The New, Emerging, Serious World Threat to Freedom-The CCP

      If the mainstream media were doing its job, then an expose like this would not be necessary. It is now absolutely essential for an individual, who really wants to understand what is going on in the world, to just simply pick up a book and read, for therein, much of the time, lies the Truth. This expose centers around the book I just read called Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy by Bill Gertz, who is a national security columnist for the Washington Times. I would encourage you to read the book. 

      There is so much going on behind the "curtain" that the Press refuses to publish because the MSM (mainstream media as one entity because it is all owned by only 6 conglomerates) refuses to report the Truth. If the MSM was presenting the Truth, Americans would really understand what is going on geopolitically, especially in China. Americans would understand why we are seeing Marxists burn down our cities, tear down our traditions, and destroy our values. Americans would understand that the same thing happened in China in 1949 when the Communists took power in the form of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). The Maoist Revolution destroyed all traditions, values, and regular life for the Chinese people. Americans would see the similarities of the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Mao Zedong and what is currently happening here in America; from the violent riots; to the ubiquitous indoctrination of critical race theory; to inclusion training; to the censoring of speech; to the shutting down of churches; to the punishment of "dissidents." Americans would see the correlation, and would then understand why America is changing, and not for the better. Most importantly, they would finally acknowledge that there is a real threat to their freedoms and their way of life that they had better start taking seriously before it is too late. 

    President Ronald Reagan said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." And how true that is. Reagan, being the one rare conservative president who saw the real threat of a Communist evil empire-the Soviet Union-and felt its cold wind blowing over America with dark foreboding clouds, strategically ordered economic sanctions to render Russia unable to abuse the citizens. These orders came in a "few targeted financial measures (including limiting natural gas deliveries to Western Europe and access to Western loans)...... [Within three years], the Soviet Union had collapsed without a shot being fired, bringing freedom to some 300 million people" (Gertz 140). Reagan understood the vital importance of America in the free world where communists, fascists, and evil dictators and conquerors have ravaged the world since the beginning. And America still is that last beacon of light shining for freedom, hence why so many immigrants and illegals come here to escape poverty and starvation at the hands of their communist dictators. Some, however, abuse the system and take advantage of America's tolerance as we have witnessed in drug cartels at the border and human trafficking. 

    Unfortunately, the valiant efforts of Reagan have all but been nullified from subsequent administrations that were pro-China, and who used appeasement measures in a very misguided attempt to democratize China into a free market economy. Over the last three decades, China has amassed much more power, both economically and politically, and is using it to build up its military and technological might. From unfair trade practices to manipulating their currency keeping it artificially low, to massive intellectual property theft in the trillions of dollars from US companies, and to coerced-technology transfers from American companies, all of which have been largely unchallenged since the 1980s by the groupthink that strangles Washington and the sycophants who are puppets for Chinamyhn. As a result, China has attacked America economically and at this point, they may be winning without even firing one shot. The worst part is that "Chinese enterprises are quietly penetrating the American capital market-pension funds, hedge funds, mutual funds, state public retirement systems, index funds, and over-the-counter trading markets-with little or no regulatory review concerning the national security dangers certain of them posed" (Gertz 141). And how is this possible? In 2012, a man named Roger W. Robinson Jr., who is a former Chase Manhattan international banker, and who also worked closely with Reagan as senior director of International Economic Affairs for the National Security Council staff in the early 1980s, used a unique software tool called IntelTrak to track and map all Chinese and Russian transactions globally every day (141). It was through this process that Robinson and his investigators came to discover the aforementioned facts. 

    According to Gertz, the Chinese entities that are involved in our capital markets are the PLA (People's Liberation Army) contractors; firms engaged in militarizing the illegal islands of the South China Sea; cyber hackers; US sanction violators; advanced weapons manufacturers; intellectual property thieves; underwriters of North Korea and Iran; and firms linked to high-level corruption (141). Gertz mentions much more in this particular chapter (10, Financial and Economic Warfare with Chinese Characteristics) but for brevity, I will just mention these important facts. These facts worth mentioning, according to Gertz, being that if "Americas' pension funds and other investment portfolios are permitted to become awash in Chinese securities over the next three years to four years, scores of millions of Americans would have a vested financial interest in lobbying to thwart US sanctions or penalties being imposed on Beijing for its malevolent behavior for fear that their retirement accounts and other investments would lose value" (142). This thinking follows logic because most know that it is easy to manipulate and control the masses through money and food. 

    Once China has control, they can implement their nefarious plans to dominate the world and enslave the masses with the totalitarian regime that has already been rolled out in China through the Huawei 5G network, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, big data mining, a "social credit system of personal control that is seeking to emulate what Soviet leaders once called the forced creation of New Soviet Man" (85), and enough big-brother digitized cameras (600 million) that have made the nightmare scenario of Orwell's 1984 come true for the Chinese citizens. 

    But this hasn't happened overnight; it has been a process over several decades of quietly achieving its objective. In chapter 2, The East is Red, Gertz provides a historical background so the reader can understand the current political condition in China. It started in 1949 with Mao Zedong, who "aligned his regime with the Soviet Union, which was regarded as the vanguard of the global communist revolution" (19). Mao competed with Josef Stalin over ideological correctness (orthodox Marxism-Leninism), but Mao eventually broke with Nikita Khrushchev in 1963 because Khrushchev denounced Stalin for his grotesque war crimes. From that time forward, the Chinese Politburo informed the Kremlin that the CCP would lead the world communist revolution. 

    In the 1960s and 1970s, the CCP aligned with socialist dictatorships all over the world by supplying military enforcements and economic aid. This was evidenced in Vietnam when America tried unsuccessfully to eliminate communism (20). It was president, Dwight Eisenhower, who presented the domino theory in 1954 which stated that if one nation fell to communism, then the rest in the region were likely to follow. As such, nearby Los and Cambodia eventually fell to communism in 1974. Mao was then replaced by Deng Xiaoping, and by the late 2010s, China had turned into a superpower from a backward totalitarian state, "Deng's mutation of the virus of communism as more pragmatic was captured in the propaganda phrase, 'It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice" (20). Obviously, the undercurrents of the communist ideology hadn't changed, just the outward appearance which has created the massive deception that has seduced many a politician and corporations into the communist ideology believing China is a democracy and does not see America as the enemy. That couldn't be further from the Truth. 

    Xi Jinping, who came to power in 2012 and whose admirers include Josef Stalin, Adolph Hitler, and Mao Zedong, all mass murderers, has a degree in Marxist theory and was awarded a Doctor of Laws, which Gertz states is clearly questionable, "rule under the Communist Party is arbitrary-laws can be and are whatever the Party wants, despite a written Constitution that contains grandiose but hollow promises of rights and freedoms" (22). China is not led by the people. It is not a republic. It is ruled by the CCP that has directed and organized the massive intellectual property theft of trillions of dollars to build up its military and technological might, proving that the Chinese communist ideology has not changed. They have done this because of an initiative called Made in China 2025, which is a plan to dominate all the advanced technologies in the world (28). And they are making quick progress with the grand global scheme "the goal is to promote the Chinese system of governance and control and repressive police state tactics to all nations of the world" (90). Xi Jinping is practicing a zero-sum ideological war that states "whoever wins will be king, and whoever loses must surrender everything. He applies a winner-take-all style of communism" (23). Because nations love to collaborate for profit without any consideration of the consequences, and despite China's blatant human rights abuses, it is reasonable that China may achieve its objective. And they are using enormous incentives to do so, paying handsomely for cooperation.

    To not see that this is setting the stage for a centralized communist dictatorship would be naive, "it [the social credit system] has placed the Party on the path of achieving greater totalitarian control" (86). This system is expanding and becoming more invasive even with the help of US technology. Some companies doing this either wittingly, or unwittingly. The most egregious is with Google whose censored search engine, Dragonfly, was specifically developed for the CCP and is assisting in the suppression of freedom by using algorithms that filter only for the CCP's political narrative. Google, astonishingly, collaborated with the CCP even after Chinese military hackers broke into Google stealing valuable source code (91). This has produced an even greater Fire Wall in China creating an "information desert that has forced its citizens to rely on a propaganda and information control system devoid of free speech and open communication" (90). When people are only allowed access to one kind of reporting or "news", they will believe it as gospel truth. It is unfortunate that most people are not capable of thinking for themselves, hence why governments love to use propaganda and algorithms to control the populace. Even Hitler was quoted as saying, "how fortunate for the government when the masses don't think for themselves." Behavior psychology plays a large role in this and the CCP knows that mind control works. It is now at the point in China where only those with VPN's can get past the Great Firewall. 

    Google wasn't the only company hacked. Twenty more American companies were targeted in cyberattacks under Operation Aurora. The software code for Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 was found to have a "lucrative security flaw amid the millions of o's and i's" by PLA researchers (91). In other words, highly paid sophisticated Chinese hackers, under the guidance and direction of the CCP and its entities, have found numerous vulnerabilities in American technology companies and they are exploiting these vulnerabilities for their own advantage. Not only are they hacking and stealing, but they are in turn using the leverage gained as manipulation and power over others and, our own presidents, previous and current, are allowing this to happen, causing America to potentially fall into the hands of the communists.

    The Clinton administration, which was completely supportive of China joining the WTO, predicted that a fully wired China would result in liberty and democracy. This turned out to be a massive failure, "it contributed to the growth of totalitarian controls in China and the massive theft through cyber espionage of American technology" and it "caused some of the most egregious and damaging errors in American relations with China" (89). Because China has developed superior technology through cyber theft and deceit, essentially unrestricted warfare, they have amassed more power and control and they are selling their Orwellian technology to authoritarian governments around the world in an effort to control their citizens. This goal of combining big data to social governance is stated quite lucidly in a 2017 "Action Plan to Promote the Development of Big Data" (87). So, clearly, the steps have been laid out for China to achieve its objective. Only now, they want to implement this "Action Plan" to all citizens of the world, denying freedom to not only the Chinese citizens but to all citizens of the world. 

