July 27, 2021
Dear Friends and Family,
As I mentioned in the last segment of this series, I came upon a new book that was just published (7/15/2021) that I think provides another perspective on the Nihilism series. The book is American Marxism by Mark R. Levin.
I have tended to think about Critical Race Theory, the protests and riots, and other aspects of “Wokeness” in terms of racial injustice. Levin posits that it goes well beyond race into Marxism which demands destruction of the existing society.
I began analyzing the book by listing Levin’s definitions of a number of issues that were part of the Nihilism series, specifically Critical Race Theory, Revisionist History (1619 Project and America’s Caste System), Social Justice, Transgender children, American Universities, and Protests and Riots. For the most part they aligned with the series definitions from my viewpoint.
Then I wrote down Levin’s interpretation of how each one is in line with Marxist ideology.
These two analyses for the six Nihilism topics are the focus of this PostScript segment followed by some of Levin’s Conclusions and a summary.
Hopefully these analyses will help you make you own judgment on whether “Wokeness Nihilism” is Marxist ideology. The analyses also caused me to go back and read segment 21: “Socialism for America.”
Next:
The topic of the next series is “Big Tech and Artificial Intelligence.”
Happy Learning,
I hope you enjoyed and learned from the Nihilism Series,
Harley
Dear Friends and Family,
As I mentioned in the last segment of this series, I came upon a new book that was just published (7/15/2021) that I think provides another perspective on the Nihilism series. The book is American Marxism by Mark R. Levin.
I have tended to think about Critical Race Theory, the protests and riots, and other aspects of “Wokeness” in terms of racial injustice. Levin posits that it goes well beyond race into Marxism which demands destruction of the existing society.
I began analyzing the book by listing Levin’s definitions of a number of issues that were part of the Nihilism series, specifically Critical Race Theory, Revisionist History (1619 Project and America’s Caste System), Social Justice, Transgender children, American Universities, and Protests and Riots. For the most part they aligned with the series definitions from my viewpoint.
Then I wrote down Levin’s interpretation of how each one is in line with Marxist ideology.
These two analyses for the six Nihilism topics are the focus of this PostScript segment followed by some of Levin’s Conclusions and a summary.
Hopefully these analyses will help you make you own judgment on whether “Wokeness Nihilism” is Marxist ideology. The analyses also caused me to go back and read segment 21: “Socialism for America.”
Next:
The topic of the next series is “Big Tech and Artificial Intelligence.”
Happy Learning,
I hope you enjoyed and learned from the Nihilism Series,
Harley
NIHILISM – POSTSCRIPT
A VIEWPOINT ON NIHILISM – EXCERPTS
All excerpts are from: America’s Marxism by Mark Levin (2021)
DESCRIPTIONS OF ELEMENTS OF NIHILISM BY LEVIN:
1) Critical Race Theory: “Racism is ordinary, not aberration – ‘normal science,’ the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country.” Hence, racism is rampant, ubiquitous, conscious, and unconscious. It is everywhere, and there is no escaping it. Minorities are relentlessly victimized as individuals and class, and in all manners, by white dominance. And short of eradicating society there is no cure. That’s the mind-set, that’s the doctrine. Therefore, goes the argument, widespread white privilege and white supremacy are a scientific fact that must be acknowledged if there is to be any true racial progress. References to and actions based on promoting “color-blindness” or “equality” are meaningless and superficial diversions away from a real culture revolution.
2) Revisionist History: 1619 Project: In December 2019, in the New York Times Magazine five exemplary historians “expressed … strong reservations about important aspects of the 1619 Project.” “On the American Revolution, pivotal to any account of history,” they write, “the project asserts that the founders declared the colonies’ independence of Britain in order to ensure slavery would continue. This is not true. If supportable, the allegation would be astounding – yet every statement offered by the project to validate it is false.”
Caste: “Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries.” The New York Times Magazine explicitly compares the United States to Nazi Germany. “What the evidence suggests is that leading publications have not only vastly expanded the definition of racism and actively promoted a more racialized view of American society but have done so by normalizing the notion of ‘White people’s guilt.’”
3) Social Justice: Mass movements attempt to devour the individual in two ways: consume his identity and uniqueness, thereby making him indistinguishable from “the masses,” but also assigning him a group identity based on race, age, income, etc. to draw class distinctions. Group identity is necessary and critical to the success of the movement. “When people bind their fate to the fate of a group, they feel personally threatened when the group is threatened. Solidarity and collective identity operate to blur the distinction between individual and group interest.” The “cause” itself becomes the reason for one’s existence. The frustrated derive as much satisfaction – if not more – from the means a mass movement uses as from the end it advocates. They are lured by the false hopes and promises of utopian transformation and the criticism of the existing society, to which their connection is tentative or nonexistent. This also explains why “the end” of such revolutions is never in sight.
