Is Marxism The World's Most Violent Religion?
Regular readers of the political blog (as if this hasn’t devolved into one of those) may be familiar with my 2021 Interview with Jim Simpson regarding his book, “Who Was Karl Marx?” It’s a great read that explores who Marx was (a filthy, egotistical, mean-spirited, racist bigot whose philosophy attempts to validate this bad behavior by institutionalizing it as a political program).
Read the book; you won’t disagree.
Jim also connects all the historical figures who used or took Marx’s work and used it to their own violent and despotic ends: Lenin and Stalin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Derrick Bell, and Noel Ignatiev, Antonio Gramsci, W.E .B. Du Bois, Ted Allen, Herbert Marcuse, Saul Alinsky, Cloward, and Piven, the Clintons, Obamas, Bidens, the NWRO, ACORN, Antifa, and BLM. And we can’t forget Sergey Nechayev, “The most important radical no one has ever heard of.”
As an economic system, Marx's work was crap, and history has proven that time and again, but why do people continue to insist that this is the way? Hundreds of millions have died or starved to death as a side effect of what appears to be a system of government only tyrants and despots could love. How do they manage repeatedly to get buy-in from enough people to tip the scales and reduce everyone else to a temporal equivalent of human batteries in The Matrix?
Logan Lancing was on the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast a few weeks ago to discuss his books and, during the conversation, managed what seems to me to be one of the better explanations for it. Anyone who pays attention to how the modern left operates will knowingly nod their head. It’s not an economic system; it is a religion.
“And what Marx said is because we’ve got this creative potential to transform our world into our own vision, and we’re a social creature, those things differentiate us from the animals. And because we can do those things, we make history. Meaning that when I’m born, I am born into a world others have worked on. They’ve already transformed nature…so the history of the people that come before me pre-loads my consciousness, and that makes history. … we then socialize the next generation into the world. And Marx’s whole theology is the idea that we can arrest this process of history. We can direct it. It’s not something that just has to happen. And it is incumbent upon those who are oppressed to arrest it.”
The arresting of history through conflict is necessary because those who made the world are all set and will never change it. Lancing then goes on to show how CRT, DEI, and Queer theory are the same whore in a different dress (my words, not his). That some people set up some system to appease each other, decided it was normal, and this, by design, systemically discriminates against (insert alleged victim group here).
Where once the property was property, the new class warfare is demographics. Now, it is whiteness or heterosexualism (the cis-gender normativeness lifestyle) or even the constitutional republic. Whatever history you were born into is, by default, unfair, and Marxist theory shows you the path to equity or justice; hallelujah and amen.
The followers of Marx’s modern faith have chosen to isolate and tribalize people by race and gender, creating victims (of history) who they then charge with rebalancing the scales in pursuit of some greater moral purpose, but like all Marxism, it is a lie; little more than a pretext for economic tyranny, systemic poverty, and the police state required to sustain it.
Marxism as faith is an amusing prospect and not a new one. I’ve intimated it often, but to hear it elucidated this way affirms the notion that the only way anyone would ever fall for this was if you framed them as victims while appealing to some higher purpose. Sadly, the Pharisees of this bizarre faith are human, too. They are often some of the worst sort, actually. Flawed, failed, and ultimately the most corrupt and ill-suited for positions of leadership.
Rulers whose use of political violence has resulted in a body count that might compete with historical Islam. Mohammad’s crusade killed millions of centuries and continues to add to its body count, but Marx’s faith did a lot more damage in a much shorter time in part because it had better weapons and marketing.
I can’t, with any accuracy, guess which is the more violent faith, but Marxism as religion explains their affinity for each other's tactics. In truth, they are both still killing people, so until one or the other of them achieves supremacy - like Fascism and Communism, who fight over similarly confused minds - there can be only one. One will have to kill more than the other to ring supreme, with an understanding that Islam would happily kill everyone and let God sort it out.
It looks to me like all organized religions are cults created to enable control of all by a few and draw them into the darkest corners through guilt, blackmail, intimidation and eradication......they keep us from listening to our higher self.....and connecting with God. They are the ultimate "middle men".