    But it wasn't just the Clinton administration that enabled a Chinese communist regime to amass more wealth and power, the Obama administration did more of the same, only they "went so far in appeasing China that the White House issued an order prohibiting all officials from publicly talking about military and other threats from China" (6). This in turn damaged American security and emboldened China to dominate the South China Sea. Trump, as of recently, at least since Reagan, was the only president in the White House that confronted China and he paid a big price: he was placed under a severe vituperative campaign to discredit him and destroy his reputation. After all, that is what communists do to any threat to their power. They are fiery revolutionists that want to achieve their objective by any means possible, even terrorist actions and bloodshed (Malcolm X and Bill Ayers). Their ultimate goal is tyranny but they must achieve a plutocracy first through economic means then they create a kleptocracy through political means, namely Marxism/Socialism/Communism, which makes the nation/state/country unbearable to live in. 

    The CCP is an existential threat to the world because of its Marxist/Leninist political and economic system. The only difference is that it has Chinese characteristics added to the Marxist/Leninists politics which is perhaps why many are in denial about the danger lurking in the CCP regime as Gertz mentions (5). They can not see the hidden ideology for what it is, and if this threat is not addressed, the digital age could soon be controlled completely by totalitarians who use torture methods to punish any dissent.  

     The CCP's objective is to reward those who tow the party line while punishing those who do not. The system seeks to coerce the behavior of the Chinese citizens to conform to the CCP's nefarious demands. And some of those demands are ridiculous, such as failing to leash a pet while walking to smoking on trains. But most of these demands deny essential freedoms that necessitate human rights. Over one million Muslim Uighurs in northwestern China have been imprisoned, tortured, raped, and even killed. They have also been subjected to universal health examinations which is really a "massive biological surveillance program" (88). The Falun Gong, who practice meditation combined with moral philosophy, have been persecuted, raped, tortured, and killed. Many have even been subjected to live organ harvesting. China also, for 35 years, implemented a one-child policy. That resulted in millions of forced abortions and the slaughter of innocent babies, many of which were thrown out in fields still alive with the umbilical cord still attached. 

    The MSM has largely ignored these serious human rights abuses and nothing around the world has been done to ameliorate the abusive and draconian living conditions of the Chinese people whose freedoms are violated every day. How can the world forget what happened at the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing when students protesting for democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of Press, were brutally killed in 1989? If China was that bad then, after amassing more and more power, it is only a matter of time before they seek total world domination through whatever means it deems necessary, "China has reverted to its Maoist roots and has become a more repressive dictatorship domestically as it seeks world domination abroad" (3). Keep in mind that the communist world destroys all freedoms, including freedom of religion because communists are atheists and simply have no respect for those who worship God, who is above the government and sinful man. 

    More than likely, this is the main reason why China hates the Unites States; the Constitution and the Bill of Rights guarantee individual freedom, namely freedom to worship whom and how you please. But as evidenced by the recent Coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns, China's influence has already metastasized like gangrene into the United States with the repudiation of individual's rights to worship by forcing churches to stay shut down while keeping all the jam-packed Walmarts open, which get most of their supply from China, "the People's Republic of China is defined as totalitarian by its system of police control unconstrained by the rule of law and by absolute authority imposed over the entire economy" (Gertz 6). As witnessed by many, pastors who refused to shut down their churches to maintain their Sunday serves were either, heavily fined, violating their 8th amendment rights, or arrested and imprisoned, violating their 1st amendment rights. This happened not only in America, but Canada as well, and even in the UK. Law-abiding citizens treated with the utmost contempt while simultaneously allowing violent criminals released from prison. These actions violated individual's Constitutional rights and destroyed many people's economic security while helping China prosper. Many small businesses will never reopen again. 

    I believe this was allowed to happen because the individuals/policymakers and corporations care more about profit through financial investment and lucrative contracts with China than they do about regular Joe or Jane on Main Street. They care little about the immoral implications that will result in the destruction of freedoms for not only them but their children as well. Political decisions are made without any consideration of the long-term consequences; just immediate tangible monetary reward seems to be the order of the day. And those consequences are not just individual economic and wealth destruction and loss of freedoms, but they may very well result in outright war with thermonuclear weapons. 

    Just as China has amassed power by political, economic, and technological means, it has also built up its military through patience and persistence. The CCP has shown itself to be a deceitful aggressor that can not be trusted to maintain peace among nations. They have given false promises of peace and have lied one too many times. One such example is in the South China Sea. Xi Jinping promised Obama in September 2015 that the "reclaimed" South China Sea islands would not be militarized. But by 2017, satellite imagery and Pentagon reports showed long runways of about 8,800 feet capable of holding large military cargo planes and troop transports, several short-range (anti-ship) naval guns, long-ran missile systems with a range of 340 miles, cruise missiles (SAMs), aircraft hangers, several army barracks, several administration buildings, and much more (Gertz 200). All of this militarization clearly threatens not only the United States but the rest of the world because the South China Sea serves as a major trade thoroughfare for roughly $5 trillion in supplies, "never in history has a nation tried to take control of an entire sea regarded as open ocean for centuries" (196). When looking back in history we see a similar thing happened in WW II, only it wasn't with a sea. Rather, it was an island. Imperial Japan threatened our shipping lanes with Australia when they took over the island of Guadacanal which is part of the Solomon Island chain. The allies had to take back Henderson field and the fight for Guadacanal became known as the island of death. But it was a necessary and strategic move because Australia was a major ally and trading partner and still is. 

     And just as Imperial Japan threatened our shipping lanes with Australia, so too does China. With their aggressive move to take over the South China Sea and democratic Taiwan, they are threatening both commercial civilian aircraft and military aircraft that come anywhere near there. This aggression was also evidenced in 2012 when Chinese warships took control of the Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines and President Benigno S. Aquino III at that time asked the United States to help by invoking the 1951 US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty to take back the shoal but Obama refused (201). These appeasement measures are tantamount to the appeasement shown to Hitler by world leaders just before WW II broke out. Hitler violated the treaty of Versailles by building up his military creating a Nazi juggernaut and the naive appeasement measures brought forth in the Munich agreement did little to stop Hitler's ambition of consolidating his power by taking more and more land. A gullible, naive Neville Chamberlain believed he had achieved peace with Hitler while boasting to the press his "diplomatic" accomplishments. Instead of seeing the Nazi threat for what it clearly was, the powers of Europe willingly conceded to Hitler's demands for the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to maintain "peace in our time." When will the people ever learn that history doesn't just rhyme like Mark Twain says, it, in fact, repeats itself over and over, again and again. 

    Looking back, we see the Maoist ideology, steeped in ancient strategy, behind the mass murder that brought the communists to power in 1949, had "driven the Chinese leadership in Beijing to order force against the United States, first in Korea and later when Chinese military forces provided air and air defense support to Hanoi in the Vietnam War" (3). It is clear that the CCP considers the United States its arch-enemy, and the willful ignorance of the gullible and naive leaders in Washington, both Democrat and Republican alike, and even the FBI and CIA, have granted China the useable and available power to potentially destroy our country. The US intelligence failures are pernicious and pathetic, "beyond their inability to cope with Chinese spying, the FBI, which is in charge of counterespionage domestically, and the CIA, which conducts counterintelligence abroad, both have a sorry record of disasters in their efforts to spy on China" (106). One such example is with Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos nuclear scientist charged with passing secrets to China (similar to Klaus Fuchs who gave the atomic bomb secrets from the Manhattan Project to Stalin). The FBI mishandled the investigation into Lee so the case was rendered useless when Lee was charged with the minor offense of mishandling classified documents (106). Another breach was with Katrina Leung, who was secretly working for Chinese intelligence here in America. Her case collapsed, just like Lee's did, and she was charged with lesser offenses. Her double-agent activities "undermined twenty years of intelligence regarding China because she provided false and misleading intelligence to the highest levels of the US government, including the White House, and at the same time, succeeded in discrediting all of the FBI's other recruited agents in China" (106). These actions are egregious coming from our American intelligence and eventually led to about 30 recruited CIA agents inside China being uncovered, imprisoned, and killed. This was a significant coup, according to Gertz, and an "action that prevented the US government from collecting human intelligence on the ground in China at a crucial time when the PLA and MSS (Ministry of State Security) were accelerating China's massive military buildup of both nuclear and conventional forces, aided with stolen US technology" (107). One would really have to believe that American intelligence is disgustingly incompetent or that the Deep State goes deeper than the Mariana Trench. The take-down of American intelligence in China by Chinese intelligence will never fully be known but its implications will be: the politicization of all things, even the CIA and FBI, who are supposed to protect the people who risk their lives to keep our country safe reveals the truth that there may be more red flags in this country than the Chinese communist nation.

    The CCP has tricked the world one too many times through subterfuge and the world, especially America, has fallen prey to its deception through a smokescreen of peace, "for China today, the strategy reflects the Marxist maxim that the ends justify the means" (4). A pragmatic model cares little for morality. It only cares about results by whatever means possible. And one such example is the Belt and Road Initiative by which China is spending trillions of dollars in the developing world with the sole purpose of "imposing large-scale debt on poor countries" so that these "debt-ridden states are becoming global military bases for power projection" (7). This amounts to posturing and intimidation and as time goes on, the CCP gets bolder and bolder. Like a child, the more they get away with bad behavior, the more bad behavior results. 

