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Many have commented favorably on the speech that Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> gave recently at a security conference in Munich.\u00a0 What they seemed to admire most was his willingness to look beyond some of the particular political and economic matters that preoccupy policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic \u2014 the Ukraine War, climate change, immigration, etc. \u2014 and to consider the cultural convictions that both Europe and America share.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Secretary Rubio lyrically invoked Dante, the Cologne Cathedral, Shakespeare, the democratic form of government, the university system \u2014 even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones \u2014 as representations of that common vision.\u00a0 But then he took a further step that especially caught my attention.\u00a0 Very much in the spirit of both Pope Benedict XVI and the church historian Christopher Dawson, he observed that culture is tightly linked to cult, that is to say, to religion.\u00a0 In a word, all the things that we value stand in relation to that which we value most highly.\u00a0 And therefore, Secretary Rubio was not afraid to identify the Judeo-Christian faith<\/a> as the deepest and most abiding source of what is best in Western culture.\u00a0 Only, he concluded, when both Europe and America re-discover together the wellsprings of their common culture will they find the cohesiveness they both long for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was heartening to me to see that this clarion call was met with a sustained standing ovation.\u00a0 I believe that even that rather jaundiced and secularized audience sensed the real spirituality that lay behind Rubio’s rhetoric.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But not everyone was happy with his speech. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, who happened to be in Europe at the same time as Rubio, mocked the Secretary of State for being preoccupied with Western culture, which she characterized as “thin.”\u00a0All cultures, she averred, are ephemeral, passing, unstable; therefore, social analysts should concentrate not on wispy cultural achievements but on the “material” elements of a society which manifest themselves in the class struggle.<\/p>\n

I would first observe that it is simply breathtaking to maintain that the culture that produced the university system, affirmed the rights and prerogatives of the individual, and gave rise to democratic rule of law is “thin.”\u00a0But secondly, I would draw attention to the unnervingly Marxist quality of AOC’s formulation.\u00a0 All serious students of a political economy, Karl Marx held, ought to focus their attention on the class conflict between those who have power and those who do not.\u00a0He also held that the various expressions of culture<\/a> \u2014 art, literature, science, entertainment, and especially religion \u2014 are but epiphenomenal superstructural features, whose entire purpose is to protect the economic substructure.\u00a0 So the responsible intellectual should at best acknowledge the culture but should by no means become preoccupied with it \u2014 precisely the recommendation that AOC was making in her airy dismissal of the ideological underpinnings of the West.<\/p>\n

Something that is becoming increasingly a concern of mine is the prevalence of explicit Marxism in the rhetoric and practice of certain leaders on the Left in America<\/a>. Just recently, we heard Mayor Mamdani of New York<\/a> extolling the “warmth of collectivism” and one of his top aides insisting that the people of our largest city should get accustomed to the idea that government can and should confiscate private property and seize the means of production.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Again, the Marxism is not implied or subtle; it is right out in the open, unapologetically on display.\u00a0And this should alarm every American.\u00a0 I might strongly encourage the followers of Mamdani and AOC to speak to those who fled the Marxist tyrannies of Russia and Eastern Europe or those today who labor under Communist oppression in North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, or China.\u00a0I sincerely doubt that any of them would gratefully acknowledge the “warmth of collectivism.”<\/p>\n

I speak against this radicalism not simply as a concerned American, but also as a bishop of the Catholic Church<\/a>.\u00a0Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion.\u00a0He meant that before we even get to an assessment of a capitalist political economy, and certainly before we engage in revolutionary praxis, we must throw off religion, which functions, as he famously put it, as “opium for the masses.”\u00a0We must shake off our addiction to the drug of supernatural faith, which has dulled our sensitivity to our own suffering and which has provided cover for the oppressive class.\u00a0It is important to note that the political adepts of Marxism followed their master closely in this regard.\u00a0Watch the strategies of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Fidel Castro and Pol Pot, just to name some of the most notorious examples.\u00a0Their opening move was invariably to attack the churches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some might find the Marxism touted by certain radical politicians today trendy and refreshing, something to be bandied about at Upper East Side cocktail parties. Given the historical record, I find it chilling.<\/p>\n

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