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Introduction "You don't understand the class structure of
American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a
question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The
middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists."
Whittaker Chambers, Witness, p. 616. 1) Postmodernism a) "Postmodernism, a wayward stepchild of Marxism, is in this sense a generation's realization that it is orphaned." Lawrence Cahoone, From Modernism to Postmodernism, p. 10. b) "Most poststructuralists, feminists, and multiculturalists are associated with the left. But others are not, like Richard Rorty, who has labeled himself a postmodernist bourgeois liberal." Cahoone, From Modernism to Postmodernism, p. 19. c) "Friedrich Nietzsche, the pre-twentieth-century philosopher who is the most influential for postmodernism." Cahoone, From Modernism to Postmodernism, p. 20. d) "Such reforms might someday produce a presently unimaginable nonmarket economy...They might also, given similar reforms in other countries, bring about an international federation, a world government." Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, p. 105. e) "One of the French radical student groups that attracted Sartre's attention was the Proletarian Left, a self-proclaimed Maoist revolutionary cell. What appealed to Sartre was their revolutionary motto: 'Violence, Spontaneity, and Morality.' The Maoist had also attracted the attention of another, younger radical intellectual, Michel Foucault." Arthur Herman, The Idea of Decline in Western History, p. 349. "For at least two years after he contracted AIDS (from 1982 to 1984), Michel Foucault continued to visit his various gay orgy sites, knowingly passing the disease on to his anonymous partners. 'We are inventing new pleasures beyond sex,' Foucault told an interviewer-in this particular case, sex as murder.'" Arthur Herman, The Idea of Decline in Western History, p. 357. f) "Did you know that truth does not exist and that
all knowledge and values are artificial constructions to serve the
interest of the powerful? If you don't know this, then you are obviously
not the beneficiary of a recent American college education. A wide variety
of academic subjects have appropriated Karl Marx's 19th Century
idea that 'truth' is never more nor less than propaganda that serves the
material interest of the ruling class. When the workers took over as Marx
thought they would, truth would be whatever served the interests of the
working class. g) The only two, white, male, non-homosexuals not deconstructed by the deconstructionists are Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. 2) Feminism a) "Feminism, then, was not born moderate and then radicalized by the 1960s. From its inception, the term 'feminism,' in the minds of both its proponents and its opponents, has been linked with radicalism and even socialism. 'Feminism,' as Nancy Cott explains, 'was born ideologically on the left of the political spectrum, first espoused by women who were familiar with advocacy of socialism." Richard J. Ellis, The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America, p. 194. b) "Radical feminism's reliance on the structure and language of Marxism is particularly ironic in view of the statement of principles issued by NYRW [New York Radical Women] as well as the 1969 manifesto of the Redstockings." Richard J. Ellis, The Dark Side of the Left, p. 204. c) "One of the primary institutional loci for the transmissions of radical feminist values and commitments has been women's studies programs. University courses on women were among the earliest fruits of the women's movement. Before 1968, courses explicitly about women were rare, yet by 1971-1972 there were over one thousand college-level women's studies courses in the United States." Richard J. Ellis, The Dark Side of the Left, p. 214. d) "Judge [Robert] Bork also identifies Radical Feminism as 'the most destructive and fanatical' element of this modern liberalism. He further describes Radical Feminism as 'totalitarian in spirit.' Most Americans do not yet realize that they, through their institutions, are being led by social revolutionaries who think in terms of the continuing destruction of the existing social order in order to create a new one. The revolutionaries are New Age Elite Boomers. They now control the public institutions in the United States. Their 'quiet' revolution, beginning with the counter-culture revolution of their youth, is nearing completion. A key, or even a dominant element because purportedly it represents the largest political and social constituency among their potential followers, is Feminism. The Marxist movement in its 'quiet' cultural latter-day phase is seemingly sweeping all before it. With its sway over the media, fully in the grip of Feminism, it is hard to discern the stirrings of a counter-counter culture. Are the elite Boomers, the New Totalitarians, the most dangerous generation in America's history? William Strauss and Neil Howe suggest so, in their book Generations: The History of America's Future-1584 to 2069." Gerald L. Atkinson, "Radical Feminism and Political Correctness," Free Congress Foundation. e) "Simone de Beauvoir, like the vast majority of feminists, regards the radical alteration of parenting as more than a utopian fantasy. She finds it 'easy to visualize' a world 'where men and women would be equal,' for 'that is precisely what the Soviet Union promised: women trained and raised exactly like men...[M]arriage was to be based on a free agreement that the spouses could break at will; maternity was to be voluntary; pregnancy leaves were to be paid for by the State, which would assume charge of the children, signifying not that they would be taken from their parents, but that they would not be abandoned to them.' deBeauvoir is so far from alone among feminists in admiring Marxist-Leninism that this admiration, together with hostility to 'capitalism,' can be considered virtually a further distinguishing mark of feminism. The main criticism offered of the Soviet Union is that it has not gone far enough. To be sure, feminists are attracted primarily to the ideas that the Soviet state proclaims itself as embodying, rather than to the Soviet regime itself, but with that understood, a great many well-known feminists, including deBeauvoir, Millett, Firestone, Bleier, Mitchell, Chodorow, MacKinnon, Steinem, Sheila Rowbotham, Margaret Benston, Angela Davis, Eli Zaretsky, Evelyn Reed, Barbara Ehrenreich, Vivian Howe, and Rayna Rapp identify themselves as socialists or Marxists of some sort." Michael Levin, Feminism and Freedom, p. 26. f) "Socialism is clearly the theme which predominates women's liberation theology. Feminism is a political tool to promote world socialism. (1) The Document declaration of feminism states: 'Feminism rests on the belief that it is up to women to rescue the planet from the deeds of patriarchy and that women will join hands to build a Feminist Socialist Revolution.' 'In order to overcome the tyranny of racism it is necessary to establish a socialist order based on two further premises-An end to the oppressive 'male-female' relationship as it now exists and the creation of an egalitarian society based on collectivity' and 'The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men.' "The nuclear family must be replaced with a new form of family.' Shirley Correll, Body Snatching, p. 79. g) "Why do political 'progressives' feel the need so often to lie about who they are? The question is prompted by a recent biography of feminist leader Betty Friedan, which establishes beyond reasonable doubt that the woman who virtually created modern feminism is what may reasonably be called a political imposter. In her path-breaking book, The Feminist Mystique, Friedan presented herself as a typical suburban housewife not 'even conscious of the woman question' before she began work on her manuscript. But now Smith [College] professor Daniel Horowitz (no relation) has shown that nothing could be further from the truth. Under her maiden name, Betty Goldstein, the record shows that Friedan was a political activist and professional propagandist for the Communist left for nearly thirty years before the 1963 publication of The Feminist Mystique launched the modern feminist movement. There are probably a lot of interesting ramifications of this revelation. As Horowitz's biography makes clear, Friedan, from her college days and until her mid-thirties, was a Stalinist Marxist (or a fellow traveler thereof), the political intimate of leaders of America's Cold War fifth column, and for a time even the lover of a young Communist physicists working on atomic bomb projects with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Not at all a neophyte when it came to 'the woman question' (the phrase itself is a Marxist construction), she was certainly familiar with the writings of Engels, Lenin and Stalin on the subject and had written about it herself as a journalist for the official publication of the Communist-controlled United Electrical Workers union." David Horowitz, Heterodoxy, March 1999, p. 14. h) "Friedan's version of feminism bears re-visiting in light of the new information. Her infamous description of America's suburban family household as 'a comfortable concentration camp' in The Feminist Mystique , it's now obvious, had more to do with her Marxist hatred for America than with her own experience as a housewife and mother. Her husband Carl, also a leftist, once complained to a reporter in 1970 that, far from being a homebody, his wife 'was in the world during the whole marriage, either full time or free lance,' lived in a 'mansion' and had a full-time maid, and 'seldom was a wife and a mother.' Of course, no one paid much attention to the family 'patriarch' at the time, simply because as a male he was guilty before the fact." David Horowitz, Heterodoxy, March 1999, p. 14. i) "Radical feminist crank Mary Daly, won't be teaching her feminist ethics course this semester at Boston College. A couple of young students of the male persuasion attempted to take the class, and it seems their 'phallocentric necrophilia' (which is how Ms. Daly describes the male min-set) would have been a threat to the purity of Ms. Daly's 'Elemental Sisterhood.' Refusing equal educational opportunities on the basis of sex, of course, is the sort of thing that gets universities sued; and so Boston College is letting Ms. Daly cancel the course altogether and take a leave of absence. Given Ms. Daly's demonstration that her version of feminism is nothing but dressed-up hatred of men, Boston College might want to think about making her absence from the faculty permanent...Ms. Daly isn't just a left-wing extremist, she is a walking, talking parody of radical feminism. Consider some passages from her new opus, Quintessence... Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto. Says Ms. Daly, "My Voyage into the Fourth Spiral Galaxy of 'Outercourse' brought me to the point of Discovering yet an Other Galaxy. As a consequence of my arrival in an Expanding Now/Present, the Way Opened for me to Leap into an Expanding Here/Presence. Moving more deeply into the Background Realms, I was ready to begin Spiraling into the Fifth Spiral Galaxy." Well you go, girl." The Washington Times, March 2, 1999, p. A14. 