https://dianawest.substack.com/p/un-happy-birthday-karl-marx?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2175125&post_
What follows is an essay I wrote to mark Marx’s 200th birthday. There may be less hoopla for the 207th, but that doesn’t mean the Marxists don’t have more to celebrate.
On this bicentennial birthday of Karl Marx, the figleafs are off but the full-frontal horror remains pixilated. What are we looking at? We don’t know, we can’t know. After generations of foreign, domestic, communist and pro-communist conditioning, including mass media agit prop and “higher education”; after generations of penetration, subversion, de-moralization, corruption and beguilement, the mainstreaming of Marxism continues on autopilot. That means freedom is “converging” with tyranny, which means freedom is disappearing in tyranny, which must make this the best birthday for Karl Marx ever.
It was FDR who quite enthusiastically set our national course on such “convergence” with the socialist revolution known as the New Deal; we put him on a pedestal. FDR’s Soviet-penetrated White House and policy shops then helped turned Allied armies into weapons of Communist expansion in Europe and Asia; we honor him and his hapless successor Truman as great war presidents. Never mind that they ushered in more, and more insidious “cold” war, which included preventable war in Korea and Vietnam, and misery and death for tens of millions of people, and a continuing assault on our core national character.
Thoroughly deceived, self-deceived or deceiving, Americans eventually called “victory” in the Cold War at the “end” of the Soviet Union. Never mind that this deceptively transitional phase seems to have operated as a giant smoke-screen for some much-needed regrouping and re-branding for Kremlin Inc., even as America and the wider West took that 1990s-opportunity to transfer billions to our “former” enemies, with Bill Clinton swapping US military secrets for campaign contributions from Red China on the side. Eventually returning to the “formerly” red well, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton initiated another more sophisticated tech-for-cash scheme known as Skolkovo, which netted “contributions” for the Clinton Foundation from many of the tech companies who were also getting Russian contracts. In other words, nearly a century later, something much much like Lenin’s NEP was going strong in updated ventures into state-controlled foreign “investment.” Communism was really “dead” this time, so it was all okay.
Lately, however, something does seem to different. As recently as 2008 and 2012, it was verboten to hint that Barack Obama was a socialist — and that went for his signature socialist program, Obamacare (Hillarycare). In 2016, however, a socialist relic named Bernie Sanders was probably the rightful presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Now, in 2018, the New York Times reports, numerous Democrats are running for office quite openly as socialists.
No wonder on turning 200 this month, Karl Marx appears all bright and shiny new. Across the media, from Left to Left, we are seeing red-hot hosannas to Marx, would-be destroyer of God and morality, of property and liberty.
