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| | [[File:Karl Marx.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Karl Marx]], the creator of Marxism]] | | [[File:Karl Marx.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Karl Marx]], the creator of Marxism]] |
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| − | '''Marxism''' is a [[pseudoscientific]] field of [[social science|social studies]] that began as a revolutionary movement developed by [[Karl Marx]], an alleged German scholar and his activist collaborator [[Friedrich Engels]]. Marx's approach is indicated by the opening line of the [[Communist Manifesto]] (1848): "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Marx believed that [[capitalism]], like previous socioeconomic systems, would produce internal tensions which would lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism supposedly replaced [[feudalism]], capitalism itself will be displaced by [[communism]], a classless society which would emerge after a transitional period in which the state would be nothing else but the revolutionary dictatorship of the [[proletariat]]. Marxists are said to await "the [[revolution]]" with a religious fervor reminiscent of [[Christian]]s awaiting the [[Rapture]]. | + | '''Marxism''' is a political theory of [[social science|social studies]] that began as a revolutionary movement characterised by [[Karl Marx]], a German scholar and his cowriter [[Friedrich Engels]]. Marx's approach is indicated by the opening line of the [[Communist Manifesto]] (1848): "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Marx believed that [[capitalism]], like previous socioeconomic systems, would produce internal tensions which would lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism supposedly replaced [[feudalism]], capitalism itself will be displaced by [[communism]], a classless society which would emerge after a transitional period in which the state would be nothing else but the revolutionary dictatorship of the [[proletariat]]. Marxists are said to await "the [[revolution]]" with a religious fervor reminiscent of [[Christian]]s awaiting the [[Rapture]]. |
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| − | Marx, when forming Marxism, also had in mind a particular event for his inspiration for the ideology: Long enamored with the [[French Revolution]] and its excesses, he advocated in a private letter to his co-author of the movement, [[Friedrich Engels]], as well as other sources such as a leftist newspaper, that they create "revolutionary terror" and that once they are at the helm, they would be obliged to reenact Robespierre's [[Reign of Terror]] from 1793, and that once their time comes, they won't excuse their terrorism, citing they will be pitiless and thus won't expect mercy from the monarchies, with the vengeance of the people being such that it would overtake even Robespierre's Reign of Terror in terms of blood spilt. He also fully acknowledged that they would be considered monsters as a result, but they wouldn't care less either way.
| + | Though inspired by French socialist and sociological thought,[220] Marx criticised utopian socialists, arguing that their favoured small-scale socialistic communities would be bound to marginalisation and poverty and that only a large-scale change in the economic system can bring about real change. In his article "The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna" in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (No. 136, 7 November 1848), Karl Marx wrote that there is only one means to shorten, simplify and concentrate the murderous death throes of the old society and the bloody birth pangs of the new, only one means—revolutionary terrorism. |
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| − | Innocent people are killed in violent Marxist revolutions; those that are not killed, if the revolution is successful, become [[enslave]]d.
| + | Marx's work has been foundational to the ideologies of many governments in the 20th century, including China, the Soviet Union, Cuba and Chile. |
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| − | == Ideology == | + | ===Background=== |
| − | [[File:AdornoHorkheimerHabermasbyJeremyJShapiro2.png|thumb|200px|Max Horkheimer, [[Theodor Adorno]], and Jürgen Habermas, leaders in the ''[[Frankfurt School]]''.]]
| + | Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. He married German theatre critic and political activist Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room. |
| − | A Marxist society does not allow an individual to gain wealth; instead, that wealth supposedly belongs to the people as a collective. In a 'pure' Marxist society, the state is a democratic system that manages all aspects of production—essentially making the state the head of all industry. However, this was never realized due to power grabs by the eventual managers of the factories, as well as many practical limitations. Marx dreamed of a society where a man could be "A farmer in the morning, a laborer in the afternoon, and a philosopher in the evening"—essentially, a world without specialization and stark divisions of labor. Again, this tenet of his philosophy was never realized, mostly due to practical reasons.
