"In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.
Finally, they labor everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win."
does any of the previous quote look familiar? take a moment to look around. think about the middle east and the famous "student uprising" that was started on facebook. take a moment to compare the current facebook uprising occurring in america: occupy wall street. apparently this movement is gaining some steam and moving out of manhattan into flyover country.
now that you have this picture in your mind, take a trip back to the early 20th century. try to imagine the rush of being involved in the communist movements that swept asia & eastern europe. i'm sure that everyone of those people imagined the egalitarian utopia that would soon encompass the globe. in russia, china & most of eastern europe "the people" ascended to power and ran the tyrants out of the country. (or, in the case of the czar, executed them) it was a true victory and an obvious sign that the historical determinism of marx was spot on! no longer would people be oppressed by unjust, greedy, tyrannous thugs. the world was now on the proper footing. it's path marked out by all those fellow travelers that paved the way.
by the end of the 20th century millions upon millions had died in the largest social experiment ever attempted in human history. formerly rich and prosperous countries were brought to ruin. a handful of party elites had become the very thing they had purported to hate, tyrants. this was the ultimate outcome of the socialist movement. (china, being the one hold out, realized that communism could be propped up by offering cheap labor to the rest of the world & creating a trade imbalance that would drain capitalist countries of their capital.) it was basically, "de ja vu, all over again!" nothing had changed.
toggle forward and find yourself at a bar discussing current events with the chic urban hipster. he/she/it, believes that the cold war was just a manifestation of the military industrial complex. it had nothing to do with the fact that the communists from the USSR had spent a large portion of their national budget supporting the popular front, fellow travelers & leftist sympathizers in america in an attempt to infiltrate the US and turn it's people against the government. it had nothing to do with trying to destroy western civilization. not to mention the their verbal threats (if you think it was just saber rattling, ask any eastern european country.) , political rhetoric, stockpiling of weapons & nuclear warheads. it was merely a fable concocted & taught to school children to make them more patriotic. unfortunately, history does not confirm this bit of liberal fiction.
a question that usually evades these young, eager, revolutionaries is: what happened to the people with money? what happened to the money? did the revolutionaries simply take it when the revolution was over? In part, yes. however, the only thing they actually got was the stuff. the factories, equipment, offices, land and homes were abandoned. but, as the people with money began to see the writing on the wall, they moved their money somewhere safe. somewhere the revolution couldn’t touch it.
the truth about marxist revolutionaries is the same today as it was in 1848 when marx penned the opening words of the communist manifesto:
"A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of communism."
remember the closing words of the manifesto & opening words of this post: "communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things." and further into the document he writes: "Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the proletariat with the bourgeoisie is at first a national struggle. The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all settle matters with its own bourgeoisie." how, you ask, will this be accomplished?
"They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions."
ALL EXISTING SOCIAL CONDITIONS. that is all encompassing. another translation says that "all existing social structures" will be overthrown. the person, the family, the home, the church, finance, business, government, all structures and conditions will & must be overthrown.
and what does marx describe as the "leading question"? property. this is what emboldens the jobless, homeless malcontents that now occupy a small park in manhattan, near wall street. they don't want people to have the right to own things. yet, our founding fathers believed the right to ownership of private property to be the very nail upon which liberty hung! (there are some in this current movement, I’m sure, who merely want people to be limited in how much they can own. either way, it is a shot across the bow of the good ship liberty!) in fact, to take it to it's ultimate conclusion, they honestly believe that the money being handled by the financial establishment is theirs. that's why they believe they have the right to hassle private citizens. it is a misconstrued & misappropriated sense of justice. it is the culmination of years & years of indoctrination in marxist ideology - doled out by the public schools & university professors.
one thing I’ll say about the american marxist, he is patient. he waited out the whole of the 20th century like that fish that takes small bites of it’s prey and scurries away to hide (...usually in some cluttered university office or artist commune.) patiently eating small portions until the united states looks like a turkey carcass after thanksgiving dinner. to a man, every supporter of marxist ideology explains that, regardless of it’s history of complete and catastrophic failure, marxism works. It just hasn’t been done correctly yet!
one of my favourite movies also contains one of my favourite quotes. it is both poignant and instructive.
"the greatest trick the devil every pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
another classic truism is: those who refuse to learn from history are destined to repeat it.
the old lies of the left have become post-modern truths, precisely because no one has stood up like the little boy in the story and pointed out that the emperor is buck-assed-naked! consider this post my accusing finger. the specter lies at the door and is dressed in a coat of progressivism.
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win."
J'accuse!
signed: ben c huggins, petit bourgeois
postscript:
out of morbid curiosity, i watched a youtube video shot at the “occupy wall street” protest. a well dressed young black man was tearfully pointing toward a tall building and screaming, “that’s the bank that took my parent’s home!” immediately I was drawn in by the scene. In all sincerity the young man pleaded with the inanimate edifice of stone, steel and glass. he continued, “they played by the rules. they obeyed the law. they went to school. they got their phds. and you took their home!!!” right about there I began to become less sympathetic. playing by the rules and obeying the law means paying your mortgage. the only way a bank will take your home is if you stop paying your mortgage. trust me, banks do not want or need another foreclosed home on their ledgers. post modern americans don’t understand contracts because they haven’t been taught personal responsibility. (a country where you can easily get a divorce because you “changed your mind”) in place of responsibility, integrity & ethics, children have been spoon-fed marxist doctrine that fills them with a sense of entitlement.
when you sign your name to any legal document, you are legally, morally, ethically & financially bound to keep up your end of the deal. (hey protesters, the same rule applies to student loans!) if you do not keep your end of the deal, i.e. pay your bills, there are legal ramifications - your things will be returned to those who loaned you the money to make the purchase in the first place - that is what is right.
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