The Goal Marxists Are Working Feverishly to Achieve: Uprooting America from Her Foundation, Part 1

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association — the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
—Thomas Jefferson—

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
—Thomas Jefferson—

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Key point: To preserve their right to pursue happiness, the people must demand that the government honor their rights to own and manage their own property.

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Leftists, including Marxists, are not compassionate or caring. They are agitators. They want to disrupt American society by replacing America’s foundational ideals with socialist tenets, principles based on the teachings of Karl Marx.

One of the ways they agitate is by lying about the most self-evident of truths — truths like those related to biological sex and the meaning of marriage. Leftists can’t even tell you what a woman is! Race is another example. In the name of fighting racism, leftists, who control the prevailing narrative, practice racism themselves, even as they accuse everyone else of racism.

They do this in part by redefining words. In the past, you were a racist if you failed to treat all people equally, regardless of their skin color or ethnic background. Now you’re a racist if you do treat people equally! You can avoid racism only if you take into account the oppression blacks have endured in America’s past and seek to compensate for that oppression.

Of course, it’s undeniable that America hasn’t always lived up the noble ideal upon which she was founded that “all men are created equal.” In the last fifty or so years in America, however, this nation has moved a great deal closer to making the Founders’ concept of equality a reality; but then the left stepped in and ruined everything. News flash! Slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racist tools and practices no longer exist in America; and when they did, they largely were practiced and promoted by Democrats!

There’s more. The idea that blacks must not be treated as equal to their white counterparts but instead must be given special favors is incredibly insulting and demeaning to blacks. This notion sends the unmistakable message to them that they are perpetual victims, even of oppressive practices that no longer exist in this country. It says to them, You are incapable of rising above the harsh treatment your ancestors faced, so you have to have special help — just because you are black! Talk about oppression! PJ Media’s Matt Margolis astutely observes,

If a country that elected a black man president despite his gross inexperience, and then reelected him despite his failures is still considered a racist country, and failure to agree with that notion makes you racist no matter how equal you treat everybody then everyone is at risk at being considered racist. If it’s not enough to treat people equally, then the only thing we can conclude is that the gatekeepers of our language and culture will never allow this country to achieve Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream because they simply don’t want us to.

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If it’s not enough to treat people equally, then the only thing we can conclude is that the gatekeepers of our language and culture will never allow this country to achieve Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream because they simply don’t want us to.
—Matt Margolis—

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Trashing the Foundation of Authentic Freedom and Liberty

Agitation is but one tool of leftist social engineers. Marxists are experts at targeting and viciously attacking the standards that have contributed to cohesiveness and stability in American life. Socialism and communism, socialism’s ideological sister, stand contrary to the principles upheld in the Declaration of Independence and implemented in the US Constitution.

Leftists are working feverishly to replace

1. 1. 1. Christianity with atheism,
      2. the idea that God created people in His image and have rights the government has a duty to protect with the idea that people exist to serve the state,
      3. the Protestant work ethic with a commitment to serve the state,
      4. private property with centralized planning,
      5. personal economic freedom with collectivism,
      6. personal and corporate charity with government redistribution of wealth,
      7. parental rights with state ownership and control of children,
      8. limited government with an all-powerful state that controls everything, and
      9. an accurate knowledge and understanding of American history —what really happened — with a distorted version of real events so as to make it easier to manipulate the citizenry.

We discussed all of these in a Word Foundations article published a year ago. Here is a printable summary of that post.

Can we summarize this nine-item list in one sentence? I believe we can. Let’s recall a statement we made in a follow-up post released at Discover Bedrock Truth (www.discoverbedrocktruth.org) very soon after the release of the article at Word Foundations that carried the nine-item list. Here is the statement: Karl Marx believed that the people exist for the government, but America’s Founding Fathers believed government exists for the people.

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Karl Marx believed that the people exist for the government, but America’s Founding Fathers believed government exists for the people.

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Trashing Two Bedrock American Principles

In this article and the next, I’d like to highlight two specific America ideals leftists are seeking to overturn to implement their agenda. They relate to items 4 and 9 on the above list. We’ll consider the fourth item in the remainder of this article and the ninth item next time.

Item 4 highlights leftists’ relentless efforts to replace property rights with centralized planning, an approach that gives ownership and control of property and other material resources to the state. You’ve probably seen this image, a propaganda piece produced by the World Economic Forum (WEF), an organization pushing for globalism and, quite obviously, the elimination of private property.

