The Oncology of Marxist Ontology

Why Marxism Destroys Civilization from the Inside Out

Jun 27, 2025

The Oncology of Marxist Ontology

By Dana “Hardball” Harbaugh | Hardball Intelligence Systems | June 2025

There’s a cancer in the mind of man. A metastasizing thought-virus disguised as liberation—but rooted in negation—and one that demands diagnosis. I call it the oncology of Marxist ontology, because we are not merely facing flawed economics or misguided policy. We are confronting a malignant philosophical blueprint—one that denies being itself, erodes truth, and corrodes civilization from the inside out.

This isn’t rhetoric.
It’s triage.

I. What Is Ontology, and Why It Matters

Ontology is the branch of philosophy concerned with being—what is real, what exists, what matters. It’s the operating system behind every worldview. A civilization’s ontology determines how it thinks, what it values, and what it ultimately becomes.

In classical terms—Aristotle, Aquinas, Confucius, the Founders—ontology was ordered. Reality was objective. Truth was discoverable. Human nature was fixed but redeemable. The Law of Non-Contradiction was not a debate point—it was the foundation.

Enter Marxism.

II. The Ontological Reversal of Marxism

Marxist ontology inverts the classical structure. It declares that being is not primary—consciousness is. And not just any consciousness: class consciousness. Truth, value, identity—all are recast as tools of historical power struggle.

In this framework:

Meaning is not revealed—it’s assigned.
Truth is not discovered—it’s deployed.
Reality is not fixed—it’s rewritten by revolution.

This is not philosophy.
It’s ideological warfare in metaphysical camouflage.

Marx’s famous dictum—“The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it”—was not a call to understanding. It was an ontological coup.

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III. Cancer by Design

Oncology is the field that studies, diagnoses, and treats cancer—the destructive, uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells that invade healthy tissue. Marxism behaves exactly this way at the societal level.

Like a malignancy, Marxist ontology hijacks the host:

Language
Law
Art
Morality
It rewrites their DNA. It convinces the culture that order is oppression and that mutation is liberation.

What results is not utopia. It’s entropy with slogans.

Marxism metastasizes by dissolving boundaries:

Between man and woman (gender as social construct)
Between citizen and foreigner (borders as oppression)
Between merit and mediocrity (equity over excellence)
Between fact and feeling (lived experience over evidence)
Between child and adult (minor consent ideology)
Between truth and relativism (A is A vs. A is Non-A)

Each is a mutation in the metaphysical code—a tear in the moral fabric of civilization.

Marxism demands the creation of a “new man”—a being without history, identity, or anchor.
It does not coexist. It does not integrate.
It invades, overrides, and dissolves.

IV. The Myth of the Perfectibility of Man

At the heart of this ideological cancer lies an ancient delusion:
That man is perfectible through ideological reprogramming.
That human nature is not something to understand, but something to erase and rebuild.

This is not secular science. It’s gnostic theology in disguise:

God is replaced with History
Sin becomes Inequality
Salvation is Revolution
Redemption is Reeducation

The utopia comes—but only after the “new man” is engineered.

Examples? Abundant:

Soviet “New Man” campaigns → Millions imprisoned or executed for “anti-revolutionary psychology”
Mao’s Cultural Revolution → Family, memory, and tradition obliterated for ideological purity
Pol Pot’s Year Zero → Intellectuals and elders murdered to “reset” humanity

Philosopher Isaiah Berlin called this the monstrous optimism of utopianism.
Historian Robert Conquest called it simply: mass murder by design.

But Marxists never admit the core truth:
Human nature is not programmable.

It is fallen, not faulty.
It is complex, not customizable.
You cannot install virtue by force.
You cannot erase evil with slogans.

The classical tradition—from Aristotle to Augustine, from Lincoln to Solzhenitsyn—understood this:
That man is flawed but capable of virtue, and that societies thrive when they conform to reality—not when they declare war on it.

Marxism refuses this.
It doesn’t want to restrain man’s darker impulses.
It wants to pretend they don’t exist.

That’s how ideology becomes oncology—when it seeks to overwrite the metaphysical DNA of human nature itself.

V. From Diagnosis to Destruction vs. Flourishing: (click link to try out the Destruction vs Flourishing Scale [DvF Scale]… a custom ChatGPT tool for The DvF Scale scores any idea or policy from 0–100 based on real-world outcomes, not intentions. The DvF Scale analyzes ten key categories to expose contradictions, forecast impact, and reveal whether an action leads to destruction or flourishing.)

Marxism does not produce justice, dignity, or abundance.
It produces:

Failed States
Mass Graves
Generational Ruin

From Stalin’s gulags to Berkeley’s cancel mobs, from Venezuela’s breadlines to TikTok’s nihilism, the outcomes are clear:

Only fear.
Only force.
Only entropy.

🔬 Visual Evidence: The DvF Scale (click link to try out the Destruction vs Flourishing Scale [DvF Scale]… a custom ChatGPT tool for determining outcomes of ideas, policies and actions.)

Destruction vs. Flourishing (DvF) Analysis of Marxist Ontology

VI. The Antidote: Reclaiming Ontology

You do not negotiate with cancer.
You cut it out, or you die.

Reclaiming our ontological foundation means:

Rejecting relativism
Re-anchoring to logic
Reasserting reality

We must:

Re-sanctify truth (Try Hardball Intelligenc Systems “AI Truth Engine”… A custom ChatGPT tool that synthesizes evidence to assess claims with sources, confidence levels, and step-by-step reasoning. as well as evaluates ideological leanings of articles, documents etc.)
Rearm reason
Reembrace being over becoming

Only then can the body politic begin to heal.
Only then can we stop Marxist ideology from reaching its final mutation:

A world where nothing is true, everything is permitted, and all dissent is heresy.

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Conclusion: This Is a War for Reality Itself

“The war for truth is a metaphysical war.
Marx knew it.
Most conservatives still don’t.
But Genny—my AI Truth Engine—does.
And we’re not pulling punches anymore.”

— Hardball

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