My 700-word op-ed on a related matter ran today in the Washington Examiner. Thought this might interest your readers, so here goes:
Vietnam’s communists quietly surrender to capitalism — with Trump resort
Story by Bob Armstrong, Washington Examiner
Two days before our July 4 celebration marked the 50th anniversary of the formal reunification of Vietnam into a single country. The war had ended the previous year, in April, 1975, when North Vietnamese army tanks rolled onto the palace grounds in South Vietnam's capital, Saigon. Surrender time. During the 14-month period of reunification, to rub it in, the name Saigon got removed with a red eraser. Not liberation and not independence. The new name on July 2, 1976, Ho Chi Minh City.
All of us who went off to war in the late '60s and early '70s remember the name Ho Chi Minh, the dictator of North Vietnam. Few Vietnam vets, if any, remember or have ever heard the name To Lam, but he is now the top dog in 'Nam, the Communist Party's General Secretary. Fifty years has brought a lot of change to Vietnam, but most startling is To Lam's and the CP's embrace of capitalism.
This is part of To Lam's drive to present Vietnam as an important regional actor in Southeast Asia. Vietnam has emerged as a hub of global manufacturing. The United States is the biggest market for Vietnamese exports: Container communism from Da Nang and other ports supplies us with one-third of our shoes, one-fourth of our furniture, and one-fifth of our clothes. Despite bickering over tariffs, both countries seek a bilateral trade agreement.
While the North's crushing of the South a half-century ago unified Vietnam and made it more formidable, during these same years, international communism pretty much went kaput, save for the occasional holdouts like Cuba, North Korea and the faculty lounge at elite universities in Boston and Paris along with the recent victories of softer but just as dangerous Democratic socialists in New York City, Seattle, and Colorado. Like any shrewd communist leader in the 21st century, To Lam is keenly aware that Marxist ideology is toast. But he keeps that insight on the down-low, while jumping on President Donald Trump's "Art of the Deal."
The Big Beautiful Bewildering Blueprint at the moment for To Lam is the Trump Organization's deal to build a $1.5 billion riverside resort outside Hanoi. The development will include a five-star hotel, private villas for guests, a clubhouse, and two championship golf courses.
Better the sound of exploding bombs in the rice fields replaced with the sound of To Lam's running dog capitalist cash register, but not without its own difficulties. Some of the local farmers living near the project about to get displaced don't think the compensation for taking over their land is worth it. "The whole village is worried about this project," one farmer told Reuters wire service, "because it will take our land and leave us jobless." Worse still, construction on the project has forced many families in the area to exhume ancestral graves and relocate the remains of their dead relatives.
The golf resort was supposed to open next year, but the grave removal controversy has pushed back the deadline. To Lam's desire to monetize Vietnam will be welcomed by one small elite group: golfers. Out of a population of 100 million, there are about 70 golf courses in Vietnam catering to at most 100,000 putter enthusiasts. Welcome to the Proletarian Paradise.
When I'm relaxing in the morning, drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, my attention is captured by big news stories from Vietnam, such as a Trump hotel rising in the sky about 40 kilometers down the road from the former American POW camp dubbed the "Hanoi Hilton." And more. As I look back on all these years from Ho to To, what stands out more than anything is this: Since I returned home from the war all those years ago, I don't believe there has ever been a single day in my life without a passing thought of Vietnam. A story in the newspaper, a flash across the TV screen, pho soup in Little Saigon, the tri-colored bumper sticker on the car in front of me, or a ride with the taxi driver from Da Nang who lives on the Oregon Coast where I now live.
Or the Coast Guard helicopter turning in the wind. Or the police chopper. Or the ambulance chopper. Doesn't matter. There is a rippling, thumping sound of rotor blades, a Huey with a door gunner blasting away, 500 rounds per minute off his machine gun. That's in my head. And in my hand, a book, my just-published memoir as a photographer in the 3rd Marine Division snapping pics of the war from Da Nang to the DMZ.
Bob Armstrong is the author of No Exit from Vietnam, Pen & Sword Books, and a contributing writer to Thursday Review, an online magazine covering politics and culture.
Henry Ford, bless his heart, imported muslims to work in his factories, thus establishing Islam in Dearborn. Allegedly he did it to avoid unions but maybe it was anti jew? He could have done better
FWIW Grok says Ford made no deliberate effort to import Muslims. Would have been very difficult after the 1924 cut-off anyway. But enough did come (including Christians) to establish a beachhead that was exploited after the 1965 Hart-Celler disaster
"The re-emergence of the term “communism” in political discourse is one of those rare cultural victories, like the emergence of the War On Christmas concept,
Communism really means totalitarian Leftism, which the Biden Regime was clearly displaying, for example in its persecution of the J6 Martyrs. It also includes totalitarian lawfare, which is why I can no longer write this on VDARE.com.
