Warning all Bourgeoisie:
You are the first target of Democrats and other Marxists.

Vic Biorseth, Saturday, April 18, 2009
http://www.Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com

”Warning all Bourgeoisie” serves as a status update and apology for falling behind again. The apology is to subscribers for not sending out the E-Zine for the new argument pages for the Values Versus Ethos argument page, and the Refuting Pro-Choice argument page.

I am working hard these days, and there are just not enough hours in the day to get everything done. Whenever I get extra time not devoted to the Lord, I try to spend it here. This little article will go out in the E-Zine; you can go to the links above to see what you’ve missed so far. Also, any time I do an article with a lot of pictures in it, I will not send it out via e-mail, because some of you and some of your e-mail servers take a lot of time or have space problems with graphics. I’ll try to send a notice of and a link to the article, but not the graphic-heavy article itself.

Why am I warning all bourgeoisie? Because the middle class – the largest “class” in America by far – is the most hated, despised and demonized “class” in America, by all Marxists. That includes the current elected American political leadership in the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. It includes the SLIMC, nearly the whole field of so-called Journalism, most all of American Academia, most of show-biz, and all of the most prominent American celebrities.

We – the bourgeoisie – are nothing but greedy over-consumers, polluters, failures at recycling, drivers of big cars and – worst of all – not nearly as ready to revolt, violently or otherwise, against horrible, horrible capitalism and the exploitation of workers and the earth. This has been being set up for some time now. The bourgeoisie have always been in the sights of Marxism. Here’s what Thomas Sowell once said about it:

The almost universal disdain toward the middle class – the bourgeoisie – by those with cosmic visions can be more readily understood in light of the role of such visions as personal gratification and personal license. The middle classes have been classically people of rules, traditions, and self-discipline, to a far greater extent than the underclass below them or the wealthy and aristocratic classes above them. While the underclass pay the price of not having the self-discipline of the bourgeoisie – in many ways, ranging from poverty to imprisonment – the truly wealthy and powerful can often disregard the rules, including laws, without paying the consequences. Those with cosmic visions that seek escape from social constraints regarded as arbitrary, rather than inherent, tend to romanticize the unruliness of the underclass and the sense of being above the rules found among the elite.

Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice; The Free Press, 1999; pp. 139-140.

The Democrats and the SLIMC have already won over the so-called under-class, and the academics, pseudo-sophisticates and celebritwits have already won over the so-called wealthy and aristocratic upper class. Public education and Marxist-dominated universities have made major inroads into segments of the vast middle class itself. We are increasingly in danger of having our way of life voted out of existence by people who do not even recognize the threat and where it’s coming from.

It is coming from within.

I am praying that the Tea Parties are just a beginning, and not just a flash-in-the-pan. We need an awakening, and we need it now.

We need to pass the Fair Tax as a first, and major revolutionary step. More pages are coming to the Arguments Pro and Con section. Included will be an argument opposing Unions; an argument opposing maximums or minimums on wages and prices; an argument opposing Capital Punishment (which I thought I would never oppose until I got into it); an argument promoting what I call the Neal Boortz Solution, which includes repeal of the 16th and 17th amendments, term limits on House membership, and an approach to Constitutional Convention begun at the state level, with two-thirds of states calling for and holding the Constitutional Convention, the output of which will still need two thirds of states for ratification.

While I don’t agree with everything Neal Boortz stands for, he is currently offering the best and most practical, real world solutions to the fix we are in and the most reasonable path to a return to the Republic as originally founded.

We have got to get rid of the very idea of the professional politician, as well as deal with the current Marxist threat from within, and do it while it can still be done as bloodlessly as possible. Marxism is succeeding in what Judao-Christianity should be succeeding in, which is, the conversion of reasonable minds to see a more appropriate direction for our lives. The Marxist promises are all false, but they are delivered so smoothly that they are believed. Many today actually believe that something, some part of Marx’s social theory has some merit. It does not. There is nothing in it. It is an empty basket. Everything about Marxism is false. There is not even one small nugget of economic truth in Marxist theory. It began, and remains, a pseudo-intellectual fad, and nothing more than that.

Pray for Sarah Palin, John Bohener, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huccabee, Newt Gingrich, and pray for more like them. Keep track of who hates human babies and who loves them. Keep score on who voted for bail-outs and economic stimulus bills, and who opposed them. Get ready to turn the Marxists the hell out of office.

We still outnumber the under-class and the over-class, whether the academics and the journalists like it or not. We can do this, in the name of God.

