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- Chapter 1: Who are the Modern Liberals?
- Chapter 2: Beliefs of Modern Liberals
- Chapter 5: Modern Liberals and Marxism
- Chapter 6: Do Modern Liberals Really Hate America?
- Chapter 7: Tactics and Propaganda of Modern Liberals
- Chapter 8: Who are the Conservatives?
- Chapter 9: Beliefs of Conservatives
- Chapter 11: America and Europe
- Chapter 12: Ronald Reagan
- Chapter 13: Taking America Back
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Excerpts from Chapter 5: Modern Liberals and Marxism
Marx prophesized that with capitalism, it is inevitable that competition increases, and this results in developing more efficient techniques of production. However, even though technology and new methods of production increase efficiency, they can only go so far. After the capitalists reach their peak production efficiency, it becomes difficult to increase profits, so they seize profit from labor. The capitalists squeeze labor by increasing work time, commanding more effort for the same pay, or simply paying less. Marx said that capitalism is based on exploitation of workers by the capitalists’ appropriation of the “surplus value” of their labor. The rate of “surplus value,” according to Marx, is “an exact expression for the degree of exploitation of labor-power by capital, or of the worker by the capitalist.” We hear the echoes of this in a variety of forms from Modern Liberals: They say that the capitalists’ profits are unreasonable and they are not improving the lives of their workers; they cite statistics that the CEOs are making x times the amount of the average worker; and they promulgate the myth that companies outsource only to get cheaper labor. Modern Liberals also allege that today’s capitalists actually want unemployment and benefit from it because, they adduce, it drives wages down. This falsehood stems from the group that Marx designated as the disposable reserve army; this is “a mass of human material always ready for exploitation by capital.” Marx said that the capitalists wanted to have poor and unemployed people because this would not only help to keep down the wages, but it would make the masses afraid to revolt because they could easily be replaced by people in this “reserve army.” Modern Liberals incessantly blame the affluent capitalists for unemployment, aligning with what they have absorbed from Marx’s teachings over the past century and a half. It echoes of Marx: “In proportion as capital accumulates, the situation of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.” Marx’s words can be heard—in the modernized version, of course—when today’s Modern Liberals speak about the rich getting richer. With Modern Liberals, we hear Marx’s original statement rephrased when he wrote that the striving of the moneyed class for more wealth results in the “accumulation of misery, the torment of labor, slavery, ignorance, brutalization, and moral degradation…on the side of the class that produces its own capital.”
Marx asserted that society—even in his time—had sufficient wealth to guarantee that the needs of everyone could be met, but that the owners of the means of production were unwilling to share it. In addition, Marx asserted that even more could be produced if the means of production were out of the hands of the inefficient and wasteful capitalists. Again, we hear the echoes of this in Modern Liberals when they are asked from where they will get funds for their programs: They answer that the well-to-do are holding on to the money, and if the bounty would be shared (i.e., “redistributed”) everyone could have full health care, poverty would be eliminated, education could be “free,” and the standard of living could be raised. Since the well-heeled are not willing to share of their own volition, Modern Liberals profess, their profits, income, and inheritances must be heavily taxed. All of these declarations mean that they actually assume that all the wealth needed to realize their fantasies is already available. Modern Liberals allege that people are poor—and stay poor—because the wealth is being somehow confiscated and hoarded by the rich capitalists. This flies in the face of the fact that virtually all people in the lowest economic quintile raise themselves out of it within ten years, along with the fact that these “rich” people are the ones creating the prosperity of the masses through investments and starting up new businesses.
Marx asserted that society—even in his time—had sufficient wealth to guarantee that the needs of everyone could be met, but that the owners of the means of production were unwilling to share it. In addition, Marx asserted that even more could be produced if the means of production were out of the hands of the inefficient and wasteful capitalists. Again, we hear the echoes of this in Modern Liberals when they are asked from where they will get funds for their programs: They answer that the well-to-do are holding on to the money, and if the bounty would be shared (i.e., “redistributed”) everyone could have full health care, poverty would be eliminated, education could be “free,” and the standard of living could be raised. Since the well-heeled are not willing to share of their own volition, Modern Liberals profess, their profits, income, and inheritances must be heavily taxed. All of these declarations mean that they actually assume that all the wealth needed to realize their fantasies is already available. Modern Liberals allege that people are poor—and stay poor—because the wealth is being somehow confiscated and hoarded by the rich capitalists. This flies in the face of the fact that virtually all people in the lowest economic quintile raise themselves out of it within ten years, along with the fact that these “rich” people are the ones creating the prosperity of the masses through investments and starting up new businesses.
