On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, the Marxist Islamists are a growing caner within the Democrat party. In On Power, Mark explains that the American Marxists use deceptive language and class warfare to manipulate, treat people as dupes, and control economic and social rights through government rather than unalienable ones. Marxism prioritizes raw power over egalitarianism, creating a dictatorial nomenklatura class. American Marxists view rights as government-assigned economic and social entitlements rather than God-given, using propaganda (e.g., social justice) and counterrevolutionary tactics against the Constitution, family, and capitalism to seize and perpetuate power via an administrative state and judiciary. The clash between Founders’ individual rights and Marxist-derived ones will shape whether America remains a constitutional republic or devolves into authoritarianism, as social/economic rights inevitably shift power to government, eroding freedoms and risking tyranny. Later, there’s a difference between having a different opinion on policy with the President and politically stabbing him in the back. There are self-proclaimed influencers and narcissists align more with figures like Bernie Sanders and AOC. They falsely claim credit for Trump’s election victories, the MAGA movement’s growth, and support among diverse communities like Latinos, Blacks, Jews, women, blue-collar workers, and unions. Trump’s 77 million voters, not these opportunists, are the true force behind his success. Afterward, the Department of Justice has launched an official investigation into special counsel Jack Smith, who led the federal prosecutions against Trump related to the 2020 election interference and classified documents cases. This is necessary retribution against a weaponized law enforcement.
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Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. It’s August 1st. Can you believe the. You know what happened 112 years ago today, Mr. Producer? Neither do I. No idea. Ever looked it up? Yeah. I’m corny. I know. I have these corny jokes. It kind of drives my family nuts. Especially my wife. I walk into a restaurant nowhere near an ocean, and I’ll say to the person seeing us, Yeah, I have an ocean view. Now. Either the real. What’s that? That there’s. Over there was our dad jokes. So people either really laugh or they look at me. There’s no ocean here. Oh, okay. Things of that sort got a lot of them. Most of my corny, but that’s the way it goes. Harmless. Maybe they’ll hire me for a progressive commercial, but I want nothing to do with it because it’s called progressive and it’s left wing and they’re friends with with Clinton, the insurance company, you know. Well, there’s a lot to talk about, and I want to talk about a lot, but there’s also things that I want to talk about that are not in the news, but that are important. And that’s the nature of the beast when it comes to this platform, which I love so much. And I truly do. And it’s because of you, because you folks, it’s really appointment radio, because let’s be honest, the time on this program kind of sucks, does it? 6 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time, particularly for those in the Eastern time zone. But here I’d be. Or here, I bet. Nonetheless, I’ve been doing this a long time, so it’s a time zone, or I should say a time slot that we own. And I want to thank all of you for that. We’re talking a lot about this guy, Mamdani. Everybody is he’s an avowed Marxist. We’ve talked about Bernie Sanders and AOC and Talib and Omar Marxist Islamists. It is a growing cancer within the Democrat Party and in our society, despite what people are saying and thinking, you realize, ladies and gentlemen, 27 members of the Senate Democrats voted against any aid, any military aid for the state of Israel. They did it twice. That’s more than half of the Senate Democrats. Which means they’re effectively voting for Hamas, Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah, the terrorist. How else can you explain? And of course, any amount of evidence in it’s overwhelming that demonstrates that Hamas is starving the Palestinians, that they’re doing it as a desperate last effort to hold onto power. And it’s having a major propaganda effect with the hard left, our media. And these grotesque so-called influencers. They’re running with this stuff and they’re not going to be dissuaded. And you and I have never seen anything like this before in our lives. Nothing. And we’re going to push back and we’re going to fight back. We don’t roll over. That’s his whole Marxism thing. I spend a lot of time on this and on power, as I did in American Marxism, but here I played it quite differently. I hope those of you who have the book have had a chance to read it are enjoying it. You can go on Amazon if you got it there and leave your opinions and let other people know what you think. You can call in to this program as well. We’re not hiding anything. We’re happy to discuss everything. We’re getting excellent reviews. I really want to thank everybody out there who’s jumping in, who is getting