Handle the “Düsseldorf Rules of Revolution” with care. Although the document has been quoted for decades, its origins are dubious.
“I was born in Düsseldorf and that is why they call me Rolf!”
Yes, but even though ‘SNOPES’ called them ‘False’, they said that the earliest version of the ‘Rules’ was printed in 1946, in the wake of Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech.
So, they disagree with the date, and I do as well, it still is a semi-historical relevance item.................
And they did it. They told us ahead of time, and we were too stupid and lazy and arrogant to do anything about it.
From their agenda as recorded by Congress in 1963: (Edited for brevity)
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
Those are a mere portion of their strategy. They warned us. They bragged about it. And we let them.
Reading it, I had the feeling that the author was good at predicting the past. But what was manifest in 1946 is still applicable today.