Skidmarks...ists

A few days ago I was walking through Oxford when I came to a street stall manned by two well-spoken but scruffily-dressed men selling books, newspapers and pamphlets; they were also advertising a public lecture. They explained that they were from the Socialist Equality Party and one of the men on the stall, David O’Sullivan, is standing in next weeks General Election, see: http://www.socialequality.org.uk/ He asked me some questions about my feelings towards politics and I answered honestly, at which he rolled his eyes and grimaced with frustration. “There are no such things as Conspiracy Theories!” he exclaimed. “It’s all about the class struggle. The Capitalist ruling classes are not part of any bloodline or secret society. There’s nothing occult about what’s going on.” He ranted passionately and doggedly: “There is such a thing as historical truth and it can be proven!” he said. I replied: “But not everyone is agreed on what that truth is; that’s why we have debates.” He answered: “Yes and those debates are how we expose historical falsifications!” I shrugged and said: “OK, we’ll just have to differ on that.” and stared at me in astonishment as if doing such a thing had never occurred to him. It felt strange for me, talking to him like this because many years ago when I was a teenager I’d had similar conversations, except that back then I was arguing the position O'Sullivan was. Yes, at that time I was a Marxist-Socialist. I’ve not spoken much about this on HPANWO because it’s not something I’m proud of and I’ve considered it a terrible mistake; but then again, maybe it was a phase I needed to go through. Ustane laughed at the men on the stall, saying: “You know what they should be called? ‘Skidmarks-ists’!”
Marxism is named after its founder Karl Marx, the famous 19th century German philosopher. Marx’ view, or publically-stated view, of history was that it progressed through a series of stages demarcated by revolutions, from indigenous tribal cultures, “primitive barbarism”, to the first slave-based civilizations like Ancient Egypt to Medieval feudalism and then what we have today: Industrial Capitalism. Marx believed (or said he believed) that Capitalism would eventually and inevitably have to give way to a new system just like all its predecessors did. This new system would be a classless society with all its industries state-owned and organized which he christened Communism. In the same way that feudalism was replaced by Capitalism in the Industrial Revolution, Capitalism would be replaced by Communism in a predicted Communist Revolution. This revolution could be achieved by the workers taking control of the world's industry and running it themselves through a “workers’ state”. After that had been done, according to The Communist Manifesto, which Marx wrote with his friend Friedrich Engels in 1848, this state would slowly “wither away” to leave behind a stable and eternal paradise. The book’s classic line which has become a Marxist motto is: “Workers of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains.” For many years I believed those words. Now I realize that they are a lie. But exactly how big a lie are they and what purpose does the lie serve?
I first got involved with Marxists when I was about 13 or 14. I bunked off school one day and went on a political demonstration; I can’t remember what it was about, but it was probably against one of the policies of the Prime Minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher, who was very unpopular with the youth. There were a group of people walking round selling copies of a newspaper called The Militant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_tendency). I was very impressionable in those days, even compared to normal teenage standards. I also craved companionship and used to make many “friends” who were nothing of the sort, yet I turned a blind eye to their misconduct because I wanted so badly to fit in with them. One of the Militant-sellers took the phone numbers of me and my schoolmates and later that day gave me a call to invite me to a meeting at a house near my home. When I got there the Militants described their organization in a very favourable way. They asked me what I thought of when I heard the word “Communism” and of course I described the mental visions of East Germans being shot as they climbed the Berlin Wall, scraggily-clad peasants queuing for apples and pears, tanks rolling through ruined streets. They responded: “That’s not what real Communism is.” They explained how the Russian Revolution was meant to be the start of a world-wide one as envisaged by Karl Marx. The regime in Russia was intended to be just a “holding position” until, the follow-up revolutions in Germany and then the rest of the world had succeeded. The German Revolution failed and Germany descended into chaos and then the Nazi era. In Russia Stalin took power and solidified the original “holding position” into a fully-fledged hegemony that was actually called “Stalinism”, not Communism. I was captivated! And this is the danger of Marxism; to the naïve and immature mind it looks incredibly seductive. Young people feel the horror of the pain and injustice in the world more keenly than adults. The prophesy of an ideal world free of poverty, violence and environmental destruction consumed me. The modern proponents of Marxism are all very skilled advertizers and know exactly how to package and market their product. I joined on the spot. My new comrades began my Marxist education immediately. I, who had up till then read nothing but Tintin and Asterix books, had a whole pile of thick volumes dropped into my lap. I began reading them, but didn’t get very far. I didn’t care because my comrades had read them and all I had to do was follow their lead. I revered them all, in particular the District Secretary, a man in his early 30’s named Clive who became almost a surrogate father to me. My own parents were very supportive and admired me for acting on my beliefs, but in fact I wasn’t really acting on them; I didn’t understand them, I was a lonely and frightened teenager and was allowing myself to be led. My “beliefs” were really just quotations. For the next few years almost every hour I could spare was spent selling the Militant paper on the street like people do today with The Big Issue, attending meetings and conferences, lobbying political events, travelling all over the country to protests and strikes. One thing I don’t regret about this period in my life was that I took part in the anti-Poll Tax movement in the late 1980’s which successfully brought down the most unfair tax ever imposed on the British people. The ultimate goal which we set our lives and our hearts on was the achievement of a revolution in Britain just like the Russian one in 1917, except this one would succeed and spread across the world like wildfire until the entire globe was liberated and could finally live forever in a Communist Shangri La.