4) Transgender Children: Michelle Cretella, M.D. and executive director of the American College of Pediatricians says, “Today’s institutions that promote transition affirmation are pushing children to impersonate the opposite sex, sending many of them down the path of puberty blockers, sterilization, the removal of healthy body parts, and untold psychological damage.”
5) Universities: The early progressive understood that they must institutionalize their educational activism by controlling the administration of education and the classroom. Marxist movements dominate on campus. Indeed, academic freedom and free speech once considered foundations of higher education, are no more. The intolerance and cancel culture have spread to outright discrimination in hiring, promotion, grants, and publication of professors and graduate students who do not abide the ideology demanded by the campus revolutionaries.
6) Protests and Riots: The goal is to force the weakening of the system or, as they call it, the “regime” making it vulnerable to the movement’s demands. “Social movements thrive on conflict,” they wrote. This strategy has also largely played out in America’s streets and politics, as Antifa, BLM, and other Marxist-anarchist groups exploited both the initial economic collapse due to the corona virus and the death of George Floyd.
THE CONCEPT OF MARXISM RELATIVE TO THESE SAME ELEMENTS: The General Appeal of Marxism: Marxism is especially alluring to, and actively supported by individuals who find Marxism’s oppressor – oppressed class warfare construct appealing for several reasons. First, the fact is people want to belong to groups, including ethnic, racial, religious, and economic groups. People find identity, commonality, purpose, and even self-worth with such attachments. Indeed, I believe this to be the most potent of Marx’s paradigms, because he exploits this instinctively human and psychologically emotional appeal to create passionate an even fanatical adherents and revolutionaries. Within this class warfare construct, Marxism’s adherents and would-be followers are encouraged to view themselves and the groups with which they identify as the oppressed – that is, the victims. And their oppressors are found in the existing society, culture, and economic systems, from which the oppressed must liberate themselves and their fellow travelers, meaning the victims who identify with or are also members of the same group. This is a primary reason why Marxism stresses classism over individualism. The individual is dehumanized and is nothing unless he identifies with a group – the oppressed and victimized group. And the individuals who make up opposing or nonconforming groups are collectively dehumanized, condemned and loathed as the enemy. Marxism presents a “new faith,” which promises a new and better society, for which a passion if not obsession in inculcated in future generations – despite its trial of mass death, enslavement and impoverishment.
1) Critical Race Theory: CRT undermines and exploits America’s unique and very successful fusion of diversity and cultural assimilation and considers all issues in the context of past societal imperfections. CRT repositions what is the most tolerant and beneficent society on earth as a miserably dark and impoverished nation, from its beginning to today.
Like Marx, the CRT proponent deals in group stereotypes and prejudices, whether talking about perpetrators or victims, based on race, etc. Assumptions are made about individuals grounded on their physical, religious, ancestral, and other characteristics. But human beings are more than racial beings, just as they are more than economic beings, and the Marxist ideology preaches a monumental and deadly distortion of man’s nature. Individuals are complex and complicated, unique and spiritual. They are influenced by innumerable events, circumstances, motivations, desires, interests, etc. It is the Marxist and critical race academics and activists who create these categories for their own convenience and revolutionary purposes when demanding the dissolution of society and its rebirth as some utopian autocracy or mobocracy.
CRT activists, like Marxist revolutionaries are intolerant of contrary arguments and challenges to their views. Therefore, free speech is particularly threatening to “the cause.” The answer, therefore, is regulation of speech. Thus, government authorities or their surrogates in Big Tech, the media, and academia, are to be in the business of determining what speech is acceptable and what speech is not. For the Marxist and the CRT ideologues, only one kind of speech is acceptable – theirs. In short CRT is an insidious and racist Marxist ideology spreading throughout our culture and society – which in turn has been embraced by the Biden administration, the Democratic Party, the media, and institutions throughout our society and culture.
The intersectional network of a seemingly endless list of oppressed individuals and groups are obsessively committed to transforming and overthrowing the American republic and society and is tearing this country apart. Of course, that is not to say that every individual or group associated with these movements, or their professed purposes, is knowingly part of such a rebellion of revolution. No doubt many are unfamiliar with the ultimate objectives and motivations of the fanatical leaders, organizers, and activists among them. Nonetheless, they are contributing to Critical Theory’s extremely destructive and revolutionary purposes and ends.
