THE NEO-MARXIST AGENDA REVOLVES AROUND CONVINCING AMERICANS TO ACKNOWLEDGE AMERICA\u2019S \u201cGUN CULTURE\u201d AND TO RENOUNCE IT<\/p>\n
PART SIX<\/p>\n
It must be reiterated. There IS NO AMERICAN \u201cGUN CULTURE.\u201d That notion is merely a fiction, and a makeweight into which Neo-Marxists and Neoliberal Globalists have cast everything they abhor about a free Constitutional Republic. \u201cGun Culture\u201d becomes a descriptor for other fictions: \u201cWhite Supremacism;\u201d \u201cPolice Brutality;\u201d \u201cSystemic Racism;\u201d \u201cToxic Masculinity;\u201d and so on and so forth\u2014all fictions, created and thrust on the American public to deceive them into accepting a new and perpetual Neo-Marxist reign.<\/span><\/p>\n The phrase \u2018Gun Culture\u2019 has also become a stand-in and general descriptor for other false claims, including such claims that America is inherently:<\/p>\n Radical Left elements blame it all on<\/span>\u00a0the Second Amendment.\u00a0<\/span>They ultimately pin the wrap on America\u2019s \u201cGun Culture,\u201d i.e., on everything they perceive as wrong about America. They see this false notion of American \u201cGun Culture\u201d as emanating from average Americans desire to exercise\u00a0<\/span>the right to keep and bear arms.\u00a0<\/span>What the Radical Left doesn\u2019t accept or even acknowledge is that the desire to exercise the right to acquire, own, and possess firearms is grounded on\u00a0<\/span>the God-given right of self-defense against predatory creature and predatory Government.<\/p>\n Yet, Marxists don\u2019t even accept the notion of a rational basis for the right of self-defense, let alone a right of armed self-defense.<\/p>\n The Arbalest Quarrel has discussed this idea in depth. See, e.g., the recent AQ article titled, \u201cTyranny, Fundamental Rights, and the Armed Citizen<\/a>,\u201d posted on December 2, 2021.<\/p>\n But, if anything at all is to be sensibly made of the idea of a purported \u201cGun Culture\u201d in America, it is nothing more than the manifestation of the Neo-Marxists\u2019 own tolerance of, even encouragement of, criminal use of guns to prey on innocent Americans, whether black or white. But that is hardly something the Neo-Marxists would care to acknowledge.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, if there is anything to be made of this notion it is that \u201cGun Culture\u201d equates with the Neo-Marxist tolerance of, even encouragement of \u201cCriminal Violence\u201d of which \u201cGun Violence\u201d is merely an aspect of such violence. Thus, \u201cguns\u201d as used in crime are not a \u201ccause\u201d of violence. Firearms are merely one of many tools used in the commission of violent criminal acts, according to\u00a0FBI statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read how one Leftist-leaning academician spouts his contempt for America\u2019s \u201cGun Culture\u201d and the imbecilic assertions he makes, attacking both the police and the natural right of self-defense. The below article appears in the Leftist publication,\u00a0Boston Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cOn August 25, 2020, in my hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin, seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse joined several other white vigilantes with AR-15-style rifles. They came purportedly to defend businesses from people protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a twenty-nine-year-old Black man. A few days earlier, a police officer had shot Blake seven times in the back outside of his car, while his sons were in the backseat.<\/p>\n Despite violating a city curfew, Rittenhouse and other vigilantes were given bottles of water by the police, who\u00a0told them, \u2018We appreciate you guys, we really do.\u2019 Within hours, Rittenhouse had shot three protestors, killing two of them. Overnight he became a hero among the far right, which enabled him to crowdsource his\u00a0$2 million bail.<\/p>\n Rittenhouse\u2019s actions, acquittal, and celebrity status are the culmination of a\u00a0tactical\u00a0turn in U.S. gun culture, which began in the late twentieth century. Tactical clothing, training, weaponry, and language have now become commonplace among private gun owners and law enforcement, rendering both nearly indistinguishable from\u00a0soldiers. Individual gun owners are increasingly seeing themselves as de facto militia members regardless of whether they engage in paramilitary training or formally associate with an organization. Even law enforcement officers who don\u2019t serve in tactical units are now \u2018armed, dressed, trained, and conditioned like soldiers,\u2019 writes Radley Balko in\u00a0Rise of the Warrior Cop\u00a0(2014). . . . The freedom they defended was, indeed, not intended for everyone and the purpose of an armed segment of the population, as U.S. history has consistently demonstrated, was to enforce its exclusivity: an armed white citizenry, working in tandem with law enforcement, has for centuries sustained white rule in the United States through legal and extralegal violence. Violence is necessary to maintain what Martin Luther King, Jr.,\u00a0called\u00a0\u2018a democracy for white Americans but simultaneously a dictatorship over Black Americans.