Individualism, Islam and the Leftist Insurrection

PipeBombNews.com ^ | December 5, 2002 | William A. Mayer

[johnqueuepublic]

Individualism, Islam and the Leftist Insurrection

By William A. Mayer

What the left and radical Islam have in common is a clear intention to subvert traditional Western civilization.

Whereas Islam seeks a violent external overthrow as opposed to the left which has now taken the back door approach – both philosophies seek to impose a theocracy - the former seeking to impose one modeled on a rigid anti-Christian 10th century model while the latter a more modern but still anti-Christian one based upon its own religion of secular humanism and moral relativism.

As divergent as they appear at first blush, they really only differ in means. – one openly violent and almost studiously unthinking, the other cold, calculating and internally subversive.

At their heart both are anti-individualistic, and this recognition is very important because it is individualism that is the greatest enemy of a coercive state.

Capitalism is individualism expressed economically, providing a flow of goods and services based upon enlightened self-interest.

The crusade by the left against individualism takes many forms but in the current climate it is most readily observed being caught in the act of substituting group rights for individual rights.

It seeks, for example, to remove the specific individual right to keep and bear firearms in lieu of a supposedly overriding group right – in this case a specious one based upon deliberate misinformation – that sees its security diminished in proportion to the number of privately held legal firearms.

If one looks deeper, it is actually a mechanism whereby individualism is subordinated to ideas that are, by their very nature, destructive to personal liberty and freedom.

It used to be said that the freedom to swing your fist ended where the other fellow’s nose began, but it has progressed far past that now antique notion.

The freedom to even consider using marginally offensive language against protected groups – let alone actually swinging a fist - now falls within the purview of thought crime, wherein the state of ones mind regarding the status of another becomes paramount, often aggravating the matter involved to felonious proportion.

As an example, on Tuesday Dec 3, Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker signed a bill that gives homosexuals statewide legal protection from "verbal harassment" and many critics feel the legislation could be used to gag church leaders who have the temerity to quote passages from the Bible dealing with homosexuality

The ultimate goal of the left is to eventually erect a coercive socialist state - and since it became clear, at least since the purges of Stalin, that the so-called workers of the world were in no mood to voluntarily embrace totalitarianism - a less frontal, more cerebral assaultive method has been concocted.

What needs to be understood is that the left has intentionally and deliberately declared and fomented the culture war, modeled upon an outline set forth by Antonio Gramsci, a little known but highly influential radical Italian communist [radical to the extent that he was to the left of Trotsky] because he realized that Western culture - so heavily infiltrated by Judeo-Christian ideas - would never allow Marxism to flower voluntarily, despite their having declared solidarity with the proletariat.

Gramsci realized that undermining and replacing the culture was paramount in furtherance of the socialist agenda.

That Gramsci has such marginal recognition outside the Marxist intellectual class belies the power of his ideas within the community that directly has put them into action and since the second world war the Communist Party of Italy has been feverishly translating Gramsci into 30 different languages, content that exposure would fertilize the withering seeds of their ideology.

“Today, there exists only one form of revolutionary solidarity: to win. It therefore demands of us that we should not neglect any single element that might put us in a condition to win…This [proletarian] revolution also presupposes the formation of a new set of standards, a new psychology, new ways of feeling, thinking and living that must be specific to the working class, that must be created by it, that will become 'dominant' when the working class becomes the dominant class.”

Gramsci called the power of culture to influence and shape action, hegemony. He reasoned that because this is a product of the collective whole it was at that level that societal attitudes needed to be dealt with in order to effect the changes that they desired - seeking to - block by block - create a culture more supportive of a utopian state.

The promotion of the hip-hop generation/Hollywood pop ethos - bereft of Judeo-Christian ethical considerations - is merely the latest and most successful effort that the left has rolled out towards that end.

What Gramsci correctly observed to be the motive force behind the process of changing the direction of society - manipulation of the symbols and motifs - has been employed since the sixties under the banner of “marching through the institutions.”

The targets are obvious, the law and judiciary, education, religion, the permanent governmental bureaucracy, the non-profit foundation apparatus and of course the media.

In some large measure they have been successful with this Trojan Horse approach, having won the first round because of the blind sided nature of the attack - but their penetration though reasonably wide is in reality quite shallow and extremely geographically biased towards both coasts, which just happen to be the primary media centers - drawing similarly minded individuals like rotting carrion draws scavengers.

Conservatives have a natural disadvantage in this fight in that they tend to resist the cadre mentality so prevalent among the left but you can see some real progress and inroads have most assuredly been made.

Probably the clearest example of this was demonstrated on November 5. The fact that a “minority” president was able to marshal his forces in such a manner as to now control both Houses of Congress as well as the executive branch is historic by contemporary political standards.

911 was huge psychically in bringing this about. It forced the polity to soberly plumb the depths of moral depravity created by a half century of increasingly socialistic anti-individualism. A bitter medicine yes, but far less injurious than the disease for which it is prescribed.