Modern Marxists are different to the ones who led the Bolsheviks to victory in 1917. Lenin is highly criticized and considered fairly extraneous today; and he died soon after the Revolution. Stalin has been exposed and discredited. Most Marxists today worship a man who was expelled from the Russian Communist Party and sent into exile by Stalin, eventually to be assassinated by the KGB in 1940. He was a Russian-Ukrainian Jew born in 1879 as Leiba Davidovich Bronstein; he is better known today as Leon Trotsky. Trotsky has become a symbol in the modern age for upholding the true principles of Marxism in the face of corruption, distortion and the fading of human memory. Trotsky was jailed as a young man for plotting against the Tsar and when released took part in the Bolshevik Revolution. He was the founder of the Red Army and fought the White Army in the Russian Civil War. Along with being Lenin’s right hand man he was a Marxist theoretician in his own right and his ideas, like the Permanent Revolution, inspired my erstwhile comrades in Militant. If you want an explanation of what the Permanent Revolution is, don’t ask me! I’m no wiser to it now than I was back then. Clive gave me a copy of Trotsky’s autobiography, with the less than original title of My Life which is still on my shelf waiting to be read. I might well read it out of curiosity one day, but right now I'm still reading its ideological opposite, Atlas Shrugged! The guys on that stall were advertizing a lecture at the University to discuss Trotsky and his legacy, in particular to defend him from what they see as the libel of a recently-published unflattering biography by Robert Service.
I can’t remember when and how I stopped being a Marxist; it was a very gradual process, not deliberate on my part at all, totally subconscious and without any revelatory rejection of it. As my teens drew to a close and my 20’s dawned I just slowly drifted away from my comrades, attended meetings less and less, stopped going to paper sales until one day I was no longer a part of that world any more. It was only fairly recently that I’ve been able to look back on the Marxist period of my life and analyze what actually happened to me, and feel that I can now write about it. What I recall is that my relationships with my comrades were very similar to most other relationships I had in my life at that time; they were based on my submission and gratitude, gratitude to them for allowing me into their lives. The times they teased, patronized and ridiculed me were a fair price to pay for it, I thought. Marxists talk a lot about “freedom” when, like O’Sullivan on that stall, they’re doing their sales pitch, but in private amongst themselves they’re some of the most doctrinaire people you can imagine. Marxism is more than just a political philosophy and economic theory; it’s a completely different way of looking at everything, using a method called “Dialectical Materialism” which is virtually a completely new form of human cognition. Marxists are absolutely 100% certain that they are right about everything, hence O’Sullivan’s statements about “historical truth”. They hate non-Marxists with a passion, and other Marxists who have different ideas; and they have a whole dictionary of their own unique derogatory terms for them like: “sectarian, “lumpen”, “petit-bourgeois”, “utopian”. I remember I was on a paper sale once and had a good conversation with a man as I sold him a Militant. He disagreed that the Stalinist countries were not really Communist. We agreed to differ and parted on good terms; then Clive came over to me and asked what I’d been talking about. I explained and he snorted at me: “Don’t waste your time with the likes of him, Ben. He’s nothing but a worthless trendy!” Clive was often deeply unpleasant to people behind their backs no matter how friendly he was to their faces. It makes me wonder what he used to say about me to the others! Marxism is hopelessly fractured with literally hundreds of organizations in Britain alone. Monty Python's satire of the "Judean People's Front" and its various rivals is very perceptive, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE . These organizations go on to split and split again like uranium atoms, every time they come across a conundrum over some tiny detail of Marxist theory in which one group of comrades thinks one thing and another group thinks something else. In fact since I left Militant it has split into two separate factions: the Socialist Party (http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/main/Home) and Socialist Appeal (http://www.socialist.net/) There are a few people I remember who are still involved, for instance the scrawny young woman at the start of this video: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/9103 is Hannah Sell. Today she is deputy-leader of the Socialist Party, and I used to know her when she was a spotty teenager and used to work with her in the Militant-run Youth Rights Campaign. She’s the same age as me and it saddens me to see that after over 20 years of adult life she still believes in the Marxist myth; no doubt she’d say that it’s sad that I no longer do! Whenever these divisions take place they are amazingly acrimonious and former comrades will turn on each other with almost fanatical spite over a telegram that Zinoviev sent to Kerensky in June 1916 or some other piece of trivial minutiae.
