Posted on 09/12/2023 4:51:51 AM PDT by marktwain
Author Christopher F. Rufo does wonderful work explaining how the irrational and innumerate leftist radicals took over the institutions and political structure of the USA in his book, America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything.
It was planned. It was executed. It was through the deliberate and calculated use of lies, fraud, hypocrisy, and coordinated rejection of truth, morality, rationality, and science. The strategy was to conquer the universities from within as a power base and then to use them to destroy culture, morality, ethics, and history, as they conquered the media, bureaucracies, and government. As a final step, the entire structure of constitutional government would be overthrown by redefining words to mean the opposite of common meanings.
The history starts with the failure of the violent Marxist revolution against the USA in the 1960s. I remember the bombings, the armored car robberies, the assassination of police officers. The USA fought back. The revolutionaries were not popular. They were defeated.
Herbert Marcuse was a transplanted Marxist from Germany during WWII, sustained in USA universities. He became depressed with the failure of the Marxist revolution in the USA. He could not admit the basic assumptions of Marxism were wrong. He developed a complex new theory, where white intellectuals would team with the radical Black Nationalists [IE: Barack Obama] to take over the universities and, from the universities, overturn the knowledge base of the United States, destroy its history, and supplant it with a Marxist history where everything the USA ever did was racist. The USA had to be destroyed to create a new Marxist utopia.
The first planned casualties were the concepts of truth, objective fact, rationality, and objective history.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Everything, except for all its fundamental defects.
Yes. The fundamental defects which we are about to experience ourselves. We can’t go back. Now what?
I wonder what they think “they” think they will have power over. We will not submit.
bkmk
“Now what?”
The most important thing is to fight for property tax caps so we don’t get taxed out of our houses. We have to be able to wait for far more Hispanics and younger leftist voters to wise up.
We should also fight for income tax caps covering all but say one million income taxpayers. The doctors can protect themselves and I don’t for high-income tort lawyers, crony capitalists or woke CEOs.
The revolutionaries were not defeated, they merely changed tactics, and infiltrated the schools, and became teachers, lawyers, etc.
As for higher education, new institutions and formats can be created.
Learning is a lifelong endeavor.
The right was asleep although some so called ‘on the right’ are really part of the left.
“became teachers, lawyers”
People in these professions were often leftist 60 years ago.
We need to create new pathways to professional opportunities.
College students might take courses in educational law, classroom management and ESL teaching. College students might also get hands on teacher’s aide experience for college credit. Those items might be three credit hours each and paid for by state governments so college students don’t have to borrow as much money and public schools get wider K-12 staffing pools.
The middle class is underserved by the legal profession. People like Mark Meadows and many J6 defendants are being bled dry by professional fees.
Politicians willing to create greater opportunities for America’s young adults will get voter support.
There is "left", and then there is full-blown Revolutionary Marxist. These people are full-blown Revolutionary Marxists.
“During World War II, Marcuse first worked for the US Office of War Information (OWI) on anti-Nazi propaganda projects. In 1943, he transferred to the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency.
“Directed by the Harvard historian William L. Langer, the Research and Analysis (R&A) Branch was the largest American research institution in the first half of the twentieth century. At its zenith between 1943 and 1945, it employed over twelve hundred, four hundred of whom were stationed abroad. In many respects, it was the site where post-World War II American social science was born, with protégés of some of the most esteemed American university professors, as well as numerous European intellectual émigrés, in its ranks.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
“Marcuse...argued that capitalism and industrialization pushed laborers so hard that they began to see themselves as extensions of the objects they were producing. At the beginning of One-Dimensional Man Marcuse writes, ‘The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment,’ meaning that under capitalism (in consumer society), humans become extensions of the commodities that they buy, thus making commodities extensions of people’s minds and bodies. Affluent mass technological societies, he argues, are controlled and manipulated. In societies based upon mass production and mass distribution, the individual worker has become merely a consumer of its commodities and entire commodified way of life. Modern capitalism has created false needs and false consciousness geared to the consumption of commodities: it locks one-dimensional man into the one-dimensional society which produced the need for people to recognize themselves in their commodities.
“The very mechanism that ties the individual to his society has changed, and social control is anchored in the new needs that it has produced. Most important of all, the pressure of consumerism has led to the total integration of the working class into the capitalist system. Its political parties and trade unions have become thoroughly bureaucratized and the power of negative thinking or critical reflection has rapidly declined. The working class is no longer a potentially subversive force capable of bringing about revolutionary change.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
the “right” wasn’t asleep as much as they are just too busy with their lives to get deeply involved or just go along to get along while hoping it all goes away. my personal term for those conservative folks who don’t like what’s happening but won’t do anything but BMW about it is simple...”the socially lazy”. the vast majority are just not interested in social activism like the typical leftist is. the radical leftists are full fledged ideologues and far outnumber the radical rightists by magnitudes. not to mention that while the right was too busy to notice, the left spend DECADES vilifying the right... one small step at a time. “paying attention but not paying attention to the details is a recipe for the worst of outcomes” L.Star
“These people are full-blown Revolutionary Marxists.”
The RINO is the Marxist.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
“Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen”
Marx
Because our stores are well stocked, we have leftists that have come to believe that handing out money to people is all that is needed. The leftist read about people that have tens of billions, but do not realize this is in overpriced common stocks and not dollars. The middle class has neither the dollars nor the motivation to buy the majority of the overpriced common stocks. And the middle class would have even less motivation to buy such stock if it was taken from its owners by government force.
“We have one-and-a-quarter million persons dependent upon public charity, and probably as many more who are able to get only one or two days’ work a week or who are dependent upon relatives and friends. That is too heavy a burden of suffering for any civilized community to carry.”
Upton Sinclair, author of “End Poverty in California”
quoted from “The Literary Digest”, October 13, 1934
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/sinclair.html
Essentially, he is saying: I don't like the way the world is. Therefore it has to all be torn down and rebuilt, with me, or people like me in charge.
It is impervious to fact, logic, or reason.
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