Feminism extends across the socioeconomic spectrum and the women’s movement, as such, provides fertile ground for sowing dissent throughout nearly all racial, ethnic and religious factions. “When the state attempts to establish, as the official national creed, a crudely utilitarian ethic based on a distorted notion of freedom as radical individual autonomy, the free economy is in serious trouble. So is the democratic polity,†wrote scholar George Weigel, a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. [1]
When Dwight Eisenhower left the White House in the late ‘50s, he warned in a speech of the dangers of a U.S. military-industrial complex, a phrase rehashed with deceit and malice by anti-Western political forces ever since. The real threat, however, has been the establishment of a Marxist-industrial complex, as we see vividly taking shape – and hold – today.
Marxist forces have long sought to undermine all forms of free enterprise and have underwritten many such a nation’s financial ruin, including America’s ongoing debt debacle. “[Vladimir] Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency,†observed British economist John Maynard Keynes in 1919. “… Lenin certainly was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.†[2]
Since 1922, successive Communist International Party Congresses had announced to the world their determination to destroy all capitalistic countries, including America. In the 1950s, Marxists developed a strategy based on “state capitalism,†viewing that period as “the transitional epoch, a period transitional between capitalism and socialism, a period of hybrids and contradictions, wars and revolutions.†[3]
These forces set about creating a dysfunctional socioeconomic climate within the United States, establishing an array of special-interest social groups as major beachheads in the early ‘60s, notably feminism and environmentalism, as presented in Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and Rachel Carson’s The Silent Spring. Neither author’s Marxist-based political associations received much scrutiny, and neither book received much critical analysis. Instead, the books were promoted beyond all reason and substance by like-minded members in academia and media.
Infiltrating American businesses was not all that difficult. As James Kalb notes in his book, The Tyranny of Liberalism, corporate structures offer Marxists the “hiring, training, management, supervision and promotion … [that] provide the state with a ready-made instrument for reeducation and other forms of social control.†He also notes that Karl Marx believed that a global marketplace would “undermine nationality and establish common class interests leading to union among those playing a common role in the system of production. He was right, but (not surprisingly) it turned out to be the rulers rather than the proletariat … [as] the traumas of globalism tend to push the working class still farther away from the global solidarity enjoyed by the elite.†[4]
For nearly 50 years now, few people have stood up to the massive assault on a system so maligned that even its proponents seemed disposed to apologetic posturing. In his essay, “In Defense of Capitalism,†Vasko Kohlmayer wrote, “Rather than mankind’s scourge, capitalism has been its greatest benefactor. It is, in fact, the only socio-economic system that can provide ordinary people with dignified and prosperous lives. … Today, as if by miracle, we can enjoy greater comforts and ease of life than the kings of the past. … Conversely, those who live in non-capitalist societies invariably experience the opposite.†[5]
As Walter Williams, a nationally syndicated columnist and a professor at George Mason University, stated, “The rise of capitalism has brought about a more humane society … . If you’re a radical feminist, which country do you want to live in? What about Saudi Arabia, China, most countries in Africa? No, you want to live in the United States.†[6]
Marshall Rockford Goodman is the author of Karla Marx: How feminism has seduced the West available through amazon.com.
SOURCES:
1. The End of Democracy? “Questions of Legitimacy,†George Weigel (Spence Publishing 1997), p. 108.
2. What Are We Using for Money, Paul Blackwell, Jr., (D. Van Nostrand 1952), p. 201.
3. Stalinism: Its Origin and Future, Andy Blunden, 1993. http://www.marxists.org/subject/stalinism/origins-future/ch2-1a.htm
4. The Tyranny of Liberalism, James Kalb, (ISI Books 2008), Part 1, Ch. 3, “Institutions,†pp. 58-59.
5. “In Defense of Capitalism,†Vasko Kohlmayer, Sept. 18, 2009, http://www.frontpagemag.com/.
6. “Free Market Economics,†Walter Williams, C-SPAN, Aug. 5, 2008. http://www.cspanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=280293-4&showVid=true
