As The ‘Right’ Panics Over ‘Marxists,’ Their Own Leaders Are Openly Seizing The Means Of Production

Politicians are using the engineered threat of a Marxist takeover to keep Americans paralyzed with fear, effectively blinding the public to the bipartisan corporate-state cabal that is actively seizing equity in private industries, throttling the free market, and executing top-down central planning.

House Speaker Mike Johnson recently took to social media to broadcast an apocalyptic warning, screaming that “the barbarians are inside the gate” and claiming Congress is locked in a life-or-death battle to stop America from sliding down a “dark road of death to communism.” It is the classic, time-tested political playbook used by the establishment for decades to keep the populace paralyzed and compliant. They invent a terrifying, existential boogeyman, claim they are the only thing standing between the voters and total destruction, and hope nobody notices that their own team is running the exact same racket.

THE BARBARIANS ARE INSIDE THE GATE!

We are fighting right now in Congress over whether we’re going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic OR trade that in, dismantle the foundations and GO DOWN THIS DARK ROAD OF DEATH TO COMMUNISM.

THAT is the question. pic.twitter.com/fX51Twhdse

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 14, 2026

This latest iteration of the Red Scare, spearheaded by Donald Trump and his neoconservative cheerleaders, is a masterclass in psychological projection designed to keep the masses blind to a deeply uncomfortable truth. The real threat to economic freedom in America isn’t some foreign Marxist vanguard hiding in the shadows. It is the bipartisan, corporate-state cabal that has already replaced voluntary exchange with top-down central planning while wrapping it tightly in an American flag.

While the political Right whips its base into a frenzy over the creeping threat of left-wing Marxism, the very same “America First” politicians are quietly executing a hostile takeover of the free market. The State operates on an inherent double standard, unapologetically claiming that it is illegal for you to commit murder or theft, while it continuously wages wars that slaughter tens of thousands of innocents and extorts half your income through taxation. That staggering hypocrisy is currently on full display in the realm of economics, where the establishment campaigns on capitalism while ruling as command-economy despots.

During his first term, Trump frequently bypassed market mechanisms entirely, using protectionist tariffs to pick economic winners and losers before doling out a staggering $23 billion in taxpayer-funded farm bailouts to clean up the resulting economic carnage. A comprehensive study by the Cato Institute reveals that the federal government now spends over $181 billion annually on corporate welfare. This massive redistribution of wealth has only grown exponentially under both the Biden and Trump 2.0 administrations, forcing everyday taxpayers to underwrite corporate failures and subsidize favored industries.

The reality of the current administration is a clear line toward what can only be described as corporatism — the merger of corporate and state — marking a radical break from any semblance of a free market. Since taking office in 2025, the administration has weaponized the federal government to directly insert itself into corporate boardrooms. In a move that would make Benito Mussolini jealous, they have abandoned temporary bailouts for proactive, creeping socialism, using taxpayer funds to acquire financial equity stakes in 28 private companies over the past year and a half.

In June 2025, Trump issued an executive order allowing Japan’s Nippon Steel to purchase U.S. Steel, but only in exchange for a “golden share” that gave the president extensive, centralized veto power over the company’s strategic operations. By August, the administration went even further, funneling billions in CHIPS Act funding to take a massive 10 percent equity stake in Intel. This unprecedented move made the federal government the single largest shareholder of the storied American semiconductor giant.

They pulled the exact same maneuver with MP Materials in July and Lithium America in September, forging a chilling alliance between the State and private oligopolists. When a government seizes partial ownership of private industry to dictate its operations, that is not economic freedom. It is the textbook definition of a centrally planned, state-run economy, engineered by the very people claiming to fight it.

This egregious federal intervention is compounded by the administration’s disastrous trade policies, which function as nothing more than a massive, hidden tax on the working class. In April 2025, Trump celebrated his self-proclaimed “Liberation Day” by jacking up tariffs to historic highs, imposing unilateral import taxes on dozens of countries. The Federal Reserve’s own data reveals that these tariffs have been particularly devastating for small businesses, forcing them to raise prices on consumers while facing brutal revenue declines.

Because the entire American working class has been methodically crushed by this exact brand of bipartisan corporatism, many of them are running into the arms of what they think is the opposition. They are finding refuge in places like the Democratic Socialists Party. And who can blame them?

When people look at a rigged economy plagued by runaway inflation, unpayable housing costs, and artificial monopolies protected by the state, they are repeatedly gaslit by corporate media that lies to them, saying that this nightmare is “free-market capitalism.” Because the establishment has so thoroughly conflated state-sponsored cronyism with actual freedom, struggling Americans of all ages are tragically lured by left-wing socialists who promise to punish the corrupt elites. They are completely unaware that the socialist solution of expanding government power simply feeds the very beast that destroyed their prosperity in the first place.

The hard truth that both the Left and Right refuse to admit is that state worship is the ultimate religion of Washington, regardless of which party holds the precious. We have to stop waiting for a political savior who campaigns on liberty but governs through executive coercion, massive taxation, and aggressive central planning. True freedom does not look like politicians hoarding equity in tech companies or taxing the populace into submission under the guise of national security.

It looks like voluntaryism, where peaceful individuals interact, trade, and build communities entirely free from state coercion and the implicit threat of violence. Instead of participating in this rigged, two-party game of state worship, the path forward requires us to systematically opt out and build parallel structures. You can read more at The Free Thought Project about how to utilize decentralized tools to starve the State of its illegitimate power and finally reclaim your independence.

Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist