Today, there is an idealism under
the guise of progress and climate change (EPA, OSHA, ACLU, etc.), that insists
on destroying successful businesses, both big and small; industries;
manufacturing companies; farmers; coal miners. The destruction of these,
ultimately, drives prices up and destroys not just the upper-class businessman,
but also the middle-class and in the end, the lower-class with the rise in prices; thereby, eliminating
the classes.
The Communist ideal from the
beginning was to destroy capitalism which according to Karl Marx was controlled
by the “bourgeoisie” or today the successful businessman whose basic goal is to
grow in his/her business and make money, while at the same time employing
others. However, Marx, and others like him resented the businessman of the day
because they felt this
progress being made was undermining and destroying the old age “working man” or
the poor, which was termed the “proletariats” (grassroots, workers, masses).
Going back even further, Marx
(1818-1883) was financially insecure himself,
according to the 1962 World Book Encyclopedia,
(yes, I still have a whole set. History hasn’t been changed in it), Karl
Heinrich Marx was born in Germany to a middle-class family. He studied at
universities in both Bonn and Berlin. His friendship with Frederick Engel would
further develop Marx’s movement. Marx was a journalist, German social
philosopher who founded Communism, and his book Das
Kapital
(Capital),
became the bible for the Communist party. The early economic policies of
communist Russia were based on his theories, but later other socialist and
communist governments followed them in part.
Marx’s theories interpreted history
as a never-ending struggle between the classes, the proletariat and the
bourgeoisie (capitalist). He believed that all the troubles of the working man
lay on the shoulders of the capitalist because the workers did all the work for
the businessman, but didn’t receive full benefit because the businessman kept
the profit. Marx moved to London after exiled from France and Germany because
of his revolutionary ideals.
The “Communist League” was
originally the “League of the Just” and opened in London on June 2, 1847. Marx
couldn’t afford to attend the meeting because of financial reasons but Engels
did. With the influence of Marx and Engels anti-utopian socialism, the League’s
motto changed from “All Men are Brothers” to “Working Men of All Countries,
Unite!” (Union slogan) By December 1847, the League approved the rules that
were drawn up.
Article 1: “The
aim of the league is the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the rule of the
proletariat, the abolition of the old bourgeois society which rests on the
antagonism of classes, and the foundation of a newsociety without classes and without private property.”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/
The industrial revolution was in
full swing and manufacturing plants were growing. About this Marx states in the
Manifesto:
“The
bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the
immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most
barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are
the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it
forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate.
It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of
production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their
midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world
after its own image.” Capitalism, its expansion.
Obama's war on energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
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