them as gifts and so forth. But I want to I want to start with this because it kind of provides the I guess, the basis for where we we go with this program almost every day. Because this is a constant battle. Even when you look at the news, what’s the battle, the battles over power, When you look at what they did to Trump, what Obama and Hillary did with Russia collusion, how outrageous that was. That was a battle over power. That’s what we call negative power. And that’s what we call authoritarian democracy, which is what the Democrats have become, aspiring authoritarian Democrats. I point out the Marxist utopia state and most other autocratic utopian states or states of utopia promised by power hungry masterminds and revolutionaries is, if you think about it, complete nonsense. Marx’s writings, along with his partner Engels, are dripping with arrogance and anger, as well as absolute certainty and pomposity. Even a cursory examination of Marxism application in one country and society after another proves it to be nothing more than an elaborate maze of absurdities and distortions about humanity, the impossibility of which has resulted in the misery and death of tens of millions. Stanford University professor Robert Berman explains that Marxism was never about achieving an egalitarian society. It was about the pursuit of raw power. While for others, politics represents a realm of compromise or negotiation. For Marx, it was really the pursuit of power and the obligation of command. Now, I dug this up after a ton of research. I had not known this excellent professor before at Stanford and his excellent writings, but obviously I became acquainted with them. And he goes on. He described the state simply as the executive committee of the bourgeoisie, meaning that politics was secondary to the economy. Moreover, he promised to abolish the state and therefore politics, since communism would eliminate class differences. So the story went to the ultimate outcome of communism would be a liberation utopia of statelessness. But nothing, however, will be further from the truth. In practice. What communism provided for was the development of a new class elite, which talked the egalitarian talk while claiming for itself the privileged dictators. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I coined this I. I can invent a phrase to describe this. As the new bourgeoisie, that is. Rather than wealth being a determinant. Of the the ruling class. It’s just power. The new bourgeoisie is power. He goes on. The communist cadre always knew better than the unenlightened populace, and therefore the contrary would claim the power to impose their views and programs on the rest of society. The real political legacy of Marxism was not the abolition of the state, but on the contrary, the expansion of the state over society and the elevation of Marxist elite over the populace. Or, as I’ve written for 20 some years, they devour the society with centralized government. Society and the culture are devoured and control. So as I point out, given all we know about Marxism in particular and autocracies generally, and the imposition of what I call negative power to destroy individual and societal rights and liberties, it is deeply distressing that for some media, including Democrat Party politicians and officials, broad aspects of Marxism are more prominent, if not central, in their mindset than Americanism and the essential principles of our country’s founding. Now, to understand this contemporary reality is to comprehend the nature of the nature and worsening divide in our country and the profound political and social disputes in which we find ourselves. For the ruling class and its hunger for power. The American way is not satisfactory or fulfilling the entire construct of individual sovereignty, unalienable individual rights, natural law, and so forth. All right. And a government that is limited, divided in representative restraints and suppresses powers that the ruling class craves. The negative power of Marxism is the polar opposite of the positive power of Republicanism. Now for the American Marxist, the source of rights is mankind, and not mankind writ large, but a faction of men who seized power in the name of impossible fantasies and mental inventions. So the struggle is over the over who defines and assigns rights. Obviously, this is in the chapter on rights. Ultimately, and despite theories and ideologies to the contrary, they conclude that the power overrides and hence the power over the individual and society rests in whom controls government. Therefore, in Martin excuse me, in modern parlance, the end game is not social justice, environmental justice, economic justice, equity and all the rest, but raw power. The rest is nothing more than propaganda in pursuit of that power. Is that not the true end of autocratic regimes power? It is certainly true of Marx’s view of rights and power from which individual rights and liberties are said to flow. Is it illegitimate power that is nothing more than a bourgeois contrivance and device? Therefore, the society and all that underlies and sustains it must be