2) History: Marx preached the citizenry must condemn and cast off their own history if there is to be individual and societal progress. Of course, this attitude has now taken firm hold throughout academia and has spilled over into much of our culture.
3) Social Justice: This is a core theme of Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx – that is, the individual must sacrifice his independence, free will, and personal pursuits to the greater good, and in that way not only will he become more fulfilled and self-realized, but the entire community will benefit as well. In America, capitalism and constitutionalism are ramparts that stand against Marxism and progressivism, and therefore, must be discredited and ultimately demolished. Constitutionalism and capitalism limit the role or possibility of a centralized authoritarianism and, conversely, empower the individual within the framework of the civil society. As such, they are utterly incompatible with Marxism and Marxism’s offspring – progressivism, which seek the widest latitude over the development and future state of society. The party controls the government, and the government controls society. There is little room for philosophical or political diversity.
4) Transgender Children: What does this have to do with Marxism? Recall Marx’s war on the nuclear family. Schools across the country and around the world have attempted to implement curricula that teach students the nonscientific belief that gender is fluid and subjective, and that traditional beliefs about marriage and family are rooted in bigotry.
5) Universities: The Marxist objective is to control the schools and the curriculum, control the teachers and the classroom, and you will, in time, control the minds and hearts of the population. Is not that the state of affairs in education that we confront in the United States today? The radicalization of the culture through education and media propaganda with radical, Marxist-based ideologies, such as Critical Theory. Rather than learning allegiance to the nation’s founding and ideals, and celebrating a free and civil society, successive generations of students are taught to disdain for their own country, its history and its founding, and are encouraged to renounce it.
It is academia and its rule over education of generations of students that serves as the most potent force for the Marxist indoctrination and advocacy, and the most powerful impetus for its acceptance and spread. This makes Marxism a uniquely alluring ideology in that Marx wraps his ideology in the language of the underdog and oppressed and calls for the eradication of the status quo for it is said to be corrupt through and through. Thus, the agenda for the Marxist faculty member is clear: to create an army of anti-American youth who will do the bidding of the Marxist faculty as they emerge from academia and enter the workplace.
6) Protests and Riots: The Antifa movement is populated with indistinguishable “soldiers” dressed uniformly in black clothing and face coverings. Their identities and names are unknown. They are indoctrinated in a Marxist-anarchist ideology, trained in violence, and said to be “an idea.” Obviously, it is more than an idea. It is a dangerous and brutal movement populated by angry zealots. Black Lives Matter is also a Marxist-anarchist movement. However, it has self-identified as a black power of black liberation movement when, in fact, its agenda extends well beyond race into the usual Marxist demands for the destruction of the existing society.
THE CONSEQUENCES: We are told police officers are “systemically racists,” targeting African Americans and other minorities for disparate treatment, despite indisputable statistics and overwhelming evidence to the contrary. If your goal is to “fundamentally transform” America – that is, abolish our history, traditions, and ultimately our republic – then you must subvert support for the police. After all, without law enforcement the civil society collapses.
Especially pernicious is the American Marxist’s control over our public school and college classrooms with the full support of the two national teachers’ unions -- where your children and grandchildren are being taught to hate our country and are brainwashed with racist propaganda. If this persists, it will most assuredly lead to the nation’s downfall.
The social movement envisioned by these utopians would drag America into a regressive, impoverished society with widespread economic and social dislocation – a pre-industrialized environment where progress comes to an end, for that is the goal. Like Marxism generally, this movement is based on theories and abstraction that, when forcibly applied in the real world, particularly in a widely successful and advanced society, have a result that is disastrous for the population. Moreover, experience shows that for those among them who are famous, wealthy, and/or powerful, they will continue to luxuriate in a lifestyle created by capitalism.
SUMMARY: We have allowed the American Marxist to define who we are as a people. They defame us, slander our ancestors and history, and trash our founding documents and principles. Their ideology and worldview are based on the arguments and beliefs of a man, Karl Marx, whose writings are responsible for the enslavement, impoverishment, torture, and death of untold millions. This is a hard fact, despite the predictable protestations from some in our society who embrace and advance Marxism’s core ideas but attempt to disassociate themselves from responsibility for its inevitable outcomes.
