The reason why Americans decided that they won the Cold War is that their leadership’s brains were infected with Marxism.
The central idea of Marxism is that economic considerations are the most important. Capital – das Kapital – is at the bottom of everything. Your manner of relating to property and means of production defines everything about you. This means that the concept of “cultural Marxism” was invented by somebody who is a brainless twat but whatever. Marx believed that culture is the superstructure and the economy is the basis. In simple terms, culture will be whatever is convenient to the capital.
In reality, Marx was wrong. The economic system of a country is just that, its economic system. It can make people happy or miserable but it has no impact on a country’s political system or international activities. In simpler terms, a sick murderous fuck remains a sick murderous fuck whether he’s rich or poor. No change in economic circumstances can transform him into anything other than a sick murderous fuck.
When the USSR changed its system of property management, US leadership decided that the sick murderous fuck would suddenly become sweet, kind, and normal. This is a typical Marxist mistake. It is at the core of open border policies because the theory is that if you place people from chaotic miserable societies in a rich country and ply them with cash handouts, they’ll magically stop being chaotic and creating misery. It doesn’t work either on a geopolitical or on an individual level.
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You’re halfway there. The mindset is about “freedom,” not giveaways. Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose captures the mindset well, as do many American conservatives of the 1980s in their writing about how free markets are a prerequisite for political freedom.
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Markets are very free in Russia and China, yet there nothing resembling political freedom.
Friedman wasn’t remotely a conservative. He’s one of the founders of neoliberalism. And neoliberalism is a variety of liberalism. It’s in the name. Milton Friedman is a big stonking lib.
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So Bill and Hillary Clinton (and the Democrats) in the 1990s were Marxists?
By the way, there is nothing Marxist about neoliberalism or liberalism.
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Can a neoliberal overcook pasta?
Yes, he can.
Anybody can overestimate the importance of economic factors. And anybody can overcook pasta.
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“Bill and Hillary Clinton (and the Democrats) in the 1990s were Marxists?”
Short answer: yes. They accepted that economics determines values and behavior. Cannot get more Marxist than that.
Marx wasn’t about left/right – he was about a particularly materialist way of looking at human beings and how they function at the individual and societal levels.
The entire political establishment of the west completely believes that.
Germany pursued it’s disastrous ‘wandel durch handel’ policy vis a vis russia for completely Marxist reasons: they thought that sending lots of money to russia would make russia richer and then russia would act more like modern Germany. It sounds stupid to even write it down but that’s what they thought. They never realized that societal wealth has never been a priority in russia.
“nothing Marxist about neoliberalism”
A big part of neoliberalism is class warfare (usually conducted by the wealthy against the working class and poor). Who’s hurt more by BLM and ‘defund the police’ and ‘open borders’?
Who’s going to be hurt most by Clarissa’s university being shut down and/or gutted and made into a useless institution?
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In some way, this can explain the murderous fuckery of the Israeli leadership as well. You can take an terrible sociopath out of Poland and plant them in the middle east, they’ll behave just as murderously.
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I feel the imminent approach of a question about rights.
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Not really. Just that people in glass houses should be careful about throwing stones.
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You have to copy the bit you are responding to or I don’t know “not really” what.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton (and the Democrats) in the 1990s were Marxists?
No, but the Clinton presidency paved the way for, and introduced an array of, very liberal policies into the economy whose effects are being felt to this day and on which later policies have been based. More importantly, it signalled a cultural sea-change in Democrat policies and mindset that is today so widespread that many people are not even aware of it.
there is nothing Marxist about neoliberalism or liberalism.
They share the same basic premise that everything is about the economy and that individuals are nothing but interchangeable widgets that can – and are – be moved about according to the whims of the powers that be: in the case of the Marxists the Party nomenklatura and more specifically whoever it is that wields absolute power in the Party structure (cf. Xi Jin Pin in China today); in the case of the neoliberals whoever is most capable of taking advantage of the so-called “free” market, which today means basically any billionaire entrepreneur with the mindset “if it’s good for me it’s good for everybody else”, and all of the lackey politicians aiding and abetting them.
Trump is NOT a conservative; at the moment, however, he’s the only hope for conservatives anywhere in the world to stem – probably only temporarily – the tide of neoliberal ideology that has so far engulfed everything in its path, including Marxist theory, as absurd and counter-intuitive as that may seem.
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Marxist Mistake? What about the horrors of the Industrial Revolution like children forced to work 18 to 20 hours a day?!
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I think Dickens had a greater impact on informing people of the horrors of the industrial revolution than Marx.
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Yes totally agree with your assessment.
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In SA, many people consider the Germans and Poles the murders for killing the Jews and Russians the good guys for fighting the Nazis.
This view was reinforced by the early 90s murder of the new black Communist Party leader by a Polish immigrant.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/amp/politics/2025-01-27-i-would-do-it-again-chris-hanis-killer-janusz-walus/
Some people think the hitman was a patsie, and the hit was orchestrated by his black rivels.
https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2022/12/07/rw-johnson-hani-sin
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