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Off Without Marx"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThe University of Florida has announced that it's kicking Karl Marx off campus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8O2tFQs0ns3b6BXhyh6ca7KToWuLjDDrM_ydcuP3t-hHHkU4j78YxE_OgzwB8UXz1JtwtSYpMXY0ZfBd3zhjXpfcQapJ5rqKZAY0vSJlUFcjOCjN_Gaf-mu9esfQ4G3aHdXbkSo3MKC1qJasxqu52SS_k16w7I_Mg-uUr8xRSzMM9yWxVlqo\/s442\/image_2022-04-10_214354341.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"340\" data-original-width=\"442\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8O2tFQs0ns3b6BXhyh6ca7KToWuLjDDrM_ydcuP3t-hHHkU4j78YxE_OgzwB8UXz1JtwtSYpMXY0ZfBd3zhjXpfcQapJ5rqKZAY0vSJlUFcjOCjN_Gaf-mu9esfQ4G3aHdXbkSo3MKC1qJasxqu52SS_k16w7I_Mg-uUr8xRSzMM9yWxVlqo\/s320\/image_2022-04-10_214354341.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\"Given current events in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, we determined it was appropriate to remove the name of Karl Marx that was placed on a group study room at the University of Florida,\" a University of Florida flack \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=19249\"\u003Etold the \u003C\/a\u003Econservative organization Campus Reform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarx’s name had apparently decorated a room at a public university for the last 8 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ukrainians probably have no position on a Marx study room, but Florida is filled with refugees from Marxist countries. Why should Cuban refugees have to fund a Karl Marx room?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBanning Marx from campus makes more sense than pulling Dostoevsky from college curriculums or canceling Tchaikovsky concerts. Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky have nothing to do with the war, but the invasion was ordered by a former KGB officer who, like virtually every Soviet student, was obligated to write papers on Marxism-Leninism, and by a military built up to fight a global campaign to spread Marxism-Leninism around the world. Including into Ukraine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut canceling Marx over a war in 2022 is the perfect embodiment of postmodern shallowness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Young Democratic Socialists of America, the pro-Bernie and AOC-linked campus group, put up a petition demanding, without a trace of irony, “Free Karl Marx.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConsidering the number of political prisoners still locked up in Marxist prisons in Latin America, especially in Venezuela, “Free Marx’s Prisoners” might have been a more decent slogan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The current Russian imperialist state is run by capitalist oligarchs who hold no affinity for the Marxist slogan: ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’” the YDSA petition complains. Then again the Soviet Union was an oligarchy which used the slogan, but whose elites lived in dachas while peasants starved. Marx, who never worked a day in his life, lived through the sweat and toil of the factory workers of the Engels family.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn its bid to prove that Russia isn’t Marxist, the YDSA proved that Marx was un-Marxist. And if Marx isn’t a true Marxist, who is?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe YDSA claimed that, \"The removal of the Karl Marx group study room is not only historically illiterate but insulting to UF students who have been fighting for years to change the name of buildings glorifying racists and homophobes.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBad news, Karl Marx was extremely racist (as well as antisemitic, but that would just make the DSAers, who hate Jews even more than free enteprise, love him all the more.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut sometimes Marx would combine them both, like referring to one of his many rivals as a “Jew N___r”  following that up with, “It is now quite plain to me — as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify — that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses’ flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a n----- ).”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd to think Marx’s statues are one of the few left standing even as lefties have been toppling George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarx, of course, accepted the basic premises of eugenics, and his insane ravings include the popular 19th century idea that the character of nations could be explained by their racial origins. Tie that in with the idiotic racial phrenology in the above paragraph and you know more about what made Marx tick than the average Marxist who reads him, but doesn’t understand him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat would Marx have made of the war between Russia and Ukraine? Despite Russia’s embrace of Marxism, its progenitor despised Russians (and all non-Germans), considering them subhuman Mongols. And the Ukranians? Marx believed that they should be part of Poland.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOverall though Marx, like the Nazis, believed that anything east of Germany was populated by barbarians who needed to be turned over to an empire who would enslave or exterminate them. This was not an unusual idea which is why the Nazi program met with so little opposition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPutin’s assertion that Ukraine never existed is grounded in the writings of Karl Marx who routinely denied that the small independent nations east of Germany had any right to exist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s little doubt that Karl Marx would be on Russia’s side in this war. But he would also hold out hope that Germany would sweep in and conquer all of the subhuman “barbarian” races.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the YDSA doesn’t want the names of racists on campus, it may want to start with Marx.