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The Cultural Revolution Comes to America’s Campuses
PJ Media ^ | November 13, 2015 | Roger L. Simon

Posted on 11/13/2015 10:02:45 AM PST by Kaslin

Today's undergraduates probably know little, if anything, about the cataclysmic movement in China known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It began in 1966 before all of them (and even a great number of their professors) were born. This massive national crusade, instigated by Chairman Mao Zedong, was intended to create a pure communist man and woman, devoid of the constraints of materialism and personal ambition.

It started with the closing of the schools and the re-education of intellectuals and the bourgeoisie and ended up with years of incredible violence, taking millions of lives. The actual statistics are still a state secret, but a recent biography of Mao states "at least 3 million people died violent deaths and post-Mao leaders acknowledged that 100 million people, one-ninth of the entire population, suffered in one way or another.

I got a personal look at the remnants of the Cultural Revolution in 1979 when on an "activist’s" tour of China. The country was still extraordinarily impoverished and primitive. Propagandistic thought control was everywhere, broadcast on loudspeakers and splayed out on ubiquitous billboards urging the masses to "Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius" (Lin Biao was a former ally, then competitor, of Mao's who died in a mysterious plane crash) or "Smash the Gang of Four," one of whom was Mao's wife, then in disrepute. Whenever you asked a question of your interpreters, even a bland one, you got a rote response. Everyone was too timid to say anything the slightest bit controversial. Newspeak reigned. It was like living in Orwell's 1984 five years early.

So you will excuse me if, from the outset, when I heard how our college campuses were being overtaken with these new-fangled "trigger warnings" and "microagressions," perfect Maoist terminology for our computerized times, it immediately gave me the heebie-jeebies. Thought control, via political correctness, had come to America in the very spot it had begun in China the schools.

Recent events at the University of Missouri and Yale (where I attended graduate school), plus now other institutions, have only increased my apprehension. It's not at the level of the Cultural Revolution professors haven't been asked to wear dunce caps yet and no one (to my knowledge) has been killed but the portents are not reassuring.

Mob rule, not anything close to democracy, is at play. The so-called SJWs (Social Justice Warriors) seem to be functioning as early avatars of the infamous Red Guard, bullying and then threatening violence to anyone whose thoughts run outside what is deemed to be correct.

College professors and administrators quiver in their path. In the case of Mizzou, the president resigned before any concrete evidence of racism was made manifest. It still hasn't been days later. At dear old Yale, it's even more bizarre because there were no imputations of racism in the first place, only that there might have been or might be. Forget Bull Connor and the KKK, inappropriate Halloween costumes were the new danger. It was all about having a "safe space" so feelings wouldn't be hurt, as if the world could be perfect and the human species remade for an extraordinarily fragile generation of coddled students.

Some people ridicule these students as "snowflakes" unable to stand up to the slightest discomfiting words or images. But it is far worse than that. These so-called "snowflakes" are the potential shock troops of the aforementioned Red Guard, American style. There is a fine line between the extreme entitlement that demands to be warned before reading Ovid's Metamorphoses (as happened recently at Columbia) and a kind of narcissistic rage acting out against any presumed enemy in its path. How do you think the CR actually happened in China? Yes, the country was significantly poorer, but the psychological evolution was strikingly similar.

So think twice if you don't think it could happen here. Who would have thought the president of one of our great public universities would lose his job in part because someone said he saw a swastika written in feces on one of the bathroom walls, which now, suddenly, no one can find and might have been a photograph in the first place, if it ever existed?

As we say in Hollywood, it's "The Crucible Meets Animal Farm," the Salem witch trials meets four legs good, two legs bad. But the professors who teach those anti-fascist masterworks aren't doing anything to defend against it. Lobotomized by political correctness they attempt to be even-handed, in the way many did with Mao and Stalin. The same results await them.

And we citizens sit outside our great universities and watch the conflagration. It's only just begun.


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1 posted on 11/13/2015 10:02:45 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Just like Emma Goldman they’ll one day be stunned when they start executing intellectuals.


2 posted on 11/13/2015 10:05:31 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

He says it all.


