The “entire world seems to be going insane,” writes investigative journalist James Simpson in his new book, Who Was Karl Marx?: The Men, the Motives and the Menace Behind Today’s Rampaging American Left. In this primer on the Left’s ideological origins, Simpson reveals the totalitarian trends that are roiling modern America and the wider Western world and offers interesting perspectives on the distinct yet interrelated Islamist threat.
Simpson examines how various modern causes such as the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement are exploiting concerns including racism in order to transform America fundamentally. “We are actually witnessing a Communist overthrow of the United States in real time. This sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it is not,” he writes. Thereby any specific social justice “issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution” or the “Left’s relentless goal to overthrow the existing order to achieve absolute power and the wealth that comes with it, nothing else.”
In this cold civil war among political organizations, Simpson shows that knowledge is power. As BLM demonstrates, the “great danger of communism is that most of its followers are not communists. They are advocates and do-gooders of every stripe who don’t know or don’t care about the organization’s pedigree.” Yet the Left’s real intellectual forebears would shock any decent observer.
Marxism’s namesake, the nineteenth-century German philosopher Karl “Marx himself, was the biggest fraud of all,” Simpson notes. Marx “has been built up by a century of propaganda into a kind of omniscient, benevolent god.” Yet Simpson details that this supposed savior from humanity’s misery “himself was hypocritically greedy, petty, arrogant, lazy, selfish, dishonest, two-faced, lecherous, bigoted and brimming with hatred.”
Marx established a common historical pattern among the Left’s leaders of fortunate sons who had the luxury of developing arcane theories about the proletariat while spared from the toil of earning daily bread. As a lifelong sponger of others, “Marx’s economic theories had no grounding in reality. He had no experience actually working in the real world and lacked understanding of basic economic principles,” Simpson writes. Marx particularly relied on the wealthy heir Friedrich Engels, who “lived in the lap of luxury while planning world revolution” as a “sort-of revolutionary party animal.”
Similarly, most of the Frankfurt School’s Marxist scholars, established in Germany in 1923 before Nazism’s rise forced flight to New York City, were “trust fund revolutionaries,” Simpson observes. Fidel and Raul Castro, who established Cuba’s Communist dictatorship in 1959, also “as sons of a rich sugar plantation owner…had it all,” and Fidel, when he died in 2016, had amassed at least $900 million in wealth. As the son of a relatively wealthy peasant, Red China’s founding tyrant Mao Zedong had been in his youth “lazy, arrogant, insolent, and refused to work,” as shown by his expulsion from four schools for disobedience.
The “true essence of Communism” is “entrepreneurial parasites; greedy, manipulative, megalomaniacal psychopaths,” Simpson concludes in his historical survey. “By its very nature the communist model requires leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Assad, Mao and Pol Pot—all clever, devious, diabolical, mass murderers.”
Today Marxists usually seek to revolutionize Western societies not through hard power such as military takeovers, but through assaults on Western culture with agendas including a never-ending sexual revolution. “We all have primordial lusts,” Simpson notes. “The communists have always known this. Early on they began developing the philosophies, tactics, and institutions to inject poisonous ideas into our society that would capitalize on those natural human tendencies.”
Simpson highlights Georgi Lukacs, who served as People’s Commissar for Culture and Education in Béla Kun’s brief Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. “Lukacs pioneered the attack on Western culture by using sex as a weapon of moral corruption. He instituted a radical program of mandated sex education in schools,” Simpson notes. This accompanied a “campaign of vilification against Christianity.”
Lukacs “Cultural Terrorism,” Simpson observes, “infuriated Hungary’s Catholic population.” When Romania invaded Hungary, “large segments of the population and the military would not fight when they realized the Communists’ true objectives.” Kun’s government collapsed, and he fled to the Soviet Union.
