Below is a list of quotes from Karl Marx. I’ll make some comments because that’s what commentators do. However, most Americans need to read the statements below. Keep a sharp eye out for the following: how much of today’s Democratic Party do you see in these quotes?
From Karl Marx:
The first three are very similar and obviously current Democratic Party strategy:
1. “Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.”
2. “Take away a nation’s heritage, and they are more easily persuaded.”
3. “If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.”
There is nothing more frustrating to me as a historian than to see the butchery the Left is making of American and Western Civilization’s history. If you read a Leftist, you will conclude that our Founding Fathers, Christopher Columbus, the British Empire, colonialism, etc. were the greatest crimes in history. There is no attempt to understand anything in its historical context. Never. That is Marxism—cutting people off from their history.
Marx on education:
4. “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.”
Groom. Let the government educate our children. If you put education financing into the government's hands, guess where education will go? It will follow the government wherever the latter wishes to lead it. The government obviously has a vested interest in perpetuating its own power and tyranny, so anything about “limited government” will either be ignored, downplayed, or attacked. So, we grow up with a bunch of mind-controlled robots who think the government is the greatest invention since welfare. Tailor-made for today’s Democratic Party.
Marx on religion:
5. “Communism begins where atheism begins.”
6. “My object is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.”
7. “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
8. “Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”
All Leftist, Marxist governments hate religion, of course, because they cannot tolerate people having a higher allegiance to something other than the government itself. It was one motivation behind Adolf Hitler’s hatred of the Jews—he feared they would be more loyal to Zionism than to him. The same was true in the Soviet Union and is true today in China. Religion must be subservient to the state if it is to exist at all. It is belittled, derided, and attacked as viciously and from as many directions as possible.
Witness the recent onslaught against Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker for his comments about the family. The Democrats went full-ape about it. They hate Christianity. March 31 was “Trans Visibility Day” FIRST and Easter was the second (if at all). The Democrats are right in line with Marx in his views on religion.
The last quote above (number 8) is also pure Democratic Party moral doctrine—no absolutes. Pure communism would, as Marx said, abolish religion, but pure communism has never truly existed anywhere. So, controlling religion, destroying its foundations, and upsetting its historical truths and moral authority have proven sufficient so far. The Democrats are masters at it, of course.
Marx on socialism, etc.
9. “The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
There is no peace until everybody is a socialist. Or dead, I might add.
10. “A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.”
Right out of the Communist Manifesto. All Americans have swallowed this one, except those of us who want to return to the limited government of the 1789 Constitution and finance the government by uniform, non-protective tariffs (read Article 1, Section 8, clause 1 of the Constitution).
11. “As socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.”
Here, Marx ties socialism, the abolition of religion, and education all into one statement. As government and socialism have grown in America, religious influence has declined. That’s not coincidental; it is deliberate. Socialism, i.e., communism, is the purpose of it all: the “golden age” of property-less equality. Religion would only hinder that.
12. “Democracy is the road to socialism.”
Let Vladimir Lenin interpret that: “The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will create...democracy for the people...communism alone is capable of providing really complete democracy.” And, historically, it is not in the least bit coincidental that, as America has increasingly democratized in the last 100 years, the country has moved farther and farther left towards socialism/communism. Democracy’s goal is not freedom; it’s equality, and that can only be achieved by totalitarian force. That is a truth our Founding Fathers understood very well and is the main reason they did not establish a democracy. “Democracy is the most vile form of government” (James Madison). “Democracy is the right of the people to choose their own tyrant” (Madison again).
13. “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
You’ve got to hand it to Marx—he understood capitalists. Who, in the last 30 years, has turned Communist China into a great economic power if not Western capitalists?
And this final, honest jewel:
14. “We have no compassion, and we ask for no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”
How much “compassion” are the Democrats showing Donald Trump? How much compassion do you expect them to show you if you ever get in their way? And they make no “excuses” for their current “terror.” True justice is compassionate because it protects the innocent from barbarians. We’ll have to practice justice on the Leftist thugs, like we did on Hitler and Japan, to protect our freedom.
Marx. Democrats. Do you see any difference?
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