Who is Karl Marx? How does he impact our country? What is the latest of the woke military and more? All that and more on today's episode of The CharlieKirk Show. Thanks to our sponsor, Turning Point USA!
00:01:00.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:29.000We talk about this a little bit actually in an upcoming podcast, which is why you have to subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast with James Lindsay, who understands the topic far better than I do.
00:02:39.000He has a deep, complex understanding of Hegel.
00:02:43.000Hegel was profound, though, because he got people to basically buy into the idea that history is constantly unfolding, that we're on a journey towards inevitable utopia.
00:02:52.000Now, that is against Christianity in the sense that our actions or the state actions are not going to bring us towards utopia, but we do believe that eventually the people who give their lives to the Lord will end up living in paradise, living in heaven.
00:03:07.000So, Karl Marx is a leader of the young Hegelians.
00:03:13.000He actually got kicked out of a group.
00:03:18.000Actually, the university refused to publish a paper of his in 1842 because he was too radical.
00:03:23.000So, then he started to, he met this guy, Engels, which, of course, is the lesser-known counterpart, Friedrich Engels.
00:03:32.000And in 1848, they published a very famous book called The Communist Manifesto.
00:03:38.000So, that actually is where we get the term communist from, is from Marx and Engels.
00:03:44.000Now, they also came up with the term capitalist.
00:03:50.000It was meant to be a pejorative, meaning all you care is about the flow of capital.
00:03:55.000Now, what's tricky about Marx is that Marx was actually right about several things.
00:04:01.000I wouldn't say Marx was right about a lot because those are all relative statements, but Marx was correct in certain observations of human behavior.
00:04:10.000Most specifically, Marx was right about what could best be described as the Pareto principle or the Matthew principle.
00:04:18.000For all of you devotees to Jordan Peterson, you know exactly what the Pareto principle is.
00:04:24.000Now, the Paret principle is fascinating.
00:04:26.000The Pareto principle is something that is true across any discipline, across music, across sports, across restaurants, across wealth distribution.
00:04:36.000And basically, the Pareto principle states that for any outcome, roughly 80% of all the consequences or benefits come from 20% of the people.
00:04:48.000Said differently, 20% of the people, otherwise known as the vital few, drive forward the progress and the benefits.
00:04:58.000That means, regardless of how hard you try, if you have any form of a market, any form of private property, you're going to have hierarchies designed, not designed, but eventually as the outcome.
00:05:09.000Some people are going to work harder, some people are going to save better.
00:05:15.000And so, you dive into this, by definition, you're going to have otherwise known as structural inequality.
00:05:24.000Now, what Marx realized is that this is baked in.
00:05:27.000You're not going to be able to avoid it.
00:05:29.000Now, his conclusion was totally wrong, is therefore we must tear down that system.
00:05:34.000How is it fair that 20% of the people, the vital few, are able to get 80% of the outcomes?
00:05:40.000So, let's just say this differently: 20% of all, let me say that, 80% of the most popular musical compositions, movies, plays, dramas, sporting awards, Super Bowls, World Series are dominated by 20% of the people.
00:05:57.000And this is the number just off the top of my head: 1% actually end up getting 90% of the 80%.
00:06:04.000So, it gets even thinner and it goes even shorter the more you go down the Pareto principle.
00:06:08.000So, anyway, Marx didn't articulate it exactly like that, but essentially, Marx said there's a huge problem here.
00:06:14.000The problem is that over time, a smaller and smaller group of people are going to be able to get more and more stuff.
00:06:20.000And by definition, they're exploiting people to do that.
00:06:24.000So, what Marx introduced into the entire international conversation was a framing, was a framing of the oppressor versus the oppressed, but he did it strictly in economic terms.
00:06:36.000He framed it the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat was the way which his original frame was his original framing.
00:06:43.000Marx was critical of being able to own private property, which originally was an idea that Plato even conjectured and Rousseau then took up, the French philosopher who spent a lot of time in Geneva, who himself was a massive hypocrite.
00:06:57.000A lot of, if you send your kid to college, they're going to learn a lot from Rousseau.
00:07:01.000So, Marx really incubated a lot of these ideas.
00:07:03.000I don't think Engels gets enough credit for this, but Marx was right that in a market, you're going to have winners and you're going to have losers.
00:07:11.000What Marx was wrong about, though, is that are the losers as big of losers as you actually think they are?
00:07:18.000Because Marx would think that if someone has a big house and they traded for that house, that you must have exploited your way to get up there, that you weren't able to have a good product or an idea, that you didn't invent something meaningful, that you weren't able to take a contributing risk to the world that all of a sudden people wanted to have.
00:07:35.000For example, you created a movie that people wanted to see that enriched their life, or you created a car that allowed them to be transported.
00:07:41.000That he looked at markets simply and strictly and sloppily, might I add, through a prism that if you were able to obtain wealth, then you what?
00:07:51.000Capitalized, there's that word capital, capitalized via capital on somebody else's labor.
