Monumental Failures of the Left

100s of Thousands of American's fought and died fighting Communism, radical leftists, Marxists, progressives and socialists in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War. Ironically, the people of the USA have just elected one to be president.

I'm from the government and I'm here to help! Yeah right. The track record for everything ever done by any government is not very good. Hence our founders knew that the key to individual freedom was limited government.

Lets enumerate "murder by Government" of just a few of histories leftist regimes:

  • Cambodia / Vietnam (Pol Pot - Communist): 2,035,000 Murdered: The Khmer Rouge Hell State , 1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State
  • Che Guevera (international terrorist and mass murderer), During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, Che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men, women and children.
  • China (Mao Zedong - Communist): 35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill, 10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
  • U.S.S.R (Lennin / Stalin - Comunists): 61, 911, 000 murdered in the Soviet Gulags
  • Germany (Hitler - National Socialist, started as a community organizer): 20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State, The left often mistakingly associates Hitler with the right, and that is a silly error, since technically Nazism is to the right of communism, but certainly is a product of socialist leftist ideology.

The new leftists threat from Latin America and the SOA/WHINSEC , an anti- Marxist force in Latin America demonized by the left). Guess what? "Liberation Theology" started in the Marxist Regimes of South America and spread to the African-American community in American cities to become "Black Liberation Theology", Obama's Church for 20 years - an essentially Marxist doctrine. Who's the Radical? BTW, the left calls "Anti-Marxism" empirialism! Don't be fooled.

Collectivism, Socialism, Communism have been tried over and over AND OVER again. Its never worked anywhere. Now we need to suffer through the USA experiment...

The Andropov Plan and Gramscian Marxism

In his recent book Shadow World, Rober Chandler makes the case that we are dangerously close to becoming a leftist country right here in the USA. I have included a review by Janet Levy of The American thinker here:

Introduction

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 is viewed by the West as the end of the Cold War and the death knell for Communism. In reality, Communists continued to push for the same ultimate goal -- creating a socialist world order -- but their violent Marxist-Leninist revolutionary tactics were supplanted by an insidious cultural Marxism. Today, that push has evolved into a Moscow-led, global strategic quadrangle consisting of Russia, China, Iran and a collection of Latin American dictatorships.

The West is also threatened by a fifth column of global, radical Leftists with ideological connections to Russia and the theo-political-legal ideology of radical Islam. All of these antagonists, including the Russians, cultural Marxists and Salafists/Wahhabists, employ terrorist tactics but largely conceal their agendas. They use clandestine strategies of propaganda, disinformation, subversion and denial through their agents of influence and networks of organizations. In Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, The Global New Left, and Radical Islam, Dr. Robert Chandler argues that the West is in the midst of a three-way global competition pitting the future of democratic republics against Marxist totalitarianism and Islamic fundamentalism. Despite their vast ideological differences, Communist Russia, the Far Left and Islamists embrace a common goal: destroying Western civilization. While the Communists endeavor to replace Western society with secular totalitarianism under a Marxist regime, the Islamic fundamentalists seek to implement a Muslim-controlled theo-political-legal ideology that relegates women to second class citizenship and non-Muslims to slavery enforced under the doctrine of Koranic shariah law.

Chandler, who holds a doctorate in political science and is a former political strategist with the Air Force, Defense Department and the CIA, believes the United States is at a critical crossroads. Parallel Marxist and Islamist movements are currently underway with established fifth columns at all levels of American society. If either of these totalitarian ideologies infiltrates the power structure, the liberties enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights would be jettisoned and capitalism and freedom eliminated in the service of the collective "greater good" or in the name of the Prophet Mohammed. Shadow World, is Chandler's explanation of the dangers facing the United States. How we respond will determine if the country will sustain a free market, capitalistic democracy or veer precipitously toward autocracy or theocracy.

Chandler's main points are summarized in detail below. Basically, he outlines how Russia used a duplicitous policy of seeming acceptance of increased freedoms, which enabled it to create existing alliances with other countries allied against the West. The undermining of democracy continues at home thanks to Marxists who have adopted the beliefs of World War II-era, Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci.

Chandler examines these attempts in the media, education, government and national security. Further, he outlines how the global,anti-war movement is also aligned with the conspiracy against the West to undermine Western values and institutions and pursue a one-world government overseen by the United Nations. The United States is further under siege by Islamists, who also seek the destruction of the United States.

