Tolle Lege.....Take Up And Read

          Our son attended a college where the reading requirements and overall workload were extremely demanding but he was rewarded for it later in law school. Personally, I read an awful lot while in college that was not related to my...studies, and I paid for it rather than was rewarded for it later. Surely there is a medium where one can read for pleasure and learning while still attending to regular studies. If you are in college I highly recommend some additional reading that will not only benefit you later but right now. The first book concerns your eternal soul...Putting Amazing Back Into Grace by Michael Horton. The second book concerns your immediate future here in America.....Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives For A Century by Paul Kengor. You might even be able to find some friends to read and discuss the books together with.
          The following are three posts on Communism. The first is from 2011 and the next two are from this year:

          Communism is a dialectic in the Hegelian sense. It changes outwardly to survive inwardly. It is alive and thriving in our country, the very least representative being the Communist Party USA. It can call itself an American patriot or anything else. It feeds on the uniformed, the malcontent, the miscreant and the self-indulgent. Its only enemy is God.
          I have to remind myself every once in a while that the average American today does not know a whole lot about communism. At times it's almost as if it is seen as nothing but a conspiracy theory, as if it never really existed and as if over a hundred million people were never murdered under it. Communism lies, it kills, it terrorizes, it threatens and carries out those threats. It's godless, it dupes and cons people...whole peoples and when it attains power through coercion and deception it lowers the boom...no more promises for there is no need to give them for it now has total l control and will henceforth dictate everything....to everybody!
          Every facet of our society is unraveling before our very eyes. Emil Mazey, a twentieth century labor leader, is reported to have paraphrased the older proverb known as the duck test when he said the following..."I can't prove you are a Communist. But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck,, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks- I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck." Are you willing to read the evidence of how Communism has worked, is working, and even as of now...winning, in America? Read the book that is reviewed in the following blog first published on September 15th of 2011 and then try to defend this administration.

