Well, not quite. At the outset, they knew nothing. We know this because many people went out to interview them. The main answer they got when asked “why are you here?” was a giggle and embarrassed glances to their giggling friends…who also had no idea.
Then the leaders of the protests, folks from outside, got strict. Don’t speak to the media, they said. Direct them to the Press Office, they said. And that’s what’s happened. You can see that from the videos I posted recently.
So, the folks that are now running the narrative make sure that it focusses on Gaza. And the reason they do that is that it’s fine to carry on about Gaza and Israeli perfidy, and so on. But it’s not ok to say “we’re all about bringing Marxism to the United States, and the world”. Oh, no, you can’t be so open. So.
Back in 2001, Osama bin Laden wrote “letters to the west”, in which he said that the reason he and his terrorist mates were attacking the west, 9/11 and all that, was because they were upset at the inequities in Palestine. And the west bought this. Even otherwise smart people like Glenn Greenwald, to this day, buy this line. They mock the idea that OBL attacked the west for our “freedoms”.
But in fact that is exactly what they were doing. OBL wrote various essays aimed at the Muslim world. They are collected in a book by Raymond Ibrahim, The Al-Qaeda Reader. Which I’ve owned for decades and read and which forms the basis for this statement: the reason Al-Qaeda, the reason its leader Osama bin Laden, the reason to this day Islamic Jihadis attack the west is because of our freedoms. They hate that we are not believers. They hate that we are infidels. That’s clear in the essays for the Muslim world. But they knew they couldn’t say this outright, because it would lead to much more aggressive push back.
And so it is today with Marxism in the west. With the push for Marxism. With the whole concept of “the Long March through the institutions”. That’s what’s happening but it has to be hidden. At least from public discourse.
It is hidden now in the issue of Gaza. Just as it was hidden in 2020 in in the issue of BLM, a movement led by open Marxists.
Do I sound like a conspiracy theorist? Very well, I do. But the aims of the push to Marxism, while hidden on the public level, are not hidden in the writings. There’s plenty out there, in the curricula of schools and uniiversities, in the book lists, in the essays, in the teaching of Marxist think tanks, to make clear what the agenda is. The agenda is Marxist. The push at American colleges is to bring down the edifice of American-led capitalism and bring about the utopia of Marxism.
Here is David Josef Volodzko, in his “How Marxism Subverted America”:
And so it is today with Marxism in the west. With the push for Marxism. With the whole concept of “the Long March through the institutions”. That’s what’s happening but it has to be hidden. At least from public discourse.
It is hidden now in the issue of Gaza. Just as it was hidden in 2020 in in the issue of BLM, a movement led by open Marxists.
Do I sound like a conspiracy theorist? Very well, I do. But the aims of the push to Marxism, while hidden on the public level, are not hidden in the writings. There’s plenty out there, in the curricula of schools and uniiversities, in the book lists, in the essays, in the teaching of Marxist think tanks, to make clear what the agenda is. The agenda is Marxist. The push at American colleges is to bring down the edifice of American-led capitalism and bring about the utopia of Marxism.
Here is David Josef Volodzko, in his “How Marxism Subverted America”:
In his famous 1984 interview, Soviet dissident Yuri Bezmenov explained that Moscow knew it couldn’t defeat the United States in a head-on conflict. Instead, the Kremlin devised a four-stage plan to subvert U.S. society and turn the American public against itself.
The first stage, the former KGB agent said, was called demoralization and would take 15 to 20 years because that’s how long the media and sympathetic teachers needed to re-educate one generation of American students. But Bezmenov said this stage was already completed because the hippies of the 1960s, who were “contaminated” with Marxist-Leninist values, were entering positions of power by the time of the interview.
The next two stages would be marked by political polarization and the erosion of trust in our institutions. The final stage of communist subversion, normalization, would be realized once Americans began to freely express the views of their own enemies.
Forty years later, we have American teens on Chinese Communist-run TikTok telling us bin Laden had a point. We have champagne socialist vloggers on BreadTube arguing Russia invaded Ukraine in self-defense. We have Leninist antiwar activists cheering when Iran fires missiles at our allies, student speakers praising North Korea, and activists chanting “Death to America!” in California, Michigan, and New York.
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