[American Thinker] As we witness the Democrat party’s descent into socialism and Marxism, we need to remind ourselves, and our Democrat counterparts: "What have Karl Marx’s teachings actually produced?"
The results of politicos implementing Marxism were, a) Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who killed 10—100 million of his own people, b) Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator who executed about 3 million of his own people (more than 1/3 of the entire Cambodian population), and c) the Chinese regime, which executes Christians at a staggering rate, and with Mao Tse Tung having murdered about 60 million people.
Let’s also not forget the identity of the socialist party leader in Germany from 1921 to 1945, Adolf Hitler; the party’s official name was the National German Socialist Workers’ Party. Historians estimate that at least 17 million people lost their lives, both directly and indirectly, as a result of that political movement.
What kind of teachings are found in Marx’s Communist Manifesto?
The abolition of private property.
Heavy progressive income tax.
The abolition of rights of inheritance.
Advocacy for a central bank.
Government ownership of communication and transportation.
Government ownership of factories and agriculture.
Government control of labor.
Corporate farms, regional planning.
"Free" education for all children in public schools, and the combination of education with industrial production.
Remember Vladimir Lenin’s purported promise about state education? "Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik [communist] forever."
We must remember the United States is not a democracy. Governments of pure democracy become totalitarian. Under a socialist democracy, the system American leftists continue to vie for, laws come from man’s opinion, rights aren’t God-given but privileges granted by the government, able to be revoked at any time, and government should be the all-powerful provider.
The U.S. is a constitutional republic, founded on specific moral principles: Rights are "unalienable" (God-given), as stated in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the government exists for one sole and limited purpose, and that is to secure those rights. |