George Orwell Quotes

Quotes by George Orwell
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

Big Brother is watching you - right now.

Communist Party: All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

In the end the party would announce that 2 plus 2 made 5, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim, sooner or later, the logic of their position demanded it. George Orwell, in 1984

Communist Party: The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solid geometry to pure wind.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

If you want to imagine the future [under socialism/communism], imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter.

They can make you say anything - ANYTHING - but they can't make you believe it.

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

The new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed.

In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

He who controls the past controls the future.

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? An unscrupulous writer is the opposite.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The future is a boot smashing a human face forever.

When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.

By lack of understanding they remained insane.

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped.

Sanity is not statistical.

..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

By the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable.

Every new political theory, by whatever name it called itself, led back to hierarchy and regimentation. And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years — imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations — not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

In the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.

With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.

Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed.

The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.” 1984

In a world in which everyone worked short hours. Had enough to eat. Lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared.

If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable.

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves. And when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. George Orwell 1984

The Revolution and the Party:

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.

We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

We are not like that.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Power is not a means, it is an end.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution.

The object of torture is torture.

The object of power is power.

Now you begin to understand. - George Orwell 1984

George Orwell: The Revolution and the Party

The Revolution and the Party:

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.

The party is not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

The Party is different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

The Party is not like that.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Power is not a means, it is an end.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution.

The object of torture is torture.

The object of power is power.

Now you begin to understand. - George Orwell 1984

Obama's Supporters - The Ususal Suspects

Obama's Grand List of Supporters

Obama: “A Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is now the President of the United States…this is a watershed election which changes the fate of the world…the world now becomes very much less safe for all of us as a result. Those of us who have looked on appalled during this most frightening of American presidential elections – at the suspension of reason -- can only hope that the way this man governs will be very different from the profile provided by his influences, associations and record to date. It’s a faint hope – the enemies of America, freedom and all of Western Civilization will certainly be rejoicing today.” (The Spectator.co.uk; Melanie Phillips, 4 and 5 November 2008. http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips)

From the Urban Dictionary

1. Obammunist: Devout followers of Senator Barack Hussein Obama, 2008 US Presidential candidate, usually characterized by screams, tears of joy and a desire for "change." Usually found at Obama rallies, Starbucks and college campuses.

2. Obammunist: A bizarre cult of the personality arising in the 3rd Millennium in the United States in which millions of people discarded all forms of rational thought and became mesmerized by the liquid delivery style of Senator Barack Obama. These people were led, Pied Piper like, into the swamps of despair upon discovering that Obama's far left philosophy didn't work any better than any of the other socialist experiments of the past century.

List of Supporters of Barack Huseein Obama

ABC
Affleck, Ben
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, President of Iran
Allen, Woody (who married his own daughter)
Anniston, Jennifer
Ayers, Bill
Bernhardt, Sarah (Homosexual comedienne)
Berry, Marion; Cocaine addict and convicted criminal Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Bishop, Dale Leo (Executed in prison for murder), last words were for Obama
Buffet, Warren
Byrd, Robert, former Dem. Senator and KKK Kleagle
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel
Castro, Raul
CBS
Center for Constitutional Rights
Chavez, Hugo
Clintons
Clooney, George
CNN
Colbert, Stephen
Communist Party, Illinois
Communist Party, USA
Daddy, Puff
Damon, Matt
Danson, Ted
Davidson, Carl, SDS
Degeneris, Ellen
DeNiro, Robert
Dog, Snoop,
Edwards, John
Evans, Jodie, Code Pink Founder
Fonda, Jane (age 71)
Farrakan, Louis
France (poll, 80% for Obama)
Galloway, Joe, British MP and friend of Hussein (Saddam, the late)
Garner, Jennifer
Gore, Al
HAMAS
Hanks, Tom
Hayden, Tom
Hollande, Francoise, France (Socialist Party)
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson, Jesse Jr.
Jackson, Samuel L.
John, Elton
Johnson,Magic
Kennedy, Caroline
Kennedy, Ethel
Kennedy, Patrick
Kennedy, Teddy
Kerry, John
Klonsky, Michael (SDS; Maoist Communist Party candidate)
Lehay, Patrick (SEN. D)
Maher, Bull

Marxists/Socialists/Communists, all for Obama (Under Karl Marx’s writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat.")

MSM- Main Stream Media (i.e., David Gergen, the senior CNN commentator, who said, "Actually, Rev. Wright may love this country more than many of us ...”)

Russert, Tim: Meet the Press for Obama: David Brody, Maureen Dowd, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gwen Ifill, Ruth Marcus & Jon Meacham. Along with Russert, all these seven are Democratic Party operatives and committed Progressives (the politically correct term for socialists).

