American Transformational Marxism, Marxist Theory and Gun Control
Many American Baby Boomers and their children were raised in the
cities and were not in the military, and so most of them have had no
experience with guns. For some time the mainstream media has repeated
over and other their message of opposition to ownership of guns. Yet
a large percentage of the people, especially those in rural areas and
small towns outside of the states like California and New York, still
own guns. And people buy more guns and ammunition when the government
threatens to restrict gun ownership
We might think that the American version of Transformational Marxism
is following Marxist theory in advocating disarming the American
people. We might also think that the present Democratic party
apparatus has co-opted the gun control agenda of Marxism. The German
and Italian fascists also opposed ownership of guns by some members of
their societies.
See: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistoria...common_was_gun_ownership_in_the_soviet_union/
"As for Stalin, the NKVD undertook mass gun confiscation of the
peasantry during Collectivization (and given such massive peasant
resistance to it you can see why) and this was the period of the
strictest gun ownership policies in Soviet history. That being said,
outside of urban areas, collective farms, or regions that blacklisted
by the NKVD/Stalin, hunting rifles were still fairly commonplace."
See: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/14320-communists-cheer-on-obama’s-gun-grab
"Its total ban on private ownership of guns under Mao Tse-tung
(Zedong) guaranteed that the Communist Party would have unchallenged
power."
See: https://americainchains2009.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/dictators-and-gun-control/
"Cambodia established gun control in 1956. Between 1975 and 19793,
2,035,000 “educated” people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
up and exterminated.
During the short four years of its rule in Cambodia, Pol Pot’s Khmer
Rouge government murdered over 31 percent of the entire Cambodian
population."
“Armas para que? (“Guns, for what?”)”
A response to Cuban citizens who said the people might need to keep
their guns, after Castro announced strict gun control in Cuba.
– Fidel Castro
“US Senator, If I could have banned them all – ‘Mr. and Mrs. America
turn in your guns’ – I would have!”
– Diane Feinstein, Statement on TV program 60 Minutes, Feb 5 1995
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177753/-A-Marxist-Leninist-response-to-Gun-Control#
"In a recent editorial piece published by Peoples World, the newspaper
of the CPUSA, titled “Guns, profits and Sandy Hook” – the article
started by opening with the need for the country to “get serious about
regulating guns.”
"This article, which could have been written by any bourgeois Democrat
or liberal group from Nancy Pelosi to Moveon.org, buys into the
reactionary “liberal” approach of treating the symptom without curing
the disease."
The contemporary Left - the Democrat Party Left now - is influenced by
a form of Transformational Marxism and it advocates gun control. But
as seen below there is an influence on the leadership of the
Democratic party from the Marxist Saul Alinsky and possibly from the Weathermen Underground of the seventies.
This is Chicago style community organizing Marxism.
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest
reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as
a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the
people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with
arms.”
– James Madison, Federalist Paper #46
“The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword;
because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force
superior to any band of regular troops.”
– Noah Webster, 1787
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class
flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays
there.”
– George Orwell
The Marxists as well as the Fascists tried to disarm their people in
order to better control the masses of people.. And the Founding
Fathers of our Constitutional Republic knew for certain that in order
to keep the Constitutional Republic, the masses of the people must be
armed.
But - original Marxist theory did not call for gun control. However,
remember that Marxism follows its own brand of the dialectic, which it
calls dialectical materialism. In Hegel's philosophy the dialectic was
an opposition between two opposing positions, the thesis and the
anti-thesis, and there was to be a compromise result between this
clash. Marxism took over the Hegelian dialectic and made it into a
deceptive procedure for attitude and belief change.
"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)
So, forms of Marxism - including American Transformational Marxism -
can allow the masses to have guns at one time and at another time and
in another situation the Marxists will demand the people give up their
guns, so the ruling elite and ruling class have more control over the
people.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177753/-A-Marxist-Leninist-response-to-Gun-Control#
"In a recent editorial piece published by Peoples World, the newspaper
of the CPUSA, titled “Guns, profits and Sandy Hook” – the article
started by opening with the need for the country to “get serious about
regulating guns.”
"This article, which could have been written by any bourgeois Democrat
or liberal group from Nancy Pelosi to Moveon.org, buys into the
reactionary “liberal” approach of treating the symptom without curing
the disease."
