I had a smart arse Black Lives Matter (BLM) advocate dimwit repeatedly demand I give her a definition of Marxism after I kept insisting that BLM was Marxist. Seems that she thought I was just throwing around words and didn’t know what I was talking about.
So… I decided to indulge her. Here is my answer.
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Dear Aimee
Marxism is based on a materialistic and atheistic philosophy that embraces the Hegelian dialectic (thesis / antithesis/ synthesis) as divorced from Hegel’s Idealism and uses the dialectic as its means to realize “progress.” Its intent is the arrival of Utopia and its effect is to level all distinctions into an egalitarian social order. Its result, wherever it has been tried in history, is rivers of blood as the state forces Utopia on unwilling men and women. It’s chief technique in seizing and maintaining power is terror. It is constantly at war with distinctions since distinctions violate their envisioned egalitarian order. Having no extra-mundane personal transcendent God Marxism practices moral relativism. Right and wrong is completely determined by the State in which men live and move and have their being. As such what is right today could very well be wrong tomorrow depending on the necessities of the State. (As seen during the WW II era when one minute the comrades are violently opposing the National socialists in Germany and then the next moment they are singing the praises of their Nazi allies and then flipping again to denounce the Fascists.) Marxism holds to the community of goods as seen in its maxim, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Historically speaking this has included women and wives so that women are considered property of the state to be passed around as needed (See Alexander Kollontai’s work). The epistemology of Marxism is humanistic reason. The axiology of Marxism is the progress of the Soviet man. The Ontology of Marxism is time plus chance plus circumstance. The teleology of Marxism is the Kingdom of man.
Well, I could give a good deal more but this should help you in your studies. I would recommend reading several books I have read if you want to learn more.
Francis Nigel Lee — Communist Eschatology
Fred Schwarz — You Can Trust The Communists to be Communists
W. Cleon Skousen — The Naked Communist
Alexander Solzhenitsyn — From Under the Rubble
Igor Shafarevich — The Socialist Phenomenon
When you get through with those come back to me and I’ll give you some more homework.
Or you could just get your undergrad degree in political philosophy like I did.
I trust your reading goes well.