00:07:57.000Doesn't matter if they get paid, doesn't matter if they want to do it, doesn't matter if they find it enriching.
00:08:02.000They are being oppressed, but they don't even realize it.
00:08:05.000So, Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto, amongst other places, let the workers of the world unite.
00:08:48.000Marx was across the board indicting what we would consider to be core tenants of Western civilization.
00:08:55.000Now, what's important is he took that kind of Hegelian ideology, that Hegelian philosophy, that kind of idea of the march through history, this journey towards the arc of our existence, towards an eschatological utopia.
00:09:09.000And eventually, Marx argues that the last phase of communism, after the government takes over everything, is actually the government taking over nothing, that we'll live in harmony, that we'll get back to our romantic, ideal, childish, infant-like way of living.
00:09:24.000But the way we must do that is we must first destroy the capitalist hierarchy, private property, the ability to trade, exist in markets.
00:09:33.000We must tear it down all through the workers.
00:09:36.000So Marx was able to employ all of this.
00:09:39.000And Marx, of course, inspired Hitler in some sense.
00:09:54.000But Marxism, this idea of oppressed versus oppressor, that framework, that kind of dialectic, that tension, was then taken up by the identity politics type who ran the Marxist school in Frankfurt, Germany in the 1930s and 40s.
00:10:08.000And they brought it to America and they broadened it outside of economic terms.
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00:12:28.000So essentially, what ended up happening then is Karl Marx's ideas germinated throughout the European academy.
00:12:36.000And a very clever, sinister person by the name of Herbert Marcuse in the 1930s and 40s was overseeing the Frankfurt School and then took those ideas and transplanted them into America.
00:12:51.000But it wasn't just the Marxist theory on economics, it was beyond that.
00:12:55.000It wasn't just oppressor versus oppressed and bourgeoisie and proletariat.
00:12:59.000No, instead, it was applying that kind of theory of Marxist class struggle because Karl Marx was so focused on class struggle.
00:13:11.000The owner of a business and the workers of a business in particular must understand the times of which Karl Marx wrote this.
00:13:19.000His all philosophy is a reflection of the times and the issues.
00:13:23.000Karl Marx wrote this during the height of the Industrial Revolution when Europe was becoming widespread industrialized and people were making the transition from the farms to the factories.
00:13:35.000And Marx started to see the, let's just say, unexpected externalities.
00:13:41.000People that were getting black lung, people that were dying at work, people that were being overworked, child labor.
00:13:46.000Those were some very legitimate concerns.
00:13:50.000But instead of talking about improving what was a massive standard of living increase in the mid-1800s, he just throws out the entire system altogether, pairs it with Hegelian and Rousseauian ideology, and says this construct needs to be thrown apart.
00:14:04.000Whenever you hear construct, that is a Marxist term, just to keep your ear out.
00:14:09.000So then Marcuse takes this and says, ah, I love this idea.
00:14:22.000Apply this to class, to race movements, apply this to everything.
00:14:28.000That the Marxist theory of struggle, oppressor versus oppressed, it goes everywhere.
00:14:34.000And so where he was able to hit it perfectly is the introduction of critical theory.
00:14:41.000Now, he himself, I don't think, ever used that term.
00:14:45.000I could be wrong, but it was a critical lens on anything that might exist.
00:14:50.000And then there were other disciples as well, Jacques Derrida and Michelle Foucault, who were just straight out postmodernists, which is that we need to now break ourselves of the shackles of modernity and challenge basically everything.
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00:19:52.000And this is what's so important for people to realize is that this is not just bad ideas of kids that are saying this stuff on college campuses because I hear this from conservatives.
00:20:01.000And I wrote this in the book, The College Scam.
00:20:02.000Oh, yeah, these ideas have always been around.
00:20:05.000First of all, they have not been this bad.
00:20:06.000Second of all, they're now implementing them as actual actionable policy in our country.
00:20:58.000If you do not subscribe to the critical race theory orthodoxy, regardless of your skin color, they are the administrators, administers, I should say, of what considered to be good and not good.
00:21:11.000As James Lindsay perfectly put it, Dr. James Lindsay, we have an upcoming episode with him.
00:21:15.000We had a conversation at the Turning Point USA Great Reset event.
00:21:19.000Our Turning Point USA team did such a great job.
00:21:21.000As James Lindsay perfectly put it, he said, critical race theory is calling everything racist till you control it.
00:22:38.000And I have not heard enough from our Republican, soon-to-be majority about what they are going to do, what they are willing to do to shut down the government and stop continuing resolutions to ensure that this idea pathogen, which is more dangerous than the Chinese coronavirus, gets out of our military.
00:22:58.000So we're going to play some tape here.
00:23:03.000This is Lieutenant General Richard Clark, the first black U.S. Air Force Academy superintendent, talking about why diversity is so important in the armed forces, saying it will, if we don't have diversity, it will weaken us.
00:23:18.000Well, really, how does diversity, not that it's a bad thing, but I'm just wondering, how is that an elemental and fundamental component?
00:23:26.000Why is that a necessary focus of an ingredient into beating the Chinese at war?
