It should be clear to anyone with common sense that the notion “freedom doesn’t work so we need more government intervention” is totally absurd. As we have seen from our review of the Communist Manifesto (see American Crisis Part 2) that we have been moving toward a government/banking cartel-controlled country for over 100 years. We have had every single plank of the Communist Manifesto fully or partially implemented now for many decades. Most of our so called freedoms are really an illusion and that illusion is perpetuated by the media and educational system.

The influence of the banking cartel over the decades has directly or indirectly influenced every major decision our government has made for 95 years. It should be clear to anyone who is watching recent events that the ruling elite in Washington and the central bankers control our established political parties and our media. The one good thing about the recent bailout battle is that it showed how the leadership of both parties worked together, for their masters at the FED, to defeat the will of the people using intimidation, coercion, threats, and outright bribery to get their bill passed.

Over time, social reformers and power seekers have pushed through legislation that has reshaped America into a so-called Socialist Democracy, which is really an oligarchy or a Fascist Dictatorship. Political, economic and personal decisions are made for us by self-appointed elite through regulations and Executive Orders and by our neighbors through majority vote. Individual self-rule is almost gone.

We supposedly “won” a 44-year-long “Cold War” with Soviet Communism, one of the world’s most severe authoritarian regimes. We’re told that “Democracy defeated Communism.” Yet, as we have seen (see American Crisis Part 2), we have pretty much fulfilled the Manifesto. Marx and Engels would be delighted to know that their Manifesto has been embraced by the hated capitalists. Actually, we have more “Marxism” than Marx called for. His Manifesto said nothing about Social Security, SSI, Medicare, federal light bulb laws, discrimination, sexual harassment, disabilities, family leave, affirmative action rules, or gun registration.

According to Marx and Engels:

“The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible. Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.”

The result of their theory is that when all their so called class destruction is completed:

“In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”

I don’t think that the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, East Germans, etc. who have lived under these oppressive regimes would agree with that conclusion. One would think that the failed experiments of communism and all forms of socialism everywhere would be enough to make people realize that collectivism, in all its forms, does not work.

The real problem is that these absurd theories are created by people who have never been a member of the proletariat. In preparing this article I listened to an interesting talk by Gary North, called “The Marx Nobody Knows”. Both Marx and Engels were from wealthy families.

Neither Marx nor Engels every experienced the life of a member of the proletariat. They were theorists and philosophers. Marx was especially was a critic. He criticized everyone and everything but never really offered anything constructive. I am sure I learned more about working class people in one day, working construction in the steel mills of south Chicago, than Marx or Engels learned in their entire academically oriented lives.

The one thing I learned from my experience of many years of working with, what Marx would call the proletariat, is that they want one thing, a chance for them, and especially their children, for upward mobility. And history teaches us that there is only one thing that provides the opportunity for upward mobility and that is maximum freedom with a bottom up structure of governance versus the controlled environment of a top down model of government. That is why for centuries people wanted to come to America for the opportunity to be free and to improve their family’s lives.

The Communist regimes never had a problem with illegal immigration! They had a difficult time keeping people in their countries. That one glaring difference should be enough for any reasonable human being to realize that collectivism does not work and that freedom does work.

I want to share an amazing quote with you. This is an astounding prediction by one of Marx and Engels’ contemporaries on what would happen if their ideas were ever put into practice. He describes today’s America in 1869!

Michael Bakunin, the revolutionary anarchist and rival of
Marx in their battle for control over the International Workingmen’s Association, accurately prophesied in 1869 what would be the legacy of Marx’s theory of Communism: statism.

Bakunin’s Warning:

“The reasoning of Marx ends in absolute contradiction. Taking into account only the economic question, he insists that only the most advanced countries, those in which capitalist production has attained greatest development, are the most capable of making social revolution. These civilized countries, to the exclusion of all others, are the only ones destined to initiate and carry through this revolution. This revolution will expropriate either by peaceful, gradual, or by violent means, the present property owners and capitalists. They appropriate all the landed property and capital, and to carry out its extensive economic and political programs, the revolutionary State will have to be very powerful and highly centralized. The State will administer and direct the cultivation of the land, by means of its salaried officials commanding armies of rural workers organized and disciplined for this purpose. At the same time, on the ruins of the existing banks, it will establish a single state bank which will finance all labor and national commerce. It is readily apparent how such a seemingly simple plan of organization can excite the imagination of the workers, who are as eager for justice as they are for freedom; and who foolishly imagine that the one can exist without the other; as if, in order to conquer and consolidate justice and equality, one could depend on the efforts of others, particularly on governments, regardless of how they may be elected or controlled, to speak and act for the people! For the proletariat this will, in reality, be nothing but a barracks: a regime, where regimented workingmen and women will sleep, wake, work, and live to the beat of a drum; where the shrewd and educated will be granted government privileges; and where the mercenary minded, attracted by the immensity of the international speculations of the state bank, will find a vast field for lucrative, underhanded dealings.”

I believe that Bakunin was shrewd enough to see that the result of Marx and Engels’ vision would be exactly what we have in America today. The “mercenary minded” private bankers, and their cronies in the major securities firms and other major corporations, have taken over our institutions with an intellectual, business, and political elite to do their bidding. The proletariat have the illusion of freedom and prosperity, but, as we have recently seen, these “mercenary minded” individuals can manipulate the monetary system at their whim to create bubbles and busts which create opportunities for them to reap enormous profits.

The middle class gets most of their life savings wiped out and what is left of their life savings devalued through even more government/FED money creation, while at the same time they continue to lose personal freedoms. With every war and with every created financial crisis the bankers increase their own power and control. The final goal of these mercenary minded families is to destroy the one country in the world where the founding documents give the individual control of their government and monetary system, the United States of America! Once that is accomplished they can have an all powerful world government, with a world bank in total control of the financial and banking system. Life under such a system will be exactly as Bakunin described in the above quote.

I guess you can never have enough power and money. Please wake up your friends, family, and neighbors. We have to take back our country now.

I will leave you with one more quote from Gary North on Marx:

“Karl Marx, like Lenin, served as an inspired prophet, not of proletarian victory, which never took place, but of bourgeois victory cleverly masquerading as a proletarian victory. He served as a sort of nineteenth century intellectual rag peddler, selling proletarian designer jeans for the costume parties of the alienated middle class. To add authenticity before they are shipped to fashion-conscious buyers, Marx-Engels’ designer jeans are bleached. So are the bones of a hundred million of their victims.”
I hope the reader of this article will read Common Sense Revisited and share it with as many people as possible. This pamphlet was written to create the paradigm shift to freedom that we so desperately need in America right now.

Thanks again to Don Hull for his article on the Communist Manifesto which he wrote eight years ago called “Communist Manifesto, Alive and Well in America.”

For freedom, and to create a paradigm shift from surrogate power to indigenous power.