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut focusing on Marx’s bigotry is the silly fetish of a 21st century campus political purity culture. Most people throughout human history were bigots of one kind or another. The problem with Marx wasn’t that he held fairly typical racial views for 19th century leftist elites, including most Democrats, it’s that he popularized a radical ideology that called for tyranny, mass murder, and war. The common denominator in Marx’s hateful ravings is his egomania and disdain for human life. The father of Marxism wasn’t motivated by human compassion. His advocacy for the working class was composed of ideological abstractions that justified his megalomania.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe YDSA, Bernie Sanders, AOC, and much of the socialist movement are the inheritors of Marxian logic in which abstract outrage justifies egotistical tirades and ruthless power grabs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is the source of Marx’s appeal and it lodges everywhere including critical race theory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe problem with Marx is that his ideas helped lead to the deaths of millions and to generations of bloody revolutions and tyrannical regimes only to find a new wave of recruits on college campuses ready to perpetuate the next war and the next campaign of bloody revolution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe motto of the University of Florida is \"Civium in moribus rei publicae salus\" or \"The welfare of the state depends upon the morals of its citizens\". The motto isn't an unusual one for public universities. Its message is that using taxpayer funds to maintain bodies of higher education is justified because they strengthen the civic body by building the moral fiber of its citizenry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoes having a Karl Marx room strengthen or weaken the body of the state of Florida?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs there one country that has been improved by Marxism? Has any portion of the world become more peaceful and more stable due to hearty infusions of Marxism?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs badly as Russia and Ukraine may be doing now, they’re still better off without Marxism. And, decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, that can be a little too easy to forget. Both countries are fighting over wealth that simply didn’t exist under Communism while enjoying a standard of living that actually makes sanctions on Russia over what used to be luxury goods bite.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERussia and Ukraine are better off without Marxism. So is the University of Florida.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/733251132614327938\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-university-of-florida-like-russia_11.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/733251132614327938"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/733251132614327938"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-university-of-florida-like-russia_11.html","title":"The University of Florida, Like Russia and Ukraine, Is Better Off Without Marx"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8O2tFQs0ns3b6BXhyh6ca7KToWuLjDDrM_ydcuP3t-hHHkU4j78YxE_OgzwB8UXz1JtwtSYpMXY0ZfBd3zhjXpfcQapJ5rqKZAY0vSJlUFcjOCjN_Gaf-mu9esfQ4G3aHdXbkSo3MKC1qJasxqu52SS_k16w7I_Mg-uUr8xRSzMM9yWxVlqo\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-10_214354341.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5522507391793659403"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-15T16:10:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-11-15T16:10:20.746-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Marxism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nicaragua"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"socialism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"South America"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Dynasties, Witchcraft, and Midnight Burials in the Sandinista Socialist Utopia"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn the 80s, the Sandinista Marxist terrorists were hotter than pastel suits and shoulder pads. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESandinista! by The Clash was eating up the music charts and Hollywood celebrities like Ed Asner and Mike Farrell bypassed Cuba for the exciting new socialist nightmare in Nicaragua.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-d1g2CiJa82w\/YYFq-hzPpqI\/AAAAAAAATj4\/bhSBibaTh60fMqMr9LIBB8Id2UUKcPmDQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s461\/image_2021-11-02_094441.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"307\" data-original-width=\"461\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-d1g2CiJa82w\/YYFq-hzPpqI\/AAAAAAAATj4\/bhSBibaTh60fMqMr9LIBB8Id2UUKcPmDQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-11-02_094441.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EWhen Marxist butcher Daniel Ortega appeared at a New York Athletic Club reception in 1984, CBS' Mike Wallace, Michael Douglas, and the entire media showed up to give the terrorist and his accomplices a tongue bath.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"To try to get the guy to bed, and then kill him! Fantastic,\" the wife of the MTV president at the reception gushed over a female Sandinista terrorist who had laid a honey trap for a Nicaraguan official. \"That's my dream, to do that to Reagan, George Bush, go right down the line.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut no one fell in love with the Sandinistas quite as hard as John Kerry who, along with other Democrats, wrote love letters addressing the Marxist terror leader as Dear Commandante. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShortly after taking office, John Kerry flew to Nicaragua to meet with Ortega and returned bearing Sandinista propaganda. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“These are just poor people, no money, no food, just like Vietnam, and they are just trying to stay alive. They just want peace,\" Kerry whined.