    On January 11, 2007, China launched a secret weapon developed by the PLA's General Armament Department called the SC-19 direct-ascent anti-satellite missile. Only this missile's trajectory was not headed towards the Gobi desert. It flew into space and destroyed its target-the orbiting Fengyun-1C weather satellite. Through the satellite's destruction, a high-speed orbiting debris field like a ring around the earth will "threaten both manned and unmanned spacecraft for decades to come" (Gertz 10). Despite this aggression, nothing was done. In fact, this event remained secret for 6 days before anyone would know about it. And, of course, China denied it which proves the CCP Communist regime is built on lies, all the while perpetuating the myth that communism will create peace and a utopian future. And if this event doesn't awaken the masses that China can cause an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) or potentially knock out a satellite that controls a large portion of our grid system resulting in the shut down of many services, from banking to utilities, then I can only conclude that the masses are either, too apathetic, or they are on too much Prozac. 

    We should never forget what the Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said to his men who bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, "Gentlemen, I am afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant with a terrible resolve." This line depicted in the 1970 film Tora, Tora, Tora and, the recent 2019 film Midway. Yamamoto said this because he was a student studying English at Harvard from 1919-1921. He knew Imperial Japan was no match for the United States. And so does China, hence the decades-long unrestricted warfare. But time is running out for America; passivity does nothing. Rather, it allows the enemy to gain more ground. We need to stand up and fight for our freedoms and we need to be acutely aware of the evils around us every day. But most importantly, we need to stop being gullible and naive. You can look down through the corridors of history and see that evil proliferates because history always repeats itself. And why? Because good men and women do nothing.

    There is so much more Gertz mentions in his book and there simply is not enough room to cover it all, like more U.S. intelligence failures to serious omissions in Pentagon reports, to ignoring clear sanction violations (Iran) while still doing business with such violators. But, like I said before, I would encourage you to read the book because I feel we are sitting on a powder keg and all it will take is one fuse to explode, just as a magma camber builds up pressure in a volcano or a subduction zone or transverse, strike-slip fault zone builds up pressure, no one knows when it will explode or crack but we know one thing for sure, it will crack and explode, and the consequences will be nothing short of disastrous. 

"Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, saith the Lord"........................Jeremiah 9:6 (KJV). Those who take refuge in falsehood will be buried in the ruin of their own delusions.

Work Cited:

Gertz, Bill. Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy. 

    Encounter Books, 2019. New York, New York

     

    

New Hope for the Nations: John Maynard Keynes

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist......Kenneth E. Boulding

As I come to the end of Dave Breese's book, Seven Men Who Rule The World From The Grave, the last man to rule the world from the grave is John Maynard Keynes. As mentioned in my previous post on Karl Marx and Marxist theory, no two men did more to destroy the original intent of the founding fathers than did Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. Both set the groundwork for cultural Marxism and corporate fascism that was later to flourish as competing for totalitarianism ideologies hell-bent on destroying a self-governing Republic that sought to practice free-market Capitalism. Because of Keynes, we as a nation are now addicted to the artificial money supply. His socialist economic theories laid out the philosophical rationale for endless government borrowing and government spending of fiat money.

              John Maynard Keynes is the father of macro and micro-economics. His philosophy is behind all courses taught in college on economics and his theories are the foundation and structure of, not only socialist Europe, but the United States as well. As a result, America's economy or gross domestic product barely grows and if it does, it the result of stimulus and/or expanding the money supply, a.k.a., quantitative easing. Since the inception of the Federal Reserve, the Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), countries all around the world are in debt to a shadowy organization (small contingent of private investment banks with no oversight or jurisdiction) that charges ungodly usury, saddles the people with austerity, and controls the populace, all the while getting fabulous wealthy from printing money out of thin air.

        Before we go into Keynesian economic theory, we must first understand how America's economy was "rescued" by John Maynard Keynes and how we have amassed a $20 Trillion debt and counting.

        Around the turn of the 20th century, the industrial revolution was coming on strong and optimism was abounding and since America had so progressed since the civil war, we had only forward to go. Darwin's theory promised utopia, as did Marxist theory and Freudian theory as well. Religious Liberalism was taking hold and so nothing was to be denied. Prosperity, expansion, and the promise of wider industrialization led many to believe that only a bright future was in store; men had only an upward evolution, he could not go backward. Under the leadership of John Dewey, the American educational system was brimming with new ideas and concepts such as instrumentalism and radical empiricism. A sunny outlook prevailed and even Time-Life books made note of it calling it, The Fabulous Century, giving it the title, The Cocksure Era,

"The mood was set for the first decade of the new century and won for the period several titles- The Age of Optimism, the Age of Confidence, the Age of Innocence. But another tag might have seemed appropriate to an objective visitor from abroad: the Cocksure Era. For this was a time when Americans were optimistic and self-confident to an extreme; they did not merely hope for the best, they fully expected it...…..Most people automatically assumed that all problems would be solved in the normal course of events; meanwhile, the important thing was for a man to get ahead, to earn maximum returns from bountiful opportunities" (This Fabulous Century: 1900-1910, p. 29). And Americans had every reason to be optimistic: the housewife could buy a dozen eggs for 12 cents; she could get sirloin steak for 24 cents a pound; a turkey dinner only costs 20 cents. The businessman had it good as well: taxes were little and trade was moving along swiftly. New devices were appearing such as the typewriter, self-binding harvester, the sewing machine, and the automobile was advancing (Breese 182). Politicians had their heyday for sure bringing with them promises for a bright future filled with nothing but optimism. "We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace" (Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, p. 183).

          Moving into the 2nd decade of the 20th century, despite the affluent times, some were having doubts though and questions were beginning to arise. Consider once again what the Time-Life books say,

"These affluent times were roiled by increasing ferment and discontent. Labor unrest, rising little noticed in the previous decade, could no longer be ignored; in the first six months of 1916, the country was beset by no fewer than 2,093 strikes and lock-outs. Added to the demands of militant labor were strident voices campaigning for other causes that seemed even more radical than the six-day workweek: women suffrage, birth control, advancement for colored people, progressive education, prohibition. Most alarming of all, a million socialists were demanding the overthrow of capitalism, which-they asserted-proved rotten to the core" (This Fabulous Century, p. 31). Then a shot fired in 1914-the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, Hungary at the hands of a Serbian nationalist. The first World War left "carnage more frightful than the world had thought possible" (Breese 184). The war was beginning to change national attitudes and the thought processes for the future, "for the Marxist, the war was a godsend. The socialist forces in the West used it to prove that the capitalist societies were indeed breaking down. Long had they preached that capitalism bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Now they could prove it" (184). So, Socialist parties began to grow all over Europe and the United States with the slogan, the inevitable socialist world revolution. The war was advantageous to the Marxist for another reason: the fall of Russia to the Communists and the establishment of the first Communist dictatorship under Lenin. With a disillusioned people under the czar, they were more than willing to follow any leader who promised them great change for the future and they simply could not resist a man with a plan. And so, the Communist party took hold and "150 million people slipped into the Communist dark age, most of them never to be heard from again" and "the fiery, revolutionary Lenin sensed the opportunity for Communism to move from mere ideology to control of the levers of power" (184). Just as the Communists were gaining ground, so too were the religious liberals that were set on controlling the religious establishment in America and Europe, "the liberal views of Wellhausen, with their doctrine of evolution in religion, were pressed more strongly than ever" (184). As Marxism and Darwinism were spreading their tentacles far and wide like a dark pestilence, another promise of utopia was gaining ground: the promise of economic prosperity for all. And so, economics became the issue.

            After the war, there was a depression out of which came "an expansion in the economy that approached the spectacular" (Breese 185). Everyone wanted the new products that were arriving on the market and this led to a never-ending upward cycle. This aggregate demand fueled new employment, which in turn produced the money to buy all these new products and then some, which then produced the capital (profit) to invest more, "mass production began to turn out radios, electric refrigerators, modern automobiles, shinier bathroom fixtures, and a thousand other things that could hardly be made fast enough to satisfy the appetite of a voracious populace" (185). Time-Life books report,

"Corporate profits were up. Thanks to new techniques of mass production, many manufacturers netted huge sums that they liberally plowed back into plant expansion. In 1923, U.S. Steel was operating so efficiently that it was able to reduce its work-day from twelve to eight hours, to employ seventeen thousand additional workers, to raise wages, and yet, amazingly, to show an increase in profits. Income was up in most lines of endeavor. Even the industrial workers, whose strikes for higher pay had availed them little in the previous decade, benefitted from company largesse and enjoyed a higher standard of living. To round out the happy picture, prices were stable, savings and life insurance doubled; and business was given an added impetus by the growth of chain stores and installment buying. With all these factors reinforcing the upward spiral, prosperity seemed to have no ceiling" (This Fabulous Century, p. 96). This upward, never-ending cycle of prosperity created profits so large that people started paying attention to the rising values in the stock market. By 1928, the prices of stocks soared to exponential levels. Everyone dreamed of striking it rich. One and a half million Americans brought all their hopes, fueled by emotional euphoria, with them (similar to the subprime bubble in 2006 in which Alan Greenspan coined the phrase "irrational exuberance"). They were "confident that the amazing rise of stock prices would be the escalator that would take them to a level of possessions beyond their wildest dreams" (186). Anyone who dared to lift a word of warning was thought to be "positively unpatriotic" or a Cassandra. And no one wanted to listen to any warnings because they were filling their lives with the latest product even though they did not have the money to buy it. So, they bought the products with credit instead.

