Apparently it is now chic to wonder if Karl Marx's critique of capitalism wasn't right after all. Various writers in Western publications are discussing this. In public.
I have already weighed in on Marxism. I take the unusual position, one that I have never heard expressed, that Marxism is worse than National Socialism. Both are forms of socialism --something the Left refuses to accept--and both are totalitarian tyrannies. The very thing which people use to mark Nazism as worse, or even non-comparable, is its racism. I hold that its racism, irredeemably horrible as it was, makes it less evil precisely because it limits its appeal to people of Aryan descent. Everyone else on the planet knows that it is not for them and is not their friend. That rank racism limits its appeal and throws its evil into clear relief.
Marxism, on the other hand, despite Marx's own clear anti-Semitism and the anti-Semitism of actual Communist societies, masquerades as a liberating angel of light for the downtrodden of any ethnicity. It lies more overtly. And with its wider appeal, it is more murderous. All Marxist societies are police states, if not genocidal on an apocalyptic scale. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Kim Jong Il are classic examples of Marxism, real Marxism, not the fantasy kingdom of leftists of all stripes.
It is a scandal that Marx can be spoken of positively and without shame by Western intellectuals, after the killing fields which always follow in his wake. To suggest the wisdom of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco or Pinochet would be to commit public social suicide, but Karl Marx,
the father of evils that outrank the whole group, is still worth taking seriously.
The only Marx worth considering is Groucho.
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The racism division has always been a dodge anyway. It's a convenient mechanism for forcing history to conform to a leftist narrative about social justice. It goes, "The Nazis tried to exterminate an ethnic class? That must make them the most horrible of all!"
But how is this any different from the Soviets trying to exterminate a political class or an economic class like Ukrainian farmers? If we take Marx at his word, then the political/economic classes are more fundamental and less malleable by far than the ethnic ones. And if we take modern multiculturalism at its word, then ethnic racism is a proxy for anxiety over economic and political issues.
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Excellent, very well said. Of course, Hitler's racist beliefs were greatly influenced by the eugenics movement and one of its huge supporters, the darling of the American Left, Woodrow Wilson.
The early 20th century American Leftists were openly and unashamedly racist.
I also think Leftists still admire Marx because because he was the philosopher, the idea man; and not just a 'megalomaniac' who distorted and ruined 'real communism'.
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his false but fancy theories
have destroyed many countries
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admire Josef Stalin
he killed many millions
and made many more poorer
.
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fascism comes from the Right
that is a lie of the Left
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YOU'RE RIGHT WING
you know that free markets
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