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33 An Annotated Bibliography
ROBERT W. LEE- A number ofsources are available
on power politics andthelarger cultural revolution
17 Pincers Strategy
21 Creating Causes
WILLIAM F. JASPER - The opinion cartel notonly picks
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36 Is It Too Late?
GARY BENOIT - America still hasmany layers of
strength that prevent instant dictatorship
25 Rule by Polls
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"means nothin g else but this: power without limi t, restin g directl y
upon forc e, restrain ed by no laws,
abso lute ly unrestri cted by rules."
Benit o Mussolini 's totalitarian formul a was even more co ncise :
"Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against
the state." What ever its specific configuration or ideological pretext, the
total state always requires that all
human activities be made subject to
its power. But to exercise that power, the total state relies, to a remarkable extent, on the cooperation of its
victims .
No matter how vast the instrumentality of coercion or how vicious
the intentions of the ruling elite, the
" Consent of the governed" : Americans have yet to submit to total state power.
masters of the total state are always
cally oppose d to the Leninist "scientific
dramatically outnumbered by their vic- "Death by Government"
tims. No army of occ upation is large Of course, wholesale murder is very much concept of dictatorship" : the rule of law,
enough to exercise total control over a tyr- a part of the totalitari an experience, as a administered by a govern ment that is itself
annized population; no secret police is ca- way to dispose of those who prove unsuit- subject to the law, deriving "its j ust powpable of exercising incessant and all-en- able for "co nversion." Lenin's "scientific ers from the consent of the governe d," and
co mpassi ng survei llance. The triumph of concept of dictatorsh ip," when put into crea ted for the excl usive purp ose of prothe total state is made possible by the con- practice by criminals in positions of polit- tecting the lives, rights, and property of the
quest of the human mind. "We are not con- ical power, has led to unimaginable horror. law-abiding.
But these institutional safeg uards of libtent with negative obedience, nor even In the Soviet Union , Communist China,
with the most abje ct submiss ion," ex- Cambodia, Vietnam , and elsewhere, the erty and the rule of law are dependent on a
plained O'B rien, an agent of Big Brother 's unch ecked power of the state "has been culture condu cive to freedom. In a self"Ministry of Love" in George Orw ell's trul y a cold-blooded mass murd erer, a govern ing society, public morality and private morality cannot be compar tmental1984. "When finally you surrender to us, global plague of man 's own makin g,"
it must be of your own free will. We do not writes Professor R.J. Rummel in his study ized; people who have abandoned what
George Washingto n referred to as the
destroy the heretic because he resists us.... Death by Government.
During the first nine decades of the 20th "eternal rules of order and right" will be
We co nvert him, we capture his inner
century, writes Rummel, "a lmost 170 mil- incapable of exercisi ng the self-disci pline
mind, we reshape him."
lion men, women, and children" have been necessary to maintain a free government.
destroyed through the "myriad ways gov- In his Farewell Address , Washin gton adernments have inflicted death on unarmed, vised that there is "no truth more thorhelpless citizens and foreigners. The dead oughly established than that there exists in
co uld conceivably be nearly 360 million the eco nomy and co urse of natu re an inpeople." In a particul arly sober ing obser- dissolubl e union between virtue and hapvation, Rumm el points out that while "li- piness; between dut y and adva ntage; bebrary stacks have been written on the pos- twee n the genuine maxims of an honest
sible nature and consequences of nuclear and magnanimous policy and the solid rewar and how it might be avoided, in the life wards of public prosperity and felicity."
of some still living we have already expe- When such habits of virtue are cultivated
rienced in the toll fro m democide (and re- and preserved, society can enjoy the blesslated destruction and misery among the ings of limit ed gove rnment - one that
survivors) the equivalent of a nuclear war, will, in Jeffer son 's words, "restrain men
especially at the high near-360 million end from injuring one another, [and which]
shall leave them otherwise free to regulate
of the estimates ."
America has been spare d such horror s their own pursu its of industry and imbeca use it is uniquely blessed among all prove ment, and shall not take from the
nations with a tradition of ordered liberty mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
and limited government. Our nation 's
founding docum ents, the Declaration of Quiet Revolution
Independence and the Constitution , em- In principle, and to a limited extent in pracGovernment accordin g to Soviet
brace a concept of gove rnment diamet ri- tice, Bill Clin ton and his Administratio n
dictator Len in: Power w ithout limit.
THE NEW AMERICAN / JULY 5, 1999
Layers of Strength
At this juncture, a question naturally arises: If the conspiracy to undermin e our culture and constitutional system has enjoyed
such success , why aren' t Americ ans living
in abject, undisguised tyranny? If Lenin's
"scientific conce pt of dictatorship " and
Hitler 's fu hrerprinzip have been accept ed
as rulin g tenet s by our apostate politi cal
elite, where are the gulags and gas
chambers?
The answer to this question is quite simple: The institutions referred to by Gramsci as "fortresses and earthworks" have not
yet been completely overcome by the
forces of revoluti on. Yes, the American
family is under siege, but its resilience has
pro ven to be formid able. Parents still seek
to instill habits of self-discipline, honesty,
and genuine publi c service in their children. Millions of Americans from all religious denominations and traditions remain
committed to livin g honorable lives defined by God 's law, and insist that their
elected represe ntatives, for the most part,
pay at least nomin al homage to that standard as well. The American tradition of individu alism remains a vivid part of our national her itage. And despite decades of
mass indoc trinatio n regardin g the supposed glories of collectivism, most Ame ricans still cherish their individual rights and are provoked to militancy when those
rights are threatened.
These admirable traits - the "fortresses
and earthworks" Gramsci sought to overcome - were celebrated by Robert Welch
- a devoted champ ion of freedom - as
"layers of strength" that should be fortified
by conscientious Americans. The reason
the enemies of freedom must pursue Gramsci's long-term subversive strategy rather
than more overt measures is because most
Americans will not meekl y submit to the
will of their would-be masters.
Yes, our situation is grave. No, America
does not enjoy any privileged immunity to
the horrors that have descended upon many
other countri es durin g this century of rampant democide. In order to preserve our existing freedoms, and to restore those that
have been stolen from us, it is necessary
for America ns to und erstand the tactic s,
strategies, and objectives of the Gramscian
conspirators who are waging a culture war
against us.
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Disillusioned Marxist
The fascis t "March on Rome," and the appoin tment of Benito Mu ssolini to the
prime min istry, impelled the young Marxist theorist to depart Italy. Castin g about
for a new home, he chose the most logical
place for a Communist, Lenin 's newly
fashioned USSR . However, Soviet Russia
was not what he had expected . His powers of obse rvation wakened immediately
to the distance that so often separa tes theory fro m reali ty. A fanatical Marxist insofar as politi cal, eco nomic, and historical
theories were co nce rned , Gram sci was
profoundl y disturbed that life in Commu nist Russia exhibited little evidence of any
deepl y felt love on the part of the workers
for the "paradise" that Lenin had constructed for them . Even less was there any
deep attachment to such co nce pts as the
"proletarian revolution" or "dictators hip
of the proletariat," apart fro m the obligatory rhetoric.
On the co ntrary, it was obvious to
Gramsci that the "paradise" of the work ing class maintained its hold over workers
and peasants only by sheer terror, by mass
THENEWAMERICAN / JULY 5, 1999
losis in 1937, Gramsci produced nine volumes of observa tions on history, socio logy, Marxist theory, and, most importantly,
Marxist strategy. Those volumes, known as
the Prison Noteboo ks, have since been
publi shed in many languages and distributed throughout the world . Their significance comes from the fact that they form
the foundation for a dram atic new Marxist
strategy, one that makes the "spontaneous
revolution" of Lenin as obsolete as hoop
skirts and high button shoes, one that
promi ses to win the world voluntarily to
Marxism, and one based on a realistic appra isa l of historical fac t and hum an psychology, rather than on empty wishes and
illusions.
As we shall see, Gramsci 's shrewd assess ment of the true essence of Mar xism
and of mankind makes his writin gs among
the most powerful in this century. Whil e
Gramsci himself would die an ignominious and lonely death in a fasc ist prison ,
his thought s would attain a life of their
own and rise up to menace the world. What
are these ideas?
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Essence of the Red Revolution ary upheaval, but always by force or sub- Soviet regime was in its infancy and Com Gramsci 's signal contribution was to lib- terfuge. The only popular revolutionary muni sm still largely untried conjecture.
Gramsci was a brilliant student of phierate the Marxi st project from the prison upheavals recorded in the 20th century
of economic dogma, thereby dramatically have been anti-Marxist "counter-revolu- losophy, history, and languages. This eduenhancing its ability to subvert Christian tions," such as the revolt in Berlin in 1954 cation imparted to him an excellent grasp
and the Hungarian uprising of 1956.
of the character of his fellow men and of
society.
Looking back on the 20th century, it is the character of the societies that made up
If we were to take the ideological pronouncements of Marx and Lenin at face clear that Marx was wrong in his assump - the civilized community of nations in the
value, we would believe - as have mil- tion that most workers and peasants were early decades of this century. As we have
lions of their deluded disciples - that the dissatisfied with their places in, and alien- already seen , one of the foundational inuprising of the workers was inevitable, and ated from , their societies, that they were sights given him by this education was that
that all that was to be done was to mobi- seething with resentment against the middle Communist hopes for a spontaneous revolize the underclass thro ugh propaganda, and upper classes, or that they in any way lution, brought about by some process of
thereby sparking universal revolution. Of were predisposed to revolution. Moreover, historical inevitability, were illusory.
course, thi s premise is invalid , yet it re- wherever Communism achieved power, its Marxi st ideologues were, he asserted, bemained inflexible doctrine among Com- use of unprecedented level s of violence, guiling themselves. In the Gram scian view
munists - at least, for public consumption. coercion, and repression have generated workers and peasants were not , by and
However, the hard core of the Commu- underground opposition at home and mil- large, revolutionary-minded and they harnist movement consi sted of ruthless crim- itant opposition abroad, making endless bored no desire for the destruction of the
inals, clear-eyed in their understanding of killing and repression endemic to Marxi sm existing order. Most had loyalties beyond ,
the intellectual errors of Marxism, who were and essential for Communist survival. All and far more powerful than , cla ss con sidwilling to employ any necessary mean s to of these undeniable facts , when examined erations, even in those instances where
obtain the power they sought. For such hard- honestly, posed insurmountable difficulties their lives were less than ideal. More
ened, hate-intoxicated conspirators, ideol- insofar as further extensions of Commu- meaningful to ordinary people than class
ogy is a tactic , a mean s of mobilizing sup- nist power were concerned, and assured solidarity and cla ss warfare were such
porters and rationalizing criminal actions . some kind of ultimate crisi s for Marxi sm . things as faith in God and love of family
Those who accept uncritically the idea
While the foregoing is obvio us to per- and country. These were foremost among
that "Communism is dead " fail to under- ceptive observers now, looking back from their overriding allegiances.
stand the true nature of the enem y. Com- the vantage point of our time and after more
Such attractiveness as Communist
munism is not an ideology in which one than eight decades of experience with the promi ses might pos sess among the workbelieves. Rather, it is a criminal con spir a- reality of Communism in power, we begin ing classes was, moreover, diminished by
cy in which one enli sts . Although Lenin to understand something of the insightful- Communist bruta lities and by heavy-handprofe ssed to revere Marx's scribblings as ness of Antonio Gramsci when we realize ed totalitarian methods. Stirring the aristosacred writ, once his Bolsheviks had seized that what is evident now, at the close of the cratic and bourgeois classes to action,
power in Rus sia , Lenin freely modified millennium, was evident to him when the these negative attributes were so terrifying
Marxism to suit his need s. The
same was true of Stalin . The Bolsheviks did not come to power in
Russi a by any uprising of the
workers and peasants, but by a
coup d 'etat , orchestrated by a tightly disciplined Marxist cadre and ultimately con solidated by civil war.