3) Environmentalism a) "Indeed, the lives of indigenous peoples, as imagined by at least some Earth First!ers, seem like nothing so much as the leisurely communist utopia envisioned by Marx in which people might hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and debate in the evening...In those traditional cultures that have not been forced off their lands by European expansion and colonialism, there is a 'pattern of short work days and roughly every other day off, with free time devoted to dancing, wrestling....informal recreation...loafing." Richard J. Ellis, The Dark Side of the Left, p.240. b) "Too many Earth First!ers indiscriminately reject the whole off Western industrial civilization-the good, the bad, and the indifferent. For most of them, 'the anthropocentric imperialism of Western civilization' is the source of virtually all that is wrong with the world. 'Western industrial civilization,' writes one Earth First!er, 'is a killing machine.' Everything would be fine again if we could simply 'shake off this awful thing called Western culture." Richard J. Ellis, The Dark Side of the Left, p. 249. 4) Democratic Socialists of America a) Major players (per letterhead and publications): Bogdan Denitch, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dolores Huerta, Mildred Jeffrey, Gloria Steinem, Cornel West, James B. Chapin, Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, James Farmer, Dorothy Healey, Jose LaLuz, Hilda Mason, Steve Max, Harold Meyerson, Frances Fox Piven, Rosemary Ruether, Edwin Vargas Jr., Michael Harrington, John Sweeny, Michael Eric Dyson, and Edward Asner. b) "We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane international social order based on equitable distribution of resources, meaningful work, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, gender and racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships." Building the Next Left: The Political Perspective of the Democratic Socialists of America, p. 1. c) "Maurice Isserman teaches history at Hamilton Colleges. A DSAer, he is author of If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and Birth of the New and co-author of Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party." Maurice Isserman, History of the Left-a DSA publication. d) Members of the DSA attended the 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto "sponsored by the educational arm of the French Communist Party." "The Conference closed with a rousing chorus of the Internationale. It was led by a rambunctious contingent from the Brazilian Workers Party and was sung in many languages...Our common anthem is an important reminder of the values we share in spite of our differences. And changes in the world are making our differences less relevant all the time." Julia Fitzgerald, "Anniversary of The Communist Manifesto Celebrated" in Democratic Left, Fall 1998, p. 20. e) "Longtime Democrats still yearning to turn their
party rightward have to be dismayed at the Democratic National Committee's
decision to make Carlottia Scott a key part of the DNC's new 'senior
political/leadership team.' The far-left Scott has just joined the DNC as
'chief of politics,' where, in the words of a DNC press release, she will
become one of 'two individuals to lead the DNC's political shop.' (The
other is Jeff Forbes, deputy political director of the Clinton/Gore '96
campaign.) a) "Marxism flourishes in the ideology and politics of present-day multiculturalism. Some multiculturalist advocates, including many well-meaning teachers and school administrators, are not aware of the leftist (Marxist) concepts and assumptions operative in multiculturalism. Unwittingly, they often give aid and comfort to a radical leftist philosophy. If the unsuspecting advocates of multiculturalist practices were aware of the Marxist threads in the fabric of multiculturalism, they would be a lot less eager to advance its principles and policies." Alvin J. Schmidt, The Menace of Multiculturalism, p. 25. b) "A new theme of the academy was 'multiculturalism,' the Left's latest assault on the American identity and a direct appeal to alienated minorities not to assimilate into the American culture. In the multicultural perspective, the constitutional framework became the scheme of 'dead white males' to shore up their privileged status." David Horowitz, Radical Son, p. 406. c) "Multiculturalism is a movement of the left, emerging from the counterculture of the 1960s." Richard Bernstein, Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America's Future, p. 6 d) "Inspired by the ideas of French philosopher Michel Foucault, the jargon represents the reformulation of basic nineteenth-century Marxist ideas that have been borrowed by generations of intellectuals bent on showing that the world as it exists is the creation (the 'social construction') of the groups that hold power, their ideology (the 'dominant discourse') used to maintain sway over everybody else (the 'victimized subalterns'). Substitute the new jargon for such older terms as 'substructure' and 'superstructure,' and you have just about the entire addition of ideological multiculturalism to already existing Marxist social theory." Richard Bernstein, Dictatorship of Virtue, p. 227 e) "This brand of scholarship often seems linked to politically correct developments in the curriculum, such as the imposition of non-Western culture requirements at colleges and universities. What I will refer to as postcolonial scholarship often seems rooted in an animus against Western culture and specifically its literary classics. Postcolonial critics seem to operate with the assumption that if a work is non-Western, it must be good, and the less Western the better. These critics seem particularly attracted to works that articulate anti-Western views, that question the values of Western civilization and champion non-Western alternatives...Postcolonial literature thus plays into the hands of anti-Western critics from the West. Much of postcolonial criticism is explicitly or at least implicitly Marxist, centering on the concept of exploitation. Third World literature is viewed as primarily expressing the reaction of postcolonial peoples to having been exploited by their former European masters. This approach turns the field into a branch of Oppression Studies, the dominant mode of radical academics today." Paul A. Cantor, Academic Questions, Winter 1998-99, p. 23. f) "What the multiculturalists/feminist advocates want is precisely to overthrow the culture, hence they take the same view of scholarship as a communist or Nazi; that is, education, religion, art, and all other expressions of culture are mere superstructure, tools of indoctrination and control wielded by the ruling race, class, or gender. Culture to them is an artificial, malleable construct that is of no intrinsic importance except for its utility in the struggle for liberation." Walter A. McDougall, Academic Questions, Winter 1998-99, p. 30. g) "So what is the effect of multiculturalist/feminist ideology? It is to debase scholarship by imposing planted axioms and hidden or blatant false assumptions about the way things used to be, even as the Bolsheviks depicted tsarist history as even worse than it was, the Nazis parodied the decadence of the Weimar Republic, and the scholars of Meiji Japan demonized the old Shogunate." Walter A. McDougall, Academic Questions, Winter 1998-99, p. 33. h) "Mrs. Sandra Stotsky's analysis of the history and civics readers used in elementary schools is also important. Feminists and multiculturalists, she contends, have cleansed fifth grade textbooks. The result: children will learn nothing about inventors, explorers, soldiers and all presidents except for Abraham Lincoln. 'Stories about the great achievements in American science, technology and political life in the past 200 years are missing,' she writes, 'and they are missing it seems simply because stories about them would call attention to a white male.' Mrs. Stotsky is a research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her book is entitled: Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction is Undermining our Children's Ability to Read, Write and Reason. The Washington Times, May 2, 1999, p. B6. 6) American Colleges and Universities a) "Communism may be dead, but the leftist (Marxist) ideology is still alive and well. Thomas Sowell recently said: 'Marxism...continues to flourish on American college campuses, as perhaps nowhere else in the world.' Sowell's remark is corroborated by a 1992 conference, 'Marxism in the New World Order: Crisis and Possibilities,' held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Only 300 were expected to attend, but 1,500 registered. Nearly all were professors. The conference's attendees were diehard believers of Marxism, not realists who recognized that the most inefficient, cruel, and inhumane socioeconomic system had come to an end." Alvin J. Schmidt, The Menace of Multiculturalism, p. 25. b) "The situation in the universities was appalling. The Marxists and socialists who had been refuted by historical events were now the tenured establishment of the academic world. Marxism had produced the bloodiest and most oppressive regimes in human history-but after the fall, as one wit commented, more Marxists could be found on the faculties of American colleges than in the entire former Communist bloc. The American Historical Association was run by Marxists, as was the professional literature association, whose field had been transformed into a kind of pseudosociology of race-gender-class oppression." David Horowitz, Radical Son, p. 405. c) "Conservatives who had been historically vindicated by the Twentieth Century's epic struggle against Marxist totalitarianism were generally consigned to obscurity, while radicals who had denigrated and betrayed Western freedom-political hacks like Angela Davis, intellectual commissars like Antonio Gramsci, and embittered nihilists like Michel Foucault-were given places of honor in the academic canon." David Horowitz, Radical Son, p. 406. d) "According to reliable sources, some ten thousand American college and university professors freely identify themselves as Marxists. To this number can be added thousands of others who strongly sympathize with left-wing political and social values. Paul Hollander writes, 'Even if the majority of the students in the nation today do not subscribe to this mentality, large and vocal portions of their teachers do, especially in the humanities and social sciences. My own discipline, sociology, has, for example, been quite thoroughly politicized and probably a majority of its practitioners take this way of thinking for granted.' This army of radical professors has more than a dozen Marxist journals at its disposal, which it uses to repeat familiar diatribes against America, capitalism, economic freedom, and whatever else the Left happens to despise at the moment." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 37 e) "Unfortunately, in contemporary American academic culture, it is commonly assumed that once you have seen through Plato, essentialism, and eternal truth you will naturally turn to Marx. The attempt to take the world by the throat is still, in the minds of [Fredric] Jameson and his admirers, associated with Marxism." Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, p. 138, 9 f) "The post-Soviet 1990s will be remembered, among other things, for the intensive left-liberal campaign, led by a single-minded group of academics, to whitewash the Communist Party USA and its membership and thereby salvage what remains of Marxist socialism. The campaign is led by Professor Ellen Schrecker. Her controversial book, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America exemplifies, as did her earlier books, what George Orwell was talking about when he wrote that 'the sin of nearly all left-wingers from 1933 onwards is that they have wanted to be anti-fascist without being anti-totalitarian.' The strategy of the Schrecker school of whitewashing is to admit that, yes, Josef Stalin was bad, there was-maybe-a certain amount of Soviet espionage but the thousands upon thousands of American communists were really old-fashioned liberals interested in civil rights for Afro-Americans, support for labor unions, higher wages for workers and achieving socialism. As the New Republic put it in the fellow-traveling 1930s, communists were 'liberals in a hurry.' Those kindly CP members, in whose defense Miss Schrecker has rewritten the history of communism, had to swallow crimes against humanity-the Great Terror, the Ukraine genocide, Stalin's anti-Semitic crusade, the seizure of Eastern Europe-why go on? Professor Schrecker knows all this, but for her there is only one enemy, Joe McCarthy and one hero, the party member." Arnold Beichman, The Washington Times, January 31, 1999, p. B4. g) "In recent years, a number of writers-both popular and academic-have undertaken to whitewash both [Josef] Stalin and the CPUSA members who so willingly submitted to his demands. A few months ago there appeared in the Sunday Magazine of the New York Times a full-page apologia by a self-proclaimed 'red diaper baby': Her parents may not have exercised good judgment by becoming party members-but at least they 'believed in something.' In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, the historian Theodore Draper rightly denounced such popular exculpation of communism, together with its surviving academic defenders. There is, he wrote, 'clearly an attempt to rehabilitate communism by making it part of the larger family of socialism and democracy. No one would think of doing favor for fascism, but communism with even more millions of victims and a much longer life span is the beneficiary of this sustained effort of historical rehabilitation in-of all places-American colleges and universities." Arnold Beichman, The Weekly Standard, March 9, 1998, p. 35. h) "The signs of what the [New York] Times calls 'retro Commie chic' can be found all over, not only among the young but also among their elders. There is, for example, the handsome Autumn catalogue from Verso Press, an imprint of New Left Books. It was Verso that gave us, in the spring of 1998, a 150th anniversary reissue of The Communist Manifesto, hopefully subtitled 'A Modern Edition,' with an introduction by the British leftist historian Eric Hobsbawm asserting the 'almost biblical force' and prescience of Marx's text (The Times apparently agrees with Hobsbawm, proclaiming in a June 27, 1998 article 'the eerie way' in which the Manifesto's '1848 description of capitalism resembles the restless, anxious and competitive world of today's global economy.') The Verso catalogue's front cover features a striking photograph of Bertolt Brecht (the subject of a new book by the unregenerate Stalinist literary critic Fredric Jameson) and the back cover reproduces Brecht's poem 'Praise of Communism.' One might suppose that Brecht's attachment to Marxist-Leninism would be, at this late date, an embarrassment for his admirers [the toll of communism in the twentieth century approaches 100 million dead]. To think so, however, is to miss the strategy of retro Commie chic. The garden-variety leftist, agonizing in the pages of Dissent or the Nation, concedes that communism has been weighed on the scales of history and found wanting-while insisting that this doesn't mean leftism is dead." John Wilson, The Weekly Standard, February 15, 1999, p. 38. i) "In his book, The End of Sanity, Martin Gross writes that 'blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to be new customs, new rules, new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on us from every direction. Underneath, the nation is roiling. Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong. And they don't like it.' ...Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America's campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who're supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression? Let's be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you, too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that...and abide it...and you are- by your grandfathers' standards-cowards....If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe." Charlton Heston, February 16, 1999, Harvard Law School Forum. (www.narila.org/ila/hestonhs.htm) 7) The Frankfurt School a) "Grinberg concluded his opening address by clearly stating his personal allegiance to Marxism as a scientific methodology. Just as liberalism, state socialism, and the historical school had institutional homes elsewhere, so Marxism would be the ruling principle at the Institute [Frankfurt School]." Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, p. 11. b) "On one level, then, it can be argued that the Frankfurt School was returning to the concerns of the Left Hegelians of the 1840s. They were concerned with the dialectical method devised by Hegel and sought, like their predecessors, to turn it in a materialist direction. And finally, like many of the Left Hegelians, they were particularly interested in exploring the possibilities of transforming the social order through human praxis." Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, p. 42. c) One of the most lasting results of the Frankfurt School was Theodore Adorno's work The Authoritarian Personality. In this work conservatives are painted as authoritarian and fascist. Marxists are painted as open-minded and tolerant. Edward Shils noted the political bias of Adorno and asked "Why was authoritarianism associated with fascism alone and not communism? Why was political and economic conservatism seen as connected with authoritarianism, while the demand for state socialism was not?" Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, p. 247, 248. It is our contention that Communism, Nazism and Fascism are all left-wing socialist worldviews. Nazism is bolshevism with a German twist and Fascism is bolshevism with an Italian twist. See Ludwig von Mises, Socialism, pp 523-532. d) "After the [Frankfurt School] resettlement at Columbia University, however, the tone underwent a subtle shift in a pessimistic direction. Articles in the Zeitschrift scrupulously avoided using words like 'Marxism' or 'communism' substituting 'dialectical materialism' or 'the materialist theory of society' instead. Careful editing prevented emphasizing the revolutionary implications of their thought." Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, p. 44. e) "But it is impossible to ignore the fact that the United States is becoming an ideological state. The ideology of Political Correctness, which openly calls for the destruction of our traditional culture, has so gripped the body politic, has so gripped our institutions, that it is even affecting the Church. It has completely taken over the academic community. It is now pervasive in the entertainment industry, and it threatens to control literally every aspect of our lives. Those who came up with Political Correctness, which we more accurately call 'Cultural Marxism,' did so in a deliberate fashion. I'm not going to go into the whole history of the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse and the other people responsible for this. Suffice it to say that the United States is very close to becoming a state totally dominated by an alien ideology, an ideology bitterly hostile to Western culture. Even now, for the first time in their lives, people have to be afraid of what they say. This has never been true in the history of our country. Yet today, if you say the 'wrong thing,' you suddenly have legal problems, political problems, you might even lose your job or be expelled from college. Certain topics are forbidden. You can't approach the truth about a lot of different subjects. If you do, you are immediately branded as 'racist,' 'sexist,' 'homophobic,' 'insensitive,' or 'judgmental.'" Paul Weyrich, February 16, 1999 personal letter. 8) Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood a) "Margaret's [Sanger] topic of discussion was always sex. Her detour into labor activism had done little to dampen her interest in the subject. When it was her turn to lead an evening, she held [Mable] Dodge's guests spellbound, ravaging them with intoxicating notions of 'romantic dignity, unfettered self-expression, and the sacredness of sexual desire. Free love had been practiced quietly for years by the avant-garde intellectuals in the Village. Eugene O'Neill took on one mistress after another, immortalizing them in his plays. Edna St. Vincent Millay hopped gaily from bed to bed and wrote about it in her poems." George Grant, Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood, p. 52. b) "Sanger tried her hand at writing and publishing a paper herself. She called it The Woman Rebel. It was an eight-sheet pulp with the slogan 'No Gods! No Masters!' emblazoned across the masthead. She advertised it as 'a paper of militant thought,' and militant it was indeed. The first issue denounced marriage as a 'degenerate institution,' capitalism as 'indecent exploitation' and sexual modesty as 'obscene prudery.'" George Grant, Grand Illusions, p. 53. c) "Margaret spent more than a year in England as a fugitive from justice. But she made certain that the time was not wasted. She had found her cause: Revolutionary Socialism. She had found her niche in the cause: Sexual Liberation. And now she would further that cause with a single-minded goal. As soon as she came ashore, Margaret began to make contact with the various radical groups of Britain. She began attending lectures on Nietzsche's moral relativism, Anarchist lectures on Kropotkin's subversive pragmatism, and Communist lectures on Bakunin's collectivistic rationalism. But she was especially interested in developing ties with the Malthusians." George Grant, Grand Illusions, p. 55. d) "[Margaret's] bed became a veritable meeting place for the Fabian upper crust: H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, Arbuthnot Lane and Norman Haire. And of course, it was then that she began her unusual and tempestuous affair with Havelock Ellis. Ellis was the iconoclastic grandfather of the Bohemian sexual revolution...he had provided the free love movement with much of its intellectual apologia." George Grant, Grand Illusions, p. 57. e) "Dr. Alan Guttmacher, the man who immediately succeeded her as president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, once said, 'We are merely walking down the path that Mrs. Sanger carved out for us.'" George Grant, Grand Illusions, p. 63. f) "In her first newspaper, The Woman Rebel, Margaret Sanger admitted that 'Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.' Today, Planned Parenthood is continuing her crusade against the church. In its advertisements, in its literature, in its program, and in its policies, the organization makes every attempt to mock, belittle, and undermine Biblical Christianity." George Grant, Grand Illusions, p. 65. 