abolished. Now, for the American Marxist, the means is the relentless war on the nation’s founding and founders. American history, the Constitution and the law. Freedom of speech. The family. The culture. Faith and economic system. Ours. Capitalism. It is a real and focused whole of society counterrevolution. Think about my Dani and others. Think about Sanders. Therefore, it is essential that they secure power inside or as the ruling class with a plot to hold governmental power as long as they can and pass it to succeeding generations of like minded ideologues. The way they change the voting system. The way they use prosecutors, the way they use judges. They are unwilling to abrogate their power at the whims of the voter, even when and if they go through the motions of surrendering elective office to a victor outside the ruling class. Hence the overarching importance of an omnipresent administrative state in an unelected judiciary to protect it, it being the permanent government, they are at first agencies of resistance, usurpation and sabotage against the existing society. But eventually, as the power of the American Marxist proliferates and effectuate, it moves from the revolutionary phase to the coercion phase, increasingly taking on the characteristics of a police state. Now. Just a side comment. These words are crucially important. They are critical. They’re imperative. It may be that this is a book for 100 years from now. I don’t know. None of us will be around. I really wish and hope it’s a book for now. So it’s not a book for people looking back and figuring out what happened to America, how it faltered, how it destroyed itself, but rather we, the people today taking these words, embracing this book. And addressing it now. Now go on in the right chapter. Again, the consent of the governed and representative government via elections becomes more illusion than reality and honored and legitimized only if the government, only if the govern consent to the will of the ruling class, the will of the ruling class. Indeed, this for the people, the working people language, as well as their class warfare and justice seeking declarations, are intended to deceive and manipulate the instincts of the American Marxists are authoritarian, pure and simple. Their followers, like the rest of the people, are treated as dupes with negative language, including righteous sounding But self-serving propaganda. To control the government is to control the distribution and enforcement or non-enforcement of rights, not God given unalienable rights, of course, but so-called economic and social rights, which are considered the only rights that are said to matter, at least at first. The government must define these rights since the individual, the people are considered incapable of it through their own actions and associations. The government can assign and deny economic rights and otherwise exploit and wield them in the name of the greater cause. Those who object to the denial of individual and economic rights or otherwise stand in the way must be made to conform or face public and societal ridicule. Or worse. This supposed progress is, of course, inevitable, or at least one must appear to be. Shangri-La is always said to be within reach. If only the ruling class has more power in the individual less. Any individual less. The extent to which not only Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, but later Franklin Roosevelt, the most revered and celebrated Democrat Party presidents and leaders borrowed from the Hegelian. And Marc’s concept of rights is indisputable. It’s indisputable. Indeed, on January 11, 1944, FDR issued his second Bill of Rights. As you read it, compare it to Stalin’s 1936 Constitution, which is also in the book. And the economic similarities are obvious. Now. We’re going to take a short break, but I do want to continue because I think it’s important and I’m trying to encourage you and persuade you to acquire your own copy of own Power so you can read this and tons more. As we as a free people for now, try and work our way through this. It’s important that we share our ideas and that our ideas. Really are relevant and important. That’s the point of this book on power. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
All right, folks, we only a minute and a half in this segment. If you if you find what I’m reading to modestly interesting, I think you’re gonna find this book over the top compelling. This is just a little taste of it. You know, our friend Tim Graham over there at Media Research Center, he says this is a powerful book packed with a lot of power for a little book. The book is it’s that little it’s over 200 pages, but it’s it’s more concise than most of my other books because I wanted it to be. Compact, easy to carry and easy to read. But you will find it is filled with very, very important points. Not because I say so, but do you think as you read it, you’ll come to that conclusion as well? Another person who interviewed me, very perceptive. I’ve been doing interviews all week, almost every hour. So this book is a little different than the average living book. It’s very smart. But it’s a little different. And I explained the reason is there’s a lot of Mark Levin in this book where I’m doing a lot of my own philosophizing and analyzing and reasoning and logic. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