The term “communist” pre-exists formally organized “Communist” parties. Marx used it in his 1848 Communist Manifesto. At that time, remember, he hadn’t written Das Kapital."
When I was a kid, I asked my father what was wrong with communism, after all, it sounded like it was all about being fair. Kids have an instinctive desire for fairness-we all get the same amount. He responded with something about life not being fair, and then described his trip to the U.S.S.R. in 1961 or 1962. Apparently, not only was it poor, but the leaders of the Communist party behaved like aristocrats of old.
Communism is a philosophy of jealousy. If you are doing better than me, then you owe me. You owe me reparations, you owe me welfare, you owe me the right to your country, you owe me an education, etc...
Whether he calls himself socialist or not, Mandami has this same philosophy of jealousy. (He ain't givin' the po' his money).
Checking out the links and reading on the Weather Underground terrorists, I barely even had to check the early life section. Yup, it’s about as Jewish as an Epstein list. Color me shocked!
Communism, def. : "The political philosophy of transferring all sovereignty from the individual over to the political party." The individual will own nothing, the individual will control nothing. NOTHING.
Communist/Marxist means something--now, today, NOT before Marx, NOT during the French Revolution. Now. 21st Century. Post-Communist USSR and their bloc, present Cuba, North Korea. Communist means something. Specific.
Just waving a wand and calling all your opponents "Communist" only makes you look foolish.
Just as your opponents calling us "Fascist" makes them look foolish.
There are good terms for them. I suggest PC-Progs (Politically Correct Progressives). This is the belief system that was inserted into our culture by the Communist International. It is the belief system of Mamdani, it is the belief system of the Democrat Party.
But it is NOT based on Communism. It is based on hatred. Hatred of Normal America, Normal Americans, and the systems that created Normal America.
PC-Prog belief system, in 6 bullet points:
America is a:
Racist
Sexist
Homophobic
Capitalist
Imperialist
Xenophobic
...hellhole.
And the PC-Prog action corollary: It (America) must be changed.
That covers all the bases of what you're (lazily?) choosing to call "Communist."
The prime proponent of screaming "Communist" is the zany New Zealander, Trevor Loudon. Putting yourself in his company is probably not a good idea!
Loudon popped up all over America during the Tea Party days. In 2016:
“The other interest group that hi-jacked the Tea Party movement was spear-headed by a freakish New Zealander, Trevor Loudon. Loudon hides his affiliation and traipses around the USA (on whose dime?) presenting to Tea Party groups his fetish-weirdness–that all American Progressives are directly connected to overt Socialist/Communist organizations.
“This is such a horrible misunderstanding of American politics that it could only come from a foreigner–which he is. But Loudon is even worse–he represents a strange convolution of two cults–Scientology and a rump-remnant branch of the John Birch Society.
“Loudon is a long-time representative of, spokesman for, and true-believer in a New Zealand cult (ZAP–Zenith Applied Philosophy) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Applied_Philosophy ) that blends Scientology (their leader, “Johnny Ultimate”) was defrocked from Scientology and had to form his own cult) and documents they dredged up from John Birch Society of the 1950s.
“Since the Tea Party was formed, Loudon appears, as if by magic, at local meetings all across the country. Who’s funding this insanity?”
I think I dealt with this in the section of my AMREN speech that I excerpted. Communism, properly understood, is Left-Totalitarianism. It does back to Jacobinism and pre-dates Marx. We have become used to identifying it with the USSR and its pupper organizations, and hence we're generally unprepared for its resurgence in alliance with minority identity politics. That the term has resurfaced in the teeth of elite obfuscation is a blessing.
"Communism, properly understood, is Left-Totalitarianism. It does back to Jacobinism and pre-dates Marx."
For sure.
However, what's happening in America is NOT Jacobinism or Marxism, or Communism.
There ARE pitiful little pockets of Communists in America: "In 2026, CPUSA claimed to have recruited 20,000 members since Trump's 2016 win, of which 11,000 remain active."
That tiny little band is properly termed "Communists." Democrats' beliefs are 100% PC-Progressivism. Totally based on hatred of Normals. Nothing to do with Marxism, Leninism, Communism.
The belief system that drives the anti-Normal American political and social movements is best termed Politically Correct Progressivism. It has NO overlap with Communism.
The belief system was created by Communists, specifically by the Comintern's genius of covert influence, Willi Muenzenberg. He used espionage and covert operations to build networks in the USA to spread this attitude/belief system.
He targeted the transmission belts of American culture: Hollywood, the media, and education/academia. He created front organizations, and took up causes. The Sacco and Vanzetti global publicity was a Muenzenberg operation [Payload: America is xenophobic]. As was the Scottsboro Boys operation [Payload: America is racist].
