If Turnabout is Fair Play
Sergey Nechayev, the author of “The Blueprint for communist revolution,” observed in his pamphlet, The Revolutionary Catechism, that “The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire State to the roots and exterminates all the state traditions, institutions, and classes… “Our task is terrible, total, universal, and merciless destruction.” 1
His words served as the fuel for the Marxist revolutions in Russia and everywhere that followed, including in America. And while communists in the United States had to find a different path from class warfare to make effective inroads, their march on the institutions captured them with the intent to undermine and destroy everything about them that had served American exceptionalism.
Burning them to the ground was not beyond the pale, but in the end, most of the violence was political street theater. It was necessary to make a point upon which the middle class or their political opponents would be impaled if they failed to toe the line or get in line. In the process, they transformed these institutions -from media and entertainment to news, education, religion, and – of course- government.
They didn’t exterminate state traditions so much as repurpose them to appeal to baser notions than revolution. Communist revolution, as an idea, is sold as a way to achieve a form of human perfection. History has shown us the lie, but if you don’t teach history, it is a simple thing to convince people that the current state of affairs is lousy, so how about the promise of something better?
The American Democrat party decided to skip the destruction and get on with the other inevitable truth about Marxism. It does not end the injustice of classes. It erases one, the middle class, and concretizes what remains. Those who have everything (the ruling class) and those who have what the ruling class allows. There is no room in between for anything else because what the state gives, it takes away, leveraging this advantage with intimidation and the promise of violence.
You own nothing, not even yourself.
In opposition to this is the American Republic, in which individuals are at the forefront of the culture. The government promises to protect individuals’ rights to property, self-defense, contract, speech, faith, and travel (plus a few other things) in exchange for reasonable behavior that does not violate anyone else’s rights to those same things. Minimal laws act as guardrails to punish those who can’t manage it, while the Constitution is meant to constrain those in government from violating them, and off you go.
At its foundation, every American citizen has these rights at birth without regard to any other social construct, with an understanding that nothing is more potent than human nature. Communism fails because of people, as does anarchy, and the founders knew this well. Their attempt to craft something to protect individuals was predicated on the oft-repeated warning, “If you can keep it.”
It has been a rough road. The ideological offspring of Marx, Engels, Gramsci, Lenin, Stalin, and a rogue’s gallery leading us to the Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens, culminated in the response to an engineered psyop historically labeled as “The Pandemic.” It was a test of the success of a decade of “training.”
The permission structure machine that Barack Obama and David Axelrod built to replace the Democratic Party was in its essence neither modern nor conservative, though. Rather it is totalitarian in its essence, a device for getting people to act against their beliefs by substituting new and better beliefs through the top-down controlled and leveraged application of social pressure, which among other things eliminates the position of the spectator. The integrity of the individual is violated in order to further the superior interests of the superego of humanity, the party, which knows which beliefs are right and which are wrong. The party is the ghost in the machine, which appears to run on automatic pilot, using the human desire for companionship and social connection as fuel for an effort to detach individuals from their own desires and substitute the dictates of the party, which is granted the unlimited right to enforce its superior opinions on all of mankind.
Regardless of how the virus came to be, how it made its way into the world, and how it was contracted or spread, the test was whether governments had adequately trained the people for the hypocrisy of controlled abuses of natural rights by self-appointed betters.
It started out well enough but ultimately failed in a spectacular fashion, culminating in a national rejection of the party most inclined to deny us our natural rights. Since the November election, Donald Trump’s administration has exposed a myriad of schemes that used taxpayer money through so-called NGOs to finance the permission structures used to convert us from a nation of Individuals with rights to one of Soviet synecism,
“which was to demand absolute external compliance to party dictates in word and deed while at the same time allowing its subjects a separate space to think their own thoughts—provided that they never acted on those thoughts. The natural outcome of the Soviet system was compliance without belief.
“absolute external compliance to party dictates in word and deed while at the same time allowing its subjects a separate space to think their own thoughts—provided that they never acted on those thoughts. The natural outcome of the Soviet system was compliance without belief.
The government’s misinformation and disinformation architecture was meant to ensure compliance with the latter by controlling the oligarchs of the modern information machine of social media.
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter kicked that wall down, allowing the screaming masses to share whatever thoughts crossed their minds, including how badly they’d been treated by the same ruling class that had cost many a job, a few parting moments with a dying loved one, and a host of other tangible affronts to decency that the test denied them.
The ruling class experts overstepped in such a big way that they are now suffering from a whiplash that has come into power to dismantle power. Trump and his mandate are undermining the institutions the Left marched through over decades while exposing as much dirty laundry from the left’s laundromat as good sense and national security permit.
The MAGA movement may only have one shot at this, and it is not wasting a moment. It has struck at the institutions funding their institutions, and if the courts can be convinced of the Chief Executive’s right to manage his branch of government without the interference of the other two, they may well clean house before the 2026 midterms.
Suppose the economy recovers adequately and the nation and the world appear to be not so much on the right track but a better one. In that case, the ideological descendants of Sergey Nycheyev can expect at least a few more years in a political Siberia from which they will be forced to watch the Right continue to march through their increasingly underfunded institutions.
It won’t fix partisan newsrooms or decidedly Marxist colleges overnight. Still, it could erase the machinery of government laundering our money into the hands of organizations that exist to get us to hate ourselves, our rights, and each other.
It might not be as historical as the American Revolution, but more money and power in the hands of the people closest to the government, most likely to abuse them, that’d be you and I, in time for our 250th birthday, would be something to celebrate.
- Who Was Karl Marx (2021) – James Simpson