00:23:38.000Besides the fact that it's a nice bumper sticker and you can repeat it over and over again, and people are afraid to ask you this question because they're going to be called racist.
00:23:44.000I want to know specifically and concretely how this makes us more likely to defend ourselves against the Iranians and the Chinese.
00:23:57.000And if you're going to look out, you know, 10, 15, 20 years from now, if we don't start really opening up the entire population for us to draw from, to draw talent from, and there's talent there, we're going to, we limit ourselves and it will weaken us.
00:24:55.000Aaron Space Force officer commissioning programs are developing new diversity and inclusion outreach plans by the end of this month to reach updated applicant pool demographic goals.
00:25:04.000The effort was directed by Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall.
00:25:08.000He says it's imperative the composition of the military services better reflect the nation's highly talented, diverse, and eligible population.
00:25:15.000Kendall added the outreach plans continue to progress towards achieving a force more representative of the nation while leveraging diversity to enhance the air and space forces.
00:25:25.000People ask all the time, Charlie, would you serve in the military?
00:25:27.000You know, would you recommend serving in the military?
00:25:29.000And I'm like, I have not served in the military.
00:25:31.000I'm very thankful for people who have served the military.
00:26:27.000What happens when all of a sudden our military is far more focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, social-emotional learning, critical race theory guidelines than they are about killing our enemies and winning wars?
00:26:44.000We've said for a while the military shouldn't be a social experiment.
00:26:50.000The statists went from hating the military, spitting on vets, burning flags, wanting to defund the military, to now realizing all they have to do is take it over with their idea pathogens.
00:27:02.000Every branch of the military that we have numbers for is missing their recruitment goals.
00:27:42.000But there are quite a few countries that are really struggling because young people, under the burdens of capitalism and under living under a society that's increasingly concentrating wealth among the rich, we're not having kids.
00:27:57.000Or we're not having kids at the same rate.
00:28:00.000And we actually need immigrant populations to help balance things out.
00:28:05.000We can't continue to fund Social Security, Medicare, all of this stuff without immigrants.
00:29:52.000So AOC wants immigrants who bring in socially conservative big family values while she and her party call the middle part of the country deplorables because they want to have a bunch of kids.
00:30:05.000We actually predicted this differently.
00:30:08.000We thought they would do with inflation and they have in some sense, Durbin and others.
00:30:11.000But their solution to whatever crisis there is, it's always either immigration, take the guns away, or environmentalism.
00:30:20.000So declining birth rate, we need more people.
00:30:27.000It's as if they have the solution before they know the problem.
00:30:33.000It's as if the left, the solution I put in air quotes, it's as if they have the policy prescription before they even heard what the problem is.
00:31:20.000A family should not have to go into debt to raise children.
00:31:23.000Unfortunately, having children has become a luxury of the rich.
00:31:29.000It's much easier not to have children right now.
00:31:33.000And you're seeing that reflected in this declining civilizational defining issue that our program, alongside very few others, Tucker and Bannon and Elon Musk deserves credit for this, has been trying to warn people we are hitting a level where the species will be put in jeopardy.
00:33:03.000In summary, and very briefly, the reactogenicity of this vaccine was essentially the same, no better or worse than what we've seen with any of a number of childhood vaccines that we regularly administer to our children.
00:33:18.000There was no incidence of myocarditis or multi-system inflammatory syndrome of children.
00:33:24.000Cut four, Joe Biden says during an interview on 60 Minutes, he believes the pandemic is over.
00:33:29.000Does that mean now he's not allowed to cancel student loans?
00:34:13.000What's important is that under the EUA, these mRNA experimental gene therapies are shielded from liability.
00:34:23.000This is why they need to get them on the child vaccination schedule.
00:34:26.000This is why every other country, not every other country, that's not true.
00:34:29.000Most other countries that we have respect for are removing the mRNA gene altering technology from the childhood vaccination schedule.
00:34:38.000For example, I don't want to speak inaccurately here, but I believe the United Kingdom has removed it completely for anyone at the age of 12.
00:34:44.000Now, we would be doing that if it wasn't for this goofy way that we wrote the legislation in our country, where in order for these vaccine companies, these makers, to be shielded from potential legal recourse, to be shielded from a check and balance from the plaintiff's lawyers, they need to get it on the childhood vaccination schedule.
00:35:06.000So vaccine companies will go bankrupt without the emergency use authorization.
00:35:45.000This is a scandal that if Republicans take over, it's going to be tempting for Republicans not to focus on the vaccine, the approval of vaccine, Operation Warp speed, and the way they will do it.
00:35:58.000The Democrats are so clever, and that's why you got to play a step ahead.
00:36:02.000How do you think they will message a Republican onslaught of an investigation into the vaccine?
00:36:10.000The Democrats right now are going to destroy certain documents and place certain documents that blame it on Donald Trump and his White House.
00:36:21.000They know that if we have a full investigation into this with the Republicans taking back the Congress, and we should have Nuremberg trials, but it's not going to happen immediately.