Posted on 02/16/2017 6:40:32 PM PST by MtnClimber
Austin, Texas has been a bastion of progressivism for a long time. It’s kind of like Berkeley or Ann Arbor, only with Tex-Mex thrown in.
But there’s a group down there called Red Guards Austin that goes way beyond the usual social justice boilerplate. They’re no snowflakes; they’re preparing for armed revolution. And they’re fans not only of Lenin and Chairman Mao, but also Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, a.k.a. Joseph Stalin. These people are hardcore.
This little snip sums up the political philosophy of Red Guards Austin:
There is nothing less desirable to and more hated by the state and powers-that-be than a Maoist Communist Party because unlike other so-called parties it exists for one reason — the violent overthrow of the existing order. This means armed struggle, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the continuation of revolution in the period of socialism. This type of party is iron clad and our party building organizations must also be iron clad. We must continue to build, to unite with all who can be united with, and expose the opportunists and barge rats for the Trots they are. We stand for the establishment of anti-fascist self-defense units which must be armed when and where possible. We stand for the building of the party and its construction of a people’s army and a united front between all those oppressed and exploited by the capitalist-imperialist system, by all those who hate fascism and love liberation. If this has earned us the enmity of the increasingly fascist state we must accept our role as rebels and proceed accordingly.
Check out the iconography on their website to get a feeling for the milieu. Comrades dressed in black or red outfits with faces fully masked, hammers-and-sickles.....
And firearms.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatesofvienna.net ...
In Texas I bet they would not get 10 miles outside of Austin before they are all splody head type of demise.
Also I am amused by how they associate the free market system (though it could be more free) with fascism and they associate the slavery of communism with liberation.
The left hates fascism and represents the freedom to do and say what the left wants you to do and say.
Peter Drucker witnessed the rise of true fascism in the West, totalitarian dictatorship seen as a bulwark against the mass murders seen in Communist nations. He talks about how the economic control is indicative of the level of political control - and oppression.
The End of Economic Man, a Book Review
http://hubpages.com/literature/The-End-of-Economic-Man-the-Origins-of-Totalitarianism-a-Review
William F. Buckley: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
The UT Austin campus is mostly to blame. Being “Silicon Prairie” and home to many California transplants doesn’t help.
In the Bay Area, the Maoists, the Antifas (anarchists) and the BLMers are tighter than a gnat’s navel; they get together to smash stuff and create havoc. They all seem well organized and funded.
The Austin Maoists, not so much.
According to the Austin Red Guards website, they’re on the outs with both the local anarchists and BLM, both being insufficiently violent by Maoist revolutionary standards (so they claim.)
At the same time, they’re whining that one of their “comrades” is in jail, and facing an actual prison sentence (gasp!) and why isn’t anyone helping to get her out?
LOL.
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