Posted on 09/01/2014 7:03:12 AM PDT by kindred
A preferred ploy of left-wing change agents is to ridicule critics when they point out the undeniable parallels between the goals of today’s “progressive” movement, to include the Democratic Party in general, and the goals of the early, and very much still alive, communist movement.
If, for instance, one mentions the historical fact that nearly every adult who, at any time, was in any position of influence over a young, soon-to-be-radicalized Barry Soetoro was an avowed communist, to include his own parents, then one is immediately mocked and dismissed as a neo-McCarthyite hack pining for the bygone days of the Red Scare. This is an evasive, ad hominem strategy employed by those who are caught, for lack of a better word, red-handed.
To all this I say, if the jackboot fits, wear it. If it quacks like a commie and goose-steps like a commie, then a commie it is.
There are multiple layers within “progressivism’s” pseudo-utopian, truly dystopian Marxist philosophy. The left’s lust for redistributionist statism is well-known. Less understood, however, is the “progressive” rush toward cultural Marxism.
Cultural Marxism entails, among other things, that secularist aspect of left-wing statist ideology that seeks, within society, to supplant traditional values, norms and mores with postmodern moral relativism. Cultural Marxists endeavor to scrub America of her Judeo-Christian, constitutional-republican founding principles, and take, instead, a secular-statist Sharpie to our beloved U.S. Constitution.
Historian and U.S. military affairs expert William S. Lind describes cultural Marxism as “a branch of western Marxism, different from the Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. It is commonly known as ‘multiculturalism’ or, less formally, Political Correctness. From its beginning, the promoters of cultural Marxism have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, hence the use of terms such as ‘multiculturalism.’”
Pastor, attorney and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively is globally admired by liberty-loving traditionalists. Conversely, he’s universally reviled by cultural Marxists. He drills down a bit deeper: “Cultural Marxism is a variation of the Marxist strategy to build a utopian socialist order on the ashes of Christian civilization, but through subversion of the moral culture, especially the elimination of the natural family, rather than solely through destruction of capitalism.”
True though this may be, the ideological seeds of contemporary cultural Marxism nonetheless sprout from deep within the dead soil of historical communism. It is not economic redistributionism alone through which “progressives” seek to both “fundamentally transform America” and otherwise conquer the world, but, rather, and perhaps primarily, it is also through victory over the pejoratively tagged “social issues” (i.e., the sanctity of marriage, natural human sexuality and morality, ending the abortion holocaust, religious liberty, the Second Amendment and the like).
This is neither speculative nor hyperbolic. Both the historical record and the U.S. Congressional Record bear out this sinister reality. Regrettably, today’s “low-information voters” as Rush Limbaugh calls them – to include the useful idiots within the GOP’s “moderate” and libertarian wings – are simply too lazy, shortsighted or both to learn the facts.
“Surrender on the ‘social issues’!” demands the GOP’s cultural Marxist-enabling kamikazes.
In 1963, U.S. Rep. A.S. Herlong Jr., D-Fla., read into the Congressional Record a list of “Current Communist Goals” as enumerated by Dr. Cleon Skousen in “The Naked Communist,” penned in 1958. I encourage you to read the whole list, but for now let’s focus on those goals that most closely align with the seditious agenda of America’s “progressive” movement. It’s actually most of them. Though Herlong was a Democrat, the list reads like today’s Democratic Party Platform.
How far has fallen the party of the jackass: •Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. •Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist [or, today, Islamic] affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. •Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist [or Islamic] domination. •Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. •Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. •Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. •Do away with all loyalty oaths. •Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. •Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. •Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks. •Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. •Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. •Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. (An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”) •Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press. •Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. •Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” •Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.” •Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principal of “separation of church and state.” •Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. •Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.” •Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” •Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. •Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. •Infiltrate and gain control of big business. •Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. •Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. •Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. •Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems. •Internationalize the Panama Canal. •Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
If achieving these specific communist goals was the final “progressive” step toward the larger goal of securing communist governance in America, then, tragically, “progressives” have realized that larger goal.
Look around. We are no longer the United States of America. We have become The Communist States of America.
Which means, for those who love liberty, revolution is once again at hand.
Term limits for Senate and House, eliminate the Federal income tax and seal the borders. It’s the only way to be sure.
I’m calling today “Small Business Day” in honor of the men and women who really deserve it. (Actor James Riley gave me the idea).
Revolt is coming.
I was thinking about Labor Day being a communist holiday just this morning. In contrast to Biblical holy days and Jubilees. I also like the way interest was not to be charged to family. Anyway, no coffee yet so going to copy and past the article and try and get a list as opposed to a humongous paragraph.
I would also hope that the communist democrat peoples of America return to the communist nations their parents fled from to become God fearing patriotic and capitalist hard working Americans.
And some 46 percent of Americans are communists, whether they know it or not. They all vote democrat.
great idea
How far has fallen the party of the jackass:
•Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
•Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist [or, today, Islamic] affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
•Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist [or Islamic] domination.
•Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
•Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
•Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
•Do away with all loyalty oaths.
•Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
•Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
•Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
•Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
•Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
•Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. (An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”)
•Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
•Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
•Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
•Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
•Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principal of “separation of church and state.”
•Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
•Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
•Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.”
•Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
•Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
•Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
•Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
•Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
•Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
•Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
•Internationalize the Panama Canal.
•Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Unfortunately, the counter-revolution could succeed at this point. Have to slowly lay the groundwork for a long term change.
Give it time and I could be very much right.
I take it the owners of Trade-A-Plane were Real Conservative because if my memory is correct, they had that list on the cover more than once, instead of a color photo of some gorgeous Airplane. and that was some 40 years ago. The Progressive Left out-flanked us, and we are so behind the curve. Joe McCarthy was right, I know children of Hollywood Actors who say so....
Avowed Communist means a member of the Party. I realize Pop was a Commie, and that Mom was certainly a leftist, but do you have evidence she ever joined the Party?
Also, I have never seen any evidence that Soetero, his stepfather, was a commie.
Yes, it’s amazing how much of the list has been realized.
That doesn’t make the US Communist, yet. The list was formulated to weaken the US as an opponent to Communism. We’re in a transition state to who knows what.
It’s strange—the Communists had brilliant insights into methods for destabilization of other governments and societies. But, their insights into how to run their own countries produced misbegotten results.
You forgot, eliminate ALL agencies and departments NOT SPECIFILY LISTED IN THE U. S. CONSTUTION.
The question begs, where is the Counter List to restore Liberty ans strengthen us? We didn't and will not get one from Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan etc etc etc. IMHO that needs to happen and be a goal of some party or individuals potentially before or parallel to Levin's Liberty Amendments if and when that process becomes a reality...
In other words, they can tear down, but they can't build up. That sums up liberalism pretty well.
The nation's K-12 schools were and still are a single-payer socialist entitlement. With that as the foundation it was **easy** for the Marxo/fascists to gain control.
Solution: Shut down the government's single-payer K-12 schools and work toward private schooling for the nation's children. ( Non-Prussian model and Non-brick and mortar would be best).
Certainly a step in the right direction but until conservatives find a way to take back the culture it will not be enough.
This is from Merriam Webster Online.
Avowed communist does not mean that a person is an officially registered member of the Communist Party.
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