Is Kamala Harris a Marxist? Donald Trump initially sparked a wave of criticism when he called her out during a debate last month.
condemnation from both coasts bien pensant. Although the media quickly stopped reporting, the question remains and is too important to be overlooked.
He has written a book called “next generation marxismAnd a review of Harris' extensive public record shows that she is certainly a believer in Marxist maxims, whether or not she has provocative posters of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao Tse-tung plastered in her living room. That is our verdict.
Her way of thinking is Marxist. Donald Trump wasn't wrong.
Being a Marxist does not mean being a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, but rather following a particular set of ideas that form a worldview.
when
richard nixon said When he said in the 1970s that “we are all Keynesians now'', he did not mean that he had joined the Bloomsbury Group. What he meant was that he and many other key policymakers were condoning budget deficits, tax increases, and other demand-side practices based on the theories of economist John Maynard Keynes. That's true.
At that time, the atmosphere of Keynesianism was heavy. It was everywhere in the policy maelstrom of the 1970s. The important thing is that you can believe and follow Lord Keynes' prescriptions even if you have never heard of him.
it was Keynes himself
who wrote it:
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both right and wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. In fact, the world is mostly dominated by other things. Practitioners who believe themselves to be completely immune from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some lost economist.
We argue that this is the current state of Marxism today. His ideas are so profound that one can become an avid Marxist even without having read a single word of “Das Kapital.''
What Marx Said and How 21st Century Marxists Sympathize with Him
It helps camouflage Marxism.
1848 “Communist Manifesto” Either it's evolved or it's well hidden. For example, few Marxists today expect the proletariat to rise up in a bloody revolution. In fact, most Marxists abandon workers and hope that revolutions will be brought about by stealth, that is, by taking over cultural society. institution and change the social narrative.
These were the changes introduced in the Western world in the middle of the last century, after the bloody failures of revolutions in Germany and Italy in the period between World War I and World War II.
However, the most distinctive features of Marxism remain. Today's Marxists still need to suppress the opinions of those who oppose completely changing society. The family, a great bulwark against instability, must be completely destroyed or its ability to raise children will be severely limited. Marx was clearly aware of these things, and in his Manifesto he called for “tyrannical invasion'' and “the abolition of the family'' if people did not follow Marx's plan.
Above all, the whole of human interaction must still be seen as an epic struggle between the oppressed and their oppressors, as Marx writes on the first page of the Manifesto: be.
The history of all societies that have ever existed is a history of class struggle. Freemen and slaves, nobles and commoners, lords and serfs, guildmasters and craftsmen, in a word, oppressor and oppressor, always in conflict with each other, in uninterrupted combat, now hidden, now openly. The era ended, each with either a revolutionary restructuring of the entire society or the common ruin of the opposing classes.
This was the core of Marxism then, and it remains so today.
One of the beliefs that stems from this worldview is that law enforcement, especially the police, exist to keep the stranglehold on the oppressed of the ruling class. Therefore, the police need to be defunded or preferably disbanded.
as marx said
first volume In 1867, Das Kapital stated that states “employ police in order to accelerate the accumulation of capital by increasing the degree of exploitation of labor.” Later, in 1875, “Criticism of the Gotha plan” He wrote that the state was a structure of “military despotism protected by police.”
Since then, every Marxist from Vladimir Lenin to Angela Davis to Patrice Cullors has understood that abolishing the police is the quickest way to foment social disorder and impose a revolutionary blueprint.
The second belief, which follows from the reduction of all human activity to a Manichean struggle, is that the goal is total, structural, systemic change, or, as the Manifesto itself puts it, “the transformation of society as a whole. It is said to be a “revolutionary reconstruction.” For Marx, the proletariat “must bear all the burdens of society without enjoying its advantages,” which is why Marx and Engelsgerman ideologyThat was the point of violent revolution: to dismantle everything in its place. Therefore, not only the forces of order, but all powers of authority must be sufficiently weakened or overcome.
The only difference today is that the targets of oppression are no longer economic classes, but racial and sexual categories deemed marginalized. The impetus for change therefore comes from these racial and sexual subcategories.
The Marxist founders of Black Lives Matter — Marxists not only call themselves “Marxists” but because they have had extensive training in Marxism, Leninism, etc. over the years — seek Marx's systemic or total transformation in the name of their conquered groups. We have “systemic racism.”
The third belief that follows is that citizens should be treated differently according to their categories. The equal rights enshrined in our founding documents are an abomination. “Fairness” is the goal.
Again, this is all undiluted Marxism. In his Critique of the Gotha Plan, Marx wrote that people with different talents would enjoy different results, and therefore, “In order to avoid all these defects, instead of being equal, we must be justly unequal.'' “It will not be possible,” he said very clearly.