In 1923, Lukacs helped found the Frankfurt School, which developed Critical Theory. “Critical theory attacks Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, and nationalism,” Simpson notes. Subsequently Derrick Bell, former President Barack Obama’s favorite professor, “devised Critical Race Theory [CRT], an offshoot of Critical Theory applied to race,” Simpson adds. CRT is BLM “in a nutshell, and defines the extreme polarization communists have deliberately fomented in America. They couldn’t achieve it by revolutionizing the proletariat, so they targeted race.”
Another Frankfurt School associate, Herbert Marcuse, ascended the Ivory Tower in professorships at universities such as Columbia and Harvard. This “Father of the New Left” in the 1960s “developed the idea of suppressing conservative speech in his 1965 essay ‘Repressive Tolerance,’” Simpson notes. What subsequently became “partisan tolerance” of only Leftist ideas now dominates Western academia and media.
This Marxist soft power reflects the thinking of Antonio Gramsci, who became Italy’s Communist Party leader in 1924. “According to Gramsci, capitalism’s power or ‘hegemony’ rested in its institutions, that is, churches, schools, the media, Hollywood, the military government and political parties,” Simpson notes. Gramsci accordingly devised what became the subversive “long march through the institutions” by Marxist cadre.
Such stealthy takeovers recall the 1869 Revolutionary Catechism by Russian anarchist Sergey Nechayev, a “blueprint for communist revolution” that Marxists have used throughout history, Simpson observes. In this pamphlet’s words, for any such Marxist “implacable enemy” of Western society, the “object is perpetually the same: the surest and quickest way of destroying the whole filthy order.” Nonetheless, the “revolutionary may and frequently must live within society while pretending to be completely different from what he really is, for he must penetrate everywhere.”
Given Simpson’s analysis, his situation report on America’s present perils interestingly offers strategies centered on civic society and education. “Leftist and Islamic allies seek destruction of Judeo/Christian values because it is our greatest source of strength and cultural stability,” he writes. Thus, he advocates various means to “Defund Universities,” which only “indoctrinate our youth in the Left’s destructive narratives.”
Simpson’s emphasis on “Judeo/Christian values” means that a church militant looms large in his battleplan. “Discourage interfaith dialogue. It facilitates the Koranic Concept of War: detach the enemy from his faith. Christians and Jews are urged to accept Islam, but Islam is not urged to accept Christianity or Judaism,” he writes. “Liberal churches are apostates,” he adds; “If you are a member, leave.”
Simpson calls for clear stands and aggressive action. “Men are men and women are women” no matter “very extensive cosmetic surgery,” he demands that people recognize in opposition to “transgender” ideology. Meanwhile, truth’s defenders should go on offense: “Infiltrate enemy organizations. Expose their various plans.”
The Marxists exposed by Simpson have often entered Red-Green alliances with Islamists in contemporary Western society, as he and others have noted. Therefore, his analysis sheds light on this parallel menace. For example, any Muslims who claim to be followers of God should answer why they would ally with what Simpson clearly denounces as “Satanic” Marxist forces, especially when they would ultimately seek to dominate Muslims as well.
Simpson’s debunking of Marx and his disciples provides further food for thought on Islam. Given scrutiny of the lives and claims of these ideologues, why should Islam’s prophet Muhammad and his followers experience any better treatment, notwithstanding traditional Islamic blasphemy prescriptions? In particular, the rule of various Islamic empires across history offers spectacles of rapacity and cruelty similar to many Communist dictatorships.
Gramsci’s “march through the institutions” and Nechayev’s covert “implacable enemy” of the “filthy order” also echo in the Muslim Brotherhood’s “civilization jihad.” Jewish outrage over the anti-Israel tirades of Fairfax County School Board member Abrar Omeish is simply the latest example of disappointment in a Muslim once celebrated for interfaith cooperation.
Perhaps the key lesson from Simpson’s book is that forewarned is forearmed. Understanding of the West and its enemies is just as necessary today as ever in this time of struggle amidst great ideological crosscurrents in America and the wider West. As Jesus once said, the “truth will set you free.” Perhaps Simpson thought on these words when he concluded: “Pray daily for the salvation of our nation.”