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| − | Following the writings of Marx and Engels, along with other Marxists, Marxism stands in opposition to the institution of [[marriage]].<ref>Solway, David (August 23, 2018). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/karl-marx-hated-marriage-and-marxism-is-marriages-enemy Karl Marx hated marriage, and Marxism is marriage’s enemy]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref>
| + | ===Ideology=== |
| | + | Marx had a special concern with how people relate to their own labour power. He wrote extensively about this in terms of the problem of alienation. As with the Hegelian dialectic, Marx began with a Hegelian notion of alienation but developed a more materialist conception. Capitalism mediates social relationships of production (such as among workers or between workers and capitalists) through commodities, including labour, that are bought and sold on the market. For Marx, the possibility that one may give up ownership of one's own labour – one's capacity to transform the world – is tantamount to being alienated from one's own nature and it is a spiritual loss. Marx described this loss as commodity fetishism, in which the things that people produce, commodities, appear to have a life and movement of their own to which humans and their behaviour merely adapt. |
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| | + | Commodity fetishism provides an example of what Engels called "false consciousness", which relates closely to the understanding of ideology. By "ideology", Marx and Engels meant ideas that reflect the interests of a particular class at a particular time in history, but which contemporaries see as universal and eternal. Marx and Engels's point was not only that such beliefs are at best half-truths, as they serve an important political function. Put another way, the control that one class exercises over the means of production include not only the production of food or manufactured goods but also the production of ideas (this provides one possible explanation for why members of a subordinate class may hold ideas contrary to their own interests). An example of this sort of analysis is Marx's understanding of religion, summed up in a passage from the preface to his 1843 Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: |
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| | + | 'Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.' |
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| | + | Whereas his Gymnasium senior thesis at the Gymnasium zu Trier argued that religion had as its primary social aim the promotion of solidarity, here Marx sees the social function of religion in terms of highlighting/preserving political and economic status quo and inequality. |
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| | + | Marx was an outspoken opponent of child labour, saying that British industries "could but live by sucking blood, and children's blood too", and that U.S. capital was financed by the "capitalized blood of children". |
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| | Marxists also teach that historical forces are a cause of oppression, having been forced upon them without their consent, thus leading them toward the need for complete revolution to throw off these forces. "The basic thought running through the Manifesto — that economic production, and the structure of society of every historical epoch necessarily arising therefrom, constitute the foundation for the political and intellectual history of that epoch ...... this struggle, however, has now reached a stage where the exploited and oppressed class can no longer emancipate itself from the class which exploits and oppresses it, without at the same time forever freeing the whole of society from exploitation, oppression, class struggles"<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/preface.htm Preface], 1883 edition</ref> | | Marxists also teach that historical forces are a cause of oppression, having been forced upon them without their consent, thus leading them toward the need for complete revolution to throw off these forces. "The basic thought running through the Manifesto — that economic production, and the structure of society of every historical epoch necessarily arising therefrom, constitute the foundation for the political and intellectual history of that epoch ...... this struggle, however, has now reached a stage where the exploited and oppressed class can no longer emancipate itself from the class which exploits and oppresses it, without at the same time forever freeing the whole of society from exploitation, oppression, class struggles"<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/preface.htm Preface], 1883 edition</ref> |
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| | [[File:Marcuse Angela Davis.png|right|300px|thumb|[[Herbert Marcuse]] with his student [[Angela Davis]].]] | | [[File:Marcuse Angela Davis.png|right|300px|thumb|[[Herbert Marcuse]] with his student [[Angela Davis]].]] |
| | :{{main|Cultural Marxism}} | | :{{main|Cultural Marxism}} |
| | + | Cultural Marxism is a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory which claims that Western Marxism is the basis of continuing academic and intellectual efforts to subvert Western culture. The theory claims that an elite of Marxist theorists and Frankfurt School intellectuals are subverting Western society with a culture war that undermines the Christian values of traditionalist conservatism and promotes the cultural liberal values of the 1960s counterculture and multiculturalism, progressive politics and political correctness, misrepresented as identity politics created by critical theory. Marx was noted as being a Communist socialist, not a liberal which at the time was associated with the Whig Party in the UK. |