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHollywood is much less interested in Ortega and the Sandinistas these days though the glorification of the Marxist terror group hasn’t entirely halted with the ¡Las Sandinistas! documentary making the rounds of film festivals. And Kerry no longer writes to Ortega.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery leftist revolution begins with terrorism, passes through a giddy phase of utopian socialism, and ends in evil misery. With a 40% poverty rate, the socialist revolution in Nicaragua is nearly complete. The number of people starving has quadrupled in the past few years, and the regime is conducting “express burials” at night to cover up the death toll from the coronavirus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFamily members are given a few hours at night to bury a body in a black bag under police supervision and the dying in this mostly Catholic country are being denied last rites.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrtega, once heralded as a revolutionary leader, has grown old in power. The 75-year-old Marxist dictator appointed his wife as his vice president and is planning a dynasty to take his place. That won’t include his stepdaughter who had accused him of molesting her as a child.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd while Nicaraguans starve, protest, and die, Ortega’s wife erects “magical trees”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERosario Murillo, gaunt, gruesome, and bejeweled, has gone from a bad erotic poet to a worse tyrant. Latin American politics is no stranger to harsh rhetoric, but for the last 30 years, Nicaraguan preachers have accused her of being in league with the devil. And they meant it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday, anti-regime protesters chant Christian prayers to nullify her perceived powers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt all began when “Comrade Rosario”, her preferred title, though the popular one is “La Chamuca” or female devil, joined her husband’s presidential campaign in the 90s by announcing an international conference on witchcraft. And it just got worse from there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMurillo, who first met Ortega when she visited him in prison, became his government’s chief spokeswoman, and then occupied a variety of positions until her daughter accused him of rape. The Comrade stood by her Comandante against her daughter and he repaid her with power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow it’s widely assumed that she controls Nicaragua. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile much of the country lives in poverty and hunger, Murillo spent millions putting up metal trees covered in illuminated lights. The \"Trees of Life\", based on Klimt's Tree of Life, a mural symbolically depicting a tree \"rising from the underworld through our world\", were viewed by some as having occult significance. And when the latest protests broke out against the Sandinista regime, cheering protesters toppled and smashed Murillo’s towering metal trees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Once, I received one as a gift from a guy I had met during the protests. In a joking tone, he let me know that before giving me the lightbulb, he had asked a priest to bless it with holy water, ‘just in case’”, a journalist \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.confidencial.com.ni\/english\/slang-words-and-nicknames-helped-me-understand-nicaraguas-political-context\/\"\u003Enoted\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatin American Marxist regimes turning to tyranny and the occult are not an unusual phenomenon. Venezuela’s brutal tyrant, Nicolas Maduro, claimed that his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, had returned to him in the form of a bird. Marxist dictators who oppose Christianity and Judaism typically resort to pagan religions to provide them with spiritual sanction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFidel Castro built ties to the Santeria cult which viewed him as being chosen by their pagan gods. Shortly before he was forced to step down, a Santeria priest declared that the Yoruba gods say Castro \"is the one that should be there and so he is untouchable\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat did not prove to be the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether Comrade Rosario’s occult posturing is real or not, the Sandinista revolution has gone from Bianca Jagger to a haggard old witch, from hip guerrillas to yet another corrupt dynasty, even while the poverty, the hunger, and the tyranny destroying Nicaragua only deepened.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBack in the 80s, Senator Chris Dodd, then a mere House member, used to write \"Dear Comandante\" letters to Ortega. In 2010, Ortega joked that Dodd was a longtime \"Sandinista sympathizer\". These days, Dodd has been forced to rethink his sympathies, complaining that Ortega and his wife hadn't even tried to improve relations with Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“This has been a flat-out rejection,” Dodd said. “It’s been terribly disappointing.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPerhaps Dodd can also rethink his past lie, \"Ortega is not Marcos or Noriega. He has a real popular base in his country\", now that the Marxist dictator is dismantling free and open elections, and jailing opponents and rivals, while maintaining a ruthless grip on power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat do the events in a tiny Marxist country matter to Americans?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Vermont could set an example to the rest of the nation similar to the type of example Nicaragua is setting for the rest of Latin America,\" Bernie Sanders used to boast. Nicaragua has set a hell of an example, but none of its former fans, from Kerry to Bernie, are learning the lesson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrtega and the Sandinistas did not suddenly descend into tyranny. They were always killers, not to mention bigots, who admired the Soviet Union not because either side cared about the working class or revolutionary ideals, but because they were greedy for money and power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe current state of Nicaragua is not a betrayal of the revolution, but its successful implementation. Or as George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Sandinistas were not liberators, like every leftist movement, they were dictators-in-waiting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHad the glitterati rushing to shake Ortega’s bloodsoaked hand at the New York Athletic Club in 1984 understood the lessons of the eponymous book, they might have pulled back just a little.