By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-23 11:31:12 | Updated at 2024-10-23 13:36:13
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Where the Democrat party meets communism
American Thinker ^ | 22 Oct, 2024 | Perry V. Kalajian
Posted on 10/23/2024 4:30:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Let’s separate the facts from the fiction with respect to the U.S. Democrat party and communism as dictated by the philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
The bible for the political and economic ideology known as communism is the Manifesto of the Communist Party (the “Communist Manifesto”), written by Marx and Engels in 1848. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels set forth their philosophy that calls for the organization of the proletariat into a class, which then overthrows the bourgeois, secures political power, and imposes a communist system of government based on Marxist principles.
An examination of the core principles that permeate the Communist Manifesto is enlightening.
A major principle in the Communist Manifesto is the idea of “oppressor and oppressed,” which Marx and Engels largely saw as the battle between the proletariat, or working class, and the bourgeois, which might be thought of as the business owners. Marxism sees the bourgeois exploiting the proletariat. I believe that for much of the 20th century, the Democrat party tried to use this philosophy to secure power in the U.S., but ultimately, the Democrats failed, because the working class in America was far better off and therefore less susceptible to manipulation than the same class in the 19th-century Europe of Marx and Engels. Recognizing its failure, during the latter years of the 20th century and even more into the beginning of the 21st century, the Democrat party pivoted from exploiting a class dynamic to utilizing a race-based approach, which application is more suited to the composition of the U.S. population.
In addition, the “oppressor and oppressed” dynamic is played out in the relationships between labor unions and management, where the Democrat party has historically supported labor. I always wondered how labor could legally organize, whereas management was prohibited from organizing
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: marxism
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1 posted on 10/23/2024 4:30:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
Isn’t it ironic that communist governments are the most oppressive? If the communists want to stop the oppressors, they should start with themselves.
2 posted on 10/23/2024 4:30:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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