9) Homosexual Revolution a) "The first 'gay rights' organization in the United States was an American chapter of the German-based Society for Human Rights. The German SHR, formed in 1919 by Thule Society member, Hans Kahnert, was a militant organization led by 'Butch' homosexuals. Many of the early Nazis [National Socialists], including SA leader Ernst Roehm, were also SHR members. The American SHR was formed on December 10, 1924, in Chicago, by a German-American named Henry Gerber." Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party, p. 148. b) "In the words of Jonathan Katz, 'a link of a kind peculiar to Gay male history connects the abortive Chicago Society for Human Rights (1924, 25) and Henry Hay, the founder of the Mattachine Society.' This 'peculiar link' is the fact that the man who recruited Hay into homosexuality (at age seventeen), Champ Simmons, was himself seduced by a former member of the SHR. In a perverse sort of way, then, it seems appropriate that Hay would become known as the 'Father of the Modern Gay Movement.' On August 10, 1948, at the tail-end of an eighteen-year stint as a Communist Party leader, Hay began to organize a group that would become the Mattachine Society....Hay was also not an overt fascist, but he was a neo-pagan. He participated in occultic rituals at 'the Los Angeles lodge of the Order of the Eastern Temple, or O.T.O., Aleister Crowley's notorious anti-Christian spiritual group...The avowed purpose of [the Mattachine Society] was to undermine the Judeo-Christian moral consensus in respect to homosexual relations." Scott Lively/Kevin Abrams, The Pink Swastika, p. 149, 50. c) "There is no question that one of the top priorities of the homosexual movement is to force a 'redefinition' of the American family away from the traditional husband-wife-children model to a more 'functional' definition based on the notion of economic unit or any other basis that does not require heterosexuality as its foundation. The notion that a family must involve persons of both sexes is profoundly inimical to the homosexual movement...As early as 1970, elements within the homosexual movement had identified the family as inimical to its interests. At a convention in Philadelphia, the 'Male Homosexual' workshop included the following as one of its demands: 'The abolition of the nuclear family because it perpetuates the false categories of homosexuality and heterosexuality.'" Enrique T. Rueda, The Homosexual Network, p. 221. d) "'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' E. M. Forster's notorious words were published in 1951, after the Second World War. But they remind us of the period between the wars, when so many of Forster's upper-class literary friends became agents and fellow-travelers of the Communist party. When people like Burgess, Maclean, Philby, and Blunt betrayed their country, their choice was not between their country and their friends, but between their country and its enemy. Nevertheless, it was with romantic images of friendship that they justified their conduct. In the homosexual circle in which they moved-the 'homintern,' as W. H. Auden aptly described it-the image of 'the friend' had a special attraction. The friend was the symbol of the only loyalty that mattered, a loyalty that was private, secret, nurtured in opposition to the world of normal people. All rival obligations-to spouse, parents, family, and country-counted for nothing, being merely the philistine requirements of middle-class bores....And to show their contempt for King and Country, the homintern threw in their lot with the Communists....Their Communism was really an anti-patriotism, just as their adulation of friendship was really a contempt for family life. The Communist party was able to conscript these essentially negative feelings, so helping the 'outsiders' of bourgeois society to become its destroyers. We are still suffering, and perhaps will always be suffering from the damage they caused. The anti-patriotic and anti-bourgeois sentiments exploited by the Communists did not disappear with the death of socialism. On the contrary, they remain fundamental components of the left-wing outlook. Ordinary people understand loyalty as a natural condition. For the leftist, family and country are oppressive structures, whose claim to loyalty is at best provisional. The rival source of loyalty is now not the friend but the cause, and the cause may change from year to year. In E.M. Forster's day, the cause was International Socialism; in the Sixties, liberation; today it is the normalization of homosexuality; tomorrow it could well be the normalization of pedophilia. But in all these changes, one thing remains: the belief in an oppressive power structure, built into the state and its institutions, and animated by ignorant people defending the middle-class life." Roger Scruton, National Review, April 5, 1999, p. 43. e) The American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin, July, 1998, Volume 124, No. 1, pp 22-53 is preparing the way for the normalization of pedophilia. One of the writers of an article entitled "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples", Dr. Robert Bauserman of the University of Michigan, earlier wrote an article for the Journal of Homosexuality (a special 1990 double issue) devoted to adult-child sex. Conclusion: pedophiles believe they are born that way and cannot change. A professor of social science at the State University of New York said he looks forward to the day when Americans will 'get over their hysteria about child abuse' and child pornography. In a memo from Dr. Joe Nicolosi to Dr. Laura Schlessinger: "Few laymen are aware that the American Psychiatric Association has already set the state for this same transition-in the case of pedophilia-by quietly redefining it. According to the latest diagnostic manual (DSM-IV), a person no longer has a psychological disorder simply because he molests children. To be diagnosed as disordered, now he must also feel anxious about the molestation, or be impaired in his work or social relationships. Thus the A.P.A. has left room for the 'psychologically normal' pedophile." For further information on the latest attempt to declare pedophilia normal check Dr. Laura Schlessinger's web site at www.drlaura.com. Kathleen Parker's observation: "Why is it that if you viscerally abhor the thought of a grown man having sex with your young son, you're a right-wing sex hater? Why aren't you a normal adult who understands that children need protection from adults who haven't matured sufficiently to find a partner their own age?" The [Colorado Springs] Gazette, March 30, 1999. f) "A study on pedophilia that claims child sexual abuse does not cause lasting psychological harm to its victims has set off a furor on the Internet and talk radio. The angry public reaction, fueled by Internet reports and conservative activists, comes nine months after the study was first released by the influential American Psychological Association. Sex between adults and willing minors should be described in more positive terms, the study suggests. 'A willing encounter...would be labeled simply "adult-child sex," a value-neutral term, the authors advised. 'A willing encounter between an adolescent and an adult with positive reactions...would be labeled scientifically as "adult-adolescent sex."' The report titled 'A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Sample,' is a compilation of 59 studies on how college students cope with child sexual abuse. The article was written by Bruce Rind, a psychology professor at Temple University in Pennsylvania, Philip Tromovitch of the University of Pennsylvania graduate school of education and Robert Bauserman, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan. Mr. Bauserman was also a contributor to a special issue of sex between men and boys published in 1990 by the Journal of Homosexuality. In that Journal he questioned the 'taboo' against man-boy sexual relationships. Laura Schlessinger, also known as Dr. Laura, one of the nation's top-rated talk-show hosts, with up to 18 million listeners, blasted the 31-page report. She said the study, published in July (1998) in the APA's bimonthly Psychological Bulletin, was proof the 155,000 member organization had 'gone soft' on child molesters." The Washington Times, March 23, 1999, p. l. g) "A controversial academic study of pedophilia
was roundly condemned by several congressmen, who chastised the American
Psychological Association for publishing its findings. 'We as a society
are not shocked by anything anymore,' Mr. Salmon [of Ariz] said. 'And now
we have a so-called credible psychological organization in this country
that purports to say that maybe sex with children isn't so bad.' Published
last July in the APA's Psychological Bulletin...was roasted by members of
Congress and conservative activists for suggesting lowering legal
standards for sexual abuse of children. 'The lack of judgment shown by the
APA in publishing it absolutely confounds me,' said Mr. Tom DeLay. 'I will
not equivocate on this issue. Sexual activity between an adult and a child
is criminal all the time and in all cases.' He challenged the APA to admit
it erred in publishing the article, 'and do it publicly,' he added, 'so
that subscribers to the North American Man/Boy Love Association Web page
and their defense attorneys won't quote your journal in their closing
arguments.' g) "The New York Times questioned the ethics of psychiatrists' making a diagnosis of someone they have never met, because the American Psychiatric Association prohibits this conduct. The ethical standard at issue is the 'Goldwater rule,' adopted after the 1964 presidential election. During that campaign, many psychiatrists responded to a one-page questionnaire devised by a magazine. The results were summarized in a full front-page headline-'1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater is Psychologically Unfit to be President.'' Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk, Making Us Crazy-DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders, p. 3. h) "On the shelf of every mental health professional is a copy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The American Psychiatric Association's 900-page reference book attempts to describe and classify each one of over 300 mental disorders....Part of the power of DSM derives from its attempt to distinguish mental disorder from other human troubles. Although to some laypeople the importance of the distinction may not be immediately clear, it is an enormously consequential one. DSM is a claim for professional jurisdiction by the American Psychiatric Association....In fact, one of the most powerful effects of DSM is due to its connection to insurance coverage: DSM is the psychotherapist's password for insurance reimbursement. Whether you are depressed or just blue, manic depressive or just moody, anxious or just high-strung is not simply a matter of semantics; it is the key to millions of dollars in insurance coverage for psychotherapy, hospitalization, and medications....The pharmaceutical companies, for one, have a big stake in psychiatric diagnosis. It is well known that drug companies provide substantial funding for the American Psychiatric Association's conventions and major scientific journals and reap enormous profits from the expanding market for psychiatric medications." Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk, Making Us Crazy, pp 10, 11, 12. i) "Mental health clinicians independently interviewing the same person in the community are as likely to agree as disagree that the person has a mental disorder and are as likely to agree as disagree on which of the over 300 DSM disorders is present." Herb Kutchins and Stuart A. Kirk, Making Us Crazy, p. 53. j) "The Fall and Rise of Homosexuality" (and the rise of pedophilia) is the subject matter of Chapter three in Kutchins and Kirk's work. The chapter contains an in depth analysis of how the homosexuals were able to delete homosexuality from DSM. The section in Chapter three entitled "The Inner World of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis" is worth a serious read. Conclusion: "The influence of gay psychiatrists is growing throughout the world." (p. 92) For further study on the role of psychiatry consult: (a) Bruce Wiseman, Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal (1995) and (b) Roder, Kubillus and Burwell, Psychiatrists: The Men Behind Hitler-The Architects of Horror (1995). "We will also demonstrate that the men behind Hitler are very much with us today. Their ideas and methods are still in vogue today and their philosophical descendants vividly echo the teachings and practices of the Nazi past." Roder, et. al., p. xviii. 10) Religious Left (Liberation Theology) a) "At least three major groups of the Religious Left exist in the United States. One of these, itself a movement with numerous subdivisions, including many of the clergy, denominational leaders, and academicians in America's largely liberal (in the theological sense) mainline denominations. A second branch of the Religious Left is composed of the growing number of politically liberal Roman Catholics in America. The third branch of the Religious Left is...the evangelical Left." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left is Not Right, p. 11. b) "K. L. Billingsley documents the shameful support that many socialist clergymen gave to Communist tyrants like Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung. Many left-wing American clergy acted as though Stalin was establishing the kingdom of God in the Soviet Union. Even while Stalin's secret police were murdering millions of their own countrymen, alleged spokesmen for Christ in America were praising what they saw as Stalin's efforts to bring about 'a just social order.' During the years of the Cold War, left-wing clergy in the mainline churches sometimes acted as if they wanted the Soviets and their allies to win. During the Vietnam War, many openly sided with the North Vietnamese cause. During the 1980s, Castro's Cuba and the Nicaraguan Sandinistas gave mainline liberals new causes to support." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 17, 18. c) "The radically liberal nature of the mainline Protestant denominations and the National Council of Churches (NCC) first received national attention in a shocking segment of CBS Television's 60 Minutes that aired on January 23, 1983. The program demonstrated NCC sympathy toward Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries and governments and documented the financial support the NCC and its member denominations have provided to such organizations." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 18. d) "Billingsley explains why he and so many others view the behavior of the radical Religious Left as an exercise in madness. 'The Christian faith is being turned by some into a public relations apparatus for totalitarianism.' There are and have been many mysteries in the Christian faith, but perhaps none so challenging as figuring out what has gone on in the thinking of Religious Left extremists." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 29. e) "The term 'New Left' refers to the trendy radicalism that many college students and college dropouts found exhilarating in the late sixties. During the ten years of its organized existence, the New Left changed dramatically. It mutated from a leftist-idealist student movement into a band of crypto-Communist nihilists. The New Left was Jim Wallis' political and ideological home during the late sixties, and he has never really abandoned his New Left anti-Americanism. What did change was his discovery that he could continue to be anti-American while putting a religious veneer on his radical politics." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 31. f) "The writings of the Religious Left typically exhibit adulation for socialism and contempt for capitalism. A prime example of this hostility toward capitalism can be found in the book Christians and Marxists by Jose Miguez Bonino, a Latin American Protestant. Miguez Bonino first delivered the content of his book to evangelical audiences in London, England, under the auspices of John Stott, noted British evangelical and former rector of All Souls Church in London. The book, published by a noted evangelical publishing house [Eerdmans], has been widely used as a required textbook in evangelical colleges and seminaries." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 45. g) "Another book widely hailed by the evangelical Left is The Good News of the Kingdom Coming by Andrew Kirk. Kirk was associate director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, the group that gave Miguez Bonino the platform for the lectures on which his book is based. The institute had strong ties both to John Stott and to All Souls Church. Kirk's book, from a different evangelical publisher [InterVarsity], also received wide use as a textbook in evangelical schools. Like Miguez Bonino, Kirk holds that capitalism is incompatible with biblical principles. In Kirk's view, there is an essential political and economic dimension to God's kingdom and to the gospel. This indispensable dimension turns out to be Kirk's own peculiar brand of socialism." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 46, 47. h) "Jim Wallis' efforts to portray himself as a moderate is contradicted by many of his past actions and statements. A notable example of this was the publication in 1989 of an unusual twenty-eight page document titled The Road to Damascus. Wallis and the Sojourners organization served as the American distributor of the publication....To make certain that the point won't be missed, the document identifies 'anti-Communist evangelicals' as members of the forces of darkness. In other words, good Christians must be pro-Communist; anti-Communists are bad Christians. Anti-Communist Christians are like Saint Paul before his conversion: enemies of Christ and of the Christ faith. The documents calls them to conversion-a conversion to Marxism." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 71. i) "[John Richard] Neuhaus branded as shameful the silence of supposedly responsible Christians in the United States who tried to act as if the document never existed and was not promoted by Jim Wallis and the Sojourners. It must be remembered that The Road to Damascus appeared just weeks before the anti-Communist movement in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China began to change the world order and the political map." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 72. j) "Wallis's work, The Soul of Politics, was published by Orbis Books in 1994. As the publishing arm of the radical left Catholic movement known as the Maryknollers, Orbis has been the dominant U.S. source for books touting the virtues of liberation theology and other assorted efforts to integrate Christianity and Marxism." Ronald H. Nash, Why the Left Is Not Right, p. 74. 11) Hollywood a) "By the mid-1930s, Los Angeles already boasted one of the nation's stronger Communist Party organizations with as many as several thousand members...V. J. Jerome, the Party's cultural commissar, and his fellow organizers knew the usual Party structure, but opted to set up something different in Hollywood." Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s, p. 51. b) "When Marc Lawrence joined the [Communist] Party, his fellow actor Lionel Stander told him that 'you will make out more with the dames.' Ring Lardner Jr. even proposed the slogan 'The Most Beautiful Girls in Hollywood Belong to the Communist Party.' Besides, enhancing one's social and romantic prospects, joining the Communist Party conferred a certain status...The slogan 'It's Smart to Be a Red' reflected that position." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 57. c) "The Communists also controlled The Screen Writer which, under Dalton Trumbo's care, became a kind of supplement to the People's Daily Worker...Though less powerful in the Screen Actors Guild, the Party also wielded influence there." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 66. d) "The Hollywood Ten: Alvah Bessie, Herb Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 2. e) "On Monday, October 27, 1947, in Washington, D.C., the [House Committee on Un-American Activities] began hearing testimony from a group of nineteen unfriendly witnesses. The nineteen were eventually pared down to a group known as the Hollywood Ten." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 2. f) "On October 27, 1997, fifty years to the day since the Hollywood Ten had opened their testimony, the crowd from the posh precincts of Beverly Hills, Westwood, Bel Air, Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica began streaming into the Motion Picture Academy theater to remember the Hollywood blacklist and pay homage to its victims...In Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist, the audience saw Oscar master of ceremonies Billy Crystal play actor Larry Parks, John Lithgow play actor Sterling Hayden, and Academy-Award-winner Kevin Spacey play writer Paul Jarrico." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 283. g) "As these events played out, an old [Communist] Party gambit was staging a comeback. After the 1947 hearings, Herb Biberman claimed that the movies had suffered from the absence of the Ten, a theme that was endlessly repeated in the Party press. Fifty years later, in the 1997 Tender Comrades, a book that was released for the fiftieth anniversary of the hearings, Hollywood biographer Patrick McGilligan decked that argument in garish shades of purple." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 280, 281. h) "'Today the Hollywood Ten have been virtually deified,' [Philip] Dunne wrote. 'The infamous hearings are presented in books and documentary films as a heroic battle fought by the unfriendly witnesses, the Ten and their numerous successors, against the forces of evil represented by the House Committee on Un-American Activities." