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During her 2024 campaign, Kamala Harris stated, “What can be unburdened by what has been.” At first glance, this seems like a straightforward message of optimism and progress. However, upon closer examination, it reflects a more profound ideology that aligns with Marxist thought—casting off the past to create an equitable future.
Harris’s words imply more than progress within existing systems; they require radical liberation from their foundations. In Marxist ideology, dismantling the old is necessary to build a new social order. Marx famously said through the character of Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust, “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”
Harris echoes a softer version of this idea, proposing that we achieve social justice not through reform but by redesigning the entire power structure. To fully grasp the implications of this, we need to explore how Marxist dialectics have made inroads into modern American political thought, often without recognition, and now its resurgence.
Karl Marx critiqued capitalist society by arguing that history burdens the present. He believed that systems and institutions from the past—especially capitalism—oppressed the working class and perpetuated inequality. These structures maintained the power of the elite and kept the masses sub servient. Marx argued that true liberation could only happen by breaking these “chains.”
Harris’s call to be “unburdened” reflects Marx’s view of history as a weight cast off and the capitalist state not as an imperfect entity but as a tool of oppression that protected the wealth and power of the elite. His revolutionary vision sought to dismantle these structures and create a society where all could thrive equally. While Harris may not explicitly endorse the Marxist revolution, her rhetoric suggests a desire to break free from historical constraints to achieve equity.
Her focus on “equity” over “equality” signals a fundamental ideological shift that mirrors Marxist principles. In traditional American discourse, equality means providing everyone with the same opportunities. Equity, conversely, focuses on guaranteeing equal outcomes, often enforcing political powers to achieve this goal.
Marx argued that equal opportunity within a capitalist framework would never suffice because the system inherently favored the powerful. Similarly, Harris’s advocacy for equity suggests she supports the reshaping of society to fit new ideological parameters to ensure everyone receives the same result, regardless of individual effort or circumstance.
In Marx’s theory, the state is the mechanism to overturn the system. He believed that the working class, or proletariat, must rise to overthrow the bourgeoisie and take control of the government. The revolution would lead to the state’s eventual “withering away” as society transitioned from socialism to communism. Marx envisioned a complete rupture with the past, leading to a new social order.
Harris’s rhetoric about “what can be” suggests a similar break with history. She doesn’t just advocate for improvements within America’s current systems; she implies that we must transcend them altogether. When addressing systemic racism, gender, or economic inequality, Harris suggests that these issues are so deeply entrenched they require an overhaul of the system.
Ironically, this new power structure seems designed to favor her party.
Her statement, “What can be, unburdened by what has been,” encapsulates a vision of the future that demands liberation from the historical lessons that have shaped society. Though she may not be aware of hard-core Marxist doctrine, Harris’s rhetoric draws heavily from themes central to his ide ology: believing that true progress comes only through dismantling these structures.
Harris’s focus on equity, as opposed to equality, mirrors Marx’s critique that capitalism can never offer genuine equality. Her vision seeks to enforce and guarantee equal, fair outcomes, especially regarding race, gender, and economic status. Like Marx, Harris views the past not as a source of wisdom but as a burden to discard.
“Unburdened by what has been” will resonate with those who view the current American political and economic system as insufficient to address systemic inequality. However, her rhetoric dangerously aligns with Marxist themes, which seek to dismantle existing institutions in favor of untested ideologies. As George Santayana famously warned, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Harris’s call to cast off history risks ignoring the valuable lessons experience offers, potentially leading society down a destructive path rather than genuine progress. The desire to start anew is not inherently dangerous, but doing so without the wisdom of history can result in unintended and often tragic consequences. Santayana’s additional words, “Only the dead have seen the end of war,” remind us that the struggles of history may repeat if we discard them too hastily.
Harris’s future vision may contain a well-intentioned desire for fairness and justice. But ignoring the lessons of the past invites chaos. Real progress must acknowledge history, not discard it.
The promise of Marxism was always false. Lenin and Stalin made progress reports to give themselves credit while postponing the withering away of the state. Khruschev claimed that the historical stage of full communism had been reached, but the state does not go away. Instead it fuses with the people. in reality the Party is the state. The Democrat use of the term the Democracy signifies the fusion of the democracy, meaning the people, with the state, meaning the Party.
As someone who was raised by a Communist organizer and forced to read all their putrid leaders books, I don’t think any of the early Communist leaders believed that the state would wither away. I mean, it’s a ludicrous idea. It seems like something you could get away lying to a peasant about after you had starved them half mad for months. Maybe Marx believed it, but he believed he could knock up his maid, pass the baby off as Engle’s and get away with it…while starving the rest of his kids to death. Not exactly someone playing with a full deck,
I did not realize he tried to pass off his bastard as Engels’. He never made a living wage and he and his family lived off of Engels’ capitalist father’s inheritance. I suppose if it is true that he did this to Engels, it makes sense. The parasite usually envies or kills the host in the long run.
