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Transcript of video Understanding Marxism: Change the World. Brad Thompson. June 6, 2022.
Engraved on Karl Marx’s tombstone in Highgate cemetery in north London are the following words: “the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point however is to change it.”
SUBSTITUTE THE WORD PROFESSOR FOR THE WORD PHILOSOPHER, WE REALLY DON’T HAVE PHILOSOPHERS ANYMORE, AND YOU GET RIGHT TO THE CORE OF MARX’S ENDURING ATTRACTION to the contemporary world.
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Marx demands the intellectual class, the professors of law, sociology, history, women studies, anthropology, journalism to name some, come out of the ivory tower and join the barricades.
He demands they see themselves not as the preservers of the dusty past but the creators of a new and glorious future.
The lure has proven to be very strong and it’s not hard to understand why.
How much more meaningful than to see yourself as an agent of change rather than a mere academic.
How much more meaningful, exciting, and romantic to see the young people who fill up your classroom as potential soldiers in the cause.
SEND YOUR STUDENTS INTO THE WORLD WITH THE SAME REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT, THE SAME DISGUST TOWARD BOURGEOIS MIDDLE CLASS VALUES YOU FEEL AND YOU’VE DONE YOUR JOB.
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We must give these lecture hall revolutionaries their due.
Look around, for the most part they’ve succeeded.
DRILL INTO ANY CURRENT LEFTIST MOVEMENT, ENVIRONMENTALISM, CRITICAL RACE THEORY, THE MASSIVE EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE STATE, NOT TO MENTION DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION, OFFICES AT EVERY UNIVERSITY AND MAJOR CORPORATION AND YOU WILL FIND MARXISM AT ITS CORE.
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The contempt of the Enlightenment and the Judeo Christian value system from which capitalism springs Marx’s is most famous call to action “workers of the world unite” was not of course to the professorial but to the laboring class.
That didn’t workout so well.
Workers, especially in the United States, turned out to be more interested in refrigerators than revolutions.
The only barricade they were passionate about was a white picket fence in front of a green suburban lawn.
POOR BENIGHTED SOULS, THE APPEAL OF MARXISM WAS SOMEHOW LOST ON THEM. MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T GO TO COLLEGE.
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But the intellectual class never lost faith, even after Stalin, even after Mao, even after Castro wrecked Cuba, even after Pol pot murdered millions of his fellow Cambodians, even after Hugo Chavez destroyed the strongest economy in South America, the academic elite remained true believers.
Indeed, IN A WORLD WITHOUT FAITH, WHERE GOD IS DEAD, MARXISM HAS BECOME IN EFFECT A SUBSTITUTE RELIGION.
One of the major strengths of Marxism, in contrast to both modern liberalism and conservatism, is the unyielding commitment of its followers to this faith, to
bear witness to it, and to act on it.
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Marxism summons their followers to join a crusade to destroy the evil that is capitalism and to create the good that is communism.
IN OUR SECULAR WORLD THE MARXIST IDEAL GIVES THE MARXIST TRUE BELIEVER A REASON TO LIVE, A REASON TO DIE, AND A REASON TO KILL.
Monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim il Sung, Ho Chi Minh, and Pol Pot took this to the nth degree and murdered millions.
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If you think I’m exaggerating the evils of Marxism, if you think Stalin and those other guys got communism wrong but your new democratic socialism will get it right, think again.
Marxism leads a society toward a fixed goal, a utopian vision of pure freedom in which the individual is liberated from the false consciousness of capitalism. Unfortunately BY MARX’S OWN DEFINITION THE PATH TO THIS UTOPIA REQUIRES THE DESTRUCTION ECONOMICALLY, POLITICALLY, AND MORALLY OF EVERY VESTIGE OF CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT.
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Economically Marxism seeks to destroy free enterprise, the division of Labor, profit and loss, competition, and material wealth.
Politically it seeks to destroy the rule of law, separation of powers, and freedom of speech.
MORALLY MARXISM SEEKS TO DESTROY INDIVIDUALISM, RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, AND INDEPENDENT THOUGHT.
ON TOP OF THIS RUBBLE IT BUILDS THE ALL POWERFUL STATE RULED BY AN ALL POWERFUL ELITE.
This is why the communist 1%, the true 1%, must use the full power of the state to force the 99%, the true 99%, to become something they are not and do not want to be.
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If that doesn’t work the secular philosophy of brotherly love simply intimidates into silence and ultimately liquidates as much of the 99% as is necessary to keep everybody in line.
CENSORSHIP, SECRET POLICE, AND REEDUCATION CAMPS, THESE ARE NOT BUGS IN AN IMPERFECT SYSTEM, THEY ARE FEATURES CRITICAL PARTS OF ITS DESIGN.
In short, the problem with Marxism has been and always will be Marxism.
Too bad the academic establishment has yet to figure this out, or even worse maybe they have.
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“Drill into any current leftist movement, environmentalism, critical race theory, the massive expansion of the welfare state, not to mention diversity, equity and inclusion, offices at every university and major corporation and you will find Marxism at its core.”
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Why the allure of Marxist nonsense?
The nonsense makes sense if we understand and accept the reality about half of us consciously or subconsciously desire the misery of Marxism.
About 50% of us actually be thanking Biden for the current economic punishment.
His and their climate change alarmism “no pain no Green gain” economy destruction actually isn’t about physical environment but rather about political environment: shrinking the U.S. economy, enlarging government, and instituting socialism.
Unsaid but true: to Biden and oll dems Green climate change alarmism -> slowed economy -> more government control and dependency -> eventual full socialism and misery, which pleases dem 47.5% negative misery-wuvvers (we’re united victims and victimizers).
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Dem negative misery wuvvers:
· enjoy feeling sorry for themselves
· enjoy being felt sorry for by others
· enjoy feeling sorry for others
· enjoy duping and forcing misery-wuv on the other side living positive happy-lovers, hoping to induce us to stand around, stoop down, give in, and join dem
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We and They see and know to socialists socialism, the forced regress down to government-enforced equality of poverty, has never failed where tried: zat Old always increases the amount of misery as it gains and holds ground.
To socialists the major failure has been zei have failed to spread and cement their dead old world socialism/misery punishment everywhere around Earth.
North Korea, where their own 47.5% negatives + 5% shapeless forms fully perfectly prevail, model be the ideal.
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Added testimony of Dems’ enjoyment of misery will be as usual about 50% will vote for Dems in November’s national elections regardless of how miserable things have gotten.
The current period of natural global warming trend back to historical norm temperatures and CO2 levels is perfect timing, mirth, magic and a dream for oll dem hysterical climate-alarmist U.S. government-takeover misery-spread-oll-over-All socialists.
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