Fred Lucas - October 19, 2009

(CNSNews.com) – White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told high school students in May 2009 that one of her favorite political philosophers was Mao Tse Tung, the Communist dictator responsible for the death of millions of people, and she explained why his philosophy was important for achieving personal and political goals.

When questioned last week after a video of her speech surfaced, however, Dunn said she was using “irony” in reference to Mao. A leading expert on China told CNSNews.com that Dunn’s remarks were “pathetic,” given the human rights atrocities committed under Mao’s reign.

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Also, see here.

Irish Times - January 12, 2009

Disparate groups of the left claim a link to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht but not to each other, writes Derek Scally in Berlin

THE SUN was high in the cold, blue sky as the crowd came crunching through the cemetery snow.

The procession of old women in fur coats and mohair hats, families in matching all-weather jackets and thin young men in thinner hooded tops had come to lay red carnations on the graves of German socialist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.

The two were abducted on January 15th, 1919, by the Freikorps, the remnants of the German imperial army ordered by the new Social Democrat (SPD) government to put an end to months of upheaval since the end of the war.

Luxemburg and Liebknecht, leading figures in the rising, were interrogated and tortured. Luxemburg’s life ended with a blow to the head and a bullet in the back. Her body was dumped in a canal and, when it finally reappeared five months later, it was placed in the empty coffin that had been buried next to Liebknecht. He was shot on the same evening as her and dumped anonymously in a morgue.

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N.B.: Luxemburg, with her Spartacus League, paid homage to the founder of the Illuminati, Adam Weishaupt (Spartacus). Historian James H. Billington, wrote:

Even her choice of revolutionary pseudonyms betrayed an unconscious harkening back to origins. From Junius (originally used by the Strasbourgeois Jewish revolutionary Frey in Paris during the great French Revolution), she moved to th Gracchus of Babeuf, on to the Spartacus adopted by the original German progenitor of revolutionism, Adam Weishaupt. Her Spartacus League adopted in December 1918 the label Communist, which Restif had invented and Lenin revived.

- Fire In the Minds of Men, pp. 499-500.

The only thing I’d disagree with in the above is the fact that Rosa Luxemburg knew what she was doing. Rather than an “unconscious harkening back to origins,” it is highly unlikely that she would have assumed the aliases of Moses Dobruska (aka Junius Frey), Babeuf and Weishaupt, in any way other than deliberately.

(Anti-Positivist) - Karl Marx understood the purpose of public education:

And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

Horace Mann and John Dewey understood, as do your school administrators: public education is nothing other that the means for the empowered authority to control subsequent generations.

The Midnight Sun - October 21st, 2008

“The American crash is a delight to behold, and it’s far from over.”

Karl Marx to Frederick Engels, 1857

Reports that Marx’s Das Kapital are literally ‘flying off the shelves’ in a bookshop in once Communist controlled Berlin have delighted and fired up journalists all over the world. Check out the links here.

Karl Marx, now a pile of bones in a hole in the ground, or a tortured spirit in an afterlife somewhere, is entirely unaware that his failed ideology is enjoying a renaissance of sorts amongst a generation that only knows that ideology from the romanticized writings of those who never had to live under it. The most unashamed leftist doctrinaire media sources, the Times, BBC and ABC are gloating. For these are the corridors where closet and not-so-closet Marxists have lurked since their big heyday in the mid twentieth century.

Is Germany, gloating over the distress of America, so quick to rush out and embrace the ideology of her arch enemy?

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Betty Freauf - October 17, 2008

The core belief of Communism’s Lenin and Marx is that religion is the “opiate of the masses.” They also believed left-wing liberal religious leaders were to be used as “useful idiots” to promote communism, i.e. Reverend Wright, Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s mentor for twenty years.

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Martin Masse - September 29, 2008

Marx’s Proposal Number Five seems to be the leading motivation for those backing the Wall Street bailout

In his Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, Karl Marx proposed 10 measures to be implemented after the proletariat takes power, with the aim of centralizing all instruments of production in the hands of the state. Proposal Number Five was to bring about the “centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.”

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