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 279. i) "One of the [Communist] Party's major goals had been to block anti-Communist content in the movies, and even though their Party organization lay in shambles by the mid-1950s, the myths and legends they spawned remained powerful. The major political movement of this century became taboo, even though story material abounded. Thousands of Germans had risked their lives to flee East Berlin, but the only film to emerge about it was Night Crossing, from Disney Studios. Hollywood has never made a single film about any of the dramatic escapes from the Marxist regime of Fidel Castro, who executed rivals such as popular General Arnaldo Ochoa, imprisoned poets such as Armando Valladares, and persecuted homosexuals. The spy novels of William F. Buckley have never been filmed, nor the science-fiction works of C. S. Lewis. On the other hand, left-wing demonology such as Daniel, Testament, The House on Carroll Street, Salvador, Walker, and others emerged regularly from major studios, even though the movies lost money." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 281, 82. j) "While scores of films have dealt with the National Socialist regime in Germany, which passed out of existence in 1945, not a single Hollywood film has ever shown Communists committing atrocities. No Hollywood film has dealt with the Ukraine famine, the Moscow trials, or the Zhdanov purges that claimed Feffer, Mikoels, and thousands of others. No Hollywood film has shown the Hungarians rising up against their Soviet oppressors...The legacy of Hollywood Stalinism explains the dearth of movies about Communism." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 282. k) "According to Stephane Courtois's Black Book of Communism, between 85 and 100 million deaths worldwide during this century could be directly attributed to the ideas launched by Marx and Lenin." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 286. "In total, during the first eighty-eight years of this century, almost 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is as though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not germs." R. J. Rummel, Death By Government, p. 9. l) "The Hollywood [Communist] Party had denied or defended all: the Moscow trials, the Ukraine famine, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the invasion of Poland, the invasion of Finland, the surrender of German Jewish Communists to the Gestapo in 1940, the execution of Jewish antifascists as 'spies for Hitler,' the Katyn massacre of Polish officers, the mass execution of Russian prisoners of war, the Czech coup, Zhdanov purges and the Berlin blockade, the crushing of the Hungarian revolution. They did all this while earning a good living, substantial fortunes in some cases, in the very country they attacked as repressive and fascist. As Richard Grenier put it, in the dialectic of the Hollywood Left capitalism is evil-except for the three-picture deal with Paramount, the Malibu mansion, the swimming pool and tennis court, the Mercedes Benz. Or, as Marx himself might have framed it: From each according to his credulity, to each according to his greed." K. L. Billingsley, Hollywood Party, p. 258. m) "While [Elia] Kazan was shunned, denied work, and otherwise humiliated [for testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities], the Hollywood Ten-the cell of hard-core Stalinists who sought to turn the 1947 House committee hearings into something approximating a congressional riot, and paid for it with prison sentences-were lionized. Not only were their reputations restored, but institutions like the Hollywood talent guilds fawned over the Ten and repudiated their own supposed complicity with the establishment. While the Ten (who became Nine when the courageous Edward Dmytryk broke with the group) were acclaimed by 'liberals' for what amounted to Soviet patriotism, Kazan's achievements were routinely dismissed in such venues as the American Film Institute, where his American patriotism was an embarrassment." Stephen Schwartz, "The Rehabilitation of Elia Kazan," The Weekly Standard, February 8, 1999, p. 26. n) "We now know from the [KGB] Venona decryptions released by the National Security Agency, for example, that Mikhail Kalatozov, a Soviet director and cinema functionary prominent in Hollywood during World War II, was a high-ranking KGB agent. When Kalatozov's name was brought up in the House committee hearings, the Stalinists jeered, claiming that this Soviet operative had only come to the legendary city to buy prints of movies to show back in the motherland. But we see from the Venona traffic that Kalatozov-who would later direct the famous 1957 Soviet was film 'The Cranes Are Flying'-was a spy reporting directly to Grigory Kheifitz and Grigory Kasparov, the two NKVD station chiefs in San Francisco during World War II. Reviewing this dismal history, one marvels that the Motion Picture Academy has broken down at last and decided on the special Oscar to be given in March [1999]. Reportedly, the actor Karl Malden, a star of On the Waterfront, argued the case for Kazan before the academy's board, to no dissent whatever. Industry sources point out that the crusade to exalt the Hollywood Ten has been mainly an enthusiasm of screenwriters, while directors, producers, and actors always valued Kazan's art." Stephen Schwartz, "The Rehabilitation of Elia Kazan, The Weekly Standard, February 8, 1999, p. 26. o) "He destroyed many, many lives," says Norma Barzman, a writer who cannot forgive. The 'he' she refers to is not Josef Stalin, but the movie director Elia Kazan. Mr. Kazan is about to receive an Academy Award for his life's work, but the Hollywood Left is protesting the honor because Mr. Kazan, a former communist, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952 and identified eight of his former comrades. And at 89, he is still impenitent. His refusal to apologize enrages those who resent Hollywood's ostracism of a few dozen communists far more than they resent communism's millions of murders, enslavement of nations, persecution of religion, and denial and violation of every human right. In their eyes, Stalin's little helpers were 'idealists' and 'victims.'' Those who condemned communists and refused to do business with them are guilty of 'blacklisting' and 'McCarthyism.' Note that 'McCarthyism' no longer means false accusations of communist ties; it means perfectly accurate charges. Mr. Kazan is being called an 'informer,' not a 'misinformer.' As we have been reminded by recent events, the meaning of words have a way off evolving in the mouths of dishonest men, who count on our inability to recall what words used to mean. Mr. Kazan has never been ashamed because he has nothing to be ashamed of." Joseph Sobran, The Washington Times, March 1, 1999, p. A14. p) "Not a single soul leading the charge against Kazan today was 'harmed' by Kazan's testimony. Those ganging up against him are, basically, onetime-and longtime-Stalinists who still appear somewhat dreamy about communism, if not the Soviet Union. The Committee Against Silence, larded with hard-leftists, has issued a statement saying, 'There will be a protest demonstration among all the lovely gowns and black ties at the Academy Awards ceremony.' The group is also asking all in the audience to remain silent and 'sit on their hands' when Kazan receives his award. Who are those folks so outraged by Kazan's actions [before the House Committee on Un-American Activities]? Bernie Gordon, for one. The key organizer of the Committee Against Silence, Gordon...was one of those true-believing Stalinists. Norma Barzman, a member of Bernie's [Gordon] group, is another Kazan-hater....Barzman, in fact, was not a 'former leftist,' but a longtime Communist. ('Former leftist' is the media's usual euphemism for Stalinist, making it difficult for the reader or viewer to comprehend why the Kazans of the world were so upset.)...Frank Tarloff? He's teamed up with Bernie Gordon's anti-Kazan committee as well. Here's what he said in Tender Comrades published just two years ago. 'I must say, I have never regretted to this day, having joined the [Communist] party.'" Allan H. Ryskind, Human Events, March19, 1999, p. 8 q) "By then it was also clear that, whatever his reasons for testifying, Elia Kazan had been right about the nature of Communism, Stalin and the Soviet Union. And he had spoken out about it at a time when Stalinist terror was still claiming victims and in its most anti-Semitic phase. Far too many Hollywood liberals, on the other hand, had been wrong about Communism and remained silent while Stalin steadily expanded his death list, a list that included thousands of writers and artists. But Kazan's consistent anti-Communism only hardened the hatred against him. In 1996, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association considered giving Kazan a lifetime achievement award, but Joe McBride, the organization's vice president, threatened to distributes copies of Kazan's testimony before the [House] Committee and said that to give him an award would be ignoring the moral issue of informing. The group duly rejected Kazan...This past January 1999, an 84-year-old Karl Malden appeared before a board meeting of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...and proposed an honorary Oscar for Elia Kazan. The board agreed, approving the award unanimously. The conservative Charlton Heston applauded the decision in the Wall Street Journal, but in liberal Hollywood the stench of the blacklist still lingered, stoked by the fires of the stoolpigeon argument...The current cabbage patch left, whether or not led by Oliver Stone, will likely hold protests or attempt in some fashion to sabotage the award to Kazan.. Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, Heterodoxy, February 1999, p. 9, 10 r) "Slowly and quietly, plans are being made for a
series of protests over the decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences to present an honorary Oscar to the 89-year-old director Elia
Kazan....One of the organizers of the advertising effort, Bernard Gordon,
a 79-year-old writer who was blacklisted, said the group also was planning
a protest outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center of Los
Angeles...Gordon, like several other veteran screenwriters, said an
apology from Kazan for naming names would defuse much of the opposition to
him. But, for the moment, that seems unlikely. 'Apologize? Recant? That's
a good Stalinist word,' said Floria V. Lasky, Kazan's longtime lawyer. 'It
seems to me he never said it was an easy decision.'. Some of Kazan's
strongest opponents have never apologized 'for supporting Stalinism and
communism,' Lasky said. 'I expect Kazan will say 'Thank you' in his
speech.' At the same time, Kazan's defenders have argued that it was
absurd to say that he personally destroyed careers, because he named names
that the [House] Committee already knew. But Kazan's critics said that by
informing he gave his tacit support to McCarthyism....Kazan placed an
advertisement in The New York Times after his testimony before
the House Committee [on Un-American Activities], justifying his action. In
the ad Kazan denounced communism as a 'dangerous and alien conspiracy,'
and said that 'liberals must speak out.'" Bernard Weinraub, New
York Times News Service (Colorado Springs Gazette), March
14, 1999, p. L7 [Charlton Heston, appearing on the Larry King Live Show,
March 17, 1999, openly wondered if Kazan would be controversial if the
issue were the German Bund Party instead of the Communist Party; and
Nazism instead of Communism. No one seemed to want to discuss such a
