Anti-Kremlin protest draws thousands in Moscow

AP via Yahoo! ^

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It looks like the cat’s out of the bag with demonstrations of that magnitude.

Indeed, compared to the violent anti-government protests in the EU sector this week which went largely unreported by western media, this peaceful protest in 'commie' Russia looks like it was handled with velvet gloves.

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“If a consensus exists among the US population or the news media, and that consensus is freely arrived at, it’s not the same as a top down driven news reporting.”

Antonio Gramsci, a communist theoretician of the early 1900 disagreed strongly with Marx and Lenin about how the communist revolution would occur, especially in the capitalist west. Marx believed that the workers in the west would arise spontaneously against the system. Gramsci believed that that would never happen and he was right.

He asserted that if you want to take over the west you have to do it through what he called “the long march through the institutions”, i.e. the taking over by leftist infiltrators of governmental, social and cultural institutions (i.e. government agencies, schools, media, entertainment, sports, armed forces,etc). He recognized that this would take a long time, but in the end it would succeed better than brute force because the people could then be peacefully indoctrinated (through schools, media, entertainment) in the socialist or communist culture, and would achieve a consensus which the people would be fooled into thinking they freely arrived at.

You must admit they’ve done rather well. They have indeed taken over the schools, the media, entertainment, government agencies, and most recently the armed forces and sports.

Fox News (such as it is), talk radio and a few minor newspapers, and some internet sites are the only defenders of freedom still standing.