See: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177753/-A-Marxist-Leninist-response-to-Gun-Control
"One way or another, the bourgeois will exert their will through force
either directly or indirectly, and usually through the cats-paw of the
government and its military and police institutions to repress the
working class and protect their own property interests. How then shall
the workers protect their interests? As Marx writes,"
"The arming of the whole proletariat with rifles, guns, and
ammunition should be carried out at once [and] the workers must ...
organize themselves into an independent guard, with their own chiefs
and general staff. ... [The aim is] that the bourgeois democratic
Government not only immediately loses all backing among the workers,
but from the commencement finds itself under the supervision and
threats of authorities behind whom stands the entire mass of the
working class. ...As soon as the new Government is established they
will commence to fight the workers. In order that this party (i.e.,
the democrats) whose betrayal of the workers will begin with the first
hour of victory, should be frustrated in its nefarious work, it is
necessary to organize and arm the proletariat." - Karl Marx, Address
to the Communist League (1850)."
During the late sixties and seventies the Weather Underground was an
offshoot from the major university outfit called SDS, Students for a
Democratic Society. I remember some people in Madison talking about
the Weather Underground, but the name mentioned most often in
connection with them was Bernardine Dohrn rather than her boyfriend
and later husband William Ayres, who helped found the Weather
Underground. They were from Chicago, and were hard core Marxists.
I remember a friend and I walking across a parking lot in Madison in
1970 where he said that Orwell's 1984 was only fourteen years away.
We were going to a party at which a young woman from the Weather
Underground was there and was on the floor with some others.. We also
went to the only meeting of the University of Wisconsin SDS that night
that I ever attended. It was in a large classroom in Bascom Hall.
Transformational Marxism originated as a movement different from
Bolshevism of the old Soviet Union. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), along
with Georg Lukacs ((1885-1971) began Transformational Marxism.
Gramsci thought that Marxism must first establish its cultural
dominance in society and then when that dominance was in place the
people would willingly obey the Marxist political authority. Gramsci
was an incremental, or slow step by step revolutionary rather than an
advocate of quick and violent takeover of
a government. Gramsci talked about the "long march through the
institutions" to take over Western society.
The Transformational Marxists set out to diminish the
individualism and individual spirituality
inspired by Biblical Christianity. To diminish individual
spirituality and the focus on the individual in Western culture, they
knew they must change the society surrounding the Christian churches
as well as infiltrate the churches themselves with the Marxist
dialectic process and replace man as a living soul with man as mere
flesh in the churches. And cultural Marxism also set out to diminish
the strength of the American family and overthrow the father and
husband as the authority in the family.
In 1922, inspired in part by Lukacs, a group of German Marxists
established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany called the
Institute for Social Research. This institute, soon known simply as
the Frankfurt School, would become the center of cultural or
Transformational Marxism.
The Frankfurters wanted to change the economic focus of traditional
Marxism to a cultural focus. To do this they first turned to Sigmund
Freud. Later in the United States, Theodor W. Adorno pretended to be
a personality-social psychologist and researcher using paper and
pencil questionnaires. Soon a number of 20th century change agents,
including some psychologists and psychiatrists - Abraham H. Maslow,
Carl R. Rogers, the Frankfurter Eric Fromm, Wilhelm Reich on the
fringes of the Frankfurters, Normon O. Brown, Irvin D. Yalom and
Herbert Marcuse, a Frankfurter Marxist sociologist, all began to lead
Gramsci's long march through the institutions of America.
However, the offshoot from the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society,
called the Weathermen or Weather Underground, did not plan such a
deliberate "long march through the institutions" like Gramsci and
Lukacs, but rather they were terrorists who wanted to take over the
government of the United States as soon as possible.
The Frankfurters were, like the Weathermen leaders, academics, but the
Frankfurters were more into psychology and the use of it and
manipulation of culture - and the arts - to take over the society and
culture. For example, Theodore W. Adorno, a major leader of the
Frankfurters in the U,S. - at the University of California at
Berkeley - had been a music critic and also wrote about art.
