Critique of Marxism and Social Justice

Put the thing on so you can hear this.

I'm gonna give a speech I've never given before.

I hate Marxism and I hate communism.

Yes, sir.

And I hate it because everywhere in the world it's ever been tried, it's led to

tyranny, and poverty, and exile, and oppression.

That's right.

And

there's a mistake that people have made, maybe some of us, maybe myself, have been

guilty of it, and that is the belief that somehow Marxism is dead,

that Marxism is now something that crazy people at the faculty club at

some

university talk about, but it isn't really alive anymore.

The other mistake we make is that Marxism is some sort of economic

theory.

Neither one of those things is true.

Marxism is not dead, and it's not an economic theory.

What's happened is that Marxists realize what the track

record of

Marxism is around the world, so they don't wanna call themselves

Marxists anymore.

They have found new titles,

things that frankly sound benign, and you almost feel guilty being against,

social

justice. Who can be against social justice?

But that's the terminology they come up with, equity.

Equity, who can be against equity?

But the truth of the matter is that, and, and, and that this is not about economics

solely. The old Marxism was the argument that the capitalist

system, the whole system,

was flawed and rigged, and it divided people.

It ma- it said the world, and society, and capitalist societies

are divided between

two groups. You have one group which owns the businesses, they are the

oppressors, and you have the workers, everybody else, that group are the

victims. And that's how communism works.

It creates a victim class, it creates an oppressor class,

and then it says, "The

only way to fix this is we have to overthrow the system.

We need a revolution. We need a government to take over

and make everything fair, and we need a government that s-

goes to the former

oppressors and makes them apologize for being an oppressors, be re-educated

into responsible people,

and pay a penance for what they've done." That's the old Marxism,

and it sounds familiar

because today we are being asked to divide...

First of all, we're being told that America in and of itself

was founded on racism, prejudism, and e- prejudice and evil.

Not that we have a history of racism or prejudice, but that we were founded on,

that that's the, that that's the foundation of our society,

that we are

irredeemably broken in our history.

System, that the system is rigged.

Not about capitalism, the system is set up

to benefit the oppressor versus the victim. And who's the oppressor?

The oppressor, basically, if you listen to some of these people,

is anyone who is a

white male

heterosexual.

That's right.

And everybody else, I guess myself included,

being a Cuban American,

is a victim,

and the only answer

is for government to step forward,

and create equity, and make things fair. And now, if you don't know, now you know.