Communism’s Subtlest Secret

The international communist movement holds many secrets—back-channel diplomacy, secret treaties, high-level spies never uncovered. Thousands of secret Western communists in positions of influence who have never been unmasked.

However, the most important (and subtle) secret of communism has yet to be properly exposed. This secret is about communism’s methodology—its means of achieving policy goals.

Very few Westerners understand the massive impact communism has had on Western society. The big secret of communism is the method by which tiny local communist parties, often acting under the direction of Moscow, Beijing, or Havana, are able to get their policies adopted as the “law of the land” in their own country.

How far-fetched is that? How conceivable is it that a tiny communist party, maybe only a few hundred comrades strong, could influence public policy in a country with tens or maybe even hundreds of millions of voters? Unfortunately, it’s not just conceivable. It’s a reality.

After the initial burst of European revolutions all failed in the 1920s, the communist movement began a long-term plan to move individual countries to socialism by force where possible, and by infiltration and manipulation when not.

After Eastern Europe and China were communized by force after World War II, communist expansionism was resisted by stiff Western resolve. The Cold War was essentially a stalemate. Communism could only expand peripherally, mainly in the poorer countries of Africa and Asia. Force was too risky to apply to the main targets of Western Europe and North America.

Infiltration and manipulation would have to be ramped up. Western Europe, Canada, and the United States would have to be socialized from the inside out. The existing order would have to be overturned by a process of subversion. Education, the churches, and the media were all targeted. But the key focus, something hardly touched on by scholars, was the systematic infiltration and manipulation of the legislative bodies of each major Western nation.

The communists rightly surmised that if they could influence or manipulate the British Parliament, the German Bundestag, and the U.S. Congress, what did it matter how many missiles NATO possessed or how many troops they could mass on the Rhine?

During the Cold War, policy was established in Moscow by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in conjunction with the International Department and the KGB. The question would be posed by leadership: What domestic or foreign policy do we want France … or Canada … or Italy … or New Zealand … or the United States to adopt, so as to move that country more toward socialism or to tilt the balance of power more in our favor?

For example, in 1984, my home country of New Zealand banned nuclear warships from our harbors.

I know from interviewing a participant in the process that this legislation was dreamed up at Lenin’s Institute for Higher Learning in Moscow—a highly secretive training school for more than 6,000 communists from all over the globe. Moscow was trying to break up NATO at the time—and still is. They were funding and directing the European peace movement but were running into a brick wall when it came to getting U.S. troops out of Europe. In order for Moscow to conquer Europe, NATO had to be disbanded. It was decided in Moscow to break tiny, heavily Soviet-influenced New Zealand away from the Western nuclear alliance in the hope this would encourage the European left to shatter NATO.

In October 1983, four New Zealand communists were sent to Lenin’s institute for training. They were instructed to mount a campaign back in New Zealand, which would be run through the communist-controlled unions, to pass legislation banning nuclear warships. When the delegation returned home, several secret meetings were held with the unions, peace movement, and with the Soviet-friendly elements in the ruling Labour Party. Within a few months, Moscow’s anti-nuclear legislation was passed through the New Zealand Parliament—destroying my country’s military alliance with the United States. And hardly one in a million New Zealanders have any inkling that our anti-nuclear policies were organized from Moscow.

I learned through extensive interviews with one of the New Zealand communists involved in the Moscow meetings that this was standard Soviet practice. The Soviets were able to influence governments all over the world by using a chain of command that went through the local communist parties, through the union movement, and into the target country’s mainstream “left-wing” party.

Thousands of foreign communists were trained every year in Lenin’s Institute for Higher Learning and Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. The main purpose of the institutes was to indoctrinate foreign communists into following Moscow’s line. A major part of the training was learning how to use their own country’s labor movement, peace movement, churches, and civil organizations to influence policy formation in their native country’s “mainstream” left-wing political party—the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party, the German Social Democrats, the Canadian Liberals, or the U.S. Democratic Party.

As Lenin said of trade unions, they are the “transmission belts from the Communist Party to the masses.” Communist control of the labor movement is the key to the implementation phase of communist policy infiltration into Western countries.

