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Communists create artificial crises and then claim that only they can solve them.
[Communist Herbert Marcuse] redefined “clear and present danger” to mean whatever he disliked, much as twenty-first century leftists do when they classify constitutionally protected gun ownership as a “public health crisis” or the predictions of fickle meteorological models as a “national emergency.” Rather than admit the enormity of his plan to reorder society, Marcuse pretended …
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Communists create chaos and confusion by changing terms for the same concepts.
Language changes naturally over time, but the shift from “criminal” to “justice-involved person” did not come about through natural linguistic development. Rather, leftist academics, political activists, and bureaucrats contrived the new term, and left-wing journalists parroted it. The two terms reflect two different cultures: one in which people have moral agency, another in which they …
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Lenin copied Marx’s idea of central control.
Moreover, Lenin’s chief amendment to Marxism–“the vanguard party”–finds good intellectual warrant in the Founder himself. …there exists a deep connection between Marx’s idea of Communism as conscious, rational mastery over mankind’s collective fate and Lenin’s idea of the Party as the controlling vanguard of the spontaneous mass movement. Signet Classics edition of The Communist Manifesto, …
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Communists now fight a culture war, not a class war.
Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, described herself and co-founder Alicia Garza as “trained Marxists.” The organization’s third co-founder, Opal Tometi, has been circumspect in her self-definition, though one may deduce Marxist sympathies from the several photographs of her smiling next to Venezuela’s Communist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Cullors, Garza, and Tometi share …
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Communists know that words matter.
[Italian Communist agitator Antonio] Gramsci believed that Marxists should aim to attain what he called “cultural hegemony,” an early expression of Andrew Breitbart’s famous dictum that “politics is downstream of culture.” And the beating heart of culture is language. In the little-read Discourse or Dialogue about Our Language, Machiavelli compares the infiltration of an opponent’s …