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Communism, Chapter 7: The Long March through the Institutions

Posted on 7 April 20228 April 2022 by wha01

In the 1930s in Italy, an imprisoned Communist, Antonia Gramsci, was writing his “prison papers” opining that the dismantling the key cultural institutions, including the family, was necessary before Communism could take hold. Rudi Dutschke, a German Neo-Marxist in the late 1960s, followed on with this theme declaring that revolution would not succeed by violent over-throw, but by subverting society through “a long march through the institutions of power;” education, media, civil service, and judiciary.

Communism, Chapter 6: The Gulag Archipelago

Posted on 1 April 202216 May 2022 by wha01

Solzhenitsyn’s estimate of death toll across the Soviet Union due to all the atrocities of Lenin and Stalin was of 60 million killed (other estimates put it at at least 20 m).

“Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.”

Communism, Chapter 5: Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge

Posted on 24 March 202216 May 2022 by wha01

It was a thorough reset; money and private property were abolished, cities emptied, families separated, religion forbidden, and rural collectives formed. Books were burned and the wearing of glasses was criminalised.

Communism, Chapter 4: Cultural Revolution

Posted on 15 March 202216 May 2022 by wha01

Groups of young people known as Red Guards struggled against authorities at all levels of society, setting up their own tribunals. It is estimated that 100,000s if not millions died. The Police turned a blind eye to the Red Guard beating bourgeois elements to death. Mao is quoted as saying,
“China is a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.”

Communism, Chapter 3: Stalin’s Terror

Posted on 3 March 202216 May 2022 by wha01

In Chapter 3 of a condensed history of the Terror of Communism, the consequences of concentrating power in one person are examined. After the death of Lenin, a former executioner of the party assumed power, leading to three decades of terror. As one example, in 1932 a terror-famine was unleashed on Ukraine causing 3.5 million deaths.

Communism, Chapter 2: Marxist-Leninism

Posted on 26 February 202216 May 2022 by wha01

This is chapter 2 in the condensed history of Communism. This week, the rise of the totalitarian state “the dictatorship of the proletariat” as a means of transitioning to the workers’ Utopia a.k.a. Leninism.

Communism, Chapter 1: A really bad idea

Posted on 17 February 202219 February 2022 by wha01

The first chapter in a condensed history of Communism, its terror, and its death toll.

In Memory of the Forgotten

Posted on 5 August 20216 August 2021 by wha01

But the very real Orwellian nightmare of the first Soviet years, from 1917 to 1924, had its very real human victims; numbered amongst them were the “Besprizornye.” These were seven million homeless urchins […]

Reflections on Orwell – D. Duffy

Posted on 27 July 202127 July 2021 by wha01

Reflections on OrwellAuthor: David Duffy A little while ago, I chaired a talk on George Orwell and his significance in the year 2021. “Orwellian” is now part of our language and cultural hemisphere. In my vote of thanks, I quoted the early 19th century Russian monk Pechorin in his letter to Alexander Herzen, the famous […]

The Fog of Woke

Posted on 23 July 202128 July 2021 by wha01

The purpose of this short vignette is to introduce you to some of the jargon of Critical Social Justice. The difficulty in understanding someone versed in Critical Theory is that the words used are often identical to the commonly used words, but with completely different meanings and obscured subtext.

Are you Ware of Woke? – P. Henge

Posted on 22 May 202128 July 2021 by wha01

Are you Ware of Woke?Author: P. Henge 22 May 2021 A year ago in 2020, I had not heard the term Woke, but it is now in 2021 all around us yet still misunderstood by most. Recently, I asked someone for a definition and received the reply that woke meant cool. For many others it seems, […]

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