From united governance will come judicial appointments that hew much more closely to strict constructionism than at any time in the recent past, a very good thing.

If Bush can manage to retain this and even build on his thin but real majority in two years there will be a real opportunity to repopulate the bureaucracy in places like the Department of State which now serves as a hidey hole for Clintonistas who have been forced to ground.

As for the think tanks, the 501c3 charitable trusts and the rest of their ilk, the future is less encouraging. As we have written here oft times in the past, grand old institutions like the Rockefeller, Ford and Mott foundations have been literally captured by the collectivists and are being used to fuel further conflict along the cultural fault lines and nothing on the horizon seems to loom large in reversing this trend.

On the media side we have three huge victories, the rise of conservative talk radio – the importance of which is validated nearly daily with shrill attacks and calls for outright censorship coming from the Democrat leadership – the ascension of Fox News whose slightly right alignment drives latter day Bolsheviks crazy and the cottage industry which we here at PipeBombNews participate in, conservative/libertarian cyber communities empowering and giving voice to those who live in “flyover” country.

This trinity will serve as a pathway for similarly constituted enterprises, fostering an hegemony which can more strongly support limited government and liberty.

The churches are a sore point in the extreme and a breeding ground for lunatic excursions into xenophobia, social deviance and the like – the sight of South Korea Catholic priests blindly conducting an anti-American fasting spectacle just this week, the homosexual infiltration into the very corpus of the Church of Rome and the feel-good “modernism” of much of Protestantism give much pause for concern, as does the increasing liberalism of much of American Jewry.

Catholicism seems to have hit rock bottom ethically with a rebound towards traditionalism possibly the only direction to go. Absent anything of similar proportion forcing re-assessment, the Protestant church seems to be content dancing down the descending primrose path.

Fortunately the devout laity – the bedrock upon which organized religion is built – has successfully struggled to maintain a perspective far more conservative than what would be suggested by merely assessing the views of the governing hierarchies.

So, whither individualism?

As noted above, without creating a supportive counter zeitgeist - to employ Mr. Gore’s lapse into arcane German social science nomenclature - a real leftwing culture cannot exist.

Taking into account the cumulative effect of having a near 5,000-year head start with regards to an established ethical framework based upon Mosaic law, combined with the eye opening madness of the Twin Tower attack, it may be a long time before we ever again reach the nadir that coincided with the Clinton presidency.

We are by no means out of the woods and our progress so far may turn out to by fleeting but the dimension of the forest is now known and demarked and our victories are real and hopefully sustainable.

[johnqueuepublic]

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[DeuceTraveler]

What you are having trouble realizing is that this is not a set-piece battle where you move your tanks, I move mine, and whoever blows the other away wins. Let me say this. What upset me the most about September 11th was how brilliant the attack was. In one strike Al Queda won a major battle in their war to take down western civilization. The reason is that no matter what we do they've driven a wedge against Muslim and Christian. This is not to say one hasn't been there since the Greeks were oppressed by those ancient people called Persians, but that brings up a whole different discussion I'm not prepared for.
The fact of the matter is that there are 1 billion Muslims in the world. Are you saying we should kill them all? Do you really think we can bomb them all into submission?
The Bush administration is doing an excellent job using force where it is needed (like against despotic regime in Iraq) and embracing the Muslim faith as part of the fellowship of mankind (like he did today in Washington DC to celebrate the end of Ramadan). Our leaders are being both wise and courageous enough to see that sometimes we need the carrot to reward our Muslim allies and other times we need the stick to keep murderers from spreading their poison. I hope my fellow Americans share Mr. Bush's vision.
If we help lead this world with compassion and justice we will leave this world for the better. Long live the Pax Americana.

Deuce Traveler

[johnqueuepublic]

DT

What the Muslims did on 9-11 imho saved us from something even worse, maybe a nuclear attack.

Before that date few here seriously thought that something like that would ever happen, we knew about Hamas, Black September, the PLO etc but we couldnt conceive of what would eventually happen in New York and at the Pentagon.

By attacking us these guys tipped their hand and even though it was horrific it was not a killing blow.

That was a huge mistake by the fundamentalists, now we know they and unfortunately much of the Islamic world is harboring such hate and envy that they will do anything to harm us.

And Bush has put his plan into action, we killed Al Qaeda in Afghanistan as the first step, next its going to be Iraq. We will take our time and take whomever down that represents a threat if that means Iran and then the Saudis I say go for it. I dont want accommodation, I want vengeance and scorched and salted earth until they beg for mercy, then I say we should give them some more just for good measure.

That is all they will understand.

Now if Bin Laden was really clever what he would have done is nothing on Sept 11, he would have continued to build his infrastructure until he actually had a nuke, then he would have snuck it into DC and taken out the entire government in one blow, that might have ended our society, maybe not, but it would have been horrendous.

The wedge was already there between Muslims and Christians we just didnt know it.