In the following video from the Centre for Risk Analysis (a consulting firm in South Africa), speaker and author Douglas Kruger warns about “The Great Reset” being pushed by the WEF. It is well worth eleven minutes of your time to watch this video!

In an article released at American Thinker, J. B. Shurk writes,

There’s an important lesson here for those who properly object to a bunch of unelected oligarchs manipulating world events for their own purposes.  When the wealthy and powerful sing the praises of “international cooperation,” they are almost always sticking it to ordinary people.  Rigorous competition, not cooperation, is the key to keeping power in check and providing ample opportunity for all.  Since WWII, the West has been brainwashed into accepting the opposite falsehood — that competition leads to tragedy and that only forced cooperation can foster long-term peace.  Nationalism is equated with racism.  Patriotism is derided as another civic opiate for the masses.  Free markets were long ago buried with byzantine domestic regulations and international trade agreements that protect multinational monopolies at the expense of aspiring start-ups lacking the resources to overtake companies with heavy political clout.  Just as American workers can’t compete against Chinese slave labor, and oppressively regulated American factories can’t compete against scarcely regulated foreign enterprises, American voters can’t find representation in Washington, D.C., when that town’s bureaucratic army works not for Americans, but rather for the interests of foreign governments, multinational corporate boards, international financial heavyweights, and Western military alliances.  As Biden hands the Chinese-aligned World Health Organization power over Americans’ health and delivers to the United Nations control over Americans’ future use of hydrocarbon energy, an ever-smaller group of global elites assumes greater control over everyone else.  As they do so, they glorify their efforts as a victory for a “rules-based international order.”

Property Rights and the Pursuit of Happiness

Much, much, more can be said about the WEF, but for now, be forewarned about it and its push for globalism, in part through feel-good rhetoric.

There’s something else of which you need to be aware, as well. There’s an important connection between property rights and “the pursuit of Happiness,” an unalienable right highlighted in the Declaration of Independence. Make no mistake. The WEF’s contention that “in 2030 you’ll own nothing and be happy” is a swipe against America’s Founding Fathers. It’s a clear signal the WEF holds them in contempt.

In an article published online by the Foundation for Economic Education, Jim Powell explains that John Locke, a 17th-century Englishman and political philosopher,

expressed the radical view that government is morally obliged to serve people, namely by protecting life, liberty, and property [note these triplets: life, liberty, and property]. He explained the principle of checks and balances to limit government power. He favored representative government and a rule of law. He denounced tyranny. He insisted that when government violates individual rights, people may legitimately rebel.

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America drew heavily from Locke when they drafted and approved the Declaration of Independence. Significantly, Thomas Jefferson, the principal writer of the Declaration, substituted the phrase “the pursuit of happiness” for “property” in his original draft — and this wording was retained in the final document.

Another aspect of the backstory is that on June 12, 1776 — less than a month before the Declaration of Independence was approved — the Virginia Declaration of Rights was adopted. It had been written by Founding Father George Mason. Section 1 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights reads as follows:

Conversely, can you really be happy if the government stands between you and your right to own and manage your own property and wealth? While many will get all goose-pimpilish and experience the “warm fuzzies” in response to the the WEF’s prediction that “in 2030 they’ll own nothing and be happy,” they should instead use their heads and realize that if they have no property or property rights, 1) they’ve become victims of theft, and 2) the government has trampled on their God-given rights of property ownership and resource management.

Always remember this: They and those they love also will be poverty stricken, fearful, panicked, hungry, and yes, very, very unhappy — the claims of the WEF notwithstanding.

History Is Important, Too

Let’s take a break for now. Next time, we’ll consider Marxists’ efforts to rewrite history — a theme that is not totally unfamiliar to Word Foundations readers (go here and here). Even so, we’ll dig even deeper and unearth some important new insights.

Stay tuned!

 

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Disclaimer: Although the image at the top has Catholic overtones, it should not be construed as an endorsement of Catholicism either by me or Word Foundations. The image is displayed merely as a representation of the left’s attempt to trash all religion in America (and especially all expressions of Christianity) and replace it, and them, with atheism (see the 9-item list, item 1). In resisting such attempts, I stand with Catholics everywhere.