63rd Round Table Forum of Western Heritage Australia. Evening of the 6th August 2024. Held in the Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW.
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we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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.
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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.
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The first chapter in a condensed history of Communism, its terror, and its death toll.
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The New Culture Forum presents a thoughtful discussion and description of the ongoing cultural revolution and the weaponising of the history of Western civilisation.
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Neil Oliver speaks about the mass psychosis taking over the West and the intrusion of the state in the sacred sphere of the family.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“FOR SOME MEN NOTHING IS WRITTEN UNLESS THEY WRITE IT.” This interesting line was once used in reference to the late T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia).
It is a damn tempting precept to take up and I have often been a disciple when I have creatively jay-walked contrary to traffic regulations and infringed on other municipal by-laws at random – but I value the rule of law none the less.
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