Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered one of the most extraordinary takedowns on communism ever heard from a Republican official, rebuking not only the outcomes of the Marxist ideology but the entire logic and theory of it as well. In both unheard and refreshing remarks, President Donald Trump’s State Secretary decimated the notion that even communism in theory is a terrible idea.
For context, Rubio joined several prominent Trump officials as well as representatives from over three score nations at his State Department’s Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism in Washington, D.C. Colloquially referred to as the ‘Antifa Summit,’ Rubio and others laid bare the violent nature of much leftist political action and the commensurate threat posed by far-left domestic terrorism.
“This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can,” his remarks began, as he noted the root motivation of far-left actors.
“This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialists or communists or anarchists or Marxists, but the fundamental character is always the same. It’s always the same. It is a poisonous resentment, cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world,” he then added.
“Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was wrong. The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite. One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice. That’s actually not true,” he continued.
However, it was the next part of his speech that Rubio landed the legendary coup de grace, pointing out that while many people often admit communism at least sounds good in theory, it decidedly does not. “Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world it envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity, or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, without a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things, and the world communism envisions is a world without God,” he went on.
“For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them, it’s an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do, and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines, they attack railroads, they attack power grids and laboratories, the physical embodied symbols of power, and invention, and achievement. This is the nature of the terrorism we face today. They despise the West because the West is great,” he finished.
Take a look at Rubio’s incredible speech below:
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