THE US PRESIDENT, PROPOGANDA, AND THE CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNISM
As a Muslim, watching the US President and other officials of the US Government attempting to associate communism with Muslims, I feel compelled to react against it. As they say, the best defense is a good offense; this is precisely what the US President is doing.
What is communism?
Different from what historians and political critics try to define it, communism stands on two major principles or objectives: first, to strip people off any form of power, be it political, economic, religious, social or tribal, and second, to disguise the political power itself by replacing concrete people with virtual and abstract concepts.
Historians assert and maintain the official version, that a man called Karl Marx (1818-1883), who started his modest career as an activist journalist in the Kingdom of Prussia (Germany), looked at the economic inequality growing exponentially with the development of technology, or what is called ‘industrial revolution.’ As a philosopher and social critic who he became meanwhile, especially influenced by figures such as the German philosopher Hegel, Marx studied carefully the economic condition of Germany, France, and Great Britain of that time from both a theoretical and critical point of view. As a result, he formulated and articulated his political ideas in his two major works, The Communist Manifesto (1848) co-authored with Friedrich Engels, and Das Kapital (1867–1894).
The influential position of Karl Marx is not to be underestimated, but to believe that an independent man, singlehandedly, who had no political power, not being part of a royal family, somehow managed to become so politically influential in a time when the media was under the full control of the state, and his ideas somehow were adopted by governments and political activists of the 19th and the 20th centuries, by turning communism into a major political model of the world, all of this is farfetched unless we look into the political landscape of the world of the last three centuries more comprehensively, wholesomely, and critically.
At best, we can say that Karl Marx was commissioned by the political power of that time, that is, the British Empire of the Victorian Era, to formulate a political theory which was already in application, but with the intention to spread it around the world as the British power was on the rise and aspiring to bring down the Ottoman Empire. In other words, the British Empire must have understood that the concealment of power, hiding behind the name of Marx, makes it more acceptable by other nations.
If we look at the political evolution of the British Empire, there is one major milestone that cannot be disregarded. That turning point is called America. Not only did it give the British Empire access to new natural resources and trading routes, but also the new continent served as a political workshop or laboratory, if we may call it so, in order to experiment politically, to come up with a new model much required for an empire to rule the world.
The new political model was called republic. While the name was reminiscent of the old Roman Empire, which indicates the global ambition of the British Empire, this prototypical political entity was, in my view, unprecedented, bizarre, and uncommon. It was the birth of communism, which became a reality with the formation of the US Republic.
The Republic of the United States of America was founded in 1776 after the British Empire conquered the New France – the vast French autonomous territories of the French Empire in North America. In other words, the USA was the celebration of the British Empire’s victory over the French Empire – which was about to fall in one or two decades.
Coming together under one federal government, the 13 British colonies gave rise to a political entity, that is, the USA, which had two major objectives: to strip people off power, and to disguise the political power itself – mainly to disassociate the British king from perhaps the dirty work and crimes of the American- British brutality and economic exploitation of the New World, as well as to bring about a new ruling model convenient and suitable for an empire which was growing global.
To reiterate, the USA is the first political creature in human history to disguise the political power protrusively and blatantly. The system is designed to be confusing for the laymen, concrete proprietors and holders of power are replaced with abstract entities, such as institutions, offices, and ‘the people,’ and the power itself is distributed among the three branches of the government and other local governments to the extent that it is hard for the lay citizen to keep tract of political responsibility, spot concrete names who commit political injustice, and determine who is directly responsible for political decisions which affect his or her life.
In addition, republic provides the perfect discreet political enterprise for making laws. If under a classical kingdom laws and decrees were a clear demonstration of power, embodying the authority of the leader, under the American Republic, on the other hand, the important process of law-making turned into routine, intangible, and downplaying process. Strictly speaking, the modern state has managed to camouflage the most important part of power, that is, the law-making, as a routine process which escapes the attention of the public. This is perhaps the most striking form of power concealment of the American communism.
Thus, we don’t exactly know who rules America, where the chain of command ends, who is above who, who is the final authority, how laws are made, who is the highest authority to settle a potential political dispute which could turn the whole political system into a stalemate, who controls the political parties, what is the process of political recruitment and career, who supervises it, who controls the economy, who appoints judges etc. These are not supposed to be such difficult questions, as it is the case with the new modern state. However, the purpose is to disguise the political power. It has nothing to do with the idea of providing a better and fairer political system, as they call it ‘democracy.’
The other objective of the US Republic was to gradually strip people off power and turn them into vulnerable citizens, easily controlled by the ruling power. This process includes the confiscation of land by the Government, the massive taxation of businesses and properties and personal income, the formation of corporations and monopolies, the elimination of functional small businesses, the destruction of family, the control of agriculture and food supply, allowing the Government to hold the right to regulate the concept of family and impose family laws which lack any natural or religious redline, and grant the society negative and destructive forms of freedom, such as drugs, unregulated sex, promiscuity, and gambling which intend to give rise to a weak society.
This is American, and this is exactly communism.
To conclude, under the American system, political power in concealed. The mechanism of power lacks common explanation while clarity is a prerequisite for a fair political system. The American political system is not clear. In addition, the American Government has established a system where the society consists of vulnerable individuals, weak, where most of the wealth of the country is owned by a handful of people who present themselves as ‘private,’ but who are part of the ruling elite, where the concept of family has been transformed completely, legally and socially, in order to eliminate any from of tribal and kinship power.
In America, all forms of power have been delegated to the Government, be it legal power, political, economic, decision-making, family, or military while the American society is a conglomerate of weak individuals, powerless, who own nothing, many of them are tribeless immigrants, others born in a situation who don’t even know who the father is, or sometimes none of the parents, where sex has been turned into a disastrous and non-family building activity in order to render people feeble, accessible, and defenseless, and where marriage and family have been transformed by the Government into destructive mechanisms.
This is the description of communism, and this is America, standing on two legs: the concealment of political power, and a society consisting of powerless, yet politically obedient and easily controlled individuals. The average American citizen lives paycheck to paycheck, doesn’t own a home, has no family, commonly divorced, many of them one step ahead of homelessness, parents who live in senior housing, children born out of wedlock or adopted by random people, while the corporations control the market and food supply. The average American citizen is a worker, not a business owner. In this regard, the US Constitution is de facto the first communist manifesto.
The average American citizen has no political power, no tribe or family to confront any governmental injustice, no property to live independently, and no economic leverage to fend off the governmental despotism or the American judicial tyranny.
A famous proverb goes, ‘every accusation is a confession.’ By trying to accuse Muslims as communists, the US President is actually making a confession, that America is a communist country, not because this is a secrete, but the American propaganda has managed to cover up the very truth of the political foundation of the USA, i.e., communism, to the extent that it has been able to distance itself completely from it.
As for the religion of Islam, it is the opposite of the American communism: it promotes clarity, part of which is tangible political responsibility, and it empowers the individuals with real property rights and strong family while a Muslim government lacks legislative power.
Sabri Lushi
August 13, 2026
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