Post-Communist Russian Duplicity and the Andropov Plan

Beginning in the 1980's, the Central Committee of the Communist Party under Mikhail Gorbachev's tutelage mounted an extensive disinformation plan to rehabilitate its image in the West. As part of the Andropov Plan, after the former KGB chief and Communist Party leader Yuri Andropov, Russia presented itself as a liberalized quasi-democracy complete with market reforms and "controlled political opposition." Essentially, the Andropov Plan was an artifice of legerdemain designed to destroy capitalism while utilizing it to fund socialism. Russia duplicitously embraced "perestroika" and "glasnost" under the pretext of nurturing an emerging democracy and as an indication of its reconciliation with the West. In reality, these were strategies designed to attain Western acceptance in order to forestall Soviet decline and acquire much-needed American investments and modern technology.

The new "openness" and greater freedoms afforded Russian citizens were temporary measures to seduce the populace for the advent of political and economic restructuring. Perestroika enabled the KGB entrée into the West's financial sphere where their new capital could be invested for the Communist Party and where newly-minted Russian entrepreneurs could study the intricacies of the capitalist system beyond suspicion and freely transfer skills, technologies and investments to the Russian economy.

This capitalist window dressing was financed by money-laundered deposits from South American drug dealers, sales of Soviet military machinery, a series of currency conversion schemes and the privatization of Soviet state property. The true goals of the Andropov Plan were to replace capitalism with socialism, build a wedge between the United States and Europe, reconcile with China and establish alliances with Iran and Communist satellites in Latin America.

Although this new strategy was largely successful, a super wealthy class developed among the nomenklatura, bureaucrats in senior positions, who challenged the Soviet system and temporarily derailed the Andropov Plan. When Vladimir Putin became president in 1999, he came down heavily on this element, reinstituted tighter controls and suppressed dissent to get the plan back on track. To further solidify Russian power, he used European dependence on oil and gas to lure the continent into a convergence with Russia. As alleged U.S. ally, Putin nonetheless supplied weapons and military advice to Saddam Hussein, helped him to destroy his weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and spread disinformation about American war plans in the region.

The Global Strategic Quadrangle

A Moscow-led global strategic quadrangle consisting of Russia, China, Iran and the Latin American dictatorships of Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil now make up a system of proxies challenging the United States' world power and influence. Using this global strategic quadrangle, the Marxists have reinvented themselves as anti-corruption champions of the poor, bearing gifts of education, health care and social programs that have enabled them to establish a foothold in chaotic, economically deprived regions of the world.

During the lead up to the Iraq war, Russia helped Iraq with WMD removal, supplied Saddam Hussein with training and advanced military weapons, helped stonewall United Nation's arms inspection teams and engaged in an extensive disinformation campaign in Middle East countries. Putin signed multi-billion dollar weapons contracts with China, Iran and Venezuela as part of a containment strategy against the United States, engaged in nuclear proliferation and used energy geopolitics to keep the gas- and oil-dependent European Union in line.

China, meanwhile, has significantly expanded its military and embarked on a strategy to control well-positioned ports throughout the world and increase it worldwide energy resources through military cooperation with Iran and Venezuela. As the world's largest country and fastest growing economy, China's influence is growing throughout Africa and South America. With Russia as its ally of convenience, China has assisted Iran in its nuclear quest and gained access to oil, wielding political and economic clout in the bargain. Through their alliances with Venezuela and Cuba, Russia and China have extended their influence in the Western hemisphere.

Progressive-Socialist-Marxists within America

Marxist elements within American society endeavor to bring about revolutionary change with an ideology and methodology built on Critical Theory and Gramscian cultural Marxism. Critical Theory goes beyond traditional social analysis and seeks social transformation or revolution to foster conditions favorable to Marxism that will bring about the downfall of capitalism. Critical Theory is an anti-capitalist theory advocating destruction of free market democratic values, social and political structures and policies to further human emancipation. It is an outright rejection of western civilization and an endorsement of a Marxist, utopian society.

Gramscian cultural Marxism, based on the work of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci, stems from the recognition that the structure of capitalist society was defined by the culture, faith and values of Christianity. Recognizing the central role of Christianity as the moral and cultural foundation of Western society, Gramsci endeavored to transform society by replacing the worship of God with the worship of man, "secular humanism." Gramsci was intent on destroying the "hegemony" of Christianity and its vast societal influences, including in government, education, media and the family. He sought creation of re-education and indoctrination programs to bring about a new moral and intellectual order based on Marxism.