They also received - lest it be forgotten - critical help from Western political and bankin g elites.
In similar fashion, Communism
did not come to power in Eastern
Europe by revolution , but rather
through the imposition of that system by a conquering Red Arm y and, once again , through the corrupt connivance of conspirators in
the West. In China, Communism
came to power through civil war,
aided by the Soviets and by traitorous elements in the West.
In no single instance has Communi sm ever achieved power by
means of any popular revolutionStalin 's military machine was designed to impose global Communism by brute force.
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and sobering that militant anti-Marxist organizatio ns and move me nts sprang up
everyw here, effec tive ly putting a halt to
plans for Co mmunist expansio n. With all
of this eas ily appare nt to him, and, blessed
in a way with the seemingly endless leisure
afforded by prison life, Gramsci turned his
exce llent mind to savi ng Marxism by analyzing and solv ing these questions.
Free-Will Slaves
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a classic study of modern tota litaria nis m, contains a line that epitomizes the concept that
Gramsci tried to convey to his party comrades: "A really efficient total itarian state
would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army
of managers contro l a population of slaves
who do not have to be coerced, because
they love their servitude." While it is improbable tha t Huxley was fam iliar with
Gramsci 's theories , the idea he conveys of
free persons marching willingly into
dition-m inded clergy men are portrayed as cellorship in 1933, the leftist stalwarts of masochi stic reso lution of the Oedipus
hypocrit es and virtuous men and women the Frankfur t School fled Germany for the comp lex,' producing a psychological cripUnited States, where they soon established ple, the 'a uthoritarian personalit y.' The inas prud ish, stuffy, and unenlightened .
Culture is no longer a buttress support- a new institute at Columbia University. As dividual' s hatred of the father is suspending the integrit y of the national heritage is characteristic of such men, they repaid ed and rema ins unresolved, becomin g inand a vehicle for imparting that heritage to their debt to the U.S. for shelter ing them stead an attraction for strong authority figfuture generations, but becomes a means from Nazi brutality by turnin g their atten- ures whom he obeys unquestioningly." The
for "des troying ideals and .. . presenting tion to what they regarded as the inju stices traditional patriarchal family is thus a
the youn g not with heroic exam ples but and social deficiencies inherent to our sys- breeding ground for fascis m, accor ding to
with deliberately and aggressively degen- tem and soc iety. Imm ediately they set Horkheimer, and charismatic authority figerate ones," as theolo gian Harold 0.1. about devising a program of revolutionary ures - men like Hitler and Mussolini Brown writes. We see this in contemporary reform for America.
are the ultimate beneficiaries of the "a uAmerican life, in which the grea t
thoritarian personality" instilled by
hist orical symbo ls of our nation 's
the traditional family and culture.
past, includ ing great presidents, solTheodor W. Adorno, another nodiers, expl orers, and thinkers, are
tabl e of the Frankfurt School, unshow n to have been unforgivabl y
derscored Horkheimer's theory with
flawed with "racism" and "sexism"
his own study, publ ished in book
and therefore basically evil. Their
for m as The Authoritarian Personplace has been taken by pro-Marxality, which he authore d toge ther
ist charlatans, pseudo-int ellectu als,
with Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel
rock stars, leftist movie celebrities,
J. Levinson, and R. Nevitt Sanford.
and the like. At another level, tradiUpon closer exam ination, it became
tional Chri stian culture is co napparent to critics that the research
demned as rep ressive, "E uroce non which The Authoritarian Pertric," and "rac ist" and, thus, unworsonality was based was pseudo-sothy of our continued devotion. In its
ciologica l, flawed in its methodoloplace, unall oyed primitivism in the
gy and skewed in its co nclusio ns.
gui se of "multiculturalism" is held
But, the critics were ignored.
as the new model.
America , Ado rno and his reMarriage and family, the very
searc h team pronounced , was ripe
building block s of our society, are
for its own, home-grown fasc ist
perpetually attacked and subverted.
takeover. Not only was the AmeriMarri age is portrayed as a plot by
can population hopelessly racist and
anti-Semitic , but it had far too acmen to perpetuat e an evil system of
quiescent an attitude towards audom inati on over women and chil thority figures such as fathers, podren. The family is depicted as a
licemen, clergy, military leaders,
dangerous instituti on epitomized by
and so forth. It was also far too obviolence and exploitation. Patri arsessed with such "fascist" notions
chally oriented families are, accordas efficiency, clea nliness, and sucing to the Gra mscians, the precurPublic enemy No.1: Gramscian strategy focuses its
cess, for these qualiti es revealed an
sors of fascism, Nazism, and every
subversive power on destroying traditional family.
inwa rd "pess imistic and co ntemp organized form of racial persecuMax Horkheimer, one of the notables of tuous view of humanity," a view that leads,
tion.
the Frankfurt Schoo l, determined that Adorno held, to fascism .
America's profo und allegiance to the traThrough such unmitigated balderdash as
The Frankfurt School
With respect to the subje ct of the under- ditional family was a mar k of our national one finds in the writings of Horkh eimer,
minin g of the America n family, and to inclination towards the same fascist system Adorno , and the other luminaries of the
many other aspects of the Gramscian tech- fro m which he had fled . Explaining this Frankfurt School, the structures of the tranique, let us explore briefly the story of the connection between fascism and the Amer- ditional family and traditional virtue have
Frankfurt School. This organization ofleft- ican family, he declared : "W hen the child been called serio usly into question and
ist intellectuals, also known as the Frank- respects in his father's strength a moral re- confidence in them blunted. Elected govfurt Institut e for Social Research, was lationship and thus learns to love what his ern ment offic ials and bureaucra ts have
founded in the 1920 s in Frankfurt am reason recognizes to be a fact, he is expe- contr ibuted to this problem throug h govMain, Germany. There it flourished amidst riencing his first training for the bourgeois ernment taxation policies, which mulct the
traditional family while subsidizing antithe decadence of the Weimar period, both authority relationship."
Commenting critically on Horkheimer's traditional modes of life.
compounding and feeding off the decaAdditionally, these officials arc inclined
dence, and extending its influence through- theory, Arthur Herman writes in The Idea
of Decline in Western History: "The typi- more and more towar ds the elevation of
out the count ry.
With Hitl er's acqui sition of the chan- cal modern family, then , involves 's ado- abominations such as homosexual and il10
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A Lawless Land
Americans have long boasted that their nation is a government of law, not of men.
American law is derived directly from
English common law and from the biblical
and Christian principle s that are at the root
of English common law. One would therefore expect law to con stitut e one of the
chief barriers against the subversion of our
society. Instead, in the field of law, revolutionary change has become the order of the
day, change so astounding that it could not
have been imagined by Americans of 50
years ago. None would have dreamed of
the outlawing of prayer and any expression
of religious conviction on public property,
the legalization of abortion as a constitutionally guaranteed "right," and the legalization of pornography, to menti on but
three.
Clearly expressed principl es embr aced
by the Founding Fathers and set forth in
our Constitution are now routinely reinterpreted and distorted. Those that cannot be
reinterpreted and distorted, such as the
Tenth Amendm ent , are simply ignored .
Worse yet, the ideological agenda underpinning the radicalization of American law
is blithely accepted by millions of Americans, who have themselves been radicalized withou t ever realizing it.
Crucial to the Gramscians' success is the
disappe arance of all memory of the old
civiliz ation and way of life. The older
America of unregulated lives, honest government, clean citie s, crime-free streets,
morally edifying entertainment, and a family-oriented way of life is no longer vivid
in the mind s of many Americans. Once it
is gone completely, nothin g will stand in
the way of the new Marxist civilization,
which demonstrates as nothin g else that
through the Gramscian method it is indeed
possible to "Marxize the inner man," as
Malachi Martin wrote in The Keys of This
Blood. Then and only then, writes Fr. Martin, "could you successfully dangle the
utopia of the 'Workers' Paradise' before his
eyes, to be accepted in a peaceful and humanely agree able manner, without revoluTHE NEW AMERICAN / JULY 5, 1999
F R. JAMES THORNTON
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n his popular 1984 movie Red Dawn, take eastern Europe. Next, the masses of perstructure') of bourgeois society, a process
director John Milius presented a Asia. Then we shall encircle that last bas- that would in tum transform the values and
frightening scenario of an America tion of capitalism, the United States of morals of the society. Gramsci believed that
largely conquered and occupied by invad- America. We shall not have to attack ; it as society's morals were softened, so its poing Soviet forces. The first inkling the will fall like overripe fruit into our hands ." litical and economic foundation would be
film's young protagonists had that someThere is no evidence that Lenin actual- more easily smashed and restructured."
thing was amiss was when Soviet airborne ly uttered those exact lines , and the patriOne of the most popular evaluations of
troops parachuted into the school
Antonio Gramsci's revolutionary
yard of their rural Colorado comtheories from a friendly , Marxist
munity and began mowing down
viewpoint is to be found in Carl
their classmates and teachers . The
Boggs' The Two Revolutions:
liberal-left intelligentsia and meGramsci and the Dilemmas of
dia mavendom erupted (preWestern Marxism. According to
dictably) in paroxysms of
Boggs, "the transition to socialism
apoplectic fury over such a brutal
must occur on two distinct but indepiction of our dear Soviet
terwoven terrains - the state and
"peace partners."
the economy." "It is not enough ,"
The offended literati had no call
Boggs explains , "for movements
for outrage; the Communists have
to simply overthrow the existing
repeatedly shown throughout this
state machinery, or destroy the old
century that they are indeed more
institutions , or even to bring into
than willing and ready to use barpower leaders calling themselves
barous, aggressive force whenev'communists.' Beneath the level of
er it suits their purpose. However,
insurrection and statecraft there
knowledgeable anti-Communists
must be a gradual conquest of socould point out a genuine problem
cial power, initiated by popular
with the film's focus on a danger
subversive forces emerging from
that was wholly an external, miliwithin the very heart of capitalist
tary threat. The real Soviet invasociety." Or as Gramsci's German
sion had already occurred decades
disciple, Rudi Dutschke, put it, the
earlier, and the invaders and their
revolution must be preceded by
liberal-left allies had assiduously
"the long march through the institution s," i.e. the universities,
penetrated and largely subverted
Arthur Schles inger: Amer ica's most well-known
schools,
churches, arts , media ,
much of our nation 's political and
historian has spouted Fabian farce for decades.
government bureaucracy, the
social superstructure. While
America 's military defenses should not be mony of this famous "Lenin paraphrase" courts, political parties, labor unions, etc.
