“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”
― Yuri Bezmenov - Former KGB 1970s
These are not serious people. All these twerps are doing is trying to establish street cred for the next kegger and, hopefully, get laid.
Good post.
One of my economics professors in the middle to late 1960’s travelled to West Germany. He was fluent in German and his wife was also from Germany. One of his areas of specialization was comparative economic systems and had permission to travel to East Germany.
During his time in the East he met a good number of economists but also men and women in other academic fields. Some of them were in their 70’s and 80’s. A few had met Lenin. He asked them what they thought of SDS, the Weathermen, Hippies, Yippies, etc. Without blinking an eye each of them would tell him that after the revolution all of them would be lined up against the wall and shot as counter-revolutionaries.
Much like the brown shirts and other rabble-rousers were eliminated when the Nazi’s came to power.
SOS - “Shoot On Sight”