Marxists murdered 100 million in the 20th century.

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Oct 21

RE: Austerity and its link to ‘social murder.’ By Dennis Raphael, Stella Medvedyuk, and Piara Govender.  Raphael is a professor of health policy and management at York University.  The others are Ph.D. candidates at the health policy and equity program at York University.  Hamilton Spectator op-ed published 28 Oct 21.

You know you’re dealing with Marxist fools when the first sentence of the article is to quote approvingly from Fredrick Engels, which quote introduced the concept of ‘social murder.’  The authors of the piece are credentialed academics from the discipline of health policy (and equity!).  I’ve never heard of it before either, but Roger Scruton warned us about these new fake disciplines that produce no scholarship and are merely vehicles for the enforcement of some progressive orthodoxy.  They conjure a fake authority on the basis of humbug philosophy.  The “-studies” courses are quintessential examples of the type.

The dead give-away that this cases is not academically respectable writing is the employment of the word murder used not in a technical or legal sense, but to enflame emotion.  The victims of which they write are ‘murdered’ in some clever way.

The article seems to be a promotion of the “Social Determinants of Health” concept (passim), which is so scientifically dubious that can, and was, refuted in a newspaper article.

Who is responsible today for ‘social murder’?  Why Conservative Premier Doug Ford, not surprisingly.  “…Premier Doug Ford’s cancellation of the Fair Employment Act and increase in the minimum wage and social assistance rates would result in social murder.”

The article goes round and round referencing like-minded people using the ‘social murder’ concept, as if usage among aficionados established its academic respectability.  It is standard tactics among progressives to label those they oppose as racists, sexists, and more recently, unethical.  Calling them murders is a vile, new departure in the same direction.

What is most ironical of their concern for ‘social murder’ is that Marxists murdered over 100 million [people in the 20^th century in their drive to fix Marxism on their societies.

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