I want to thank you in the audience also we’ve we’ve been doing very well and our radio ratings and our FOX ratings very, very strong. That’s because of you. It’s because of you. And you know, I’ll keep doing it as long as you want me to do it. I can’t do it forever, of course, But I want to thank you. So let’s continue with our little foray, our little journey. On Marxism. Virtually all references these days to civil liberties is his right out of my new book on power. Virtually all references these days to civil liberties and civil rights are not about rights as understood by the founders. That is in the declaration and Madison’s essay on property. But as defined by Karl Marx. Wokeism and cancel culture. Destroy individual rights and the rights of the people and service to relatively small factions of people. The purpose is to, among other things, destroy the nuclear family, the parent child, social relationship, free speech and independent thought and so forth. FDR Second Bill of Rights, as it applies to economic and social rights, is simply echoing Stalin’s Constitution. Both Stalin and FDR appropriated from Marx his application of rights to economic socialism. Of course, I’m not arguing FDR was in any respect genocidal and despotic like Stalin, but American Marxism is uniquely American, which is why I coined the phrase and wrote a book addressing it at length. So the struggle between the founders understanding of rights and the Marx FDR, Democrat Party understanding of rights, well, that’s going to determine what kind of nation we become, whether we’re going to remain a constitutional republic or become a authoritarian democracy or even a more aggressive type of autocratic society. Its time goes on. The longer term trajectory of democracies is not encouraging. However, I also caution that trajectories are not to be confused with actual outcomes in a given situation or year in a given country. In America. We the people, remain virtuous and resilient. Also, not only do we reject revolution, we’re deeply patriotic. However, the revolution waged by the American Marxists is not sudden and violent, but mostly gradual, surreptitious and wrapped in deceit, making effective opposition more daunting. Some have argued that it is possible for social and economic rights to exist without some form of tyranny. The problem with this view is that the negative power associated with these supposed rights of necessity diminishes individual rights and in fact diminishes rights as they were understood by the founders. Furthermore, if there are constitutional and legal barriers creating parameters for social and economic rights, what are they? Power shifts from the individual to the government. This is the point of mandamus and all the rest of them. Power shifts from the individual to the government. There’s simply no doubt about it. Therefore, to say there are limits, for example, by arguing that rights as understood by the founders work in unison or parallel with social and economic rights, as explained by FBR Wilson and Marx, is not to identify them in any concrete way. Instead, at best, there is a temporary overlap which creates the barriers to tyranny and the ambiguous social and economic rights proclaimed by their of advocates. Because the truth is, Marx was right when he said Socialism is the last stage before communism. If there’s to be a huge shift away from positive power for a so-called second Bill of Rights, there should be an explicit understanding of what it means and where it is headed. To say is another example that the last century saw this huge movement toward a massive welfare state, as so many say, including entitlements and such, and that the American people have accepted it and that these are the new rights that are now implicit in the Constitution. These are the arguments you hear leaves a great deal unsaid and obscured about the future of governmental power. It enables the advocates of economic and social rights to create virtually any kind of painting they wish. Impressionist post-impressionist, but mostly abstract. When it is said that there need not be a socialist revolution associated with social and economic rights, that assertion is a half truth. That is, while the government need not own the means of production, for example, it must regulate it. And as the regulations prove insufficient, as they cannot achieve the kind of economic and social equality now termed equity promised or expected, which are extravagant and impossible. The answer is not going to be to abandon negative power for a positive power associated with individual and societal rights and liberty, but to tighten the reins of control and centralization. And by the way, this is what bothers me when people say, Well, then let let New York go Marxist. They’ll learn in the reverse course. It doesn’t work that way. In fact, the targeted beneficiaries and the true believers will become agitated and dissatisfied and demand more from the ruling class when their hopes and expectations are unmet. In short, government grows stronger and bigger and not less so at the expense of the individual and society. And we are looking further into the struggle over rights and most crucially, which rights approach will prevail. We see there is a constant struggle to be the ruling class, a constant struggle within the ruling class. We call that the swamp and a constant struggle between the people and the ruling class. Let me repeat that There is a constant struggle to be the ruling class. A constant struggle within the ruling class and a constant struggle between the people and the ruling class. Again, it is positive power. The rights approach of the founders that provide civilians for compromise, tolerance, moderation and peaceful resolution both in society and government. Negative power. This authoritarian democracy and the economic and social rights approach provide no such lines and in fact weaken those that exist. To say that the people are satisfied and supportive of the massive welfare state, a welfare state that is not static. And in fact, history shows, is always growing and consuming. The say nothing about the accompanying centralization and coercion of government. The role of the people continuously diminishes, including their ability to defend their individual and societal rights. And to the extent the extent such lands do exist, it is because of what remains of rights from the founding period. I’ll read a little bit more. And then I’ll stop. Now the advocates of constitutionalizing economic and social rights without the benefit first of a fulsome societal discussion, followed by the wide eyed participation of the body politic in either the actual constitutional amendment processes. Claim for themselves an open field on which to run. Both participatory democracy and representative Republican. They are hybrids and hallmarks of our constitutional system are to be avoided and had been. At least that’s what they think. The only question to be asked, according to the proponents, is the after the fact inquiry of whether people like and want to keep their benefits without more. Presumably most people like to receive benefits having become used to them, if not reliant on them. There’s this not prove the point. That is, what are the parameters for such an approach? What are the limits on government? The Constitution, they say in reply as they usurp and breach it in pursuit of their second Bill of Rights. But there are their approaches authoritarian in character. Consequently, they insist this form of rights and the further empowerment of centralized and coercive government is virtuous. If challenged, they defend the use of power as ironically confined by positive power, the very power they are diminishing. Moreover, they rhetorically insist that if you disagree, you obviously oppose helping the poor, the sick and the underprivileged. Nor do you care about countless other societal maladies raised by the economic and social rights movements, including the environment, race, economy and so forth. So the justifications for a pervasive central government with vigorous police powers are unlimited. Therefore, the American Marxist authoritarian democracy is a virtue. For that is where they would eventually drag us. The broad and relentless application of negative power in the name of the downtrodden is said to be a righteous calling an endeavor. And in such an endeavor. Does not seem to occur to these individuals or does, but they would rather not address it. That apart from the usual authoritarian characteristics of too much centralized power. A ruling class is not uniquely qualified or well qualified at all to manage society. That is, millions of individuals with diverse interests and backgrounds collectively involved in billions of activities and interactions every single day. Despite all the written and spoken pablum about experts, professionals, educated elites, and so forth, equipped with the magic of reason not to be confused with right reason. By the way, science, political and behavioral science, not the hard sciences and all the rest wisely, prudently and altruistically, serving the greater good of society in the best interests of the people. Well, we know from our own experiences as individuals and as citizenry that no such ruling class exists. In point of fact, we know that incompetence and corruption are widespread and practical experience and common sense are in short supply. And it goes on. And I’m not going to read it further, at least not for tonight. What do you think of that, Mr. Producer? You’ve heard it before. You were there when I was doing the audio salon. And I think, again, this is just a little piece of a chapter on rights. There is a ton more to this. A ton more. And I really want you to experience this. I really do. The chapters are the over overview chapters on power than on negative power, which I explain. And so I break down power on positive power. Chapter three on Language. We’ve talked about that on rights, which is what I’m talking about now