Gramsci was not devising a completely
ignored, a cataclysmic clash of arms with is not known. But it does accurately sumthe disciples of Marx and Lenin is not our marize the strategy he laid down in the So- new theory, but restating with new emphaviet Union's infancy - and which has sis and insights a basic Leninist principle.
most immediate danger.
been followed by all of his successors. For His call for "cultural hegemony" was also
more than 80 years the Comm unists, work- consonant with the general scheme of the
"Overripe Fruit"
"To subdue the enemy without fighting is ing together with the socialists and liberal- British Fabian Socialists' program for sothe supreme excellence," observed Sun left fellow travelers and dupes, have been cial "permeation." Margaret Cole, who
Tzu in his famous military text, The Art of carrying out a concerted, long -range with her husband, G. D. H. Cole , was a
War. This strategist's opus has long been scheme to destroy the Christian-based longtime leader of the Fabian Socialist Sorequired reading for Communist military, morality, patriotism, and constitutional un- ciety in England, explained in The StOlYof
intelligence, and political leaders, and his derpinnings of America, so that it will fall Fabian Socialism that through the conspiratorial Fabian practice of "permeation"
conception of taking the enemy's country "like overripe fruit" into their hands .
Author S. Steven Powell notes in Covert society would "pass into collective control
intact, without military conflict, has been
a tenet of Communist grand strategy since Cadre that Italian Communist theoretician without there ever having been a party defthe early days of Bolshevism. Vladimir Antonio Gramsci "argued that power is best initely and openly pledged to that end ."
Lenin is credited with devising this strata- attained in developed, industrialized coun- "What Fabi an permeation meant," said
gem, implementing the Sun Tzu doctrine tries through a gradual process of radical- Cole , "was primarily 'honeycombing,'
of "passive aggression": "First, we will ization of the cultural institutions (the 'su- converting either to Socialism or to parts
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Rewriting H istory
Take, for example, the near-complete
stranglehold they have effected with regard
to the writing of history in this country. Perhaps the best-known living historian is
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., whom President
Kennedy plucked from the Harvard professoriat to serve as his Special Assistant.
The bow-tied , bespectacled Schlesinger is
still a regular feature on the talking-head
circuit, where he regularly dispenses Fabian wisdom to both the masses and the
cognoscenti. Rarely is he described even as
a liberal, and never as a socialist. Yet a socialist he is, as evidenced by virtually
everything he has ever said and written, and
by his own explicit admission. Consider,
for instance, an article he wrote entitled,
"The Future of Socialism: The Perspective
Now," for the November 1935 issue of the
leftist journal Partisan Review. According
to Schlesinger: "Socialism, then, appears
quite practicable within this frame of reference, as a long-term proposition. Its gradual advance might well preserve order and
law, keep enough internal checks and discontinuities to guarantee a measure of freedom , and evolve new and real forms for the
expression of democracy. The active agents
in effecting the transition will probably be,
not the working class, but some combination of lawyers, business and labor managers, politicians and intellectuals, in the
manner of the first New Deal, or of the Labor government in Britain."
Togetherwith his father,also a history professor at Harvard, SchlesingerJr. and Charles
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Top.Down Subversion
Those unfamiliar with the eccentric funding habits of the educational clerisy may
find it odd that many of the worst Marxist
assaults on historical truth have been paid
for by tax-exempt foundations bearing the
names of famous capitalists like Ford ,
Rockefeller, and Carnegie. As early as
1934, the Carnegie Corporation had made
a grant of $340 ,000 to the Commission on
Social Sciences of the American Historical Association (AHA) for the development of a program to indoctrinate students
through social studies classes in the
schools. The Carnegie-financed AHA report, Conclusions and Recommendations,
stated: "Cumulative evidence supports the
conclusion that, in the United States as in
other countries, the age of individualism
and laissez-faire in economy and govern-
ment is closing and that a new age of collectivism is emerging." Of this "new age,"
the Carnegie/AHA report said approvingly: "Almost certainly it will involve a larger measure of compulsory as well as voluntary cooperation of citizens in the conduct of the complex national economy, a
corresponding enlargement of the functions of government, and an increasing
state intervention in fundamental branch es of economy previously left to individual discretion and initiative."
Moreover, the Carnegie-funded Marxist
screed proclaimed that "two social philosophies are now struggling for supremacy: individualism, with its attending capitalism
and classism, and collectivism, with
planned economy and mass rights. Believing that present trends indicate the victory
of the latter the Commission on the Social
Studies offers a comprehensive blueprint by
which education may prepare to meet the
demands of a collectivist social order...."
The Fabian Socialist historian, Profe ssor Harold 1. Laski, who was entirely favorable to the effort, candidly concluded
of this Carnegie project: "At bottom, and
stripped of its carefully neutral phrases , the
report is an educational program for a socialist America."
Another example of the Carnegie collectivist bias is the economics book Business
as a System ofPower, written by Professor
Robert A. Brady under a grant from the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching . In the introduction to this volume, we are told that "capitalist economic
power constitutes a direct, continuous and
fundamental threat to the whole structure of
democratic authority everywhere."
Probably the most serious and successful
of Carnegie 's subversive operations was its
heavy funding of the Institute of Pacific Relations, which was cited by a U.S. Senate investigative subcommittee as "an instrument
of Communist policy, propaganda, and military intelligence." Thanks in great measure
to the influence of the Carnegie-funded IPR,
China was betrayed by our government into
the hands of the Communists .
And thank s to the subversive generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation, some of
the most despicable Communist culture
vultures have been lavishly funded in diabolical schemes. The case of the Eisler
brothers is but one of numerous examples.
Maurice Malkin, a founding member of
the Communist Party, USA , testified before the 1951 Reece Committee investigating the tax-exempt foundations conTHE NEW AMERICAN / JUL Y 5, 1999
cerning his knowledge of brothers Hans appro ved theoretical journal, Political Af- Rhet orical Camoufl age
and Gerhardt Eisler, members of the Ger- f airs, and an editorial board member and However, like Fabian Dame Cole, Jerome
man Communist Party Central Committee writer for the Marxist magazine s Main- explained to the Party true believers that "it
who had been sent to America on orders of stream and New Masses. In his 1951 book- would manifestly be wrong to dem and of
the Kremlin . In 1927, Malkin recounted, let, Grasp the Weapon ofCulture, Comrade everyone who participates on a politicalHans "came to the United States, and we Jerome explained to the Party faithful: "Cul- cultural basis in a united-front peace acimmediately received orders throughout tural activity is an essential phase of the Par- tivit y or organi zation that he nece ssarily
the country - in fact every party secretary ty's general ideological work, and as such give full expression to the proletarian class
received orders - to cooperate with Hans is interconnected with the Party's struggles ideology." "What should be expected of
Eisler becau se he is a CI [Communist In- in the economic and political spheres. For him is that he express himself as citizen
ternational] repre sentative." Malkin ex- Marxist-Lenini sts it should be, therefore , and artist on the level of his own underplained that "Hans Eisle r actually started axiomatic that cultural work is for the Par- standing," said Jerome, noting that "it is
organizing what they called Comthe task of Communi sts to help the
munist music festivals, Communi st
non-Communi sts in the united front
music sections, and literary circles.
to under stand that the cultural
He was received with open arms in
force s with their pursuit s and talHollywood by some of our Coments can , in the alliance with the
munist friend s like Clifford Odets ,
working class, labor and struggle to
John Garfield, and - for instance,
hasten the end of a system which
Lionel Stander, whom I personally
historically doomed, enslaves and
recruited into the party - people
humiliates them."
like James Cagney and Alvah
Or, as the old Red dictum goes,
Bessie and others. As a result, Hans
"Communism must be built with
Eisler actu ally became what they
non-Commun ist hands." To engage
called the cultural director reprethe non-Communi st dupes in these
sentative of the Communist Interendeavors, though, requires rhetorinational in the United States in pencal camouflage and deception. A
etrating cultural group s."
prime example of this rhetorical
And Brother Gerhardt? He was
treachery can be found in the judicial
a real charmer. "Gerhardt Eisler acrevolution launched in 1913 with the
tually took over organization and
Conference on Legal and Social Phihatchet work for the Comintern losophy organized by Fabian Socialthat is, to liquidate the dissenters of
ists Harold Laski, John Dewey, Morthe Communist International,"
ris Cohen, and Roscoe Pound. CoMalkin testified. Rockefeller Founhen's son, Felix, later boasted that it
dation President Dean Rusk, later
is from this conference that "much of
Secretary of State under Presidents
the social and philosophical conKennedy and John son, profe ssed
sciousness of modern American juRoscoe Pound led "socialization of law" in u.s.
complete ignorance of the Eislers'
risprudence derives."
Communist backgrounds when called to ty inalienable from general mass work."
