'The Communist Paradigm: Identifying Marxist Ideology in Democratic Talking Points'

Letter to the Editor sent in by Mathew Lengyel.

The most central narrative you will hear in American discourse today is one where a group of people (always based on some immutable characteristic) hegemonically uses their racial, social or economic position to oppress another group of people in order to profit from this inequality in some way. Groups like Black Lives Matter maintain that “all white people” systemically oppress “all black people” even today and use disparities in economic data between white and black people to rationalize their support for racial reparations. Feminists cast women as perpetual victims for something western men did or still do in the freest nation (the United States of America) for women in the history of mankind and this is when I typically stop listening out of deference to reality.

These two groups are examples of neo-marxist progressive re-branding of a very old and tired communist narrative about the Bourgeoisie (the rich) and the proletariat (everyone else) only they replace class warfare with racial or gender-based terms. Joe Biden literally telling black people that they are “not black” if they didn’t vote to support the Democratic party in all elections is a prime example of exactly this type of collectivist reductive thinking. A dirty and nuanced fact about human nature is that single groups of people do not think, act or behave in the same way. All groups of people have their leftists and their conservatives, their entitled and their productive, their ideological and their realist, their simple and their complex. So, unfortunately for Joe Biden, black people don’t all think in a monolithic way - nor do women or any other of the left’s “victim groups.”

Communists are at war with human nature (& God, by extension) because their whole ideology presupposes that everybody is born entirely equal in all other aspects of life BUT the inherited financial position they find themselves in from birth. The idea that some people are smarter, work harder, have different experiences, are more skilled and manage to function better in the work environment in order to earn what they have is considered bourgeoisie “counter-revolutionary” propaganda (and not just a fact of life). The very concept that some people are born with advantages that others do not enjoy runs in direct contravention of the Marxist vision to impose rigid equity in all sectors of human life. Thus, realities like class-mobility in a capitalist economy and the freedom it creates for an individual to provide for one’s family by best utilizing the opportunities of a free-market is outright heresy to their authoritarian quasi-religious cult.

Interestingly, this is precisely why the entire identity-based narrative of Black Lives Matter falls on it’s face when black conservatives challenge those who disseminate it. The same is true when women publicly ask feminists why they advocate to include biological men in female-only spaces. The nuance of human nature proves to be the Achilles heel and lynch pin of communist ideology because they have no answer for when those in the “oppressed class” turn their sights on the exact victimhood narrative Neo-Marxists sell. Their entire narrative of identity politics collapses when the ideologically faithful are confronted by others who they label as “victims” that they cannot simply castigate away using racial, social or gender-based grievances to blind people with their own perceived envy and anger.

Charlie Kirk famously said, “when people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” What if stoking political violence actually is part of the playbook and a “means to an end?” Remember that this is precisely the process Lenin and Mao and Hitler (remember - the Nazis were national SOCIALISTS) utilized to position themselves to either win elections or rig them in their favor. Neo-Marxists today attach labels like “racist” or “sexist” or “nazi” to their opponents exactly to prevent real dialogue. They seek to destroy the credibility of the author rather than attempt to engage with their ideas. Learning to recognize their narratives and tactics helps one to know who they are really listening to and what their goals actually are. It is most important to clue into the fact that there is no open dialogue or competing political parties where these dangerous revolutionaries seize power - there is only authoritarianism and the harsh sounds of the execution squads when people refuse to tow the “Party Line” and submit.