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===Morality===

===Morality===

Karl Marx, owing to his adherence to dialectic views, did not believe in absolute morality, and in fact has even had various astonished authors of the Communist party purged for adhering to anything implying morality such as justice, love, humanity, and even morality itself, dismissing them as "soulful ravings" and "sloppy sentimentality".<ref>https://twitter.com/andrewbostom/status/1068877898520633344</ref><ref>[http://www.austrianeconomics.org/sites/default/files/Freeman53-6_3.pdf Max Eastman, "The Religion of Immoralism", The Freeman, June 1, 1953, p. 623]<br />"The Communist's believe in man not as an independent power, but as a constituent part of the super humanly ordained movement of the universe. That dialectic movement is their God, and it is that God who exempts them from the laws of morality. The difference between Christianity and Communism is between a religion which teaches personal salvation through sympathy and loving-kindness and a religion which teaches social salvation through bringing the morals of war into the peacetime relations of men. Marx was so sure that the world was going to be redeemed by its own dialectic evolution that he would not permit his disciples to invoke the guidance of moral ideals. He really meant it when he said the workers have ‘no ideal to realize,’ they have only to participate in the contemporary struggle. He expelled people from his Communist Party for mentioning programmatically such things as ‘love,’ ‘justice,’ ‘humanity,’ even ‘morality’ itself. ‘Soulful ravings,’ ‘sloppy sentimentality,’ he called such expressions, and purged the astonished authors as though they had committed the most dastardly crimes.”"</ref><ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=Marx;id=uc1.c049728219;view=1up;seq=16;start=1;sz=10;page=search;num=8 Major speeches and debates of Senator Joe McCarthy delivered in the United States Senate, 1950-1951. Washington, Govt. Print. Off. [1952]; p. 8]<br />"The great difference between our western Christian world and the atheistic communist world is not political, ladies and gentlemen, it is moral. There are other differences, of course, but those could be reconciled. For instance, the Marxian idea of confiscating the land and factories and running the entire economy as a single enterprise is momentous. Likewise, Lenin’s invention of the one-party police state as a way to make Marx’s idea work is hardly less momentous. Stalin’s resolute putting across of these two ideas, of course, did much to divide the world. With only those differences, however, the East and the West could most certainly still live in peace. The real, basic difference, however, lies in the religion of immoralism—invented by Marx, preached fervently by Lenin, and carried to unimaginable extremes by Stalin. This religion of immoralism, if the Red half of the world wins—and well it may—this religion of immoralism will more deeply wound and damage mankind than any conceivable economic or political system. Karl Marx dismissed God as a hoax, and Lenin and Stalin have added in clear-cut, unmistakable language their resolve that no nation, no people who believe in a God, can exist side by side with their communistic state. Karl Marx, for example, expelled people from his Communist Party for mentioning such things as justice, humanity, or morality. He called this soulful ravings and sloppy sentimentality. "</ref>

Karl Marx, owing to his adherence to dialectic views, did not believe in absolute morality, and in fact has even had various astonished authors of the Communist party purged for adhering to anything implying morality such as justice, love, humanity, and even morality itself, dismissing them as "soulful ravings" and "sloppy sentimentality".<ref>https://twitter.com/andrewbostom/status/1068877898520633344</ref><ref>[http://www.austrianeconomics.org/sites/default/files/Freeman53-6_3.pdf Max Eastman, "The Religion of Immoralism", The Freeman, June 1, 1953, p. 623]<br />"The Communist's believe in man not as an independent power, but as a constituent part of the super humanly ordained movement of the universe. That dialectic movement is their God, and it is that God who exempts them from the laws of morality. The difference between Christianity and Communism is between a religion which teaches personal salvation through sympathy and loving-kindness and a religion which teaches social salvation through bringing the morals of war into the peacetime relations of men. Marx was so sure that the world was going to be redeemed by its own dialectic evolution that he would not permit his disciples to invoke the guidance of moral ideals. He really meant it when he said the workers have ‘no ideal to realize,’ they have only to participate in the contemporary struggle. He expelled people from his Communist Party for mentioning programmatically such things as ‘love,’ ‘justice,’ ‘humanity,’ even ‘morality’ itself. ‘Soulful ravings,’ ‘sloppy sentimentality,’ he called such expressions, and purged the astonished authors as though they had committed the most dastardly crimes.”"</ref><ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=Marx;id=uc1.c049728219;view=1up;seq=16;start=1;sz=10;page=search;num=8 Major speeches and debates of Senator Joe McCarthy delivered in the United States Senate, 1950-1951. Washington, Govt. Print. Off. <nowiki>[1952]</nowiki>; p. 8]<br />"The great difference between our western Christian world and the atheistic communist world is not political, ladies and gentlemen, it is moral. There are other differences, of course, but those could be reconciled. For instance, the Marxian idea of confiscating the land and factories and running the entire economy as a single enterprise is momentous. Likewise, Lenin’s invention of the one-party police state as a way to make Marx’s idea work is hardly less momentous. Stalin’s resolute putting across of these two ideas, of course, did much to divide the world. With only those differences, however, the East and the West could most certainly still live in peace. The real, basic difference, however, lies in the religion of immoralism—invented by Marx, preached fervently by Lenin, and carried to unimaginable extremes by Stalin. This religion of immoralism, if the Red half of the world wins—and well it may—this religion of immoralism will more deeply wound and damage mankind than any conceivable economic or political system. Karl Marx dismissed God as a hoax, and Lenin and Stalin have added in clear-cut, unmistakable language their resolve that no nation, no people who believe in a God, can exist side by side with their communistic state. Karl Marx, for example, expelled people from his Communist Party for mentioning such things as justice, humanity, or morality. He called this soulful ravings and sloppy sentimentality. "</ref>

==Critique of Marxists==

==Critique of Marxists==