McGovern, George
Moore, Michael
MoveOn.org
MSNBC
Muslim Americans for Obama
Muslim American Society (Muslim Brotherhood)
NARAL (abortion lobby: Save the Whales, Kill the Babies)
NEA and all of the little ‘EA’s
Black Panther Party (new)
ACORN
NORMAL (Marijuana legalization lobby)
Obama Youth (Islamic)
New York Feminists for Peace - Far Left FemiNazi Wackos
Weiss, Cora (Collaborator with the NVA; Committee of Liasion)
Sarandon, Susan
Pelosi, Nancy, Speaker of the House
Reed, Harry, Majority Whip, U.S. Senate
Democratic Socialists of America
Progressive Caucus (US House of Reprehensibles)
Ortega, Daniel, Communist President of Nicaragua (Sandinista)
Glover, Danny
Progressives For Obama (PFO)
Project Islamic Hope
Qadhafi, Moamar, Libyan Dictator
Redford, Robert
Rezko, Tony
Wright, Reverend Jeremiah
Richardson, Bill (Governor)
Sanders, Bernie, Socialist (US Senator, D. Vermont)
Rockefeller, Jay
Sharpton, Al
Smith, Will (actor)
Socialist Party USA
Spector, Phil
Teamsters
Time Magazine
Hartford Courant
LA Times
Washington Post
Terrorists – Weathermen
Weathermen Terrorists (2008) - Howard Machtinger, Jeff Jones, Steve Tappis, and Mark Rudd.
Rudd, Mark
West, Cornell, radical Marxist professor, racist introduced Obama as "my comrade."
PBS
Portman, Natalie
Rock, Chris
Soros, George
Spielberg, Steven
Springsteen, Bruce
Steenburgen, Mary, wife if Ted Danson
Streisand, Babs
Warren, Rick - Saddleback Church; Christian Author of 'Purpose Driven Life.'
Winfrey, Oprah

Yee, James, West Point graduate; accused in 2003 of being part of a spy ring at the U.S. prison for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, held 76 days in solitary confinement but charges were dropped over "national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence," if the case had proceeded.
Young Communist League

New York Feminists for Peace:
An organization of more than 100 New York feminiNazis: Cora Weiss; Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation; Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times writer Margo Jefferson; Alice Kessler Harris and Linda Gordon; Barbara Weinstein, president of the American Historical Association, and Ellen P. Chapnick, Dean for Social Justice Initiatives at Columbia Law School. Susan Sarandon and Francis Fox Piven.

Progressives For Obama (PFO):
Established in March 2008 and co-founded by Tom Hayden, collaborator with North Vietnamese Communists during the Vietnam War and who organized riots at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in Grant Park, the same place Obama held his victory party 40 years later. PFO's members include Danny Glover, Barbara Ehrenreich, the Honorary Chairwoman of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Bill Fletcher, Jr., a Maoist, current DSA leader and executive editor of ‘Black Commentator.’ Fletcher is co-founder of the Black Radical Congress which has close ties to the Communist Party USA. PFO Internet webmaster is Carl Davidson, a Marxist who is also a national steering committee member of United for Peace and Justice, a prominent member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, an admirer of Fidel Castro, and a former vice president of Students for a Democratic Society.

Senator Bernie Sanders is the only openly socialist member of the U.S. Senate.

Political scientist Andrew Hacker is the author of the 1992 book Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal).

Leslie Cagan is the pro-Castro co-chair of United For Peace and Justice.



Muslim American Society:
Originally, the Muslim Brotherhood. Called themselves the Muslim American Society after 1993. The Muslim Brotherhood is an international Islamist group that largely operates underground. The Brotherhood's goal is to spread the rule of Islamic law throughout the world and have endorsed violence as a means of doing so. MAS' magazine, March 2002 endorses suicide bombings as "martyr operations…not suicide.”

Code Pink Founder, Jodie Evans - Obama met with his terrorist supporting fundraiser, Jodie Evans, at a $5 million Hollywood fundraiser held last week at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion on Tuesday, June 24. Obama met with Evans and was photographed with her at the fundraiser. Evans is co-founder of the leftist anti-American group Code Pink. She and Code Pink have endorsed the terrorists in Iraq and have sent over $600,000 in cash and humanitarian aid to "the other side" in Fallujah. Evans said in an interview last month, on June 3, that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had a "valid argument" for attacking America on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Vote Hope 2008," the Obama supporters' 527 group, federal records show. The group is led by San Francisco lawyer Steve Phillips, son-in-law of wealthy financier and Democratic political donor Herbert Sandler. "The 527s obviously are a challenge to the system, but the Supreme Court has said they're permitted, and there's no way to impose (donation) limits on them," said Robert Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles, and an expert on campaign finance law.

Purpose Driven Life Author
Rick Warren, who leads the 20,000-member Saddleback Valley Community Church, called Obama" an amazing man" in an interview with CNN’s Wolfe Blitzer and said he has the potential to be president of the United States because "he has good character." This is a curious endorsement in view of Obama’s pro-abortion stand.

Economics, Faith, Law, Morality, Liberty

Adam Smith
· Theory of Moral Sentiments
· Wealth of Nations

To the extent we are free the better conditions we make for ourselves. As our lives improve, the nation improves.

