#65 - Controlling the Narrative: Why Progressives Think Like they Do

How Progressives Think: 

The Origins of American Hegelian/Marxist Liberal Thought,

It has been a common reaction to the ills of Capitalism to jump ship and embrace Communism. Call it what you may, socialism, Marxism, Leninism…it is all communism built on the idea of a collective society all living in unison as one. We lock arms and sing together, “We are the world,” as we seek to erase all animosity and cultural differences we possess. Capitalism is the ruination of society. It breeds greed. Under Communism, there is equity and collective purpose.

I would defy anyone with any intellectual capacity to show a society that has thrived under Communistic rule, under the “collective,” where Hegelian/Marxist principles have been applied in practice. The first attempt we know of here in the United States was found in New Harmony, Indiana, led by Hegelian Collectivist Robert Owen. It was established as a Utopian society filled with artists, poets, and intellectuals. Conventional American views were rejected, Christianity despised, and the idea of God was rejected. This was man’s society, man’s world, and in this world, everything is subjected to extreme criticism; everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of human reason or cease to exist. In man’s world, the reason is the sole measure of everything.

All old ideas are to be thrown on the trash heap and disregarded. Everything must be turned upside down, according to Hegel. The past only deserves to be pitied and lamented. Government and tradition are each contemptuous. Eternal truth, eternal right, equity and equality based on Nature and the inalienable rights of man was all that mattered. These rights and equities were to be defined by whom? God? No. The state. Robert Owen set out to verify the truth of these things.

Owen, a wealthy man with fantastical ideas, provided New Harmony with all the essentials he could imagine. With the rejection of God, and all biblical precepts, there was no basis for a central covenant to bind the community in spirit. Without God, there was no foundation for establishing a moral society or government. They all longed for ‘freedom’ and a desire for Utopia. As we have recognized through documented, historical facts, such efforts are centered on one individual’s idea of what should be and what could be. Marxism is based on the ideas and concepts of Karl Marx. Taoism on the wisdom of Lao Dun, and National Socialism on thoughts of Adolph Hitler. The collective works so long as the individuals agree to submit and obey the one in charge. This being the case, you have, by nature, an authoritarian regime led by a totalitarian – dictator. You have a tyrannical, cynical, selfish man in place of a gracious, merciful, and loving God. The collective favor the elite and wealthy and seeks to eliminate the ‘middle class. God grants grace and mercy to all with the call to come.

This is the historical path that these ideas lead us down. It was not different under the rule of Joseph Stalin as it was under Robert Owen. The principles were and are the same.

New Harmony lasted less than three years, ending in confusion, arguments, laziness, and the rise of personality. Funny…this is precisely what is seen under a capitalist society, only the people in the free market pay their own way.

There is only one way to truly unite, but men manage to reject this – they constantly throw God to the curb and seek to show the rest of us just how resourceful and self-reliant man can be. Thinking themselves to be wise, they prove themselves to be fools. The years have passed, and times have changed. Men and their foolish ways have not.

Let’s examine the Origins of Modern Hegelian/Marxist American Liberalism - by Fred Siegel

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