According to historical record, following World War II, seven countries in Europe were seized by “communist imperialism.” Using Bolshevik apparatchiks sent from the Soviet Union, these nations copied the political, economic, and social life of the Soviet Union and became “people’s democracies,” known to the free world as Soviet satellites. Ordinary people, who had been completely deceived, had no idea at the time what these “democracies” would become and how they would fundamentally transform the peoples’ lives for the worse, much worse.
The “communist
imperialist” expansion was enabled by the presence of Red Army agents who supported
and paid for terrorist and subversive actions carried out by local communists. Well-organized
communist cells were led by locals who had spent time in the Soviet Union in
Kremlin’s schools between WWI and WWII. The Soviet-trained propagandists were
well ensconced in local life like parasitic insects.
Matyas
Rakosi, Hungarian communist leader, explained how the communists seized power,
by using a two-word descriptor, ‘salami tactics.’ The well-organized
communists funded by the Soviets and British and American bankers, “gradually
sliced away at other political groups until, finally, all opposition was
eliminated.”
Here is a
list of communist methods used by local communists with the help of the Red
Army operatives, as described by J. Edgar Hoover.
1. Non-communist political parties were
forcibly incorporated in coalitions dominated by communists.
2. Non-communist leaders were arrested, imprisoned,
refused permission to return from abroad, or were deported.
3. Non-communist press was censored.
4. Non-communist parties were
infiltrated and disrupted from within.
5. Communists took control of key ministries
such as Interior, Justice, and Communications.
6. Communists gained authority over policing,
justice, and the media.
7. All elections were rigged.
8. Making the country ungovernable
through civil unrest, riots, strikes, and well-organized protests and
demonstrations.
The communist
imperialist doctrine is described by three concepts:
1. Communism has a philosophy, and it is
materialistic.
2. Communism is based on a method called
dialectic.
3. Communism applies materialistic philosophy
and this dialectic method to all social developments and to history.
The
communist materialistic philosophy is based on the communist belief that
only matter exists; there is no spiritual being. There is no
Supreme Being, no God who created the universe.
Humans have
no spiritual soul which is immortal, and humans are the same as any other form
of life. Man is chemistry, physics, and is highly developed when compared to
other forms of life. Primitive man, communists say, have invented the supreme
being to explain natural phenomenon such as lightning, earthquakes, mud slides,
volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, acidic lakes, and tsunamis.
All
religions and their moral codes based on spiritual beliefs are thus fantasy, or
as Karl Marx said, “religion is the opium of the masses,” translated as “religion
is the opiate of the masses.”
The dialectic
method refers to the art of discourse, reasoning, and debate. Dialectic
comes from the Greek word dialektike. Dialectics in antiquity was
the art of arriving at truth through the clash of opposing views and arguments.
By debating, opponents underlined the contradictions in each other’s arguments to
find a conclusion that contained the truth and eliminated the faults in each opinion.
This dialectic
method of debate had three parts: the thesis, the antithesis, and
the synthesis. The synthesis combined the best elements of the thesis
and of the antithesis. Once the synthesis was produced, it became a new thesis.
This new thesis was then developed, the antithesis, and then a new synthesis
sprung up.
Karl Marx’s
theory of dialectical materialism was influenced by the German
philosopher Hegel. In his idealism, Hegel
believed that the universe was both rational and spiritual. Marx
used Hegel’s dialectical method to validate his materialistic
philosophy. But Hegel’s philosophy was idealistic.
Hegel used
the dialectical method to understand the past and the present. Marx used
the dialectical method to explain the past, the present, and the future
of society.
Marx and Engels
helped the communists develop their three laws:
1. The law of the unity and struggle of
opposites – “contradiction
in all matter which drives it to further development” (communists used examples
such as protons and electrons, cells forming and dying, and opposing classes in
society)
2. The law of negation (communists explained that slavery
was negated by feudalism, feudalism was negated by capitalism which will be
negated by communism – all things obsolete will be negated and replaced by the
good in the dialectical process)
3. The law of the sudden leap (communists explained that quantitative
changes produce qualitative changes; the emergence of qualitative
changes will require a sudden leap; in societal order, the qualitative
changes require revolution as a sudden leap)
Communists explained
history as a materialistic process driven by the class struggle. The Communist
Manifesto stated, “The history of all hitherto existing society is the
history of class struggles.” This is historical materialism, communists
applying their theory of dialectical materialism to the history of mankind.