Use your money profitably: Pleasure and Fun are part of life: Have some fun.

Freiderich von Hayek – Key Concepts:

Markets versus planning: Market exchange works because people value thing differently. The planned economy rests on the unlikely assumption that everyone can agree what to produce, and how.

Importance of prices: The price system reflects the imbalance of demand and supply, and automatically steers resources to where they are most needed - without the need for planners to discover, understand, and correct the imbalance.

We're all planners. We all plan, and we do so on the basis of our own knowledge of local conditions. There is far more useful and current information in this dispersed knowledge bas than could ever be collected in a central planning agency.

Competition is dynamic. Competition is not a textbook 'given' but a dynamic process, in which people constantly search to discover the cheapest mix of resources to produce the most desired outputs.

Human action but not human design: The social order is like language. It is a product of human action, but not something that we have deliberately designed. It evolves and changes, but endures because it is useful to us.

Limits to our understanding: Just as language is built on complex rules of grammar that we follow with ease but cannot necessarily articulate, the social order is built on complex regularities in our behavior - common law, ethics, customs, manners - whose importance we only faintly understand.

The fatal conceit: The totalitarian disasters that have occurred when utopians attempt to redesign society according to their rational plan shows just how little we know about the workings of the complex system of rules on which the social order is based.

Books by Hayek
The Road to Serfdom
This work remains one of the all-time classics of 20th-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history.

Hayek argues that, while socialist ideals may be tempting, they cannot be accomplished except by means that few would approve of: The business end of a gun barrel, point of a bayonet, the cell, the shackle, and the grave.

Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the Holocaust, Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. He reveals to the world that little can result from such ideas except oppression and tyranny. Today, more than 50 years on, Hayek's warnings are just as valid as when "The Road to Serfdom" was first published.

The Constitution of Liberty
In this classic work Hayek restates the ideals of freedom that he believes have guided, and must continue to guide, the growth of Western civilization. Hayek's book, first published in 1960, urges us to clarify our beliefs in today's struggle of political ideologies.

The Constitution of Liberty is a thorough exposition of a social philosophy which ranges from ethics and anthropology through jurisprudence and the history of ideas to the economics of the modern welfare state.

First, the author analyzes the ethical foundations of a free society in which liberty is not merely a value but the very source and condition of all moral values. Next, he examines the institutions that Western societies have developed to secure individual liberty (note: These institutions have their origin in the Christian faith, the personal life of Christ, and the sense of personal responsibility that can only come from a desire to be free from Sin and therefore able to live in a free society. “Freedom” as personal liberty is found first in the Bible. John Puzzo

In the final section, the author discusses the relations between a free-enterprise system and a socialist one, giving a full account of the goals and methods of the present-day welfare state. Hayek ultimately tests the principles of freedom by applying them to contemporary economic and social issues.

Law, Legislation & Liberty
This volume represents the first section of Friedrich A. Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Rules and Order constructs the framework necessary for a critical analysis of prevailing theories of justice and of the conditions which a constitution securing personal liberty would have to satisfy.

The Fatal Conceit
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors. He labels as the "fatal conceit" the idea that "man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes.

Books about Hayek:
Hayek: His contribution to the political and economic thought of our time

Dr. Eamonn Butler gives an introduction to the great Austrian economist and political philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek. The book covers the themes of Hayek's work, which consists of more than 25 books and numerous articles. The topics include Hayek's understanding of the market process, his critique of socialism and the meaningless term of social justice, and Hayek's suggestions for the constitution of the liberal state.

The Fundamentals of Austrian Economics - A straightforward but comprehensive introduction to the economic approach of such names as Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, Becker and Kirzner. In direct contrast to Keynes, their view is that economics is about millions of inter-related individual actions. Trying to predict things on the basis of supposed linkages between macroeconomic aggregates is therefore just plain wrong.

Totalitarian Progress: Road To Perdition of the "isms."

Level I.

Rule of the “isms” and their respective symbols.
· Socialism – Handshake
· Nazism – Swastika
· Facism - Fasci
· Communism -Hammer and Sickle

Fear, Greed, and indifference: A recipe for manipulation, makes this 'isms' possible.

When corruption has no name and no face, it is overlooked.

Small groups of ‘energetic,’ motivated people make a difference in the direction of major social forces – it’s the only thing that ever has.

Where the audience is an active participant in it’s own deception and manipulation there are expectations of that a charismatic presence will lead them out of their troubles. What they get is a loss of control over its own destiny.

The most effective rhetoric is simple, passionate, and repetitive. It works equally well through mass appeal or one on one: Mesmer perfected the technique so well a movement was named after him.

Level II.

Police Power, State Terrorism:

A police state produces mass fear and the fear is open, the tactics are open with demonstrations of force and power, as in Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge, Idaho under the Clington Administration. The employment of such operatiosnagainst civilians produce an undercurrent of emotion that moves from observation to fear to terror in the mind which personalizes the connection, creating an overpowering sense of dread. This is internalized by the masses and the individual.