Marxists today reject equal rights by shifting the focus from class to race. Kimberly Crenshaw, a leading thinker in the field of Marxist critical race theory, argued that:
1988 essay “Belief in colorblindness and egalitarian processes makes no sense in a society where historically identifiable groups have actually been treated differently.” Their ultimate goal remains the suppression of equal rights. .
what kamala says
Kamala Harris also agrees with these core ideas. Joe Biden adopted wokeness for strategic reasons, but often stumbled over its wording — George Will once called Biden's use of wokeness terminology “tone-deaf Joe fumbling with a foreign language, i.e. progress.” Harris has a more accurate ideological position. If she lacks clarity in her policy positions.
In a 2020 video, she explained why she prefers the word “equity” over “equality.” We retain her verbal tics.
Therefore, there is a big difference between equality and fairness. Equality suggests, “Oh, everyone should receive the same amount.” The problem is, not everyone starts from the same place. If we all received the same amount, and you started over there and I started over here, we could receive the same amount, but you would still be far behind me. You will have to do so. It's about giving people the resources and support they need so everyone is on a level playing field and can compete on a level playing field. Fair treatment means we all end up in the same place.
The video shows two men, one white and one black, climbing a mountain, with the white man climbing the mountain with ease and the black man struggling. This emphasizes that she wants the government and the private sector to award benefits based on racial characteristics. In 2022,
she said Post-Hurricane Ian assistance should be based on need and color.
“It's the lowest-income communities and communities of color that are most affected by extreme situations like this, and by problems that are not their fault. So we need to focus on equity. “We need to address this issue by providing resources based on this,” she said. Mr. Harris is consistent on all these points.
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Ms. Harris is a strong supporter of Black Lives Matter and its efforts to change American institutions. “Black Lives Matter has changed the environment in a very substantial and beautiful way,” she said.
told the interviewer Ebro Darden, June 9, 2020, as the George Floyd riots engulfed the city. “Their work ensures that people who are inside the system and want to change it don't have to do it alone.”
Harris emphasized that BLM's value lies in how the organization influences those in power to agree to systemic change. She called BLM organizers “to help people understand from the outside the changes that need to happen within, so that those on the inside can actually have more influence over so many obstacles and the status quo within that system.” “He is a leader who has done a great job.” I don't want to see any change. ”
BLM's greatest success was not the chaos it caused, but its ability to pressure cultural leaders to accept that America suffers from “systemic racism” and demands change. , her points were worth noting.
Harris, like Marx, believes that institutional change is essential. Marx is class struggle; Harris is race struggle. “Our country has a long history of slavery, lynching, segregation, and discrimination. The injustices of the past live on in our institutions today. Systemic change is needed. Black people Americans are fed up,” she tweeted on May 29, 2020, as the violence escalated.
In early June of the same year,
she spoke in the senateexpressed strong support for BLM's actions. She described the movement as “people who may seem to have little in common from the outside, marching in solidarity to demand an end to the black blood that stains our nation's sidewalks.” ” described as being led by the people. They are marching together to at least get closer to justice, and that gives me hope. That really gives me hope. ”
Not surprisingly, Harris also asked Americans to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organization that pays bail for those who tore apart Minneapolis.
“If you can, please join @MNFreedomFund now to help pay for bail for local protesters in Minnesota.”
she tweeted Just days after George Floyd's death, the city and many others burned.
Apples rarely fall far away
Although she may be in denial now, Harris also clearly supports efforts to defund the police. she
told an interviewer in 2020“We know that when many cities spend more than a third of their entire city budget on police, that is not a wise approach, nor is it the best or right way to achieve safety. For too long, the current thinking has been that putting more police officers on the streets will make us safer, but that's not true.”
Kamala Harris also opposes giving parents the freedom to stop indoctrinating their children about issues of race and gender in schools.
say in houston This year, he told the American Federation of Teachers, “And while you…teach your students about our nation's past, these extremists, including banning books, are denying the freedom to learn and recognize our nation's true and complete history.'' …They're passing so-called 'don't say I'm gay' laws.'' targeted parent They are protesting against the school board as “domestic terrorists.”
Harris also wants to limit social media companies' freedom to share diverse viewpoints. she said
Jake Tapper It argued that these platforms “speak directly to millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation, and they must stop.”
It's impossible to say for sure whether Harris got her views from her parents, Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan, but they were so radical that in the early 1960s they were inspired by Black Panther founder Bobby. They met at the same Berkeley African American Institute where Seal and Huey Newton met. But in the record of “Baby in a Red Diaper” the apple rarely falls far from the tree.
What is indisputable is that she
all over the world And I absorbed it. It's a part of her now. Her way of thinking is Marxist. Donald Trump wasn't wrong.