In Marx’ and Engels’ opinion, “the first law of existence is self-preservation.”
Since self-preservation involves the “production of the necessities of life,
they concluded that the means of production constituted the fundamental force
in history.”
Communists
indoctrinated us in schools with their surplus value theory to demonstrate
how superior the communist economy was when compared to capitalism. Marx
claimed that the value of any commodity is the amount of labor required to
produce it - that is called the labor theory of value.
The fallacy
of the labor theory of value is that in reality, the value of a good depends not
just on labor but on other variables such as the economic value and actual cost
of the inputs used to produce a good, how much the industry can produce at any
given time, how much can be distributed, how much is actually demanded, the
scarcity of a good, and how much consumers are willing to pay for any good or
service.
Marx’s
theory also did not take into account investment in capital, management’s
ability, technology used in the production process which was derived from the
talent and skills of a few. Marx would be unable to explain why producing a
Ferrari, which requires many months to build and a lot of labor, sells for much
less than the most expensive painting auctioned off, a painting that perhaps required
less man-hours to produce.
Labor alone
does not produce value. Marx believed
that “those who labor do not receive full payment for the value of the goods
their labor produces, and the capitalists keep the ‘surplus value’ for
themselves as profit.” Marx went as far as saying that the ‘surplus
value’ was “stolen from the workers.”
Any student graduating
from a communist school would have sat many hours in class, year after year,
with eyes glazed over, listening to lessons on Scientific Socialism and
Scientific Communism. Communists claim that their ideology is scientific, a “science
of history.” But that is not true. There is nothing scientific about
communism, including their ineffective and often terrible economic five-year central
planning.
The concocted
theory of historical materialism was made during the Industrial Revolution
when there “were great social inequities with marked differences in economic
classes.”
Other societies
would invalidate Marx and Engels’ theory of historical materialism and its five
stages of societal development: primitive-communal society, slavery,
feudalism, capitalism, communism. For example, in Asian societies the despotic
state owned the means of production. There was no private ownership of the
means of production. An Asian despotic society had two classes, the
all-powerful state, and the masses. The masses had no power, yet the Asian
society did not go through feudalism, nor did it go through a class revolution.
Communists
suppressed references to Asian cultures because they did not fit neatly into
the narrative of the five stages of historical materialistic development.
If they had, the masses would have realized that their communist societal order
was very much like the Asian despotic society – the bureaucratic state in power
(the communists) and the masses (the proletariat).
In their
simplistic theory, communists have failed to acknowledge the inconvenient reality
that history is influenced by many factors. Economic development is not the
sole influencer of history.
Communists failed
to recognize the influence of famous and infamous people, patriotism, justice,
public service, personal power, religious beliefs, the Crusades, love, ideals,
traditions, the search for truth and justice, as important factors in shaping history.
History is not just a string of economic developments. There are natural
disasters that have influenced history, epidemics like the Black Plague, minor
incidents and even chance, like the violent storm that destroyed the Spanish
Armada.
As J. Edgar
Hoover wrote, “Despite communist claims, the laws of natural science cannot be
applied to social science. History and sociology can never be exact sciences
like chemistry and physics. Scientific laws must have universal application.
Historical materialism falls far short of this requirement.”
Someone
attempted to relate Hegelian dialectic to today’s history. The elites and
politicians create a problem, expecting a reaction from the public and
conditioning the public to ask for change before the problem becomes a crisis.
Now that the public is asking for change to solve the problem the elites caused,
the elites propose their agenda as a solution to the problem.
When the
solution does not fix the problem, it becomes the basis for a new problem because
the situation has gotten worse. When this reaches the boiling point, people demand
change again. The process repeats over and over until society is moved to
whatever end point the elites had in mind.
Communists
said that when society is no longer divided into adversarial classes, the
dialectic materialism will no longer occupy man’s social development; in other words,
man will be satisfied, and his struggles will be over.
But where
will man work, who will work to produce anything, and what will satisfy man’s
needs? Will each person alive be allowed to determine his/her own abilities and
needs in life according to the communist mantra, “from each according to his
ability, to each according to his needs?” That should be interesting as humans tend
to be selfish and greedy. What a pie in the sky woke dream when everything will
be free and provided for, and, as Danish MP Ida Auken wrote in her 2016 essay,
you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”
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