Everything to a Marxist is based in economics, economics and economics; everything else is irrelevant. I’ve been to meetings where subjects discussed include countries like Ethiopia, Burma and Nepal and the entire discussion will be about the economics and politics of that country. At no point will the matter of those peoples’ unique cultures and spiritual traditions come into the equation. I remember the forced nods and greasy smiles I got when I started talking about how Nepal’s religious tradition could influence that land’s revolution. Marxism is 100% left-brained and totally rejects anything non-material; in fact it’s known as “scientific socialism”. I’ve often written about how even people who claim to be atheists can behave in religious ways about other things than God, EG: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/07/our-brave-boys.html; there are other examples, like how some football fans’ feelings towards the team they support can be described as religious. Marxism is the same only more so. It has a Holy Trinity, God the Father: Marx, the Son: Lenin, and the Holy Spirit: Trotsky. The thing that first made we realize how much is missing from Marxist analysis was when I learned that in their assessment of the Russian Revolution, they completely fail to even mention one of the most important figures in it: Grigori Rasputin. Rasputin was an apolitical mystic who for a short time virtually controlled the entire Russian nation through his influence over the Tsar Nicholas II and his family. He was murdered by one of the Tsar’s sons in 1916. They tried to poison him and shoot him, but had to dump him into a frozen river to eventually kill him. It came out later though that British intelligence were involved in the assassination! See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/09_september/19/rasputin.shtml . Why? The answer may lie in the true nature of Marxism itself that has come to my attention since I started looking into the New World Order. Karl Marx. There’s book by Gary Allen called None Dare Call It Conspiracy in which the author provides evidence that Marx was a member of an affiliate of the Bavarian Illuminati and created Communism while he was involved with the Theosophists and an organization called “The League of the Free.” In his ideas about society Marx’ Communism could well be described as a New World Order. The Communist Manifesto talks about the workers’ state ruling the entire world and that it would eventually “wither away”… well can I have that in writing!? There is no guarantee that this state will wither away. What if it’s not meant to? Far from being a path to a secular Heaven, what if Communism is a Trojan horse for the New World Order? You see, after the October Revolution in 1917 Lenin dissolved all the Factory Soviets and other democratic structures of the Bolshevik policies and instituted a dictatorship, as Noam Chomsky illustrates here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQsceZ9skQI . Also the Bolshevik party itself had been funded by Wall Street and the City of London. This new dictatorship was meant to be a “holding position” until the German Revolution had succeeded, as I said above, but what if it wasn’t? What if the German Revolution had succeeded? What it it had spread across the whole world? And then what if the people demanded that the state be allowed to with away and Lenin replied: “Eh? Sorry, it’s not going to wither away. I’ve changed my mind. It’s going to stay… forever!” So Communism may well have been a failed attempt by the Illuminati to introduce the New World Order. After the failure of the World Revolution and its deformation into Stalinism I speculate that the Illuminati changed their strategy. They abandoned the idea of the Communist path to the New World Order and instead created the Divide-and-Rule ploy between the “Democratic West” and “The Big Bad Red Menace” of the Soviet Union.
Now, in the post-Cold War world I suspect that this strategy has changed again. The Communist technique may have been dusted off, but what it's planning is a very different form of Revolution. Militant and my erstwhile comrades were Trotskyists; they operated in the open and believed the path to Socialism was to be achieved by an overt and acute Revolution, like in Russia. They insisted that Marxists were the ultimate rebels and that the “Capitalist class” the ultimate authority. But this is not true. The so-called "Capitalists", the Elite organizations of this world, actually include Marxists! These are Marxists who instead of going on protests and selling papers on the street, hatch secret plans to infiltrate government, industry and public services through groups like Common Purpose, DEMOS, the Fabian Society and The Frankfurt School. There are several excelent researchers on the scene today uncovering this subterfuge; I’m thinking especially of Brian Gerrish; this is his best lecture on the world of “covert Marxism”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDID29vA-F0 . This speech by Jonathan Bowden about the Frankfurt School is particulaly interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBQUJJ-7iE . Bowden is a BNP-member and says a lot I disagree with, but this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t listen to what he says here; we ignore his information at our cost!
So beware of Marxism! It’s not the path to freedom it claims to be, in fact it’s a massive confidence trick, even more so than Democracy. It’s been used as a stalking horse for the NWO directly through an open revolution, indirectly through Divide-and-Rule, and now directly again through covert infiltration.

(Adendum- 2/5/10) I should also mention that I am opposed to Communism in enhearent principle. I'm a supporter of private industry and private property in a new form. See these articles: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2007/09/workers-cooperatives.html

And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2009/09/guilds.html

And: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/05/basic-income.html

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(And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2010/04/starchild-skull-dna-extracted.html)

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