           Installment buying or buying with credit seemed like a "miracle." How easy it was to get anything in an instant and pay for it later-ignoring the fact that installment buying "added between 10 and 40 percent to the cost of an article" (186). Warnings sounded by an unpatriotic banker that people were mortgaging their futures for instant gratification and present-day pleasures (187). And like most warnings, the banker's voice was ignored and so the upward elevator kept on rising. Such is the case with most bubbles in which warnings go unheeded and history is littered with them. Time-Life Books reported this time as "credit buying a healthy handmaiden of prosperity" (This Fabulous Century 96). Breese points out the optimist with succinctly quoting writing in Collier's Weekly from Time-Life Books, 'Smith has large debts,' was not really damning, but complementary, for it meant that 'Smith has a fine line of credit' (187). And so the masses continued to buy up the products and the products couldn't be made fast enough. This "miracle" of credit allowed everyone to have the latest products, even those who clearly couldn't afford them. Much of this was achieved by companies due largely in part to advertising.

           Around this time was the advent of the radio or electronic media. It was all the hype. As radio grew from its beginning in Pittsburgh, station KDKA, it's sales rose from 2 million in 1920 to 600 million in 1929. As with true Americanism, advertising came with broadcasting and so ad promos saw large expansions; the lure was effectively enticing-people bought up the products advertised with their heart content. This time was described as "the golden dawn of advertising" (187). And so, the upward spiral indeed saw no ceiling. Prosperity was expected for every person, the businessman and his wife!

But then IT happened!

The Great Depression.

            The crash of 1929-Black Tuesday, October 29th left stock prices plummeting and losing 40% their value or $30 million. According to the CPI (which is not accurate at all), adjusted for inflation $30 million is equal to $441 Billion in today's dollars. The one reason for the collapse was because stocks were priced exceedingly above their real value (you think!). There simply was no economic justification for their extortionist prices. But not only that, stocks could be bought for as little as a 10% margin, with the balance financed and paid off by loans from stockbrokers. This was eerily similar to the recent economic collapse of 2008 in which subprime loans were marketed with the illusion that anyone could own a home, even those who made $8 an hour! As these subprime loans were bundled together and sold as mortgage-backed securities to investors all around the world, they were given AAA ratings from Moody's and Finch and those day traders made off with billions, all the while selling fraudulent securities to an unsuspecting, gullible people. Even governments bought up these securities like candy! When the market collapsed, the consequence was like a tsunami of overextended investors who simply did not have the money to pay the additional margin. Our current derivatives market now issues credit default swaps which results in an even larger tsunami of losses. A credit default swap is basically insurance against a risk gone bad, so it essentially takes away the integrity of investing. All of these bad investments drove the market deeper into descent with "brokers themselves being carried away by the cataract of financial ruin rolling upon America and the world" (188). The same scenario was repeated in 2008 and the market still didn't learn.

          The crash of 1929 of the American stock market is still considered the most memorable day in the economic history of civilization. From there on out, new questions arose such as, how did we get here? How should we restructure all of it? Do economics and politics tie together? How do we understand our relationship with money? How do we get back onto the road to recovery? Black Tuesday stimulated the "study of that nearly occultic science called economics" (188). And everyone from the academicians to the shoe shiners asked those questions. From there on out, everything was watched more carefully. Never again (really?) was anything that had to deal with economics considered automatic, ever-growing, and never failing (188). Despite the pursuit of questions that became the full-time occupation of the more pensive people, America slipped into the gloomy, despondent decade of the Great Depression, "life was over; the bright dream of the 1920s had turned into a cruel farce" (189). The thoughtful person considered at that time that a politician promising hope and prosperity seemed like the words of a charlatan! Consider these concise words that Breese articulates with lucidity, "As the nation moved through the Great Depression, it thought deeply about what had happened. Only then did it take the time to remember that the previous message of unlimited prosperity was really a charade. Banks were actually failing before the crash at a rate of two per day. The nation angrily remembered that it was constantly the object of reassuring speeches by politicians, businessmen, economists, and other academicians, who claimed the nation was marching along a permanently high plateau with nothing to worry about. Never again was the world quite as confident in the promises of people who were supposed to know what they were talking about. One of the worst aspects of the Great Depression was that answers were not forthcoming, and it appeared that there would never be relief form the hopelessness the nation faced. The nation sang "Happy Day Are Here Again" but in 1930 the national income fell from $87 billion to $42 billion in 1932" (189). As a nation, the American people grew weary of empty promises and no change in their circumstances. So, they took their vengeance out on the political party in power at that time. As a result, Hoover, the Republican incumbent was axed out and Roosevelt won by a landslide with his promise of a "new deal."

    But problems still persisted into 1933. Unemployment especially dispirited the people and continued to spread hopelessness. Breese quotes Robert Heilbroner, "It was the unemployment that was hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their indisputable existence argued more forcibly than any text that something was wrong with the system, the economists wrung their hands and racked their brains and called upon the spirit of Adam Smith, but could offer neither diagnosis nor remedy. Unemployment-this kind of unemployment-was simply not listed among the possible ills of the system: it was absurd, impossible, unreasonable, and paradoxical. But it was there" (The Worldly Philosophers p. 253). And there was a paradox indeed with unemployment. The great need for further production while at the same time millions seeking employment in vain. No one seemed to have a solution or a formula for solving the problems.

       Then came a man with a solution. A man with a formula. The man, John Maynard Keynes, proposed a solution that we now call Keynesian Economics and his theories "changed the face of the world and affects every living person" (190). John Maynard Keynes still rules from the grave!

   Keynes was born in 1883, the year of Karl Marx's death. He was a well-bred Englishman (pedigree). In his early years, Keynes showed himself to be intellectually brilliant by effectively and convincingly communicating his ideas to his classmates. By only 14, he won a scholarship to Eton, an upscale, sophisticated boys' school in Britain. After that, he attended King's College at Cambridge with much success showing himself to be an excellent debater and thoroughly capable of interacting with his professors and his peers. In fact, his professors were so impressed that they asked him to consider being a full-time economist. Even though a door opened for him to pursue an academic career, he needed to make money and instead wanted to manage a railway or organize a trust (191). In the interim, he worked for the British government, passing his tests with high scores, although scoring the lowest in the economics part. By 1907, Keynes was sent by the British government to work in the India Office for the treasury. Since he found the work boring and tedious, he spent his time doing economic research and in 1913, he wrote a mathematical treatise titled, Indian Currency and Finance. He later resigned from that position and returned to England but since his treatise was considered nothing short of a masterpiece, at only 29, he was invited to join the newly formed Royal Commission on the problems of currency in India. He also became Editor of the Economic Journal (Britain's most influential economic publication at that time-similar to today's The Economist) for the next 33 years. 

      As WW I came to a close, Keynes was called by his government to the Treasury. It was this position that enabled him to get a firm grasp on overseas finances and even develop "theories as to what might be done with those unstable things called national currencies" (191). Soon enough, he became a very influential figure in the Treasury and "gained the reputation of being an important person in the field of economics, especially economics as it relates to government" (192). Following the war, he went to Paris as Deputy for the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council as a representative for the Treasury at the Peace Conference. As he observed and strongly opposed the decisions made in the reparations that Germany was required to pay in the Carthaginian peace, he discerned that it was way beyond Germany's ability to repay. This eventually led to the beginning of the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland [more on that down below]. As Keynes believed nothing good could come from the decisions made at the peace conference, he resigned and set to writing his repudiation of the peace conference in The Economic Consequences of the Peace. This polemic, written in heated passion, established him as a formidable economic mind and it served as a warning to the world of the tragic consequences sure to come from the Treaty of Versailles (192).

       By 1924, The nations initiated the promises of undoing the decisions of 1919 and out of this, Keynes became famous. He also became independently wealthy in his own ability, a rare credential for an economist, by speculating in International currency markets on Wall Street. He became a multi-millionaire. It was at this point that he really had a reputation, not only in socialist Europe but now in America and his influence was instrumental during the Roosevelt administration and his "New Deal," and by rescuing the American economy from the Great Depression.

     "An understanding of economic theory Keynes developed will give us a clue to Keynes's pervasive influence to this day" (Breese 193). So what is Keynesian economics? Well first, it is important to note that before Keynes impacted fiscal policy in America, the basic concept or understanding by most Americans, economists, politicians, etc., was that cyclical markets had wide variations. In other words, the business cycle would fluctuate between inflation and depression and this was inevitable, but it was believed that automatic safety switches were built in that could pull the economy up from depression and ease it down-ward from an inflationary peak, "the major argument was that during periods of depression, savings would rise and therefore interest rates would fall, making money available for industrial expansion. Industry would then expand, increasing employment and causing the economy to rise, thereby producing more investment. Interest rates would then rise, reducing savings and causing a downtown in the economy. So the cycle would continue with dependable safety switches built-in at the top and bottom of the business cycle" (Breese 193-194). So, to reiterate, concerning the economic cycle, standard variations were always the conventional belief or conviction at that time (early, 1900s).

             Keynes believed however that this view was flawed. He stated that the conventional belief didn't get us out of the Great Depression and in no way was a guarantee (well, duh! Is anything guaranteed today except death and taxes?). According to Keynes, just because the businessman had good intentions for production and plant building using low-interest rates, didn't mean the economy would suddenly awaken from the dead. Keynes also asserted that the missing piece of the "old" theory was that there would be insufficient money in savings at the bottom of the business cycle to reduce interest rates that stimulate the economy again and cause the cycle to move upward. So, for Keynes the stimulate necessary to cause the economy to move upward towards prosperity from a depression "did not lie in static values of savings and investment.....[but] rather, that it was enter-prise that caused an upward economic movement" (194). Keynes also argued that enterprise and business investment were not always a constant, dependable thing because if a business overextended their product it would produce a supply beyond the demand and in would prove quite costly reducing profits for the business. The simple law of supply and demand is applied. So again, the businessman could not be expected to invest constantly.