The components of this progressive-socialist-Marxist attempt to take over the West include: 1) destruction of a free press, 2) educational revisionism, 3) infiltration of government and political systems, 4) destruction of the military and intelligence services, 5) development of an anti-globalist, anti-war philosophy, and 6) creation of a one world government.

Within the United States, the tentacles of the Kremlin-sponsored, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington and its vast network of affiliates aids in the promulgation of this anti-capitalist pro-Socialist agenda.

IPS in the United States and the Transnational Institute (TNI) based in Europe are the main Communist fronts promoting an anti-capitalist, pro-Socialist agenda for cultural transformation. The IPS purposely understated the Cold War threat to the West in order to shift America's priorities away from the military-industrial complex toward social programs. The organization has attempted to penetrate government, academia and the media to work toward disarmament, non-intervention against Soviet aggression and the termination of military alliances. They have targeted NATO, the Defense Department, defense contractors, arms manufacturers and intelligence agencies with disinformation and propaganda.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, TNI advocated environmental issues to slow economic growth and hasten the disarming of the West. IPS and TNI work with a cadre of intellectuals, journalists, professors, politicians and government officials who support and promulgate cultural Marxism by manipulating public opinion and structuring policies and legislation to undermine the government, subvert the U.S. Constitution and aid in the transformation and radicalization of U.S. institutions. The IPS has successfully advanced a laundry list of taxpayer-financed entitlement programs under the cover of "equality and fairness," endeavored to limit corporate power and damaged U.S. military supremacy by working to cut military and intelligence spending.

The Media

As part of its silent cultural revolution in America, the radical Left has successfully allied with the print and broadcast media and Hollywood to aid in the assault on traditional values and help spread propaganda and disinformation. The American media has become an unbalanced bastion of political correctness that advances a biased, Leftist agenda which obtains much of its disinformation from the IPS. The news media and Hollywood have helped shape public opinion to support the Marxist intent to destroy Western values, beliefs and institutions.

Education

Schools and universities have become politically correct tools of the Left, teaching "social justice" rather than encouraging the development of critical thinking skills though the analysis of diverse points of view. Students are schooled in the "correct thoughts" and historical revisionism reigns supreme. Those who voice dissenting opinions are subjected to taunts of racism and homophobia. While America is demonized as imperialist and oppressive, Communism is glorified and Communist atrocities are whitewashed. The outright attempt is to radicalize students and recruit them in the pursuit of destroying American culture.

Government

Progressive-socialist-Marxists also use America's democracy to lead the country toward acceptance of socialism. They exert tremendous influence on the liberal-dominated Democratic Party. Under the cover of "equality and fairness" the Left has attempted to use its influence to support politicians and policies that limit corporate power and undermine U.S. military and intelligence. The IPS has injected itself into the political process and changed the political culture of the Democratic Party. Through the Congressional Progressive Caucus, an IPS affiliate, it has amassed a base of 72 out of 232 members of the House (almost one-third) that promote its policies on immigration, fair trade, military spending and other issues dear to the progressive-Socialist-Marxist agenda.

In recent years, the "Shadow Party" -- a nationwide network of unions, non-profits groups and think tanks that subscribe to leftist ideology and receive funding from billionaire George Soros -- has infiltrated the Democratic Party. Their goal is to take control of U.S. politics using a strategy that includes think tanks, training centers and media centers. Using the radical, community-organizing methods of Saul Alinksy, they have engaged in questionable fundraising tactics, aggressive voter drives, oppositional research and media manipulation as they push a hard-left line of racial and sexual equality, abortion on demand, class inequity, drug legalization, anti-war positions, assaults on sovereignty and global taxation and government.

National Security

Using retired veteran officers to legitimize their propaganda, Marxist media tools have gone so far as to slander the military, release sensitive documents to the press, publish the locations of U.S. nuclear weapons around the world and reveal nuclear secrets and classified national security codes. During the 2004 election campaign, the IPS was behind the false accusations of military atrocities in Vietnam that were discredited by the testimony of the Swift Boat Veterans. IPS and its affiliates have written studies critical of government intelligence services and collected information on corporate and private security services. Its assaults against the FBI and CIA, responsible for constructing the pre-9/11 wall between law enforcement and intelligence, have endangered Americans.

