Americans Hate America VI
Karl Marx developed the modern-day communistic theory based on two ideas. As highlighted in one of my previous posts, the dialectical and historical materialistic theory. He believed throughout history there were always three basic classes in society. The ruling class (landowners), the bourgeois (middle-class), and the proletarians (working-class). Marx believed his present-day, the middle-class replaced the landowners as the means of production. Now, the middle-class owned businesses and private property. The French Revolution supplied him the immediate experience. In lockstep, the middle-class will one day pass away, giving way to proletarians (the working-class). Indeed, the terms he used (landowners, bourgeois, proletarians) are French words. His worldview was dialectical, historical, and materialistic. It was to be realized in a highly technical and industrial civilization. It was not meant for a backward or rural society. In other words, industry breeds class-war-fare. Ultimately, Marx’s theory failed, but it still lives in various forms.
Scholars and experience have debunked Marxism. For instance, Marxism sees capitalism as a zero-sum game. Rather than a win-win game. For Marx, a zero-sum game means the few hold all the means of production. They control private property, its wealth, and political power. But the masses gain very little if anything. The masses are slaves to those few who have almost everything. “The modern laborer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class.” [1] In other words, only one side wins. We hear some of that that rhetoric today disguised in, “Make the rich pay its fair share.” According to Marx, the bourgeois’ or middle-class owned the means of production. They owned the business and most of the private property. While the proletarians (working-class) worked for the middle-class and owned very little or nothing. They were slaves.
As a society continues to develop, the middle-class forges not only chains for the working-class, but also for itself. “What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own gravediggers, its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.” [2] Ostensibly, Communism takes over. This happens naturally; even violent revolutions are natural to the process. Marx and his devotees boxed themselves in, though. Instead of seeking truth based in reality, he rejected that truth. He built his own reality from his personal hopes and dreams. Like all Utopian’ dreams, it ends in totalitarianism. Zero-sum game is competitive, but only for one side. Winner takes all.
In a free society, capitalism almost always is a win-win economic game. Take for example, a pie symbolizes the economy. In a zero-sum game, the pie can only be cut into smaller slices. But in a win-win game, the same pie allows for freedom to make it grow larger. This system creates multiple pies. The Ford company is a prime example of a win-win economic system. Wages went up as the company grew and expanded. Instead of wage earners being slaves to the business owners, they can buy cars, homes, and create their own business. The pie is multiplied into more pies. And laborers were capable of quitting and work for other companies.
There is two other economic factors Marx, nor his devotees did not realize or refused to understand. The vertical and horizontal economic factors. History has shown, workers moved up the economic ladder. They bought homes, cars, send their children to colleges. Workers became business owners, creating new business, and entrepreneurs. Millions have started with nothing and through hard work and taking risks moved up the economic ladder becoming financially successful. For example, before Marx was born and before the United States was founded, Benjamin Franklin started with nothing. He worked hard, saved, invested, and managed to retire at age 42. He continued to pursue his interests in science. He invented the bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the lighting rod, and more. Franklin was also successful in politics. From being a state politician to being a signer of the Declaration of Independence and signed the US Constitution. Franklin was not just a founding father. He was hailed as an example to school children for his hard work. His industry and success were also recognized. Ford and Franklin are not anecdotal. They are examples out of tens of millions.
The key factor to a healthy economic environment is liberty. People must be free to work, save, and invest. Win or lose, they must have the ability to take risks. Marx did not understand this concept. His dialectal worldview resembled more of a cult- like-religion. It developed into a pathogen. Liberty never fit into his determinism. Interesting to note, the New Testament mentions the word liberty about eleven times. For instance, “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” [3]
As a result, although Marxism failed, it still thrives, but in a mutated form – like a pathogen. A Pathogen is, “An agent that causes disease, especially a virus, bacterium, or fungus.” [4] Communistic countries have existed since the early 20th century; these are not true Marxist. They are in fact mutations of Marxism. Marxism is the belief all workers of the world would unite, and countries would dissolve. No boarders, no private property, and no classes. China use to brag to Russia that they were true Marxist. Marxism could never support itself because it eliminated the element that allowed it to grow – air (freedom). The pathogen proved fatal to the host.
It continues to live on, however. Liberty has allowed it to survive. It has morphed into different shapes and different kinds of germs. Like a chameleon, and through its devotes, it has blended itself into the various institutions culture.
All in all, Marxism cannot survive on its own as Marx determined. Marxism is more like rabies. “Rabies,” comes from the Latin, meaning “Madness.” [5] Rabies is, “A disease of the nervous system caused by the rabies virus. Rabies is marked by an increase in saliva production, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death.” [6] This behavior is seen today whenever the LGBT community march in the streets. They often shout down others who disagree with their beliefs and behavior. It lives on in those who reject science and common sense. Some have called this cultural Marxism. It continues whenever the government over taxes and over-regulates. There are two sets of laws between the many and the few who have power and money. Extreme corruption is another variant of the pathogen. In the end, this environment is unsustainable. Marxism is not realized, but as a pathogen – it thrives in many countries, institutions, governments, and words, and actions.
James T. Booker
March 2, 2026
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[1] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (New York: International Publishers, reprint 2017), 21
[2] Ibid, 21.
[3] 2 Corinthians 3: 17. ESV.
[4] “Pathogen,” The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary:
pathogen. (n.d.) The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary, accessed March 2, 2026,https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/pathogen.
[5] “Rabies,” Open md, accessed March 2, 2026, rabies – Definition | OpenMD.com.
[6] Ibid.
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