            Keynes articulated the general tenets of his economic theories in his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Breese states that the treatise is complicated and makes for demanding reading so he quotes Robert Heilbroner's uncomplicated view,
First, an economy in depression could stay there. There was nothing inherent in the economic mechanism situation to pull it out. One could have "equilibrium" with unemployment, even massive unemployment. Second, prosperity depended on investment. If business spending for capital equipment fell, a spiral of contraction would begin. Only if business investment rose would a spiral of expansion follow. And third, investment was an undependable drive wheel for the economy. Uncertainty, not assurance, lay at the very core of capitalism. Through no fault of the businessman, it was constantly threatened with satiety, satiety spelled economic shrinkage" (The Worldly Philosophers, 253). Since Keynes believed that the economy "lived in the shadow of collapse" (Breese 195), there had to be a tonic or catalyst to jump-start things, similar to enzymes for cells. Roosevelt's "New Deal" was just the catalyst or tonic needed. In order to boost the morale of the people, government investment was necessary. The specific, planned, and coordinated effort (the "golden panacea") of the government would produce employment even if the government assumed mounting debt to do so. And the employment it would produce would be low-paying service jobs with no benefits leaving wages stagnant because of inflation (hidden-tax) due to printing money like it is toilet paper. If there was any lack of investment from business, according to Keynes, the government must pick up the slack and invest in the economy.

               Keynes recommended these theories in his book, not only for the United States but many other nations as well. Breese mentions that it is probable that Keynes was not arguing for a permanent solution but rather a temporary solution to sluggish growth, high unemployment, and general recession signs. I, however, do not agree with this sentiment (the very rare time I have disagreed with Breese). I don't agree because when he was asked, "yes, this appears to work in the short term, but what about the long-term consequences?" Keynes's reply was "in the long term, we are all dead." So obviously, Keynes didn't care much about the children of his day and their future. Clearly, he did not have a fiduciary mindset. But not only that, what about the business community? They seem to have a general mistrust in the government and its role through stifling regulation. There is more bureaucratic red tap through smothering bureaucrats and although government entities, such as the SEC or Securities Exchange Commission, are supposed to enforce ethics on Wall Street, most know they are useless. Instead, there are government guarantees of financial institutions like the banks through tax-payer money. Also, how was this philosophy related to the labor unions that kept wages viable? The result of all this has been the ruin of free-market capitalism.

                Keynes's economic theory can be summed up in one sentence: Government is God. This is why we have seen this nation go from free-market Capitalism to Socialism and in Socialism, Government is God! Government is the final resource, it has the solution for every problem, and it can create something out of nothing (which obviously is not true because that violates the law of cause and effect). Keynesian economics has a people addicted to the artificial money supply and explains why we have a national debt climbing to $21 trillion and there seems to be no ceiling. As Breese lucidly points out, "from what source can we continue to borrow ad infinitum the money that is needed in larger and larger amounts for the government to be the nurturer and manager of everything?" (197). Because of this, the government started issuing bonds during WW II to help finance the elevator of deficit spending and has even resorted to buying those very bonds with more money printed out of thin air. This happened during the economic crisis of 2008 when the government instituted a massive bond-buying program to help finance the debt because there were not enough people willing to buy the bonds. They simply did not want to invest in the debt.

                 As money has continued to be printed backed by nothing, no gold or silver, the integrity of the whole system has declined significantly and frankly, is in quick descent. Once upon a time, large government deficits were an embarrassment to the politicians but not so today. Since Nixon made a surprising public confession, "I am a Keynesian," no one has cared much about balancing the budget, reducing the national debt, and reducing expenditures. Even though Congress passed the Gramm-Rudman Act in 1985, which required the deficit to be reduced each year until expenditures matched government income so government obligation would go down, it turned out to be "chimerical promise" (Breese 198). So how long can the government continue with its obligations? There is no safety factor built into Keynesian economic theory. The claim from some economists has been that the obligations will be met with the twin programs of rising population and controlled inflation. But will we have a rise in population when there are more abortions that kill the babies that will eventually become the adults who will work to pay the taxes for those social programs that the government promises to elderly people? And considering too, that fewer and fewer young adults are not getting married and not having children because the family unit has been ripped apart. Concerning inflation, well, that's a tricky business. Indeed, by its very nature, it stubbornly refuses to be controlled as it is affected by productivity, interest rates, careful management, lack of greed, competence, and so many other variables. Very few political systems have ever been able to control inflation, including dictatorships (199). But these obligations are only the tip of the iceberg when considering how global everything is today.

            In the old days of isolationism, nations could argue that they were masters of their own destiny. Not so today. What happens in Asia, impacts the world, and what happens on Wall Street, impacts the global-finance markets. Everything is interconnected, "the days of stable economies in Western nations were the days in which the government served as an umpire, not as a member, of one or another of the teams. The government called the balls and strikes, but competent entrepreneurs and capable workers produced the results. Now, under its mandate to be god, the government tilts the playing field, juggles the score, and fixes the game before the last batter has appeared. By doing so, it produces a game that cannot be fairly won even by the most worthy" (Breese 200). So, as the expression goes, it is rigged before you even get started!

              One could argue that government should do this, but this could be counter-argued with the fact that no one can prove that those controlling the government are the most moral, the most competent, and the most brilliant. In fact, it's the opposite! Once again, I will quote Breese, [men in government] "escalated to positions of underserved power, to positions above the level of their competence.........how else can we explain staggering debt, huge deficits, lost wars, and costly scandals? Any government that expands its control, while at the same time reducing its competence to exercise that control, will soon begin to sense the hitherto solid ground quivering beneath its feet" (200). Clearly, without a moral, ethical element woven into political and economic policy, the system will fall and collapse like a building set to dynamite.

             And so for now, they (the International Banking Cartel) will continue to raise the debt ceiling by printing more and more money out of thin air. And this is being done in the aggregate.....ubiquitous sovereign debt. The Federal Reserve, the Central Bank, the IMF, and the Bank for International Settlements have all but indebted the nations of the world. This construct of a banking cartel, this paradigm, is necessary in order to facilitate the endless borrowing to the nations of the world, "in order to make this borrowing possible it has become imperative for the industrial nations of the world to set up an international economic construct" (201). The world bank, multinational commissions, and financial cartels are now necessary for international finance. Consider this quote from Carroll Quigley, a former professor from Georgetown University and author of Tragedy and Hope, "The power of financial capitalism had another far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The Apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks, which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank, in the hands of men like Montagu Norman the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, and Hjalmar Schacht [who worked with Hitler] of the Reichsbank, sought to dominate its government by its ability to control treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence co-operative politicians by subsequent rewards in the business world." And private corporations they are. Many people have been deceived into believing that the Federal Reserve and these other central banks, world banks, etc., are owned by governments. And this myth has been perpetuated all over. But if they were, why do these banks have stockholders? Why do they pay their own postage like corporations do? And why aren't their employees in the civil service? And why are their physical properties held in private deeds that are subject to taxation which government property is not? Because they are "an engine that has created private wealth that is unimaginable, even to the most financially sophisticated. It has enabled an imperial elite to manipulate our economy for its own agenda and has enlisted the government itself as its enforcer. It controls the times, it dictates business, and it affects our homes and practically everything in which you and I are interested" (Missler. Exposing the Federal Reserve, 205). This rapaciousness has no end, and their desire for power to control and dominate has no end.

         The Bank for International Settlements was formed in 1930 with the funding by the Central Banks of six nations: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. In addition, three private international banks from the United States also assisted in financing the establishment of the BIS. It is the Central Bank of Central Bankers, head-quartered for all the Industrialized nations of the world. The difference between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is that the IMF loans money directly to nations whereas the BIS loans money directly to Central Banks. Nations pay a quota to the IMF with tax-payer money. And those of us who are not fools, know that the International Banking Cartel encourages debt so they can collect more interest paid by more taxes on us, the "useless eaters." Consider this quote from Jean Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank on April 26, 2010, "More generally, the crisis has weakened the arguments of those who think that deregulation is always conducive to better functioning markets. We have learned once again that markets cannot function properly without an effective regulatory and supervisory infrastructure. Governments, central banks, international institutions, and globally agreed prudential standards and codes are the means why which we collectively speak to avail ourselves of this global public good of global economic stability." Only the useful idiots that Lenin spoke of would agree with this! Yes, some regulation is necessary considering man has an inherent proclivity towards self. I'm certainly not against monitoring financial markets. Isn't that what the SEC is supposed to do? Perhaps, if they did their job, the economic crisis of 2008 never would have happened. But more than anything, and more than likely this was a crisis that was engineered so the powers that be could get more power as President Obama said in one of his press conferences (during the economic crisis) that the Federal Reserve needs more power. This had already been achieved in 1980 when the Monetary Control Act was passed that "expanded the power and reach of the Federal Reserve system by giving them control over all depository institutions, whether or not the banks are members of the so-called Federal Reserve system. This act, among other things, gave the Federal Reserve the power to use the debt of foreign nations as collateral for the printing of Federal Reserve notes" (Missler 210). The Federal Reserve simply has no collateral left to print endlessly because they are writing checks against the illusion of compound interest (another tenet of Keynesian theory, fractional reserve banking). They are essentially writing bad checks! How is this legal? If the average Joe printing money because he was having liquidity issues, he would be arrested and charged with a felony. So, when you consider that man generally is hard of hearing, financial collapses will continue to repeat themselves over and over and history will not serve as a lesson to learn from.

