By Al Benson Jr. On August 26, 2008 at 3:11 PM
by Al Benson Jr.
During the month of August, 2008, I attended a Southern Heritage conference in Laurel, Mississippi, at which I gave two speeches.
The first of the speeches, and the one I considered the most important, was about what I call the
Yankee/Marxist Mindset. I felt this was a rather appropriate title, as the two mindsets, those of Yankees (not all Northerners) and the Marxists were very similar. You might even call these worldviews, or theologies, if you will, because at heart, every man is a theologian, even the atheist. Most "historians" won't touch this subject with a ten-foot pole because they'd rather you didn't do a lot of reflecting in this area as to just how much alike the two theologies really are.
A little understanding of the Marxist mindset will not hurt in this instance. Example: When a Communist tells you he wants "peace" what he really wants is the absence of any resistance to communism. To him, that is the only true peace there is. All else is a state of war to him. So, if you want "peace" with a Communist all you have to do is to quit opposing him and just let him have his way with your kids (via government schools) or your property (via the property tax) or your wife (via the Feminist agenda) or whatever else he decides he wants that is yours. In his world, what's his is his and what's yours is always negotiable.
However, when communicating with their own people they are quite specific. Check out the ten points listed for taking over a country in the "Communist Manifesto" and you will see. They are very specific about removing your right to private property, about "education" for all children in public schools, and about taxing you with the exact same kind of "heavy, progressive, graduated income tax" that was enacted during the Lincoln administration.
What most Southern folks fail to realize is that much of Marx's agenda was implemented in this country during and after the War of Northern Aggression. During the war, the Yankee attitude toward the private propertly of Southerners was thouroughly Marxist in the way it was carried out--steal what you want and destroy the rest! In our book
Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists Donnie Kennedy and I noted, on pages 117-118 that "Private property and life itself were no longer safe within the reach of the Union army. This was not something the developed late in the war...but was instituted by men such as Louis Blenker prior to the Battle of First Manassas." Should you be curious as to who Louis Blenker was, he was a socialist general in Mr. Lincoln's army who came to this country after the socialist revolts in Europe failed in 1848.
If you are able to, get hold of John Dwyer's book
The War Between the States--America's Uncivil War. On page 609 of his book Dwyer compares what the radical, abolitionist reconstruction crowd wanted to do with what Marx and his socialist followers advocated. The similarity in the two lists should shock any thinking person who hasn't been desensitized by his government school education. Check out Mr. Dwyer's book at
www.bluebonnetpress.com and get a copy if you can.
In the book
War Along the Bayous which is a history of the infamous Red River Campaign here in Louisiana, author William Riley Brooksher notes the attitude of the invading Yankees toward the Southerner's cotton--it was here to be "confiscated" (stolen) and then sold so everyone involved except the Union army that did the fighting in the bayous could make a fat profit. The U. S. Navy even had a "prize" system worked out whereby all stolen cotton was turned over to the government and prizes were awarded based on how much you were able to "confiscate." You may think that sounds anti-Marxist but it really isn't. The Marxists have no problem with profit--as long as they are the only ones making it and as long as they can redefine what they are doing so that it sounds much more noble than it really is. Oh, they claim they abhor profit, but in practice it doesn't always work out that way. Brooksher reports, on page 65, about Yankee plunder of Southern private property and how Yankee troops took what they wanted and destroyed the rest. He noted that one Union officer had even halted some bargaining over a man's property and the officer, quite succinctly said that "they had come to take, not buy." The classic Yankee/Marxist viewpoint!!!
And on pages 145-146 of the book
Sherman's March by Burke Davis, the real Yankee attitude toward Christianity is displayed as the narrative unfolds the story of how some Yankee troops destroyed a Southern church, bit by bit, tearing it to pieces, and then, when it finally collapsed they shouted "There goes your damned old gospel shop." I have to wonder how many of those soldiers came here from Europe after the failed 1848 socialist revolts there--and brought their socialist/communist worldview with them to be displayed while they wore the blue uniform of the Yankee invader.
Here again, when it comes to the truth of the Christian faith, the Yankee and Marxist mindsets are identical--so why shouldn't they be linked? They are one and the same. It's time our folks in the South finally began to grasp the truth that the War of Northern Aggression was really a Marxist revolution--one the whole country has never recovered from--and as long as we continue to submit out children to Marx's public school system for their "education" we never will!
Bibliography
Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists
by Walter D. Kennedy and Al Benson Jr.
published by iUniverse
www,iuniverse.com
The War Between the States--America's Uncivlil War
by John Dwyer
published by Bluebonnet Press, Denton, Texas 76206
www.bluebonnetpress.com
War Along the Bayous
by William Riley Brooksher
Brasseys, Washington, London
Sherman's March
by Burke Davis
Vintage Books--A division of Random House, New York