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| | + | A contemporary revival of the Nazi propaganda term "Cultural Bolshevism",[5] the conspiracy theory originated in the United States during the 1990s.While originally found only on the far-right political fringe, the term began to enter mainstream discourse in the 2010s and is now found globally.[7] The conspiracy theory of a Marxist culture war is promoted by right-wing politicians, fundamentalist religious leaders, political commentators in mainstream print and television media, and white supremacist terrorists. Scholarly analysis of the conspiracy theory has concluded that it has no basis in fact. |
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| | + | The conspiracy theory of Marxist cultural warfare originated in the essay "New Dark Age: Frankfurt School and 'Political Correctness'" (1992) by Michael Minnicino published in the Schiller Institute's Fidelio magazine, a journal associated with the fringe American right-wing political activist, conspiracy theorist, and perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche. |
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| | Cultural Marxism is a branch of Marxist ideology formulated by the ''[[Frankfurt School]]'', which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of [[political correctness]]. It emerged as a response of [[Europe]]an Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.<ref>cf. External source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America] is a James Jaeger Film with ambition to show how ''a love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Led by a Marxist splinter group called the "[[Frankfurt School]]" -- "[[the long march through the institutions]]" has infiltrated every corner of [[Western culture]] to corrupt traditional Christian values with "[[political correctness]]," another name for "cultural Marxism."''</ref> While Marx's ''Communist Manifesto'' focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. [[Patrick Buchanan]] argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/blog/grant-m-dahl/buchanan-cultural-marxism-has-succeeded-where-marx-and-lenin-failed Buchanan: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Has Succeeded Where Marx and Lenin Failed], [[CNSNews]]</ref> | | Cultural Marxism is a branch of Marxist ideology formulated by the ''[[Frankfurt School]]'', which had its origins the early part of the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism comprises much of the foundation of [[political correctness]]. It emerged as a response of [[Europe]]an Marxist intellectuals disillusioned by the early political failures of conventional economic Marxist ideology.<ref>cf. External source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America] is a James Jaeger Film with ambition to show how ''a love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfare state. Led by a Marxist splinter group called the "[[Frankfurt School]]" -- "[[the long march through the institutions]]" has infiltrated every corner of [[Western culture]] to corrupt traditional Christian values with "[[political correctness]]," another name for "cultural Marxism."''</ref> While Marx's ''Communist Manifesto'' focused on the alleged class struggle between bourgeois (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (workers), Marx did address culture, which he intimated would change after his economic vision was implemented. [[Patrick Buchanan]] argues that Cultural Marxism succeeded where Marx failed.<ref>[http://cnsnews.com/blog/grant-m-dahl/buchanan-cultural-marxism-has-succeeded-where-marx-and-lenin-failed Buchanan: ‘Cultural Marxism’ Has Succeeded Where Marx and Lenin Failed], [[CNSNews]]</ref> |
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| | {{quotebox-float|“including but not limited to those who are women, queer, [[transgender|trans]], femmes, gender nonconforming, [[Muslim]], formerly and currently incarcerated, cash poor and [[working class]], differently-abled, undocumented, and [[immigrant]]”}}—into blackness. Conversely, whiteness represents all forms of privilege (economic, social, and legal) throughout their 2017 platform. BLM simply substitutes Marx’s [[class conflict]] between the [[proletariat]] and [[bourgeoisie]] for class conflict between [[black]]ness and [[white]]ness.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2016/09/28/black-lives-matter-bringing-back-traditional-marxism/</ref> | | {{quotebox-float|“including but not limited to those who are women, queer, [[transgender|trans]], femmes, gender nonconforming, [[Muslim]], formerly and currently incarcerated, cash poor and [[working class]], differently-abled, undocumented, and [[immigrant]]”}}—into blackness. Conversely, whiteness represents all forms of privilege (economic, social, and legal) throughout their 2017 platform. BLM simply substitutes Marx’s [[class conflict]] between the [[proletariat]] and [[bourgeoisie]] for class conflict between [[black]]ness and [[white]]ness.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2016/09/28/black-lives-matter-bringing-back-traditional-marxism/</ref> |