          So how long will this stream of money continue to flow? And when will they decide to set up a new financial and political structure? Keynes succeeded in positioning the nations of the world in such a way that they must come together under a new form of international control. The reality is that now, the world is headed toward an international management committee or a world government. The game of chess ends in checkmate and that checkmate will be America. Because America is the net debtor nation of the world when the time bomb explodes, will Keynes be here with a new theory to rescue us? And yet, the Keynesian economic theory is peddled in colleges and financial institutions everywhere. Keynes has far too many avid followers because his economic theory appeases the minds of those that want quick solutions to complicated problems and who use it as an excuse to live a life of economic dissipation.  

Citations:
Quotes and paraphrases from:
Dave Breese. Seven Men Who Rule The World From The Grave. Moody's Publishers. Chicago, Ill. 1990.

Various Arthurs. Steeling The Mind Of America. Vol. II. New Leaf Press. Green Forest, AR. 1996. Excerpts from "Exposing the Federal Reserve" by Chuck Missler.

This Fabulous Century: 1900-1910. Time-Life Books. New York, NY. 1969.

Robert Heilbroner. The Worldly Philosophers. Simon & Schuster. New York, NY. 1986.

The Ruling Principle for All Mankind: Karl Marx

"Communism is dead," cried the Germans as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and so did many other Europeans. Their excitement grew as the Cold War began to thaw in Europe. Americans were excited too because it was our 40th president, Ronald Reagan that led the march to freedom or so it seemed. Many would like to think so but I say think again! As I have been perusing Dave Breese's book Seven Men Who Rule the World From the Grave, another man, whose corpse lay cold and dormant in the ground, has been resurrecting in the minds of many, especially in American Liberal academia. The man, Karl Marx, whose ideas spread like wildfire, never went extinguished. Instead, his philosophy in the form of cultural Marxism continues to percolate, even with the hope that his ideas will emerge victoriously in the future as the ruling principle for all humanity, "I am confident that when the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Karl Marx will be observed, the entire world will be socialist" (Foner 18). Most European countries are now socialist and America, which was founded on individual freedoms, has seen those freedoms erode under the auspices of homeland security and smothering bureaucratic regulation. We have seen this country over the last several decades go from Capitalism to Democratic Socialism from small government to big government. Communism is not dead! Karl Marx and his philosophy have usurped America and the world and his ideas do not offer a bright and promising future filled with utopia.

When Karl Marx died on March 17, 1883, the eulogies at his funeral were nothing short of idolatry and the promises made of the future were nothing short of utopia. The apotheosis of Karl Marx was disturbing. His friend, Friedrich Engels, gave a presentation of his life and work at Marx's funeral:

               "On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back, we found him in an armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever. An immeasurable loss has been sustained, both by the militant proletariat of Europe and America, and by historical science, in the death of this man. The gap that has been left by the death of this mighty spirit will soon enough make itself felt. Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art, etc.; and that therefore the production of the immediate material means of life and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people or during a given epoch, form the foundation upon which the forms of government, the legal conceptions, the art, and even the religious ideas of the people concerned have been evolved, and in the light of which these things must therefore be explained, instead of vice versa as had hitherto been the case. 
                 But that is not all. Marx also discovered the special law of motion governing the present-day capitalist method of production and the bourgeois society that this method of production has created. The discovery of surplus value suddenly threw light on the problem in trying to solve which all previous investigations, both bourgeois economists and socialist critics, had been groping in the dark. Two such discoveries would be enough for one life-time. Happy the man to whom it is granted to make even one such discovery. But in every single field which Marx investigated-and he investigated very many fields, none of them superficially- in every field, even in that of mathematics, he made independent discoveries. This was the man of science. But this was not even half the man. Science was for Marx a historical, dynamic, revolutionary force. However great the joy with which he welcomed a new discovery in some theoretical science whose practical application perhaps it was as yet quite impossible to envisage, he experienced a quite other kind of joy when the discovery involved immediate revolutionary changes in industry and in the general course of history. For example, he followed closely the discoveries made in the field of electricity and recently those of Marcel Deprez. 
                 For Marx was before all else a revolutionary. His real mission in life was to contribute in one way or another to the overthrow of Capitalist society and of the forms of government which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the present-day proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, of the conditions under which it could win its freedom. Fighting was his element. He fought with a passion, a tenacity, and success such as few could rival. His work on the first Rheinische Zeitung (1842), the Paris Vorwarts (1844), the Brussels Deutsche Zeitung (1847), the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-9), the New York Tribune (1852-61), and in addition to these, a host of militant pamphlets, work in revolutionary clubs in Paris, Brussels, and London, and finally, crowning all, the formation of the International Working Men's Association-this was indeed an achievement of which Marx might well have been proud, even if he had done nothing else. 
                 And consequently, Marx was the best-hated and most-calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. The bourgeoisie, whether conservative or extreme Democrat, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as if it were cobweb, ignoring them, answering only when necessity compelled him.....His name and his work will endure through the ages" (Foner 38).

As numerous as these words are, they are all to important to illustrate why Marxism still rules in the minds of many, "therefore, we can conclude that this speech represents the way Marx and his work was understood by his followers and the degree of influence he and they hoped would result in the world outside of their immediate circle" (Breese 57). Engels knew Marx the most as he was the closest associate to him throughout his life. According to Philip Foner, who included this eulogy of Engels in his book, Karl Marx Remembered, "Marxism is today the most influential body of thought  in the world. Hundreds of millions live in societies whose fundamental principles-socialism-were laid down over a century ago by Karl Marx and his collaborator and friend, Friedrich Engels. Both were Germans, but they propounded principles that were and remain universal" (Foner 10). Marxism today is like an undercurrent that stimulates the political structure of most nations around the world. The undercurrent is not seen but is all too powerful to control the networks and grid systems of the world. Certainly, Marx's philosophy is a measurable thing and that measure is in the degree of influence, "Karl Marx and the political structure that grew from his work has conquered and presently controls one-third of the population of the world. For most of the era following WW II, Communism has been the form of political ideology and consequent government in iron control over the lives and fortunes of one-and-a-half billion people" (Breese 58). So despite the Berlin Wall falling and many believing that Communism was dead, since 1918, the world has not failed to make any major international political decisions apart from considering what Russia and the Communists will think. We see the measurable outcome of Marx not only in political control but in academia as well; the ghost of Karl Marx extends into a belief structure that dominates the minds of men and the culture.

To think that Western societies have been exempt from the influence of Marxism is a grave error in thinking, "the portion of the earth we call the Third World is highly Marxist in nature. Western societies have not been exempt, either, for particularly on the academic level, multitudes have been in thrall to Marxism" (Breese 59). This is truly disturbing as we see multitudes of young people graduating from Liberal colleges being taught that Communism is the only political system that works. And young people are very impressionable, especially when social action calls for revolution. As young adults are taught to be social agents of change in the global world courtesy of John Dewey's radical ideas integrated in the educational system, Marxism becomes the conduit for that change. And so cultural Marxism becomes the norm. Just as Darwin and Freud changed the culture, so too did Marx. The only way to change the culture in a radical way is to implement the ideas through the educational system and academia and we can observe this daily. As orthodox Christianity and objective Truth were pushed out, the Age of Enlightenment spread new ideas like a dark pestilence and took hold with near universality; Theism shifted to Atheism. All the emerging philosophies since the mid-19th century, have radically changed the western culture from God-centered to man-centered and all these new philosophies such as Darwinism, Freudianism, and Marxism are Godless and soulless. No one can argue that. Before we can understand how Marxism took hold of the culture and the think tanks of academia, we must first understand the man, Karl Marx.

Karl Marx grew up in Germany, in a Jewish, upper-class home. His father easily converted to Lutherism in 1817 suggesting that religion was a not a conviction in his home, rather it was for more practical reasons. Religion was not the core in Marx's home, it was merely observed, similar to that of Darwin and Freud. Marx's early life consisted of attending religious school for a time in which some of his early writings discussed Christ, the gospel, and Christianity but nevertheless, Marx was not an actual participant in the Christian faith. He eventually went to law school at Bonn and Berlin but became more interested in abstract philosophy than in the actual practice of law. He achieved a PhD in 1842 at Jenna "where the requirements expected of doctoral candidates were less stringent than they were in Berlin" (Breese 59). Marx's interest in philosophy was inspired by the intellectual percolation happening all over Europe originating from the Enlightenment. Hegel's ideas were also being circulated but Marx only retained some of the dialectic concepts; he was against Hegels' idealistic emphasis and instead embraced the materialism of Ludwig Feuerbach as a life philosophy. In 1842, Marx began to express his literary skills and radicalism through the newspaper, Rheinische Zeitung. As the editor, he filled the paper with shocking statements calling for radical reforms in the government. This unsettled the readers and the government as well. Consequently, the government thought Marx to bizarre to continue so his paper was shut down after a year.

