Colinxy: The Oppressed vs Oppressor Mind Trick

A Companion Piece to “Fast and Slow Thinking: What Kahneman Actually Revealed”

This essay follows naturally from my earlier piece on Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. If Kahneman exposed the machinery of our cognitive shortcuts, then Joshua Greene’s Moral Tribes explains how those shortcuts become tribal weapons — especially when fused with Marx’s Oppressed vs Oppressor narrative.

Olivia Pierson: A de facto marriage - Islam & Marxism

The undying love-affair between Islam and Marxism, particularly admired by the wanton wokerati, represents a profound moral, and therefore civilisational, challenge to human flourishing in our time.

Both display a damn creepy organising principle steeped in the rejection of Western liberty, Judeo-Christian understandings of human nature, and the fundamental dignity of the person.

Colinxy: The Lie of “Endless Growth”

Why Marxists Keep Repeating It — and Why It’s Nonsense

One of the most persistent talking points in Marxist circles — and among their fellow‑travellers in academia, activism, and the bureaucratic class — is the claim that capitalism supposedly promises “endless growth.” According to this myth, economists and capitalists are engaged in a kind of metaphysical delusion, imagining that markets will expand forever until the planet melts, the seas boil, and Jeff Bezos personally blocks out the sun.

It’s a neat story. It’s also completely false.

Dr Kevin Donnelly: How the Frankfurt School Captured the Culture – and How to Fight Back

Conservatives have too often failed to realise that “politics is downstream from culture”. So argued Douglas Murray in a recent obituary of the late Peter Whittle, founder of the New Culture Forum (NCF), following the adage popularised by the late American journalist Andrew Breitbart, himself the founder of Breitbart News. “Too many conservatives for far too long felt the crucial battles were about economics”, Murray writes. “The NCF founder helped to correct that error.”

NZCPR Newsletter: Dismantling Separatism

In his 1985 book Shadows Over New Zealand, the former Communist Geoff McDonald revealed how the Maori Sovereignty movement was using Marxist strategies to gain power:

“Marxists understand that the key to destabilising New Zealand is to show how badly the Maori is treated. The big lie must be built up, until enough people believe it to enable the damage to be done.

“There is no Maori oppression at all. But that would not stop them from going ahead with their propaganda. Facts or truth have no relevance to Marxism. Anything can be said to help create the conditions amenable to the collapse of society. However absurd or grotesque the charges being made against white New Zealanders, if they are not answered they will be believed.”

That’s exactly how it played out. Over decades, separatists have gained positions of power and influence through division and deceit.

Tim Wikiriwhi: Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill - submission

Public Submission.
To the committee.

Hello.

My name is Tim Wikiriwhi.
I am a father, grandfather, a Christian Libertarian, and a Kiwi of both Maori and Pakeha descent.
Te Arawa is my Iwi.

Peter Hemmingson: Deconstructing the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth

Marxists have been pushing the Maori barrow in New Zealand since 1935, when the Communist Party of New Zealand ran in the General Election of that year on a plank which included: “Self-determination of the Māoris [sic] to the point of complete separation.”

Ever wondered why?

Guest Post: What Drives the Leaders of Minority Groups

JD writes on BFD as a Guest Post:

We are continually told that various groups in New Zealand suffer from systemic discrimination and that whatever is wrong in their lives is the fault of others, not of themselves.

Politicians and political parties of a certain stripe are regularly in the news promoting these ideas and demanding that these inequalities be addressed.

We ask ourselves why this latter group exists and what is their motivation for this pursuit of grievances and ‘advocacy for the downtrodden’.

John Porter: Pushing Back on Critical Race Theory

With Critical Race Theory (CRT), we face a doctrine deeply embedded for decades with its genesis in Marxism.

I have written earlier that we should all have serious concerns about the incremental creep of CRT into our lives and also into our country’s culture and governance.

Anthony Willy: Love’s Labour’s Lost (with apologies to the Bard)

The NZCPR has over the term of the last government extensively documented the mischief and incompetence that marked its passage and now its passing. The unprecedented attack on our institutions has been exposed for what we now see it to be; a naked attempt to destabilise our society and its institutions and supplant them with the trappings of an authoritarian state fashioned around the aspirations of a tiny minority of those claiming Maori entitlement. 