possibility.] s) "During the weeks before the Academy Awards, Army Archerd raged a ruthless campaign against Elia Kazan in his column in Daily Variety. Archerd implored the Hollywood glitterati to stand up to the supposed evil of Kazan by sitting down and folding their arms when Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorsese presented the eminent director with an Oscar for lifetime achievement. Happily, it turned out that the crowd was less than sympathetic to the cause of Stalinist secrecy (Kazan had dutifully and patriotically 'named names' to House investigators when they questioned him under oath about Communists in the movie business). More than half the crowd rose to applaud Kazan." The Weekly Standard, April 5/12. 1999, p. 4. t) "Not only does the left not apologize for its
support of Josef Stalin and its later opposition to anti-Communism, its
adherents continue to vilify their opponents who were morally right. 12) Nationalized Health a) "Socialism guides our behavior...In practice, we keep moving down the Socialist road...In fact, we are more than half Socialist today, that is, more than half the total output of the country is being distributed in a way that is determined by the government (including regulations)...Bill Clinton is a Socialist, defined as somebody who believes that the way to achieve good things is to have government do it. You can't think of a more Socialist program than the health care program that he tried to get us to adopt." Milton Friedman, (C-Span), November 20, 1994, in Dennis L. Cuddy, The Road to Socialism and the New World Order, p. 74. b) "It must count among the most amazing spectacles of history to be inundated with the rhetoric, theory, and practice of communism, and see not one communist around. We read and hear daily about class warfare, redistribution of wealth, the 'dispossessed' masses, the disadvantaged, universal health care, speech codes, sensitivity training, restrictions on parents' rights, school-to-work-the list goes on and on. The agenda is with us, the [Communist] Party is not." Balint Vazsonyi, America's 30 Years War, p. 176, 7. 13) Political Correctness a) "Political Correctness is in fact cultural Marxism-Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. The effort to translate Marxism from economics into culture did not begin with the student rebellion of the 1960s. It goes back at least to the 1920s and the writings of the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci. In 1923, in Germany, a group of Marxists founded an institute devoted to making the transition, the Institute of Social Research (latter known as the Frankfurt School). One of its founders, George Lukacs, stated its purpose as answering the question, 'Who shall save us from Western Civilization?' The Frankfurt School gained profound influence in American universities after many of its leading lights fled to the United States in the 1930s to escape National Socialism in Germany." William S. Lind, "What is Political Correctness?" Free Congress Foundation. b) "The Frankfurt School blended Marx with Freud, and later influences (some Fascist as well as Marxist) added linguistics to create 'Critical Theory' and 'deconstructionism.' These in turn greatly influenced education theory, and through institutions of higher education gave birth to what we now call Political Correctness. The lineage is clear, and it is traceable right back to Karl Marx." William S. Lind, "What is Political Correctness?" Free Congress Foundation. c) "The parallels between cultural Marxism and classical, economic Marxism are also clear. Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, shares with classical Marxism the vision of a 'classless society,' i.e., a society not merely of equal opportunity, but equal condition. Since that vision contradicts human nature-because people are different, they end up unequal, regardless of the starting point-society will not accord with it unless forced. So, under both variants of Marxism, it is forced. This is the first major parallel between classical and cultural Marxism: both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is fully visible on campuses where 'PC' has taken over the college: freedom of speech, of the press, and even of thought are all eliminated." William S. Lind, "What is Political Correctness?' Free Congress Foundation. 14) Educational Establishment a) "The part exists for the sake of the whole, but the whole does not exist for the sake of the part...You are created for the sake of the whole and not the whole for the sake of you." Plato, Laws 903C. See Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 100f. b) "Never was a man [Plato] more in earnest in his hostility towards the individual...he hated the individual and his freedom..." Popper, p.103, 4. c) "Plato recognizes only one ultimate standard, the interest of the state. Everything that furthers it is good and virtuous and just; everything that threatens it is bad and wicked and unjust...Actions that serve it [the state] are moral." Popper, p. 107. d) "In this highest state, he [Plato] tells us, 'there is common property of wives, of children, and of all chattels. And everything possible has been done to eradicate from our life everywhere and in every way all that is private and individual." Popper, p. 102. e) "Our very eyes and ears and hands seem to see, to hear, and to act, as if they belonged not to individuals, but to the community." Popper, p. 102. f) "'The greatest principle of all,' he writes, 'is that nobody, whether male or female, should be without a leader. Nor should the mind of anybody be habituated to letting him do anything at all on his own initiative.'" Popper, p. 103. g) "Individualism, united with altruism, has become the basis of our western civilization. It is the central doctrine of Christianity ('love your neighbor,' say the Scriptures, not 'love your tribe'); and it is the core of all ethical doctrines which have grown from our civilization and stimulated it." Popper, p. 102. "If, as Harold Bloom has lately argued, Shakespeare 'invented the human,' it can be said-with equal hyperbole-that Christianity 'discovered' the individual. In the ancient world, individuals were recognized as members of tribes or nations or families, and conducted themselves accordingly...the Gospels are replete with scenes in which Jesus works one on one, healing this woman's sickness, forgiving that man's sins and calling each to personal conversion. He invites Jews and Gentiles alike to enter God's kingdom. 'Christianity discovers individuality in the sense that it stresses personal conversion,' says Bernard McGinn, professor of historical theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. 'This is a crucial contribution to Western Civilization because it releases the individual from the absolute constraints of family and society." Newsweek, March 29, 1999, p. 56. h) "Alfred North Whitehead said Western philosophy is a series of footnotes on Plato. This is largely true." Norman L. Geisler, Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, p. 594. i) "Individualism is one of the first areas to be assaulted and removed. As Outcome Based Education (OBE) is implemented, children are taught and graded as groups. This method is called cooperative learning, and the students are constantly pushed toward group think or collectivism. Individualism is out and collectivism is in. This anti-American concept is one of the most obnoxious of the socialistic leveling devices. It is the individualism of America, carried out in the competitive free enterprise system, which has offered the highest standard of living in the world. However, as one observes OBE, the first thing one will notice is that competition is to be eliminated, along with the rewards of academic excellence. We eliminate programs such as the selection of valedictorians and salutatorians." Shirley Correll, Body Snatching, p.8, 9. j) "The years 1933-1934 had been busy one for behavioral psychologists of the Wundtian-Freudian-Marxist persuasion. That same year the Carnegie Corporation financed with a $340,000 grant a 17-volume study on American education (George Counts served as Director of Research). It concluded that 'the age of individualism is closing and a new age of collectivism is emerging.'" B.K. Eakman, Cloning of the American Mind, p. 159. k) "In Dewey-disciple George S. Counts' Dare the School Build a New Social Order? he declared that 'teachers should deliberately reach for power and then make the most of their conquest [so as to] influence the social ideals, attitudes, and behavior of the coming generation.' Trust in Providence, he said, must be replaced through careful planning, capitalism would 'have to be displaced altogether...or changed radically,' and attitudes would have to be recast through education." B.K. Eakman, p. 127, 8. l) "Let's take individualism, because it's one ideal psychologists are targeting aggressively. Psychologists, psychiatrists and all behaviorist educators agree that American children-indeed, all children-must forego romanticized, glorified, outmoded ethics like rugged individualism, and all the underlying 'values' and 'attitudes' that are critical to sustaining that ethic, such as self-sufficiency, independence (including financial independence), and ambition." B. K. Eakman, p. 203. m) "While the fall of the Soviet Union means, technically, at least, that communism 'lost' the Cold War, the undeniable fact is that Marxism left an indelible mark on the free world in terms of philosophy and culture, and continues to do so." B. K. Eakman, p. 135. n) "Men like Wilhelm Wundt, Otto Gross, Wilhelm Steckel, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, Wilhelm Reich, Kurt Lewin, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno in Germany; Robert Owen, A.S. Neill, Havelock Ellis, J. R. Rees, and A. J. Orage in Great Britain; Sigmund Freud in Austria; Dr. Brock Chisholm in Canada; Antonio Gramsci of Italy; and Anatoly Lunacharsky and Georg Lukacs of Russia were key figures who triggered a cultural revolution in the United Sates. Of these, most people recognize only the names of Engels, Marx and Freud. But it was primarily the work and theories of the other individuals in the list that were the source of today's obsession with early sex education, the rejection of the paternal family, the denigration of authority, the eradication of religion, and the overthrow of the character ethic." B. K. Eakman, p. 110. o) "Much of American thought and culture were more profoundly influenced by the likes of Wundt, Neill, Ellis, Owen, Gross, Steckel, Fromm, Reich, Adorno, Freud, Marx, Lewin, Marcuse, Gramsci, Rees, Orage, Chisholm, Lunacharsky, and Lukacs." B. K. Eakman, p. 110, 111. p) "The major part of the groundwork was laid in 1879 at the University of Leipzig, Germany, where experimental laboratories headed by Wilhelm Wundt advanced the then-radical notion of man as a neurochemical machine, a product of genetics and upbringing and not accountable for his conduct, which was said to be caused entirely by forces beyond his control. Wundt's students actually credited him with having divorced the spiritual aspect from his studies. His pupils boasted that, following the establishment of the first psychology laboratory in 1869, psychology had become 'a science without a soul.'" B. K. Eakman, p. 111. q) "Perhaps the best place to begin is in Europe in the 1920s, with the career of A. S. Neill, author of Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearing, and with an effort called the New Education Movement. Summerhill didn't get published in America until 1960, because the country wasn't ready for it. But by 1970, it had inexplicably sold over 2 million copies...Basically, Summerhill redefined the term 'freedom.' When Neill used that term, he didn't mean 'liberty'; he meant 'rebellion against authoritarianism,' and you will find that this theme is the glue that holds together the cast of characters in the ensuing education drama...Neill took the anti-authoritarian message back to England, where he used it as a basis for the first of several experimental schools there including Summerhill, on which his famous book was based. There he presented the youngsters should be encouraged to refute all authority figures, including their parents. 