Marx was furious, so he moved to Paris-a city more open to radical ideas and more willing to house the "malcontents of the world" (Breese 60). Paris, after all, was still recovering from the shock of the French Revolution in the eighteen forties and the bloody event was still fresh, circulating in the minds of many and so it was incorporated into communist thought (to this day, it is seen as the proud heritage of the communist movement throughout the world). Out of the French Revolution came a new man-a professional revolutionary-the world's most dangerous man willing to jeopardize his life to produce revolutionary change. It is important to understand that behind the terrors of the French Revolution was the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the father of the Enlightenment (1712- 78), who believed that science and art had not improved humanity but rather corrupted it. Rousseau was not an orthodox Christian. He rejected the concept of original sin and in its place viewed the advancement of civilization as corrupting humanity (even though sin/corruption has been around long before even the most primitive clans). So, a society represented by Capitalism, royal-government, and a long-established church must be rejected and man must revert back to nature. Only righteous men could rule-men like himself with his point of view, despite the fact that he fathered five illegitimate children by his semiliterate mistress, Therese le Vasseur. Those children he sent off to die in a local children's "hospital." His ideas at the time were inchoate, but later matured into the bloody French Revolution. So, no righteous man was he. His ideas only "gave [the] evidence that man has a lower [deprave, degenerate] nature, which if given free reign, could turn him into a monster" (Breese 61). Gorbachev, when addressing the United States in 1989 about the heritage of communism, said that the two events that accomplished the socialist world revolution were the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. How can communism be considered freedom and how can communism be considered the only political structure that works when "these were two of the cruelest political earthquakes in the history of the world" (Breese 62). Why would any sane person consider these two events as sacred to their heritage? Rousseau's ideas were just ideas, lacking in complete common sense, yet the masses bought into them as "enlightened" just as they did with the ideas of Karl Marx.

While Marx was developing his socialist world revolution in Paris in the form of laws which he called "scientific socialism" (which is laughable), he joined the Communist League where he became the leader (just like Hitler led the National Socialist Party). The League insisted that Marx bring his "gift" to the world on print in a manifesto. So he, along with his friend and colleague Engels, published the famous Communist Manifesto. The manifesto, complete with 75 pages of invective against the establishment and the proclamation that revolutionary socialism would come eventually, even inexorably, filled the printing presses (Breese 63). Marx was determined that this revolution would come because of the abuses of the Bourgeoise or the Capitalists: the owners of the means of production who exploit the wage-laborers who have no means of production on their own, so they are reduced to sell their manual labor in order to live. It is interesting to note that Marx says in his manifesto that "the bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation" (Communist Manifesto 19) when it could easily be argued that it's been the godless, soulless philosophies through cultural Darwinism, Freudianism, and Marxism that have destroyed the family unit making it just a money relation. At the end of the manifesto, Marx promises utopia that results from a classless society or no social-stratification, and the proletariat losing its' chains. These ideas of his in vast circulation all over Europe certainly stirred up the masses.

Since Marx saw himself as an instigator of pro-socialist ideas, his ideas were planted as seeds in the minds of many, and it certainly helped that the soil of these minds, already ripe from the French Revolution, were open to his ideas. Thus, it created a reform mood that diffused all over Europe; fertile ground for his manifesto to take root. So, Marx and his friend Engels capitalized (note the italics of capitalized....a man who made his living from exploitation and manipulation could easily himself be classified with the Bourgeoise) on this and devoted their time working endlessly to promote these communist ideas via speech-making, publishing, and writing for a coming socialist world revolution. Out of this came another major piece, Das Kapital, with more economic theory that "was in a quantitative sense so far ahead of any other book of its time that it simply blanked out the competition" (Breese 65). Before the people could assimilate to the ideas in Das Kapital, along came the sheer wagonload of volumes 2 and 3 smothering the populace. Over and over in the literary works of Karl Marx are prevailing themes, most notably atheism, dialectical materialism, and economic determinism with the foundation being materialism, or the notion that everything is constructed from atoms and molecules and anything that is not is denied existence. So, the intangibles or the immeasurable realities like God, religion, love, honor, courage, and fidelity do not exist (since they exist in the minds of the Bourgeoise, the communists must redefine them). This Marxist thought of materialism coincides with atheism in that it must also deny the uniqueness of man himself. Just as in Darwinism, where man is not considered a spiritual being because he is driven only by impersonal forces and Freudianism where every thought and emotion is merely a chemical and electrical synaptic exchange within the cranial vault, so to is it with Marxism where "the human is merely matter in motion determined by the chemistry of his brain. The Marxist have, therefore, placed great stock in what we now call the conditioned reflex, the knee jerk response of a mechanism to a stimulus. Pavlov's dogs were for the Communists the great lesson on the nature of human beings" (Breese 68). These philosophies, that have been assimilated in core-curriculum in schools and colleges everywhere and are percolating all over the intellectual cafes of the world, reject the soul of man. This is a sure harbinger to come; men without a moral compass can only lead to a dystopian future, certainly not the promised utopia of Marxism, "what remains [of Darwinism, Freudianism, and Marxism] is the philosophic cadaver of a body without a soul" (Breese 69). Marx, like most other radical philosophers who contradicted their own beliefs, incited and provoked the masses for no real reason other than to make a name for himself by leaving his destructive mark on the world. It can be safely assumed that Marx was not looking out for the best interest of others as the core of Marxist thought is Godless. Atheism is the philosophy of a fool, "it is the emanation of an unsound mind" (Breese 68) and it is a form of insanity. But who is to say that the ideas of Marx are correct? Does history really move like a wave in dialectical materialism, the other feature of Marxism?

Marx arrived at his theory of Dialectical materialism from a confluence of ideas-some from George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. To Marx, it is the notion that all of reality, and especially all historical processes, move in a dialectical fashion. In other words, history is like a wave because the only stable society according to Marx is the Communist society. In other societies that are inherently unstable, nature will eventually rise up against the status quo. Marx then borrowed Hegel's idea that the status quo is the thesis and the opposing wave motion is the antithesis. The antithesis will eventually overwhelm the thesis and the outcome, called the synthesis, is a resolution of these two opposing forces. But wait! In the astounding mind of Marx, history is not done yet because the synthesis will become the new wave or thesis, and another new wave, the antithesis, will become the synthesis. And so this process repeats itself over and over. In the final conclusion of Marx's thought is the theory that the last wave of history will become the socialist world revolution overwhelming the thesis or Capitalism and it will bring a beautiful, lasting resolution to history. Sounds really fancy, insightful, and profound, doesn't it? Or perhaps it's just a play on words. Dialectical materialism explains why many a communist thought is "the wave of the future" (Breese 69). But Marx was not satisfied with the slow pace of history. He felt that social evolution was not helping history move quicker so it needed help. And that help would come in the form of a revolution, hence concluding his manifesto with the words, "workers of the world, unite; we have nothing to lose but our chains. We have a world to win!" Marx was an admirer of Darwin so in keeping with Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest, workers must move history quicker along. But in order for history to move quicker and in the right direction, according to Marx, not only do the workers need to unite in the form of a revolution but everyone who possesses goods must hand them over to the state, for the good of the whole group and the good of society. Workers must work collectively, not individually. For Marx, the individual was anathema and counted for nothing and was only significant as he functioned for the good of society. This concept or feature of Marxist philosophy is called economic determinism.               

Economic determinism to Marx was a form of natural selection but not in biological terms as described by Darwin. Rather, it was in economic terms. Since there is no God in Marxist thought and no unseen hand guiding the culture in the right direction, economic determinism is the only way to move society in the right direction. By removing all possessions from the hands of the individual and placing them into the hands of the state, "the class struggle would disappear and everyone would work according to his ability and give to each according to his need" (famous dictum, Breese 70). But still, even this concept of economic determinism was not enough power to move history to it's promised utopia. A firmer hand was needed to push history to it's intended end and that was what Marx called the Communist Party, a god of his own making (70). As Breese accurately points out with such insightful and profound words, "so it was that Marx, who advocated with his dying breath a classless society, [had in fact], created a new, firmer, crueler class than any bourgeois society in the whole world" (71). Those pro-socialist democrats crying out in anger over the abuses and oppression of the bourgeois (Capitalists) all the while advocating for socialism are either unwittingly, or wittingly, creating a more destructive class, crueler than any Capitalist nation known to man, the communist party. With the denial of the existence of the Living God, "Marxism in cynical contradiction turned to atheism to create a god for man to serve joyfully [and that is] the Party" (71). As noted earlier, the contradictions of Marx, similar to those of most radical philosophers, should have been cut off in the period in which it was presented. Thank God we do have a thoughtful public that can give a quick analysis, declaring such philosophies nonsense. As a result, most philosophies slip away into oblivion, joining the grave of a thousand other clever ideas created in midair by those who call themselves philosophers, sociologists, historians, and ideologists, never to be heard from again. Not so with Marxism. It had a large enough constituency and a sufficient enough voice to be heard so it gathered momentum, especially through the leadership of Vladimir Ulrich Ulanov, whose name was changed to Nikolai Lenin.

                                  
   
Under Lenin, the organizational structure was formed; "Lenin became the organizer Marx needed to produce the revolutionary cadres for the revolutionary conquest of bourgeois nations" (72). And the fertile ground for a Marxist revolution to take place was in the crumbling monster of Russia. The Germans saw a strategy too: if a Bolshevik revolution could be sparked in Russia, their enemy would be taken out of the war and would enhance their chances of victory over France and the West. So the Germans became co-conspirators in the Russian Revolution. Since Lenin was living in Zurich, Switzerland at the time, German spies were sent to Lenin to offer him an opportunity to return to Russia. Lenin, who sensed his "destiny" calling, obliged immediately. So, he and his party went back to Russia via a secret train and he immediately took to his soap-box with fiery speeches invoking radical change to overthrow the czar. By the narrowest vote, Lenin seized control of the government. Capitalizing on a weakened Russia by war and a disgusted people sick of the leadership of the czars, the ground was fertile for a revolution to take place: Russia became the first nation to be captured by the wave of the future. Just before his death in 1924, Lenin proclaimed the Communist conquest was just beginning, "Communism would move out across Europe, Asia, and the United States and would inevitably become the master of the world. Then government would wither away, police forces would be no longer needed, the family itself would become irrelevant, and the blessed society, the Communist utopia, would come to pass. Perfect happiness would come upon all men as the social contradictions of the world were resolved. So, bright with the promise of a changed world, there began under Lenin and then under Stalin one of the blackest eras of history" (73). The Communist parties of the world moved out and captured by subversion and aggression Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Ethiopia, Cuba, and other nations. They came promising peace and Communist utopia and instead, murder millions who resisted. Anyone lifting a voice in disagreement was killed. The Communist plot happened so swiftly that one-third of the world's population was taken under Communist/dictatorship control before anyone was fully aware of what was happening. So you see, the ideas and philosophy of Marx did not vanish and go down into the grave with his corpse. Instead, his ideas carried on into subsequent generations leaving a path of destruction, all needless because the masses failed to carefully consider the full intent of Marxism.

