by J.B. Shurk, American Thinker:
In classical Greek mythology, hubris is a fatal flaw that inevitably leads to tragedy. No matter how admired the hero, any mortal who dares to behave like a god is punished in the end. Mankind never seems to learn this lesson.
The “elites” of every generation delude themselves into believing that they are superhuman and inherently different from those they consider beneath them. They are not. Whatever afflicts ordinary people will eventually come for those who build extravagant sanctuaries intended to rival Mount Olympus.
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No “elite” ideology has caused as much suffering as communism for a simple reason: it is a false doctrine that feeds on hubris. “Communism begins where atheism begins,” Marx wrote. It permits “elites” to deify themselves. Because of that delusion, it remains a “spectre” that still “haunts” the world.
Wherever Marxism has reared its ugly head, it ultimately brings death and desolation. Wherever communist “elites” believe that they can rule over a land of peasants while remaining safe and secure behind castle walls, those barriers eventually prove as fragile as any Potemkin village constructed from empty promises and outright lies.
No matter how many hundreds of millions of lives socialism and communism have destroyed, Western “elites” remain enamored of Marxism. Any system that eliminates private property for all but the aristocratic few and cultivates a slavish devotion to the State is attractive to arrogant human beings who believe it is their birthright to control others.
The “spectre of communism” haunting the world today comes in the form of the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” or the United Nations’ planned technocratic tyranny. It exists wherever one group of “experts” believes it has the moral prerogative to tell everyone else how to live and what to do. Vladimir Lenin argued both that “medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism” and that the “establishment of a central bank is ninety percent of communizing a nation.” Together, central banks and global health authorities are the gateway drugs for communism.
The party will take care of all your needs. The World Health Organization will decide whether you can leave your homes. The climate scientists will tell you how much food you may eat and how much fuel you may use to stay warm. In every iteration of Marxist hubris, the promise is framed a little differently. However it is formulated, it always brings tragedy.
Marxist socialism, communism, planned sustainability, new world order, global government — whatever it is called, it remains “rule by the elite.” Any system that refuses to protect individual freedoms and empowers a small coalition of authorities to control everyone else should simply be called “elitism.” The distinction between political parties becomes meaningless when “elites” learn, as Lenin did, that the “best way to control the opposition is to lead it.” Forget Republicans versus Democrats. The real contest is between regular people and the privilege-hoarding “elites” who maintain a stranglehold over government.
This kind of thinking is denigrated as dangerous “populism.” How dare the great majority of the people form opinions that reject the preferences of the “ruling class”? Is it not strange that Western “elites” speak fondly about the virtues of “democracy” only when the people under their thumb do exactly what they say? Not really.
“The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution,” Mao Zedong taught, “and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.” In other words, tyranny is most effective when citizens actually vote for their chains. When the people think for themselves and reject the “elitism” that requires their submission, then the State dispels any pretense of caring about what the people think.
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