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| − | The “racist” narrative was turbocharged with the concept of “[[White Privilege]],” the notion that whites—the dominant [[demographic]] group in capitalist America—are irretrievably racist, [[sexist]], [[homophobic]], [[xenophobic]], [[imperialist]]ic oppressors who exploit everyone. Whites are the only true [[evil]] in the world and should be exterminated. “Dr. Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies 241 in the Spring 2005 semester at North Carolina State University, also said this needs to be done ‘because white people want to kill us.’”<ref>''[https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/activist-exterminate-white-people/ Activist: exterminate white people],'' by Jon Sanders, Carolina Journal, Oct. 21, 2015.</ref> | + | The “racist” narrative was turbocharged with the advent of slavery in America from 1626-1875. The accusations that America has a problem with racism also originate from the Jim Crow laws of 1865-1965, as well as voting laws that have been shown to disproportionally discourage black people from voting in America. <ref>https://phys.org/news/2020-06-voter-id-laws-discriminate-racial.html</ref>. The accusations may also have arisen from the emprirical proof black people serve longer prison sentences for the same crime compared to white convicts <ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/black-men-sentenced-time-white-men-crime-study/story?id=51203491</ref>. |
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| − | Black Lives Matter has explicitly called for dead cops and the “lynching” of white people.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-things-you-need-know-about-black-lives-matter-amanda-prestigiacomo</ref> More [[Christian]]s have died from Communist Marxism than any other single ideology in the history of man.<ref>https://backtojerusalem.com/we-are-trained-marxists-says-blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors/</ref> | + | Black Lives Matter has explicitly called for dead cops and the “lynching” of white people.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-things-you-need-know-about-black-lives-matter-amanda-prestigiacomo</ref> Communist countries including Stalinist USSR and Maoist China were responsible for many millions of deaths, although it should be noted these forms of Communism are not Marxist, but a separate branch of Communism. |
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| | Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York (BLMNY) outlined a “pathway forward”: “We pattern ourselves after the [[Black Panthers]], after the [[Nation of Islam]], we believe that we need an [[army]] to defend ourselves." Newsome told [[FOX News]], "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.<ref>https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/blm-if-this-country-doesnt-give-us-what-we-want-then-we-will-burn-down-this-system-and-replace-it/</ref> Cirvona Newsome, BLMNY co-founder and [[Democrat]] 2020 primary challenger for Congress (NY-15) said,<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Chivona_Newsome</ref> “For far too long our institutions have protected the abusers and victimized the innocent while trapping people of color in the quicksand of racism, poverty and despair.”<ref>https://100percentfedup.com/black-lives-matter-makes-a-power-and-money-grab-with-new-list-of-demands/</ref> | | Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York (BLMNY) outlined a “pathway forward”: “We pattern ourselves after the [[Black Panthers]], after the [[Nation of Islam]], we believe that we need an [[army]] to defend ourselves." Newsome told [[FOX News]], "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.<ref>https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/blm-if-this-country-doesnt-give-us-what-we-want-then-we-will-burn-down-this-system-and-replace-it/</ref> Cirvona Newsome, BLMNY co-founder and [[Democrat]] 2020 primary challenger for Congress (NY-15) said,<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Chivona_Newsome</ref> “For far too long our institutions have protected the abusers and victimized the innocent while trapping people of color in the quicksand of racism, poverty and despair.”<ref>https://100percentfedup.com/black-lives-matter-makes-a-power-and-money-grab-with-new-list-of-demands/</ref> |
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| − | BLM is the brainchild of [[progressive]] [[white]] people and was paid over $150 million by billionaire [[psychopath]] [[George Soros]].<ref>https://www.trevorloudon.com/2020/06/blm-at-war-with-america/</ref>
| + | The phrase "Black Lives Matter" can refer to a Twitter hashtag, a slogan, a social movement, a political action committee, or a loose confederation of groups advocating for racial justice. As a movement, Black Lives Matter is grassroots and decentralized, and leaders have emphasized the importance of local organizing over national leadership. The structure differs from previous black movements, like the Civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Such differences have been the subject of scholarly literature. Activist DeRay McKesson has commented that the movement "encompasses all who publicly declare that black lives matter and devote their time and energy accordingly." |
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| | + | In 2013, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi formed the Black Lives Matter Network. Garza described the network as an online platform that existed to provide activists with a shared set of principles and goals. Local Black Lives Matter chapters are asked to commit to the organization's list of guiding principles but operate without a central structure or hierarchy. Garza has commented that the Network was not interested in "policing who is and who is not part of the movement." |
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| | ===Critical Race Theory=== | | ===Critical Race Theory=== |
