Gramsci's Grand Plan

The New American ^ | July 5, 1999 | Fr. James Thornton

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thank you very much for the ping Carry!

Tailgunner Joe thanks for posting this article.

I have links to a few other articles posted on FR.

Gramsci vs. Tocqueville or Marxism vs. the American Ideology
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3a54bec871fa.htm

The Gramscian Roots of America's Culture War Thread 2 (Is Gramsci the Father of Neo-Conservatism ?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a3bc78569bf.htm

Who is Antonio Gramsci? You Better Learn!!!
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3a4c610569be.htm

YATES: "Understanding the Culture War: Gramscians, Tocquevillians and Others"
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3a56d02c2a1b.htm

Original Sin
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b80051c3e46.htm

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See the links at post #21.

If you know of other articles posted on Free Republic, let me know!

[WRhine]

In my opinion George Bush exhibits a strong component of Christian Marxism. He is determined, for instance, to love Islam as a peaceful religion, when it is not. He issues statements that the wealth of the United States must be shared with other nations. He bears the mark of successful implementation of the theories here attributed to Gramsci.

Howl in protest over what I have said here, but it's the way the dice roll.

I won't go "Howlin" in protest. What you said was dead on right.

[Noumenon]

You'll hear no protest from me, even though I wish that this were not so. The implications are as dire as one can imagine.

Gramsci correctly saw that the subversion of culture and the subornation of conscience to the service of tyranny would succeed in the long run. Where Marx utterly failed to comprehend human nature, Gramsci understood it all too well.

[WRhine]

What today is known as PC and culture war is nothing more than Gramscian communist revisionism at work.

It sure is. PC is Marxist mind control. It strikes a very real fear in a person for speaking their mind while rewarding conformity of thought. If PC is not stamped out soon, in the next generation Marxism will never be questioned because it will be a way of life in America and the world.

[Bonaparte]

"... the structures of the traditional family and traditional virtue have been called seriously into question and confidence in them blunted. Elected government officials and bureaucrats have contributed to this problem through government taxation policies, which mulct the traditional family while subsidizing anti-traditional modes of life.

Additionally, these officials are inclined more and more towards the elevation of abominations such as homosexual and illicit heterosexual unions to the same level as marriage. Already, in many localities throughout the country and in numerous private corporations, benefits previously reserved to married couples are now granted to unmarried sexual "partners." Even the word "family" is slowly being superseded by the vague euphemism "household."
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The CP/USA is not the communist party in our country. The communist party in America is the Democratic Party and its leader is not Daschle or Gephardt. It is Hillary Clinton. Those who maintain, with breezy self-assurance, that communism is dead or dying upon the ash heap of history do not know of what they speak.

[Lurker]

Wow, thanks for that list Ernest.

If you want to, hit my FR homepage for some of Coyotes finest works.

As I find myself with some time on my hands, I think I'll repost a few of them just kind of for the hell of it.

Regards,

L

[philman_36]

Ah yes...Freedom Ain't Yours To Give
You, indeed, have some oldies. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you've bookmarked.

[philman_36]

A big BTTT

[ricpic]

I believe that most human beings have an internal gyroscope. It is true that many can be seduced and subverted FOR A WHILE by the Gramscian conspiracy.

But eventually the very traits that Gramsci set out to subvert, religious faith, love of family, love of country, reassert themselves.

Look at where the vitality is in our society. Fundamentalist Christianity is far more vibrant than the Protestant sects that promote "social justice." Radical feminism, and it's assault on the family, is a force that more and more women are turning away from, or at least, reconsidering. The shock of 9/11 has reawakened love of country in ALL the classes, large portions of the elites as well as the people.

After doing much damage to a society, the culture of death.....dies.

[ActionNewsBill]

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[Oberon]

[George W. Bush] is determined, for instance, to love Islam as a peaceful religion, when it is not.

I believe you're mistaken. I suspect that our president knows Islam for what it is, but is determined to pursue a foreign policy inoffensive to Islam-dominated foreign powers, so as to isolate our present enemies. The alternative is to face open war against a coalition of Islamic states... a quite likely scenario for a hypothetical WWIII.

It's best to not go there, if we can help it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I agree with your comments about Bush!

[junta]

Yes thank you. The Right crows about such small victories it leaves me to believe that for the most part those who claim leadership in the conservative movement are just happy to get a paycheck. Remember when Weyrich wrote an article claiming that the party is over (after the Clinton removal failure) and we have lost our country to the Gramscians he was pummled by the New York and D.C. Right. It seemed to me that the people doing the pummeling of Weyrich were upset that he could ruin their little enteprises. (that was my take of the whole episode).

[Puddleglum]

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[meadsjn]

Shivers! It's hard to look around and not see Gramsci at work.

When Soviet-style communism collapsed of its own weight, most of those populations continued on. I have a hunch if we wait for this Gramscian model to disintegrate, there won't be many people left to put the pieces back together.

[WRhine]

I could not have siad it better myself and I'm not as educated as most of you folks are in this forum, nevertheless I'd like to offer my opinion.

You Just Did! Excellent Post Platero. You have a very profound understanding of PC and the insidious ongoing Culture War being waged by the Marxists in our midst.

PC started out as a euphemism for intimidation that has evolved into a modern day form of doublethink, in which the mind of the individual is manipulated (through fear and intimidation) whereby the person is no longer saying what he thinks (classical doublethink), but he thinks the oppositeof what is true. PC forces the individual to surrender his independence of thought, critical thinking process and integrity completely, so that 1 + 2 = 5 or slavery is freedom. The person at this point feels free because he no longer feels any discrepancy between what is true and what what is untrue.

The PC process keeps on evolving and engulfing the whole Western civilization, and it won't reach its apex until it culminates into an era of dehumanization and alienation, not until the individual acts and behaves like an automaton, like a machine, completely devoid of righteousness and sense of guilt.

[plsjr]

Thanks again Joe for this posting. I ran across the article in "The New American", did the FR search and here I am.

The applicability of Gramscian thought to the destruction of America's culture cannot be understated.