Poor says
Germany has been teaching children about gay sex since many years (showing them photos of 2 men having sex, explicitely to 10 year old children)
What you see in the USA originated in Germany
Let’s say Danke to Germany for Marx and the cancer he created. It never went away in Germany. Just go to any major city (especially Frankfurt, Berlin and Bonn) and see how pro socialism they are whilst being the wealthiest country in the EU.
USA imported and allowed the growth of one more German cancer
Infidel says
Germany’s 4 great gifts to humanity: Marx, Engels, Hitler and now Merkel
Tony Stark says
Add to that list Attila the Hun, Friedrich Nietzsche, and (sorry my Dearly Separated Brethren) Martin Luther, who sided with the Moslem Turks over the Catholic Pope.
jule says
I cannot understand how ‘liberals’ can say totalitarian Marx and Sharia Muslims belong on the left with ‘liberals’. The only thing I can guess is there is way too much for real inequality between most of us and the Elite bank accounts and far too many poor today who are not poor from laziness. The Wage gap and cost of living is outrageous. So i guess the young kids, saddled with a huge increase in debt from college with interest, which was never so when I went, plus the real estate problems, think they need a revolution & that Muslim Jihad will help them. Of course they have no clue what Islam means, but a fantasy it just means socialism. The right got us into this economic societal problem and the left is now absolutely insane. So what can a solution be? I have no idea. I would like to see at least Pompeo as President if we make it through Biden. I see no hope.
Michael says
Does anyone have access to a manual for Inquisitors? Torquemada wouldn’t have been as squeamish as the Tsar when dealing with the likes of Nechayev.
Brando says
That is true about Torquemada,he was Grand Inquisitor for 15 years till his death, and the Spanish Inquisition ( created in 1478 ) was 100% INDEPENDENT of the POPE.
IT ALL BEGAN IN 1478
Before that year there was No Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castille and there was one in the Kingdom of Aragon (since the 13th century,but virtually inactive all that time).
And None in Portugal till 1536.
POPE SIXTUS IV (died 1484) was an Easy-Going, Hedonistic Pope and he allowed the Queen of Castille and King of Aragon(they were married) to have an Inquisition DIRECTLY under the Power of those Monarchs ( Independent of the Pope).
ABUSE
To the Pope’s horror under Torquemada Many were Killed who were really innocent,so he wrote a BULL directed to the monarchs, to reform the Spanish Inquisition, Condemning the excessive harshness,
in 1482 ( ” AD PERPETUAM REI MEMORIAM “)
But he was threatened by the monarchs and since he was not particularly brave,he backed down in 1483. He died 1 year later.
TORQUEMADA
He killed 2,000 people, mostly people accused of being secret Jews. The only good thing:
1.People condemned to be BURNED always had the option of saying a few words of repentance,and being GARROTED ( strangled). A DEAD body was Burned.
2. If not,according,among others,like youtuber POISSON FECOND (French),in his video about Torquemada:
The Inquisition used GREEN WOOD to Burn People.
WHY?
Green wood is wood RECENTLY cut down from a tree.It is Very DIFFICULT to Burn.
At the SAME time,green wood, produces EXCESSIVE SMOKE.
To make sure the person was Not Literally Burned, they used green wood,and the person become UNCONSCIOUS and then dead due to
Lack of Oxygen( because the Smoke Diminished the Amount of Qxygen,the person died ASPHYXIATED )
Brando says
The obsession of Torquemada to Kill Secret Jews may have been Personal: one of his GRANDMOTHERS was Jewish ,and maybe she was a
secret Jew, and he knew it.
