In a normal war, you gather up your soldiers, and send them out to do battle. They meet the enemy soldiers. And they shoot each other. The winner gets to tell the loser what to do, because the winner is the one left holding a gun at the end.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could fight the Conspiracy in such a simple way. Just go out and shoot some bankers. Life would be so simple! But that’s not going to work.
But that’s basically what Marx advocates. “The Communists . . . openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”. In other words, shoot everybody that gets in the way.
Thus Communism harnesses the violent impulse to strike back with physical force against the Super Rich.
But the target is wrongly stated. Marx defines the enemy as the “bourgeoisie”, that is, all businessmen. But businessmen are the ones who make things and move things around. Producing and trading. Industry and commerce. If we shoot all the businessmen, then we are suddenly all starving. Even if we have money, we have nothing, because there is nothing to buy.
Thus the Super Rich have taken the masses of common people and taught them that it is Right and Good to kill people who are more successful than they are, and to steal their property. Successful and enterprising people, who would be best able to resist the tyranny of the Super Rich, are thus attacked by the workers. The workers are taught that the government should own everything and take care of everybody. But the Super Rich secretly control the government.
Thus the workers and the businessmen are both brought under control and made powerless.
All those dedicated Communists and Leftists should be working for us.
We are the true fighters against the Super Rich.
The Communists and the Left are made into fools by the Conspiracy. It has tricked them into working to enslave themselves.
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