May Day

Socialism is a religion. This is its high holy day.

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NOTE: This essay was originally published 22 years ago, but as the Marxist malignancy has metastasized in America, it is far more pointed today. — RDM

by Rod D. Martin
May 1, 2003

You would probably never have heard of Karl Marx had it not been for V.I. Lenin. Marx was neither terribly successful nor terribly important in his own right, and had it not been for a revolution carried out three decades after his death, he would be a footnote at best.

But on this May Day, the high holy day of Socialism, it is important that we remember.

You still hear it said that "communism wouldn't have been so bad if it had been carried out like Marx suggested, without all that junk from Lenin and Stalin."  And in a sense, one can forgive these apologists for their ignorance, because in fact, Marx never produced a political program per se. The entirety of his plan for his new world order was contained in ten short points — nothing more …