'There is never a problem child,' Neill wrote in 1932, 'only a problem parent.'...Eventually Neill gravitated to the Communist Party, where he obtained several of his staff. Indeed, Summerhill was the school of choice for children of the Central Committee of the British Communist Party. As for Neill's friend and colleague, Wilhelm Reich: after joining the Communist Party he launched the Socialist Society for Sex Consultation and Sexological Research in Germany. His book, The Sexual Revolution in America, was a precursor of things to come. Reich averred among other things that monogamy was a cause of Nazism." B. K. Eakman, p. 111, 112, 140. r) "About the same time, a man named Robert D. Owen came on the scene in Scotland. Known today as the 'father of modern socialism' (although that distinction more properly belongs to others), Owen's main thrust of effort was a special school for the offspring of mill workers in New Lanark, Scotland, for the purpose of proving that socialism would work, providing that education began at the age of one year. His experiment failed, but he nevertheless came to the United States in 1825 to try again, this time at New Harmony, Indiana. He called his second experiment 'the focus of enlightened atheism." B. K. Eakman, p. 111. s) "One individual who moved frequently between Ascona [Switzerland, the center of German counterculture] and Dresden, was Dr. Otto Gross, who became the psychology guru there. Freud described Gross as one of his most talented students. He was also the admitted murderer of two women, as well as a drug addict, a pornographer, and an abortionist... Unsurprisingly, while in therapy with [Wilhelm] Steckel, Gross decided, as had most other early psychologists, that the key to freedom was complete sexual revolution-with the caveat that the primary means to attaining that delightful state was the destruction of both the family and all religions. Indeed, it was Otto Gross who pioneered what we know today as 'sexual politics,' which was first adopted by the well-known German communist Wilhelm Reich, who coined the popular term. Meanwhile Otto Gross became a serious cocaine and morphine addict and died in a gutter of a drug overdose." B. K. Eakman, p. 129. t) "Wilhelm Steckel was so twisted that even Freud called him 'morally insane.'...But the insane Steckel lived on. A. S. Neill introduced him to American audiences in 1921 via a book review in New Era which stated, among other things, that 'yes, guilt causes neuroses. We must therefore abolish what causes guilt, namely the conscience given from without." B. K. Eakman, p. 129. u) "[Erich] Fromm, a revolutionary Marxist, came to America in 1932, and wrote, among other books, The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture. Apart from trashing Jesus, the book developed a concept of the modern man-ideal: a political-psychological 'revolutionary' figure. 'The revolutionary,' wrote Fromm, 'is the man who has emancipated himself from the ties of blood and soil, from his mother and father, from special loyalties to state, class, race, party or religion. The Revolutionary character is a Humanist.'" "In Fromm's 1955 work, The Sane Society, he predicted that 'theistic concepts' would disappear in favor of a 'new religion' that would 'embrace humanistic teachings common to all great religions of the East and of the West.'" B. K. Eakman, p. 149, 150. v) "The nucleus of the Frankfurt group was a
mixture of Marxist ideologists, Freudian sexologists, social and political
psychologists, and professional propagandists. The schools' key treatise
was Studies on Authoritarian and the Family, published in France
in 1936. Key promoters of anti-authoritarianism, other than Lukacs and
Gramsci, were Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, Wilhelm Reich, Kurt Lewin,
Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse." w) "Sigmund Freud's theory revolved around sexual freedom as the key to social reform and building on Wundt in Germany and Owen in Scotland, the idea that human behavior was the result of past experiences, and therefore beyond the control of the individual. Freud wrote that 'free sex-- ---------' was urgently necessary or else society was 'doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life...' Freud referred to religion as 'the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity.'" B. K. Eakman, p. 115. x) "Most people don't realize the extent of anti-family bias in the philosophy of Marx and his close colleague Friedrich Engels. But it was part and parcel of their radical economic theory, the family' eradication was key to the 'worker's paradise' they envisioned. Engels devoted an entire book to the subject, Origin of the Family, in which he advocated its 'liberation'-ostensibily so that women would be 'free.' Engels wrote: 'the first condition for the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex back into public industry, and this in turn demands the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society.'" "Moses Hess was the most important figure in the life of Marx. It was he who introduced Marx and collaborator Frederick Engels to a version of socialism which formed the roots of 'revolutionary socialism'...Hess predicted in 1841, that Marx would deliver the final coup de grace to religion and politics. Hess referred to Judaism and Christianity as the most immoral religions ever." B. K. Eakman, p. 132, 133. y) "The Frankfurt School's actual name was the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded in 1923 by Georg Lukacs. Son of a Hungarian aristocrat, Georg Lukacs preceded Anatoly Lunacharsky as Soviet Commissar of Education, where he stayed only about five months, but he became Lunacharsky's counterpart in Budapest, Hungary, at the People's Commissariat of Culture. He shared Lenin's zeal in eradicating religion and the churches and harbored a deep hatred of anything Western...Georg Lukacs' first order of business in Budapest was to do everything he could to keep people out of churches. He then launched an aggressive sex education program which consisted in part, of special lectures and literature in schools 'instructing' children in free love, presenting graphic portrayals of intercourse, undermining 'archaic' family structures, including the concept of monogamy, and emphasizing the irrelevance of religion, which, he said, deprived people of pleasure. After he got through inciting children to rebellion, he started on Hungarian women." B. K. Eakman, p. 146. (The Communist Manifesto called for a community of women.) z) "Most Americans believe that Russian education was highly academic despite its political propagandizing. They would be surprised to learn that one of Lenin's first official acts was to eliminate examinations, homework, failure and punishment, as well as to collectivize (consolidate) the schools. Even more remarkably, he began disseminating the works of [John] Dewey! By 1924, Soviet education theorists were saying that holding the correct view-points, including a 'collective spirit,' was more important than substantive knowledge. Indeed, the first Communist Five-Year Plan in 1927 included several education provisions aimed at building the 'new socialism' that was going to usher in a worker's paradise. Today, experts in America say something similar, that it will usher in a new era of competitiveness, prosperity and lead to less world conflict. New promises; same old collective philosophy." B. K Eakman, p. 134. aa) "'The ultimate problem of all education,' wrote [John] Dewey, 'is to coordinate the psychological and social factor...' Dewey further stated that schools should 'take an active part in determining the social order of the future' and that teachers should align themselves with forces of social and economic control...By the late 1940s, Teachers' College at Columbia University had become the vehicle for spreading the wisdom of the collective." B. K. Eakman, p. 121. (Dewey was a founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society and president of the League of Industrial Democracy.) (Dewey was also a signatory of Humanist Manifesto in 1933.) bb) "The socialists of 'progressive' vintage in America had to forge channels into government through established, democratic institutions, which was a much slower process. One example of the latter was the establishment of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) by socialist-communist Roger Baldwin in 1920. The original thrust of the organization was to promote the tenets of Marxism-Leninism utilizing channels that were essentially unknown in poverty-stricken, post-czarist Russia." B. K. Eakman, p. 136 cc) "The Carnegie organizations also have funneled over the years enormous sums into the nation's three pre-eminent atheist-lobbying organization: the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, a highly political organization with headquarters in both Berlin, Germany and Wye, Maryland, a Washington, D.C. suburb; People for the American Way and the ACLU. This is not to say that the three organizations in question happen merely to be comprised of atheists and are innocently lobbying for various causes. It means that these organizations are specifically lobbying to eradicate religion from America's institutions any way they can. The American Humanist Association, and its magazine, The Humanist, for example, is a spinoff of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Both exist for the sole purpose of promoting the ideals contained in the two Humanist Manifestos." B. K. Eakman, p. 123. dd) "Dr. Reginald Lourie was leading the child development community in a campaign against parents and families. He announced to the British Humanist Association in the document, 'Marriage and Family': 'The Humanist view is that marriage is a human institution...in no way sacred and immutable. Some opponents of Humanism have accused us of wishing to overthrow the Traditional Christian Family. They are right. That is exactly what we intend to do." B. K. Eakman, p. 255. ee) "One day while browsing through a library in Colorado Springs, [Julian] Huxley came across some essays by Lord Morley in which he found these words: 'The next great task of science will be to create a religion for humanity.' Huxley was challenged by his vision. He wrote, 'I was fired by sharing his conviction that science would of necessity play an essential part in framing any religion of the future worthy of the name.' Huxley took up Morley's challenge to develop a scientific religion. He called it 'evolutionary humanism.'" Norman L. Geisler, Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, p. 346. (Huxley's work was entitled Religion Without Revelation. He was president of the British Humanist Associ |