Posted on 09/12/2022 1:47:50 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
September 12, 1905, a black day in history for America!
On this day, about 100 people, including Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Walter Lippman(Dir, Council on Foreign Relations), and Clarence Darrow, met in NYC, to plot the overthrow of American culture, including Christianity, and replace it with the teachings of Karl Marx. They named their new organization the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, later renamed League for Industrial Democracy.
Their plan? To infiltrate the education system, and ultimately, labor unions, churches, government, and all other American institutions, to promulgate Marxist/Socialist ideas into American society.
They started by organizing chapters at colleges & universities, to increase their numbers, then to use their influence to infiltrate the administrations & faculties; and also infiltrate the government.
The college chapters changed their name to Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) in 1933. This merged with the Communist National Student League in 1935 to create the popular front American Student Union. On January 1, 1960 the SLID changed its name to the Students for a Democratic Society.
Future members included Eugene Debs, W.E.B. Dubois (NAACP founder), Walter Reuther (UAW), John Dewey (Progressive Education Assoc., & American Assoc. of University Professors), Felix Frankfurter (SCOTUS),Franklin Roosevelt, Jr, Henry Morgenthau (econ Advisor to FDR), and several other influential people.
Their legacy can be seen today.
And too many today have no clue as to how we've arrived here, or why these ideas are so widely embraced by our younger generations.
Gramschi before Gramschi.
Harry Fosdick, an apostate (i.e.” progressive “) minister, would have been right at home with that lot.
If you are not familiar with him, his sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” overplayed the progressive hand so badly that it woke a lot of people up to the 5th column of unbelievers in their midst and led to a shakeout and many congregations split.
Fosdick apparently thought he had laid the foundations to have his congregation follow him merrily where he led, but instead he lost his job.
But sadly in America the “progressives” had already drawn many away from Christ and sound doctrine ... and where people could tolerate them they continue to work to try to tear down the Kingdon till this very day..
Harry Fosdick, may have been a commie, but not FEARLESS FOSDICK!...although far from being a straight shooter!
It worked.
Dat headline be RAYZISS!!!
Fearless was a completely different guy. As you note.
BTW, in only relatively recent years it came out that Sinclair knew that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty from their lawyer but chose to write an exoneration of them because it would sell well with his Leftist readers in Europe.
So much for America’s “truth teller”!
Robert W. Welch Jr was right.
BTTT
Thank you for the replies, and addendums that FReepers are justly famous for.
Sounds VERY much like the meeting 50 or so years ago when Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, members of the Black Panthers and the SDS met to discuss what they’d do with those Americans who were uneducable in the sense of “civilian re-education” to the new socialist world order. They concluded they’d have to kill upwards of 25 million Americans, IIRC.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/the_floyd_riots_mark_a_century_of_communist_agitation.html
I copied the link from FR a coupla years ago.
It's so good, I re-post it now & then.
Walter Lippman was a fine writer and had excellent political observations. He seems to be the one to first consider the wide-scale use of controlled, print media for statist political propaganda and social-engineering
League for Industrial Democracy - Conservapedia
https://www.conservapedia.com/League_for_Industrial_Democracy
Name ChangeGentle and DeadlyQuasi-Think TankStudent LeagueImportant MembersPublished BooksFamily TreeFurther Reading
LID Organization
1. Students in revolt; the story of the Intercollegiate League for Industrial Democracy (1933), on archive.org 2. Proceedings of Annual Convention, Student League for Industrial Democracy : December 1934, Northwestern University. (1934), on archive.org 3. Handbook of the Student League...Authors:
1. The challenge of waste, by Stuart Chase(1922), on archive.org 2. Irrepressible America, by Scott Nearing (1922), on archive.org 3. Who Speaks for the Consumer?, by Ralph Nader(1968)
More important, as this was the end of the high point of Muslim encroachment on the Christian World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna
Too bad they weren’t able to finish the job for once and for all.
Correct.
Ping for later reference
Interesting. Thank you.
Interesting. Thank you.
Thanks for the post.
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