The counterrevolution to the American Revolution is in full force. And it can no longer be dismissed or ignored. The primary difference between the counterrevolution and the American Revolution is that the former seeks to destroy American society, and the latter sought to protect American society and institute representative government. The counterrevolution or movement of which I speak is Marxism. The various leaders include bands of openly Marxist professors and activists, and they are supported by a core group of “woke” followers. They use tactics of propaganda and indoctrination and demand conformity and compliance silencing contrary voices through repressive tactics.
During the violent riots last summer and this spring, which involved looting, arson, and even murder in multiple cities over the course of several months, and where Antifa and BLM had prominent organizational roles regurgitated the rhetoric and claims of the anarchist/Marxist groups and rioters, including the broad condemnation of law enforcement as “systemically racist,” and were not only loath to denounce the violence but, incredibly declared the rioters as “mostly peaceful” and their demand to defund the police as legitimate.
The purpose is to tear down and tear apart the nation for a thousand reasons and in a thousand ways, thereby dispiriting and demoralizing the public; creating one calamity after another; weakening the nation from within, and ultimately, destroying what we know as American republicanism and capitalism.
And yet, historical and present-day experience shows that Marxism and its supposed “worker’s paradise” are responsible for the death of tens of millions of human beings, and the impoverishment and enslavement of over a billion more. Indeed, Marx was wrong on everything.
Source: American Marxism by Mark R. Levin
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
A VIEWPOINT ON NIHILISM – EXCERPTS
All excerpts are from: America’s Marxism by Mark Levin (2021)
DESCRIPTIONS OF ELEMENTS OF NIHILISM BY LEVIN:
1) Critical Race Theory: “Racism is ordinary, not aberration – ‘normal science,’ the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country.” Hence, racism is rampant, ubiquitous, conscious, and unconscious. It is everywhere, and there is no escaping it. Minorities are relentlessly victimized as individuals and class, and in all manners, by white dominance. And short of eradicating society there is no cure. That’s the mind-set, that’s the doctrine. Therefore, goes the argument, widespread white privilege and white supremacy are a scientific fact that must be acknowledged if there is to be any true racial progress. References to and actions based on promoting “color-blindness” or “equality” are meaningless and superficial diversions away from a real culture revolution.
2) Revisionist History: 1619 Project: In December 2019, in the New York Times Magazine five exemplary historians “expressed … strong reservations about important aspects of the 1619 Project.” “On the American Revolution, pivotal to any account of history,” they write, “the project asserts that the founders declared the colonies’ independence of Britain in order to ensure slavery would continue. This is not true. If supportable, the allegation would be astounding – yet every statement offered by the project to validate it is false.”
Caste: “Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries.” The New York Times Magazine explicitly compares the United States to Nazi Germany. “What the evidence suggests is that leading publications have not only vastly expanded the definition of racism and actively promoted a more racialized view of American society but have done so by normalizing the notion of ‘White people’s guilt.’”
3) Social Justice: Mass movements attempt to devour the individual in two ways: consume his identity and uniqueness, thereby making him indistinguishable from “the masses,” but also assigning him a group identity based on race, age, income, etc. to draw class distinctions. Group identity is necessary and critical to the success of the movement. “When people bind their fate to the fate of a group, they feel personally threatened when the group is threatened. Solidarity and collective identity operate to blur the distinction between individual and group interest.” The “cause” itself becomes the reason for one’s existence. The frustrated derive as much satisfaction – if not more – from the means a mass movement uses as from the end it advocates. They are lured by the false hopes and promises of utopian transformation and the criticism of the existing society, to which their connection is tentative or nonexistent. This also explains why “the end” of such revolutions is never in sight.
4) Transgender Children: Michelle Cretella, M.D. and executive director of the American College of Pediatricians says, “Today’s institutions that promote transition affirmation are pushing children to impersonate the opposite sex, sending many of them down the path of puberty blockers, sterilization, the removal of healthy body parts, and untold psychological damage.”
5) Universities: The early progressive understood that they must institutionalize their educational activism by controlling the administration of education and the classroom. Marxist movements dominate on campus. Indeed, academic freedom and free speech once considered foundations of higher education, are no more. The intolerance and cancel culture have spread to outright discrimination in hiring, promotion, grants, and publication of professors and graduate students who do not abide the ideology demanded by the campus revolutionaries.
6) Protests and Riots: The goal is to force the weakening of the system or, as they call it, the “regime” making it vulnerable to the movement’s demands. “Social movements thrive on conflict,” they wrote. This strategy has also largely played out in America’s streets and politics, as Antifa, BLM, and other Marxist-anarchist groups exploited both the initial economic collapse due to the corona virus and the death of George Floyd.
