Posted on 12/02/2006 2:56:18 PM PST by Jo Nuvark
WASHINGTON Two conservative activists deeply involved in the anti-communism movement of the past are planning a broad strategy of re-creating those efforts in a new mass movement to fight radical Islam. Jack Wheeler, a strategist credited with formulating "the Reagan Doctrine" that helped bring down the Soviet Empire, and Steve Baldwin, a former California legislator and the executive director of the Council for National Policy, have teamed up for what they describe as the creation of an "Anti-Islamofascism Movement."
"One cannot write the history of the Cold War without acknowledging the key role played by the American Anti-Communist Movement," they write in a memo to conservative leaders. "It was a broad movement involving many different organizations that, for decades, kept its focus on the defeat of the Soviet Empire. And it succeeded."
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"We never had that problem when faced with Communism."
I think you are mistaken. The Socialist/Communist orthodoxy has been in full swing in intelligentsia and the media since early in the 20th century. It was beaten back somewhat after WWII (the Hollywood blacklists) but it never lost its foothold. The radical movements of the 60's were mainly fueled by the idealistic portrayals of Communism.
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Jo
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