anti-Semitism led his perspective.

“This found expression in Marx’s first serious writings, two essays ‘On the Jewish Questions’ published in 1844 in the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher. Hegel’s followers were all in varying degrees anti-Semitic, and in 1843 Bruno Bauer, the anti-Semitic leader of the Hegelian left, published an essay demanding that the Jews abandon Judaism completely. Marx’s essays were a reply to this. He did not object to Bauer’s anti-Semitism; indeed he shared it, endorsed it and quoted it with approval.

But he disagreed with Bauer’s solution.

Marx rejected Bauer’s belief that the anti-social nature of the Jew was religious in origin and could be remedied by tearing the Jew away from his faith. In Marx’s opinion, the evil was social and economic. He wrote: ‘Let us consider the real Jew. Not the Sabbath Jew…but the everyday Jew.’ What, he asked, was ‘the profane basis of Judaism? Practical need, selfinterest.

What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money.’
The Jews had gradually spread this ‘practical’ religion to all society: Money is the jealous god of Israel, beside which no other god may exist. Money abases all the gods of mankind and changes them into commodities. Money is the self-sufficient value of all things. It has, therefore, deprived the whole world, both the human world and Nature, of their own proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man’s work and existence: this essence dominates him and he worships it. The god of the Jews has been secularized and has become the god of the world.

Thus far Marx’s explanation of what was wrong with the world was a combination of student-café anti-Semitism and Rousseau.”
Paul Johnson, “Intellectuals”


Again?

It is not the religion of Judaism that Marx railed against......it was the importance of money that has corrupted society. This was an echo of what Rousseau had argued as well.

I wonder how much of his anti-Semitism he learned as a graduate of a Protestant seminary?

 

[PoliticalChic]

 

[PoliticalChic]

9. Karl Marx’s father was a student of Rousseau. Rousseau had posited an all-powerful state that alters human nature to abhor competition, private property, wealth. And Marxism picks up where Rousseau left off.



For Rousseau:

“The State would thus ‘possess men and all their powers’, and control every aspect of their economic and social life, which would be spartan, anti-luxurious and anti-urban, the people being prevented from entering the towns except by special permission. In a number of ways the State Rousseau planned for Corsica anticipated the one the Pol Pot regime actually tried to create in Cambodia, and this is not entirely surprising since the Paris- educated leaders of the regime had all absorbed Rousseau’s ideas. Of course, Rousseau sincerely believed that such a State would be contented since the people would have been trained to like it. He did not use the word ‘brainwash’, but he wrote: ‘Those who control a people’s opinions control its actions.’ Such control is established by treating citizens, from infancy, as children of the State, trained to ‘consider themselves only in their relationship to the Body of the State’.

Again, this anticipates Mussolini’s central Fascist doctrine: ‘Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.’ The educational process was thus the key to the success of the cultural engineering needed to make the State acceptable and successful; the axis of Rousseau’s ideas was the citizen as child and the State as parent, and he insisted the government should have complete charge of the upbringing of all children.”

And how would Marx’s elimination of money be accomplished? Soviet Communism.

 

[Hollie]

5. There is this interesting irony associated with both Darwinism and Marxism……neither has been proven correct, and, in fact…..evidence and experience prove both wrong.

"And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field."
Dean H. Kenyon (Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University), affidavit presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, No. 85-1513, Brief of Appellants, prepared under the direction of William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, October 1985, p. A-16.

"There are no laboratory demonstrations of speciation, millions of fruit flies coming and going while never once suggesting that they were destined to appear as anything other than fruit flies.
More than six thousand years of breeding and artificial selection, barnyard and backyard, have never induced a chicken to lay a square egg or persuade a pig to develop wheels or ball bearings."
Berlinski



And, after the slaughter of over 100 million human beings in order to institute Marxism and produce a new human nature….

