Juno News - CBC promotes ＂reclaiming Marxism＂

An article published by CBC Radio focuses on the thoughts of Marxist professors and argues that Marxism is the antidote to people who feel like their life and work have no meaning. Andrew Lawton argues that Marxist ideas are inextricably linked to communism.

00:00:00.000 You know I've heard people make a little tongue-in-cheek jab at Canada's state

00:00:06.000 broadcaster, the CBC, calling it the Communist Broadcasting Corporation and

00:00:10.860 you know I've thought it might be a little bit of an amusing aside but it's

00:00:14.160 an exaggeration. Well not now. CBC has actually published an article glorifying

00:00:20.400 communism. Literally this is what the article is about. Reclaiming Marxism in

00:00:25.920 an age of meaningless work. The article published by CBC Radio focuses on the

00:00:33.600 thoughts by a couple of Marxist professors. What else is new right? And in it they

00:00:38.240 talk about how capitalism has failed society. Capitalism keeps us from

00:00:42.780 creating value in life says Yale professor. Another paragraph. This is not a quote

00:00:48.000 from a professor but actually a quote in the CBC story itself published without a

00:00:52.880 byline. More than a century and a half after Marx first talked about the

00:00:57.560 struggles between the ruling class and labor, the promise of capitalism, that

00:01:02.780 progress was inevitable and would ultimately lead to good things for

00:01:05.600 everyone, has proven empty for many people. So CBC says that the promise of

00:01:10.580 capitalism has proven empty for a lot of people. Not with any challenging voice. No

00:01:15.600 one in the article pushes back and says well actually capitalism has lifted

00:01:19.520 billions out of poverty. Capitalism has saved the world from war. Capitalism has

00:01:24.060 let people create wealth that was absolutely unattainable prior to the

00:01:27.800 Industrial Revolution. No it focuses on how apparently Marxism is the antidote to

00:01:32.420 people that feel like their life and work has no meaning. The problem is that

00:01:37.040 Marxism and communism are inextricably linked to one another. You can't view one

00:01:42.400 without talking about what has come about whenever it's been implemented. Now sure

00:01:46.460 your armchair communists love to point to the Soviet Union and China and say well

00:01:50.420 no no but that's not real communism. Places that love to say no no you could

00:01:54.440 put Marxism without having all of the death and famine and destruction and all

00:01:58.960 of these other things. Communism has a death toll of about a hundred million

00:02:02.600 people and for anyone to glorify it without it being challenged is no less

00:02:08.220 reprehensible than an article saying let's reclaim fascism. Where's that article

00:02:13.460 CBC? Where's the article saying we have to reclaim fascism? No that would be

00:02:17.900 absolutely disgusting as is an article extolling the supposed virtues of

00:02:23.220 communism. Tens of millions of lives lost to genocide and famine and destruction in

00:02:29.900 the Soviet Union. Lives lost in China. Rights obliterated. Mongolia at the hands of the 0.97

00:02:37.280 Chinese communist state. You look at Cambodia as well. Millions subjected to

00:02:42.500 genocide at the hands of the communist regime in Cambodia. This is not a

00:02:48.040 philosophy that should at all be extolled. And sure Marx himself might not have

00:02:54.020 been responsible for this but it is impossible to separate his ideology from

00:02:58.880 what's come about when the ideology that he created has been pushed through at the

00:03:03.660 hands of autocrats and state communists. Shame on CBC for putting a romantic spin on

00:03:10.980 this. For True North, I'm Andrew Lawton.

Juno News - June 22, 2019

CBC promotes ＂reclaiming Marxism＂

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