Rules of Engagement - Part VII

Slay the heroes of the Left and take pleasure in trampling them into the ground. When engaged in combat, never take the high ground if your opponents are showing a preference for the gutters. Your integrity and morals are like sharpened blades in the enemy's hands. When going into battle, lock up those characteristics, as they will not serve you well on the battlefield. Curse your opponents in thunderous bellows and use your sword to lay bare the false gods they pay homage to.

The quotes below are from a long tirade that Karl Marx wrote dissecting some work of Proudhon's that had just been published. You can see from what he states that Marx thought slavery was good. I bet Leftists who have placed Karl Marx on a pedestal and pay homage to him on a daily basis, wish he had never written those lines or maybe they will twist and turn the facts to suit their purpose and come up with a completely new meaning to the statements - they are so adept at those tricks. If you find anything appealing to you in the second paragraph, remember this: Marx considered Proudhon to be a rival and would say anything to refute Proudhon's philosophy, even those views of Proudhon that he agreed with secretly, became at all times, subjects unworthy and deserving of condemnation. So don't be deceived with his "capitalistic leaning" tones.

  Letter from Karl Marx to Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov Written: December 28, 1846 Rue d'Orleans, 42, Faubourg Namur; Source: Marx Engels Collected Works Vol 38, pg 95; Translated by Peter and Betty Ross;

 Freedom and slavery constitute an antagonism. There is no need for me to speak either of the good or of the bad aspects of freedom. As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. Without slavery there would be no cotton, without cotton there would be no modern industry. It is slavery which has given value to the colonies, it is the colonies which have created world trade, and world trade is the necessary condition for large-scale machine industry.

Consequently, prior to the slave trade, the colonies sent very few products to the Old World, and did not noticeably change the face of the world. Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance. Without slavery, North America, the most progressive nation, would he transformed into a patriarchal country. Only wipe North America off the map and you will get anarchy, the complete decay of trade and modern civilisation. But to do away with slavery would be to wipe America off the map. Being an economic category, slavery has existed in all nations since the beginning of the world. All that modern nations have achieved is to disguise slavery at home and import it openly into the New World. After these reflections on slavery, what will the good Mr Proudhon do? He will seek the synthesis of liberty and slavery, the true golden mean, in other words the balance between slavery and liberty.


Now for the usual Confucius quote: When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.