Horst Wessel & Charlie Kirk — Martyrs 
“For the Good of the Cause”

Horst Wessel was a Sturmführer in Hitler’s SA. However, Wessel only rose to fame after his violent death. Apparently, he ran off with the girlfriend of a communist he knew well. The man knocked on his door and shot him point blank. After he was killed, the National Socialists turned Wessel into a martyr of their movement. In his idle hours, Wessel wrote new lyrics to an old folk song and that song was taken by the Nazis and turned into the Horst Wessel Lied. The storm troopers sang it while marching in the streets.

On what is now Alfred-Bozi-Straße, Berlin-based sculptor Ernst Paul Hinckeldey created a larger-than-life bronze statue. It depicted a young man in an SA uniform striding upright on a pedestal. It was inaugurated on June 14, 1939, on the occasion of the “Westfalenfahrt der Alten Garde” (Westphalia Tour of the Old Guard), a meeting of former party members, by Reich Organization Leader Robert Ley.
However, even during the Second World War, the myth surrounding Wessel began to lose its significance. The initial wreath-laying ceremonies at the monument soon ceased. The bronze monument was melted down in the final days of the war. The Horst Wessel Stone was blown up by British engineers in the last week of April 1946.

Charlie Kirk was the MAGA ideologue and co-founded the conservative organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA — pronounced: Tee Pussay). Kirk also rose to national fame after his violent death. He was killed by a 22-year-old from a staunch Republican family in which the father was a police officer who taught his son how to use firearms. The MAGA movement immediately turned Kirk into a martyr of their movement. Although he did not write new lyrics to an old folk song, someone did.

I was sent the following “Charlie Kirk Song” by an American who insisted on anonymity because, they wrote: “there is currently the danger of repercussions”, so I understand their need to remain unknown.

Along with the song came a report from that same American on the new Charlie Kirk memorial at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.

Below are stories you should be reading instead of spending your time with asocial and antisocial media. You can actually download them from the links provided.

For the Good of the Cause is a novella by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published in 1963. The story is an overt criticism of the lack of democracy that prevailed at the time and the lack of integrity of political leaders.

In Dubious Battle is a book by John Steinbeck. It tells the story of the violent revolt of the fruit pickers in California. A tale of bitterness and class hatred, it is filled with Steinbeck’s deep sympathy for the hopes and dreams of the oppressed and exploited.