To: DuncanWaring
Cloward and Piven are merely putting their own spin on what Machiavelli recommended and Antonio Gramsci envisioned. In Machiavelli's case, he knew that in order to conquer a Republic - where people retained a sense of liberty - you must first
lay it waste. Gramsci broke with the Leninist appproach - violent revolution in order to usher in the new Soviet Man everywhere - in favor of the subversive and more patient 'long march through the institutions'. And so Gransci's ghost haunts us to this day. Demoralization. Destabilization. 'Normalization'. You can hear Yuri Bezmenov echo that same strategy:
here. Guess where we are now, boys and girls.
77 posted on
07/04/2010 7:41:46 AM PDT by
Noumenon
("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
To: Noumenon
Guess where we are now, boys and girls. Chaos is right around the corner.
79 posted on
07/04/2010 8:32:01 AM PDT by
houeto
(Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Jungle-Bucket-1.htm)
To: Noumenon
BTTT for a very important thread and your comment too. Many good comments on this thread.
To: Noumenon
More than a half-century ago, in a classic exchange between two men on opposite ends of the moral and political spectrum, Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev bragged to American Patriot and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson: “Your grandchildren will live under communism!” To which Secretary Benson enthusiastically replied: “If I have it my way, your grandchildren will live free!”
Kruschev, undeterred, fired back: “Oh you Americans! You’re so gullible! We’ll spoon feed you socialism until you’re Communists and don’t’ even know it. We’ll never have to fire a shot!”:
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