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo generations later the old Sandinista fan club in America is at the apogee of its power. From John Kerry to Bill de Blasio to Bernie Sanders, the older and younger fans of the Marxist terror thugs have carved their own way to power in America and the nation is all the worse for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the lessons of the old revolutions are quickly forgotten in the rush to the next revolution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile the Sandinista revolution that inspired so many youthful American radicals in the age of mullets and fanny packs has, much like its American fans, aged badly. The regime once touted as a socialist model now consists of a haggard witch and her puppet husband trying to hold on to power long enough to hand over the throne to one of their children. In the villages the people starve, bodies are buried at midnight, and the dictator’s wife puts up electric trees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHollywood, once so enthusiastic about the Sandinistas, looks elsewhere. Murder never dampened the enthusiasm of millionaire celebrities for Marxist terrorists, but Ortega and the Sandinistas committed the ultimate crime that a socialist regime can commit in their eyes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot tyranny or mass murder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike Brezhnev, Raul Castro, and Xi Jinping, Ortega and the Sandinistas have become uncool.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5522507391793659403\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/11\/dynasties-witchcraft-and-midnight.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5522507391793659403"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5522507391793659403"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/11\/dynasties-witchcraft-and-midnight.html","title":"Dynasties, Witchcraft, and Midnight Burials in the Sandinista Socialist Utopia"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-d1g2CiJa82w\/YYFq-hzPpqI\/AAAAAAAATj4\/bhSBibaTh60fMqMr9LIBB8Id2UUKcPmDQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-11-02_094441.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7298649447731986133"},"published":{"$t":"2020-07-14T22:36:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-02T21:57:33.325-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Communism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Marxism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"socialism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USSR"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Leftist Slavery Was Worse Than Southern Slavery"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Under 400,000 slaves were brought to America. Those enslaved African people represented only 3.6% of the transatlantic slave trade. By the Civil War, there were under 4 million black slaves in America. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver 20 million people were imprisoned by Soviet leftists in the gulag system. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the peak slave labor population in the leftist slave camps was less than the peak slave population in the South, the death rate ranged from 5 percent to 25 percent depending on the period. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder 2 million people died as a result of the brutal leftist system of slave labor camps and that was a fraction of the full number of people killed through various means by the Socialist system. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGulag labor was murderous with prisoners sent to work in uranium mines or to labor outdoors chopping trees and digging canals in subzero weather with little food and less protection. At one gulag, prisoners labored in uranium mines, breathing in radioactive dust, and dying within two years of cancer and leukemia. The sick were then used for medical experiments by Socialist medicine before they died. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese horrors were not some relic of the Stalin era, but were being carried out as recently as the 1970s. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eXn30svFsoI\/Xw3tG7D7QHI\/AAAAAAAASRQ\/nsOTz0OQvxwmLuUMRMAuaf_54_OCSOD7ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/skulls-1024x646.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"646\" data-original-width=\"1024\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eXn30svFsoI\/Xw3tG7D7QHI\/AAAAAAAASRQ\/nsOTz0OQvxwmLuUMRMAuaf_54_OCSOD7ACNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/skulls-1024x646.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 1619 Project of the New York Times falsely claimed that America was built on slave labor, but before that revisionist history project, the paper had run a Red Century project defending Communism when Soviet Socialism was, from Moscow University to the White Sea-Baltic Canal, built on slave labor. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt its peak, as many as 1 in 5 Soviet construction workers were convict laborers and massive slave labor projects like the White Sea-Baltic Canal, hailed as triumphs of socialism, killed tens of thousands. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Senator Bernie Sanders visited the USSR, he gushed over its socialist achievements, such as the Moscow Metro. The massive system had been built by Stalin to showcase the achievements of socialism and the Putin regime restored the old plaque reading, “Stalin raised us to be loyal to the nation, inspired us to labor and great deeds”.  