Under the guise of fighting against civil liberties violations and with the aid of affiliates such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the IPS has hamstrung the efforts of the FBI and CIA, interfered with incarceration and proceedings against enemy combatants and undermined public support for the armed forces and armament programs. The IPS and its legal fronts have abused the Freedom of Information Act to mine government documents for secrets and to extrapolate important security and military information that they have passed on to Russian intelligence.

Anti-Globalist, Anti-War Movement

In the last decade, when economic globalization took hold under U.S. dominance, the Left embarked on an intensified anti-capitalist campaign to counter American economic and military influence. The anti-globalist/anti-war movements consist of a large network of non-profit organizations designed to weaken the U.S. position in the world and undermine the government using disinformation, propaganda and acts of civil disobedience.

The anti-globalists targeted multi-national corporations for trumped up allegations of environmental destructiveness. Mother Earth became their new cause célèbre to slow economic growth and armament programs as they fomented opposition to the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. They reframed the debate to focus on social and environmental problems created by global capitalism.

The anti-globalists charge that transnational corporations were wresting economic control from countries and interfering in nations' sovereign rights and the rights of its citizens. They demanded economic justice and debt forgiveness for developing countries, clamored about environmental destruction and natural resource exploitation of the world's poorest countries and lobbied for a form of fixed pricing called fair trade pricing, all in the name of economic justice.

The conflicts in Afghanistan and Iran presented an opportunity for the progressive-socialist-Marxists, led by the IPS and its affiliates in the media, Hollywood, unions and universities to advance their anti-capitalist agenda and attack the political and economic systems of the United States. In the name of "peace" and "love," the anti-war crowd equated the war with racism and injustice and crimes against humanity. They blamed U.S. militarism for 9/11, grossly overstated war casualties, alleged fabricated American military atrocities and spread propaganda, savaged American leaders and opposed the Patriot Act and other national security and anti-terrorism surveillance measures while excusing or whitewashing Communist invasions and tyranny. Further, in an effort to discourage the war effort, the anti-war movement advanced the position that anti-terrorist activities were the province of law enforcement, not the military.

One World Government

In their adherence to the Gramsican formula for anti-capitalist social transformation, the progressive-socialist-Marxists have co-opted with the United Nations to advocate world governance in the interest of "world peace, human rights and environmental preservation." This is the desired end result of their efforts to undermine American heritage, destroy Christianity and conspire against free-market democracy to achieve global taxation, the end of sovereignty, a world military and an international criminal court.

Gramscian Marxists aspire to a borderless global society under the aegis of the United Nations that will bring about a socialist utopian universe that protects the global environment, fosters universal human rights and world peace and offers global citizenship and international institutions for a better world. The sacrifice of individual liberty and the horrific failures of U.N. interventions to prevent worldwide genocide in Cambodia, Uganda, Rwanda and Darfur are not addressed.

Falsely stating that sovereign states cause war and unrest, globalists advocate world citizenship, global governance and legislation, universal gun control, an end to national sovereignty, economic redistribution and an international criminal court system. They malign the U.S. sovereignty and liberties enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence as obstacles to global peace.

The soldiers of this world-government ideology and the agents of the United Nations are the non-governmental organizations (NGO's), accountable to no one but whose aim is to supplant national sovereignty with U.N. programs. Over 3,000 NGO's take over where governments fall short. They have increasingly monopolized international meetings, rejected democracies and free market systems while pushing environmentalism, multiculturalism, wealth redistribution and nuclear disarmament. They have tried to shift the focus of world attention to humanitarian needs over national security concerns. But their real agenda of opposing the West is revealed by their attacks on Western militaries and their silence on de facto terrorist groups that provide terrorist training to children and indoctrinate them to hate.

The Threat of Radical Islam

Lastly, Chandler details how resurgent Islam is a theo-political-legal competitor for world dominance. Global jihad and the annihilation or subjugation of non-Muslims is based on Islamic doctrine dating from the 7th century that obliges Muslims worldwide to conquer the world for Islam. Americans are dangerously uninformed about the teachings of Islam and the destructive force that is taking hold in their midst. U.S. belief in freedom of religion and the fact that not all Muslims are part of the international jihad against the West, further confuse the issue. These hinder critical evaluation and the development of a strategy to fight the threat. The U.S. government's protestations that "Islam is a religion of peace" and the use of politically correct language further muddy the waters of clear thinking about jihadist intentions.