Anthony Willy: The commoners

To the self-anointed  theorists that is those with an academic qualification in something of no practical use and generally lacking in life experience, the commoners are the deplorables. They cause the lips to curl in the councils of theorists, and the rent seekers sitting around the campfires of the tribalists. This group comprises those who are consumed with theories which balloon into crusades: The current poster children of group are global warming, the raucous denial that sexuality is fixed at birth, co governance and that there are different types of democracy. 

Garrick Tremain: Dry cleaning

 Here is Garrick Tremain's cartoon commentary on mainstream media marxism! 

Denis Hall: Marxism and Communism

I just read an amazing unpublished book - that explained to me in detail how communism and Marxism suppresses people and takes away all freedom - and creates a situation where once they have done that there is nowhere a person can find a public voice to help them fight back.

First remove the voice of freedom - and then remove the freedom.

Then teach the kids that there is no other way.

What the problem is here - is that New Zealanders are still asleep.

Leighton Smith Podcast: Anthony Willy on Marxism in Jacinda Ardern's New Zealand

Leighton Smith Podcast Episode 142 
February 9, 2022 • 81 min

On this week's podcast: Marxism could not happen here... could it? After decades on the bench, covering four different courts, retired Judge Anthony Willy expresses his concern for the future of democracy in New Zealand. 

Karl du Fresne: What no one's talked about during this election campaign

In 1992, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated book with the extravagant title The End of History and the Last Man. In it, he argued (I’m quoting from Wikipedia here) that the triumph of Western liberalism marked the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution.

The rationale was that the Soviet Union had collapsed under the weight of its own tyranny and sclerotic inefficiency. The decades-long Cold War that defined the post-war era was over and free-market economics (Reaganomics in the US, Thatcherism in Britain, Rogernomics in New Zealand and similar variants elsewhere, including Australia under Bob Hawke) had prevailed throughout the democratic West.

It seemed at the time that the epochal struggle between Marxism and capitalism had been emphatically resolved. There was a mood of smug triumphalism (guilty, your Honour) among advocates of what came to be termed neoliberalism.

Chris Talgo: ‘BLM’ Organizations Say ‘Black Lives Matter,’ but They Mean ‘Be Like Marx’

The Movement for Black Lives and Black Lives Matter, colloquially known as “BLM,” are Marxist organizations whose views are in fundamental opposition to the values that America was founded upon. 

And no, I’m not talking about racism. I’m talking about individual liberty, free markets, and the Constitution. 

How do I know this? Because I went through the unprecedented, incredibly difficult task of going to their websites and reading their platforms.

Karl du Fresne: Identity Politics and the Pride Parade

There was something strangely familiar about the spectacle of the LGBTQ+ movement chewing itself up over the Auckland Pride Parade.

It was vaguely reminiscent of the destructive paroxysms that convulsed New Zealand’s communist Left throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s as rival factions competed to show who was most faithful to Marxist-Leninist ideology.

The feuding began when Moscow and Beijing fell out and New Zealand communists split into Soviet and Maoist camps. The plotting and infighting was so vicious and all-consuming that no one had any energy left to fight the supposed common enemy, capitalism.

Daniel Mitchell: Why Is the EU Celebrating Karl Marx's Birthday?

Celebrating the 200th birthday of Karl Marx is a slap in the face of millions of people killed by communism. The evil ideology known as communism left a track record of unimaginable horror. Experts estimate that 100 million people were killed by Marxist regimes. Some were murdered. Other starved to death because of the pervasive economic failure of communism.

Yet there are dupes and apologists who overlook all this death and misery. One of them is Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission. A few days from now, this über-bureaucrat will help celebrate the 200th birthday of Karl Marx.

Matt Ridley: A century of Marxism-Leninism

Human beings can be remarkably dense. The practice of bloodletting, as a medical treatment, persisted despite centuries of abundant evidence that it did more harm than good. 

The practice of communism, or political bloodletting as it should perhaps be known, whose centenary in the Bolshevik revolution is reached this year, likewise needs no more tests. It does more harm than good every time. Nationalised, planned, one-party rule benefits nobody, let alone the poor.