Posted on 04/11/2014 11:08:44 AM PDT by Mozilla
A preferred ploy of left-wing change agents is to ridicule critics when they point out the undeniable parallels between the goals of today’s “progressive” movement, to include the Democratic Party in general, and the goals of the early, and very much still alive, communist movement.
If, for instance, one mentions the historical fact that nearly every adult who, at any time, was in any position of influence over a young, soon-to-be-radicalized Barry Soetoro was an avowed communist, to include his own parents, then one is immediately mocked and dismissed as a neo-McCarthyite hack pining for the bygone days of the Red Scare. This is an evasive, ad hominem strategy employed by those who are caught, for lack of a better word, red-handed.
To all this I say, if the jackboot fits, wear it. If it quacks like a commie and goose-steps like a commie, then a commie it is.
There are multiple layers within “progressivism’s” pseudo-utopian, truly dystopian Marxist philosophy. The left’s lust for redistributionist statism is well-known. Less understood, however, is the “progressive” rush toward cultural Marxism.
Cultural Marxism entails, among other things, that secularist aspect of left-wing statist ideology that seeks, within society, to supplant traditional values, norms and mores with postmodern moral relativism. Cultural Marxists endeavor to scrub America of her Judeo-Christian, constitutional-republican founding principles, and take, instead, a secular-statist Sharpie to our beloved U.S. Constitution.
Historian and U.S. military affairs expert William S. Lind describes cultural Marxism as “a branch of western Marxism, different from the Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. It is commonly known as ‘multiculturalism’ or, less formally, Political Correctness. From its beginning, the promoters of cultural Marxism have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, hence the use of terms such as ‘multiculturalism.’”
Pastor, attorney and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively is globally admired by liberty-loving traditionalists. Conversely, he’s universally reviled by cultural Marxists. He drills down a bit deeper: “Cultural Marxism is a variation of the Marxist strategy to build a utopian socialist order on the ashes of Christian civilization, but through subversion of the moral culture, especially the elimination of the natural family, rather than solely through destruction of capitalism.”
True though this may be, the ideological seeds of contemporary cultural Marxism nonetheless sprout from deep within the dead soil of historical communism. It is not economic redistributionism alone through which “progressives” seek to both “fundamentally transform America” and otherwise conquer the world, but, rather, and perhaps primarily, it is also through victory over the pejoratively tagged “social issues” (i.e., the sanctity of marriage, natural human sexuality and morality, ending the abortion holocaust, religious liberty, the Second Amendment and the like).
This is neither speculative nor hyperbolic. Both the historical record and the U.S. Congressional Record bear out this sinister reality. Regrettably, today’s “low-information voters” as Rush Limbaugh calls them – to include the useful idiots within the GOP’s “moderate” and libertarian wings – are simply too lazy, shortsighted or both to learn the facts.
“Surrender on the ‘social issues’!” demands the GOP’s cultural Marxist-enabling kamikazes.
In 1963, U.S. Rep. A.S. Herlong Jr., D-Fla., read into the Congressional Record a list of “Current Communist Goals” as enumerated by Dr. Cleon Skousen in “The Naked Communist,” penned in 1958. I encourage you to read the whole list, but for now let’s focus on those goals that most closely align with the seditious agenda of America’s “progressive” movement. It’s actually most of them. Though Herlong was a Democrat, the list reads like today’s Democratic Party Platform.
How far has fallen the party of the jackass:
If achieving these specific communist goals was the final “progressive” step toward the larger goal of securing communist governance in America, then, tragically, “progressives” have realized that larger goal.
Look around. We are no longer the United States of America. We have become The Communist States of America.
Which means, for those who love liberty, revolution is once again at hand.
Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an author, columnist, cultural analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. Having retired as an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer, Matt has taken his fight from the ring to the culture war.
Hardly true. We have seen more abortion clinics closed in the last two years then in our history. This is great news. We see Mom’s staying home with their kids at a much higher rate. Things are bad but there are some glimmering lights.
unfortunate FReeper handle
Heh.. I was thinking the same thing..
PP to build $5 million abortion super center in San Antonio
Good to see other people catching up with Free Republic.
We had this pegged over 3 years ago!
In 1954, J Edgar Hoover published a book entitled, “Masters of Deceit”. It was an expose on the CPUSA. It spelled out their strategy, their tactics and their ultimate goals.
I read this in the early 90’s and even then, if a reader substituted DNC for CPUSA, it was a very scary read.
And here we are.
And like the Soviet Union, Cuber, North Korea, Venezuela . . . our elections increasingly serve to put oppressors into, or keep them in power.
The President has demonstrated he doesn’t need congress to write laws. Future Presidents will have the same power. How long before congress is rendered as irrelevant as the senate of the Roman Empire, and serves only to rubber-stamp executive decisions, to give them the patina of legitimacy?
There is little time. Article V.
Which is all true, but I’m going to throw in a caveat. There’s a reason why the federal government is arming itself to the teeth, and constructing an internal spying apparatus like the one at the NSA. They expect a revolt. And they’re going to gleefully use the force and power of the federal government to suppress it. Consider the comment by Bill Ayers about the need to kill 25 million Americans to accomplish the goal of truly transforming society, and add to that drones, missiles, modern police methods, and other weapons at their disposal. They’re itchy to get the job done. All we have to do is fire the first shot.
In this regard, despite her many character flaws, Ayn Rand got it right. The left got to where they are through subversion; the revolt will be accomplished with subversion. Rand’s idea of the productive going on a quiet general strike while letting the system collapse just might work. The state can confiscate my goods and force me to use crappy light bulbs, but it can’t compel me to do my best work. Slave revolts are generally put down hard, but the sullen slave, quietly undermining the efforts of the master, is much harder to defend against. Lies, deceit, subversion, slacking off, are all good weapons here. Eventually the system collapses from its own contradictions.
The ONLY thing that prevents calling this regime’s agenda Fascist is the lack of aim to put people to work. The thing Fascism did in Germany was put people to work, to earn a pay check and be productive. The regime in America is doing just the opposite, but every other aspect of the agenda fits Fascims.
No aspect of life is now off-limits to government control. They have the final say in nearly everything now.
In other words, the government owns everything. They have the final say.
That sure looks a lot like communism.
Well, they’ve been working towards this goal now for 100 years. Sheeple just never bothered to stop it (Reagan tried) because it was gradual and full of “goodies” selfish twits care more about.
J Edgar Hoover published a book entitled, “Masters of Deceit”
Available as a free download here:
https://archive.org/details/MastersOfDeceit
Wow. Thanks. I lost the book but remember most of it.
Should a must read in the schools, but that won’t happen.
RULES FOR RADICALS CREATE A SOCIALIST STATE
Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909; June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals.
Alinsky acknowledged that there are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state:
1) Healthcare; Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty; Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt; Increase the debt to an unsustainable level so that you are able to increase taxes and produce more poverty.
4) Control; Remove the ability to defend one’s self from the government so that you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare; Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing and Income).
6) Education ; Take control of what the people read and listen to take control of what the children learn in school.
7) Religion; Remove the belief in God from the government and schools.
8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (tax) the rich with the support of the poor.
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