Yet, a worldwide network of Islamist organizations and terrorist groups bent on establishing a worldwide caliphate, or, government under a medieval legal system - Shariah law - exist across the United States. These groups are dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization and have embarked on an extensive cultural or stealth jihad to undermine American society and freedoms in addition to blatant acts of terrorism.

To further confound the situation, the Saudis, who present themselves as U.S. allies, fund the terrorist activities and infiltration efforts of this network in the United States. They staff U.S. mosques with radical imams and use petrodollars to fund terrorism through non-profits and businesses. In reality, Saudi Arabia is a terrorist state financing the indoctrination, training and terrorist actions of the jihadists. The Saudi-funded radical Islamists have used immigration, high birth rates, demands in the name of multiculturalism and the West's religious freedom, backed by the threat of terrorism to make significant inroads into Western society. Through the use of American democracy and multi-culturalism, they have sought special treatment and accommodations for Muslims and developed a powerful political lobby in Washington, the Wahabbi Lobby, as they have endeavored to transform our society through infiltration and deception. The Saudis have successfully injected pro-Islamic propaganda into our educational system and our universities. While pretending to be U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, they continue to fund jihadist activities and to indoctrinate and radicalize American Muslims.

Conclusion

The United States is at a critical juncture in its history faced with threats from international Marxists, an internal socialist movement and global jihadists. Once any of these elements achieves significant positions of power within the United States, they will proceed with their plans to destroy Western civilization. Our freedom, sovereignty and way of life could be extinguished by any of these forces that are acting against our democratic republic. Robert Chandler's warnings in Shadow World must be heeded if we are to survive.

