The Briefing Room

General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 20, 2017, 03:25:47 pm

Title: Marxism Tickles Each of the Seven Deadly Sins
Post by: rangerrebew on October 20, 2017, 03:25:47 pm
Marxism Tickles Each of the Seven Deadly Sins


By John Zmirak Published on October 20, 2017
John Zmirak

Yesterday I marked the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution with a list of the crimes that Marxist ideologues have committed around the world. I promised to analyze why all through the decades those crimes were being committed, intelligent people were still drawn to Marxism. Indeed, some still are today. What gives?

Marx’s thought is cynical, bitter, conspiratorial and self-righteous. His writing is clunky and caustic. His vision of human life is mechanistic and joyless. The utopia he promises after decades of bloody struggle is goofy and utterly implausible. Every single society that has tried to implement his ideas has ended in tyranny and famine. You’d think that would put people off.

https://stream.org/marxism-tickles-seven-deadly-sins/