Nations today are grappling to overcome riots and protests that wage war against the foundations
of our society.
As our history is rewritten to the narrative of leftist ideologies, we ought to pause and
think.
How will these ideas reshape our world?
And where are they coming from?
Karl Marx, a scholar and an activist alongside his fellow German Philosopher, Friedrich Engels
wrote the Communist Manifesto, published in 1848.
The core beliefs of this pamphlet have gained numerous followers over the years, but what
are these beliefs?
Considered to be the father of modern communism, Marx was born to a lawyer in 1818 and studied
law and philosophy at the University of Berlin and Jena.
During his time in Paris, he adopted a more extreme form of socialism, eventually giving
rise to the Communist Manifesto.
Marx argued that all history was a history of class struggles, and that the working class
(or proletariat) would inevitably triumph over the capital class (bourgeoisie) and win
control over the means of production, forever erasing all class struggle.
While the notion of erasing class struggle, or poverty in general, can be appealing, the
idea that the working-class triumphs over the capital class is one we should carefully
scrutinize.
The working-class, in Marx s mind, were the oppressed, while the capitalist class were
the oppressors.
a violent revolution in which the workers rise up against the middle and upper classes
is seen as an inevitable part of achieving a pure communist state.
Take a moment to think on this concept.
If the bourgeoisie are considered evil and the proletariat are good, after the inevitable
uprise to control production, wouldn t that place the proletariat in the same position
of the bourgeoisie - with the potential for evil themselves?
The idea that the proletariat are inherently good, ignores the potential for them to be
evil when given power after all, what occurs in a violent uprising, doesn t exactly portray
a good character.
Let s go back to 1917, when Vladimir Lenin, a Marxist, led the Bolshevik movement, and
world s first communist revolution in Russia, which set in motion one of the deadliest examples
of this flawed theory of communism.
As part of the communist philosophy, the central government controls all aspects of economic
production and such was the case with Lenin and the Kulaks.
Kulaks in Russian means fist or you tight-fisted , and were formerly a group of wealthy farmers.
Prior to the reign of Stalin, Lenin argued:
Anyone who used hired labour, owned a dairy, or was suspected of being a grain speculator
could be accused of being part of the rural Bourgeoisie and therefore an enemy of the
revolution.
[And] In 1918, during the bloody civil war that followed the revolution, Lenin himself
infamously ordered party officials in Penza, to hang (absolutely hang, in full view of
the people) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, filthy rich men, bloodsuckers.
After the death of Lenin in 1924, Joseph Stalin succeeded in dispersing approximately 1.8
million kulaks to Siberia, Kazakhstan and the Urals, while others were stripped of their
property and forced to the state-controlled farms.
And the result?
A famine, which in the Ukraine alone killed approximately 25% of the population of that
region, an event now considered a genocide.
In a public debate on April 19, 2019, Professor Jordan Peterson gave his critique on the Communist
Manifesto stating:
I ve rarely read a tract that made as many errors per sentence, conceptual errors per
sentence, as the Communist Manifesto Peterson goes on, and so, what I tried to do when trying
to read the Communist Manifesto was to separate the wheat from the chaff, and I m afraid I
found some wheat, yes, but mostly chaff...
Today, over a hundred years after the revolutionary Communist Manifesto was published, we see
the same ideologies present in the background of the riots and protests that inundate the
news in North America and western Europe.
Historic statues are defaced and toppled as the oppressed seeks justice over their oppressors.
In fact, the co-founder of one of the movements that led to one series of riots describe herself
as a trained Marxist making clear the movement s rooted philosophy.
While these movements, on the surface, may purport to be inherently good, Marxist and
neo-Marxist ideologies are ones that promote violence and leave a devastating historical
track record of death and suffering.
In the famous words of George Santayana, Those that fail to learn from history are
doomed to repeat it.