By Mike King
Good Lord! The Marxist scum at Sulzberger’s Slimes aren’t even attempting to hide their true faces anymore! Though his bicentennial birthday isn’t until May 5th, Karl Marx‘s fan base at The Slimes simply could not wait to publish this pro-Marxist opinion piece by “professor of philosophy,” Jason Barker.Notwithstanding a few obligatory jabs at Marxism, Barker’s take on Marx is essentially positive and very much in line with the shockingly provocative (even by Slimes standards) headline: “Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!”
But con-artist Marx, though at times correct and passionately persuasive in calling attention to the injustices of “capitalist” society (the bait) was neither correct in his diagnosis of problems, nor in his solutions to them. Let’s examine Barker’s barking and set the record straight.
Barker: … educated liberal opinion is today more or less unanimous….
Rebuttal: An “educated liberal” is an oxymoron. Though university-trained libtards may be quite capable in certain fields of study, when it comes to matters philosophical / political, they are truly the most stupid, narrow-minded, stubborn, insecure, boot-licking, dim-witted and uneducated specimens of humanity that this reporter has ever encountered (and I have known many of these types).
Barker: … in its agreement that Marx’s basic thesis — that capitalism is driven by a deeply divisive class struggle in which the ruling-class minority appropriates the surplus labor of the working-class majority as profit — is correct.
Rebuttal: No. That is not correct. It is the state, not the evil rich “capitalists,” which, through both direct and indirect means, appropriates approximately 50% of the earnings of the average wage holder in America while working hand-in-hand with the government is its financing partner-in-crime, the Federal Reserve System (Central Bank) — a counterfeiting / loan sharking operation whose debt-based monetary system adds compounding public and private interest charges on top of taxes.
Ironically, both the Fed Gov and the Fed Bank are infested with Marxists and libtards.
Barker: Even liberal economists such as Nouriel Roubini agree that Marx’s conviction that capitalism has an inbuilt tendency to destroy itself remains as prescient as ever.
Rebuttal: Wrong again, Bolshevik Barker. As previously stated, it is the ever-expanding indebted Federal Government (State & Local too) and ever-inflating debt-money Federal Reserve that are crushing so many working families into the ground — not “capitalism” (free enterprise).
Barker: But this is where the unanimity abruptly ends. While most are in agreement about Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism, opinion on how to treat its “disorder” is thoroughly divided.
Rebuttal: It doesn’t matter if modern libtards are divided as to how to treat the “disorder.” If these Marxist morons all accept a faulty diagnosis which fails to take into account the crushing levels of taxation and inflation — and also the break-up of the nuclear family — as the main sources of decreasing living standards, then all “solutions” are doomed to failure.
Barker: And this is where Marx’s originality and profound importance as a philosopher lies.
Rebuttal: Oh what bloody stinking crap! Marx’s only “originality” regarding solutions to the social problems he wrote about was to call for unlimited political power to be handed over to insane and unaccomplished jobless revolutionaries such as himself in a “dictatorship of the proletariat.” Then what?
Barker: First, let’s be clear: Marx arrives at no magic formula for exiting the enormous social and economic contradictions that global capitalism entails …
Rebuttal: Ah, the obligatory truth gem! Thanks for that, Barker. So if Marx has “no magic formula” to make the world a better place, then he actually has no “profound importance as a philosopher” after all.
Barker: What Marx did achieve, however, through his self-styled materialist thought, were the critical weapons for undermining capitalism’s ideological claim to be the only game in town.
Rebuttal: Wrong again, Barker. Marx was still in diapers while thinkers far greater than he had already identified and fully diagnosed the injustices of Rothschild-owned Britain (where Marx published many articles between 1850-1860) and European society in general. Though his stories were fictional, author Charles Dickens, during the decade before Marx’s Communist Manifesto, severely critiqued the social situation in books such as Oliver Twist (1838) and A Christmas Carol (1843).
Going back even further, the genius Thomas Jefferson, in an 1816 letter to Samuel Kerceval, had this to say about conditions in England:
“To preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.”
Jefferson wrote those words two years before Marx’s bitch of a mother had even pooped him out. So please, Mr. Barker, spare us this foolishness about Marx’s “originality” in spotting the inequities and injustices of the day.
“Marx is a Jew and is surrounded by a crowd of little, more or less intelligent, scheming, agile, speculating Jews, just as Jews are everywhere, commercial and banking agents, writers, politicians, correspondents for newspapers of all shades; in short, literary brokers, just as they are financial brokers, with one foot in the bank and the other in the socialist movement, and their arses sitting upon the German press. They have grabbed hold of all newspapers, and you can imagine what a nauseating literature is the outcome of it.
Now this entire Jewish world, which constitutes an exploiting sect, a people of leeches, a voracious parasite, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. This may seem strange. What could there be in common between communism and high finance? Ho ho! The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists there must inevitably exist a state central bank, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation, which speculates upon the labor of the people, will always find the means for its existence.
In reality, this would be for the proletariat a barrack regime, under which the workingmen and the working closely and intimately connected with one another, regardless not only of frontiers but of political differences as well – this Jewish world is today largely at the disposal of Marx or Rothschild. I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, women, converted into a uniform mass, would rise, fall asleep, work and live at the beat of the drum; the privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.” — Mikhail Bakunin, Etude sur les juifs allemands, 1869
Barker: In the “Communist Manifesto,” Marx and Engels wrote: “The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.”
Rebuttal: There is a bit of truth to that. The money-grubbing of modern professionals, even worse today than in Marx’s day, is undignified and degrading. But that’s a problem of declining morals and ethics, not one of “capitalism.” And does it really require a “philosopher” to point that out? Finally, what’s Marx’s “solution” then? Total government takeover with price and wage control over of all the professions? No thanks!
Barker: The key factor in Marx’s intellectual legacy in our present-day society is not “philosophy” but “critique,” or what he described in 1843 as “the ruthless criticism of all that exists: ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be. The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,” he wrote in 1845.
Translation: Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! We’ll figure out the “solutions” later on, after the glorious “revolution.”
Barker: Racial and sexual oppression have been added to the dynamic of class exploitation. Social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, owe something of an unspoken debt to Marx through their unapologetic targeting of the “eternal truths” of our age. Such movements recognize, as did Marx, that the ideas that rule every society are those of its ruling class and that overturning those ideas is fundamental to true revolutionary progress.
Translation: In the name of “justice” — Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! Economy, politics, law, culture, art, history, science, literature, philosophy, music, morals, tradition, family, gender roles — and everything else (including millions of people!) that is “bourgeoisie.” Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!
Barker: But enlightened or rational thinking is not enough, since the norms of thinking are already skewed by the structures of male privilege and social hierarchy, even down to the language we use. Changing those norms entails changing the very foundations of society.
Rebuttal: And still: Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! (the real meaning of “change”) Barker, ironically, manifests the same philosophical deficiencies as he attributed to Marx in that he himself offers no solutions — other than the “revolutionary progress” that is the blind destruction of anything and everything related to the existing societal order.
Barker: The transition to a new society where relations among people, rather than capital relations, finally determine an individual’s worth is arguably proving to be quite a task.
Rebuttal: Actually, Barker, Hitler (oh my God! Did he just say the H-word?! ) achieved that lofty ideal in only a few years time. If you’re truly sincere about building a better world not based on money, money, money — you ought to have a look at what Germany achieved under National Socialism.