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ZOG RULES! The \u201cLong March through the Institutions\u201d is complete as American Republic is now long gone.<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Successful Long March Through the Institutions<\/h1>\n

by Gary DeMar
\nAmerican Visio<\/p>\n

There was a radical worldview shift in the 1960s. What was its foundational source? Those pushing for an overthrow of the establishment learned a great deal when their radical and often violent actions failed to accomplish their stated goals to bring down the system and turned most of the population against them and their tactics. In time, the radicals understood it would be necessary to capture the institutions without ever firing a shot or blowing up another building. Roger Kimball captures the tactic well in his book\u00a0The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America:<\/em>\u00a0\u201cThe long march through the institutions signified in the words of [Herbert] Marcuse, \u2018working against the established institutions while working in them\u2019. By this means\u2014by insinuation and infiltration rather than by confrontation\u2014the counter-cultural dreams of radicals like Marcuse have triumphed.\u201d[1]<\/p>\n

Before Marcuse there was Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). Gramsci considered Christianity to be the \u201cforce binding all the classes\u2014peasants and workers and princes, priests and popes and all the rest besides, into a single, homogeneous culture. It was specifically Christian culture, in which individual men and women understood that the most important things about human life transcend the material conditions in which they lived out their mortal lives.\u201d[2] Economic policies, threats of violence and loss of property and position, and expulsion to gulags for retraining were used to compel the masses to conform to the new ideology. \u201cThe only Marxist state that existed\u201d in Gramsci\u2019s day \u201cwas imposed and maintained by force and by terrorist policies that duplicated and even exceeded the worst facets of Mussolini\u2019s Fascism.\u201d[3] The later building of the Berlin Wall was the most visible evidence of Gramsci\u2019s critique of traditional Marxism as was the metaphorical Iron Curtain. Barriers had to be erected to keep people from escaping the \u201cWorkers\u2019 Paradise.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Gramsci was still a committed Marxist and \u201ctotally convinced that the material dimension of everything in the universe, including mankind, was the whole of it,\u201d[4] he believed that the road taken by traditional Marxists to \u201cutopia\u201d was one lined with formidable obstacles.<\/p>\n

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Gramsci began re-imaging Marxism by dropping the harsh slogans. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t do to rant about \u2018revolution\u2019 and \u2018dictatorship of the proletariat\u2019 and the \u2018Workers\u2019 Paradise.\u2019\u201d[5] Instead, Marxism would have to put on a new face and talk about \u201cnational consensus,\u201d \u201cnational unity,\u201d and \u201cnational pacification.\u201d Sound familiar? The democratic process rather than revolution would be used to bring about the necessary changes. But what would it take to reeducate the masses? First, pluralism would be promoted and defended. Further, Marxists would join with other oppressed groups\u2014even if they did not share Marxist ideals\u2014to create a unified coalition of voting power. After solidifying their partnership \u201cthey must enter into every civil, cultural and political activity in every nation, patiently leavening them all as thoroughly as yeast leavens bread.\u201d[6]<\/p>\n