A surprising number of famous Spaniards had a Jewish ancestor,or even more:
1.Velazquez ( greatest painter of Spain,50% Jewish)
2.St Theresa of Avila ( 50% Jewish )
3. Luis de Leon ( great writer)( great-grandmother was Jewish)
4.Francisco de Vitoria: Father of International Law
5.Bartolome de las Casas: defender of Amerindian rights
6.Mateo Aleman: write of a picaresque classic:”Guzman de Alfarache”
7.St John of the Cross ( mystical poet,wrote “Dark Night of the Soul”)
OTHERS
Were 100% Jewish but totally assimilated: Juan Luis Vives(humanist and Christian) and
Fernando de Rojas ( author of “La Celestina”, greatest book in Spanish after “Don Quixote”)
CERVANTES A JEW( author of Don Quixote, greatest book written in Spanish) ?
We do not know if he had Jewish DNA,but we can know,since in 2015 they actually discovered his body.
If they do ADN one can find out if he had Jewish ancestors or maybe was even 100% Jewish by blood.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
His case is astonishing,he was born in Holland and is the Greatest Philosopher who was a Jew, and his family had pretended to convert in 1492,
and for some 130 YEARS ( 4 Generations ) had been Secret Jews till they emigrated to Holland and stopped pretending to be Catholic.
The Mayor says
A DNA study conducted on several thousand residents of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal) about 10 years ago, conclusively demonstrated that about 23% of the people in the study had Jewish ancestry. So, even with the expulsions and religious murders, a large number of Jews must have remained in Spain and Portugal since the late 15th and early 16 centuries.
gravenimage says
Yes–the DNA site “23 and Me” found that almost 20% of Spaniards have some Jewish background.
gravenimage says
Actually, green wood was often used because it burned slowly, and increased the suffering of the victim.
Infidel says
Interesting parallels in the lives of Communist Founders like Marx, Engels, Mao vs that of today’s leaders like Patrice Colliers: making themselves tycoons while denying that privilege to the population at large
ME Infidel says
I’m nearly finished reading “Who Was Karl Marx?”. If anyone wonders why we have such daily insane policies coming from today’s legacy media, big tech and political hacks, particularly those in the corrupt Democratic Party, you should read this book. Nothing is new and nothing hasn’t been part of the Left’s decades long overall plan to destroy our traditional Judeo-Christian and Western values. Communism definitely hasn’t been relegated to the ash heap of history.
Remember this when you can’t fathom all the incessant nonsense, “The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the [Marxist] revolution.” Obama, Pelosi, the Clintons, AOC, “Sleepy Joe” and so on all put up a good front but they are essentially VERY committed Marxists.
jule says
I do not think they are Marxists at all but Globalist Oligarchs & vulture capitalists on steroids. Like Biden said…al his talks with China were just business.
Wellington says
Interesting article, chock full of information. On the specific matter of pure Marxist theory it is important to note if one is really interested in the elusive quest for objective truth (never completely reached but the quest should never cease) that Karl Marx got virtually everything wrong. The only major theory of his he got half right was his economic interpretation of history, which he foolishly took to remorseless lengths.
All the the other major theories are bunk. Dialectical materialism is Hegelian idealism in materialistic form and is a load of Teutonic nonsense. Determinism I have long called voodoo for intellectuals, what with its insistence that if one studies Marxist theory through and through one can determine the future, hence determinism. The labor value theory is so deficient with its contention that the only reason why anything has any value is because of the labor put in to produce it that is doesn’t even take into account such matters as intrinsic worth and advertising costs.
Particularly pernicious are the class struggle theory and the theory of alienation which are prescriptions for genocide. The class struggle theory demonizes the upper and middle classes who must be swept away violently (gradualism not allowed in pure Marxist theory) and all critical race theory is is the reconfiguration of the class struggle theory from a socio-economic sphere to a racial one, i.e., whites are the bad guys. The theory of alienation maintains that the oppressed classes are so alienated from the oppressors that they want to overthrow the entire “system,” but, in fact, most of the so-called oppressed don’t want to overthrow the “system,’ but become a greater part of it—a nicer home, a better car, more retirement security, etc., though those who really buy into the theory of alienation and Marxism in general want, in actuality, to become the new oppressors (and this assumes that the “old oppressors” really were oppressors—sometimes they are but many times they are just perceived oppressors as is the case with the way whites today in America are hardly oppressing blacks and other “people of color” though regularly asserted to be doing so).
