Modern American liberalism has become a form of Marxism

Modern American liberalism has become a form of Marxism,
Why it is not up to employers to provide a living wage

Recent protests organized by the Left to get McDonald’s, Wal-Mart and others to raise the wages of their employees have raised the issue of a “living wage,” or the minimum needed to cover one’s basic needs. But businesses cannot operate profitably if they are required to employ people at wages based on the financial needs of the employees.


It is not the responsibility of businesses to set wages and salaries according to what someone else determines is a “living wage.” The price for someone’s work has to be determined by what that work is worth. And the business owner has to determine if hiring someone at that wage will help his business to be more profitable. Then, only if the labor force isn’t adequate to fill those positions, the price goes up to attract the work they need.

The “living wage” is essentially a Marxist concept. But Karl Marx himself, in 1875 in his Critique of the Gotha Programme, actually argued against attempts to implement concepts like the “living wage” in a free capitalist society, saying it couldn’t happen until violent revolution had destroyed capitalism and his “dictatorship of the proletariat” had forcibly removed every vestige of capitalism:

“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor…has vanished…and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can…society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”



Modern American liberalism has become a form of Marxism, abandoning the method that Marx saw as necessary, of violently overthrowing capitalism, trying to bring about his unachievable utopia of communism by gradually passing it into law. But both paths lead to destruction.

In last year’s presidential election campaign, Mitt Romney was portrayed as being beholden to some kind of robber barons who are squeezing their wealth out of poor people to make them rich. As the American left typically does, they concocted a false picture of their political opponent and did everything they could to spread this false image.

This false portrayal of Romney also stems from the Marxist concept of class struggle. Marx believed that all wealth, or as he called it, capital, comes from capitalists essentially stealing it from laborers, leaving the laborers destitute and making the bosses all fat-cats at their expense.

Yet we have nearly two hundred years of the history of the Industrial Age, and its responsibility for bringing about absolutely amazing societal advancement to the world, to disprove Marx’s theories.

Capitalism has caused society as a whole to prosper, and those who partake of it through their labor and through their investments, become beneficiaries. What stops this process of development is when wealth (capital) becomes a source for government to use to impose the ideas of a few on society as a whole.

Rather than working through charities to provide help to the needy, it has somehow became government’s responsibility to make sure everyone had their basic needs met, regardless of how many people were gaming the system to steal this wealth. As more and more of the responsibility for advancing society falls on government institutions, more and more of individual initiative is sapped from society and innovation is sacrificed, replaced by government studies and burdensome bureaucratic institutions.

Government bureaucracy grows like cancer, consuming everything in its path
Then the government bureaucracy grows like cancer, consuming everything in its path. But it is time we begin to excise this cancer by making major cuts in the size of the federal government and restoring the role of the states and the people in our system of federalism.

It is really alarming to me how quickly and completely those faithful to the leftist-Marxist message take what their propagandists are saying and run with it. They don’t realize how they have opened themselves up to tyrannical rule by abandoning the Constitution and trying to impose their big-government ways at any cost.





Pundits are expected to make predictions for the year ahead and far be it for me to avoid what, generally speaking, depends on who is making them. Major trends are already in place and easy to predict as they proceed, but it is always unknown events that upend predictions. Mother Nature and perpetrators of evil can always be counted upon to provide them.



Since the Earth has been in a seventeen-year cooling cycle, I can safely predict there will be no “global warming” in 2014 and, given the other science-based factors, the likelihood is that 2014 will experience more colder weather and may even be an earlier predictor of a mini-ice age much the same as the one that occurred from 1300 to 1850.

As mentioned, it is the unpredictable events that will affect 2014. The good news is that the U.S. has seen far fewer hurricanes, tornadoes, and forest fires in recent years. The global cooling trend, however, is likely to cause more and larger blizzards.

“Climate change”? This is now the basis of all the lies we shall hear from the President to justify his five-year delay of the Keystone oil pipeline, his continued war on coal—affordable electricity—and other Environmental Protection Agency efforts to control our lives while denying the creation of the thousands of jobs the pipeline and other energy-related development would provide. Environmentalism is the enemy of the technologies that have transformed and enhanced our lives.

The November mid-term elections hold the promise of ridding Congress of some of the Democrats who unanimously voted for ObamaCare in 2009. It will also replace those Republicans-in-name-only, RINOs, who have joined Democrats in voting for legislation that advanced the socialism that is strangling the nation by expanding the federal government. I predict the ranks of “independent” voters will increase in 2014.

The erosion of the Democratic Party base will continue as ObamaCare afflicts millions of Americans who will lose their healthcare insurance plans, be deprived of using their personal physician, and see their costs increase. It is the essence of communism, providing the government with control over one’s life and, in too many cases, causing many to die for the lack of plans they previously had or the costs of those they are required to purchase. Those leaving the party will include women and the younger generation leaving college to discover there aren’t any jobs to help them cope with the debt they incurred to attend. Hispanics, too, show signs of leaving.

It is hard to predict what will occur within the Republican Party whose leadership has engaged in denunciations of the Tea Party movement. However, when the Tea Party movement elects more committed conservative GOP candidates, it will save the nation and the party. Suffice to say that Obamacare will be the gift that keeps on giving in 2014. It will, in time, be repealed.

Obama’s failed foreign policy will ensure that former allies will cease to trust the U.S. to support their need to deal with the rising threat of Islamic jihad in the Middle East and Africa. Obama has lost Egypt and Saudi Arabia as long-time allies. Israel is in a particularly perilous situation and the outcome of the Syrian civil war does not bode well for it or its neighbor Jordan.

Iran will be the greatest threat of war since the 1930s. And, yes, the U.S.-led “deal” will fail.

Polls reveal a growing unhappiness with the U.S. Congress. The President’s performance ratings have been falling and will continue to do so in 2014. The problem is the growth of socialism that began during and in the wake of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The pension debt and other benefits resulting from government worker unions has forced Detroit into bankruptcy and other American cities will follow.

By executive order the President just raised government salaries by 1%. Can he do that? Not really. Only the House can authorize such expenditures. Can he change ObamaCare without consulting Congress? Not really.

The mainstream media will continue to lose its credibility as the Internet affords Americans alternative means of finding out what is really occurring as opposed to the deceptive and manipulative efforts of the Obama administration. Having raised voter’s expectations of Obama, his fall will be dramatic in 2014. The mainstream media is largely composed of liberals who are the result of the transformation of education into socialist indoctrination that began in the 1960s. By contrast, conservative print and broadcast media will thrive. Fox News has more viewers than the networks and CNN, combined.

Events such as the current attack on Southern Sudan, and the on-going slaughter in Syria will continue. Christians throughout the Middle East and Africa will find themselves under continued attack. Muslim-on-Muslim violence will continue. Islamists are devoted to its “holy” war, including its own schism.

In America, privacy, an essential element of the Constitution, will continue to be diminished if Congress does not address the vast collection of information of all of our communications. Read the Fourth Amendment. It says in part that “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”

We may see more states enact laws to defy ObamaCare. South Carolina is currently the only one. The Tenth Amendment says “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Read the Constitution,

you will not find the words “health” in it, nor “education”, nor ‘environment.’ The federal government should get out of these aspects of our lives.

My most positive prediction is that historians will look back at 2014 as the year in which Americans woke to the threat of socialism-communism and, like the Tea Party movement, began to fight back.