But it wasn’t inspiration that built the Moscow Metro: it was slave labor. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There's a reason Joseph Stalin had gulags,\" Kyle Jurek, a Bernie Sanders field organizer had argued, calling it a model for breaking Americans of their “privilege” by sending them to “go break rocks.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENobody would propose a return to the plantations, but forced labor is still popular with some socialists. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Socialist system was built on forced labor, from the collective farms that peasants were not allowed to leave, to mandatory ‘volunteer’ brigades like those that helped build the Moscow Metro or harvested crops, to a massive slave trade in convict labor which built roads, tunnels, and canals, mined and did every form of dirty work, and was traded back and forth to Socialist civilian organizations. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Socialist achievements that American leftists praised were the product of slavery. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Left demands that America make a reckoning for 19th century slavery, its leading figures, from Bernie Sanders to Noam Chomsky, were apologists for socialist slavery, and its leading institutions, from the New York Times to the Pulitzer Institute, both promoters of the 1619 Project, were complicit in covering up slavery and mass murder by their socialist allies in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday’s ‘woke’ corporations, like Nike and Coca-Cola, benefit from slave labor in Communist China’s systems of labor camps, state-run and civilian factories, which encompass over 1 million people. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe brands telling Americans that they need a reckoning with slavery have their own reckoning. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESlavery has been a fundamental feature of the socialist regimes admired by American leftists expressed in murderous abbreviations from the Soviet GULAG to Cuba’s UMAP camps for Christians, to China’s RTL. The Khmer Rogue in Cambodia turned forced labor into genocide and this was not all that unusual. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESouthern slave owners, especially once shipping in new slaves was banned, wanted to profit from selling slaves and this resulted in a high population growth among enslaved African people, while the Soviet Socialist gulags, like their National Socialist counterparts, extracted maximum labor from their prisoners with no interest in their physical survival. They knew where they could easily get more slaves. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Nazis and the Communists operated unsustainable slave economies that always needed more bodies. National Socialist and Communist slave labor served a dual purpose, obtaining free labor for state industries (and in Germany, politically connected industries), and disposing of unwanted people. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Socialists used slave labor to clear away unwanted conquered populations, Jews, and others who were not official members of the Herrenvolk, while building up the industries of conquest. The Soviet Socialists also used the gulag system, along with mass starvation and executions, to clear away unwanted ethnic and national minorities, including again Jews, but also to purge their system. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Socialists used slave labor to eliminate potential dissent and terrorize the population on a much larger scale because while the National Socialists had used mass murder to achieve racial homogeneity, they used it to obtain political homogeneity as the basis for their system. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoth the National Socialists and Soviet Socialists envisioned an endless supply of slave labor that could be obtained through conquest. The South had internalized slavery, while the Socialists externalized it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialist slavery was not an aberration: it was the essential idea of Marxism and of Socialism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EArticle 12 of the 1936 Soviet constitution stated that, \"in the USSR, work is a duty\" and that the \"principle applied in the U.S.S.R. is that of socialism: From each according to his ability, to each according to his work.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was based on an idea from Karl Marx, who had had described the ideal Communist society as a place where, \"labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want.\" The message echoed the one placed over the gates of National Socialist concentration camps, \"Arbeit Macht Frei\" or \"Work makes you free.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union, like other socialist regimes, had defined itself as a worker state. But the nature of work, where and how one worked, was defined by the institutions of the state. Slavery was the founding principle of socialism which defined life around labor, not for the self, but for the collective good. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Socialism is the final concept of duty, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one’s fellow man’s sake, and above all the principle: Common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism,\" Adolf Hitler had articulated in a Munich speech titled, Why We Are Anti-Semites. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParasitism was the basis for forced labor in the Soviet Union and other Socialist regimes where the state defined who workers were and what legitimate work was. Citizenship in a workers’ state meant a willingness to labor on those terms. A failure to do so was parasitism which would be punished with redemption through labor. The “Arbeit Macht Frei” message of National Socialist concentration camps, derived from a 19th century novel about the moral redemption of forced labor, and the celebratory Soviet songs and poems of forced labor celebrated work as the true religion of a socialist state. