Like, white guilt is cool. I even got the shirt to prove it
on June 23rd, 2005 at 8:50 am
I made this graphic last night to go along with the following story that I came across via the American Thinker website. This is yet another example of how history can be forgotten in just a few short years.
Apparently, like Che Guevara, the twisted legend of Karl Marx is resurfacing in the UK. In a recent radio poll, Marx was voted number 1 over philosophers like Socrates.
Whites who gravitate towards such nonsense do so because they feel that these characters somehow spoke for the poor and oppressed throughout the world. They also feel that it is their whiteness and the fact that they, generally speaking know little about being poor (which is also a falsehood–go anywhere in Appalachia or south/southwestern part of the country) is the reason why so many people of color stay in poverty.
Michael Grove of the Times Online (a UK newspaper) sums up quite nicely the real deal behind this new love affair with Karl Marx:
“The author of The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital may be the godfather of more misery, death and criminality than any other figure from the last 200 years. But he speaks, across the decades, and over a mountain of corpses, to an eternal yearning on the part of intellectuals. Marxism appeals to the thwarted dignity of the intellectual, flattering the academically inclined by playing to their sense that the world does not value them as it should.”
…Marxism offers much more, however, than just an explanation of the injustice that leads money to become the principal scale of value, and the intellectual to be valued at a level well below his true worth. It also privileges the intellectual with a leading role in the organisation and leadership of society. Marxism presents a world which can only really be made intelligible by theory, and thus only properly understood, and shaped, by the theoretically literate. The workers, poor dears, are in a state of “false consciousnessâ€Â, unware of the reality of their exploitation. History proceeds through a dialectic between forces which only intellectuals can effectively discern. And progress is brought about by a vanguard enlightened enough to have freed themselves from illusions and skilled enough to see the hidden meanings behind events.”
…”For some of us, history remains a better guide to human action than theory. And history teaches us where the Marxist celebration of intellectual leadership and theoretical purity leads  to the gulag, the mass grave and the crushing of the human spirit.” (more…)
Like Grove is suggesting, the appeal for tyrannical revolutionaries has more to do with their make-believe theroies than historical reality.
Those that feel guilty for either being white or being born in a western culture feel compelled to always stand up for the little guy–no matter how destructive this “little guy” has been to his own people. Because America is the richest country in the Western hemisphere, to some America will always be considered the bad guy when compared to countries like Cuba, Haiti, Mexico,etc.
On the other hand, modern-day dictators will receive a full pass from the “guilty” simply because of the size and wealth of his country (THE VERY THING THESE PEOPLE ACCUSE CAPITALISM OF USING AS A UNIT OF MEASURE–AMAZING). Never mind the fact that he has killed and raped many of his own people.
To these bleeding-hearted, those that have suffered under the former Iraqi dictatorship, they are nothing more than needed sacrifices for the idealogical revolution.
Saddam shirts are coming to a store near you.
related post: The miseducation of American Negroes on Cuba
