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These tactics date back well before the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Russia in 1917 did not have a Bill of Rights.

These tactics are new, in the sense they use our Federal system and Constitutional protections against us.

The basic ideas are similar, of course.

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A few Lenin quotes--which will sound so very familiar with where we are today:

Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, “Dogmatism And ‘Freedom of Criticism’” (1901)

A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organizer.

Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, “The Plan For an All-Russia Political Newspaper” (1901)

Every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

Lenin, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, “Paragraph One of the Rules” (1904)

the working class must break up, smash the “ready-made state machinery,” and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

Lenin, State and Revolution (1917)

Abolition of the police, the army

Lenin, April Theses (1917)

It is the duty of the revolution to put an end to compromise, and to put an end to compromise means taking the path of socialist revolution.

Lenin, Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)

any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)