Was Karl Marx Right?

Karl Marx believed that capitalist societies would eventually transition to socialist societies. This would be achieved through class warfare. Today, American politicians are all too eager to break Americans into classes and stir up class warfare. They prod Americans to ask, “What’s in it for me?” More and more candidates pander to the public by promising federal giveaways. And since the government doesn’t generate wealth, those giveaways are paid for with money taken from other Americans. This is the slippery slope that will lead us to socialism. As the government continues to redistribute the wealth of Americans, the phrase, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” sounds more like a campaign slogan from today’s politicians than a belief promoted by Karl Marx.

America’s Founding Fathers called their dream “the great experiment.” The federal republic they founded became the most powerful and free country in history. They envisioned a land where the powers of the federal government were enumerated and limited; a land where Americans, the most charitable people in the world, would take care of each other and not rely on the government. They based their vision on Americans who were self reliant.

But today we see a different type of American: one who feels he is entitled to things just because he was born in this country, one who resents the success of his fellow Americans, one who asks, “What can my country do for me?”

So where is America heading? Will the country lurch so far left that the “great experiment” becomes contaminated beyond repair?

Alexis de Tocqueville is quoted as saying, "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." So will the American Republic endure as it was originally envisioned, or was Karl Marx right after all?