Every major communist party does its level best to take over the local labor movement. There are several reasons for this, but the most important and overlooked one is this: Every mainstream left-wing party in the Western democracies is dominated by the labor movement. The unions fund these parties, contribute manpower at election time, and bloc vote at their conferences.

Labor unions effectively dominate every major left-wing political party in every major, and most minor, Western countries. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Labor unions, by providing the money and the muscle, can dictate party policy and they usually can have a big say in candidate selection.

If communists get control of a country’s unions (as they have in the United States), they effectively get control of the nation’s mainstream left-wing party into the bargain.

The process is clear. The international communist movement or the local communist party sets a desired policy, whether it’s strengthening labor legislation, securing more state funding for political parties, instating a more socialist school curriculum, loosening immigration policies, increasing refugee resettlement, canceling a new weapons system, or relaxing trade sanctions on Cuba—whatever is paramount on the communist agenda at that time. The communists and their socialist allies then make these communist policies union policies. The unions then put pressure on the local Labour Party, Socialist Party, or Democratic Party to adopt these union policies as their own. As labor effectively controls these major parties, the process is often not that difficult.

So, communist policies become union policies, which in turn become “mainstream” political party policies.

Moscow’s policies became Canadian Liberal Party policy or French Socialist Party policy through a simple cut-out process. French or Canadian, or Brazilian or U.S. citizens would have no idea that the policies they thought came from their own government actually originated in Moscow.

Since the more-apparent-than-real “collapse of communism” in the 1990s, communist international policy formation appears to have become more decentralized. All the major international communist fronts created by the Soviets in the 1940s and ’50s—the World Peace Council, World Federation of Trade Unions, Women’s International Democratic Federation, World Federation of Democratic Youth, and International Association of Democratic Lawyers—are still actively working as a team, promoting the communist “line” wherever they can. Today, they are controlled more by Cuban, Greek, and Third World communists, but follow policies almost identical to those of their former Soviet masters. These organizations still function as “transmission belts” of communist policies into targeted countries.

Currently, most major Western communist parties, including the United States’ Communist Party USA and Freedom Road Socialist Organization, tend to look more to China for leadership—though it’s clear that Russian and former Eastern Bloc communists are still a major part of the international movement.

Today, this “transmission belt” process appears to be more decentralized with more indoctrination being done “in country, or through the major international front organizations.” Semi-communist socialists, including the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), used to get much of their direction from the Socialist International—which followed a “line” that is almost identical to that of the openly communist movement.

In recent years, the DSA has grown so dramatically, and moved so far left, that it is now effectively the United States’ main communist party.

Consequently, European communist parties including those of Spain, France, Italy, and Greece have formed close ties to the DSA.

The former East German Communist Party—now known as Die Linke (The Left)—works very closely with the DSA through its New York affiliate of its Berlin-based front organization the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. This Manhattan-based affiliate trains DSA leaders and clearly influences policy formation. Die Linke still maintains close ties to Russian socialists and Putin’s government. So it’s very possible that DSA policies are being influenced from Moscow just as the Communist Party USA’s policies were formulated in Moscow for more than 70 years.

The DSA has infiltrated many policies into the Democratic Party, including Obamacare, amnesty for illegal aliens, Medicare for All, and the Green New Deal. Almost all of today’s Democratic policies are identical to those of the DSA and the Communist Party USA.

When Americans vote for increased minimum wage ballot measures, decriminalization of drugs, rent control, gun control, or politicians promoting a Green New Deal or socialized health care, they are voting for communist policies. These policies may have been formulated at DSA or Communist Party headquarters, or at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin—or even in Moscow, Beijing, or Havana.

Wherever these policies originate from, the result is the same. Every election cycle, tens of millions of Americans vote for communism—and are completely unaware of this fact.

What better way to socialize a nation than to fool its citizens into voting for communist policies disguised as home-grown “liberalism”?

Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics.

Democrats Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party Across the Nation

Trevor Loudon CONTRIBUTOR February 8, 2019 Updated: February 28, 2019 Share

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The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is infiltrating the Democratic Party across the country. Communists, some openly, some secretly, are working in Democratic campaigns, holding Democratic Party leadership positions, and even running for public office on the Democratic Party ballot line.

