Herland: The Horrific Curse of Marxism: A Cancer That Keeps Killing
The Parallels With Today Are Huge: Atheism, Nihilism, Misery, Destruction of Civilization, Tyranny, Then 100's of Millions Dead
Excerpts from various posts by Hanne Herland at Herland Report (Scroll down to see her posts on Marxism, Atheism, and Nietzche)
At the heart of Karl Marx’ socialist ideology was the profound hatred of the Western order and civil rights. Instead, he prescribed bloody revolution and the total destruction of modern society as the path to a better future. [Doug: You know, like, Build Back Better?]
“Communism abolishes all religion and all morality,” as Marx writes with his friend, Friedrich Engels in the manifesto. It thereby defines itself as the nemesis of Judeo-Christian thought. Its socialist aim was “the forcibly overthrow of all existing social conditions, a revolution that cares as little about the human lives it destroys an as earthquake cares about the houses it ravages.”
First, This was to be done by “the ruthless criticism” of every aspect of Western culture. Traditional virtues, the ideal of honesty, trustworthiness, reliability, free speech and individual rights were thereby proclaimed the enemy.
Then, the first phase of communism was socialism, writes historian of comparative religions and author, Hanne Nabintu Herland. In the socialist system, people would temporarily retain private property rights and paid jobs yet be tightly controlled by the socialist state rulers.
The second phase of Marx’ communism was a society in which all private property is expropriated by the state and “you will own nothing and be happy.” That is, the Marxist class would control the funds. Once this was done and the working class had taken power, the “communist paradise with peace on earth” would materialize.
The Marxists simply steal what others had worked generations to achieve – and spend the funds in a new, socialist system in which private ownership was abolished.
Who Was Karl Marx?
In Who was Karl Marx?, investigative journalist, James Simpson analyses the life of this brute and his leading progressive followers. It is a shocking, shocking tale of brutality, ruthlessness, desire for mass murder, hatred of our culture and in particularly of human kind – most certainly not caring for the working class or the poor, merely using them to accomplish their own, selfish goals.
It is astounding to read about the life of bourgeoisie Karl Marx who came from a wealthy family, the disgusting man whose ideology is at the heart of left-wing progressivism so popular today.
First, Bloody Revolutions, Then Total Destruction of Western Civilization
The idea, as presented in Karl Marx’ and Friedrich Engels’ work The Communist Manifesto, is that the only solution to injustice between the classes is to instigate bloody revolutions and terror upon the population. “There is only one way to shorten and ease the convulsions of the old society and the bloody birth pangs of the new – revolutionary terror,” Marx argued.
His aim was to destroy our culture as we know it, “Such as the eternal truths of freedom, justice .. that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes all this: gone are eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality.
Only after society as we know it was destroyed, a utopian, godless classless society would descend upon the earth in a system where traditional morality and code of honor was abolished.
Marx portrayed himself as a fighter for the lower-classes, yet introduced a system in which the state would take over the role of the feudal lords and completely deprive the worker of the ownership of his revenues.
All your income was to be expropriated by the state, in a Marxist system where the hereditary class was replaced by a new ruling Marxist class.
While pretending to be the saviors of the world, the Marxist
class was to become the new lords who controlled everyone and harassed, belittled, disrespected, incarcerated whoever they did not like and in the case of millions in the Holocaust and Gulag concentration camps’, exterminated them.
Do you realize how many millions of persons, this ideology killed??
No gradual change, as the conservatives prescribe when reforms are to be made. Creating total calamity and disruption was Marx’ prescribed remedy.
When studying the effects of Marxism implemented in nations, whether it be socialist or communist countries, Marx’ teachings installed new leaders who subjected the working class in an even worse system of terror. The repression seen among the intolerant communist and National Socialist (NAZI) state lords, where millions were sent to concentration camps and millions killed by their own leaders, defined totalitarian horror in the 20th century.
Marxism Alive and Well in America TODAY
It is precisely the atheist Marxist method of implementing strict group-think, repression of free speech, zero tolerance for diversity of opinion, harsh consequences for those who do not confirm to the standards of the government narrative, a unison voice from the media outlining what the population are to think and feel about every subject, combined with harsh ruling elites controlling the economy, this made totalitarianism possible in the 1940s.
It is the very same socialist intolerance of diversity that makes the rise of totalitarianism possible in the West today.
Central to the Marxist ideology is atheism. The effect of removing the conservative values upon which a society is built and replacing these with lawlessness and nihilism, breaks down the very fabric of empathy.
Selfishness is legitimized and thereby the constraints on the evil root in man’s heart is removed.
One of France’s leading philosophers, Andre Glucksmann, says that the current culture war in the West is a struggle between nihilism and conservatism. When he was young, he helped Jean-Paul Sartre in outlining the intellectual underpinning for the Marxist student revolts in 1968.
Glucksmann is famous for dramatically parting from his former Maoist views, after reading The Gulag Archipelago by the Soviet dissident, philosopher and Nobel laureate, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.
Rather than a communist paradise, the Soviet population were subjected to a system of repression, lack of respect for plurality and a remarkable hatred of religion and traditional beliefs.
Solzhenitsyn has painstakingly outlined the mental poverty and spiritual self-destruction that Marxist-led societies led to, that in no way brought heaven to its workers—more like hell.
Neitzche’s Atheistic Nihilism
Atheist nihilism follows the path of philosopher, Friederich Nietzsche where the essential idea in nihilism – which literally means the belief in nothing – is that evil AND God does not exist.
Since life is meaningless, short-lived pleasures is all that may bring some meaning to life. This is a world-view that pursues a hedonist morality and a promiscuous attitude in life, which quenches the need for traditional virtues such as self-restraint, self-control, duty and endurance in a system that requires of the individual to take personal responsibility for one’s own life and actions.
Nietzsche idealized the so-called “free life,” that is free from the constraints of the conscience and the boundaries of traditional morality.
Consequentially, hedonism and the pursuit of sexual pleasure in its every form becomes the goal of life. Nietzsche proudly declared that the human condition was meaningless, the world an existentially empty vacuum where each individual was left alone, without any hope for the afterlife. Nietzsche died of insanity in a mental hospital. His path to that madness is carefully described in his books, reeking with hatred toward Christianity. Yet, this man is hailed as a prominent philosopher of wisdom in today's Sodom and Gomorrah West. No wonder society is crumbling.