The Media: The Main Stream Media is produced for the masses but consumed by individuals. It is the main source of instruction to the masses on what to believe, how to act, and what to consume including the consumption of information.

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist:

Gramsci realized that the West, due to its prosperity, its increasingly wide access to education and opportunity, social mobility, and its readiness to repair injustices (due to its Christian morality), would never be amenable to a violent proletarian socialist revolution. So he came up with Plan B, which is often termed "Gramscian tactics," or ‘Fabian Socialism’ achieved by cultural subversion.

“The civilized world has been saturated with Christianity for 2000 years,” Gramsci wrote, “and a regime grounded in Christian beliefs and values could not be overthrown until these roots were cut.”

I. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Lenin thought always in terms of world revolution and he died in the expectation of a global victory.

In his, ‘Imperialism, the Last Stage of Capitalism’ (1917), he had extended class warfare into an inevitable conflict between European imperialism and the colonial peoples involved.

Lenin was influenced by the English historian J .A. Hobson's, ‘Imperialism, a Study,’ (1902), which alleged that decadent capitalism was bound to turn from glutted markets at home to exploit the toil of "reluctant and unassimilated peoples."

But, as observed by classical, medieval, and modern constitutionalist political philosophers, authoritarian regimes suffer the tensions of all autocracies.

Marx himself might have thought that such planned autocracies had made the worst of his revelation, which was to lead to an unplanned, classless utopia.

Other Marxist approaches. Many Marxist revisionists tend toward anarchism, stressing the Hegelian and utopian elements of his theory. The Hungarian Gyorgy Lukacs, for example, and the German Herbert Marcuse, who fled from the Nazis to the United States, have won some following among those in revolt against both authoritarian "peoples' democracies" and the diffused capitalism and meritocracy of the managerial welfare state.

Lukacs' "History and Class Consciousness" (published in Hungarian, 1922), a neo-Hegelian work, claims that only the intuition of the proletariat can properly apprehend
the totality of history.

But world revolution is contingent, not inevitable, and Marxism is an instrument, not a prediction. Lukacs renounced this heresy after residence in the Soviet Union under Stalin, but he maintained influence through literary and dramatic criticism. After
Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, Lukacs advocated peaceful coexistence and intellectual rather than political subversion.

In his, ‘‘The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (trans. 1963),’ Lukacs again relates Marx to Hegel and even to Aristotle, against the Stalinist claim that Marx made a radically new departure. Lukacs' neo-Marxist literary criticism can be tendentious, but his neo-Hegelian insights, strikingly expressed, have appealed to those anxious to salvage the more humane aspects of Marxism and to promote revolution, even against a modified capitalism and social democracy, by intellectual rather than by political means.

Marcuse also reached back to the more utopian Marx. Now that most of the proletariat has been absorbed into conformist managerial capitalism or has been regimented of
into bureaucratic peoples' democracies, freedom, argues Marcuse, is in retreat.

In Western affluent societies most employers and workers are equally philistine, dominated by the commercialized mass media, or "cogs in a culture machine."

The Soviet Union has reverted to an even more philistine monolithic repression, distorting art and literature.

This enslavement of man by his own industrial productivity has been clinched by the colossal power of governments, which renders the old brief and brisk class warfare a romantic, impracticable idea.

Marcuse attacked all establishments and transferred the redeeming mission of the proletariat to a fringe of alienated minorities: radical students and the exponents of the "hippie" way of life, as well as to Viet Cong guerillas and Black Power militants. Such groups, he declared, could apparently form liberating elites and destroy the managerial society.

Thus re-appeared the old Marxist-Hebraic pattern of redemption through struggle by a chosen people.

The Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci deployed a vivid rhetorical talent in attacking existing society. Like Marcuse, Gramsci was alarmed that the proletariat was being assimilated by the capitalist order and flung himself into the current controversy between social democrats and the radical revolutionaries.

Gramsci took his stand on the already obsolescent Marxist doctrine of irreconcilable
class war between bourgeois and proletariat. He aimed to unmask the bourgeois idea of liberty and to replace parliaments by an "implacable machine" of workers' councils, which would destroy the current social order through a dictatorship of the proletariat.
"Democracy," he wrote, "is our worst enemy. We must be ready to fight it because it blurs the clear separation of classes."

Not only would parliamentary democracy and established law be unmasked, but culture, too, would be transformed. A workers' civilization, with its great industry, large cities, and "tumultuous and intense life," would create a new civilization with new poetry, art, drama, fashions, and language.

Gramsci insisted that the old culture should be destroyed and that education should be
wrenched from the grip of the ruling classes and the church and run under the direction of workers' councils.

But this militant revolutionary was also utopian. Gramsci turned bitterly hostile to Stalin's regime, for he believed, like Engels, that the dictatorship of the workers' state would wither away. "We do not wish," he wrote, "to freeze the dictatorship."
Following world revolution, he wrote, a classless society would emerge, and mankind would be free to master nature instead of being involved in a class war.

