I did not expect to get too much out of Glenn Beck’s documentary. A rehash of Hitler’s rise to power and communist murders. I know they are bad and progressives are leaving those details out of history. I appreciate his attempts to right history and fight back. That alone warranted viewing.
But there was an AH HA moment that came from something very different. Within the discussion of Hitler and Marx there was a mention of the fact the Marx wrote that Socialism is a step along the evolutionary path to Communism (not new) and that both were a societal step above Capitalism. That I did not know. Not that it was true but that Marx and his ilk believed it to be so. Capitalism was a step beyond other forms of government but only a lesser step onward towards the ultimate goal of Communism.
What is so groundbreaking here? You would expect Marx to think his form of government is superior. I guess I always thought that capitalism and communism where opposites on a completely different plain of existence. One for freedom and individuals and one for government control and serfdom. I would have never put them on a continuum.
It goes beyond the simple belief by Marx and to the philosophy on which it lies and explains so very much. Liberals that dominate academia consider themselves the thinkers. They look upon the rest of society as inferior and flawed. Those in the political arena would study Marx and find his desire to move “beyond” capitalism intriguing. Glossing over the desire to murder all inferior minded within the citizenry, they would gravitate to the evolutionary aspect of the philosophy. It explains the lefts distaste for corporations and profits, the sneers they give to those in fly over country, and this disrespect for the limits placed on them by the constitution (written by imbeciles that never understood Marxist philosophy (Karl Marx 1818-1883)).
That little segment and the connections it fired, so rapidly explained so much of the political landscape, I believe I let out a breath, followed a few moments later by a sigh.
