[little jeremiah]

Linda Kimball really hits it out of the part with this one. My hair's practically standing on end. If she was an army, the other side would be screaming for mercy while waving white flags.

[the invisib1e hand]

yeah, but how does she look?

[johnny7]

Thanks for the post... the girl's spot-on.

[hedgetrimmer]

FYI

[little jeremiah]

A Two-Fer of the highest order. Linda Kimball tells it like it is. People often wonder (if they have any intelligence at all) why things are going to he!! in a handbasket. This article gives us some clues.

Pass this article (and her previous related articles) on to friends and relatives who don't have a clue yet. Maybe they'll wake up from their slumber.

Ping me, DBeers, Scripter or wagglebee if you want on/off either list. Sorry I'm html impaired. Maybe in the future I'll have time to learn.

(Greetings to all new listees, and old ones!)

[PfromHoGro]

Any relation to another Roger Kimball (another of my favorites)? These two might get along great.

[SuzyQue]

read later

[RicocheT]

Excellent article, truth and more. Thanks to the Sierra Times for printing it and to you for sharing it with us.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

another fine kettle of fish brought to you by Totalitarians for Cultural Suicide determined to commit euthanasia on the last 2500 years of Western Civilization
graphics free for the stealing

[SMARTY]

Guess that covers it nicely

[subterfuge]

Excellent, Ping!!

Diversity, to the marxist, means we all think Exactly the same. So how is that Diverse?

[bassmaner]

Probably the most concise article I've ever read that described what's wrong with the world today and why the Left is so seriously EVIL. Bumpity-bump-bump!!!!!

[MalikDelosReyes]

Gramsci himself was a hunchback who saw himself as a crusader for everyone 'neglected' by society. In effect, he turned Marxism into a collection of everyone, many losers, who was angry at society. The perfect material for demagogues.

He also was smart enough to reject scientific socialism, realizing that believed in the inevitability of Communist victory made you feel good, but meant nothing. For this he was attacked by the real dogmatic Communists.

At the same time, he was also a Sicilian nationalist, believing that his island had been colonized and mistreated by the mainland.

Altogether, a smart man who had an extremely distorted worldview due to his own unfortunate life.

[mplsconservative]

Bumping this most excellent read!

Thanks for posting it, little jeremiah.

[\/\/ayne]

I think I have a new printed handout to add to The killing machine that is Marxism by Professor R. J. Rummel.

I'll still give that one out but this will make a grand addition for certain people with more questions!

[Lindykim]

Bump!

[Paperdoll]

Thanks for posting this article, for it is right on the mark in every instance, ranking up there with Jerome
Corsi's writings. Americans have been led down the garden path because they "didn't want to know, didn't want to see." The time is now or never, people, to dig in our heels.

[Paperdoll]

PING

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Nails it with good history to boot. I had a Hungarian prof who grew up under communism - he saw the signs early on and told me that I had to know about Antonio Gramsci. Folks who come to this country from an authoritarian regime are able to see the signs earlier and clearer than those of us who grew up in the land of the free and home of the brave. Sort of ironic.

[x]

Gay groups, however radical, are most likely pursuing their own gay agenda, not some broader communist ideology. They may be wrong, and their ideas may be pernicious, but such groups choose their ideology based on their own calculations.

A lot of this looks like Linda can't accept having won a major battle. When you win, the other side doesn't simply go away. It retools its message.

Debating whether today's cultural leftism is "really" the same communist or socialist message of the past looks like something of a dead end. Do conservatives "really" want to restore 19th century conditions and policies, or have we moved on? I think the second is true, not the first.

[Billthedrill]

An excellent article, and thanks for posting. There are a couple of features that resulted from the Frankfurt school that transformed conventional Marxism utterly. It is difficult to remember that this was originally a dissident school of Marxism, not its mainstream. It certainly is mainstream now.

Toward this end, Marcuse—who favored polymorphous perversion—expanded the ranks of Gramsci’s new proletariat by including homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals.

I've always felt that Marcuse's entire approach to Marxism was no more than a cover to rationalize some really weird sexual proclivities. Eros And Civilization was essentially an effort to incorporate Freud with Marx in a combination that would have made either one of them blanch with horror. But it is important to realize that this is no "proletariat," nor even a more broadly-defined working class, this is a class of the oppressed defined by its view of its oppressors, even if the latter are imaginary. That is the single most significant mutation of Marxism since Karl met Friedrich.

There are several features to this new approach that make it extremely seductive to the politically naive. First, it explains adversity as the action of a malevolent outside party, identifying that party as a class enemy and promising a bright new world that results from the destruction of one you hate. Second, it offers moral absolution for anything the oppressed cares to do in order to accomplish that destruction. Third, it offers an intellectually attractive veneer for such basic human motivations as hatred, envy, covetousness, and sadism. And fourth, it wraps the whole thing up in easily digestible bits that are easy to communicate and just nebulous enough to be difficult to refute.

Underlying this doctrine is the simple assertion "I am smarter than you are and therefore ought to be in charge of you." The authoritarian tendency noted in a political doctrine that ostensibly leads to equality is a universal feature in all manifestations of Marxism, and the louder its proponents shout against fascism the more nearly they approach it themselves.