Most philosophies have no need for proof, for "they are stated as articles of faith" but in order for "any system of philosophy that purports to change the world must over the passage of time prove it's point. The test of time is the great test any philosophic view must eventually face" (71). We see that Marxism has taken hold, notwithstanding the many broken promises of Communist utopia. As Breese asks, and any sound thinking individual for that matter has a right to ask, "had and have these captured nations become worker's paradises? And does Marxism really bring heaven on earth?" The answers to these questions are not only very clear, but tragic as well. Consider what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said,
            "I am very much aware that eastern Slavic orthodoxy, which, during the sixty-five years of Communist rule, has been subjected to persecution even fiercer and more extensive than that of early Christian times......In this persecution-filled age, it is appropriate that my own very first memory should be of Chekists pointed caps entering St. Panteleimon's Church in Kislovodsk, interrupting the service, and crashing their way into the sanctuary in order to loot. And later, when I stated going to school in Rostov-on-dov-passing on my way a kilometer-long compound of the Checka-GPU and a glittering sign of the League of Militant Atheists-school children egged on by Komsomol members taunted me for accompanying my mother to the last remaining church intern and tore the cross from my neck.......Orthodox churches were stripped of their valuables......Tens of thousands of churches were torn down or desecrated leaving behind d disfigured wasteland that bore no resemblance to Russia as such....People were condemned to live in this dark and mute wilderness for decades, groping their way to God......15,000,000 peasants were brought to death for the purpose of destroying our national way of life and of extirpating religion from the countryside.......Hatred of religion is rooted in Communism. Khrushchev simultaneously rekindled the frenzied Leninist obsession with destroying religion.......The ruinous revolution has swallowed up some sixty million of our people" (National Review 1983).

This does not describe the promised Communist utopia of heaven on earth. No, this describes hell on earth! Solzhenitsyn's article in the National Review titled, "Men Have Forgotten God," sums it up in those four words. Communism is atheism at its core. But for those still in denial, there is only one question to ask: is Marxism true? When you consider it's dominance and results in China, Eastern Europe, Russia, and other nations, the answer is clear. But in terms of it's promised worker's paradise, you need only to ask the millions of slave laborers who were worked to literal death in disease-infested camps in the most sadist, cruelest conditions known to man. It is reasonable to say that the philosophy of Marxism has been responsible for the violent deaths of over one hundred million people. It has also been responsible for the closing and burning of thousands of churches and it has produced the most "abject" slavery known to man. There are countless books narrating these tragic consequences of the pitiful philosophy of Marxism and yet the masses still to this day are swept away by the power and seduction of Marxism, "the mind gropes for words to describe the pathetic gullibility of the millions of people who become willing Communist cadres and whose lives are now the stumbling, burned-out remains of a groundless faith and a hopeless future" (Breese 75). Despite these wanton and egregious acts of Communism, the fire of Marxism still burns strong and is propagated, especially among the young and impressionable that are driven by ideology. Many are being trained in the Marxist ideology as it is carefully presented and illustrated in the most clever of ways. In a free society, it would be difficult for anyone to realize the "near total-extent to which thought control is practiced in its most sophisticated form in the educational structure, the press, and in all other avenues of information within a Communist society" (75). To this day, when facing any trouble in the Communist system, instead of acknowledging the fallacies of Marxism/Leninism, any shortages, suffering, and political instability are blamed on the improper teaching of Communist thought. Any difficulties arising from Marxist thought is attributed to a defective application, not a shortage of Truth. Therefore, Communist methodology is altered, not the ideology. These facts alone should raise concern in the hearts and minds of many who are all too familiar with Soviet Russia and it's military prowess.

As the Soviet Union retained its military expansion, the United States reduced its military might. So, its intention of world conquest may still be in the making. A dictatorship must be evaluated in terms of its retained capacity, not its stated intentions. For the Marxist, stated intentions, promises, and agreements are much different than how the West views these things. For the West, an intention, a promise, and an agreement are what they are. For the Communist however it is another device used to lure its enemy into submission and to make the enemy mistaking think that the agreement, promise, or intention is simply benign. Foolish for anyone to look at the most powerful dictatorship in the world and in naivety think that they don't ever intend to use that power. Despite this truth, Marxism, being the largest export from the Soviet Union, continues to influence the masses, particularly in the intellectuals in the West. A large number of Western academicians in England, Germany, France, the United States, Canada, and many others, are Marxist in thinking and teaching. Their rejection of Judeo-Christian morality and their acceptance of atheism reinforces their belief that democracy is for the naive and is only useful to achieve their quickest objective: infiltrate minds with Marxist ideology through evolution or slow change rather than revolution. This impact of Marxism on the student mind not only takes place in the Soviet Union but Western academia as well. As a result, we are seeing droves of student intellectuals being recruited to serve the Marxist party line. The great thrust is seen in the ideological conquest of the college and university campuses. And this voice is speaking for them in the mouths of so many teachers of philosophy, sociology, history, political science, and especially journalism (Breese 76). These are the useful idiots that Lenin spoke of and as they have achieved their quickest objective: infiltrate the minds in academia, they have yet to achieve their greater objective, and that is to make a smooth transition from Socialism to Communism, the end game.

To understand this transition from Capitalism to Socialism and then to Communism, we must first understand the difference between Capitalism, Socialism and Communism. Free Market Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production (capital) are privately owned: goods and services are traded in a market which may or may not be free, profits are reinvested in (new) technologies and industries. It is a system that provides incentives to produce and excel, however, unfairly concentrates wealth and power into the hands of an elite or plutocracy (corporate fascists) only when abused or frustrated by government intervention (regulations). Socialism is a left-residing, authoritarian political-economic system (government) whereby the state owns the fruits of production (revenues generated by the means) by confiscating them in the form of excessive taxes and inflation (a hidden tax caused by over expanding a money supply based on fiat currency). It is an ideology stressing the collective (group, system, planet) over the individual and it is a system whereby citizens and businesses are dependent upon the government, welfare, and subsidies rather than the general welfare contemplated by the U.S. Constitution (the Constitution did not mean welfare in general but the general welfare, a big difference between the two). Communism is a far-left, authoritarian, political-economic system whereby the state (government) owns the means of production (capital) as well as the fruits of production (products) and distributes such to a classless society, all of whom work for the state. To sum it up in one sentence: "the good of the many outweigh the good of the few" (Curtis Bowers)

Based on these three definitions, it is easy to see which political system America falls into. American used to be small government, but that has radically changed. We have seen this country go from small, independent enterprises, little debt, and a small government with a Laissez-faire approach (provided by the U.S. Constitution) and nuclear families to large conglomerates, little entrepreneurship, and a big massive government smothering the populace. Little can be done anymore without the government being involved. Individuality and hard-work are no longer rewarded. Instead, we see a national debt exploding, more people inundating the welfare system, a people burdened with taxes, and companies regulated to the gill in straight jacket politics, and a debt burden so large that would make Andrew Jackson regret ever being president of the United States. Today, there is very little reward for hard work, success is punished, and instead, laziness is rewarded. This, no doubt, explains the lack of productive individuals who care little about effort and hard-work and have figured out that smoking pot is not only hip and cool but rewarding as well. Cultural Marxism, through its destruction of values and morals, have all but destroyed the nuclear family. All of these things are Socialism and in terms of economic socialism: keep printing fiat money and keep taxing and spending. Capitalism is dead and Communism is resurrecting. We are moving inexorably in a Communist direction. As Margret Thatcher once said, "the problem with Socialism is that you run out of other people's money." Well, that problem is solved by a giant printing press and a Federal Reserve determined to burden this nation and economy with more debt. We are now addicted to an artificial money supply thanks to John Maynard Keynes, whose economic theory laid out the philosophical rationale for endless government borrowing and government spending of fiat money. It is not surprising that John Maynard Keynes was from socialist Europe. Between Marx and Keynes, no two men did more to destroy the original intent of the founding fathers and set the groundwork for cultural Marxism and corporate fascism that was later to flourish as competing Totalitarianism ideologies hell-bent on destroying a self-governing Republic that sought to practice true free-market Capitalism. The ghost of Karl Marx continues to haunt the world. Embedded on a tombstone in Highgate Cemetery in north London where the corpse of Karl Marx resides are the words, "Philosophers have attempted to interpret the world, but their real purpose is to change it" (77). Let's pray and plead to the Almighty God that the philosophy of Karl Marx does not continue to prevail beyond that of his grave.

"OUR CONSTITUTION WAS MADE ONLY FOR A MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, IT IS WHOLLY INADEQUATE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF ANY OTHER"........JOHN ADAMS

Citations:

Quotes and paraphrases from the book Seven Men Who Rule the World From the Grave by Dave Breese. Moody Publishers. Chicago, Ill. 1990

Foner, Philip. Karl Marx Remembered. San Francisco: Synthesis. 1983

Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto. Gateway Edition. Chicago: Henry Regnery. 1954

YouTube video:...Cultural Marxism - The Corruption of America by OriginalIntentDoc.