Thomas Cromwell - The Triumph of Good: Cain, Abel and the End of Marxism

The Triumph of Good

The Triumph of Good

Cain, Abel and the End of Marxism

Thomas Cromwell

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Contents

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

C.S. Lewis

Preface

W e are witnessing a crisis of civilization. The values that have sustained free societies under the rule of law are being undermined by materialist ideologies that are leading to the destruction of traditional institutions of faith and family as well as foundational principles of honor, fidelity and patriotism.

This steady erosion of civilizational values may be difficult for some to recognize, given the marvels of science and technology that are simultaneously transforming the world around us. Yet there are signs aplenty: the promotion of immorality in our entertainment, the dishonesty of our mass media, the suppression of dissent in our democracies, the sexual confusion among many of our youth, the moral decline of our religious institutions, the irresponsibility of our educators who lead students to reject traditional values and norms, the promotion of depressing dystopian visions of our future, and the reckless spending of governments on socialist programs that our children and childrens children will be forced to pay for.

What is the cause of this crisis? First and foremost, it is the steady spread of materialist ideologies into the very fabric of our culture, a metastasizing of destructive theories that are rotting our civilizational foundations. This is taking place despite the sincere efforts of good and conscientious people to stem the tide of these corrosive ideas, and despite the sacrifices by millions of our finest young people in the last century who defeated the totalitarian regimes built on these materialist ideologies.

We Thought Fascism and Communism were Defeated

With the Allied victory in World War II, we believed we had put an end to Fascism. And with the collapse of the Soviet Union forty-five years later, we believed we had finally discredited Marxism and defeated Communism. We were wrong. Both the Fascist and Communist regimes that caused so much destruction and suffering in the 20th century were based on socialist theories that put their trust and hope in powerful centralized governments rather than the virtues and abilities of individuals. These socialist ideas still flourish, and we are now faced with the imminent threat of the aggressive Marxist regime in Chinawhich is more dangerous than the former Soviet Unionas well as the unprecedented infiltration and corruption of our societies by Marxist and Neo-Marxist ideologies. (See Glossary of Names and Terms on pages 490-505.)

Unlike Marxism, Fascism was never a theory of political economy; rather, it was simply an authoritarian ruling ideology that was eagerly adopted by dictators of all stripes, whether socialist or capitalist. Communism, however, was another matter altogether. It appeared in the 20th century as the incarnation of 19th century materialist theories developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engelstheories that justified violent revolution and totalitarian dictatorship. Its first true application was in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, after which many believers in the Communist promise of a materialist Utopia looked to Russia as the model society of the future.

Many of these believers were shocked, however, when the truth emerged about Soviet Russia and especially when the excesses of Stalins Reign of Terror came to light in 1956. Nevertheless, despite the abysmal record of the Soviet Union and other failed Communist states, Marxs ideas survived the collapse of those regimes and have been infused with new philosophical life in our time. The first such infusion occurred when Marxism was combined with Freudianism in the Critical Theories developed by the Frankfurt School. Later, the French Postmodernists broadened the scope of Critical Theories to make them a comprehensive Leftist program of social transformation. It is the pernicious Neo-Marxism of Critical Theories that is now most responsible for destroying our civilization from within.

Chinas 100-Year Marathon to World Domination

The danger these theories pose is greatly heightened by the rapid development of a heavily militarized Communist China, a Marxist-Maoist regime that shares an ideological affinity with Leftist movements around the world. This affinity, coupled with an attitude of accommodation and appeasement towards China, is exploited by Beijing to advance its aggressive and expansionist international agenda, and intimidate and subvert governments and institutions everywhere. Shamefully, Chinas meteoric rise has been fueled by massive investments from an industrialized world that is morally bankrupt: It turns a blind eye to Chinas murderous history, its genocide of minorities, its persecution of religious groups and its suppression of individual freedoms just so corporations can profit from the vast Chinese market.

The West naturally looks at China through the lens of its own interests and history. But this is a fatal error. China has a totally different perspective, drawn from its own history and in particular the lessons from the period of Warring States (475-221 BC). In its more recent history, China experienced a century of international humiliation which, starting with the first Opium War (1839-1842), won by Britain, saw a series of foreign invasions and occupations that stoked national resentment towards the West and Westernized states. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) believes that this era came to an end only when it took power in 1949. From that point on, the CCP has been pursuing a 100-Year Marathon strategy to redress its past grievances by overtaking America as the worlds superpower (by 2049 at the latest). The CCP claims it has assumed the Mandate of Heaven as the defender of Chinese honor. Its ideology is a clever combination of the ancient Chinese theory that there can be only one global hegemon (which they think is rightfully China) and the Marxist theory that history is an inexorable process of class warfare leading to the inevitable victory of the revolutionary class under the leadership of a Socialist dictatorship.

We Are Facing a Two-Headed Beast

China is no longer a distant threat. It has breached our weak defenses and is in our midst. Its agents, enablers and apologists are scattered throughout our society, and its network of allies is steadily encircling us, backed with Beijings ever-growing financial and military power. In public, China espouses a multipolar world, but in practice it is working to achieve its own global hegemony. It is greatly aided in this by the Leftist movements around the world. Thus Communist China in the East, and Marxist and Neo-Marxist movements primarily in the West are two heads of the same beast that is slowly but surely killing our sacred traditions and trampling our civilization to death. This soulless and diabolical two-headed beast is our nemesis, our malignant enemy.