Since World War II, Gramsci's notions have enjoyed a minor revival. They appeal to the fringe revolutionaries who admire Marcuse and detest the ‘bourgeoisement’ of an idealized proletariat.

But, in a civilization in which, if total war can be avoided, material prospects are good, the destruction of the old culture out of rage, envy, and naive idealism appears to be a pointless program.

II. Gramsci: Raising the American Taliban

Gramsci realized that the West, due to its prosperity, its increasingly wide access to education and opportunity, social mobility, and its readiness to repair injustices (due to its Christian morality), would never be amenable to a violent proletarian socialist revolution. So he came up with Plan B, which is often termed "Gramscian tactics," or ‘Fabian Socialism’ achieved by cultural subversion.

‘The civilized world has been saturated with Christianity for 2000 years,’ Gramsci wrote; and a regime grounded in Christian beliefs and values could not be overthrown until these roots were cut.

Capitalism, Gramsci suggested, maintained political, economic, and ideological control through a hegemonic culture in which the values of the ‘bourgeoisie’ (‘Bourgeoisie’ is an European term, as is ‘proletariat,’ ‘capitalist,’ and ‘communism.’) became the 'common sense' values of all…a consensus culture in which people in the working-class identified their own good with the good of the ‘bourgeoisie,’ and maintained the status quo rather than revolt from it.

Thus, to Gramsci, consummate subversive that he is, Western "hegemonic culture" is the enemy even more so than ‘the ruling class’ that supports it.

Defeating Western culture, his primary goal, could not be done with guns. It required a "long march through the culture" to slowly discredit and undermine its institutions, values, and foundations.

This was a brilliantly destructive idea.

Eventually, the society would fall apart, opening the way to totalitarian socialism. And the State must lead the way through its courts, schools, and importantly, its system of taxation which must redistribute wealth and purchase the power base that will forge new alliances hostile to the old order. All these factors must play their part to change society.

Gramsci taught that Western bourgeois cultural values were tied to Christianity and therefore much of his polemic against hegemonic culture is aimed at Christian norms and values.

Gramsci was impressed by the power of Roman Catholicism over men's minds and the care the Church had taken to prevent a gap between the religion of the learned and that of the less educated. (??)

Gramsci believed that Marxism should marry the purely intellectual critique of religion found in Renaissance humanism to the elements of the Reformation that had appealed to the masses.

Gramsci inspired:
attacks on Christianity
the family
individual freedom
morality and moral judgments
multiculturalism
cult of victimhood
"tolerance"
political correctness
Green movement

The role of family, religion, individual responsibility and even choice would be replaced with government rules, laws, and regulations. The expansion of the State into the Welfare State and the Nanny State - where we would be cared for ‘from cradle to grave’ – would rule with a velvet glove whose softness belies the iron fist within, for to resist the beautiful hell will invite brutal repression.

Nothing less than a revolution…
The traditions of Western Civilization must be repudiated and discarded.
Capitalism, with its notions of private property and individual competency must end.
Success, as a concept that emanates from individual self interest, must be redefined in terms of group interest.
Nationalism and Patriotism are incompatible with ‘the revolution.’
America and republican Americanism must be obliterated.

To achieve these goals Gramsci favored an incrementalist revolution, what British socialists termed ‘Fabian Socialism’ after the Roman General, ‘Fabius,’ (d. 203 BC), whose cautious delaying tactics of attrition during the early stages of the Second Punic War (218-201) gave Rome time to recover its strength and take the offensive against Hannibal. The Fabians put their faith in evolutionary Socialism rather than in armed revolution.

The Fabians at first attempted to permeate both the Liberal and Conservative parties with socialist ideas, but later organized the ‘Labour Representation Committee,’ which became the Labour Party in 1906. Socialism is the policy of the Labour Party.

Ultimately, suppression of the individual in favor of the collectivist utopia is the object of all socialist policy. It is the abandonment of the soul and spirit of Western Civilization. The 3,000 years of our culture is based on individual freedom, autonomy, initiative, self-interest, and the right to define oneself and determine your own direction. The Revolution can complete the seizure of political power only after having achieved "cultural hegemony," control of society's intellectual life by cultural means and the relocation of power and money.

They even reorder time by insisting use of the anti-Christian French Revolutionary calendar. Some publishers now insist upon secular dating of their publications with "B.C.E." (Before the "Common Era"- whatever that means) rather than "B.C." and "C.E." (the Common Era) rather than "A.D."

Anti-Christian phenomena such as the book and movie, ‘The DaVinci Code,’ turn the vary nature of Christ as Savior on its head. Indeed, one of the last sentences in The DaVinci Code reads, “…It is time to worship at the feet of the fallen one.”

Courts, including the Supreme Court, have declared most displays of the 10 Commandments "unconstitutional" despite the fact that the 10 Commandments are carved into the building that houses the U.S. Supreme Court.

Daily evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, everywhere is repeated the hymn, ‘Islam is the religion of peace’ yet Christianity is portrayed as the religion of hate, colonialism, and bigotry. Fundamental aspects of Christianity such as marriage, sexuality, and abortion are attacked by renegade Christian clergy, causing major schisms within the faith.