They also are pushing their policies inside the Democratic Party, to the point where it’s almost impossible to distinguish between the CPUSA and Democratic Party programs. Many comrades work closely with influential congressmembers or U.S. senators.

The CPUSA supports China, Cuba, Venezuela, and the Russian Communist Party—all enemies of the United States. The CPUSA still advocates for the “overthrow of the capitalist class” in the United States, yet the Democrats do absolutely zilch to keep the communists out of their party.

CPUSA infiltration of the Democratic Party is widespread—it affects every region where the communists have a significant presence.

Support and Infiltration

In the San Diego area, two CPUSA members, Carl Wood and Emiliana Sparaco, recently ran for the California Democratic Party Central Committee, from Assembly Districts 76 and 80, respectively.

Wood, a lifelong communist, intended to push for the “Healthy California Act that provides improved Medicare for All, a Living Wage of at least $15/hour, the Green New Deal for a healthy environment with good new jobs in a peace economy, and legislation to promote strong Unions.” In 1999, California’s then-Democratic Gov. Gray Davis appointed Wood to a six-year term on the California Public Utilities Commission, where he “played a significant role in protecting California from the consequences of its disastrous deregulation experiment.”

Sparaco, a former leader of the Young Communist League, traveled to Sochi, Russia, in October 2017, as part of a U.S. communist delegation to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution—keynoted by Vladimir Putin himself. In 2018, Sparaco was a leading activist in Flip the 49th, which helped Democrat Mike Levin win California’s 49th Congressional District.

In Northern California, Sacramento area Democratic Rep. Ami Bera, who serves on the House Foreign Relations Committee, has won several super-close elections with communist help. For example, in 2014, CPUSA members Juan Lopez, Cassie Lopez, Michelle Kern, Nell Ranta, and Mik Diddams canvassed and phone-banked out of Bera’s campaign headquarters.

Further up the left coast in rural Washington state, communists Tim and Joyce Wheeler and Tim’s sister Marion “Honeybee” Wheeler Burns have been active in the Clallam County Democrats for decades. They campaigned for Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, and local Rep. Derek Kilmer. Tim traveled to international communist gatherings for many years as editor of the CPUSA’s People’s World. His father, Don Wheeler, betrayed American secrets to Moscow during World War II while working for U.S. intelligence.

Over in Minnesota, local CPUSA leaders the late Doris and Erwin Marquit were very active inside the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (Minnesota’s Democratic Party affiliate). The couple helped raise funds for congressional aspirant Keith Ellison in their home three times. In 2006, they used their political influence to help get Ellison elected to Congress.

Another Minnesota communist, Mark Froemke, is very active in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Froemke has enjoyed good relations with former Minnesota Sen. Al Franken and former Gov. Mark Dayton.

Swinging down to Chicago, we see CPUSA members such as Pepe Lozano working in the successful Chuy Garcia for Congress campaign. CPUSA member Abdul-Aziz Hassan has worked for 22nd Ward Alderman Ricardo Munoz, a Democrat, for several years. Even CPUSA leader John Bachtell once served as a precinct chairman for U.S. Senate candidate Obama.

In Ohio, former CPUSA chairman Rick Nagin worked inside the Democratic Party for decades. In 2006, Nagin was on the staff of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations 2006 campaign that first elected Sherrod Brown. Nagin also worked closely with Rep. Dennis Kucinich for many years. Nagin has run several times for public office on the Democratic Party ticket and served as the Democratic Leader in Cleveland Ward 14 and on the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Executive Committee.

In St. Louis, the CPUSA has worked closely with many black Democratic candidates through its front group the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. Longtime CPUSA member Glenn Burleigh is very active in the Democratic Party and has managed several Democratic campaigns, including Robin Wright-Jones for State Senate and Lewis Reed for St. Louis mayor. Missouri CPUSA leader Tony Pecinovsky will be standing for St. Louis Alderman in 2020, presumably as a Democrat.

Over in New York City, the communists have been working inside the Democratic Party since at least the 1930s.

Former communist Dan Margolis was active in New York City elections, including as the mid-Staten Island coordinator for the 2004 Democratic Party congressional campaign.