| − | [[File:Tremmell.png|right|350px|thumb|Bernell Tremmell was murdered by Marxists in Milwaukee in July 2020 for his outspoken beliefs in freedom, justice, and racial equality.<ref>https://100percentfedup.com/prominent-black-trump-supporter-shot-to-death-in-milwaukee-hours-after-pro-trump-interview/</ref>]] | + | [[File:Tremmell.png|right|350px|thumb|Bernell Tremmell was murdered in Milwaukee in July 2020, although the suspects have not been caught. Bernell Trammell, 60, whose sometimes contradictory political views included supporting Black Lives Matter and many liberals, was killed outside his office in the eclectic and diverse Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee on July 23. With a graying beard and dreadlocks, he was an outspoken character known for his peaceful demeanor and religious proselytizing.<ref>https://100percentfedup.com/prominent-black-trump-supporter-shot-to-death-in-milwaukee-hours-after-pro-trump-interview/</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/conservatives-take-up-death-of-black-man-who-supported-trump/2020/07/31/ecc6ff80-d352-11ea-826b-cc394d824e35_story.html</ref>]] |
| | :{{See also|Critical race theory|White privilege}} | | :{{See also|Critical race theory|White privilege}} |
| − | [[Derrick Bell]], [[Barack Obama]]’s favorite Harvard professor, devised Critical Race Theory, which exemplifies Lenin’s strategy as applied to race. According to Discover the Networks: | + | [[Derrick Bell]], a prominent Harvard professor, devised Critical Race Theory, which exemplifies Critical Theory applied to racial inequality in the justice system. According to Discover the Networks: |
| | {{quotebox-float|Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the nation’s legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid … members of “oppressed” racial groups are entitled—in fact obligated—to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing. …}} | | {{quotebox-float|Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the nation’s legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid … members of “oppressed” racial groups are entitled—in fact obligated—to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing. …}} |
| | Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of [[Critical Theory]], which was developed by Marxist thinkers of the [[Frankfurt School]] in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923. The Institute’s left-wing scholars fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to [[Columbia University]] in New York. Critical Theory, which discredits all aspects of Western society, we know today as [[political correctness]]. One of its most famous purveyors was the Frankfurt School’s [[Herbert Marcuse]], longtime associate of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]’s [[Julian Bond]]. Marcuse invented the concept of “partisan tolerance,” that is, [[tolerance]] for leftist ideas and [[intolerance]] of all others. The Southern Poverty Law Center applied Marcuse’s strategy in developing its “Hate Watch” list, and ''[[Rules for Radicals]]'' author [[Saul Alinsky]] used it in his own life’s work. | | Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of [[Critical Theory]], which was developed by Marxist thinkers of the [[Frankfurt School]] in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923. The Institute’s left-wing scholars fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to [[Columbia University]] in New York. Critical Theory, which discredits all aspects of Western society, we know today as [[political correctness]]. One of its most famous purveyors was the Frankfurt School’s [[Herbert Marcuse]], longtime associate of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]’s [[Julian Bond]]. Marcuse invented the concept of “partisan tolerance,” that is, [[tolerance]] for leftist ideas and [[intolerance]] of all others. The Southern Poverty Law Center applied Marcuse’s strategy in developing its “Hate Watch” list, and ''[[Rules for Radicals]]'' author [[Saul Alinsky]] used it in his own life’s work. |
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| | ==Quotes on Marxism== | | ==Quotes on Marxism== |
| − | Comparative quotes are given from the top [[Left-wing]] - [[Socialist]] - [[National Socialist]] (a.k.a. [[Nazi]]) - [[Marxist]] - [[Communist]] leaders and their critics in order to better understand the commonality of the end result of their philosophy taken to its fruition by the [[Big government]] [[Welfare state]]-[[Nanny state]]-[[Police state]] by [[leftist]] [[Globalist]]-[[Statist]]-Socialist-Communists. From these quotes one can see little difference between Socialists, Nazis, Communists. | + | Comparative quotes are given from the top [[Left-wing]] - [[Socialist]] - [[Marxist]] - [[Communist]] leaders and their critics in order to better understand the commonality of the end result of their philosophy taken to its fruition by the [[Big government]] [[Welfare state]]-by [[leftist]] [[Globalist]]-[[Statist]]-Socialist-Communists. From these quotes one may see little difference between Socialists, Nazis, Communists. However it should be noted that Communism is based on the foundation that all men should be equal whilst Nazism is an extreme form of conservativism that wants a strictly stratified society and the genocide of Jewish people (N.B. Marx was Jewish). It should also be noted that the Nazi Party executed Communists and sent them to concentration camps. |
| | Communist regimes killed 60 million in the 20th century through [[genocide]], according to [[Le Monde]] and more than 100 million people according to ''The Black Book of Communism''. | | Communist regimes killed 60 million in the 20th century through [[genocide]], according to [[Le Monde]] and more than 100 million people according to ''The Black Book of Communism''. |