3 posted on 11/13/2015 10:08:01 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: Kaslin

Cultural??? How about marxist/obama?


4 posted on 11/13/2015 10:08:09 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Kaslin

So will the BLM’s......at some point they will no longer be needed too.


5 posted on 11/13/2015 10:10:35 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Kaslin

Still got my “Little Red Book”. If Bernie makes an appearance around here I’m going to see if he’ll sign it.


6 posted on 11/13/2015 10:11:15 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
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To: Kaslin
This massive national crusade, instigated by Chairman Mao Zedong, was intended to create a pure communist man and woman, devoid of the constraints of materialism and personal ambition. …
That is certainly contradictory, since Marxism is materialist in nature and designed so by Marx.
7 posted on 11/13/2015 10:12:55 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Kaslin; All

Here’s a group that’s behind a lot of what’s going on in the communist-led student protest movement. They have several fronts. Unlike Communist Party USA and Workers World Party they are not an actual political party.

The Revolutionary Communist Party
http://revcom.us/movement-for-revolution/index.html


8 posted on 11/13/2015 10:19:03 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Kaslin
These kids (yes, kids) are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. And they can thank their Marxist professors, along with the leftist financiers of today's universities.
9 posted on 11/13/2015 10:19:51 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Bitsy
How about marxist/obama?

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"This president can be a transformative leader (he has that potential in my view), but only if he embraces and fights for a transformative agenda."--Sam Webb, Chairman Communist Party USA

Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
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A Landslide Mandate For Change

A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

(snip)

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
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July 1, 2009...

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Change is Here, Change is Coming
--Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA

http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
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Jan 29, 2010:

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Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling

10 posted on 11/13/2015 10:23:09 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Bitsy
How about marxist/obama?

Shepard Fairey, Obama's communist propaganda artist

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From Shepard Fairey's official website (ObeyGiant.com):

Check it out! I got a thank you note from Barack Obama. If he is elected, maybe I have a get out of jail free card. All kidding aside, I'm honored to be acknowledged by someone so important to the future of our country. Also, the Obama campaign asked me to do a poster illustration for sale on their site. It should be out next week on barackobama.com.-Shepard
http://obeygiant.com/post/check-it-out
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Here is the text of the 'thank you' letter Barack Obama sent to Shepard Fairey:

"Dear Shepard, I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign. I am privileged to be a part of your artwork and proud to have your support. I wish you continued success and creativity.

Sincerely, Barack Obama.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051601017.html
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"The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people"--BH Obama

Some other "images" by Shepard Fairey...


by Shepard Fairey

http://www.duckywaddles.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=744
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"Stalin Lenin", Shepard Fairey,
limited edition silkscreen, signed
and numbered. 18"X24" *SOLD OUT*
Source: http://www.duckywaddles.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=429
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"The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people"--Barack Hussein Obama, in his Thank You letter to Shepard Fairey

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Portrait of Angela Davis by Obama artist Shepard Fairey:


Angela Davis

Angela Davis by Obey Giant, Shepard Fairey:
http://www.zimbio.com/Shepard+Fairey/articles/63/Angela+Davis+Obey+Giant+Shepard+Fairey

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ANGELA DAVIS

* Communist professor at the University of California's Santa Cruz campus
* Recipient of the Lenin "Peace Prize" from the police state of East Germany in 1979
* Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis' imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
* Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
* Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
* "The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class."

Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the "History of Consciousness" program at the University of California - Santa Cruz. A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a "University Professor," one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant. This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students. Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303

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"The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people"--Barack Hussein Obama, in his Thank You letter to Shepard Fairey

11 posted on 11/13/2015 10:26:13 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Kaslin; LucyT; null and void; Nachum; Kartographer
These so-called "snowflakes" are the potential shock troops of the aforementioned Red Guard, American style.

Just as the blacks are the shock troops for the urban kraals, the hipsters are the foot soldiers on the campuses and the exurbs. Different tactics for different battlefields.

Tell me this isn't being planned like a military conquest.

12 posted on 11/13/2015 10:29:20 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Kaslin
...when I heard how our college campuses were being overtaken with these new-fangled "trigger warnings" and "microagressions," perfect Maoist terminology for our computerized times, it immediately gave me the heebie-jeebies. Thought control, via political correctness, had come to America in the very spot it had begun in China the schools.