Unfortunately, this was not an empty
explain to the Committee his foundation 's
"Only as it learns to grasp the weapon boast. The influence of Harvard's Roscoe
grant s to Hans. Thi s despite the fact that of culture and fights with it, only as our Pound , for example, the chief exponent of
the Eislers were publicly well known as Party itself come s forward as a creative "sociological juri sprudence" early in this
Red s, with Eleanor Roo sevelt having in- cultural force," said Jerome, "will it be able century, is hard to overstate. According to
terceded with the State Department to se- to contribute effectively to the develop - the leftist Encyclopedia ofSocial Sciences,
cure permanent resident status for them , ment of the cultural expre ssions of the "Roscoe Pound has been the leader in this
and Gerhardt having been tried and con- working class and the people, and to mo- reorientation of the law, which he has
victed for his illegal activitie s. Rusk also bilize them to fight with that weapon in called the sociological theory of jurisprudence ." What Pound and his Fabian conpleaded ignorance concerning the funding defen se of peace and culture itself."
of Communists J.B.S. Haldane , M. JoliotEchoing Gramsci, Jerome declared: "A spirators intended with this "reorientation"
Curie, Oscar Lange, Ignace Zlotowski, true understanding of our independent role was actually (in Pound's own words) the
Granville Hicks, and a throng of other in- should require that Communist cultural "socialization of law." However, Pound
veterate Communist-fronters. And he workers create in the interests of the work- wrote to his confreres, "if the term 'solamely pleaded that Rockefeller funding of ing class and from the standpoint of its lib- cialization of law ' has alarming implicathe two council s of the Communi st Insti- erating world outlook. The situation de- tions for any of you," and if it sounds "too
tute of Pacific Relations amounted to only mands from our creative forces novels and suspiciously like dynamite and socialism
37 percent of the IPR's revenues.
plays, poems, paintings , musical composi- . .. it is possible to put the matter in wholWorking under the Rockefeller-financed tions, popular songs and criticism, vibrant ly innocuous phrases and in term s of
Hans Eisler was V.I. Jerome , editor of the with Party spirit, the very essence of So- thoughts of the moment.... Let us think of
Communist Party USA's official, Krernlin- cialist realism ."
the problem of the end of the law in terms
THE NEW AMERICAN / JUL Y 5, 1999
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of a great task or great series of tasks of so- is always possible to attack exis ting law,
cial engineering ." Incredibly, Pound was and, if the power is available, to destroy exhonored by the American Bar Assoc iation isting law, in the name of democracy, j usfor "conspic uous serv ice to the ca use of tice, and liberty, in the name of the grea t
America n j urisprudence."
ideals of the American Cons titution , and in
But his "service" was to an entirely oppo- the name of the law itself." In fact, he
site cause. Harvard's Felix Frankfurter later claimed, "There is probably no part of the
admitted the truly subversive intent in estab- law or the constitution which the Supreme
lishing Roscoe Pound at Harvard Law Court could not demo lish, if the need arose,
School: "[W]ith Pound there . .. we could lug in the name of the constitution itself."
in a Trojan Horse of what [Judge Learned]
Hand calls our 'heretical thinking' .... It is a Apostles of Deceit
great job that has to be done - to evolve a Religion, "the opiate of the masses," was
const ructive jurisprudence going hand in not overlooked by the revol utio nists , of
hand with the pretty thoroughgoing
overturning that we are in for."
The terms "socialization of law,"
"dy namite and soc ialism," "social
"Troj an Horse,"
engi neering,"
" here tica l th in king," "thoroughgo ing overturning" - all aptly describe the revo lution ar y soc ia l
dem ol it ion per petrated by these
disguised Bolsheviki and their intellectual progeny in American institutions over the past century. Frankfurter, together with Communists
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Roger
Baldwin, and William Z. Foster, and
Socialist Norman Thomas founded
the pro-Communist American Civil
Liberties Union. Frankfurter was
also a mentor of, and unyielding
supporter of, arch-traitor Alger Hiss,
and as a U.S . Supreme Court justice
he contin ued his com mitment to
"overturning" our system which he
had swo rn to uphold.
But in the minds of Frankfurt er,
Frankfurter took subversion to High Court.
Cohen, Pound, et ai, sacred oaths
were mere words to be twisted in the ser- course. "E very religious idea, every idea of
vice of their dep raved ideology. We get a a god, even flirting with the idea of god is
sma ll glimpse of j ust how mend acious unuttera ble vileness of the most dangerous
these miscreants were in a self-indicting ar- kind, 'co ntagio n' of the most abominable
ticle by Felix Cohen in the November 1935 kind ," Lenin cla imed in a letter to A.M.
Am erican Socialist Quarterly, entit led, Gorky. Neve rthele ss, Len in and his
"Socialism and the Myth of Legality." Like wretched heirs found Catholic clerics,
his father, Morri s, Felix Cohen was an un- Protestant theologians, Orthodox prelates,
regenerate socialist, and in this openl y sub- Jewish rabbi s, and Muslim mullah s aplen versive essay he declared that "it is possi - ty to carry their poison . Bishop William M.
ble for a revolutionary party, with perfect Brow n of the Episcopal Church in Galion,
consistency, to proclaim loyalty to the idea Ohio, was one of many who ope nly em of law and order, to the principles of the brace d the Bolsheviks. In the early I920s,
constitution, and even, in large measure, to this notorious " Red Bishop" penned the
the lang uage of statutes ... while at the blasphemous book , Communism and
same time waging a relent less strug gle Christianism : Banish Gods From the Skies
against the substance of the capi talist legal and Capitali sts From the Earth. Another
order." In the Orwe llian double-speak of a was Dr. Walter Rausch enbusch, a militant
practiced Stalinist, Cohen wrote: "Social- soc ialist and the main pro pagator of the
ists can learn from their adversaries that it "social gospel" in the early part of this cen16
tury. Dr. Harry F. Ward, for 25 yea rs a professor of Christian eth ics at New York's
pres tigio us Union Theological Semin ary,
was an offic ial Communist Party memb er.
Comrade Ward was also a key founder of
the Federal Council of Churches, forerunner of the present -day National Council of
Churches, and played a major role in
score s of Communist fronts.
Like their numero us counterparts today,
these Judases could be relied upon to support the cau se-of-the-week promoted by
Mo scow 's militant atheists and the leftwing media cartel: U.S. disarmament,
recognition of Russia, aid to Russia,
support of the United Natio ns,
recognition of Red Chin a, adm ission of Red China to the UN, opposition to co ngressional investigations of Communist subvers ion,
de nying the reality of Co mmunist
mass-murder, etc., etc . Th ey questioned the authenticity of the Holy
Sc ripture, challenged the Virgin
Birth of Christ, the Deity of Christ,
the Holy Trinity, and other esse ntial
Chri stian doctrines, as we ll as the
biblical injunctions against adultery,
divorce, forn ication, and other immora lity.
These ravenous wolves in sheep's
clothing have assisted mightily the
all-out, diabo lical attack on our nation's moral fabr ic and have accelera ted our decline into what the
great Harvard Professor (yes that iniquito us institution has produced
some good Christian scholars) Pitirim Sorok in has describ ed as " late,
degenerate, sensate culture." It is a
culture that exalts moral cretins like Marilyn Manson, Howard Stern, Dennis Rodman, Mike Tyson, Madonna, Boy George,
or whatever other depraved, body-pierced,
tattooe d, anti-hero celebr ity is being offered up for popul ar adulation by the liberal-Ieft culture cartel. It is a culture of
deat h and despa ir that revels in drug abuse,
drunkenness, sexual depravity, colossal
spectacle, ultra-violent entertainment , extravagant materialism, narcissism, disorder, and chaos. But it is not all chaos without purpose; much of the chaos is planned
and managed. As Lenin said: "No one will
deny that a certain amount of chao s is inevitable. But out of this chaos will come
order, the order of revolutio n, which is the
highest stage of chaotic, spontaneous, popular outbreaks ."
- W ILLIAM F. JASPER
THENEWAMERICAN/ JULY 5. 1999
PINCERS STRATEGY
the two supposed antago nists are co nscious ly collaborati ng in the covert effort
to radicalize society.
In the "pincers strategy," politica l elites
acting through legislative and other government bodies apply "pressure from above"
by expanding the power of the state through
proposed "reforms ." At the same time,
"grassroots" radica l groups controlled by
the same elites apply "pressure from below"
by agitating on behalf of the same subversive proposals in the name of "the people."
While this strategy was mapped out by
Lenin as early as 1905, and had bee n adumbrated by Friedrich Engel s in the late
1800s, it received its most deta iled exposi tion by Jan Kozak, a membe r of the Czec h
Communist Party's Secretariat, in 1957 . In
his lecture, which has been translated and
published under the title And Not a Shot Is
Fired, Kozak recalled how, following the
"liberation" of Czec hoslovakia by Soviet
occupatio n troops after World War II, that
nation's Communist Party succeeded in
bringing about a "peaceful and bloodless
cha nge of the national and democratic revolution into a socialist one" by sim ultaneously applying "pressure from above "
through legislative and bureaucratic initia-
Foundation-Funded Mobs
Geyer has doc umented the use of the "pincers stra tegy" in the creation of ethnic
grieva nce groups that have helped radica lize America 's immigration laws. In the ear17
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Eco-R evolution
The "pincers strategy" is also at work in the
contemporary environmentalist movement ,
through which socialist controls have been
fastened on the U.S. econom y at an astonishing rate. "Pressure from below" provided by supposedly "grassroots" radical environmental groups is intended to indoctrinate the public at large regarding
the impending age of scarcity, in which
government restrictions on consumption, population, freedom of movement,
and quality of life will supposedly be
necessary in order to "save the planet."
Complementary "pressure from above"
comes in the form of new eco-Iegislation and bureaucratic regulatory decrees
that expand government control over
nearly every aspect of human society.
In 1977, in order to (as Kozak would
put it) popularize the environmental
movement's "revolutionary demands
"0 and slogans," the Rockefeller Brothers
~ Fund published The Unfinished Agenda,
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"Wildlands" Lockup
Such foundation-funded and taxpayer-subsidized groups collaborated with kindred
orga niza tions from arou nd the world to
create the UN 's Agenda 21, a massive
blueprint for global eco-government, and
the UN's Global Biodiversity Assessment
(GBA), a 1,400-page guidebook to implementing the "soft law" guidelines contained in the world body 's Biodiversity
Treaty. The GBA's central proposal is the
Wildlands Project, through which one-half
of the surface area of the United States
would be re-primitivized and turned into a
vast wilderness area. The product of a
foundation-funded project headed by former Earth First! founder Dave Foreman,
the objective of the Wildlands Projec t is to
roll back industrial civilization and restore
conditions in the Western Hemisphere as
they existed prior to 1492. As John Davis,
editor of the Wildlands Project's journal
Wild Earth , has admitted, proponents of
Lavender Mob
The Gramscian "culture war" and Kozak's
"pincers strategy" are also clearly at work in
the "Lavender Revolution" - the militant
homosexual movement. The Gramscian
aspects of the homosexual revolution are
described with great candor in After the
Ball: How America will Conquer its Fear
& Hatred of Gays in the 90s, a 1989 manifesto written by radical activists Marshall
Kirk and Hunter Madsen .
"Gays must launch a large-scale campaign - we've called it the Waging Peace
campaign - to reach straights through the
mainstream media ," write Kirk and Madsen. "We' re talking about propaganda." The
chief objective is to seize control of the organs of mass indoctrination and use them to
envelop the culture in pro-homosexual messages. "The main thing is to talk about gayness until the issue become s thoroughly
tiresome ... [The] fastest way to convince
straights that homosexuality is common place is to get a lot of people talking about
the subject in a neutral or supportive way."
Once the public has become inured to
homosexuality, the next step is to demonize those refractory holdouts who cling to
conventional morality. Attacking such people with what Kirk and Madsen describe
as "ice-cold, controlled, directed rage," homosexuals and their allies in the media and
political esta blishment seek to vilify and
dehumanize "religious Intransigents" :
"The best way to make homohatred look
bad is to vilify those who victimize gays.