THE CONCEPT OF MARXISM RELATIVE TO THESE SAME ELEMENTS: The General Appeal of Marxism: Marxism is especially alluring to, and actively supported by individuals who find Marxism’s oppressor – oppressed class warfare construct appealing for several reasons. First, the fact is people want to belong to groups, including ethnic, racial, religious, and economic groups. People find identity, commonality, purpose, and even self-worth with such attachments. Indeed, I believe this to be the most potent of Marx’s paradigms, because he exploits this instinctively human and psychologically emotional appeal to create passionate an even fanatical adherents and revolutionaries. Within this class warfare construct, Marxism’s adherents and would-be followers are encouraged to view themselves and the groups with which they identify as the oppressed – that is, the victims. And their oppressors are found in the existing society, culture, and economic systems, from which the oppressed must liberate themselves and their fellow travelers, meaning the victims who identify with or are also members of the same group. This is a primary reason why Marxism stresses classism over individualism. The individual is dehumanized and is nothing unless he identifies with a group – the oppressed and victimized group. And the individuals who make up opposing or nonconforming groups are collectively dehumanized, condemned and loathed as the enemy. Marxism presents a “new faith,” which promises a new and better society, for which a passion if not obsession in inculcated in future generations – despite its trial of mass death, enslavement and impoverishment.
1) Critical Race Theory: CRT undermines and exploits America’s unique and very successful fusion of diversity and cultural assimilation and considers all issues in the context of past societal imperfections. CRT repositions what is the most tolerant and beneficent society on earth as a miserably dark and impoverished nation, from its beginning to today.
Like Marx, the CRT proponent deals in group stereotypes and prejudices, whether talking about perpetrators or victims, based on race, etc. Assumptions are made about individuals grounded on their physical, religious, ancestral, and other characteristics. But human beings are more than racial beings, just as they are more than economic beings, and the Marxist ideology preaches a monumental and deadly distortion of man’s nature. Individuals are complex and complicated, unique and spiritual. They are influenced by innumerable events, circumstances, motivations, desires, interests, etc. It is the Marxist and critical race academics and activists who create these categories for their own convenience and revolutionary purposes when demanding the dissolution of society and its rebirth as some utopian autocracy or mobocracy.
CRT activists, like Marxist revolutionaries are intolerant of contrary arguments and challenges to their views. Therefore, free speech is particularly threatening to “the cause.” The answer, therefore, is regulation of speech. Thus, government authorities or their surrogates in Big Tech, the media, and academia, are to be in the business of determining what speech is acceptable and what speech is not. For the Marxist and the CRT ideologues, only one kind of speech is acceptable – theirs. In short CRT is an insidious and racist Marxist ideology spreading throughout our culture and society – which in turn has been embraced by the Biden administration, the Democratic Party, the media, and institutions throughout our society and culture.
The intersectional network of a seemingly endless list of oppressed individuals and groups are obsessively committed to transforming and overthrowing the American republic and society and is tearing this country apart. Of course, that is not to say that every individual or group associated with these movements, or their professed purposes, is knowingly part of such a rebellion of revolution. No doubt many are unfamiliar with the ultimate objectives and motivations of the fanatical leaders, organizers, and activists among them. Nonetheless, they are contributing to Critical Theory’s extremely destructive and revolutionary purposes and ends.
2) History: Marx preached the citizenry must condemn and cast off their own history if there is to be individual and societal progress. Of course, this attitude has now taken firm hold throughout academia and has spilled over into much of our culture.
3) Social Justice: This is a core theme of Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx – that is, the individual must sacrifice his independence, free will, and personal pursuits to the greater good, and in that way not only will he become more fulfilled and self-realized, but the entire community will benefit as well. In America, capitalism and constitutionalism are ramparts that stand against Marxism and progressivism, and therefore, must be discredited and ultimately demolished. Constitutionalism and capitalism limit the role or possibility of a centralized authoritarianism and, conversely, empower the individual within the framework of the civil society. As such, they are utterly incompatible with Marxism and Marxism’s offspring – progressivism, which seek the widest latitude over the development and future state of society. The party controls the government, and the government controls society. There is little room for philosophical or political diversity.
4) Transgender Children: What does this have to do with Marxism? Recall Marx’s war on the nuclear family. Schools across the country and around the world have attempted to implement curricula that teach students the nonscientific belief that gender is fluid and subjective, and that traditional beliefs about marriage and family are rooted in bigotry.