September 15, 2011........Communism.....Under New Management

          The relationship between the American Progressive and Communism has always been a dysfunctional one, the Progressive longing for someone to look to as a hero and the Communist not only abusing that adulation but sneering at those so gullible as to think that there is anything compassionate or caring about them. The Communist knew the extraordinary weaknesses of the liberal American mind and had taken advantage of it from the beginning, for a century now! It has a new face today, hiding behind a semi-capitalist veil, for it retreated and reinvented its outward appearance.
          This generation will never be able to say that they were not told, not warned, for the evidence is everywhere if only we would look. I've reported on more than a dozen outstanding books on the deteriorating condition of our nation and its causes in this blog of almost three years but none of secular content more needed than the one I put before you today. I do not believe that any liberal can read this book and not be concerned that they may have been duped. One might very well read a chapter and then throw the book away, or skim it and not accept its message but if one reads this book through they will view our political landscape differently. The title of the book is Dupes, How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives For A Century.
          I'm very familiar with the author for I had read a few of his previous books and I admired him as a Professor of Political Science at Grove City College in Western Pennsylvania, one of America's finest colleges. This is a monumentally important work written with clarity, and systematized in such a way to take the reader on a trip through American history and awaken the reader in the process. Professor Kengor filleted the meat of Communist propaganda so expertly as to expose the rotten flesh and release the stench that permeates liberal politics, higher education and the mainstream media. You have to read this book...if you care about America. A blurb from Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute says the same thing: "Face it. You are going to have to read this book." Why...so that you can show your knowledge of Communism in some future conversation? No, rather that you can read it and weep and hopefully sound your own alarm in that future conversation. In another blurb, Fred Barnes wrote that it left him "amazed and a bit frightened." The Weekly Standard's Barnes has been sounding an alarm for decades yet it still made him a bit frightened!
Reading the book was a culmination of research that I had already been doing, that the Communist has reappeared in America in a new guise, and yet I was dumbfounded by the volume of evidence and not a little disappointed in being reminded of my own history of being duped in the late 1970s.
Kengor is going to take you back to September of 1919 in Chicago where Communism first began its assault on the American mind. You will see the essence of class hatred in it from its beginnings and recognize the tactic from the Left today. You will see one celebrity or person of note after another taken in by the lies, many waking up later angry and indignant. Even the most ardent admirer of Franklin Roosevelt will have to reassess that admiration as Roosevelt was taken in by Uncle Joe Stalin thanks to the leftists all around him. Read and weep at how much of our media was not only taken in but even today ridicules those who are not duped. Will they have the character to admit they were wrong, if and when they also awaken, as many of their predecessors did? You will see heroes and you will see buffoons who were, and are, very useful idiots for Communism, and too many who were out-and-out traitors. You will see how Hollywood was used and many of the biggest names duped. Compare this to the stars of today while you read. And you will see Ronald Reagan as a liberal Democrat and head of the Screen Actors Guild in 1947, admittedly himself duped for a time, and recognize his courage and greatness on display even then! No one made this man and he was no late bloomer.
          Communism has a new face but the essence remains the same, for God is still banished and revolutions are still started, as despicably as ever, through hatred and propaganda. Lying is as common as breathing. One class is pitted against another. Educators are still sought for their influence on the youth. Unions are still infiltrated as are the arts. College students are intellectually brutalized and the news media is still wooed with dreams that they might actually be more important than the news they report. The SDS mentality (Students for a Democratic Society) that the Communist so effectively used against our military's efforts in Vietnam is alive in many of its former leaders who have grown up, quite naturally, to become college and university professors, and in the case of Bill Ayers, prepare their comrades, and those they mentor, to run for elective office, even the presidency. Communism is alive but not well because it can only remain beneath the surface for so long until the rains of tyranny expose the caskets of dead ideas, tyrants and false promises. Paul Kengor lays it out very clearly for the reader how lies told about George Bush's intentions is Iraq and how accusations of a warmongering, racist, America that has lured the college student, the idle and the malcontent over the past thirty years, are just reheated deceptions dusted off from older Communist scripts where only the names have changed.
          Who is Frank Marshall Davis and why was the media silent on this Communist mentor to our current President? Why is Jimmy Carter still a dupe? How was Edward Kennedy, who I had volunteered for, one of the biggest dupes of all? One need not be a card-carrying member of the Communist Party to be a Communist as Kengor points out, and one can think of themselves as a patriot and yet be a prize dupe! Kengor says that they will continue to call us scare mongers and McCarthyite fanatics but this is just another tried and true tactic from the bowels of Moscow's Comintern. He concludes his book with these thoughts: "The most mordant irony for the liberals who lend cover is that while they laugh at the anti-Communists, they seem to have no idea that the loudest howls have always emanated from the Communists who take them as dupes: gullible fools to be used to advance the Communist cause."

Professor's Kengor's follow up book is more specific to Barack Obama. Its title is The Communist, Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor.

You Can Trust The Communists.....