on liberty. And then the final chapter in this little book covers a ton of territory, as you can tell from what I read to you, this entire issue tonight and this week in any retail store that sells books will have on power. They’re fully supplied. If you don’t go into these locations, if you’d rather have the book delivered to you tomorrow. There’s always Amazon.com. I’m grateful for all of you who want to participate in a participatory republic. You are committed. Committed to sustaining it. My fear is that with the election of Donald Trump and a Republican House and Senate, a lot of people just. They feel everything they’ve ever wanted is accomplished. We don’t know what’s going to happen in the House of Representatives in a year and a half or the Senate. Both of them are up. One third of the Senate in all the House. And we don’t know what’s going to happen after three and a half years when Donald Trump is gone and God forbid, if the Democrats take the House as it’s going to be a knuckle to knuckle fight like the rest. I want you live there nights. My precious audience with whom I am blessed to be armed with more intellectual firepower. Than anybody else, especially our adversaries and enemies. That’s the point of the book. On power cuts. Right to the chase. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
We won the night Saturday night on Fox. I want to thank you, folks and I. Competition, particularly on Sundays, is very, very strong on the TV networks. And particularly when there’s football, particularly when there’s 60 minutes bleeding in and golf and all the rest, and you people make the numbers possible. This I know. Tomorrow’s a big day. Big day. It’s our first book signing. One of really only three. And the only one on. And the New York. New Jersey. Connecticut, Delaware areas. And I hope you’ll join us. We’re going to have a wonderful time. I don’t leave until every book is signed. It’s not like one, two, three, which is what most authors do. And then 3:00 comes. They say, Thanks for coming in. They leave. I don’t leave until until the last book is signed. So that’s tomorrow. Less than 24 hours away. 1 p.m.. Head books and greetings. The wonderful independent, family owned small bookstore books and greetings. They’re located in North Vail Square, North Vale, New Jersey. Mr. Producer is posted that now on all of our social sites, including True, Social and Twitter and so forth. There’s a link there if you want to check it out, but you can check it out yourself, which is books and greetings, dot com books and greetings, Carmen and I cannot thank you how excited I am to see you folks. And it’s been several years since I’ve been out there greeting and signing books. So this is our first one. We only have three. The other one is almost sold out. Ronald Reagan is sold out except for people who want signed books. August 2nd is tomorrow. It’s here. It’s finally here, 1 p.m. Eastern Books. And greetings, Norval, New Jersey. All your folks in the ABC listening area and all of our listening areas. We’d love to see you. This is going to be the only signing in that area in many years. I won’t be doing it again for a long time. And this is the book I want you to have in your hands. It’s also the book that costs the least of any book I’ve ever written. And it’s it’s a good value. It’s under $20. And you’ll see when you sit down and read it, you folks who have it and are reading it. He got it from Amazon. Leave. Go ahead and leave comments over there so other people can see them as well. I wrote the book. Nobody writes books for me. I don’t have coauthors. I don’t have whatever it people want to call them. We all know that Kamala Harris didn’t write her book. She’s there squawking around making a damn fool of herself. We have time. We’ll play a few of those clips. I don’t know if she can read a book, let alone write a book. I am going to continue to to press this because. You know, I said to him we were doing our Blaze TV tapings this afternoon. I said to my two producers, I said to David and Josh, I said, Do you remember off the top of your head? Five weeks ago, my Saturday Fox show. Of course they don’t. Neither do I. If people remind me what the show is, then of course the ball will go off and I’ll remember. But off the top of their head, you know. Do you folks remember what I said on radio 17 days ago? Do you remember, Mr. Producer? Of course not. Now we have all the archives for TV and radio, and you go back and check for people. Remember the written word. I don’t mean memorize a long list. I’m not talking about that. You can read a whole book and there may be a profundity. Maybe it’s a word, maybe it’s a phrase, maybe it’s an argument, maybe it’s an opinion, whatever it is. And you’re going to remember it the rest of your life. That’s why I write books like this. That’s especially why I wrote on Power of one interviewer, Larry O’Connor, Maley said. He said, parents, don’t don’t buy your kids college books. Buy them this one book before they go to college or before they go to high school, just this one book and have them read it. I hope you will. Don’t go away. We’ll be right back.