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| | * "Once we are at the helm, we shall be obliged to reenact the year 1793…"-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute | | * "Once we are at the helm, we shall be obliged to reenact the year 1793…"-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute |
| | * "The vengeance of the people will break forth with such ferocity that not even the year 1793 enables us to envisage it."-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute | | * "The vengeance of the people will break forth with such ferocity that not even the year 1793 enables us to envisage it."-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute |
| − | * "The classes and the races too weak to master the new conditions of life must give way"-Marx, People's Paper, April 16, 1856 | + | * "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."" |
| − | * "They must ...perish in the Revolutionary Holocaust"– Karl Marx (Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 42, No. 1. 1981) | + | * "Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole |
| − | | + | *"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." |
| − | === Quotes from National Socialist's Heinrich Himmler ===
| + | *"There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery" |
| − | From the Nazi party ([[National Socialism]]) leader [[Heinrich Himmler]]: | + | *"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex." |
| − | | + | *"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks." |
| − | * "In the course of history periods of [[capitalism]] and [[socialism]] alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system...The [[Nazi|National Socialists]] and the [[Communists|Red Front]] have the same aspirations. The [[Jew]]s falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfillment."—Speech in [[Potsdam]] (13 October 1926), quoted in Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 92–93. | + | *"In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded." |
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| − | * "The best political weapon is the [[terrorism|weapon of terror]]. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear."—Quoted in "Visions of Reality - A Study of Abnormal Perception and Behavior" - by Alberto Rivas - Psychology - 2007 - Page 162 | |
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| | + | === Treatment of Left Wing Individuals from National Socialist Party === |
| | + | German communists were among the first to be imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Their ties to the USSR concerned Hitler, and the Nazi Party was intractably opposed to communism. Rumors of communist violence were spread by the Nazis to justify the Enabling Act of 1933, which gave Hitler his first dictatorial powers. Hermann Göring testified at Nuremberg that Nazi willingness to repress German Communists prompted Hindenburg and the old elite to cooperate with them. Hitler and the Nazis also despised German leftists because of their resistance to Nazi racism. Hitler referred to Marxism and "Bolshevism" as means for "the international Jew" to undermine "racial purity", stir up class tension and mobilize trade unions against the government and business. When the Nazis occupied a territory, communists, socialists and anarchists were usually among the first to be repressed; this included summary executions. An example is Hitler's Commissar Order, in which he demanded the summary execution of all Soviet troops who were political commissars who offered resistance or were captured in battle. |
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| − | * "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." | + | * "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." |
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| | * "The goal of [[socialism]] is [[communism]]." | | * "The goal of [[socialism]] is [[communism]]." |
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| | * "It matters not if 90% of the Russian people perish so long as 10% bring about a world revolution."<ref>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,717663,00.html</ref> | | * "It matters not if 90% of the Russian people perish so long as 10% bring about a world revolution."<ref>http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,717663,00.html</ref> |
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| | + | *"In Russian Bolshevism we must see the attempt undertaken by the Jews in the twentieth century to achieve world domination. " |
| | + | *" How shall we explain Bolshevism to the German worker as an accursed crime against humanity if we ally ourselves with the organizations of this spawn of hell, thus recognising it in the larger sense?" |
| | + | *"Germany is today the next great war aim of Bolshevism" |
| | + | *"Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin." |
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| | ===Quotes from Stalin=== | | ===Quotes from Stalin=== |
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| − | The '''Darwin-Stalin connection''' describes the brutal [[Soviet]] dictator [[Josef Stalin]] who [[mass murder|murdered millions]] of people, giving credit to [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]'s book for his outlook in life: | + | The '''Darwin-Stalin connection''' describes the brutal [[Soviet]] dictator [[Josef Stalin]] who [[mass murder|murdered millions]] of people, giving credit to [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]'s book for his outlook in life. Although it may be noted Darwin's book refers to the evolution of human beings from apes. |
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| | * "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to [[Churchill]], 1945. | | * "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to [[Churchill]], 1945. |