I do know that Marx, like Emhoff, slept with and impregnated the maid. He slept with the maid in the bed while his wife and family slept on the floor. After the maid became pregnant, she joined the other child-bearers on the floor. Marx publicly disavowed his illigitimate offspring, also. He was an antisemitic Jew and serial plagiarizer. He is so ugly it is no wonder his ideas are what they are.
History presents a long and all but unbroken chain of moral corruption, yet men continually and repeatedly latch on to those corruptocrats. Amazing when one ponders…. but how many today will put down their “devices” and actually PONDER these things? They are so latched onto the public teat they fear for their future if pulled off. Wards of the state, without a contract.
Like a child just=weaned and hasn’t yet quite realised that he now must find and chew his own food rather than have it put into his mouth whenever he whimpers.
Full communism is manifesting itself as Agenda 2030. The UN held a behind closed doors meeting called the Summit of the Future. This was last month and it received zero media coverage and it openly called for a World Government.
In simplifying the capitalist society being “unburdened…” bullsh1t, it’s ONLY about power and control. Nothing more, nothing less. Ego maniacs who want tyrannical control can’t get it in a capitalistic free society. They have to “transcend” it into socialism and ultimately communism to gain total control. This will fail epically as it has for centuries. If people are going to get equal share of everything regardless of contribution, no one will work – hence, epic failure.
I cannot understand why people fall for Communism/Marxism. They are sold a lie that Leftism makes everybody equal, that it does away with class structure. But it doesn’t! The leftist leaders consider themselves the new upper class and the rest of the people peasants.
Like the party apparatchiks of yesterday, always assured of nice dachas & fine food (including during the seize of Leningrad), the leftist pricks of today assure themselves that their ruinous policy won’t be implemented in THEIR posh neighborhoods – only ours.
DeSantis made a profound point by humorously sending those 48 illegals to Martha’s Vineyard.
The liberal inhabitants bused ’em out asap, and showed their hypocrisy in the process. (So much for that plush palisade being a “sanctuary city”.)
People fall for Marxism b/c they want to. They want to believe the wealthy have acquired what they have through wrongdoing. And therefore, what the wealthy have wrongfully acquired should be redistributed to them.
Exactly right. The animating principle is envy.
To Evil Incarnate:
Really? Huh… Well I’ll be damned! And to think that all this time, I thought that it was because there really are people in this world who are truly dumb, stupid and naive. Perhaps I’m a little too stoic and rational and not given to glossing over the unmitigated truth about the world we live in.
No “ism” is successful without it’s acolytes, useful idiots and throngs of mindless (i.e., dumb, stupid and naive) followers. In my opinion, people fall for Marxism simply because they have a need to belong and the desire to follow. It’s no more complicated than that.
If you read about the Roman Catholic Church it is clear that its foundational ideology is communist, to the extent the Vatican proclaims that it is acceptable for those without stuff to take it from those who have stuff.
The book – Ecclesiastical Megalomania, by John W. Robbins – quotes from the RC Church’s own documents to demonstrate all of his assertions.
As others have said before me, to see how enervating is Roman Catholicism, just look at the successful countries ( all of them Protestant and more egalitarian and meritocratic) and compare them with Roman Catholic countries ( all of them poorer and less prosperous but with a wealthy elite in power). Isn’t that what communism always produces?
I just had my meme “covered” on META because they said that Kamala did not get her quote from Marx, The meme quotes Marx as saying “Move forward into a future unburdened by what has been”. & also has Kamala’s similar “unburdened” quote. META says Marx never said that because it isn’t in the “Communist Manifesto” or on-line anywhere. I believe they are wrong. They are so irritating. You can fight it, but they never admit to being wrong. If anyone knows exactly what writing Marx wrote that in, let me know!
It’s hardly code – it’s a direct quote from Pol Pot. See, Kamala is a lot like Obama – which works out well, since she takes orders from him. Both are narcissists who are convinced that they’re brilliant but the rest of the world is ignorant. So they quote things, make “clever” word play – like Obama’s comment that he had visited all 57 States (referring to the OIS) while expecting that no one but his cronies will be in on the bad joke. Narcissists are never the sharpest tools in the shed, especially when they’re Islamocommunists whose favorite pasttime is treason.
Do you have a reference for the Pol Pot quote?