The public should be shown image s of homohaters whose associated traits and atti19
lead ing ca mpus radi cal James Kunen describe d how an associate in the so-called
Student s for a Dem ocratic Societ y (SDS),
one of the most notori ou s and terr oristic of
the 1960s radical gro ups, had been approach ed by representati ves of the Bu siness Intern ati on al Round Tables, wh o
"tr ied to buy up a few rad ica ls." "T hese
men are the wor ld's leading industria lists
and they co nvene to decide how our lives
are goi ng to go ," Kunen pointed out. 'T hey
offered to fina nce our dem on st rati on s in
Chicago. We were also offe red ESSO [that
is, Rockefell er Fo unda tion] mone y. Th ey
want us to mak e a lot of radical commotion so they ca n look more in the center as
they move to the left."
An even more forthright acco unt was offered by Jerry Kirk , an erstwhile student
radic al who had been active in
the SD S, the Communist Party,
and the Black Panth ers. After his
break with the Communist Party
in 1969, Kirk offered the following dra ma tic testimon y before
the Hou se and Se nate Internal
Sec urity panels:
Media Blitz
The ma ss med ia have coo per ated fully in
the Leninist/G ramscian cam paig n outlined
by Kirk and Madsen. It is by no means an
exaggeration to state that in 1999, pro-homosexuality propaganda has infused nearl y
ever y aspect of the entert ainm ent media including movies, television, popul ar "literature" - and the same subversive messages
dominate both public schools and universities . Havin g succeeded in carrying out what
Kirk and Mad sen described as a "planned
psycholo gical attack" on mainstream American society, pro-homosexual activists have
succeeded in creating what Gramsci would
call a new "political hegemony" on beh alf
of the Lavend er Revolut ion.
In early 199 8, lesbian activist Elizabeth
Birch of the Human Right s Campa ign
Fund, a foundation- spon sored hom osexual lobby, exulted that " this co un try has
shifted in the I990s and has tran sform ed ."
Asked Birch : " Where is the least likel y
place anybody wo uld look for leadership
on a so cial iss ue ? Corporat e America,
right ?" She triumphantly reported that the
contrary was true regarding hom osexuality. "By 1991 , almos t no companies in this
country, alm ost non e , had eve n nondi scrimination policies. Ju st a handful of
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Broad-Based Assault
Alb ert Michaels, a history pro fessor at the
State Uni ver sit y of Ne w York at Buffalo ,
has described how Ame rica's culture and
institutions are und er a prol on ged assault
from a "loose, fluctuating .. . alliance with
a funda mental world view," which includes
" multiculturalists, fe m inists, rad ical ho mosexua ls, new historicists, Marxists, and
extre me environmen tali sts." Altho ugh the
allia nce bet ween suc h gro ups, whic h coalesced in the radicalism of the I960s, may
at first glance appear to be " loose" and
"fl uct uating," it is in fact a cohesive effort
defi ned by the strategic visio n of Anto nio
Gramsci and Jan Kozak. This co nclusion
is not alarmist speculation, but is supported by masses of ind irect evide nce and by
firs t-person accounts pro vided by so me
who have participated in the co nsp iracy.
In his 1968 book The Strawberr y State-
Young peop le have no conception of the conspiracy's strategy of pressure from above and
pressure from below.... Th ey have no
idea that they are playing into the hands
of the Establishment they claim to hate.
Th e radicals think they're fightin g the
forces of the super rich, like Rockefeller
and Ford, and they don't realize that it
is precisely such forces which are behind their own revolution , financing it,
and using it for their own purpo ses.
WI L LI AM N ORM A N GRIGG
CREATING CAUSES
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"Bourgeois Morality"
Chri stian condemnation of homosexuality
and other sexual licentiousness is anathema to the cultural elite, who view such
remnants of "bourgeoi s morality" as intol erable threats to their right to every form
of sensate deb auchery imaginable and as a
thorny impediment to their full socialist
agenda. So over the past three decades, the
federal government and huge tax-exempt
foundations have showered billions of dollars in grants on the like s of Alfred Kinsey,
Sol Gordon, Lester Kirkendall , Mary
Calderone, Ma ster s & John son , and other
champions of the Lavender Left. And the
CFR opinion cartel has given the equi valent of billions of dollars more in the form
of "news" and "e ntertainment," aimed at
normalizing homosexual depravity in
American culture. The justifiable outrage
of millions of Americans over federal
funding of the sadomasochistic, "homoerotic art" of Robert Mapplethorpe, Tim
Miller, Holl y Hughes, and other degenerates has not cau sed the per vert lobb y or
their powerful patrons to aba ndo n their
wretched agenda . In fact, they are pressing
forward with greater arrogance and fury.
In virtually every other area of sexual
immorality, we again see the same coalition of socialist/Communist/Insider forces
at work. Ince st, fornication, adultery, and
pedophilia all were given mighty boosts in
the 1960s by UNESCO, Planned Parenthood, and SIECUS (Sex Inform ation and
Educ ation Coun cil of the United State s),
and all have been heavily funded from the
same fedgov -foundation trou ghs.
SIECUS director Isadore Rubin was of22
ficially identified as a member of the Commun ist Party, and many other SIEC US officials and authors are, or have been , notorious Cornmunist- fron ters and avowed
milit ant humanists. And they have floo ded
our schoo ls with a non- stop ocean of taxfunded filth masquerading as "sex education ," " health awareness," "family life ,"
"AIDS education," and "diversity training."
Nevertheless, the squalid SIECUS offerings, which have been endorsed by (and
even funded by) Playb oy porn king and
militant anti-Chris tia n Hum anist Hugh
Hefner, have also been end orsed by the
American Medical Association, the
YMCA, the PTA, the National Educa tion
Association, and oth er org anizati on s that
have been subverted , bribed, or tricked into
adding their prestige to the corrupt scheme.
The CFR media mandarinate portray these
advocates of lurid licentiou sness as moderate, sensible, educated voices of tolerance,
reason, and progress, while those who adhere
to Christian morals are depicted as priggish,
insufferabl y sanctimonious, sex-repressed,
puritanical fuddy-duddie s clinging to an extinct "Ozzie and Harriet" era. Or, even worse,
they are presented as dangerous, eye-bulging,
slaveri ng, slobbering, Bible-thumping bigots
and homophobes.
Feeding at the same fedgov-foundation
teats and basking in the media lim eli ght
are the harridans of NOW and their radical
feminazi sisterhoo d. Betty Fried an, Glori a
Stein em , Margaret Me ad, Sim one de
Beauvoir, Bern adette Devlin, June Sochen ,
et al. are not merel y feminists, but "femiLeninists," Don't take our word for it; listen to Ms. Sochen, who has said: "Most
women's lib groups . . . share the MarxistLenini st per spective of the evils of a capitali st society."
Thi s should help explain the unmitigated hostility of these radic al women to the
"re ligious right " and their special animus
toward "dogmatic" Chri stians. It also helps
explain why their ilk is constantl y put forward by the CFR media clerisy as the
"s po kespersons" for " women's right s."
Alon g with former Communist Party
leader William Z. Foster, thes e feminoid
radicals hold that "religion is the sworn enemy of liberty, education, science . Such a
mon strous sys tem of dupery and exploitation is totally foreign to a socialist society."
We should stipulate that this see thing antip ath y doe s not extend to all reli gion s.
Many of these "atheists" are enthusiastic
adhere nts of Wicca and other occult rel igions. Many feminist bookstores are brim-
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RULE BY POLLS
Re public or Democracy?
According to the published notes of Dr.
'" James McHenry, a delegate from Maryland
~ to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, as
~ Benjamin Franklin was leaving Indepen~ dence Hall on the final day of the assembly
~ a woman asked, "Well Doctor, what have
:;;
~ we got, a republic or a monarchy ?" To
which Franklin replied, "A republic .. . if
President relies on media -cooked opinions to herd public into statist policies.
you can keep it." Franklin and the other
ongress is out of touch with the years. " When Good Morning America cor- Founding Fathers recognized the essential
American people," asserted Bill respondent Charlie Gibson interjected that attributes of a properly structured republiClinton during a June 4th inter- "the polls have shown that thi s country can form of government, and shunned not
view on ABC's Good Mornin g America would accept registration of firearms ," Mr. only monarchy, but democracy as well.
program. Referring to the massacre at Lit- Clinton 's reply essentially conceded that
Explanations of why the U.S . was estabtleton , Colorado's Columbine High School, the polls do not necessarily represent an ac- lished as a republic rather than a democracy,
and why it is imperative to keep it that way,
in which two pyschotic teenagers murdered curate reflection of the electorate's mood.
"This [Republican-led] Congress came were unnecessary prior to about 1930, when
12 innocent victims before turning their
guns on themselves, Mr. Clinton declared to power after the 1994 elections because the carefully orchestrated drive to mislead the
that "Littleton . . . seared the conscience of in critical races the people who voted for American people about the matter was barethe nation." Mr. Clinton insisted that "the more modest [gun control measures], like ly underway, Today, however, clarification is
question is whether, on gun issues . . . the the Brady Bill - which the polls showed required lest critics of "democracy" be
people who now constitute the House and the voters support - got beat," the Presi- viewed as unpatriotic, disloyal, or worse .
A republic entails rule by written law,
the Sen ate will pass what is sensible." In the dent recalled. " You say I should be rec Clinton Administration, "sensible" gun ommending more.... Should we do more? banked and curbed by checks and balances,
control measures, like mo st matters of pol- Should people ought to have to register with basic individual rights protected from
icy, are defined by reference to opinion their guns like they register their cars? Do the pugnacity of majorities. Democracy, in
I think that? Of course, I do .... But I tell contrast, means majority rule. The paradigm
poll s, rather than by the Constitution.
you, the American people may have one of Democracy is the lynch mob or rape
opinion, but they elected the Congress and gang. Were our government intended to be
Pushing Past Congress
a democracy, a razor-thin majority could
Referring to new federal restrictions on the the Congress doesn't have that opinion."
empower the central government to crimiThis
exchange
reveals
that
for
Bill
Clin
purchase of firearms at gun shows, which
passed the Senate on the strength of Vice ton, and the Gramscian political elite he nalize the private ownership of firearms, or
President AI Gore's tie-breaking vote , Mr. typifies, it is opinion polls, and not polling to abolish protections for freedom of speech
Clinton stated: "1 want to pass what we 've places, that define the values and prefer- or assemb ly, or otherwi se decimate our conpassed in the Senate in the House. Then I ences of the electorate. The display also stitutionally protected individual right s want us to come back with a second set of captures one key facel of the Gramscian or, for that matter, to liquidate an entire class
recommendations . I intend to keep work- strategy at work: The central government, or race of people. The restraints on governing on this . I think this is going to take in collusion with a statist media, is seeking ment power written into our Constitution
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Manipulating Opinions
In similar fashion, politically manipulated
polls are used to generate inten se pressure
on the publ ic to co nform to the "public
will," and to demoralize and isolat e those
THENEWAMERICAN / JULY 5, 1999
who oppose the trend. Economi st Llewelyn Rock well, president of the Ludwig von
Mises Institute, has observe d: "If polls are
trumpeted loudl y and often, yo u can be
sure the message is for all political disside nts to fall in line ." The mes sage is an
even more pointed one to elected repre senta tives. Frank Newport of the Ga llup
polling organization has bluntly advised
that if politicians "can't move the public,
they sho uld move closer to where the public is, because in a democracy [the people]
are the ultima te rulers."