Pray for America.

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Date: Mon Nov 16 17:49:37 2009
From: Lester and Mary
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Dear Sir:

My teacher said that bourgeois means the upper class owners of property and factories. Your article says bourgeois is the middle class. Which is right?

Sincerely,

Mary

Date: Mon Nov 16 18:14:05 2009
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:

Mary:

America is rather unique in that most Americans own property, and most Americans own some “means of production,” meaning, roughly, a way to produce something and make a living. The largest corporations in America do not employ the most workers; small and medium sized businesses do that, by a very wide margin. Giant car companies and other huge corporations employ millions; however, the vast, overwhelming majority of American workers do not work for those giant companies.

A huge number of Americans are self employed in private businesses that have no employees – that is, they have no payroll, and they do not officially pay themselves a salary. They claim all their business income on their regular 1040 tax forms every year. They may or may not be organized for tax purposes as S corporations or Limited Liability Corporation business entities, but they list no employees. Small farmers, owner-operator truck drivers, hair-dressers, artists, landlords, barbers, and a myriad of other self-employed business types exist in this category. These are people who work for themselves.

The largest employing segment of our middle class run “small” businesses that employ less than 100 employees; most of these, similarly, report their income on their own personal 1040 tax returns. This group or classification of businesses is America’s largest employer; more workers are employed by small businesses than by anything else.

The next largest employer-group is our “medium” sized businesses that employ fewer than 1,000 employees. Some of these, too, keep it simple and report their business income on their individual 1040 tax returns.

The smallest employer group in America, believe it or not, is the giant corporation group, the one you would expect to employ the most workers in any nation. But, in America, they actually employ the least.

Thus, in America, most of the people considered to be “rich” because of their annual income happen to be employers of others and the owner-operators of small to medium sized businesses. Whatever harms their business income harms employment in America.

America has a huge, almost all-encompassing middle class; any of them that are doing well by most standards are held in contempt by all Leftist elite intellectuals who consider them to be unsophisticated and relatively uneducated “petty bourgeois.”

It is the nature of the intellectual elite that they believe they know better what is good for us than we do, and that all of society would be better off if they were empowered and enabled to make all of our life decisions for us.

And that is the nature of Marxism, which operates in jealous opposition to individual liberty of the lowly citizen, and to free market Capitalism, which are the two building blocks of opportunity and of what President Reagan called American Exceptionalism.

Regards,

Vic

Date: Wed Nov 18 23:32:54 2009
From: Benjamin (BJ)
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What Marx was talking about was the captains of industry and the exploiters of the masses. You are twisting it into something else.

Date: Thu Nov 19 06:11:03 2009
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:

BJ:

It doesn’t matter much today what Marx was talking about. What matters today is what his ideology has morphed into and how it is applied by current day ideologues, who still seek to implement the utopian dream. In a practical real-world sense, the captains of industry are gone, with only a notable giant left here and there.

In America today, if you own so much as a lawn mower, you have the ability to make some money. If you own a car, you can make deliveries. If you own a truck, you can make some serious deliveries. If you own a boat, you can fish; if you can fish, you can be a commercial fisherman. If you own some dirt, you can grow some food, or some flowers for sale. If you have an extra room, you can take in a boarder. If you are a skilled tradesman with your own tools, and you have a telephone, you can be a contractor.

I submit that few people on earth are more independent minded than those who are self-employed in their own business. If you threaten their independence and their individual liberty, they will fight. These are the people who are waking up to the threat to our Constitution that is coming from within.

I don’t know (but I would like to know) whether there are more Americans workers who are self employed workers or small businessmen than there are American workers who simply have a job. But just about everybody does something besides holding down a job. And if your job benefits include profit-sharing, then you are also a Capitalist since you own an at-risk percentage of some capital enterprise. And it’s the same thing if you have a 401K that invests in any American or off-shore businesses.

In America today, I submit that it is difficult if not impossible to differentiate between Marx’s exploiter class and his exploited class. Most Americans are on both sides of that division. The middle class is most of us; there are very few above and very few below.

Note that most of the elites who treat the rest of us with contempt do not really participate in the game. Most of them do not really “work” in the sense that they do not really produce a good or a service that is needed. Perhaps needed is the wrong word; necessary might be better. They are personalities rather than workers. They are celebrities; journalists; pundits; politicians; entertainers; editorialists and so forth. What they do has value and is marketable, or they wouldn’t be doing it for very long. However, in general, the world could get along fine without what they produce.

Regards,

Vic

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