Woke madness has a long lineage leading back to Rousseau and the French Revolution in the 18th century, Marx and Engels in the 19th, and the Russian Revolution in the 20th century.
This from frontpagemag.com.
And let us not overlook Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) whose revolutionary writings—notably his theory of hegemony—have made him “the unrivaled Marxist political theorist of the past half century.”
And America’s ‘top Gramsci scholar’ [is] none other than Pete Buttigieg’s father, Joseph—one of a number of surprises [herein].
Another key player in this story is Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), father of the New Left of the 1960s and 70s. And since Marcuse, revolutionary leftist thought had undergone a sea change.
For Marx, the revolution was all about class—about encouraging oppressed workers to overthrow their oppressors. But would-be Robespierres in America learned soon enough that in their country, that dog didn’t hunt.
American workers did not want to revolt—far from being downtrodden Russian peasants desperate to throw off the yoke of serfdom, they were free, ambitious citizens of a constitutional Republic who knew their hopes for economic betterment lay in capitalism, not communism.
So American radicals changed their tune. Dropping class struggle, they shifted focus to categories like race and sex; and since workers were too streetwise to fall for their claptrap, they sought recruits among the restless children of the privileged class—naive, wayward souls who lacked only one precious thing: a reason to feel that they weren’t oppressors but oppressed.
The New Left ultimately crashed and burned. But the will to tear down America endured. Revolutionaries went underground, only to re-emerge as members—even pillars—of the establishment: college professors, politicians, and journalists.
In what came to be known as the ‘Long March through the Institutions,’ they proceeded to proselytize broad swathes of the young and dumb.
And who best “personifies the metamorphosis from 1960s radicalism to armed revolution to terrorism to chief Long Marcher through the Institutions?”
Answer: Bill Ayers (b. 1944), who in 1969 founded the Weather Underground, a gang of terrorists who idolized Charles Manson, had ‘Cuban and Viet Cong advisers,’ and held mass orgies, their ultimate goal being what else?
But of course:
America’s violent overthrow…through all-out revolution.
Ayers’s role in the Long March proved to be a significant one.
Living in Chicago, his terrorist past apparently either forgiven or forgotten by all and sundry, he involved himself at the highest level in civic affairs, taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago—and mentored a young community organizer named Barack Obama.
BHO, as we all know, got his start fresh out of Law School as an up and coming leftist radical disguised as a “community organizer”—a term unheard of by all of us until we were forced to become acquainted with BHO’s résumé.
How many Americans, if they’d understood what the term really meant, would have voted to put him in the White House? For community organizing, as outlined in Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky (1909-72)—who, incidentally, was the subject of Hillary Clinton’s college thesis (see how it all fits together?)—is not some benign form of public service but, rather, a coldblooded, calculating means of acquiring power.
Part of the task of the community organizer, advised Alinsky, is to “develop multiple issues.”
It was David Horowitz who astutely observed:
[T]he issue is never the issue.
The issue is always the revolution.
Gonzalez and Gorka (see below for more info on these two) put it this way:
[R]ace, sex, sexual orientation, climate, social justice, gender, and animal rights— [among other issues] —are all fronts in a larger war.
Which is why, for those who attend a climate summit, there will be sessions on gender issues and women’s rights; and likewise at a Women’s Studies Conference, there will be panels on race and queer identity.
Gonzalez and Gorka noted:
[W]hen Communism fell in Europe, Americans who’d been active in explicitly pro-Soviet groups started to move to climate work.
The lesson to be learned:
If you’re looking to topple the system, any old cause will do.
So, for years behind the scenes, in the corridors of establishment institutions, radical leftists made their moves, and consolidated their power. And right on cue, mid BHO’s presidency:
BLM was founded—
NextGen Marxism’s revolutionary stage.
Donald Trump’s surprise win in 2016—thanks in large part to an electorate that was increasingly tuned in to the left’s skullduggery and had become disgusted with the Obama machinations—brought to a screeching halt the radical Left’s plans.
[And thus] necessitating a DEFCON 1 response: the Russia collusion hoax, the 2020 election steal, the ‘insurrection’ lie, the ‘threat to our democracy’ mantra, the two impeachments, and the multitude of baseless lawsuits.
The year 2020 was pivotal in the saving of the revolution:
– George Floyd, an obscure Minneapolis thug, was crucified [in the media] and rose again from the dead [also as a result of the media],
– BLM staged hundreds of riots in [Floyd’s] name, citing his death as proof of ‘systematic racism’ and ‘the urgent need of systematic change,’ and
– [The] charges that were embraced with unsettling alacrity by churches, corporations, the media, even the military.
It was all lies—lies franticly but carefully crafted to save the revolution.
And when Joe Biden assumed his position, the revolutionaries went with him. Actually, The Obama/Biden Regime began:
[C]owriting federal policy with the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
Unbelievable? Why? This all makes total sense. And this has been the decades-long project of the Next Gen Marxists.
This is all covered in a cogent, comprehensive new book by Mike Gonzalez, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, and Katharine Gorka, an expert on the terrorist threat (and Sebastian Gorka’s better half) the title of which is Next Gen Marxism.
[T]he history told in Next Gen Marxism is the history of what we now know as wokeness—the leftist sociocultural ascendancy manifested in (among much else) cancel culture, the Antifa and BLM riots, DEI, ‘judicial reform,’ ‘squatter’s rights,’ the near-ubiquitous promotion of transgender ideology, and (not least) the conspiracy of Hollywood, the media, the D.C. swamp, and Big Tech to destroy Donald Trump’s first term and deny him a second.
NOTE: If more of We the People had been familiar a couple of decades ago with the history recounted in the pages of this new book the world may very well be a lot different.
For one thing, Barack Hussein Obama would never have been elevated beyond being a street rabble-rouser and George Floyd would have been a mere drug overdose while resisting arrest for ripping off a mom-and-pop grocery store.
Final thought: None of this would have been possible without a complicit mass propaganda media. Think: Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.
To wit:
“the…repeal of the domestic dissemination ban…may help counter anti-American sentiment at home, it also gives the federal government great power to covertly influence public opinion…”
