I Know Best by Roger L. Simon

Author:Roger L. Simon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781594038068
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2016-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

XV

Luxurious Leftism

The irresistible rise of the “red bourgeoisie.”

In modern times, Marxism has become a philosophy of the rich, not in a publicly avowed sense, but as a touchstone. If you look at the Forbes list of billionaires, you will see many who have been influenced by these ideas or, more precisely, wish to give the impression they have been. Egalitarian pronouncements provide cover and Marxism formalizes those pronouncements systemically. It’s not entirely by accident that Hillary Clinton’s famous 1995 speech on women’s rights was delivered in Beijing. As Mao Zedong himself assured us, “Women hold up half the sky.” The location of the speech was meant to have ramifications. But today there are only two of those same women on China’s twenty-five-member politburo, a downward trend from 1969. One of thirty-one Chinese provincial governors is a woman.1 This is of course no accident as well, just as it is no accident that socialist economies have the least opportunity for the underclass to rise. Everything comes from above, even and especially your class in a declassed society. As Lady Gaga would say, they were born that way. Intentional rigidity is the system. It’s about control, yet the propaganda, usually successfully, obscures it.

That enabled Lenin to see the world’s liberals and progressives (to lump together what is blurred terminology anyway) as the “useful idiots” mentioned earlier. Lenin used what others have called “pathological altruism” to prop up his totalitarian regime. Similarly, when we see a man like global financier George Soros advocating for the United States to be more like Europe, to expand our country’s welfare state and have more of a planned economy, he also has an unspoken intention—to rigidify classes, to keep things as they are with the same people and organizations at the top. That has been the hallmark of Europe for centuries. First came kings, then came commissars. Of course Soros and others like him would deny this. They would insist they are aiming for “fairness,” but the results are obviously quite the opposite. Although Zambian author Dambisa Moyo writes primarily about Africa, some of the clearest explanation of this contradiction can be found in her works that have shown an inverse correlation between economic success and the amount of foreign aid and direct interference received by countries in that continent. The same goes for people everywhere. It’s all a kind of shell game with “good works” being the deception that allows the gamer to hide the pea. The small percentage of his billions that Soros pays out every year to progressive organizations like Media Matters is a left-wing version of Islamic jizya, the tax paid by non-Muslims in Islamic states to be left alone and allowed to exist without fear under Allah. The difference is that it impacts Soros’s bottom line far less than jizya does or did Christians and Jews in those Islamic societies. The members of his Olympian rich class thrive as never before in their Swiss redoubts.

This is not meant to assert or even imply I oppose all foreign aid or domestic social programs from Social Security to Medicare.

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