by ERIC ABETZ – THE Marxist ideology wherever it has been practised in government has left a trail of oppression and economic stagnation.
Millions of martyrs bear witness to that fact as did millions who succumbed to unnecessary starvation.
- Marxist creep into our institutions, as expressed by woke business leaders and sports officials, needs to be arrested.
- Our task is to return to the principles of freedom which have underpinned our success thus far.
- Dutton has also taken on the challenge to remind us of the virtue of equality between people in opposing the Voice.
Be it in the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, not to mention Venezuela, none has provided freedom and economic prosperity as enjoyed in the West.
There is a reason for that outcome.
OPPRESSIVE
Stifling individual freedom stifles society and its well-being as a whole because society is the sum total of all the individuals in it– it’s amazing how acceptance of an oppressive ideology blinds.
On his retirement, the great orating former US President Ronald Reagan made the observation that, during his lifetime, he had seen the birth and death of communism. He was referring to that truly evil empire known as the Soviet Union.
His call in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, due in no small part to his leadership and that of Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, was understandable.
But it was made too early and did not take into account the changing tactics of Marxist influence.
Having realised that the workers’ revolution would never take place given how well they were actually faring, the institutions became the target of the Marxists and the results are plainly staring us in the face.
Be it the education system and its concentration on indoctrination rather than critical thinking, the corrosive influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, or attempts to destroy the family unit, there is the nefarious influence of the Marxist ideology which has already caused so much devastation to millions of people around the world.
So, it is welcome to have a former prime minister, Tony Abbott, call out this nefarious influence for what it is.
He provides a reality check to those leaders who blindly adopt the Marxist rhetoric and unwittingly help them implement their agenda.
The obvious Marxist creep into our institutions, as expressed by woke business leaders and sports officials, needs to be arrested before it is too late.
And whilst the creep appears to have gathered pace into a veritable march it is never too late to stop this evil from further permeating our society.
After that, the task is to return to the principles of freedom and the virtues which have underpinned our success thus far.
COURAGE
Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor in reverting to Menzian principles has adopted the courage and grit in recent presentations to remind us of lasting and tried virtues which have delivered in such a bountiful way.
Leader of the centre-Right Liberal Party Peter Dutton has also taken on the challenge to remind us of the virtue of equality between people in opposing the Voice.
To overcome a problem it must first be recognised and that is what Mr Abbott has done with great force and insight.
In recent times too many Liberals, business leaders and sporting identities have become the “useful idiots” of the Marxist elements by lusting after popularity and acceptance in certain quarters with a focus on self and career rather than a duty to country and society.
Leadership requires calling things out for what they are. It appears the new Coalition leadership in Australia is willing to do exactly what is required.
The founder of Australia’s most successful political Party, Sir Robert Menzies, clearly enunciated in the Party’s founding principles: “We Believe, that the Liberal Party would oppose autocracy whether communist or fascist.”
Yet when corrosive concepts, such as the so-called Safe Schools program for sexual and gender diversity awareness, are put forward by a self-avowed Marxist and tell us it is part of the Marxist agenda, we have leaders turning a blind eye.
In more recent times, we have had the same permeating influence with the Indigenous Voice to Parliament campaign where an architect behind the proposal is similarly a self-avowed Marxist.
WELL-MEANING
Yet we have well-meaning people turn a blind eye and tell us that there is “nothing to be seen here”.
The threat to each and every individual, our societal institutions and economic well-being by the Marxist influence needs to be challenged by advocating the timeless values of freedom of thought, expression, religion and the spirit of the individual.
The rule of law is so often disregarded to allegedly show empathy with an alleged victim.
The list goes on where the virtues and values which have made the West the envy of the world are being corroded from within by forces committed to the overthrow of a society that has in fact allowed them to flourish.
With Mr Abbott’s clarion call about the threat of Marxism together with the embracing of the virtues of liberty and true equality by the Coalition, Australia may well be waking from its slumber during which Marxist forces have gained undeserved ground.
Traditional virtues and values became traditional by sheer dint of the fact that they serve us well.
Marxist experimentation has devastated too many of our fellow humans to be tried in the West.
The time for a re-embracing of our traditional values has well and truly come.PC
What an accurate assessment! Sadly, it is 50 years too late. Anyone at University in Australia in the 1970’s could see the March Through the Institutions firmly under way. The centre-right/Classical Liberal values are not championed by anyone with any conviction. The Marxist/Left has the impetus to change society, whereas most of the centre-right folks are rightly comfortable with their own status quo. Someone adhering to Classical Liberal values or free enterprise, freedom of speech, etc., etc., has to have the confidence of their values and do some reading of Economics and history to bolster their position against the sunshine-and-lollipops future envisioned by the Left. Their future is anything BUT sunshine and lollipops…it is darkness and misery. Conviction and a Light-on-the-Hill inspiration got the Left where it is today. The centre-right has to run just to stand still in this debate. Liberalism (no, not the “Liberal” Party!!) has to have the courage of its convictions and get motivated to justify a Free Enterprise, freedom-crafted narrative to turn the tide.
Please explain Prime Minister, you recently denied the “Voice” referendum had other attachments;
Tony Abbott criticises Anthony Albanese as a video resurfaced of him wearing a ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’ T-shirt at a Midnight Oil concert in October last year.
“After finishing school, he worked for the Commonwealth Bank for two years before studying economics at the University of Sydney. There, he became involved in student politics and was elected to the Students’ Representative Council. It was also there where he started his rise as a key player in the ALP’s Labor Left. During his time in student politics, Albanese led a group within Young Labor that was aligned with the left faction’s Hard Left, which maintained “links with broader left-wing groups, such as the Communist Party of Australia, People for Nuclear Disarmament and the African National Congress”.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a Trotskyite (Leon Trotsky Russian Marxist Revolutionary, now deceased).
Thomas Mayo an architect of the Uluru Statement, committee member and Yes23 campaigner, he thanked the “Communist Elders”.
Yes, we are under attack from Marxists.
If they win the Yes vote it will be all over. They will be able to dictate to whatever Government that is in office. No legislation will pass without the nod from the “Voice” unless they want to test in court, and we know how that will go.