Mike Gonzalez, Katharine Gorka
Is Kamala Harris a Marxist? When Donald Trump called her one at their debate last month, it initially unleashed a wave of censure from the bicoastal bien-pensants. The media soon moved on, but the question remains—and is too important to let pass.
Having authored a book called “NextGen Marxism,” and after examining Harris’ vast public record, our verdict is that she is indeed a follower of Marxist dictums, whether she has stirring posters of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao in her living room or not.
Being a Marxist is not a matter of being a card-carrying member of the Communist Party but more about subscribing to a specific set of ideas that form a worldview.
When Richard Nixon said in the 1970s, “We are all Keynesians now,” he did not mean that he had joined the Bloomsbury Group. He meant that he and many other important policymakers had bought in to deficit spending, higher taxes, and other demand-side practices informed by the theories of economist John Maynard Keynes.
Keynesianism was heavy in the air at the time. It was everywhere in the policy swirl of the 1970s. Importantly, one could believe in its prescriptions and implement them without ever having heard of Lord Keynes.
It was Keynes himself who wrote:
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
That, we argue, is the state of Marxism today. Its ideas are so heavy in the air that one can be a committed Marxist without ever having read a word of “Das Kapital.”
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