Background
Forms of socialism go as far back as human history I suppose. Plato had ideas that the socialist embrace to this day. The American Pilgrims tried communal living in the 1600s and on the verge of failure had to give it up and institute private ownership, William Bradford condemning Plato’s early vision of Socialist Utopia after they all almost starved to death. Independent settlements had tried Socialism and failed even in the USA’s history such as New Harmony in the 1800s. This shows that people in total agreement about implementing Socialism can’t even make it work.
Socialist utopian theories abounded even before Marxism. Marx and Engel’s tried to add a scientific sociological base to the theory in the mid-1800s. They took Hegel’s dialectic theory of history and added class structures to its thesis. History was just a struggle between classes vying for power. They believed human nature itself could be changed by eliminating class and property. They believed a materialist version of the World, that we are but the result of random forces of matter reacting upon each other. Therefore, reality is but a social construct that we have created.
The Tzar of Russia being greatly weakened by WW 1 Fell to the Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and his alterations to Marxist theory. This was a brutal conversion of the peasantry of Russia to his form Marxism. It took on totalitarian qualities right away not allowing for any descent from his Bolshevists party by those even in the same vein of belief such as the Mensheviks or Trotskyites and continued when Stalin took over, there is no room for debate when implementing a Socialist Utopia. Lenin had to give up on his ideologically pure rewardless, classless vision of total equity right away because the whole economy came to a halt. He had to institute special rewards and status for party members and allow some market activity to get things moving again. This shows that the implementation of Marxism only transfers wealth from the private sector to Government elites right from its first implementations.
Stalin rolled Lenin’s mild concessions back and instituted his form of Marxism “Stalinism” with an iron hand after Lenin’s death. There was absolutely no speculation or even the freedom to find a better job. The State was in control of every aspect of life. There was no religion allowed there can be no power or authority higher than the state. You had to be very careful not to question the state or you could end up in a Gulag, a place of enslavement. Human progress took a step backwards when Marxism came on the scene with hundreds of millions killed, starved, oppressed, and brutalized. Socialism in its many forms has failed every time it has been tried without fail yet the intellectuals pursue it and weaponise our children in it’s cause right before our eyes and under our noses K-12 thru college.
Pre WW2
Stalin started infiltrating positions of influence in the USA and around the world as early as the 1920s also recruiting spies. In an open society such as ours there is much debate in the arena of ideas. Many people seen Marxism and state managed economy as a viable alternative to capitalism and free markets. The Marxist party in the USA took it a step further than just being an alternative party to giving their allegiance to a foreign government, the center of world socialism the USSR. When the depression hit in 1929 many saw it as a failure of capitalism and seen Marxism as the answer even though it was government meddling that probably caused and prolonged the Great Depression in the first place. Great evils happening in the USSR were being covered up and lied about right from the start. The USSR set up fake communities and showed them to the world as their great success stories and many dupes in the west went for it hook line and sinker, especially the intellectuals and many newspapers under communist influence covered up the starvation, oppression and bloodshed.
WW2 and Cold War
To me recent revelations in this area of US history are shocking. Released decrypted messaging between the USSR and the CPUSA from the Venona Project and the opening of Russian KGB archives for a short period in the 1990s show the great influence of Communist agents and sympathizers in the USA and around the world. I am wondering how many people realize the Senator Joseph McCarthy whose name has been demonized for decades for his pursuit of Communist in our government called McCarthyism was proven right, but it has been revealed he was only onto the half of it. Also, less known but treated the same the Senator Martin Dyes from the 1930s as first chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill allied with Stalin to defeat the Nazis in WW2. I think Roosevelt failed to see the danger of Stalin and the USSR because of the recent revelations of communist sympathizers around him such as Henry Hopkins and Alger Hiss and reporters such as Walter Duranty of the New York times and duped socialist educational philosophy great John Dewey. (Dewey was one of the first to plant the idea that journalist should be influencers and activists not just reporters and that children should be socialized not just educated) I often wondered why we were so friendly to Russia from my observations of their aggression prior to WW2. Now I know why! Until squeezed out years later our State Department, Bureaucracies, and Civil services were infiltrated with communists loyal to the USSR even over their own country. Truman knew the facts and was an anti-communist himself and rooted much of it out of our government but covered up much of the damage done by communist insiders to protect the Democratic party. This Communist infiltration was only the Democrats fault in that they had held power so long that it happened under their watch and at a time when its dangers were not so obvious. This politicized the issue when both parties were anti-communist with the sympathizers mudding the waters. The anti-anti-communist stigmatized anyone who questioned the influence of Communism in our government as Red Baters all the while the communist were covering their tracks behind the scenes whenever they were exposed.
Dramatic Revelations:
Stalin’s Agents in Japan influenced them to attack Pearl Harbor rather than Russia. The State Department under the influence of Communist sympathizers also added language to our communications that they knew would incite the Japanese.
American communist sympathizers gave Russia the Atomic bomb many years faster than they would have developed it on their own, ultimately causing the Russians to have the confidence to back the invasion of Korea costing thousands of American lives.
Lend and Lease was influenced to send aide to Russia even over American needs in the Pacific.
Materials for the Atomic bomb were sent to Russia through Lend and Lease program.
Lend and Lease was instrumental in setting up Russia’s Industrial base during and after WW2.