The post-Littleton gun control blitz illustrates how poll-driven democracy can be
used to undermine constit utional protections by politicians who seek to "move closer to where the publ ic is." George Washington once described the function of the
Senate as akin to that of a saucer; it was intended to "cool" intemperate legislation that
was passed in the heat of publi c passion .
Yet, after brief initial resistance, Senate Majori ty Leader Trent Lott agreed to consider
the Clinton Adm inistration's gun control
proposa l in the immediate afterma th of the
Columbine High School tragedy, when the
emotional impact of the tragedy crea ted a
poll-driven window of opportunity for an
assault on the Constitution.
Remarkably, it was the House of Representatives that served as a brake on the postLittleton gun control assault. This prompted
Bill Clinton to complain, "Did the House of
Representatives make a priority out of what
was passed in the Senate and pass it right
through? No. They went home before taking
action. Why? To give the NRA time to lobby them, to water down what was passed."
From Mr. Clinton's perspective, the proper
role of Congress is to enact immediately
whatever executive branch initiative happens
to benefit from a temporary "spike" in the
opinion polls. (It is also worth noting how
Mr. Clinton took care to associate, in Leninist fashion, his congressional opponents with
his designated hate target - the NRA.)
Journ alist Robert Novak offered a fascinating illustration of this fact in his March
8th co lumn for the Washington Post. At
Novak 's reque st, the revered Zogby International polling firm asked a sample of756
likely voters to choose between the following two statements:
Statement A: "You are a citizen of the
U.S. and have respon sibilities to the nation
as a whole . Your tax cut should be used for
good purposes as defined by the federal
government."
Statement B: "Whatever you receive as
a tax cut is yours, and you should be free
to spend it as you wis h."
Zogby fou nd that 68.1 percent of those
polled chose Statement "B" - "including
60 percent of Democrats, 71.2 perce nt of
women, and 73.1 percent of Africa n Americans," reported Novak.
Zogby posed another set of question s to
the same sample concerning Social Security:
Statement A: "All individuals should
be free to make the [Soc ial Security] investme nt as he or she sees fit."
Statement B: "Many individuals either
lack the knowledge or ability to make good
investment decisions. It is better that the
government make the investment for them."
Statement "A" was favored by nearly a
2-1 margin - 58. 1 percent to 29.9 percent ,
with "all subgroups favor ing ind ividual
freedom," Novak observed.
The questions posed in this poll addressed some of the key tenets of soc ialism, namely the assumption that an allwise cen tra l gove rn men t should manage
society's wealth, and that the gove rnme nt
defines its subjects ' "responsibilities to the
nation as a who le" rather than protectin g
the individual rights of citizens.
Zogby's findings illustrate that among all
Americans, including key pmt s of the "Clinton coalition," there is a solid potential constituency in favor of limited government and
individual rights. Of course, these findings
received no significan t publicity by the
Gramscian managers of the opinio n cartel,
since they would tend to impede the progress
toward victory in the "battle of democracy."
In the Leninist concept of mass democracy, polls are intended to manipulate public
opinion and mobilize discontent on behalf
of the effort to erect the total state. In our republic, the polls that have decisive impact
are those at which educated, responsible citizens can hold their elected representatives
accountable to uphold the Constitution and protect our rights and property.
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n the days of the Korean War, Americans were shocked to learn of former
American POWs in the Co mmunist
north returnin g home in various stages of
severe ment al and psychological traum a,
convinced of the reality of events that never took place and uncertain of their co re
beliefs. Americans were told of
a disturbing number of incidents
of collaboration with the enemy
amo ng capt ured U.S. soldiers.
Our war experience in Korea,
the first direct conflict against a
Communi st foe, was something
genuinely new : For the first
time, we were confronted by an
enemy not content merely to inflic t battl efield cas ualties, but
who waged war directly, by devilishly subtle means, against our
psychological will to resist, and
against our entire system of beliefs. Unable to prevail on the
convent ional battlefield , the
Communists were fighting a new kind of
war, subjec ting captured Americans to sophisticated mental and psyc hologica l tortures, including the use of mind-cont rol
drugs , to turn them aga inst their countrymen . Foreign correspondent Edward
Hunter, who first investigated Communist
psychological warfare in depth, coined a
word for this newest, most frightening
weapon in the Communist arsenal of subversive tactics: brainw ashing.
Stimulus, Response
Russian behaviorist Ivan P.
Pavlov, whose experiments on
the conditioning of animal behavior are well-known even in
our day, was already a famou s man when
Lenin 's Bolsheviks seized power in Russia
in 1917. Lenin and his revoluti onary cabalists were fascinated by Pavlov's behavioral work with dogs. Pavlov had co nditioned dogs to respond to stimuli, such as
uncontrolled salivation at the ringing of a
bell, which the animals had been trained to
assoc iate with food. The Russian Communists had discovered that few men would
voluntarily submit to their collectivist program. In Pavlov' s work , they recognized
the potential for developing techniques to
condition (or, more accurately, recondition) hum an respo nses , reshaping the
minds of recalcitra nt foes of the Revolution. After all, in the godless philosophy of
Communism, no distinction was made between man and beast. If men were treated
like Pavlov's animal subjects, Lenin and
his fellow revolutionarie s rea soned , they
ought to respond in similar ways.
While other Russian scientists, writers,
and thinkers of every stripe were imprisoned
and murdered by Lenin and his successor,
Stalin, Pavlov was given plush new facilities
for his research, and encouraged with lavish
state funding. Pavlov was probably never
aware of the true motives of the Communists; he lived under constant supervision in
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lied POWs. Yet the Insiders and their Communist stooges, whose overarching goal is
socialist world government, never planned
to confin e brainwashin g to a few captured
enem y soldiers. Rather, mass indoctrination, as Edward Hunt er observe d, is intended to subdue entire populatio ns, by
mind -numbing form s of mass entertainment, and saturated the masses with Party
propagand a. Even language itself was remade to the specifications of the Party.
Words were destroyed and syntax simplified, as English was transformed into a bastardized technobabble called "News peak."
As Syme, Winston 's friend who was involved in this linguistic revision, explained:
The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end
we shall make thoughtcrime literally
imposs ible, because there will be no
word s in which to express it. Every
concept that can ever be needed will
be expressed by exactly one word ,
with its meaning rigidly defined and
all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out
and forgotten.... [T]he process will
still be continuing long after you and
I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.... The
Revolution will be complete when the
language is perfect.
tribute to the virtues of service. The President remarked that the lives of Americorps
volunteers "will be richer and better. They
will be wiser sooner.... Every Ameri can
needs to serve." Of course, he meant "serve
the state." Yet no one batted an eye. We are
reminded of the Orwelli an premi se that
"Freedom is Slavery." The astonishing thing
is that political leaders like Bill Clinton can
now make such statements unchallenged.
The war in Yugoslavia is being carried out
against a backdrop of some of the most
brazen newspeak the world has yet seen,
preparing and conditioning Americans for
the eventual ground invasion and occupation,
under UN auspices, of a sovereign territory.
We must prevent the fighting from spreading, we were informed, even as we unilaterally widened the conflict by injecting NATO
forces into a civil war. We must help the
Kosovars, our leaders temporized, even as
they admitted that the humanitarian catastrophe precipitated by NATO bombing had
been anticipated by military analysts. The socalled opposition provided by the Republican leadership, as usual, has no quibble with
the morality or legality of the war, but offers
only tepid criticisms of supposedly rudderless policy, together with recommendations
for more troops and better-defined military
objectives. All of this, we are told, is to set
the stage for a more peaceful 21st century.As
with Orwell's totalitarians, so with tyrants
everywhere: "War is Peace."
One of the surest techniques of the propa gandist is the misapplication of numbers
and statistics . Who , after all, can dispute
cold , hard figures ? We are lied to about the
deficit, the national debt, the condition of
Social Security and Medicare fund s, about
econ omic growth, about crime statistics,
and about anything else that serves the purposes of the Clintonian Mini stry of Truth .
Such is the numinou s awe with which most
Ameri cans have been conditioned to revere
numb ers-crunching economists and statistician s, that the most outrag eo us falsehoods, backed by cooked statistics, are
now routi nely peddl ed with sca rce ly a
peep of dissent. Trul y, in the Clinton era,
as in 1984, " Ignorance is Stren gth."
The substitution of raw data and statistics
for reasoned discourse is only one form of
language simplification designed to curtail the
dialogue of dissent. In our day, hosts of terms
indispensable to political and economic
thought have been stripped of their original
meanings. How many Americans realize that
Infiltrating Education
One of the most potent weapons in the Insiders' arsenal for mass indoctrin ation is
public educ ation . In recent years, many
Americ ans have become aware of the hostility of public schools to Christian faith, to
traditional moral values, and to families.
Their unblushing consistency in retailing the
official line on the obsolescence of national
sovereignty, the benevolence of the UN, and
other vital planks in the Insiders' propaganda platform , is also attracting attention.
In 1948, UNESCO (the UN's educational
arm) produced a revealing pamphlet entitled
Towards World Understandin g, which contained recomm endations for using schools
to reeduc ate children in the gospel of socialism and world government. "Before the
child enter s school, his mind has already
been profoundly marked , and often injuri ously, by earlier influences," the authors observe in the opening paragraph. The pamphlet
discusses ways by which young students
may be "freed from nationalist prejudices"
and made to understand the need for "fulfillment of the obligations of a world citizen."
Who is to blame for instilling in children
those "nationalist prejudices," from which
THE NEW AMERICAN / JULY 5, 1999
Numbers Scam
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Looking to God
Brainwashing has adva nced fro m mindbend ing exper imentation on paws to
mass indoctrination designed to neutr alize
entire popul ations. We are saturated with
brainwashing every day of our lives, unless
we do not read the newspaper, watch television, listen to the radio, attend a publ ic
schoo l, or invol ve ourse lves in any way
with American popul ar culture and mass
entertainment. Short of moving to Antarctica , how ca n we resist the all-pervadi ng
tentacles of socialist indoc trination?
Edward Hunter noted that brainwashing
those paws who were unmoved by enemy propaganda were deeply religious. We
should therefore not be surprised that a society that is losin g its spiritual moorin gs
and its moral convictions is now finding itself adrift in a sea of propaganda, whose
curre nts are bearing us toward the shoals
of political enslavement.
As Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci
understood, socialist revolutionaries must
capture cultural and religious institutions
in order to achieve complete victory.
America 's moral decline has been hastened
by a near-total defilement of our culture,
espec ially our forms of mass entertainment. None of this has been acci de ntal.
Our dizzying decl ine in standards of art
and entertainment, our renun ciati on of
"outmoded" sexual mores, our acceptance
of the abomination of abortion, and many
other symptoms of moral declin e, are being enco urage d by an Insider -spon sored
plan to sap us of our will to resist. The only
sure co untermeas ure for brainwashin g is
moral charac ter, coupl ed with sound understandin g of the principles of freedom,
and gro unded in religious faith. May
America come to understand this before it
is too late.
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STEVE B ONTA
An Annotated Bibliography
he following list of books will provide a helpful guide to
those interested in a deeper understanding of elite power politics and the larger cultural-social revolution which is the
"prefigurative dimension" of the political revolution that is battering and undermining American society, institutions, and values .
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli , New York, NY: Bantam Classics, reissue edition, 1984 [1532], 147 pages, paperback, $3.95.
The Discourses, by Niccolo Machiavelli, New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 1985 [c. 1517],528 pages, paperback, $10 .95.
The Law, by Frederic Bastiat, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1998 edition , [1850], 79 pages, paperback, $2.95. (To order, see the ad on page 43.)
President Clinton's political ethos has been described by some
critics as "Machiavellian." It is a reference to the standard of behavior for princes (and presidents) espoused nearly 500 years ago
by Italian politician and political thinker Niccolo Machiavelli (14691527) in The Prince.
Machiavelli believed that issues of right and wrong are irrelevant
to how a prince should govern. He admonished rulers to completely disregard the question of whether their actions are virtuous or vile,
humane or heartless, urging instead that their ethics be determined
solely by the circumstance and what will lead most quickly and efficiently to success. Machiavelli was not concerned with good or
evil, but only with political efficiency. "While every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel," he wrote , he must nevertheless "not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose
ofkeeping his subjects united and faithful." Ideally, the prince would
be both feared and loved, but if forced to choose, "it is much safer
to be feared than loved," since "love is held by a chain of obligation
which, men being selfish, is broken whenever it serves their purpose;
but fear is maintained by a dread of punishment which never fails."
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The Comm unist Manifesto , by Karl Marx , preface by Friedric h Engels, App leton, WI: American Opinion Book Services, 1974 edition
[1848], 56 pages, paperback, $3.00. (To order, see the ad on page
43 .)
Perhaps the most pertinent aspec t of the notorio us Manifesto today is a comparison of its ten-p oint plank for transfor ming a capitalist system into a social ist nirvana with where the U.S. now stands.
The corre lation provides a revealing and disturbing look at the degree to which we have been begui led into following the Marxist
path .
Marx and Engels conjured up the Manifesto in 1847 (it was published in January 1848) at the behest of an organization called the
League of Just Men , which had formerly been known as the League
of Communists. Marx , the principal author, ranked so far down the
conspiratorial pecking order that his name did not appear on the document for another 24 years. In calling for the abolition of private
property, the family, religion, and separate nations (all of which are
competitors with the state for the loyalty of individuals), Marx bluntly stated that "Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the
forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions."
Step by patient step, the planks proposed by Marx have been , or
are being, implemented here in the U.S. The secon d, for example,
called for "A heavy progressive or grad uated income tax," which is
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Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, by Carroll Quigley, Rancho Palo s Verdes, CA: GSG & Associates, 1997
edition [1966], 1,348 pages, hardcover, $39 .95. (To order, see the ad
on page 43.)
During his acce ptance speech at the 1992 Democratic Natio nal
Convention, Bill Clinton paid homage to the late Georgetown University history professor, Carroll Quigley , who had been one of Mr.
Clinton 's college mentors . The President-to-be lauded Dr. Quigley
for having served as an inspirat ion who had helped shape his political perspective.
The compliment was revealing, since Quigley had years earlier
written a book exposing the existence of a huge conspiratorial network striving to control the world .
After noting the behind-the-scenes dominance of the Eastern Establi shment's Council on Foreign Relations (CFR, to which President Clinton and scores of key Admini stration personnel currently
belong ) over the affairs of our nation, Quigley stated in Tragedy And
Hope: "I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted in the early 1960s to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to
most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and
to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently to a few of its policies...but in general my chief difference of
opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown , and I believe its role in
history is significant enough to be known ."
Quigley descri bed a secret socie ty estab lished in 1891 by Cecil
Rhode s (of Rhodes Scholars hip fame). Its purpose was to unite the
Engl ish-speaking peoples, then bring the remai ning habitable parts
of the planet under its con trol. After the death of Rhodes, the activities of the movement were shouldered by his successors, who established semi-secret "Round Table" groups in the chief British dependencies and the United States . The Round Tables, in turn, founded the Royal Institute of International Affairs. An American counterpart (the American Institute for International Affairs) was
launched in the United States and subsequently incorporated in 1921
as the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bill Clinton 's political coach also endorsed the not-a-dime'sworth -of-difference concept of political parties, asserting that the
"argument that the two partie s should repre sent oppo sed ideals and
policies, one, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea . Instead , the two parties should be almo st identical, so that
the American people can 'throw the rascals out ' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy." When voters become fed up with one of the clones, he continued, they "should
be able to replace it, every four years if neces sary, by the other party, which will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same
basic policies."
THENEW AMERICAN / JULY 5, 1999
Such counsel recalls Thomas Jefferson 's observa tion that "S ingle
acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accide ntal opinio n of a day;
but a serie s of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably thro ugh every change of ministers, too plai nly
prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery."
The Shadows ofPower: The Council on Foreign Relations and the
American Decline , by James Perlo ff, Appleto n, WI: Western Islands, 1988, 264 pages, paperback, $ 10.95. (To order, see the ad on
page 43 .)
Though not the first expose of the extent to which memb ers the
CFR , and such sister organization s as the Trilat eral Comm ission,
have manipul ated U.S. foreign and domestic policies to fit the conspiratorial blueprint for world government, The Shadows of Power
remains one of the most lucid and convincing. Beginnin g with the
early origins of the CFR, the author tracks its footprints through one
Admini stration after another, from President Franklin D. Roosevelt
to Ronald Reagan, detailing how CFR operatives have shaped and
implem ented the disastrous policies that have for decades caused the
U.S. to seemingly slip on virtually every banana peel on the international sidewalk. The author scrutinizes the Great Depre ssion, the
media, and the way World Wars I and II, Korea, and Vietnam were
instigated and co nducted to furth er cru cial plank s of the internationalist agenda.
Ralph Waldo Emerso n once observe d that every mind must make
its choice between truth or repose, since it could not have both. Similarly, James Perloff suggests that "we America ns must make a
choice - libel1y or new world order," and warns: "If we wait too long,
a national crisis may sweep us into the wrong decision irrevocably."
America's Thirty Years War, by Balint Vazsonyi, Washington, DC:
Regne ry Publishing, 1998, 285 pages, hardcover, $24 .95. (To order,
see the ad on page 43.)
Vazsonyi, a concert pianist, esca ped from Communi st Hungary to
the United States in the wake of the failed 1956 upri sing of Hungarian freedom fi ghter s. Having lived under both Nazi and Soviet
occupations of his former homeland, he was shocked to see socialism permeatin g the free bastion of the West. For at least three
decades, he writes. "a ll aspects of our lives - and all our institutions - have bee n moving in one direction : away from America's
founding principles."
Refle cting on the supposed dem ise of Communism in the old Soviet Union, he points out that "Fundamental attitudes don't disappear
into thin air. People might die, but ideas rarely do, especially when
the idea is one of only two major strains of polit ical thought that excite the people, dominate the minds, and determine the affairs of man
for centuries." He recalls many of the historical transformatio ns of
the sociali st Idea. " It has been ' Bolshevism ' in Russia, ' Fascism' in
Italy, 'National Socialism' in Germany ... and the ' Long Ma rch' and
'Cultural Revolution ' in Chin a.... The Idea has been successfully installed in America 's schools, as well as in most of the informati on
and entertainment media . Academia, Hollywood, the news media,
the National Education Association, and the environmental movement are far more effe ctive than any politi cal party. And, as high
school textbooks, college co urses, television newscasts, or national
newspapers attest, the purpose is the transf ormation of America."
Ame rica 's Thirty Years War is replete with perceptive insight, such
as the author 's comparison of the bibli cal Ten Comm andm ents to
the ten amendments that compri se the Constituti on 's Bill of Rights.
He contends that the two codes are so closely intertwined in principle that "o ne avails onese lf of both - or neither," and that the bulk
of our country's problems can be attributed to the extent to which,
"one by one, these constraints have been abandoned, even ridiculed."
Global Tyranny ... Step By Step: The United Nations and the
Emerging World Order, by William F. Jasper, Appleton, WI: Western Islands, 1992, 350 pages, paperback, $ 12.95. (To order, see the
ad on page 43.)
This important overview of the threat posed by the United Nation s
as the nexus of the new world order is as pertinent and enlightening
today as when publi shed just prior to the election of Bill Clinton.
Perhaps even more so, since it enables the reader to reflect back on
what was being planned at the time, and compare notes with how
things stand today. For example, William Jasper quotes Strobe Talbott, then a memb er and direc tor of the Council on Foreign Relations and editor-at-large of Time magazine, as pleading for a global
government that could supposedly be limited in scope (pledges to
restrict government genies once they are out of the jug litter the politicallandfill). Once in office, President Clinton named Talbott ambassador to the former Soviet republics, and later Deput y Secret ary
of State, where today he plays a key role in NATO's escalating and
blatantly illegal and unethical war of aggression in Kosovo.
It is also pertin ent to recall Jasper 's reference, while discussing
plan s for a new world army, to a 1992 column by Los An geles Times
columnist William Pfaff. Pfaff, a "committed intern ationalist," applauded that year's UN intervention in Yugoslavia specifically because it represented a significant further erosion of national sovereignty. "Slowly, too slowly, the great mutation occurs," he wrote .
'The principle of abso lute national sove reignty is being overturned.... The civil war in Yugoslavia has rendered this service to us."
Bolstering his case with copious documentation, Jasper reviews
the drive for world government in such areas as the environment,
popul ation control, religion, money, and the family . He also describes the deci sive role played by memb ers of the CFR in layin g
the groundwork for, and creating, and subsequently nouri shing the
UN. And he exposes the sordid Red, Nazi, and Socialist background s
of many of those who have served at the UN, from Secret aries-Gen era l on down.
Globa l Tyranny is an important handbook for Americans anxiou s
to become well-informed activist s in the effort to halt, then reverse,
the step-by-step sell-out of our country to a gang of international
bunco artists.