Karl Marx
(1818-1883) was the most important of all socialist thinkers and the creator of a system of thought called Marxism, and the political system called Communism. He helped organize the international socialist movement. His ideas motivated radical political activists who joined his call to overthrow capitalism. Marxism, reduced to the theory that all events are caused by economic self interest, had a strong influence on many areas of thought from politics to history to literature, although it cut rather little swath in the discipline of economics itself.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Улянов, Ленин)
(1870-1924)In November 1917, Lenin, the leader of the Communist Party, led a Proletarian Revolution to overthrew the Provisional Government that had replaced the Russian Empire (His elder brother was hanged for the attempted assassination of Czar Alexander III). Lenin was one of the most devious persons in all of history. He was a revolutionary, atheist, and mass murderer. In 1889, he became a Marxist (as previously formulated by Karl Marx). He obtained a law degree shortly afterwards, and by 1895 was a subversive who was arrested and sent to Siberia as punishment. Once he served his time he left for Western Europe, where he developed his plans further and became a leader of the Bolsheviks. He returned to Russia after the tsar abdicated in March 1917, and led the Bolsheviks to power in the "October Revolution" (November in the Gregorian calendar) by overthrowing the government. (In the night of July 16-17, 1918, a squad of Bolshevik secret police murdered Russia's last emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, along with his wife, Tsaritsa Alexandra, their 14-year-old son, Tsarevich Alexis, and their four daughters.) He then ruled the Soviet Union under Marxism-Leninism, until 1922, when he retired due to ill health.
Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли)
December 6, 1878 - March 5, 1953. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1922 until his death. The son of a poor Georgian cobbler, Stalin was a former seminary student who joined the Communist Party when Georgia was still under the rule of the Russian Tsar. He became one of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's closest allies when the Kerensky regime was overthrown by Lenin's faction. During the Russian Civil War Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel, held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later re-named Tsaritsen Stalingrad in honor of his victory; Stalingrad would be the site of Germany's massive defeat in World War II.
Mao Zedon
Mao Zedong, the worst mass murderer of all time, lived from December 26, 1893, to September 9, 1976. He was a Communist atheist and an early member of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. In 1935, Mao was elected to the Executive Committee of the Comintern in Moscow and remained on this committee until it was publicly disbanded in 1943. Mao was the author of Quotations from Chairman Mao, published in 1966, informally known as "the little red book." During his lifetime, almost everyone in the People's Republic of China was expected to have a copy. One of his most well known statements was that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
b. June 14, 1928, died October 9th, 1967. A brutal guerrilla Marxist leader, with Fidel Castro, of the Cuban revolution and a cultural icon for liberals, leftists and radical anarchists. Despite being a mass murderer, his image is still used as propaganda which adorns millions of t-shirts and posters as a counterculture symbol. In 1955, Guevara met with Raul and Fidel Castro to plot the overthrow of US-backed Fulgencio Batista government. Their first revolutionary plan was an assault on Cuba from Mexico. Castro promoted Guevara to commander status. He had a plan to attack 1500 Batista forces that had encircled Castro's forces. He defeated Batista's forces and marched on toward Havana. On New Years Eve 1958, Batista's forces were defeated and on New Years day, Batista fled to the Dominican Republic. Castro and Guevara became Cuba's new socialist revolutionary leaders.
Fidel Castro
Born August 13, 1926. Dictator of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister (1959-1976) and as president of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers (1976-2008). The process of obtaining permanent power, was a dramatic, traumatic and bloody. One Castro's exiled opponents describes it this way: "The castro regime came to power by deception and terror, resulting in what can only be described as a state of war against the Cuban people. Executions, labor camps, forced re-locations and exile, and the imposition of a repressive military police force to exercise control over civilian society." As prime minister, and then president from 1976, Castro ruled the country in line with Soviet policies, seizing private property and eliminating free speech and free press. In August 2006, health problems lead to his appointment of his younger brother, Raul, as temporarily president and head of the Communist Party in Cuba. Political analyst believe that the appointment marks the beginning of a transition designed to maintain Communist control over Cuba after Castro's death.
Uri Andropov
Beginning in the 1980's, the Central Committee of the Communist Party under Mikhail Gorbachev's tutelage mounted an extensive disinformation plan to rehabilitate its image in the West. As part of the Andropov Plan, after the former KGB chief and Communist Party leader Yuri Andropov, Russia presented itself as a liberalized quasi-democracy complete with market reforms and "controlled political opposition." Essentially, the Andropov Plan was an artifice of legerdemain designed to destroy capitalism while utilizing it to fund socialism. Russia duplicitously embraced "perestroika" and "glasnost" under the pretext of nurturing an emerging democracy and as an indication of its reconciliation with the West. In reality, these were strategies designed to attain Western acceptance in order to forestall Soviet decline and acquire much-needed American investments and modern technology.
Antonio Gramsci
Marxist elements within American society endeavor to bring about revolutionary change with an ideology and methodology built on Critical Theory and Gramscian cultural Marxism. Critical Theory goes beyond traditional social analysis and seeks social transformation or revolution to foster conditions favorable to Marxism that will bring about the downfall of capitalism. Critical Theory is an anti-capitalist theory advocating destruction of free market democratic values, social and political structures and policies to further human emancipation. It is an outright rejection of western civilization and an endorsement of a Marxist, utopian society.
Gramscian cultural Marxism, based on the work of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci, stems from the recognition that the structure of capitalist society was defined by the culture, faith and values of Christianity. Recognizing the central role of Christianity as the moral and cultural foundation of Western society, Gramsci endeavored to transform society by replacing the worship of God with the worship of man, "secular humanism." Gramsci was intent on destroying the "hegemony" of Christianity and its vast societal influences, including in government, education, media and the family. He sought creation of re-education and indoctrination programs to bring about a new moral and intellectual order based on Marxism.
The components of this progressive-socialist-Marxist attempt to take over the West include: 1) destruction of a free press, 2) educational revisionism, 3) infiltration of government and political systems, 4) destruction of the military and intelligence services, 5) development of an anti-globalist, anti-war philosophy, and 6) creation of a one world government.
Within the United States, the tentacles of the Kremlin-sponsored, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington and its vast network of affiliates aids in the promulgation of this anti-capitalist pro-Socialist agenda.
Leon Trotsky
Born: 1879 Died: 1940. Lev Davidovich Bronstein. Leader, with V.I. Lenin, of the Russian Revolution. Architect of the Red Army. Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs 1917-1918 and Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs 1918-1924. In 1929, expelled from the Communist Party by the Stalinist faction of the Party and then deported from the USSR. In 1938 he helped found the Fourth International, the World Party of Socialist Revolution. In 1940, murdered by a Stalinist assassin at his home in exile, in Mexico.