Stalin influenced the landing in France on D-Day, rather than what Churchill wanted, invading Germany through Italy where we were already making great progress thus keeping the West away from Stalin’s prize, the takeover of Eastern Europe.
Alger Hiss influenced the giving away of Eastern Europe to Stalin and the Communists.
British communist sympathizers gave Russia the Jet engine we fought against in Korea.
Communist Sympathizers in the State Department influenced the USA to block aide to Chiang Kia-Shek leaving China open to Mau and the Chinese Communist Party.
Communist Sympathizers influenced the movement against the Vietnam War. Even though in my own opinion it was a botched operation because we didn’t fight to win because of politics. The final straw of removing any aide from the South Vietnamese was a tragic error, causing the death of millions by the Russian backed Communists of the North. Not a peep of condemnation out of the American Radicals about this debauchery, they were too busy contemplating how many would have to die in re-education camps to implement it in the USA. The number reported from a secret Weatherman meeting, a communist student movement of the 1960s, was a mere 25 million. Who are the oppressors?
Communism started being squeezed out of our government more and more after being exposed for what it was, evil. Especially in the 1950s when the truth of its failures became undeniable. Sadly, Marxism infiltrated education and its identity morphed like a chameleon, under the guise of many other names such as Neo Marxism, Critical Theory, Deconstruction, Critical Race Theory, Post Colonialism, Queer Studies, Gender Studies, Radical Feminism and Diversity all used to tear away at our Liberty loving Western Tradition. The Communist infiltration of the Colleges of the 1930s and 40s produced the Radicals of the 1960s that took over the colleges and are flooding our society with the ideologues of today. These modern theories with no empirical evidence but given false prestige by college bubbles, echo chambers, and citation rings are setting us back in matters of culture and equality that the Classic Western Tradition strived to bring all of humanity. Although I see many interesting and some productive insights in these ideological strains, they are taken way too far creating a culture of victim hood with no personal responsibility or accountability. You can roll all these theories together into the biggest social construct of them all called Social Justice and getting Woke.
Philosophical Roots
The group reigning over individuals even to the point of suffering and death gained great influence from Rousseau’s writing in the 1700s heavily influencing the failed Bloody French Revolution. They believed a person should be happy to give their life to the state. He posited that in the state of nature man is free and that our modern society has put him in chains. I don’t think so, in the state of nature man is in a life and death battle just to survive.
The German philosopher in the Continental Tradition, Hegel posited that an individual could not lose his freedom to the state because the state was the group consciousness and humanity would find its greatest freedom in submission to the state. Really, tell that to the millions who have suffered at the hands of the state! Hegel reduced history to a dialectical process of Thesis, Anti-Thesis then Synthesis of Ideas. Marx and Engels took the Dialectic and removed the battle of Ideas from the equation and added the class struggle into it, ruling class, revolution, repeat. They then reduced humanity and the world we live in into a material process of random reactions of opposites called materialism. This reduces humanity to just an expendable product of natural causes whose only true value is what he brings to the table for the state. This materialist view hooks them at the hip with a Secular Humanist Pragmatist who believes the random process of evolution brought us into Being. Socialist have demanded that the individual owes all to the state and any kind of personal time, needs or recreation were selfish.
German Marxist from the Frankfurt school took the class struggle added psychoanalysis and then concluded history is a struggle between the manipulations of powerful oppressors over the oppressed to keep them in line called Critical Theory. Fleeing National Socialism in the 1930s they migrated to the USA. They brought their ideas to our American Colleges who had already been under the influence of European intellectualism called Continental philosophy for a hundred years by the wealthy sending their children to prestigious European colleges.
French Post-Modern Neo-Marxist added Radical Skepticism and Existentialism to the equation. Reality is blurred by the human experience so we cannot know objective truth. From this we get the idea that everything is a social construct and the powerful shape reality. Free speech and debate are only tools of the powerful to manipulate the world they created, even male and female is a social construct used to oppress. Thus, everything we think we know as reality is just social constructs us scared little primates in a big scary universe made up and is malleable through education and power. Science and Empirical evidence are also shrugged off as just tools of the oppressors. Thus, our rights and law are not from God or Natural or Inalienable but dictated by the powerful who control the language, history, and culture.
Conclusion
Our Western Philosophy of Realism has been replaced, the Idea that we know our world through reason and our five senses. The Classic Liberal idea that the individual must be protected and insulated from the state’s intrusion has been replace by the idea that the State must run the individual’s life. The history that shows the success of our Democratic Republican system of “We the People” must be torn down and deconstructed to rationalize its replacement by Elitist Government Rule. The Lockean Ideal of Individualism, Property rights, Free Markets, Religious Tolerance, Self Determination and Personal Responsibility that unleashed the greatest freedom the world has ever seen has to be erased so Bureaucratic Group Think controlled by Despotic Autocrats can rule. These Dupes think they know it all even in subjects they have had no training in. Social Justice Warriors with no common sense think they can run our lives but can’t even manage their own. Political Hacks that talk big but don’t practice what they preach all the while getting rich on our tax dollars see a racist boogie man in every closet and under every bed. They could care less about anybody but themselves and gaining power, their false concern is only a tool for gaining power.
Sad to think that the universities have waged war for a hundred years on the birthplace of our freedom loving western tradition Christianity to replace it with Marxist philosophies. This evil statist religion called Social Justice full of envy and hate dominates over the love and truth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and our traditional heritage in the classroom.
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