The question routinely comes up, do Marxists believe the lies they preach? The answer is that the lie is not the point. Your self-damnation is the point.
We live in a society that is completely saturated in lies. (If you disagree then good news, I’m about to explain why your closest allies secretly hate your stinking guts.) These lies are created by, I call them the architects, the inner circle of Totalism. Or Leftism, Marxism, militant atheism, you know what I’m talking about.
(Incidentally, an indicator of spiritual activity is stuff that humans have trouble naming. Move over prostitutes, humanity’s oldest profession is taxonomy per Biblical accounts of Eden. The very first thing we humans do with newly discovered chunks of Creation is label it, so when something… here, the demonic belief system that Karl Marx has become an idol for… is very difficult for us to describe, even after we understand what it is, it’s probably because the thing is not a natural part of the reality we inhabit.)
The glue that holds together a Totalist society, what I call a hive, is loyalty. I don’t mean loyalty to anything in particular. I mean loyalty as an end in itself, which is a really stupid idea because like most social behaviors, it’s supposed to be a two-way street. The serf is loyal to the Baron and in return, the Baron feeds and shelters the serf. I am loyal to Christ and in return, Christ will both rescue me from death and perfect my flawed character. If Christ or Baron was of no benefit to me then why would I remain loyal? Altruism is a sin.
In the Totalist system, then, the measurement of loyalty is of critical importance. But the purpose of a Totalist system is not to benefit the loyal. Its purpose, like all works of the devil, is to steal, kill and destroy.
Thus, Totalist society focuses on monitoring obedience to lies in order to inflict suffering upon the obedient. This leads to four classifications of people:
Outsider: doesn’t believe the lie, doesn’t obey the lie.
Most people: doesn’t believe but obeys.
Useful idiot: believes and obeys.
Architect: believes but doesn’t obey. While the architect does not believe the lies that he creates, all of them believe in the foundational lie that the truth doesn’t matter… then proceed to demand that THEIR truth DOES matter. The architect sees blind obedience to arbitrary beliefs as a path to personal power, and chooses that path for himself, knowing that by doing so, he can never be a legitimate authority.
A perfect display of this was the Covid Plandemic. Fauci was the architect, omnipresent, jumping from one crafted lie to the next, testing whether the people would jump whenever he said frog. The people who obeyed were IN and the people who didn’t were OUT. If you noticed he was a shameless hypocrite then you either despised him for it or he became your role model of everything a conscienceless sociopath could achieve.
A conscienceless sociopath like YOU, if you have sufficient Nietzschean “will to power”. The key to getting there is knowing the system is all lies but instead of denouncing those lies, you appropriate them to YOUR advantage instead of Fauci’s advantage. Then Satan will claim you as one of his own.
Meanwhile and the point this post, notice that one of the four classifications is an insult. The architect despises the useful idiot as much as the outsider does but for different reasons. The outsider despises the idiot for being unable or unwilling to identify the lie as a lie.
The architect despise the idiot because like his father the devil, his ultimate goal in rebellion is not to appear righteous, but to appear UNrighteous yet be acknowledged as righteous. Neither he nor the spirit he serves values the idiot who, although doing evil, sincerely believes that he is doing good.
He respects the outsider for being aware and refusing to be manipulated. He values, as only the Original Rebel can, the man who admits to himself “this leader is illegitimate but I will obey him regardless”. That self-damnation is the ultimate goal of Totalism.
But the useful idiot? Oppose Satan and he will hate you; be stupid enough to confuse Satan with Jesus, expect special treatment.
Here’s an example to drive home the point.
Why you should never say someone is ‘on the right side of history’
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By Jon Gabriel, 30 December 2022
In 1910, Dmitri was a conscientious church deacon who fully supported Czar Nicholas II. Was Deacon Dmitri on the “right side of history?” Sure … at least until 1917, when Nicholas was forced to abdicate and was later shot. I suppose the deacon was on the wrong side of history from then on.
His brother Ivan joined the Bolsheviks in 1910, so surely was on the right side of history – at least once the revolution was secured. He soon became an officer in the Cheka, was given a roomy Moscow apartment and enjoyed the perks of party membership. Dmitri ended up in the Gulag; Ivan grew fat and happy.
Dmitri was outsider. Ivan was obedient. Did Ivan believe the lies? The hive of Moscow could only check whether he was obedient, not whether he was a believer.
During Stalin’s terror, Ivan watched nearly half of his friends – loyal Bolsheviks all – purged via the bullet or the labor camp. He gently raised concerns to an NKVD comrade, who turned him in. All of a sudden, Ivan was back on the wrong side of history despite never changing his views.
What DID change, is Ivan outed himself as a true believer…
Pampered Ivan didn’t survive long but Dmitri did. After his release and internal exile, he remained loyal to the church and prayed for Ivan’s soul and the end of communism. At the ripe old age of 101, he saw the USSR collapse.
Looks like Dmitri was on the right side of history after all!
…and quickly suffered a worse fate than the outsider. The Soviet leaders wanted Ivan to be enforcing what he KNEW to be lies and evils, thereby damning his soul just as they were damning their own souls, and when they found out he was actually trying to his best to be GOOD, they were more cruel than they had been to righteous Dmitri.
So then, the lies that your Marxist overlords tell you? It’s not about BELIEVING the lies. It’s about OBEYING the lies.
You don’t want to BELIEVE the lies. The devil would take that personally. The devil’s goal is for the world to publicly do evil with pride, and privately hate themselves for it, and to achieve that, the devil will happily contradict himself by preaching mutually exclusive lies. If you can support them all at the same time then you’re not a stupid Ivan.
You’re a soul damned to Hell.
Great essay!
Lots of food for thought here. Thanks!
O’Brien, being able to see behind the curtain, was more zealous at upholding, than Winston was at tearing down.
Demoralization is the goal which is countered with honking clown horns outside the Jericho walls.
Marxist Materialism along with Cultural Marxism will destroy the world just as Marx hoped for in his devil worshiping poems.
This post was really good, GunnerQ. I enjoy this format tremendously, and what you had to say was very insightful. Thank you!