Great post Kaslin...

13 posted on 11/13/2015 10:31:08 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: Kaslin; All
Who Is Doing the Community Organizing for Black Lives Matter Spectacle?

Not many Black Lives Matter morons would have the initiative to get a poster printed. But it's no mystery where they get the signs that they jab in the air as they chant "What do we want? Dead cops!" The supplier is printed right across the bottom: revcom.us .

black-lives-matter-commies

'Rev' is for revolutionary.
'Com' is for communist
.

Revcom.us bills itself as "the voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA." The explicit objective is to overthrow our constitutional republic and replace it with an oligarchical collectivist dictatorship along the lines of North Korea and the Soviet Union.

Why would advocates of a communist police state agitate against the police? Because as leftists used to admit openly, the issue is never the issue. This isn't about the police, any more than it is about blacks. It is about destabilizing the system so as to create opportunities to weaken it and eventually overthrow it.

That's what community organizing boils down to. These people have taken over the executive branch of the federal government; why would they stop there?

The next hill they take will be federal control of local police. After that, things will start to get scary.

http://moonbattery.com/?p=54033
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From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us):

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm

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The 1992 LA/Rodney King riots were instigated by the Revolutionary Communist Party...

From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197
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REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://web.archive.org/web/20110727113745/http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html

14 posted on 11/13/2015 10:33:12 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Kaslin; All
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people/Capitalists], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09>
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World - where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' - both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama's circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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"In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. ..."

"I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
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"They're certainly friendly" -quote from 'Obama's chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago's political tribes), David Axelrod,' on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html

15 posted on 11/13/2015 10:33:58 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Kaslin

Ah yes, the American Spring.


16 posted on 11/13/2015 10:35:32 AM PST by umgud (v)
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To: Kaslin

“Mob rule, not anything close to democracy, is at play.”

FWIW, Yale grad, democracy IS mob rule.

Let’s check in with Ayn Rand about what democracy is.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/democracy.html

‘Democratic’ in its original meaning [refers to] unlimited majority rule . . . a social system in which one’s work, one’s property, one’s mind, and one’s life are at the mercy of any gang that may muster the vote of a majority at any moment for any purpose.

If we discard morality and substitute for it the Collectivist doctrine of unlimited majority rule, if we accept the idea that a majority may do anything it pleases, and that anything done by a majority is right because it’s done by a majority (this being the only standard of right and wrong) - how are men to apply this in practice to their actual lives? Who is the majority? In relation to each particular man, all other men are potential members of that majority which may destroy him at its pleasure at any moment. Then each man and all men become enemies; each has to fear and suspect all; each must try to rob and murder first, before he is robbed and murdered.

The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule; the classic example is ancient Athens. And the symbol of it is the fate of Socrates, who was put to death legally, because the majority didn’t like what he was saying, although he had initiated no force and had violated no one’s rights.

Democracy, in short, is a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights: the majority can do whatever it wants with no restrictions. In principle, the democratic government is all-powerful. Democracy is a totalitarian manifestation; it is not a form of freedom . . . .

The American system is a constitutionally limited republic, restricted to the protection of individual rights. In such a system, majority rule is applicable only to lesser details, such as the selection of certain personnel. But the majority has no say over the basic principles governing the government. It has no power to ask for or gain the infringement of individual rights.


17 posted on 11/13/2015 10:35:41 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Kaslin

Smash smashism.


18 posted on 11/13/2015 11:04:50 AM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: Kaslin

This is a Great Leap FORWARD!


19 posted on 11/13/2015 11:18:46 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: ETL

Yep.
Recently noted, Bill Ayers getting together with Carl Dix.
Dix is a longtime mouthpiece for the RCP.
Also, the RCP was active at Occidental College when Obama was there and was, by his own admission, interacting with Marxists.
Obama’s green czar, Van Jones, who was forced to resign during Al’s first term, also walked and talked like an RCPer.


20 posted on 11/13/2015 11:23:01 AM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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