[johnqueuepublic]

One last point.

If we try to lead this world with as you say with "compassion and justice we will leave this world for the better" we will surely not prevail.

Compassion can come later, now its time for war.

[DeuceTraveler]

I agree with your previous post. There was a lot less anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world than Bin Laden believed. If he tried to get his teeth deeper into some more institutions we would have been in trouble, especially with the new liberal isolationist trend we were driving towards.
I also agree that Iraq needs to be removed from the chessboard and that war is the only way I can see to do it. I am stressing, however, that we need to more actively support Muslims who have been on our side, especially their non-violent democratic movements.
Finally, I do not like the term rag head.

[johnqueuepublic]

I probably shouldnt use the term, you are correct.

What I find really chilling is that after the japanese attack on Pearl we had groups of japanese here volunteering to join the servie just to show their patriotism.

Where are the Muslims like this?

I dont think they exist.

Check out the poll that the Pew organization did yesterday, the populations in most of the Islamic world simply hate our guts.

Ok, fine, if thats what they want then may God have mercy on their souls because they simply cant conceive of what we are cabable of doing, they have no conception that if things really get rough places like Mecca are going to be turned to glass.

[DeuceTraveler]

Actually, I have seen two articles dealing with Muslims in the US military. One was an Afghani whose parents fled to the US with him when he was young. He is now in the military and was stationed in Kabul last year.
There was another article a few months ago about a Lebonese-American that signed up after 9-11, to the shock of his family. He said he wanted to protect his home. His family was concerned he'd be hurt. It would be interesting for a historian to take some numbers down and figure out the percentage of Japanese-American soldiers during WWII and Muslim-American soldiers in the last year, but I admit I'm not privy to that data. Also, I wish I could remember if the Lebonese man was Christian or Muslim, since there are a large number of both.
I wish I had those articles for you. I'll try to look around.

DeuceTraveler

[DeuceTraveler]

And I don't trust polls... it's all how they word the question.

Look at how the polls told the mid-terms would go.

[johnqueuepublic]

In the first place I didnt write this, but hip hop culture is certainly an attribute of the inner city culture which was created by Johnson's not so great society.

The media that features and promotes this type of anti female pro gang thought process (if it can be termed that) also is supportive of extreme left wing demos like Clinton.

Read a few issues of Rolling Stone and their position on the upcoming war in Iraq and Bush.

Check out what is going on in hip hop, check out the lyrics of Lil' Kim and make up your own mind - the culture has been debased to the point where women who are the victims of this stuff are embracing it and extending it in even more harmful ways.

To my way of thinking its like Jews embracing dances at Dachau.

[johnqueuepublic]

The polls before Nov 5 showed things to be close, and that is how it turned out.

I wont say the polls conducted by Pew are totally accurate but they show a really bad trend, if my memory serves me correctly in Jordan 73% of the population disagree with our actions after 911, that is not a good trend.

What has happened in the muslim world is that through force feeding the populace hate propoganda against the west they have succeeded in creating a generation of blind terror supporters.

[ptrey]

I think I heard or read that Maddie Allbright had something to do with this poll. Has anyone else seen or heard about this link? TIA, Will

[Stultis]

Whereas Islam seeks a violent external overthrow as opposed to the left which has now taken the back door approach – both philosophies seek to impose a theocracy - the former seeking to impose one modeled on a rigid anti-Christian 10th century model while the latter a more modern but still anti-Christian one based upon its own religion of secular humanism and moral relativism.

I believe this is wrong. Moral relativism, multiculturalism, (facile) humanism, all these are tactics the left uses to sow destructive divisivness in and to undermine liberal, civil societies. Once the glorious revolution occurs, however, relativism is abruptly abandoned. The left (the hard left at least) is violent, totalitarian, moralistic and intolerant at heart. Their humanistic propaganda is only for egging on the useful idiots.

[Stultis]

I am stressing, however, that we need to more actively support Muslims who have been on our side, especially their non-violent democratic movements.

Many learned and anti-islamist Muslims have fled to the West. We should be underwriting Arabic presses and running them day and night to publish their writings.

[johnqueuepublic]

DT

My point is that there is no groundswell of support among Muslims for the war on terror like there was among Japaneses Americans after the Pearl Harbor attack. I dont think there are any significant number of Muslims in the military and my guess would be that most of them are of the Black muslim variety and not of mid east extraction.

[johnqueuepublic]

We did a terrible job supporting anti sadam forces, you are correct.

[johnqueuepublic]

In regard to albright, I dont know of any connection with Pew, although it is a notorious left wing think tank and is currently working with Leon Panetta in california to screw with oceaninc issues including limiting fishing, placing much of the california coast under further governmental regulation etc.

[johnqueuepublic]

Im not sure about your conclusions but I dont think they are necessarily contradictory of what Myer is saying.

[johnqueuepublic]

Im not sure about your conclusions but I dont think they are necessarily contradictory of what Myer is saying.