According to Margolis’s blog: “I ended up working on many Democratic campaigns during by time in the CPUSA: John Kerry’s, Obama’s twice, [Senator] Kirsten Gillibrand’s, Fernando Ferrer’s (he nearly beat Michael Bloomberg to become mayor of NYC), and a host of others known mostly to NYC residents. I am proud to say that I wrote the first official document in the CPUSA calling for support of Obama in the primaries: I wrote this as chair of the party in Brooklyn, in 2007.”

In 2014, the CPUSA’s Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Club wrote: “Sometimes, we must be free to disagree with Democrats on selected issues, even those whom we have supported, such as Obama on a national level, Jerrold Nadler, a progressive congressman from Manhattan, and Bill DeBlasio, who is New York City’s new progressive mayor. For example, we should be free to advocate a general reduction of our country’s military and to disagree with the Obama Administration’s expansion of some sections of our military forces.”

Across the river in New Jersey, communists such as Estevan Nembhard and Carol Widom were active in Democrat Ras Baraka’s successful 2014 campaign for the mayoralty of Newark. Baraka is the son of one-time CPUSA member Amina Baraka.

Connecticut is the CPUSA’s “jewel in the crown.” The party almost runs the state. The CPUSA is close to Gov. Ned Lamont, as it was to his predecessor Dannel Malloy. Both U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Sen. Chris Murphy are close to the party. Sen. Murphy employed CPUSA member Max Goldman as an aide for nearly three years, while serving on the highly sensitive Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro is very close to CPUSA Connecticut leader Joelle Fishman and her husband Art Perlo—the son of Roosevelt-era Soviet spy ring leader Victor Perlo. In 2012, DeLauro helped organize birthday celebrations for veteran Connecticut communist Al Marder. Comrade Marder is so well regarded in international communist circles that he was invited to Moscow in June 2015 to help the Russian Communist Party celebrate the anniversary of the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany. Marder even got a big hug from then-Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov.

Three other Connecticut congressmembers, Jim Himes (House Intelligence Committee), Joe Courtney (House Armed Services Committee), and John B. Larson work closely with the CPUSA front group Connecticut Alliance for Retired Americans. Even freshman Rep. Jahana Hayes had veteran communist Len Yannielli working in her campaign office.

Down in Texas, the situation is not much better. In Dallas, local communist leader Gene Lantz is very active in the Democratic Party and the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans. Lantz is close to Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology) and is friends with Rep. Marc Veasey (House Armed Services Committee).

In Houston, local CPUSA leader Bernard Sampson doubles as a Democratic Party precinct chairman. The Houston CPUSA ran several comrades for public office in 2018 on the Democratic ticket (it’s illegal to run for office as a communist in Texas).

Comrade Ali Khorasani ran for Congress in Texas District 2 but was defeated in the primary. Communist Penny Shaw ran for a seat on the Harris County Commission but lost with 45 percent of the vote. Party member Sema Hernandez ran a shoestring campaign in the Texas U.S. Senate primary and managed to secure a respectable 250,000 votes.

And this is just the open or easily identifiable members. As a conspiratorial revolutionary organization, the CPUSA keeps much of its membership secret. The CPUSA almost certainly has many secret members and supporters in key positions throughout the Democratic Party.

Opposition

Millions of grassroots Democrat voters are strongly opposed to communism. Many are descendants of families who fled communism in Eastern Europe, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Cuba. Many lost friends or family fighting communism in Vietnam. Many are Catholic, informed of the evils from communism at an early age by their priests, bishops, and popes.

Most would be horrified to know that communists are working openly and secretly at every level of their cherished Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party knows the identities of most of its communist members. The Democrats do more than turn a blind eye; they welcome the revolutionaries into their party.

The Democrats have spent the last two years bashing President Donald Trump for having ties to Russia. Yet the Democrats are willing to tolerate pro-China communists actively working within their own party.

By allowing communists to stand for office on their ticket, Democrats are cheating the American voter. By allowing communists to work closely with Democratic congressmembers and senators, they are endangering national security.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/democrats-allow-communists-to-infiltrate-their-party-across-the-nation_2777771.html

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