Marxism is also highly psychologically naive in its maintaining that the oppressed groups, once no longer oppressed, will only take what each person should have and no more. Everyone will live in perfect harmony, la, la, la. This is just dumb and denies basic human nature.
Marxism is virtually all rot, totalitarian throughout and is a mortal enemy of liberty. It is the antithesis of the only governmental and economic systems that have ever worked AND have the capacity for evolution and flexibility, i.e., democracy and capitalism. The Founding Fathers of America created a system of government for society, with its attendant economic component, capitalism, which is infinitely wiser and far more adaptable than anything the intellectual buffoon Karl Marx created. That Marxism still has so many adherents stands as a sad testimony that mankind much of the time is a collective idiot.
libertyORdeath says
Great dissection of the terribly flawed ideology. I always love how Marxists live in never-ending denial…even though every form of socialism has failed miserably over the past 150+ years, they always think they can do it better
Infidel says
My favorite arguments of the Communists I’ve interacted w/ either online or in real life:
– Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot et al weren’t true Communists (the ‘No True Scotsman’ argument)
– Communism hasn’t been done the right way. I can do it better
gravenimage says
True, Infidel. This is how Communists get around the fact that every time Communism has been tried is a murderous, totalitarian horror.
gravenimage says
*Excellent* post, Wellington. Fine analysis.
BlackSabbath says
Very informative article. Castro brothers came from a rich sugar-cane planting family and robbed people of Cuba. Fidel was a thug who used to wear two Rolex watches ((Day-Date, and Submariner) at the same-time while his Cuban paisanos starved. Venezuela is Deija-Vu of that old move. The colors skylines across the United States will be lit red on 19 June, the color of communists, disguised as BLM. Joe Biden is grateful for being the puppet who was “put” in place by the “masters” and “honored” to declare this a national holiday.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Cv-0TBEhWVE/SEaLjSle4XI/AAAAAAAABUU/BBWLIXcuTO0/s800/C1.jpg
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Marx, Muhammad, and the West’s Current Crisis
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Good article from Andrew Harrod. I’ll check out Simpson’s book.
Islam would not present a threat to us were it not for neo-Marxism here at home.
Walter Sieruk says
James Simpson in his book explained about how extreme leftists, who greatly admire ,Karl Marx do use what they now call “Critical theory’ to launch “attacks on Christianity, capitalism …” Simpson further explains that the leftist and their Islamic allies seek the destruction of Judeo/Christian values because it’s our greatest source of strength and cultural stability.”
That ,obviously , is one of the reasons that the Marxist higher up’s in power encourage their useful idiots who are BLM members to gather in public and burn Bibles.
In addition, this is why the Marxist power elites by and through the American “educational ” system to attempt to discredit the Founding Fathers of the United States of America because, even-though not Christians themselves , did incorporate the precepts , values of Christian Bible based principles in the very foundation of the USA.
For example , John Adams had written that “The general principles which the Fathers achieved Independence were principles of Christianity …I will avow that I believe and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
Later the 23rd President of the United State, Benjamin Harrison referring to the Bible declared “If you take out your statutes , your Constitution , your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together.”
Walter Sieruk says
As for what James Simpson had revealed about the modern Marxist in their “assaults of Western culture…”
To counter that despicable scheme a good start is to remember the wisdom ofthe written words of George Washington who wrote “There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
In addition , former President Washington also wrote “To encourage literate and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
ROBERT CARRILLO says
Yep!
Also, see ‘The Grand Mufti’ (The Turks) and Hitler’s NAZI regime..
Sub-human political TRASH is always just around the corner..
Can you say Ilhan Omar, Keith Ellison, and Jaylani Hussein (CAIR-MN) right in our own back yard?