5) Universities: The Marxist objective is to control the schools and the curriculum, control the teachers and the classroom, and you will, in time, control the minds and hearts of the population. Is not that the state of affairs in education that we confront in the United States today? The radicalization of the culture through education and media propaganda with radical, Marxist-based ideologies, such as Critical Theory. Rather than learning allegiance to the nation’s founding and ideals, and celebrating a free and civil society, successive generations of students are taught to disdain for their own country, its history and its founding, and are encouraged to renounce it.
It is academia and its rule over education of generations of students that serves as the most potent force for the Marxist indoctrination and advocacy, and the most powerful impetus for its acceptance and spread. This makes Marxism a uniquely alluring ideology in that Marx wraps his ideology in the language of the underdog and oppressed and calls for the eradication of the status quo for it is said to be corrupt through and through. Thus, the agenda for the Marxist faculty member is clear: to create an army of anti-American youth who will do the bidding of the Marxist faculty as they emerge from academia and enter the workplace.
6) Protests and Riots: The Antifa movement is populated with indistinguishable “soldiers” dressed uniformly in black clothing and face coverings. Their identities and names are unknown. They are indoctrinated in a Marxist-anarchist ideology, trained in violence, and said to be “an idea.” Obviously, it is more than an idea. It is a dangerous and brutal movement populated by angry zealots. Black Lives Matter is also a Marxist-anarchist movement. However, it has self-identified as a black power of black liberation movement when, in fact, its agenda extends well beyond race into the usual Marxist demands for the destruction of the existing society.
THE CONSEQUENCES: We are told police officers are “systemically racists,” targeting African Americans and other minorities for disparate treatment, despite indisputable statistics and overwhelming evidence to the contrary. If your goal is to “fundamentally transform” America – that is, abolish our history, traditions, and ultimately our republic – then you must subvert support for the police. After all, without law enforcement the civil society collapses.
Especially pernicious is the American Marxist’s control over our public school and college classrooms with the full support of the two national teachers’ unions -- where your children and grandchildren are being taught to hate our country and are brainwashed with racist propaganda. If this persists, it will most assuredly lead to the nation’s downfall.
The social movement envisioned by these utopians would drag America into a regressive, impoverished society with widespread economic and social dislocation – a pre-industrialized environment where progress comes to an end, for that is the goal. Like Marxism generally, this movement is based on theories and abstraction that, when forcibly applied in the real world, particularly in a widely successful and advanced society, have a result that is disastrous for the population. Moreover, experience shows that for those among them who are famous, wealthy, and/or powerful, they will continue to luxuriate in a lifestyle created by capitalism.
SUMMARY: We have allowed the American Marxist to define who we are as a people. They defame us, slander our ancestors and history, and trash our founding documents and principles. Their ideology and worldview are based on the arguments and beliefs of a man, Karl Marx, whose writings are responsible for the enslavement, impoverishment, torture, and death of untold millions. This is a hard fact, despite the predictable protestations from some in our society who embrace and advance Marxism’s core ideas but attempt to disassociate themselves from responsibility for its inevitable outcomes.
The counterrevolution to the American Revolution is in full force. And it can no longer be dismissed or ignored. The primary difference between the counterrevolution and the American Revolution is that the former seeks to destroy American society, and the latter sought to protect American society and institute representative government. The counterrevolution or movement of which I speak is Marxism. The various leaders include bands of openly Marxist professors and activists, and they are supported by a core group of “woke” followers. They use tactics of propaganda and indoctrination and demand conformity and compliance silencing contrary voices through repressive tactics.
During the violent riots last summer and this spring, which involved looting, arson, and even murder in multiple cities over the course of several months, and where Antifa and BLM had prominent organizational roles regurgitated the rhetoric and claims of the anarchist/Marxist groups and rioters, including the broad condemnation of law enforcement as “systemically racist,” and were not only loath to denounce the violence but, incredibly declared the rioters as “mostly peaceful” and their demand to defund the police as legitimate.
The purpose is to tear down and tear apart the nation for a thousand reasons and in a thousand ways, thereby dispiriting and demoralizing the public; creating one calamity after another; weakening the nation from within, and ultimately, destroying what we know as American republicanism and capitalism.
And yet, historical and present-day experience shows that Marxism and its supposed “worker’s paradise” are responsible for the death of tens of millions of human beings, and the impoverishment and enslavement of over a billion more. Indeed, Marx was wrong on everything.
Source: American Marxism by Mark R. Levin
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
| nihilsm_postscript_.pdf |