A Common Thread?

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history”             George Orwell

“Keep people from their history and they are easily  controlled.”         Karl Marx

“We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.”           Vladimir Lenin

“If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry, and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative, and intolerant.”                                                     Leon Trotsky

All these ideas, expressed by the foundational thinkers of the Socialist/Communist movement recognize the power of controlling information and the dialogue.  Although not as deeply thought out as Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin, Saul Alinsky builds on these strategic thoughts as he published his “tactical” Rules for Radicals. (e.g. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counter-side; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.")

It is interesting to see pseudo-intellectual thinkers of today embrace these ideals without understanding either the implications or likely outcomes for their actions.  True socialism or communism has failed the poor in every country it has been implemented in.  It has failed the illiterate, the mentally unstable, the minorities, and the sexually different as well.  Yet here we are being pushed into this concept by those who’ve spent a lifetime being indoctrinated by an educational system run by those who’ve spent their lives believing they are underpaid and underappreciated by those uneducated parents who’ve entrusted their children into their care.

You have to look no further than the progressive DNC movement and its propaganda arm to see the implementation of these doctrinal ideas of how to destroy a free society.