Part two of Judge John Wilson’s (ret.) study examing Marxist roots of left-wing thinking, written exclusively for the New York Analysis of Policy and Government.
Basic to the concept of Marxism is the idea of perpetual struggle. Living human beings have certain physical needs and desires – as such, we struggle against nature to satisfy those needs and wants. “Becoming aware of their struggle against nature is what separates them from it, they find the conditions of their fulfillment, of the realization of their true stature. The dawning of consciousness is inseparable from struggle.” On this basis, a Marxist does not believe there is a God – “human activity reveals that ‘for man, man is the supreme being.’ It is thus vain to speak of God…fully naturalized, humans are sufficient unto themselves.”
Yet, “living in a capitalist society…the individual is not truly free. He is an alienated being; he is not at home in his world…the more the worker produces the less he has to consume, and the more values he creates the more he devalues himself, because his product and his labour are estranged from him.” This “alienation of the worker takes on its full dimension in that system of market production in which part of the value of the goods produced by the worker is taken away from him and transformed into surplus value, which the capitalist privately appropriates.”
Thus, “In…capitalist society the individual is divided into political citizen and economic actor. This duality represents his political alienation, which is further intensified by the functioning of the bourgeois state…Marx came to see the state as the instrument through which the propertied class dominated other classes.”
Marx focused on the production of “surplus value” by workers as his basis for believing that capitalism is a system that needed transformation. “In the hands of the capitalist the labour power employed in the course of a day produces more than the value of the sustenance required by the worker and his family. The difference between the two values is appropriated by the capitalist.” This fundamental unfairness “can only be resolved by a change from capitalism to a new system.”
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Having this basis understanding of Marxist thought, read again the statements and demands made by CHAZ and its supporters, and their calls for “the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment,” and to “overhaul our entire society, abolishing the disparities that make police necessary to maintain the prevailing order.” Couple these demands with the proposed Ordinance of the Minneapolis City Council, which seeks to replace the Police Department with a “Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention Department” which will ” have responsibility for public safety services prioritizing a holistic, public health-oriented approach,” the Director of which “will have non-law enforcement experience in community safety services, including but not limited to public health and/or restorative justice approaches.”
Read again the statement of BLM regarding “liberation” and a “beautiful struggle,” and recall that one of the founders of BLM admits to being a “trained Marxist.” Having done so, then understand the true nature of those who seek to abolish our established order.
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