Gramsci and Marcuse were atheists. Gramsci broke with Marx and Lenin\u2019s belief that the masses would rise and overthrow the ruling \u201csuperstructure.\u201d No matter how oppressed the working classes might be, their Christian faith would not allow such an overthrow. Marxists taught \u201cthat everything valuable in life was within mankind.\u201d[7] Gramsci\u2019s enemy was not capitalism. It was Christianity. Gary North (1942-1982) explains that \u201cGramsci in the 1930s acknowledged that Western society was deeply religious, and that the only way to achieve a proletarian revolution would be to break the faith of the masses of Western voters in Christianity and the moral system derived from Christianity. He placed religion and culture at the base of the pyramid. This means that the mode of production [capitalism] is secondary.\u201d[8] According to Gramsci a \u201cregime grounded in Judeo-Christian beliefs and values could not be overthrown until those roots were cut,\u201d and those roots were found in the remnants of the Christian religion. \u201c[T]o capture the West, Marxists must first de-Christianize the West.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gramsci urged his fellow Marxists to form popular fronts with Western intellectuals who shared their contempt for Christianity and bourgeois culture and who shaped the minds of the young. Message to the comrades: \u201cIt\u2019s the culture, stupid!\u201d Since Western culture had given birth to capitalism and sustained it, if that culture could be subverted, the system would fall of its own weight. On the cover of his 1970 runaway bestseller\u00a0The Greening of America<\/em>, the manifesto of the counterculture, author Charles Reich parroted Gramsci perfectly: \u201cThere is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture, and it will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted with violence. It is now spreading with amazing rapidity, and already our laws, institutions, and social structure are changing in consequence\u2026. This is the revolution of the new generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the end, the Communist party of Lenin and Stalin remained what it had been from the beginning, a conspiracy of political criminals who used Marxist ideas and rhetoric to disguise what they were really about: absolute power. Lenin\u2019s regime died detested and unmourned. But the Gramscian revolution rolls on, and, to this day, it continues to make converts.[9]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It took time for the new Leftist radicals to understand that Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong\u2019s coined phrase \u201cPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun\u201d would not work in the traditionally Christian West. Before the long march through the institutions became the new strategy, violent revolution was the name of the game. Advocates of revolutionary transformation considered their actions an offshoot of atheistic evolution controlled and actionized by elites who pushed for a new worldview but who had no idea how to build anything new from the ashes. We saw this with the burning of our cities in protest of whatever the latest grievance was. After the fires were put out, the smoke cleared, and businesses burned out, what athen? \u201cLike Marcuse, they have nothing constructive to offer in place of that which they would destroy.\u201d[10]<\/p>\n

The long-term strategy is control. Those who dissent will not be tolerated. They will be attacked without mercy. Here\u2019s just one of many recent examples. \u201cA \u2018deeply alarming\u2019 situation has unfolded in Colorado, where a Christian-owned coffee shop has reportedly been under fire by LGBT activists, communists, and others over the owners\u2019 \u2018biblical stance on sexual sin.\u2019 [C]ommunists and other LGBT protesters were triggered by Scripture on the website of his coffee shop\u2019s parent nonprofit Recycle God\u2019s Love, which ministers to the local homeless population.\u201d (Source<\/a>) Marcuse is dead, but his tactics remain.<\/p>\n

One of the major institutions that the long march took over was education. It was first on its list of disciplines to conquer. For a detailed discussion of this topic see the just published book\u00a0America\u2019s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything<\/em>\u00a0by Christopher F. Rufo. The following is from \u201cstrict atheist\u201d Richard Rorty (1931-2007) who knew where real transformational power was found and implemented:<\/p>\n

It seems to me that the regulative idea that we heirs of the Enlightenment, we Socratists, most frequently use to criticize the conduct of various conversational partners is that of \u201cneeding education in order to outgrow their primitive fear, hatreds, and superstitions.\u201d\u2026 It is a concept which I, like most Americans who teach humanities or social science in colleges and universities, invoke when we try to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic, religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own\u2026.<\/p>\n

The fundamentalist parents of our fundamentalist students think that the entire \u201cAmerican liberal establishment\u201d is engaged in a conspiracy. The parents have a point. Their point is that we liberal teachers no more feel in a symmetrical communication situation when we talk with bigots than do kindergarten teachers talking with their students\u2026.<\/p>\n

When we American college teachers encounter religious fundamentalists, we do not consider the possibility of reformulating our own practices of justification so as to give more weight to the authority of the Christian scriptures. Instead, we do our best to convince these students of the benefits of secularization.<\/p>\n

We assign first-person accounts of growing up homosexual to our homophobic students for the same reasons that German schoolteachers in the postwar period assigned\u00a0The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>\u2026. You have to be educated in order to be \u2026 a participant in our conversation.\u2026 So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable.<\/p>\n

We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.\u2026 I don\u2019t see anything\u00a0herrschaftsfrei<\/em>\u00a0[domination free] about my handling of my fundamentalist students. Rather, I think those students are lucky to find themselves under the benevolent\u00a0Herrschaft<\/em>\u00a0[domination] of people like me, and to have escaped the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents.\u2026 I am just as provincial and contextualist as the Nazi teachers who made their students read\u00a0Der St\u00fcrmer<\/em>;[11] the only difference is that I serve a better cause.[12]<\/p>\n