Con spiracy for Global Control, special report, THE NEWAMERICAN, expanded 1997 edition of the Septemb er 16, 1996 issue, 80
pages, $2.50 (10/$ 12.50; 25/$25.00; 100/$90.00), postpaid . (To order, see the ad on page 43.)
And finally, a reminder that this magazine 's special report on conspiracy is still available . Movie buffs may recall that it served as a
backdrop for scenes in the Mel Gibson/Juli a Roberts hit, Conspiracy Theory, More than 600,000 copies have been distributed to date
in an attemp t to create understanding about the fact (not "theory") of
conspiracy. The topics covered in more than 20 articles include the
CFR and Trilateral Commission (including lists and charts naming
names); the conspiracy's historical roots, which run back more than
two centurie s; the extent to which our government has consistently
aided the advance of Communism and other collecti vist movement s
worldwide ; concise rebutt als to arguments debunkin g the existence
of the conspiracy; the role played by large foundati ons in the "pressure from above, pressure from below" pincer s movement; the utilization of war as a major conspiratorial tool; the myth that formerly "bad" communists have transmogrified into "good " ones; an expose of false conspirac y theorie s; and an annotated bibliography of
over 100 key books and other resources. There are also suggestions
about what can be done to expo se and eventually route the perniciou s
plotters who seek to mire the U.S. in a collectivist one-world bog .
- ROBERT W. LEE
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IS IT TOO LATE?
public housing projects, about how we're have been driven out of office month s Mr. Clinton had committed perjury and obgoi ng to have weapon swee ps and more ago," Weyrich wrote in his letter. How so? structed j ustice in connection with the
thing s like that to try to make people safer The Amer ican peopl e, in spite of all the Lewinsky scandal?
in their communities."
cultura l subversion to which they have
How many knew enough about the
The President made those remarks in the been subjec ted, were outraged about Bill Chinagate scandal to recognize that bribery
context of his directive - which was ruled Clinton 's sleazy affair with a White House and treason were involved?
unconstituti onal - to conduct warrantless intern. Many America ns stupidly support
What would have happened had they
searches for wea pons in publi c housing his policies, but they do so in spite of his been informed?
projects. More recently, he has exploited known philandering and prevaricating .
Mr. Clinton and his handlers know only
the Littleton, Colorado shooting tragedy to
Admittedly, the American people would too well the answ ers to these questions,
push forw ard a broader anti-gun agend a. have been even more outraged in times past, which is why they have taken such pain s
But he has not been as candid with the pub- and that additional outrage could have made to keep the truth from comin g out.
lic at large as he was with his MTV
Yet in spite of the cover-up, Mr.
audience abo ut his willingness to
Clinton was impeached ! One-third
limit freedom. Why is that - unless
of the American people supported
Bill Clint on recog nizes that the
impeachment, according to the meAmerican people as a whole are not
dia-trumpeted public opinion polls.
yet ready to embrac e that message?
The actual percentage of support,
Unless he knows that the American
which had to be higher than the acpeople possess a stronger moral
knowledged figure, was sufficient to
compass and a smaller degree of niforce the House of Representatives
hilism than the present moral clito do its duty. That victory occurred
mate in Washin gton or Hollywood
in spite of the fact that the political
would sugges t?
pundits had prattled for month s
If middl e America had already
about how Mr. Clinton would not be
adopted the worldview of Bill Clinimpeached . The intensity of the inton and other proponents of amoralformed pressure on Congress, genity, then there would no longer be
erated mostly by a grassroots acany reason for pretense. The Amertivism, proved them wrong.
ican peopl e themselve s would, at
Representative Bob Barr (Rthat point , be willing to exchan ge
GA) , an early supporter for imthe insecurit y of freedom for the sepeachment in the House, told THE
curity of Big Brother. The y would
NEWAMERICANin 1997 that "pubhave lost not just their morality, but
lic under standin g and involvement
their self-re liance, and they would
are essential. Th at' s what is necesno longer possess the noble attributsary before some members will be
es of free men and women.
willing to move forward formall y."
Instead, the usurpers have been
The following year he acknowlunable , even afte r decad es of susedged that "I don 't think we would
tained effort, to accompli sh the ima: have gotten an impeachment inlZ"-.... : quiry vote without the efforts of
portant step of ridding the AmeriPresident Clinton convinces an MTV audience that
can people of their gun s. Not ju st federal government must severely limit their freedom. [the National Impe ach Clinton]
A.C.T.LO.N . [Committee] and oththe Second Amendment, but a centurie s-old traditi on of gun ownership, the difference. Additional information also er grassroots mobilization effort s."
stands in the usurp ers' way. Thi s is why would have made a difference in the public
they must decepti vely argue that they attitude, which is why the Clinton spin- Homeschooling Phenomenon
merely seek to keep guns out of the hands meisters attempted to limit the impeach- Another indication that middle America is
of criminals and not the law-abiding, or ment debate to whether or not the President more moral than the cultural elitists would
that they want to reduc e crime, but not had lied about sex and whether or not lying readily admit is the present mass exodus
freedom. Even then they must shameless- about sex is an impeachable offense. They fro m the morall y bankrupt public school
ly exploit national tragedies such as the largely succeeded in that strategy of decep- system and the consequent growth in priColumbine High School shootin g in order tion and cover-up, thanks in part to the will- vate alternatives. Homeschooling, the chief
ingness of the Republic an leadership to ig- beneficiary of that exodu s, has mushto make incremental progress.
nore the shocking "Chinagate" evidence roomed in the space of a few years from a
co unter-culture phen omen on fighting for
Im pe a c hm e nt Victory
pointing to bribery and treason.
But Mr. Clinton is still President, and Paul
Yes, Mr. Clinton was acquitted by the the right to teach children at home into a
Weyrich sees in the failure to remove him Senate. But ask yourse lf these questions vibrant mainstream movement with hunfrom office confirmation that the moral ma- before co ncluding with Weyrich that the dreds of thousands of families and over
jority has been lost. "If there really were a moral majority no longer exists in America: one million children.
The growing political clout of that
moral majority out there, Bill Clinton would
How many Americans understood that
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fro m pre -Chr istian cultures , slow ly refashioned life in acco rdance with Christ's
teachin g.
Thi s culture and civi lizatio n were never
perfect, since there ca n be no perfect paradise on earth, but were always interlaced
wit h those flaws and fai lings intrinsic to
fallen man. Moreover, from time to time
figures appea red in history who violated
41
Moment of Truth
One of the most salient reasons for the success of the Gramscian method, despite the
vulnerability of its hideous worldview, is
the fact that defenders of our free institutions consistently allow Gramscian con spirators to choose the battleground and
define the rules of engagement. This is a
reliable recipe for disaster, given the pervasiveness of Gramscian subversion - the
relentless assault upon traditional values
that is conducted through the "news" media , television, corrupting movies, and the
like . The Gramscians are masters at conjuring up an array of hallucinations - for
example, that everything will be satisfactory without any burden or bother, that the
maintenance of civilization requires no effort, that our adversaries are really not as
bad or as serious as they appear to be, and
that we are individually too helpless to stop
the "inevitable." These fatal delusions, diligently and maliciously sown by our ene mies, permeate our culture, and will continue to paralyze honorable Americans unless and until those who want to restore our
liberties are sufficiently organized to seize
the initiative from the forces of organized
subversion.
Were only a significant minority of the
American people to awaken to the danger,
clear away the clutter of short-term transitory issues, of petty rivalries and petty
thought, and come to a realization of its inherent ability to alter the course of history,
then we might resume our journey up that
ascending avenue to which we referred
earlier, the path towards freedom, dignity,
decency, and civilized life .
To be sure , none of the struggles and sacrifices that are requisite to the success of our
cause compare in even the smallest degree
to the supreme catastrophe of the triumph
of our enemies. Better to be generous towards those who defend us than to have our
wealth plundered by those who hate us. Better to live more sparingly for a time than to
live in rags for centuries. Better to feel the
pain of strenuous effort for a few short years
than for our children to feel the sting of the
despot's whip for eons to come .
The moment of truth is at hand , and God
has given us the gift of choosing. Which
shall it be?
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In Pursuit of Victory
he very fact that you are reading
this magazine is testimony to the
fact that free and open discussion is
very much alive in America. But it remains
under relentless attack .
Within 24 hours of the dreadful Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton attacked what American author and poet
William Cullen Bryant termed the "right
to discuss freely and openly ... all political questions." The nation's chief executive targeted the internet and talk radio ,
both of which are heavily spiced with facts
and perspective taken from THE
NEW AMERICAN. His unambiguous purpose was to silence the
nation 's "alternative" media. He
wanted a federal muzzle placed
on the steadily growing and increasingly effective competition
that continues to cut deeply into
the dominance held by CFR-led
misinformation dispensers.
Mr. Clinton's assault on free
speech only energized his foes .
And if the welcome trend continues - away from doctored news
and toward the telling of truth
and exposure of falsehoods freedom and responsibility will
not only endure but, after a period of damage repair, burst into
new and glorious heights.
Truth is contagious. So is courage. Any
single person who employs both can become a leader in his neighborhood, in his
community, in his state - even in his nation. Edmund Burke, the great English
statesman and friend of America, noted:
cil on Foreign Relations and other fountains of subversion would have remained
in the shadows; scores of ex-U.S. senators,
congressmen, and federal appointees
would have enjoyed free rein to subvert our
liberty; national morality would have descended into even deeper sinkholes; and
this nation's current President, impeached
for peccadilloes rather than for the bribery
and treason which will eventually be attached to his name, wouldn't have been
impeached for anything.
These and many more victories have
been achieved by activists who
knew not discouragement and
who cared not for fleeting popularity. May their numbers grow!
May their efforts bear more fruit!
We who are still free can indeed
speak, write, publish, recruit, and
organize. The freedoms won for
us in the past can be defended
and the advances toward despotism made in recent times can be
rolled back. But nothing worthwhile will be accomplished without the widespread understanding of both the principles that undergird liberty and the forces that
threaten to destroy it, as well as
the extensive dissemination of
the unvarnished truth and the organization to make this necessary
awakening possible.
The Old Testament prophet Isaiah
lamented, "Therefore is my people led
away captive because they had not knowledge ...." His divinely inspired prescription
for a return to freedom was gaining knowledge - and responding properly to the
truth. William Cullen Bryant pointed to the
importance of free and open speech. Edmund Burke urged "fortitude, vigor, enterprise, and perseverance" in its use. To all
of that we add the need for God's blessings
on all that we do.
Saving freedom can indeed be accomplished - but not without organization,
something that can be found in the principled leadership offered by the John Birch
Society, the veteran campaigner for America that is and always has been open to all
men and women of good conscience and
humane ideals.
THE NEW AMERICAN / JULY 5, 1999