“Culture is a stubborn opponent. The Soviet Union attempted to create the New Soviet Man with gulags, psychiatric hospitals, and firing squads for seventy years and succeeded only in producing a more corrupt culture.”
Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 198

Your typical cutting and pasting of “quotes” from creationist hacks, Kenyon and Berlinski, makes you quite the ignorant fool as speciation has been observed and documented.

Silence fundie crank.

 

[PoliticalChic]

10. While Marx’s views began with the attack on Jews, as a way of an attack on the money-economy, he prophesied a great conflagration, a bloody revolution spear-headed by a proletariat that had ‘nothing to lose but their chains.’



“Having defined wealth as Jewish money-power expanded into the bourgeois class as a whole, and having defined the proletariat in his new philosophical sense, Marx then proceeds, using Hegelian dialectic, to the heart of his philosophy, the events leading up to the great crisis.

The key passage ends: The proletariat executes the sentence that private property pronounced on itself by begetting the proletariat, just as it carries out the sentence which wage-labour pronounced for itself by bringing forth wealth for others and misery for itself. If the proletariat is victorious it does not at all mean that it becomes the absolute side of society, for it is victorious only by abolishing itself and its opposite. Then the proletariat and its determining opposite, private property, disappear.

‘Socialism cannot be brought into existence without revolution. When the organizing activity begins, when the soul, the thing- in-itself appears, then socialism can toss aside all the political veils.’”
Paul Johnson, “Intellectuals”


One need be oblivious to the importance of violence to Leftist fundamentals, to accept, much less embrace 'the cause.'

It has been ever so since the origin of Leftist revolution, the French Revolution.

And, as wedded to death and destruction as it is......it is just as inseparable from atheism and hatred of the Judeo-Christianity that created Western Civilization.

 

[PoliticalChic]

11. The great promise of every derivative of Marxist view is an alteration in human nature, ending of self-interest, greed and jealousy.

They fantasized the rewards of communism, and under his acolytes it flowered into a broad attack on wealth, private property, and individualism, with the promise of Utopia on earth. And many of them are still at it….and just as successfully as Lenin and Stalin were.



The religion of Leftism has its search for Utopia…albeit of this sphere…and two famous statements encapsulate the search:

1. There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not ?Attributed to Robert Kennedy.
2. The other is from the words of John Lennon’s song, “Imagine.” One is asked to imagine that there is no heaven or hell, that everyone lives for today; that there are no countries, nothing to kill for, and no religion; there are no possessions- therefore no greed nor hunger.
3. {Lennon stated: "'Imagine', which says: 'Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,' is virtually the Communist manifesto, even though I'm not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement."}
   Imagine (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[PoliticalChic]

12. The truth is that Marxism never made any sense.

It's hopes for a new sense of self by human beings never was and never will be. The slaughter instituted to bring Marxism to fruition should be enough of a clue.....but when Marxist reveal their hopes and dreams.....that should be all one needs to know.


Need an example of this imaginary utopianism, and the Left’s willingness to destroy what is provably good, in the hope of finding this imaginary utopia? Michael Moore tells CNN's Anderson Cooper that capitalism “is an evil system set up to benefit the few at the expense of the many…. "So, what system do you want?" Anderson Cooper asked Moore. "Well there's no system right now that exists. We're going to create that system.” Michael Moore: We're Going To Replace Capitalism As We Know It


Now, analyze what is behind this thinking: for Moore and Left-wing true believers, those who lived before them are morally and intellectually defective.


And for the John Lennon-idolaters, a world without religion or the United States is a world governed by the amoral United Nations, where mass murderers sit on ‘human rights’ councils. No possessions means no private property, and the state possesses everything…the individual is a serf, a vassal.

 

[whitehall]

I wonder if the Watergate investigation would have had the same impact if it was reveled that WAPO reporter Carl (Karl) Marx Bernstein was the son of card carrying communists and was brought up with an abiding hatred of (then) HUAC prosecutor Richard Nixon.