         They were nothing fancy. As I remember they were a few pages stapled together under the heading Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, a title I didn't particularly care for, but I read them when they arrived in the mail and they had an effect on me. I didn't really act on what I was learning, but then I didn't have the evidence as clearly before my eyes as I do today. The author of these...pamphlets...was Fred Schwarz. He was a former physician, an Australian and a Christian whose family two generations previous were Jewish. Fred Schwarz was also an ardent anti-communist.
         He filled stadiums with his 'Crusade' and had the admiration of Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley. His book You Can Trust The Communists (To Do Exactly As They Say) was an international bestseller, and keep in mind as you read this post that You Can Trust The Communists was written in 1960! Schwarz begins by writing "Once we accept the fact that Communists are Communists, and understand the laws of their thought and conduct, all the mystery disappears and we are confronted with a movement which is frightening in its superb organization, strategic mobility and universal program, but which is perfectly understandable and mathematically predictable." He's saying that Communism is not mysterious. Yet we in America look at it as if it were a myth. Today we are in the midst of a coup by this....myth, a coup designed primarily with Lenin's pen and repeated enough times in history that the stench of it should have been detected by all Americans by now!
Schwarz sums up the situation thusly "Marx taught that the bourgeoisie is the established class in Capitalist society. It created the State as an instrument to oppress and exploit the proletariat. In reaction the proletariat creates the Communist Party to wage war against the State." The key in this statement is in the words "creates the Communist Party to wage war." Throughout the book you see evidence of a monolithic organization that takes no prisoners, whose elites believe that they have been empowered to do whatever they want and kill whomever they want. Below these elites are no one...no one...who has not bought into the lies fed them. The Communist Party is never to be questioned.
         Schwarz writes that Khrushchev, in his condemnation of Stalin, "tells us that Stalin caused to be arrested and shot for treason 70 percent of the Central Committee that elected him to power in 1934.....98 members out of 137. He tells us of entire nationalities that Stalin destroyed." Schwarz then asks "how does he put to death the majority of the military commanders? (of his own military) How does he put to death the majority of the leaders of his own party?" Even as Khrushchev admitted all the crimes, Stalin was still called a "good man," for the Communist Party gave him his power and criticism of Stalin must therefore be tempered. This is the ideology we have to deal with!
According to Schwarz, Communists do not have to reveal themselves. Some may, others may not. Both play a part. Their aim was never the conversion of the masses, rather a small elite group totally disciplined and dedicated that can "scientifically" use "the social forces that move and direct the masses of people so that the Communist Party may come to power over them, and impose forcibly the Communist program." Scientifically? Yes, they have studied cultures and know us better than we know ourselves. This is why much of America has been drawn as if by a Pied Piper into Communist ideology. The Communist utilizes the concept of "fronts" to perfection; a front being organizations that "exploit the self-interest of a given group." The gay rights movement, many unions, some environmental groups, peace movements and immigration amnesty proponents all can be used efficiently to further the aims of the Communist.
         Fred Schwarz lays out the history of the rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia and details Communist revolutions throughout the world. One revolution does not have to look like the next. Only the post mortems of the previous governments are the same. We can also see the grid and the strategies placed over our electoral processes and injected into our culture. Peoples are told that the proletariat is in charge in these revolutions but this is only theoretical. In reality the Communist Party is the "executive of the proletariat" and therefore a "dictatorship of the proletariat" arises whose first act is to disarm the people as in China so that there is never a counter-revolution. Anyone who has characteristics of a leader becomes an enemy for they therefore have potential to be troublesome. They are not recruited, they are removed, and obviously a "vast espionage system" is utilized for they have always had to know what everyone is saying...even their....friends. Do these things sound familiar?
         Schwarz had witnessed it first-hand... "intellectual dishonesty." Evidences are everywhere on the failures, the lies and the crimes of Communism but the easy way is to ignore it. The hard way is to confront it. Why do people so easily accept the spurious claims, and that is putting it very gently, of man-made global warming? Why do they ignore the falsified statistics and tortured climate models?  As for the cadres who totally accept the way of communism, Schwarz writes this. "The Communists believe that the mind is simply a complex of conditioned reflexes, and that if they can understand the techniques by which these conditioned reflexes are built up and how they can be broken down, they have acquired mastery over the mind itself,"
         In Schwarz concluding chapter he writes "The Communists are supremely confident of complete victory. They claim that their victory is assured because of the quality of the character in democratic lands........They are convinced that the average citizen of the Free World is so intellectually lazy and dishonest, so greedy and selfish, so intoxicated with entertainment, so consumed with his immediate problems that no matter how clear the evidence of impending doom, that evidence will never be acknowledged, and the organizational steps necessary for survival will never be taken." The author then defended America with, "we categorically reject this claim" and went on to explain why but I have to wonder if he still felt this way before his death in 2009.
The last sentence in the book is this "As free men humbly seek God and present their bodies, minds and hearts to their country and the cause of all mankind, we may well believe that tyranny shall not triumph and freedom shall not perish from the earth." He certainly would never have doubted this!

