This Is Marxism

The other day, I decided to read some of Alexis de Toqueville’s Democracy in America.  Strangely, I located his work completely free on a Marxist website entitled marxists.org.  De Toqueville is classified here under “Reference Writers.”

I love de Tocqueville quotes such as this beautiful one:

“I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers – and it was not there . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests and it was not there . . . in her rich mines and her vast world commerce – and it was not there . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution – and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

As we celebrate Independence Day, I have a difficult time rectifying the evils that have transpired in our nation in just over a month:  looting, burning, destroying, hating the very authorities God has ordained to carry out laws in this nation all in the name of equality? Liberty?  Sounds too similar to…  

Revolution. 

My great grandfather fought in World War 1.  He did so as a brave American, never looking back at the family he had left behind in Germany.  He had started a new life here, one that included fighting for the cause of freedom.  And while he hated the mud of the trenches, the rats, the freezing rain—he loved freedom.  He loved what this nation represented.  

My grandfather fought in World War 2.  It wasn’t fun being in harm’s way when a kamikaze swimmer nearly bombed his ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 1944, but he loved freedom.  

Freedom to believe according to the dictates of one's own conscience.

Freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly.

Freedom of thought, freedom from fear and want--the kinds of liberty that don't exist in Marxism.

I’ve walked the streets of Kenya and over twenty other nations.  From third-world countries the planet over, people tell me one of their life-long dreams —to come to America!  America, the land of opportunity.  America, where all our leveled as one, where the only colors that should matter are those of our glorious flag--red, white, and blue.

I don’t need to hear about another statue of a brave American falling or watch another horrific scene of looting and breaking the laws of God and man in some riot before I see the revolution Marx desired, playing out before our very eyes. 

The Marxist fist of protest

With sites such as marxists.org, I don’t have to trust what others are saying about cultural Marxism invading our nation. I can educate myself about life and liberty’s great opponent—Marxism and the culture of murder, division, and hatred it spawns.

Last week, my attention was drawn to an article entitled “Marx’s Vision of Communism,” in which author Bertell Ollman summarizes Marx’s future ideals.  One statement that grabbed my attention fully was this: “Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other.”

Revolutionary transformation.  That’s the middle stage between “capitalist” and “communist” society, Marx taught.  

A revolution—like the complete spin of a merry-go-round, or the world on its axis.  This is a 360-degree switch.  Right becomes wrong.  Truth becomes false.  Lies become true. Love becomes hate.  Hate becomes love.

What’s not revolutionary about my America's history being destroyed?  What’s not revolutionary about this amazing nation not being loved and esteemed as a land of opportunity (as it is so many places in the world) but rather being hated and despised as a land of oppressors (a narrative becoming more and more accepted)?  

Marxists are at war with my country’s history.

And they’re trying to get you to believe their story.  How do they do so?  By redefining history into a story based on social class.

In a 1994 article I found on marxists.org, writer Justin Shwartz appealed to the notion that radical, reactionary elements within movements have “been maintained by minority tendencies in the working class.”  He further explains that such workers can become instrumental in helping realize “class struggle” by focusing attention on those who are “oppressed.”

Marxists achieve class struggle in a society, then, by focusing on the “oppressed.”

I appreciate much of what black commentator Candace Owen said in a recent rant about the George Floyd incident and the notion of racism in this nation: Instead of swallowing the narrative, she says, “Trust your experience.”  Her message was clear:  as a black woman who has been treated badly by others at times, it is not racism that qualifies as a significant problem in America today.  

And even with the Derek Chauvins of the world, such terrible behavior is on the fringe; it's not part of Americans' normal.  Chauvin doesn't represent whites.  He doesn't represent police officers.  His behavior was wrong, and Americans as a group excoriate it.

I’m going with Candace Owens’ advice.  I’m trusting my experience.

The 1994 article by Schwartz continues, “Class struggle itself is ‘gendered’ and ‘colored.’”  He explains, “These injustices are linked to systematic sexism and racism. Working class self-emancipation must begin with resistance to the oppression of women and minorities as such, not merely as workers."  

The great divide happening today in our glorious nation is a Marxist construct, a notion hatched by the same individuals who murdered millions in the 20th century, who tout that the free market liberties of capitalism are to be abolished, that religion is the opiate of the people, that the family is to be destroyed.  Marxist ideology is alive and well and has been for decades.  I’ve never seen it in fruition in America as I’m seeing it today.

Shwartz continued in the same article, “…No revolutionary class struggle can take place without addressing the sexual and racial dimensions of workers’ oppression and their basis in sexism and racism generally.”

That’s where we are today.  In people’s focus on gender possibilities (regardless of the scientific number of X and Y chromosomes), in emasculating men and masculinizing women, or on some tangent about racism, regardless of the fact that there is one human race and we in this great nation, regardless of ethnicity, are Americans—class struggle is nurtured.

Our nation today is not the country depicted in the Federalist Papers.  It’s not the vision discussed by our incredibly hard-working forebears at the Constitutional Convention.  It’s not the country de Tocqueville saw when visiting this nation in the 1830s.  It’s a world gone wild.  And we need to wake up.

The truth remains:  America is the land of opportunity, the place millions dream of coming.  So Marxists, please stop rewriting my history and feeding your stories to naive Americans. The United States is still a rags-to-riches nation, where geniuses like black American George Washington Carver could train black men and women to work and find hundreds of uses for something like the common peanut.  Each of us is part of one race--the human race--created in God’s image with a capability to work and produce, to love others, to nurture families, and to glorify God.  And, for that matter, no matter what ethnicity--we are Americans.

I’m planning to wear red, white, and blue this Fourth of July, fly my flag, and play my patriotic music, but I’m highly aware of the insidious anti-American feeling alive, well, and nurtured by so many who call themselves fellow Americans.

And that force which stands at polar opposites to the freedom millions died to preserve?  It's Marxism.