Absolutely, that word salad phrase might imply a fundamental Marxist concept, whether by coincidence or by design.
The American tradition of individual liberty and self-government is based upon the wisdom of the ages.
Here are two examples:
Natural Law/Natural Rights. That all men [people] are created equal is a concept extending back in time through the Enlightenment (e.g. Jefferson, Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, English Common Law), Reformation (e.g. Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin), the Medieval Church (Aquinas) and Greco-Roman Antiquity (Plato, Aristotle, Cicero).
Pursuit of Happiness (Greek- eudaimonia). This concept originates with the ancient Greeks, with philosophers such as Aristotle, Epictetus, and Plutarch.
Marx of course dismissed cavalierly all of these great ideas in favor of his overly simplistic view of history–exploitation.
By the way, this Marxist rejection of the pillars of the Western tradition is why Western thought, and particularly Judeo-Christian principles, are under siege today.
What then would America look like under Marxist precepts? The exact same way it has looked like elsewhere, such as in Soviet Russia, Maoist China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, or Kim’s North Korea.
So, there would be powerful and wealthy Marxist elites and then the masses, the latter without human rights and living in fear and abject poverty.
But, sadly, vote foolishly a certain way in 2024 and that might be the very world view you might be evoking.
The cackling fool tries to unburden herself of her past low-octane I.Q. displays.
Her problem is her mouth eventually opens, and reconfirms her stupidity to all in earshot. (The press can only clean up so much.)
Her handlers beg her to shelve that hideously annoying laugh, but it’s too ingrained in her to fall back on. It’s a crutch she just can’t let go of.
(Rendering services to Willie Brown kicked off her career, but as she’s painfully aware of, that could only take her so far.)
quote: Her problem is her mouth eventually opens, and reconfirms her stupidity to all in earshot. (The press can only clean up so much.)
and the press only does so in their whim. Most fail o even try, marching in lockstep to her twisted tune.
I think I said this before on FPM that what Marx invented was an absolute monopoly that owns or controls all commerce, industry, agriculture. real estate, arts, entertainment, media, unions, legal/justice system, or everything. The proletariat would become like worker bees in a hive or ants in a colony. In fact, they become state owned biological equipment. Any complaint or criticism is treated as a crime of heresy. The Party becomes like a god. Marx couldn’t see that or admit to it if he did see it.
In short, it’s a horrible system and it doesn’t work. It will never work.
It makes you wonder if he did, in fact, see it. With that unfortunate revelation it’s probably likely why he came up with the “withering away” crap. Without it, he’d have never got his BS ideology off the ground.
Harris is too simple minded (and too punchy from boxed wine) to consciously adopt Marxist ideology or jargon. She probably is regurgitating Marxist “langue de bois”- stilted, pretentious jargon she heard in college, or she’s parroting Obamaspeak as one of her word salads.
Tha schtick was part of her upbringing. much like the other warped “politicana/overlords we’ve seen of lae. Da Kinyun, for starters, some of the nutjobs who have been strangling California for a few decades now, Pigliosi, Hilleryjillery, the enire Brown family in Calif and surrounds (Kate Brown, former tyrant of Oregon, stems from that dynasty) and so on. Many of them are he produce of You See Berserkeley, but had been raised already pointed in that direction by their progenitors. Angela Davis is part of that lot, I remember when she was a UCB back in the People’s Park era Last I heard she was Pres of UC Santa Cruz….
If ver there was a case of political nepotism, here we are.
When Kamala speaks of helping Americans, she is only rfereing to the NEW Americans she is brining in across the south border and flying in from sunni moo slim hell holes. And also any “people of color”.
Kamala has NO inclination to help native born white Americans.
What else than Marxist ideology from a Red Diaper baby? Harris’s Communist language comes from her deep indoctrination by her father.
She is not a nice woman that is confused. She does not like the USA and is a professing and active communist.
vietnam or These leftist reprobates need to move to their Marxist paradise. North Vietnam or China would be my recommendations for Harris and her friends.
She’s not unaware at all! Her father is an avowed Marxist who taught it in college! And her mother was a communist too–she was raised on it.
No mention of Mao’s elimination of the “Four Olds”? Marx may have put it on paper (with the help of other communists) but Mao put it into practice at the expense of millions of Chinese lives. Same for Lenin and Stalin. What this foul doctrine doesn’t tell you is you buy in or die. Sane people are a threat to this failed system. Maybe we should start calling her “Four Olds Kamala”.
From a favorite author, George Santayana, “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends upon retentiveness….Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
The votes will continue to be counted for weeks if necessary until Harris wins.
It worked before and will keep working again ad-nauseum.
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