Saul Alinsky was a Marxist-Communist community organizer in Chicago
who taught many American Marxists in the 20th century. Alinsky said
to infiltrate the system from within, and so he cultivated
relationships with well known Chicago Catholic leaders and with some
of the Mafia bosses. Alinsky met a high school student named Hillary
Rodham in a radical church group.
Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals - the blueprint for Chicago and
other community organizers - was also adopted by the Weather
Underground’s William Ayers.
On http://www.aim.org/aim-report/did-bill-ayers-write-obamas-book/
.....they say that "Repeatedly grilled on numerous occasions about how
close he was with the notorious 1960s Weatherman radical Bill Ayers,
Obama stated Ayers was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and
“not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis.”
Bill Ayers helped plan bombings of government buildings in the
seventies. Yet not long after that he was a professor in the College
of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and once held
the title of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior
University Scholar.
Following the dialectic of Marxism, William Ayres answered Alex Jones
in a recent interview when Jones asked Ayres' about his position on
gun control. Ayres said that he was for arming everybody. That
obviously is not the American Marxist position on gun control. To
see Bill Ayres on the Alex Jones show see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kp5hS2Gc8
The show was on January 20, 2015.
See: http://www.theteapartysearchengine.com/articles-05.php
"Larry Grathwohl became a member of the Weather Underground
organization as an undercover operative for law enforcement agencies
in Cincinnati. His role within the organization was to carry
directives from the Central Committee to the operating units in the
field.[5]"
"In his documentary No Place To Hide Larry Grathwohl records some of
his conversations with the leaders of the Weather Underground: " Here
are just some of the chilling exchanges. Larry Grathwohl is
speaking:
I asked, "Well what is going to happen to those people we can't
reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that
they'd have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to
eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which
have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational
centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination
of 25 million people and they were dead serious.
The instructions I received from Billy Ayers was that the bombs to be
used in Detroit must have shrapnel (fence staples, specifically) and
fire potential (propane bottles). The intention was to kill police
officers.."
"When I objected to Billy Ayers that more innocent people would be
killed in the restaurant, he replied, "Innocent people have to die in
a revolution." Billy also acknowledged during a criticism session in
Buffalo that Bernadine placed the bomb at the Park Police Station
which resulted in the death of Police Officer McDonnell."
Many American Baby Boomers and their children were raised in the
cities and were not in the military, and so most of them have had no
experience with guns. For some time the mainstream media has repeated
over and other their message of opposition to ownership of guns. Yet
a large percentage of the people, especially those in rural areas and
small towns outside of the states like California and New York, still
own guns. And people buy more guns and ammunition when the government
threatens to restrict gun ownership
We might think that the American version of Transformational Marxism
is following Marxist theory in advocating disarming the American
people. We might also think that the present Democratic party
apparatus has co-opted the gun control agenda of Marxism. The German
and Italian fascists also opposed ownership of guns by some members of
their societies.
See: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistoria...common_was_gun_ownership_in_the_soviet_union/
"As for Stalin, the NKVD undertook mass gun confiscation of the
peasantry during Collectivization (and given such massive peasant
resistance to it you can see why) and this was the period of the
strictest gun ownership policies in Soviet history. That being said,
outside of urban areas, collective farms, or regions that blacklisted
by the NKVD/Stalin, hunting rifles were still fairly commonplace."
See: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/14320-communists-cheer-on-obama’s-gun-grab
"Its total ban on private ownership of guns under Mao Tse-tung
(Zedong) guaranteed that the Communist Party would have unchallenged
power."
See: https://americainchains2009.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/dictators-and-gun-control/
"Cambodia established gun control in 1956. Between 1975 and 19793,
2,035,000 “educated” people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
up and exterminated.
During the short four years of its rule in Cambodia, Pol Pot’s Khmer
Rouge government murdered over 31 percent of the entire Cambodian
population."
“Armas para que? (“Guns, for what?”)”
A response to Cuban citizens who said the people might need to keep
their guns, after Castro announced strict gun control in Cuba.
– Fidel Castro
“US Senator, If I could have banned them all – ‘Mr. and Mrs. America
turn in your guns’ – I would have!”
– Diane Feinstein, Statement on TV program 60 Minutes, Feb 5 1995
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177753/-A-Marxist-Leninist-response-to-Gun-Control#
"In a recent editorial piece published by Peoples World, the newspaper
of the CPUSA, titled “Guns, profits and Sandy Hook” – the article
started by opening with the need for the country to “get serious about
regulating guns.”