Heart, Mind and Soul

         Just a few weeks ago, on February 6th, I wrote a post on Fred Schwarz and his book from 1960 You Can Trust The Communists....To Be Communists. Please consider reading that post to go along with this one. Fred Schwarz was a harbinger of sorts, a herald who dedicated his life trying to warn anyone who would listen, of the dangers of incipient Communism in the West. I ordered another one of his writings, a small pamphlet titled The Heart, Mind and Soul of Communism and this is the focus of this post.
         Folks, you are going to hear more of Communism in the coming days and how it has resurrected itself in amongst the Progressive/Liberal American political scene. You can see it in the news from the Ukraine and Venezuela. You might also want to read my book review of Professor Paul Kengor 's book Dupes from February 1st for these three posts go very much hand in hand.
Schwarz begins with a little history of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Vladimir Lenin had a relatively small band of followers as the Czar was overthrown. He renamed the Bolshevik element as the Communist Party of Russia. In ruthless abandon he commandeered the revolution and that ruthless abandon has continued right up to this day. Schwarz then begins to dissect Communism. I'll be giving verbatim quotes from the pamphlet in the rest of this post. Here is the first, and I recognize every description he gives: "One aspect (of Communism) appeals to the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged; the other aspect appeals to the wealthy, the intellectually superior, and the idealistic reformers......To the poor of the earth-and they are legion-the servants of Communism go with this message: 'Follow me, and I will build a new world for you and your children..." Schwarz expands on the second promise given "that is used, not to captivate the poor, but to seduce the rich; not to enlighten the ignorant, but to enlist the educated; not to bribe the cynical, but to ensnare the idealistic."
         How is all this to be done? The answer given is "science." According to the author the Communists plan on transforming human nature just as science transformed the world that we live in. They would remake mankind through the same principles. This concept alone helped enlist intellectuals for they perceive themselves to be so very much smarter than any of us. Schwarz gives "three basic hypotheses for this "scientific program......Atheism, Materialism and Economic Determinism."
         He writes that "Karl Marx was an atheist before he was a Communist" and that "Atheism was his first and last intellectual love." Since God is denied, so are "all absolute criteria such as truth and error" and we can see this very clear today in Benghazi, in the IRS scandal, in the NSA scandal and most recently in the "let's put a government agent in the newsrooms" scandal. There is no heaven, no hell, nor absolute values and consequently no guilt.
         As for the nature of man in Materialism, "Man is an animal and nothing more.." he is simply at the "apex of the evolutionary tree..." with "no special value associated with every individual life."
As for Economic Determinism...capitalism is the problem.... the "root of all evil. When it is gone along with its classes we will have the "perfection of human nature" and the "emergence of Communism."
         Capitalism must be destroyed by "violent revolution" of which Lenin's achievements were merely the "first successes in a campaign for world conquest" and "It is necessary to have a strong and intelligent power to carry out the program. In the progressive quality of its dialectic heart, history has appointed the Communist Party, the self-conscious, enlightened vanguard of the Proletariat for this role. Therefore we must establish an absolute dictatorship for this party. We will call it the ;Dictatorship of the Proletariat'."
         Since man is but an animal, a new breed of stock must be raised and the diseased animals must be eliminated. It may through gulags or through labor camps or mass re-education. Time is to be allowed as a new generation must arise that has not been infected.
         Fred Schwarz penned these thoughts eight years before his well known book You Can Trust The Communists. He fought this battle until he died in 2009. Communism is still very much alive and if it continues to succeed in the West it will one day proudly reclaim its original name, to the astonishment of many, and with a power grab.....well, just read the headlines of today's newspapers, some of them anyway, to get a sneak preview!