[....When Charles Beard and his cohorts sold the idea to the American educational system that history is economically determined they pretended that this was a new American concept. Several generations of Americans have been taught this false historical principle without knowing that they were being inoculated with Karl Marx's old formula of historical materialism, or what is sometimes called the economic interpretation of history. The only thing unique about Charles Beard and his corps of undercover socialists was the smooth technique with which this whole process was put over on the American public. Millions of Americans, including teachers and academicians, did not suspect that this was a device to brainwash an entire nation and change the whole concept of national destiny.

In order to unravel the wordy superstructure which Marx foisted upon the world under the label of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, we must look into the motives behind Marx's theories. We must also remember the period in world history when his ideas were germinated.

Most observers, both leftist and conservative, who deal with the Marxist question, seem to forget that Karl Marx hatched his theorems in the middle of the 19th century, when the forces of private enterprise and individual initiative were still in their infancy, and had only recently emerged from the restrictions of feudalism. Karl Marx lived, wrote and died when daily life was characterized by horse-drawn transportation, primitive sanitation, backward farming, and almost no medicine in the modern sense. It was under these relatively backward conditions that Marx made the charge that capitalism had already outgrown its usefulness and was ripe for revolutionary overthrow.

Chroniclers of Marxism generally fail to note that Karl Marx did not arrive at his so-called "scientific socialism" by "scientific" investigation and testing. Marx embraced socialism as a teen age youth, as an emotional belief and then spent the rest of his life in constructing theoretical justifications for his creed, - just the reverse of the "scientific" methods that Karl Marx and his followers profess.
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.....In order to probe the socialist claim of being progressive it is necessary to check the history of socialist thought. People are led to believe that socialism is something new and modem, evolved out of the present day high technical level of production. However, all the basic essentials of modem socialism, as they exist today, were formulated between the years 1803 and 1848.5 This was a period when the benefits of private enterprise and free competition had barely made their appearance. The American Revolution and the French Revolution had taken place scarcely a generation before Saint Simon formulated his socialistic theories. The breath of the Middle Ages could still be felt upon the civilizations of Europe. The German principalities in particular were still saturated with medieval trappings and customs.

The Germany of Karl Marx was just beginning to develop the embryo of the modem factory system. Much of the oppression, brutality, avarice and abuse of power was merely a feudalistic disregard of human worth.

Socialists and left-wingers, of all stripes, maintain that their theories are "progressive" and had been developed as a result of the industrial revolution. However, the "industrial revolution" is one of those peculiar terms which is actually a misnomer. What is called the industrial revolution was a process that extended over decades and to call it a "revolution" contradicts the usual definition of the word. "Revolution" generally signifies a sudden and drastic change from one order to another.

Upon examination, it appears that the industrial revolution which was supposed to have impelled the early socialists to fashion the fundamental socialist creed did not occur in any country until long after the socialist principles were first proclaimed there. Saint Simon and Charles Fourier promulgated their socialist theories 27 and 15 years respectively before the industrial revolution began in France in 1830. 6 Karl Marx laid down the entire basic super-structure of his theories within 36 months, beginning with 1844. He was then 26 years of age. He had spent 25 of those 26 years in Germany, and his program was oriented towards the German situation. The industrial revolution in Germany did not get under way until six years later, with the formation of the German Empire under Prussian leadership (circa 1850).7 ....]
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