(See: Judge Bork, ‘Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline;’ and Pat Buchanan, ‘The Death of the West.’)

February 15, 2007 Cultural Marxism
By Linda Kimball
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html

There are two misconceptions held by many Americans. The first is that communism ceased to be a threat when the Soviet Union imploded. The second is that the New Left of the Sixties collapsed and disappeared as well. "The Sixties are dead," wrote columnist George Will ("Slamming the Doors," Newsweek, Mar. 25, 1991)

However, its revolutionaries reorganized themselves into a multitude of single issue groups. Thus we now have for example, radical feminists, black extremists, anti-war ‘peace' activists, animal rights groups, radical environmentalists, and ‘gay' rights groups. All of these groups pursue their piece of the radical agenda through a complex network of organizations such as the Gay Straight Lesbian Educators Network (GSLEN), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), People for the American Way, United for Peace and Justice, Planned Parenthood, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), and Code Pink for Peace.

Both communism and the New Left are alive and thriving here in America. They favor code words: tolerance, social justice, economic justice, peace, reproductive rights, sex education and safe sex, safe schools, inclusion, diversity, and sensitivity. All together, this is Cultural Marxism disguised as multiculturalism.

Birth of Multiculturalism

In anticipation of the revolutionary storm that would baptize the world in an inferno of red terror, leading to its rebirth as the promised land of social justice and proletarian equality-Frederich Engels wrote,

"All the...large and small nationalities are destined to perish...in the revolutionary world storm... (A general war will) wipe out all...nations, down to their very names. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only reactionary classes...but...reactionary peoples." ("The Magyar Struggle," Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Jan. 13, 1849)

By the end of WWI, socialists realized that something was amiss, for the world's proletariat had not heeded Marx's call to rise up in opposition to evil capitalism and to embrace communism instead. They wondered what had gone wrong.

Separately, two Marxist theorists-Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary-concluded that the Christianized West was the obstacle standing in the way of a communist new world order. The West would have to be conquered first.

Gramsci posited that because Christianity had been dominant in the West for over 2000 years, not only was it fused with Western civilization, but it had corrupted the worker class. The West would have to be de-Christianized, said Gramsci, by means of a "long march through the culture." Additionally, a new proletariat must be created. In his "Prison Notebooks," he suggested that the new proletariat be comprised of many criminals, women, and racial minorities.

The new battleground, reasoned Gramsci, must become the culture, starting with the traditional family and completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science, and history. All of these things must be radically transformed and the social and cultural order gradually turned upside-down with the new proletariat placed in power at the top.



The Prototype

In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary.

Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a crippling blow.

Lukacs launched a radical sex education program in the schools. Sex lectures were organized and literature handed out which graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority. All of this was accompanied by a reign of cultural terror perpetrated against parents, priests, and dissenters.

Hungary's youth, having been fed a steady diet of values-neutral (atheistic) and radical sex education while simultaneously encouraged to rebel against all authority, easily turned into delinquents ranging from bullies and petty thieves to sex predators, murderers, and sociopaths.

Gramsci's prescription and Lukacs' plans were the precursor to what Cultural Marxism in the guise of SIECUS, GSLEN, and the ACLU--acting as judicially-powered enforcers--later brought into American schools.

Building a base

In 1923, the Frankfurt School-a Marxist think-tank-was founded in Weimar Germany. Among its founders were Georg Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodor Adorno. The school was a multidisciplinary effort which included sociologists, sexologists, and psychologists.

The primary goal of the Frankfurt School was to translate Marxism from economic terms into cultural terms.

It would provide the ideas on which to base a new political theory of revoltuion based on culture, harnessing new [discovered] oppressed groups for the faithless proletariat. Smashing religion, morals, It would also build a constituency among academics, who could build careers studying and writing about the new oppression.

Toward this end, Marcuse-who favored polymorphous perversion-expanded the ranks of Gramsci's new proletariat by including homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals. Into this was spliced Lukacs radical sex education and cultural terrorism tactics.

Gramsci's ‘long march' was added to the mix, and then all of this was wedded to Freudian psychoanalysis and psychological conditioning techniques. The end product was Cultural Marxism, now known in the West as multiculturalism.

Additional intellectual firepower was required: a theory to pathologize what was to be destroyed.

In 1950, the Frankfurt School augmented Cultural Marxism with Theodor Adorno's idea of the ‘authoritarian personality.'

This concept is premised on the notion that Christianity, capitalism, and the traditional family create a character prone to racism and fascism. Thus, anyone who upholds America's traditional moral values and institutions is both racist and fascist. Children raised by traditional values parents, we are told to believe, will almost certainly become racists and fascists. By extension, if fascism and racism are endemic to America's traditional culture, then everyone raised in the traditions of God, family, patriotism, gun ownership, or free markets is in need of psychological help.

The pernicious influence of Adorno's ‘authoritarian personality' idea can be clearly seen in some of the research that gets public money.