"This article, which could have been written by any bourgeois Democrat
or liberal group from Nancy Pelosi to Moveon.org, buys into the
reactionary “liberal” approach of treating the symptom without curing
the disease."
The contemporary Left - the Democrat Party Left now - is influenced by
a form of Transformational Marxism and it advocates gun control. But
as seen below there is an influence on the leadership of the
Democratic party from the Marxist Saul Alinsky and possibly from the Weathermen Underground of the seventies.
This is Chicago style community organizing Marxism.
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest
reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as
a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the
people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with
arms.”
– James Madison, Federalist Paper #46
“The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword;
because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force
superior to any band of regular troops.”
– Noah Webster, 1787
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class
flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays
there.”
– George Orwell
The Marxists as well as the Fascists tried to disarm their people in
order to better control the masses of people.. And the Founding
Fathers of our Constitutional Republic knew for certain that in order
to keep the Constitutional Republic, the masses of the people must be
armed.
But - original Marxist theory did not call for gun control. However,
remember that Marxism follows its own brand of the dialectic, which it
calls dialectical materialism. In Hegel's philosophy the dialectic was
an opposition between two opposing positions, the thesis and the
anti-thesis, and there was to be a compromise result between this
clash. Marxism took over the Hegelian dialectic and made it into a
deceptive procedure for attitude and belief change.
"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)
So, forms of Marxism - including American Transformational Marxism -
can allow the masses to have guns at one time and at another time and
in another situation the Marxists will demand the people give up their
guns, so the ruling elite and ruling class have more control over the
people.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177753/-A-Marxist-Leninist-response-to-Gun-Control#
"In a recent editorial piece published by Peoples World, the newspaper
of the CPUSA, titled “Guns, profits and Sandy Hook” – the article
started by opening with the need for the country to “get serious about
regulating guns.”
"This article, which could have been written by any bourgeois Democrat
or liberal group from Nancy Pelosi to Moveon.org, buys into the
reactionary “liberal” approach of treating the symptom without curing
the disease."
See: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177753/-A-Marxist-Leninist-response-to-Gun-Control
"One way or another, the bourgeois will exert their will through force
either directly or indirectly, and usually through the cats-paw of the
government and its military and police institutions to repress the
working class and protect their own property interests. How then shall
the workers protect their interests? As Marx writes,"
"The arming of the whole proletariat with rifles, guns, and
ammunition should be carried out at once [and] the workers must ...
organize themselves into an independent guard, with their own chiefs
and general staff. ... [The aim is] that the bourgeois democratic
Government not only immediately loses all backing among the workers,
but from the commencement finds itself under the supervision and
threats of authorities behind whom stands the entire mass of the
working class. ...As soon as the new Government is established they
will commence to fight the workers. In order that this party (i.e.,
the democrats) whose betrayal of the workers will begin with the first
hour of victory, should be frustrated in its nefarious work, it is
necessary to organize and arm the proletariat." - Karl Marx, Address
to the Communist League (1850)."
During the late sixties and seventies the Weather Underground was an
offshoot from the major university outfit called SDS, Students for a
Democratic Society. I remember some people in Madison talking about
the Weather Underground, but the name mentioned most often in
connection with them was Bernardine Dohrn rather than her boyfriend
and later husband William Ayres, who helped found the Weather
Underground. They were from Chicago, and were hard core Marxists.
I remember a friend and I walking across a parking lot in Madison in
1970 where he said that Orwell's 1984 was only fourteen years away.
We were going to a party at which a young woman from the Weather
Underground was there and was on the floor with some others.. We also
went to the only meeting of the University of Wisconsin SDS that night
that I ever attended. It was in a large classroom in Bascom Hall.
Transformational Marxism originated as a movement different from
Bolshevism of the old Soviet Union. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), along
with Georg Lukacs ((1885-1971) began Transformational Marxism.
Gramsci thought that Marxism must first establish its cultural
dominance in society and then when that dominance was in place the
people would willingly obey the Marxist political authority. Gramsci
was an incremental, or slow step by step revolutionary rather than an
advocate of quick and violent takeover of
a government. Gramsci talked about the "long march through the
institutions" to take over Western society.
