“The Red Delusion: Marxism, Its Acolytes, and the Tyranny of False Prophets”

 

History doesn’t repeat, but Marxists do. Like robed cultists muttering incantations to a dead god, they chant slogans from a long-failed playbook: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” They recite it as scripture, blind to the carnage it has wrought and the misery it continues to promise. The Marxist acolyte is not a thinker, but a believer. And his religion is soaked in blood. Every generation has its revolutionaries, unshaven, unread, and unhinged, certain that this time, utopia lies just one more purge away. “True Marxism,” they tell us, “has never been tried.” A laughable claim, as absurd as saying true arsenic has never been ingested. In truth, Marxism has been tried. In Yugoslavia. In China. In Cuba. In Cambodia. And it failed. Not by accident. Not due to corruption or foreign sabotage. It failed because its foundational ideas are anti-human. The Acolytes Marxist apologists like to wear the robes of moral superiority while sitting atop the rubble of every nation their ideology touches. They infest universities and editorial boards, sipping lattes as they lecture the working class on oppression. They claim to speak for the poor while despising the actual values, family, faith, property, liberty, that the poor live by. To be a Marxist in 2025 is to be in open rebellion against reality. These are not revolutionaries; they are overgrown children smashing their toys because the world won’t conform to their fantasies. They promise equality and deliver mass graves. They idolize equality of outcome, which can only be achieved by dragging everyone down to the same level of despair. These useful idiots and ivory-tower ideologues defend every failure of Marxism with the same coward’s excuse: “That wasn’t real socialism.” No matter how many nations fall, how many millions die, the acolyte is never wrong. Reality is wrong. The people are wrong. History is wrong. The cult must go on. Yugoslavia: The Illusion of the “Third Way” Tito’s Yugoslavia is the go-to model for Marxists desperate to find a “good” example of socialism. They point to it like a child hiding behind a cardboard cutout of a superhero. But the truth is less flattering. Yugoslavia tried to walk a tightrope between Soviet centralism and capitalist markets, what they called “self-management socialism.” What it actually was: a stitched-together Frankenstein of ethnic tension, bureaucratic waste, and authoritarian control. It worked, barely, so long as Tito ruled with an iron fist and foreign loans propped up the illusion. When the money ran out and Tito died, the system collapsed like the house of lies it was. The artificial unity cracked, giving way to civil war and genocide. Marxist economics didn’t unify Yugoslavia, it buried its hatreds until they exploded. And what do today’s Marxists take from this? Not a warning, but a myth. They ignore the failures and focus on the brief illusion of harmony. But a lie repeated long enough does not become truth. Yugoslavia was not a third way. It was a slow-motion disaster with a charismatic tyrant at the helm. China: Capitalism in Chains Modern Marxists twist themselves into knots explaining China. Some reject it outright as “state capitalism.” Others praise it as a Marxist success story. Both are wrong. China is not Marxist. It is post-Marxist authoritarianism with capitalist tools. The Communist Party retains power not through Marxist theory, but through Orwellian surveillance, nationalist propaganda, and brute force. The free market lifted China out of Maoist hell, not Marxist planning, but the very private enterprise Marxists despise. Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” killed more than 40 million people, starved, beaten, executed, worked to death in labor camps. The Cultural Revolution burned books, shattered families, and unleashed mass hysteria as children denounced their parents and mobs tore down anything ancient or true. That is Marxism, not in theory, but in action. It is the politics of envy turned violent, the erasure of the individual in service to the state. China’s rise happened in spite of Marxism, not because of it. Today’s Chinese regime uses Marxist rhetoric as a mask. Underneath lies a surveillance state that controls its citizens like livestock and harvests organs from political prisoners. If this is your utopia, your soul is lost. The Blood-Stained Legacy Marxism has no success stories, only victims. It has left a trail of corpses from the Gulags to the Killing Fields. It thrives not on justice but on resentment. It appeals to the weak and bitter, offering them power through destruction. It promises heaven and delivers hell. It is time to rip the mask off Marxism and name it for what it is: a death cult. The only antidote is the one thing Marx hated, capitalism. Not the crony kind or the Davos variety. But true, free, human capitalism: the right to own, to build, to trade, to rise. It is capitalism that feeds, clothes, and liberates. It is capitalism that respects the individual. And it is capitalism, not revolution, that will bury Marx.