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(You have nothing to lose but your brains)
by Aaron Velasquez
In the last century, utopias were a fad. People came up with all manner of idealistic and impractical forms of social arrangement, forms of governance and ways of living. Most utopias came and went without a tear shed. One in particular, really caught on and gained some traction in the larger world. That idealistic prescription for society was to become known as 'Marxism' after its namesake, Karl Marx. Marx was a social malcontent, whose chief claim to fame, in my book, was a predilection for avoiding work and supporting his seven children. He lived on the couch of his friend Engels (ironically, a successful capitalist) as they co-wrote their magnum opus, The Communist Manifesto.
The core of Marxism is a fairly simple concept. It is a model of social relationship that Dr. David R. Hawkins calls the 'victim/perpetrator model.' In this model, a narcissist cloaks himself in the sheep's clothing of pious victimhood in order to justify attacking someone, who was ostensibly victimizing them. This model has been used to justify criminality in the Environmental (Green is the new Red) movement, the animal rights movement, the politically correct movement, etc. All are logical (or perhaps illogical) extensions of Marxist ideology.
This is how our President and his friends on the left can cast the perpetrator of the Fort Hood massacre as a victim. He was justified, apparently, in victimizing fourteen innocent people (one unborn, perhaps the left would beg to differ and call it thirteen. But that is another column) unto death. The rationalization for this act was that the murderer was, you got it, victimized. He was victimized, so his actions are morally cleansed by the Marxist victim/perpetrator model.
In Marxist thinking, the end does indeed justify the means. Terrorism, murder, arson, violent revolution,not to mention a progressive tax code, are all justified by the pie in the sky, which never comes down to earth. In fact, every supposed "liberator" becomes, in turn, the very tyrant they ostensibly overthrew. Witness Castro, Mao, Lenin, Chavez and others.
It becomes clear, therefore, what the infatuation is that the Left has with militant Islam. Both share the same core model. Both use the Marxist victim/perpetrator model to justify any excess "in the name of the cause." Both were infected with Marxism and radicalized in the heady days of the early Twentieth Century. Neither will give up its supposed moral superiority without a fight, and sadly, both want nothing better than to fight.
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