The Transformational Marxists set out to diminish the
individualism and individual spirituality
inspired by Biblical Christianity. To diminish individual
spirituality and the focus on the individual in Western culture, they
knew they must change the society surrounding the Christian churches
as well as infiltrate the churches themselves with the Marxist
dialectic process and replace man as a living soul with man as mere
flesh in the churches. And cultural Marxism also set out to diminish
the strength of the American family and overthrow the father and
husband as the authority in the family.
In 1922, inspired in part by Lukacs, a group of German Marxists
established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany called the
Institute for Social Research. This institute, soon known simply as
the Frankfurt School, would become the center of cultural or
Transformational Marxism.
The Frankfurters wanted to change the economic focus of traditional
Marxism to a cultural focus. To do this they first turned to Sigmund
Freud. Later in the United States, Theodor W. Adorno pretended to be
a personality-social psychologist and researcher using paper and
pencil questionnaires. Soon a number of 20th century change agents,
including some psychologists and psychiatrists - Abraham H. Maslow,
Carl R. Rogers, the Frankfurter Eric Fromm, Wilhelm Reich on the
fringes of the Frankfurters, Normon O. Brown, Irvin D. Yalom and
Herbert Marcuse, a Frankfurter Marxist sociologist, all began to lead
Gramsci's long march through the institutions of America.
However, the offshoot from the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society,
called the Weathermen or Weather Underground, did not plan such a
deliberate "long march through the institutions" like Gramsci and
Lukacs, but rather they were terrorists who wanted to take over the
government of the United States as soon as possible.
The Frankfurters were, like the Weathermen leaders, academics, but the
Frankfurters were more into psychology and the use of it and
manipulation of culture - and the arts - to take over the society and
culture. For example, Theodore W. Adorno, a major leader of the
Frankfurters in the U,S. - at the University of California at
Berkeley - had been a music critic and also wrote about art.
Saul Alinsky was a Marxist-Communist community organizer in Chicago
who taught many American Marxists in the 20th century. Alinsky said
to infiltrate the system from within, and so he cultivated
relationships with well known Chicago Catholic leaders and with some
of the Mafia bosses. Alinsky met a high school student named Hillary
Rodham in a radical church group.
Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals - the blueprint for Chicago and
other community organizers - was also adopted by the Weather
Underground’s William Ayers.
On http://www.aim.org/aim-report/did-bill-ayers-write-obamas-book/
.....they say that "Repeatedly grilled on numerous occasions about how
close he was with the notorious 1960s Weatherman radical Bill Ayers,
Obama stated Ayers was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and
“not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis.”
Bill Ayers helped plan bombings of government buildings in the
seventies. Yet not long after that he was a professor in the College
of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and once held
the title of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior
University Scholar.
Following the dialectic of Marxism, William Ayres answered Alex Jones
in a recent interview when Jones asked Ayres' about his position on
gun control. Ayres said that he was for arming everybody. That
obviously is not the American Marxist position on gun control. To
see Bill Ayres on the Alex Jones show see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kp5hS2Gc8
The show was on January 20, 2015.
See: http://www.theteapartysearchengine.com/articles-05.php
"Larry Grathwohl became a member of the Weather Underground
organization as an undercover operative for law enforcement agencies
in Cincinnati. His role within the organization was to carry
directives from the Central Committee to the operating units in the
field.[5]"
"In his documentary No Place To Hide Larry Grathwohl records some of
his conversations with the leaders of the Weather Underground: " Here
are just some of the chilling exchanges. Larry Grathwohl is
speaking:
I asked, "Well what is going to happen to those people we can't
reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that
they'd have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to
eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which
have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational
centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination
of 25 million people and they were dead serious.
The instructions I received from Billy Ayers was that the bombs to be
used in Detroit must have shrapnel (fence staples, specifically) and
fire potential (propane bottles). The intention was to kill police
officers.."
"When I objected to Billy Ayers that more innocent people would be
killed in the restaurant, he replied, "Innocent people have to die in
a revolution." Billy also acknowledged during a criticism session in
Buffalo that Bernadine placed the bomb at the Park Police Station
which resulted in the death of Police Officer McDonnell."
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