"In Aug., 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million tax-payer funded study. It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed.

Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives...suffer from ‘mental rigidity,' ‘dogmatism,' and ‘uncertainty avoidance,' together with associated indicators for mental illness." http://www.edwatch.org/ ‘Social and Emotional Learning" Jan. 26, 2005)
The Orwellian cast of the pathologies named shows how far Gramsci's long march has led us.

A corresponding and diabolically crafted idea is ‘Political Correctness.’

The strong suggestion here is that in order for one not to be thought of as racist or fascist, then one must not only be nonjudgmental but must also embrace the ‘new' moral absolutes: diversity, choice, sensitivity, sexual orientation, and tolerance - All major initiatives in the schools. Everything form curricula to playtime is arranged to comply with the new dogma.

Political correctness is a Machiavellian, psychological ‘command and control' device. Its purpose is the imposition of uniformity in thought, speech, and behavior. ORWELL.

‘Critical theory’ is yet another psychological ‘command and control' device. As stated by Daniel J. Flynn,

"Critical Theory, as its name implies, criticizes. What deconstruction does to literature, Critical Theory does to societies." (Intellectual Morons, p 15-16)

Critical Theory is the ongoing and brutal assault upon traditional American culture and society via vicious criticism relentlessly leveled against Christians, Christmas, the Boy Scouts, Ten Commandments, our military, and all other aspects. The new, ‘Dialectic.’

Both political correctness and Critical Theory are in essence, psychological bullying. Cognitive dissonance; indoctrination, mind control, thought transfer, brainwashing, peer pressure.

They are the psycho-political battering rams by which Frankfurt School disciples such as the ACLU are forcing Americans to submit to and to obey the will and the way of the Left.

These devious devices are but psychological versions of Georg Lukacs and Laventi Beria's ‘cultural terrorism' tactics. In the words of Beria, Stalin’s Secret Police enforcer,

"Obedience is the result of force...Force is the antithesis of humanizing action. It is so synonymous in the human mind with savageness, lawlessness, brutality, and barbarism, that it is only necessary to display an inhuman attitude toward people to be granted by those people the possession of force." (The Russian Manual on Psychopolitics: Obedience, by Laventi Beria, head of Soviet Secret Police and Stalin's right-hand man)

Double-thinking ‘fence-sitters', otherwise known as moderates, centrists, and RINO’s (Republican In Name Only) bear the imprint of these psychological ‘obedience' techniques. These people-in some cases literally afraid of incurring the wrath of name-calling obedience trainers--- have opted to straddle the fence lest they be found guilty of possessing an opinion, one way or another. At the merest hint of displeasure from the obedience-trainers, up goes the yellow flag of surrender upon which it is boldly written:

"I believe in nothing and am tolerant of everything!"

Cultural Determinism

The linchpin of Cultural Marxism is cultural determinism, the parent of identity politics and group solidarity.

In its turn, cultural determinism was birthed by the Darwinian idea that man is but a soulless animal and therefore his identity is determined by for example, his skin color or his sexual and/or erotic preferences. This proposition rejects the concepts of the human spirit, individuality, free will, and morally informed conscience paired with personal accountability and responsibility because it emphatically denies the existence of the God of the Bible a priori.

Consequently, and by extension, it also rejects the first principles of our liberty enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. These are our "unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Cultural Marxism must reject these because these principles of liberty "are endowed by our Creator," who made man in His image.

Cultural determinism, states David Horowitz, is

"Identity politics-the politics of radical feminism, the queer revolution, and Afro-centrism-which is the basis of academic multiculturalism...a form of intellectual fascism and, insofar as it has any politics, of political fascism as well." (Mussolini and Neo-Fascist Tribalism: Up from Multiculturalism, by David Horowitz, Jan. 1998)

It is said that courage is the first of the virtues because without it fear will paralyze man, thus keeping him from acting upon his moral convictions and speaking truth. Thus bringing about a general state of paralyzing fear, apathy, and submission - the chains of tyranny - is the purpose behind psychopolitical, cultural terrorism, for the communist Left's revolutionary agenda must, at all costs, be clothed in darkness.

The antidote is courage and the light of truth. If we are to win this cultural war and reclaim and rebuild America so our children and their children's children can live in a ‘Shining City on the Hill' where liberty, families, opportunity, free markets, and decency flourish, we must muster the courage to fearlessly expose the communist Left's revolutionary agenda to the Light of Truth. Truth and the courage to speak it will set us free.


Additional References


Slouching Toward Gomorrah, by Robert H. Bork
Intellectual Morons, by Daniel J. Flynn
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Exposing America's Enemies, Part 2: Communist Progressive Democrats
Exposing America's Enemies: the ‘Social Justice Seeking' Communist Left

"The Origins of Political Correctness," (William Linds)

"[PC] is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious."

Lind states that from an historical point, PC has its historical origins in Cultural Marxism, the melding of Freudianism and Marxism; it's premise is that workers are oppressed under capitalism and under Western culture everyone lives in a state of psychological repression.

