So said the Green MP Ricardo Menendez March about himself in Parliament the other day when rising to speak about a bill.
As DPF archly noted on his Kiwiblog, you can bet your bottom dollar that the MSM will refuse to term him as “Far Left” in the way they term ACT or even Winston as “Far Right”.
I can think of other terms for him, such as a pampered, spoiled brat produced of the very class he so despises, the petite bourgeoisie. Or how about just “grifter”, enjoying a well-paid life of perks and no responsibilities in a nation he’s never contributed a damned thing to, outside of his precious presence among we little proles. Or perhaps something else, given enough power in his hands:
“He’s a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive.”
Communists, especially ones who are up-front and in-your-face about it, certainly are rare in Western politics, and especially in NZ, generally preferring to hide behind other labels and causes in obscure places. Same with the “Green Party” who care about the environment but who just accidentally seem to draw broken-down hack Marxists to themselves, not least as MP’s: how many is that now in the history of the party? A few of their supporters have claimed that the Greens were done with Marxism in the wake of the departure of the likes of Sue Bradford (Maoist) and Keith Locke (Sovietist). Nothing new in their propaganda world of course.
In that KB post thread was this excellent analysis of what’s going on here with the modern Marxists, by one “Colinxy”:
It depends on which definition of Marxism. It’s entirely possible for older forms of Marxism to be considered right wing by newer versions of the Marxian faith.
Proto Marxism is Hegelian. It was Hegel who came up with the operating system of all Marxist religions: Abstract plus its Negation through struggle becomes Concrete (or to use Kant’s language Thesis plus its Antithesis through struggle becomes Synthesis). The resulting Concrete becomes the new Abstract and so the dialectic progresses.
Under Marx, the dialectic or operating system always revolves Left. Those who don’t revolve are considered “Right wing” by the new turn. The most blatant example being TERF feminists even if they themselves consider themselves Marxists. This revolving is called Revolution, a key religious word to that religion.”
This concept was elaborated at by Herbert Marcuse but made concrete by Paulo Friere – there must be permanent revolution as the status quo is “Right wing”.
Killing millions isn’t a bug but a feature. As Hegel explained history uses people and then discards them. If you know your Marxian religion, you know history is sacred. An example of which is “being on the right or wrong side of history”.
Marxists are always extremely negative. It’s a requisite of their religion. It’s the Negation portion of the dialectic. Max Horkheimer, the inventor of Critical Theory, states that through endless criticism the utopia (at the end of history) will be realised.
It is also this Critical Theory that has embedded itself in our education system. Blatantly with Critical Mathematics and Critical Literacy. This Critical Pedagogy, the invention of Paulo Friere, is to create more Marxists. (Critical Theory is the superset of all Critical Theories like Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Theory ad nauseum.)
The more intelligent Marxists will run to Hegel when Marx is successfully attacked. Also interesting is this also makes Fascists and National Socialists their co-religionists since their root is Hegel too.
Yes ColinXY wrote a very informative post on Marxism which covered stuff I didn’t know, especially the intellectual roots as having studied Economics I focused more on its economic model: “The Labour Theory of Value”
I studied History, as well as Geography for my economics degree, a fact I always look back and thank my long forgotten study advisor for that mix.
One course I remember in History was something like “the rise of Fascsim”. It, of course, grouped 3 countries as Fascist, Spain, Italy and Germany.
It was only years later that I learnt that Germany was mis-labelled as Fascist, when it was in fact a co religion of Communism (Marxism).
All the oppression but without the appropriation of the means of production, whether that be a farmer or an industrialist.
It makes sense as Hitler was in prison or penniless as the Communist beast rose, and I doubt he had the brains to “derive ” a system like that from scratch.
Or perhaps it was peculiar German trait to keep the capitalist part of the economy capitalist as after all Germany has a long history of capitalism.
How ironic after a 1000 years or more the Communists in Russia have found a way to undermine it via the German Green Party ( read Moscow communists) using Green Energy as the transmission mechanism.
The Green Party are just children. None of them seemed to have reached adult mental maturity in their development.
Unfortunately I can’t dismiss them as I did twenty years ago when I thought the likes of Fitzsimons and Donald leaving the scene would reduce them to just a couple of seats.
But here they are in 2024 with more seats, a bigger percentage of the vote and a base that’s more rock solid and fanatical than Winston’s mob.
I think they’ll be in the next government, circa 2029 or at least 2032.
And that’s when things are going to get really bad here.
At least I have time to plan for the assault!