Quoted from essay SADDAM CHIC, Gene E. Veith,
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We now know that the Vietnam War protests were at first organized by hard-core Communist and pro-Communist organizations, whereupon the peace-and-love flower children, idealistic university students, and mainline journalists and politicians got on board the peace train. In the same manner, the recent mass anti-war rallies were organized by a coalition of radical socialist organizations that goes by the acronym A.N.S.W.E.R. ("Act Now to Stop War and End Racism"). But they have brought on board hoards of less-ideological and less-extreme folks, who attend their rallies for their own reasons but who unintentionally multiply A.N.S.W.E.R.'s clout.
Radicals used to put their hope in revolution, but in the post-Soviet era, the radical left has shifted to the advice of Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci: Take over the culture. This can be done by shaping the way people think, their values and worldview. In this, the arts are more powerful than politics. Fashion is more persuasive than arguments. And whoever can define what is "cool" can control the masses.
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