| | The first false dichotomy of communism is the notion that capitalism and communism are competing ideologies. While communism is built on an [[ideology]] that justifies murder and theft, capitalism is built upon the [[natural law]] that you cannot consume that which has not been not been first produced. Author Lee Smith explains: | | The first false dichotomy of communism is the notion that capitalism and communism are competing ideologies. While communism is built on an [[ideology]] that justifies murder and theft, capitalism is built upon the [[natural law]] that you cannot consume that which has not been not been first produced. Author Lee Smith explains: |
| − | {{quotebox-float|"Communism has nothing to do with ideology. Ideology (lifting the masses out of [[poverty]], making all people [[equal]], etc.) is just cover for [[class war]]. But the class war is not, as Marxists describe it, between the [[proletariat|proletarian]] masses and the [[bourgeoisie]]. Rather, the proletariat is simply the instrument that the [[oligarch]]ic elite—known in the Soviet Union, for instance, as the [[nomenklatura]]—uses to keep the [[middle class]]es at bay while they steal their wealth. | + | {{quotebox-float|"Communism has nothing to do with ideology. Ideology (lifting the masses out of [[poverty]], making all people [[equal]], etc.) is just cover for [[class war]]. But the class war is not, as Marxists describe it, between the [[proletariat|proletarian]] masses and the [[bourgeoisie]]. Rather, the proletariat is simply the instrument that the [[oligarch]]ic elite—known in the Soviet Union, for instance, as the [[nomenklatura]]—uses to keep the [[middle class]]es at bay while they steal their wealth.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/americas-top-general-reads-marx-but-does-not-understand-how-its-destroying-america_3874251.html</ref>}} |
| − | After watching the serial operations destroy the leadership of the [[America First]] movement—from [[Russiagate]] through the [[Impeachment 2.0|second impeachment]] of Donald Trump—the [[COVID-19 lockdown]]s, the [[George Floyd riots]], and now the effort to categorize [[Biden_junta#Attack_on_civil_liberties|Trump voters as domestic terrorist]]s, we don’t need a theory to understand the nature of what has historically been called “communism” to obscure the fact that it’s nothing but the power grab of an oligarchic elite. We’re living it.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/americas-top-general-reads-marx-but-does-not-understand-how-its-destroying-america_3874251.html</ref>}}
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