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The most important lesson learned in Spain, like Wisconsin, is that Communist revolutions are not inevitable and irreversible. Prior to Franco's rebellion every time the Communists made a grab for power they had succeeded. Marx had preached the inevitability of the workers victory and that premise went a long way towards demoralizing their foes.

In Spain, for the first time, a communist revolution was put down, and rolled back. One of the great attractions of Fascism in the 1930s was that they could prove that they were capable of stopping the communists. A claim that no democracy at the time could match.

Of course the Fascist victory in Spain had little to do with their twisted ideology. It had everything to do with the fact they were willing to fight tooth and nail against the communists. To use their own tactics against them. And most importantly to fight by the communists rules, or throw the rule book out the window if necessary.

This is the lesson we learned in Wisconsin. Fight them toe to toe and you can win. Concede even and inch and they will keep taking more and more. Saul Alinski's tactics work both ways and can be used against the progressives. As much noise as the Progressives have made in Wisconsin, they have thus far lost. And that is the key. The public unions are no longer viewed as the inevitable winners. After Wisconsin other states started to cut their outrageous benefits and astronomical pay rates.

From the article:

...."What all this amounts to is the baptism of fire of what I have taken to calling the "liberal superstructure." This superstructure is the vast constellation of advocacy groups, think tanks, single-issue outfits, unions, and various other flotsam constructed by the left over the past half-century or so. There are literally thousands of these groups, ranging from the ACLU and the Sierra Club with their hundreds of thousands of members to the local "Friends of the People's Venezuela" outfit which amounts to a retired feminism professor and her six cats. These organizations are ubiquitous, universal, and networked to a fare-thee- well. They are also liberalism's last great hope of controlling politics in the United States.

It's scarcely arguable that, in the political sense, liberalism is on the ropes. Obama spent their last nickel. They have lost the House and will lose the Senate, with little chance of regaining them in the near future. The same is true of the White House once the messiah gets the bum's rush come 2012. Liberalism is on the skids, its programs uniform failures, its ideology barren, its slogans worn out, its long hold on the independents being relentlessly pared down by the Tea Parties.

So what is a political movement to do, particularly one as fanatic and apocalyptic as this one? Well, if you have an alternate system made up of outside organizations not subject to governmental oversight, a system populated with self-selected fanatics and true believers, a system poised and ready to march, you can do what was done in Wisconsin. You can turn the superstructure loose to threaten the public peace, smash things up, abuse the electoral process, create a media spectacle, and pressure the state to do things your way. You can use nonpolitical organizations (in the electoral sense) to get a political result....."

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Each Line on this list has LINKS to more LINKS and more groups: Lists of Lists of Lists of the Superstructure of the Left ready to join up And there are many more radical groups and organizations not listed, add to that the many groups who will fold like a cheap suit in the face of so many.

In Spain, for the first time, a communist revolution was put down, and rolled back. One of the great attractions of Fascism in the 1930s was that they could prove that they were capable of stopping the communists. A claim that no democracy at the time could match.

This is what attracted much of the German middle-class to the Nazis. They had lived through an attempted Communist takeover in Germany (the 1919 Spartacist Rebellion, seen Communists seize power in Russia, a bloody short-term Communist takeover in Hungary. They had heard about the terror-famine in Ukraine. And the Nazis were the only ones willing to fight the Reds in the streets.