\u2019 As for those \u2018otherwise intelligent Americans\u2019 . . . the history of white supremacy is replete with those who speak about universal rights yet doggedly pursue a white-dominated racial order. . . .<\/p>\n In the late twentieth century, what had been . . . still only a subculture with disproportionate influence rose to the level of popular culture. At the same time, the forms of white supremacist rule it has historically supported now face legal challenge on par with what they faced during the classic civil rights era and Reconstruction.<\/p>\n Though the story of this tactical development in U.S. gun culture is complex, I focus in this essay on a few particularly crucial components. The first is that border enforcement has been increasingly militarized since the 1970s and diffused deeper into the interior of the country. This has blurred the boundary between domestic and foreign conflict, brought the use of exceptional police powers into nearly every U.S. town, and turned militarized \u2018border security\u2019 into a ubiquitous mechanism of racialization. This has also corresponded with the militarization of local police forces, which was certainly worsened by the War on Terror, but which historian Elizabeth Hinton has identified as having deeper roots in the Johnson administration\u2019s\u00a0War on Crime. Like the nationalization of \u2018border security,\u2019 it turned the nation\u2019s city streets into sites of militarized racial enforcement.<\/p>\n Second, individuals once arming themselves for self-defense\u2014often out of racial fears or a perceived threat to their masculinity\u2014are now frequently claiming to do so in defense of the Constitution and freedom itself. The NRA has played an outsize role in this vigilante reframing by promulgating the myth that gun ownership has always been an\u00a0individual, constitutional right and oriented toward a nativist vision of self-defense. This vigilantism operates in conjunction with the extralegal violence of law enforcement officers and is fueled by an individualist notion of sovereignty more dangerous than any military-grade weaponry. It rejects the freedom of others as equal to one\u2019s own and views any attempt to support such equality as tyranny. Most importantly, this\u00a0sovereignty\u00a0is assumed to grant the individual the power to take life (vitae necisque potestas) in defense not of law, but of particular social and racial orders.\u201d<\/p>\n There is a lot to unpack here, but it is worth an analysis because the author\u2019s sophistry encapsulates, better than many such articles, a true Neo-Marxist internationalist\/Neoliberal Globalist contemptuousness toward Americans and toward the very precepts, tenets, and principles of Individualism upon which\u00a0the U.S. Constitution<\/span>\u00a0is grounded.<\/p>\n Preliminarily, we point out that the article came out fairly recently, December 17, 2021, and aptly describes, in an academic format, a definitive Neo-Marxist Anti-Second Amendment sentiment toward American gun ownership and possession. The article is also demonstrative of the extent to which Neo-Marxists design and construct elaborate fairy tales around that sentiment.<\/p>\n The author of the article, Chad Kautzer, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lehigh University.<\/p>\n Kautzer\u2019s article appearing on the website, Boston Review, encapsulates the Neo-Marxist contemptuousness of America\u2019s heritage and core values.<\/p>\n Kautzer\u2019s all-encompassing and obviously virulent disdain for America is detailed in his book, \u201cRadical Philosophy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Routledge Books published it, a few years ago, in 2015.\u00a0Routledge is a major publisher of professional and academic books.<\/p>\n A short review of the book makes clear the extent to which Kautzer extols the virtues of Marxism, Feminism, and something called \u201cQueer Theory<\/a>,\u201d a thing concocted by Marxist Sociologists. See also,\u00a0article in IU Libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n This all goes to the glorification of victimhood, the Neo-Marxists mantra and new religious dogma, suffusing itself throughout the landscape of American society, perverting and polluting and corrupting the psyche of Americans.<\/p>\n Most Americans are waking up to this fact, and the puppet-masters and their Government toadies know this and they are not too happy about it, but there isn\u2019t much they can do to quell the rapidly rising resentment welling in the American people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE NEO-MARXIST AGENDA REVOLVES AROUND CONVINCING AMERICANS TO ACKNOWLEDGE AMERICA\u2019S \u201cGUN CULTURE\u201d AND TO RENOUNCE IT PART SIX It must be reiterated. There IS NO AMERICAN \u201cGUN CULTURE.\u201d That notion is merely a fiction, and a makeweight into which Neo-Marxists and Neoliberal Globalists have cast everything they abhor about a free Constitutional Republic. \u201cGun Culture\u201d … Continue reading “Freedom is won and can be maintained only by force of arms: part 6”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77183,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77180\/revisions\/77183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n