"Liberation from that repression became the weapon of choice for Cultural Marxism. Linds shows that everyone involved in bringing this ideology to our shores were Jews.


Both authors indicate that these changes began, not in the 60's, but actually in the 1930's, when two Marxist-theorists - Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary - concluded that the Christianized West was the obstacle standing in the way of a communist (Jewish) new world order.

In 1933, the Frankfort School, formerly known as the Institute for Social Research, was established at Columbia University after its founders fled Nazi Germany after Hitler came to power. In addition to Gramsci was music critic Theodor Adorno, psychologist Erich Fromm, sociologist Wilhelm Reich and Professor Herbert Marcuse. Its original strategy to destroy America could only be accomplished by infiltrating and subverting cultural institutions, since it was known that Americans steeped in traditions of freedom and liberty would never succumb to a frontal assault and be used as cannon fodder in a bloody revolution.

Gramsci concluded that Christianity's dominance in the West had corrupted the workers class and it would have to be de-Christianized by a "long march through the culture." His battleground would be the culture itself starting with the traditional family, then completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science and history. His new proletariat would be women, criminals, and racial minorities. He stated that the social and cultural order must be radically transformed and turned completely upside-down with the new proletariat placed in power at the top.

The school would go on to patent ‘Critical Theory,’ which is accurately defined as destructive criticism of all the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity (Primogeneture), ethnocentrism, convention, and conservatism."

Herbert Marcuse, who stayed behind in America after WWII, favored "polymorphous perversion," which Freud theorized that humans are born with unfocused sexual libidinal drives, deriving sexual pleasure from any part of the body. The objects and modes of sexual satisfaction are multifarious, directed at every object that might provide pleasure. This theory was radically interjected into the 60's sexual revolution with staggering effects that are still with us today. All forms ox sexual deviancy, tattooing, piercing, branding, etc.

Consequently, additional intellectual firepower was added to cement cultural Marxism's base: 'authoritarian personality.' This concept is premised on the notion that Christianity, capitalism, and the traditional family create a character prone to racism and fascism.

Thus, anyone who upholds America's traditional moral values and institutions is both racist and fascist. Children raised by traditional values parents, we are told to believe, will almost certainly become racists and fascists. By extension, if fascism and racism are endemic to America's traditional culture, then everyone raised in the traditions of God, family, patriotism, gun ownership, or free markets is in need of psychological help.

To poison American society further, the Frankfort School said history was determined by which groups, defined as men, women, races, religions, etc., had power or "dominance" over other groups.

Certain groups, especially white males, are labeled "oppressors," while other groups are defined as "victims." Victims are automatically good, oppressors always bad, just by what group they came from, regardless of individual behavior.

They incorporated into their cultural Marxism what Nietzsche called the "transvaluation of all values:" all the old sins have become virtues, and all the old virtues become sins. Homosexuality is a fine and good thing, but anyone who thinks men and women should have different social roles is an evil "fascist." That is what political correctness now teaches children in public schools all across America. (The Frankfurt School wrote about American public education. It said it did not matter if school children learned any skills or any facts. All that mattered was that they graduate from the schools with the right "attitudes" on certain questions.)

Herbert Marcuse became a "guru," of sorts, during the student rebellion in the 60's, and unfortunately, it provided him with an historic opportunity by injecting the Frankfort School's cultural Marxism into the baby-boom generation.

Of course, we did not understand what it really was. As was true from the Institute's beginning, Marcuse and the few other people "in the know" did not advertise that political correctness and multi-culturalism were a form of Marxism.

The effect was devastating: a whole generation of Americans, especially the university-educated elite, absorbed cultural Marxism, made it their own, and accepted a poisonous ideology that sought to destroy America's traditional culture and Christian faith. That generation, which runs every elite institution in America, now wages a ceaseless war on all traditional beliefs and institutions. They have largely won that war. Most of America's traditional culture lies in ruins.

Cultural Marxism, under the disguise of multiculturalism, is the primary reason why Americans equate truth with racism or hate. It is a ridiculous, poisonous, destructive ideology that we must eradicate, forever, in this country. However, a full frontal assault on the various institutions and organizations that defend it would end in our defeat. They are prepared and heavily fortified, now with the full cooperation of the United States government and para-military police forces behind them.

We, are but a small voice, however, hope reigns supreme. We must divorce ourselves from the poison that has undermined our culture and stolen our freedom, our voices and our liberty; as Gramsci laid it out so long ago, to undertake a "long march through the institutions." Our counter-strategy would be a long march to create new institutions defined by America's traditional value system. Patience is the virture that will eventually liberate us from the tyranny of every Marxist philosophy that now pervades our nation.

In the meantime, the next time you are called a fascist or a racist for speaking truth; label your attacker as a "Marxist" and watch for the reaction. You might be surprised.

References:
The Origins of Political Correctness
Cultural Marxism
The Four Horsemen of the Frankfort School
Who Stole Our Culture?
Also watch William Lind's video "The History of Political Correctness" on Google