American Marxism

American Marxism is not exactly Karl Marx’s revolutionary fight between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. It is the fight between corporate technocrats and Americans who love their country. The corporate technocrats are aided by corrupt Congressmen, bureaucrats in our own government, the woke military and police, the woke teachers, professors, and administrators, and the entire woke media. At the bottom of the Marxist wrung are the paid street activists and Useful idiots.

American Marxism has been branded and sold as Democrat Socialism and half of America bought the lie and the empty promises of “free stuff,” the Green New Deal, while the rest of the country gets lawlessness, protests, burning, and the looting of stores. Stealing $950 worth of merchandise no longer sends thieves to jail in the formerly beautiful city of San Francisco.

History has shown that law and order disappear prior to the complete societal takeover by tyrants. The activists and commissars present the takeover as a necessity to quell the lawlessness.

The Liberator wrote recently, “Activists are people who will do and say anything to further their cause. Their objective is the destruction of anything which gets in the way of their Marxist utopian dream. Useful Idiots are those who aren’t necessarily evil; they’ve just bought the Activists’ line of BS, hook, line, and sinker.”

The American Socialist Democrats jam the airwaves with their false rhetoric daily, presenting Marxist retread ideas and the promise that they “own the future.”

It would surprise some to learn that the Russian czars’ tyranny provoked a revolutionary movement from the 1820s on, but the first Russian Marxist group was not formed until 1883, the year when Karl Marx died. And this group was formed by a few Russian exiles in Switzerland. It was Lenin who founded the Russian Marxist party during 1900-1903 – the Bolsheviki. Lenin was a socialist who acquired his revolutionary streak from other Russian revolutionaries who hated the czars.

Democrat Socialists in America are well-off, many hold political office, live in mansions, own jets, yachts, and expensive cars. They are not the marginalized of society, starving to death like the Russians during the czars. They live a good life thanks to the capitalism they want to destroy for the rest of America who have worked hard and achieved the American dream. Power has corrupted them to the point of wanting to dictate to everyone how they should live and die.

It was Lenin who “picked up the doctrine of dialectical materialism from the Russian revolutionary N. G. Chernyshevskii, not from Marx. Lenin was sure that “Russia should be the first country to revolt, form socialism, and save the world.”

Democrat Socialists are sure that they will overturn American capitalism, establish socialism, save America from itself, enslave Americans to the will of a few oligarchs, and save the world from the manufactured global warming now turned into the profitable industry of climate change. The Activists on the payroll of the Democrat Socialists are busy paying Useful Idiots to do their bidding to achieve the goal of the Great Reset – from capitalist prosperity to socialist poverty.

According to Francis B. Randall, who wrote in 1963, the Russian Bolsheviks under Lenin were “a tiny, well-disciplined, conspiratorial, elite group in a vast backward mostly peasant country.” The American Democrat Socialists are a huge army of well-educated, well-indoctrinated, in your face group, composed of mostly young Activists and Useful Idiots.

Lenin was able to foment Bolsheviks to a proletarian revolution in 1917 “when the proletariat formed less than ten percent of the Russian population.” Nobody knows for sure in America how many Democrat-Socialist Activists and Useful Idiots on globalist payroll are fanned across the fifty states.

Judging by the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, when a man with senile impairment won the presidency, it is safe to say that these Democrat Socialists worked overtime to install their desired president. At that point, the takeover of our Constitutional Republic by American Marxism was dangerously close to completion.

Karl Marx concocted his ideology that was later implemented as Marxism-Socialism-Communism to establish an impossible classless society based on collectivism, collective thought, collective purpose, and equality of outcomes in which the all-mighty state replaced God and became a forced deity that had to be worshiped under the banner of the Communist Party. The communists stole the souls, lives, meaning, wealth, freedom, and ultimately humanity from millions of people who had to worship the dear leader.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn wrote in his Gulag Archipelago, “There always is this fallacious belief: It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible. Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.”

For decades in Russia, people who held divergent opinions or tried to publicly resist the communists were arrested in creative ways so as not to start a panic – arrests were made during nighttime, daytime, at home, at work, on a trip, in front of the house, at school, at the theater during a play, at the movies, and anywhere else imaginable, depending on the desired effect.

As Solzhenitsyn wrote, “For several decades, political arrests were distinguished in our country precisely by the fact that people were arrested who were guilty of nothing and were therefore unprepared to put up any resistance whatsoever.”

A strange submissiveness hung like a wet blanket – “A submissive sheep is a find for a wolf.” The commies had quotas of arrests for no reason other than prove their total control. And the people were submissive because they did not know the “mechanics of epidemic arrests” or the quotas. “Universal innocence gave rise to the universal failure to act. Maybe they will not take you? Maybe it will all blow over? Resistance is futile, you will only make your situation worse, thought many who were arrested in Soviet Russia.”

Marxists, Bolsheviks, Stalinists, and Maoists from the former and current communist countries used class struggle and abject fear to divide and conquer their hapless citizens. The American Marxists use the manufactured critical race theory (CRT) across the 50 states to divide and conquer America.