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESouthern slave owners justified the subjugation of human beings by asserting that forced labor gave meaning to inferior people, uplifting them from a degraded condition, and taking care of them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialist slavery was based on the same premise and provided justification for Southern slavery. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The dissociation of labor and disintegration of society, which liberty and free competition occasion, is especially injurious to the poorer class; for besides the labor necessary to support the family, the poor man is burdened with the care of finding a home, and procuring employment,\" George Fitzhugh, one of the most vocal advocates for the Southern plantation, had argued. \"Slavery relieves our slaves of these cares altogether, and slavery is a form, and the very best form of socialism.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFitzhugh believed that not only black people, but that most people should be slaves to protect them from the fierce competition of a capitalist society. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"With negro slaves, their wages invariably increase with their wants. The master increases the provision for the family as the family increases in number and helplessness. It is a beautiful example of communism, where each one receives not according to his labor, but according to his wants,\" he wrote. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe doctrines of Socialism helped inspire Southern slave owners to defend the plantation. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Every plantation is an organized community,\" Rep. William Grayson had mused. \"A phalanstery, as Fourier, would call it, where all work, where each member gets sustenance and a home.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFitzhugh had also argued that, \"a well-conducted farm in the South is a model of associated labor that Fourier might envy.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECharles Fourier, the utopian socialist who coined the term 'feminism', had wanted to wipe out the Jews by sending them to labor in his phalansteries, massive utopian communes, as his original vision of utopian socialist communes had given way to labor camps that would break the enemies of socialism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialism is less efficient and produces less value, therefore it demands more cheap labor. Or slaves. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialist slavery begins with idealistic visions, but all the schemes based on willing cooperation fall through. The peasants cling to their land and have to be forced into communes. The workers don’t want to work and have to be compelled. The volunteers don’t show up and volunteering becomes mandatory. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe idealism turns into ossified academic jargon disguising the brutal reality of mass slavery. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has spent centuries making a difficult and bloody reckoning with slavery. Its leftist enemies have rarely bothered to even make the effort, blaming crimes on individual leaders, on poor conditions, and on interference by America in hellholes like Cambodia that would otherwise have been utopias. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd, no matter how much we learn about the Socialist mass killings, rehabilitation is always waiting. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left has failed to make a reckoning with slavery. That’s why the media nods sympathetically at old Communists, and clucks over McCarthyism even as it cancels random people over minor missteps. Its preeminent revisionist historian, Howard Zinn, was a Stalinist, its preeminent thinker, Noam Chomsky, defended the Khmer Rouge, and Bernie Sanders, its presidential candidate, praised the products of Soviet slave labor. These are the crimes of apologists for a contemporary Confederacy: a slave empire that spread around the world, killing millions, and enslaving countless millions more in systems of labor camps that dwarf anything that any Southern plantation owner could have imagined. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStatues of Columbus and Jefferson are under attack, but a statue of the greatest socialist slave owner of modern times still stands in Seattle. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVladimir Lenin had set up the system of gulags that eventually enslaved and killed millions. Lenin's plans had begun with \"obligatory work duty\" for class enemies, then evolved to the \"most unpleasant forced labor\" for members of the \"propertied classes\", and then to camps full of slaves laboring to build socialism who had been sent there for even the most minor of offenses. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the architect of the Red Terror and the secret police put it, \"Even now the labor of prisoners is far from being utilized on public works, and I propose to retain these concentration camps to use the labor of prisoners, gentlemen who live without occupation, those who cannot work without a certain compulsion, or, if we talk of Soviet institutions, then here one should apply this measure of punishment for unscrupulous attitude to work, for negligence, for lateness.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe purpose of the concentration camp was no longer to punish class enemies, but to find slaves. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat Lenin’s statue still stands in Seattle is a testament to the reality that the Left has made no reckoning with its history of slavery. It has not repented of its crimes against millions of people. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe greatest slave empires of the modern era were not Southern, they were Socialist. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConservatives have spent enough time defending the Founding Fathers. It is time to stop being on the defensive and attack the leftist proponents of modern slavery who propose to tear down their statues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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