Scholar: Kamala Harris Borrows From Karl Marx
Eric Weinstein is an interesting man. He has an impressive academic background with BA and MA degrees in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Harvard University.
He described AOC as a straight-up Marxist and Kamala Harris as somewhere in-between crony finance and Marxist.
Weinstein also has an accomplished business background having served as managing director of Thiel Capital, a venture capital firm owned by billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel, from 2013 to 2022. For the past several years, he has served on the research team of The Galileo Project at Harvard University and in 2019 he started his own podcast, The Portal.
Politically, Weinstein is a bit of an enigma. He describes his own family as “far left” and it seems that he has been a life-long liberal Democrat. However, one of his closest friends and former boss, Peter Thiel, has been a big-time donor for Republicans, including Donald Trump, over many years. In addition, he describes Trump running mate J.D. Vance as a friend and someone he admires. Perhaps, then, it is fair to describe Weinstein as a non-ideologue who keeps an open mind on political issues.
On September 22nd, Weinstein sat down for an extraordinarily riveting, in-depth interview with popular British podcaster, Chris Williamson, to discuss a wide range of topics. Some of the most fascinating moments over the course of the interview came when Weinstein made comments about Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party in general.
During the interview, Williamson asked Weinstein about Kamala Harris’s weird, often-repeated speaking phrase, “What can be, unburdened by what has been.” In his response, Weinstein was clearly uncomfortable providing his answer, but, after a long pause, he replied that it was “a line from Marx.” He continued his answer by saying that AOC (Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) uses the phrase “We have a world to win,” which Weinstein explained is written (in German) at the end of Marx’s Communist Manifesto.
“What can be, unburdened by what has been”
Weinstein continued with his answer about Harris’s phrase: “It basically means you have to wipe out what has been to arrive at the new … it occurs in Karl Marx (writings) … if you think about what Mao had to do to wipe out Chinese history, what Pol Pot had to do [to wipe out Cambodian history], you’re trying to wipe out memory, because the memory has all of this burden … you’re looking for a blank slate.”
Later in the interview, Weinstein responded to Williamson’s curiosity about the background of Harris’s father, Donald J. Harris. Williamson read from an internet search that Harris’s father is an economics professor emeritus at Stanford University known for applying “post-Keynesian ideas.” Both raised the question of what comprises post-Keynesian economic ideas. Weinstein offered that there was “a lot of Marxist thought” in post-Keynesian economics.
Weinstein elaborated that as a man who’s family comes from the far left, there are certain sorts of recognizable commonalities, presumably referring to communist thought. He commented that the Democrat Party is not communist, but it has welcomed in a lot of neo-Marxist thought. He described AOC as a straight-up Marxist and Kamala Harris as somewhere in-between crony finance and Marxist.
YouTube link: Eric Weinstein describes the Democrat Party and Kamala Harris as neo-Marxist
The interview Chris Williamson conducted with Eric Weinstein helped expose the veiled Marxist ideology of Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats such as AOC. It revealed that the weird phrases that they use repeatedly may be a deliberate signal indicating their support of Marx’s communist ideology to like-minded followers in a way not obvious to the general public.
It is a reminder of the long-term Marxist strategy outlined in a prescient speech given by Alexander Trachtenberg, a member of the Central Control Committee of the Communist Party USA at its national convention in Madison Square Garden, New York City, in 1944:
“When we get ready to take the United States, we will not take it under the label of communism; we will not take it under the label of socialism. These labels are unpleasant to the American people, and have been smeared too much. We will take the United States under the labels we have made very lovable; we will take it under (the labels of) liberalism, under progressivism, under democracy. But, take it we will.”
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Steve Dewey is a retired federal financial regulator and founder of GeoFinancial Trends, LLC (www.geofinancialtrends.org) and writes on Substack (stevedewey.substack.com). He can be reached at steve@geofinancialtrends.org
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