Not a shot was fired. No one was forced into concentration camps. Millions of parents willingly sent their children into public schools and universities systems that are upfront in their hostility toward Christianity. The takeover of the education system in the United States goes back a long way,[13] but it accelerated in the 1960s when the radicals put away their explosives, put on suits and ties, and flooded the universities and took control of every department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These schools of higher education now train millions of young people who influence every sphere of American life. They are dominated by Leftists. It took them decades to accomplish their goal, but they succeeded. Compare the educational foundation of Harvard where the 1692 motto was\u00a0Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae<\/em>, \u201cTruth for Christ and the Church,\u201d with the Harvard of today. It\u2019s an anti-Christian institution. Its Latin motto is\u00a0Veritas<\/em>, \u201cTruth,\u201d but as the folks at Harvard define it. The following is from Chester M. Pierce (1927-2016) who was a professor of education and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n

Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural Being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It\u2019s up to you teachers to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future.[14]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most Christians have not caught on. Most believe their schools are different. Maybe in degree, but they have gotten worse since Pierce\u2019s Day. There is not even a remnant of a biblical worldview present. Consider the following from 1983:<\/p>\n

The battle for humankind\u2019s future must be waged and won in the public school classrooms by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith. Such teachers will be utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the education level. Classrooms, must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new\u2014the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of \u201clove thy neighbor\u201d will finally be achieved.[15]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As is typical of atheists, Dunphy must borrow moral capital from the biblical worldview to maintain the \u201cChristian ideal of \u2018love thy neighbor\u2019\u201d (Lev. 19:18<\/a>;\u00a0Matt. 22:36-40<\/a>) as did Rorty who said that his \u201csense of the holy is bound up with the hope that someday my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.\u201d Love will be defined by those in power.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of work to do. Taking back our nation\u2019s schools is not a viable or moral goal. Governments should not be educating our children, and confiscated money in the form of taxes should not be used to fund them. And one more thing, don\u2019t expect to be \u201craptured\u201d to get us out of this mess!<\/p>\n

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Whoever Controls the Schools Rules the World<\/h3>\n

Whoever Controls the Schools Rules the World shows how education can be used as a vehicle for social change from Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler to secular humanism and radical Islam. Our worldview opponents understand that education is where the war of ideas is fought. If Christians are serious about securing the future for our children, they must understand the nature of the war we are fighting. If you have children, want children, or know someone who has children — you need to get this book and read it before it becomes too late to save the generation to follow us from the ruins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[1]Roger Kimball,\u00a0The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America<\/em>\u00a0(San Franciso: Encounter Books, 2000), 15.<\/p>\n

[2]Malachi Martin,\u00a0The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope John II, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Capitalist West<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), 245.<\/p>\n

[3]Martin,\u00a0The Keys of This Blood<\/em>, 248.<\/p>\n

[4]Martin,\u00a0The Keys of This Blood<\/em>, 248.<\/p>\n

[5]Martin,\u00a0The Keys of This Blood<\/em>, 249.<\/p>\n

[6]Martin,\u00a0The Keys of This Blood<\/em>, 250.<\/p>\n

[7]Martin,\u00a0The Keys of This Blood<\/em>, 245.<\/p>\n

[8]Gary North, \u201cConspiracy Theories vs. the Religion of Democracy,\u201d GaryNorth.com (March 14, 2013):\u00a0https:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/10771.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n

[9]Patrick J. Buchanan,\u00a0The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil our Country and Civilization<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Thomas Dunne Books\/St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2002), Chap. 4.<\/p>\n

[10]Eliseo Vivas,\u00a0Contra Marcuse<\/em>\u00a0(New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1971), 13.<\/p>\n

[11]The Stormer<\/em>\u00a0was a weekly German newspaper published from 1923 to the end of World War II.<\/p>\n

[12]\u201cUniversality and Truth,\u201d in Robert B. Brandom ed.,\u00a0Rorty and His Critics<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), 21-22.<\/p>\n

[13]Rousas J. Rushdoony,\u00a0The Messianic Character of American Education<\/em>\u00a0(Nutley, NJ: The Craig Press, 1963).<\/p>\n

[14]Addressing the Association for Childhood Education International in April 1972, Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n

[15]John J. Dunphy, \u201cA Religion for a New Age,\u201d\u00a0The Humanist<\/em>, 43:1 (January\/February 1983), 26.<\/p>\n

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