Even the National Archives have turned “woke” to modify American history under the guise of invented “structural racism.” The Russian Bolsheviks were particularly adept at destroying Russian history, monuments, and documents, and “erasing” everything and everyone they deemed “offensive” to their ultimate goals and plans. The National Archives has gone woke and turned on American history - American Thinker

It seems that young generations of Americans, deaf and dumb to reality, and enticed by the words “free stuff” are not willing to learn from other people’s experience; they want to live through it personally because the Democrat Socialists promised in the media that their Socialism is going to give them freedoms they already have and improve the vast wealth that Americans already possess when compared to other nations. Without the activists and useful idiot bureaucrats in government and academia/education, who follow orders, none of the CRT would be possible.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                       

Through the Fog of Time

The creek of our childhood Photo: Ileana 2015

As we age, humans tend to mellow out and nothing that had previously been that important matters anymore in the grand scheme of things. All struggles, frustrations, successes, victories, defeats, losses, and gains, dissipate in the fog of time. Regrets and memories of opportunities lost, of physical pain, of mental anguish and frustration diminish, replaced by arthritis, loneliness, and loss of loved ones. The struggle is still there for billions of others, very real and painful, but it seems almost irrelevant to us.

Romanians just lost their King Michael to old age, very old age, and their last hope that a monarchy might somehow right all the wrongs that had plagued the country politically was dashed and died with him. There won’t be another king. Some mourned him, most did not even know he existed nor cared. Like here, these citizens are part of the #resist movement yet they have no idea what they are resisting.

Yesterday I met one of my first cousins I adore (I have 27) and his lovely daughter Elena for lunch in a town nearby in Virginia. It was surreal. If you had told me 39 years ago that someday in the future, in a state far away, thousands of miles away from my former home in Romania, I would see one of my first cousins again, I would have been extremely incredulous and would have laughed, a physical impossibility.

Photo: Ileana Johnson 2015

 

Yet here we were, reminiscing about our childhood, how fast time flew, how my aunt passed away a week after a severe cough had plagued her for months, and the second stroke that killed my uncle while gardening. We compressed almost four decades of life, weddings, baptisms, burials, disputes, schools, professions, and family into two hours, surrounded by spouses, children, and grandchildren. Good food and beloved company are always relaxing.

He asked me about retirement, teaching, accomplishments, life in America, and it almost seemed like we were talking about someone else. What teaching accomplishments? It was just a job that paid me well. No teacher of the year for me and certainly no thanks for a job well done. I was not a Democrat, nor a communist, how could I possibly succeed in education and thrive? Mediocrity and collectivist politics ruled around me in academia. My cousin was shocked.

I told him about all the communists in education in America and he was almost incredulous. How could any rational human being possibly think that a Marxist ideology that killed 100 million people around the world can even remotely be considered in this beautiful country built on free markets, not oppression and tyranny?

My cousin had to work in difficult places around the world in order to bring home enough cash to build a beautiful villa for his family. Two of his three beautiful daughters moved to America, just like I did, in order to find freedom and opportunity for success that had been denied to many still in Romania, twenty-eight years after the “fall” of communism. They joined the five million other Romanians who immigrated around the globe in search of a better life for themselves and their families.

We talked about adjustment and assimilation, learning the language, becoming an American citizen and losing my Romanian citizenship, how it was so much harder for an older person to learn a new language and how little my mom learned in 37 years. Cousin Ionel learned Russian in school and found it much easier to learn and speak than the English language, even with the Cyrillic alphabet. Russian is very phonetic, it is pronounced the same way it is written, no wild variations as in the English language, he added.

We reminisced about fishing and swimming in the crystal clear river in his village, a river now so shallow that it looks more like a creek. The landscape was more verdant as more trees grew around it, seeded by the blowing wind. A nicely paved rural road now runs nearby, no more gravel roads, picking up dust every time the bus drove through.

Now every home has a nice car, food on the table, no lines, and a well-stocked country store, owned by his brother. The store stocks fresh meat and vegetables, frozen food, fresh bread, wine, sugar, cooking oil, flour, and anything a cook might need. There is even a gas pump on the side of the road. No gas station around it, just the pump. Bringing free markets to Romania changed the pastoral and isolated life for so many.

We talked about growing up. Cousin Ionel had three brothers and one sister. At meal time there was never enough to eat, it was a free-for-all. My aunt placed a large bowl of food in the middle of the table and the meal began after a very brief mandatory prayer, no portion sizes, whoever ate the fastest, got more to eat first. Poor Gigi, the runt of the family, was always left behind and hungrier than the rest. Even so, there was still not enough to nourish five growing children, we were still hungry and thin when we finished a meal, he said. I used to watch them eat so fast, wondering why my aunt did not give them each equal portions. As an only child, I only had to share food with my mom and dad. We were always hungry ourselves but I did not have to fight siblings at mealtime.

I looked at our table laden with food which we did not prepare but we could afford to pay someone else to prepare for us. Ionel and I never saw restaurant food when we were children and young adults. If it did not come from mom’s or grandma’s kitchen, we went hungry. Later in life, as we gained freedom of movement and our financial fortunes improved, we were able to taste our first restaurant meals and foods we’ve never known existed. Ionel is so cosmopolitan when compared to most people that he will eat any food put in front of him. He traveled around the globe through various jobs and sampled many cuisines and so did I.

It was sad to see him go, to say good-bye, almost as surreal as getting on a plane and finding yourself on the other side of the globe in mere hours. We were together for brief and happy moments, found our common roots, reminisced, but then we were lost again in the fog of time. A few photographs were the only proof that we celebrated today the memories from another life, far away from our humble beginnings.