Jeremiah Wright Follows in the Footsteps of Marxist Leaders

When you read about "liberation theology," you swiftly discover that it has deep roots in Marxist thought. When you read about liberation theology, you quickly see that the "redistribution of wealth" is a central pillar of the movement. And, when you read about "black liberation theology," you find out that the typical class distinction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is extended to include the race distinction between the blacks and the whites.

The problem with Marxism from the outset has always been that the beatific portrait of a classless society - with the evil bourgeoisie purged from its ranks - has in actual reality never amounted to more than a sick joke. When we looked at how Stalin and his Communist Party hierarchy lived in relation to the poor, simple proletariat in the U.S.S.R., or whether we looked at how Mao Tse Tung and his Communist party hierarchy lived in relation to the poor, simple proletariat in the People's Republic of China, we saw the same rampant, arrogant, hypocritical corruption and oppression.

And - of course - the oppressor class of rich, wealthy bourgeoisie was immediately replaced by an oppressor class of rich, wealthy Marxists who swiftly employed levels of brutality and control that dwarfed the wildest imaginings of any political system that had come before. In the name of "the people," a State system whose leaders lived unimaginably more luxurious lives than those in whose names they ruled engaged in campaigns of disinformation and brutal terror to keep "the people" under their abject dominion.

It didn't matter where you turned - Kim Jung Il's North Korea or Fidel Castro's Cuba - it was invariably the same thing. Marxism had a perfect track record. The leaders of Marxism preached an idyllic "Absurdity of Hope"-style message promising "change" as the policies of the redistribution of wealth took root throughout the society. But all the while, they were in fact hoarding that wealth for themselves even as they demonized economic and political systems that were in fact far superior to Marxism in producing and providing economic benefit for the poor.

So now we turn to Jeremiah Wright, who has been an advocate of black liberation theology throughout his 35 year-plus tenure at Trinity United Church of Christ. For all those years, he railed against white greed, and the oppressive white society that oppressed the poor class of blacks and usurped its wealth for themselves. He implemented a black value system that included a "Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness."

And now - just like Joseph Stalin, just like Mao Tse Tung, just like Pol Pot, just like Fidel Castro, just like Kim Jung Il and his father before him, just like so many other Marxists leaders - Jeremiah Wright gets to enjoy his moment when he lavishly lives just like the people he spent his life demonizing.

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is retiring to a 10,000 square foot, $1.6 million home on the fairway of high-class Tinley Park, courtesy of his loving flock. And the same loving flock has provided him with a $10 million line of church credit to live on.
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The gated country club community, by the way, consists an elite population consisting of 98% lilly white rich people.

Now, I am perfectly willing to admit that I may be the only human being on the face of the planet who thinks he sees massive hypocrisy here. But somehow I just don't interpret "Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness" to mean, "Bypass middleclassness altogether and go straight for filthy rich."

Jeremiah Wright spent his career screaming for a massive redistribution of wealth. And he got one: from all the families of the mostly poor black congregation to his own wealthy estate on a nearly all white country club. He railed for black separatism under a black value system. But it appears that his black value system simply doesn't suit him any more.

Had Reverend Wright NOT embraced black liberation theology, there would have been nothing wrong with his retiring to such wealth. But when you become the very thing you rail against and urge others to abandon, you become the very definition of "hypocrite."

This doesn't in any way directly condemn Senator Barack Obama, of course, other than to point out just how flawed his judgment truly was in aligning himself with a man like Jeremiah Wright, and to raise the legitimate question as to whether Obama's own "Audacity of Hope" message is as hypocritical and self-serving as the man who was the source of that message turned out to be.