The evil ideology known as communism left a track record of unimaginable horror. Experts estimate that 100 million people were killed by Marxist regimes.
Some were murdered. Other starved to death because of the pervasive economic failure of communism.
Yet there are dupes and apologists who overlook all this death and misery.
One of them is Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission. A few days from now, this über-bureaucrat will help celebrate the 200th birthday of Karl Marx.
The European Commission President will travel to Trier, Germany, where he will give a speech to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth. …The Commission President will give a speech at the opening ceremony of the Karl Marx exhibition in the city. …The chief eurocrat’s trip has received critics, who have suggested the 63-year-old forgetting how Marx’s “warped ideology” led to millions of deaths across the world. Ukip MEP and the party’s former leader Paul Nuttall said: “It is appalling that Jean-Claude Juncker feels it necessary to commemorate a man whose ideology – Marxism/Communism – led to more than 100 million deaths. …Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski…, who as a seven-year-old boy fled to Britain with his family from the Communist regime in Poland, said Mr Juncker should reject any invitations to commemorate the event. He said: “I think it’s in very poor taste we have to remember that Marxism was all about ripping power and individual means away from people and giving to State. “Marxism led to the killing of millions around the world as it allowed a small band of fanatics to suppress the people we must learn the lessons from this and share with our children.”
How disgusting.
And let’s not forget that communism is still claiming victims in places such as Cuba and North Korea.
Here’s the part of the story that caused my jaw to drop.
A commission spokeswoman defending Mr Juncker’s visit… She said: …“I think that nobody can deny that Karl Marx is a figure who shaped history in one way or the other.
In that case, why not celebrate Hitler’s birthday as well?
Writing for the Atlas Society, Alan Charles Kors expresses dismay that communism does not receive the same treatment as its sister ideology of National Socialism.
No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed suicide for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. …The West accepts an epochal, monstrous, unforgivable double standard. We rehearse the crimes of Nazism almost daily, we teach them to our children as ultimate historical and moral lessons, and we bear witness to every victim. We are, with so few exceptions, almost silent on the crimes of Communism. So the bodies lie among us, unnoticed, everywhere. We insisted upon “de-Nazification,” and we excoriate those who tempered it in the name of new or emerging political realities. There never has been and never will be a similar “de-Communization,” although the slaughter of innocents was exponentially greater, and although those who signed the orders and ran the camps remain. In the case of Nazism, we hunt down ninety-year-old men because “the bones cry out” for justice. In the case of Communism, we insisted on “no witch hunts”… The Communist holocaust should have brought forth a flowering of Western art, and witness, and sympathy. It should have called forth an overflowing ocean of tears. Instead, it has called forth a glacier of indifference. Kids who in the 1960s had portraits of Mao and Che on their college walls —the moral equivalent of having hung portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, or Horst Wessel in one’s dorm—now teach our children about the moral superiority of their political generation. Every historical textbook lingers on the crimes of Nazism, seeks their root causes, and announces a lesson that should be learned. Everyone knows the number “six million.” By contrast, it is always “the mistakes” of Communism or of Stalinism (repeated, by mistake, again, and again, and again). Ask college freshmen how many died under Stalin’s regime, and they will answer, even now, “Thousands? Tens of thousands?”
Of course, some of these kids are probably wearing t-shirts celebrating Che Guevara, so it goes without saying that they are ignorant.
Or, if they actually know Che’s track record, the kids are immoral punks.
In any event, Jean-Claude Juncker should know better. Sounds like he wants his name to be added to the biggest-clown-in-Brussels contest.
P.S. I’m embarrassed to admit that some economists were apologists for communism.
P.P.S. There’s a very small silver lining to the dark cloud of communism. You can click here, here, here, and here to enjoy some clever anti-communism humor.
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btw:
controlling the flow of information…
“European Commission – Press release:
Tackling online disinformation: Commission proposes an EU-wide Code of Practice
Brussels, 26 April 2018
Today, the Commission is proposing measures to tackle disinformation online, including an EU-wide Code of Practice on Disinformation, support for an independent network of fact-checkers, and a series of actions to stimulate quality journalism and promote media literacy.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-3370_en.htm
Well-said, Zorba.
Jean-Claude Juncker’s objective is to create a political organization patterned after the soviet union… authoritarian… and socialist… and in his view fit to be adapted to our new world government… so it’s little wonder he sings the praises Karl Marx… april 22 was Lenin’s birthday… also known as “earth day”… a day for the environmentalists to celebrate all things lefty…. it kinda reminds you of the old mel brooks movie “the producers”… it had a song in the movie… “springtime for hitler”… ahh those were the days!
JPJ should be honored with a medal. The polonium medal of life’s achievements. But alas he is a drunken stooge.
He will only do so only because a significant proportion of voters will applaud. The Uber bureaucrat has a very keen sense of what his voter lemmings want.
Voters be forewarned that we live in a different historical era, an era unlike ever before. Voters will either wise up or their democracies will cease to exist.
The democracies will not disappear. They will be ended by the competitive pressure of more totalitarian regimes. But why? Hasn’t democracy proven itself to be the undisputed leader in progress and prosperity? Yes it has, or, it had. So what has changed? The simple answer is unprecedented human mobility. The ability to work from anywhere for anybody is rapidly increasing at an exponential pace due to unprecedented exponential technological growth.
Gone are the days when ruthless authoritarian rulers could enslave captive citizens. They new unprecedented mobility of products, capital, and people, means that even authoritarian regimes have to compete. And complete they do, or at least they are starting to. Where do you feel freer? In France where you can demonstrate (even naked) every weekend, or every day if you like, but the French people through their democracy confiscate fifty to sixty percent of your vitality for communal endeavors? Or do you feel freer in Dubai where are you cannot demonstrate but the sheik only harvests twenty percent of your vitality? The answer is no longer obvious and indeed many people choose the latter.
Of course you would probably prefer a place like Switzerland where you can both demonstrate and the voters are wise enough to only confiscate a small fraction of your vitality. But there are very few Switzerlands. Most democracies are comprised primarily of useful idiots who keep voting themselves government programs in the hopes that they will either be done efficiently (finally some mythical day) or somebody else will pay.
Various authoritarian alternatives will impose huge pressures on developed world voter-lemmings ultimately forcing them to wisen up. But it will be an evolutionary process — and as in any evolutionary process there will be a carnage of victims and failed branches.
So wisen up spoiled complacent progressive developed world voter-lemmings. With a growth rate well below world average you will soon find Genghis Khan at your gates; and he takes no prisoners.
But before they wise up most electorates will first double down on coercive collectivism. That is the instinctive electoral reaction when things are not going well — when a country’s growth rate is well below average world growth rate –and therefore the once leading country is fast converging into the middle income world, as it’s happening throughout most of Europe, the continent a majority of Americans want to copy.
Which evolutional branch is your country on? Are you surrounded by lemmings?
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Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission is either a Marxist or, at the very least, a closet Marx ideology supporter.
Explore what he supports as President and you’ll find the similarities, talk about someone who pretends his actions and support have no destructive consequences!
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However, if it weren’t for Marx, the position in the European Commission that Juncker holds would probably not exist.
Communism is a doctrine written by demons. Anyone who sympathizes with it is infested with demons. That’s all there is to it. You know communism is pure spiritual evil because its foundation and purpose is theft. The lies and the murders are all in furtherance of the theft. There is also the factor of power for its own sake, as described by George Orwell: Communists love the idea of grinding their jack boot in to your face for ever and ever and ever, just for the fun and joy of it.
What is so surprising about Juncker being a demon infested communist? It should have been obvious. They all are, man, they all are.