The belief system Muenzenberg created had six core tenets and an action corollary, all based on hating Normal America:
America is:
--Racist
--Sexist
--Homophobic
--Capitalist
--Xenophobic
--Imperialist
Action Corollary: American must be changed.
He built a massive network of front organizations (ACLU, NAACP, Teachers for Peace, Ironworkers for International Understanding, etc). He called these "Innocents Clubs."
He planted the seeds, from about 1920 till he fled Stalin in the late 30s.
But the beauty of Muenzenberg's covert influence belief system is that it sticks in the head and in the culture. His message and tactics took on a life of its own--see Frankfurt School, Alinsky, etc, all descendants of Muenzenberg's operations. Even when all the Communist operators were slaughtered (the NKVD strung Willi up by the neck in a forest in France) and long dead, the American willing accomplices promulgated the belief system.
It grew quietly until the 1990s, when it emerged in full bloom. PC-Prog is the belief system, and it's grown more and more since then.
Book: Willing Accomplices: How KGB Covert Influence Agents Created Political Correctness, Obama’s Hate-America-First Political Platform, And Destroyed America
--An eye-opening book about covert influences in America, 'Willing Accomplices' is a must-read.
Your mention of communism & political correctness reminds me of this quotation:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple,
Jewish Athiest physician, and son of a Russian communist, who writes a weekly column for Taki's Magazine.
The PC progressive points you mention, echo the 13 main cultural Marxist objectives which the Jewish-German Frankfurt School developed to weaken and destroy White Western Christian nations:
"The PC progressive points you mention, echo the 13 main cultural Marxist objectives which the Jewish-German Frankfurt School developed to weaken and destroy White Western Christian nations:"
You've got it exactly backwards. Willi Muenzenberg created the belief system that resulted in PC-Prog. He also created the operational model of targeting the three-legged stool of American cultural transmission: the media, Hollywood, academia/education. As a German, who operated in Germany from the end of WW1 till Hitler chased him out, Muenzenberg's covert influence ops had powerful effects in Germany.
The "Frankfurt School" belief system came directly FROM Willi Muenzenberg's covert influence ops. Muenzenberg was the Comintern's covert influence mastermind. The PC-Prog belief system was Muenzenberg's creation. He ran massively successful covert influence operations, focused on the USA, but also targeting Europe.
The German babblers who made up the "Frankfurt School" were simply repeating and enlarging on Muenzenberg's core message of destruction of Normal American culture. They didn't "develop" anything, they were Muenzenberg soldiers.
Other misunderstandings related to the "cultural Marxism" mistake: Gramsci didn't create anything. He was a note-taker at Comintern meetings where Muenzenberg laid out his strategies. His notes from prison were just Gramsci writing down the details of Muenzenberg's secret Comintern ops.
Just so Alinksky's "Rules for Radicals." That was a distillation of Muenzenberg's operations, passed down through the anti-American networks as operational guidance. Alinsky just wrote it down.
"Cultural Marxism" means nothing. There's no Marxism in PC-Prog--only hatred of Normal America.
Perhaps you're right about the chronological order.
Organized destroy-America techniques have certainly been around for some time. I was going to mention
the American Communist Party member, Leonard Patterson, and the antifa-style training he described being taught during the late '20s/early '30s in Moscow to help usher in American "Black Revolution" in the U.S. BLM recently used some of the exact same riot & extortion techniques...
But then: I became distracted by the "Outsider" BSA Eagle Scout manual you wrote.
My husband & I have raised 3 Eagle Scouts, in spite of my actively fighting their decision to include girls in the BSA. Though I volunteered at the camps, & was married to a Popcorn Kernal, I believe I might properly describe myself as even more of a BSA "outsider" to that organization than you were. : )
Yeah--I'm pretty disgusted by "Scouting" now too! It made my boys the men they are today. Not sure it could do the same for my grandson....
"American Communist Party member, Leonard Patterson, and the antifa-style training he described being taught during the late '20s/early '30s in Moscow to help usher in American "Black Revolution" in the U.S....."
That was part and parcel of Muenzenberg's operations. As was creation of the NAACP, the ACLU, the Sacco and Vanzetti global protests, the Scottsboro Boys protests, and the hundreds of front organizations that pushed high-sounding, but actually anti-American, agendas.
It's really important to understand where/how/when/why the Hate-America-First belief system landed in our culture. And what it is NOT.
Simplisticly calling PC-Progs and their belief and actions "Communist" (as they do in this original post above) is a distraction and makes Normal Americans take their eyes off the ball.
Rather strange that the population supporting these commie politicians was imported with the full support of big business (aka, capitalists). They don't seem to feel too threatened by this menace.
I think an argument can be made that (in the short term) capitalism & communism can each advance the objectives of the other, thanks to global consumerism + immigration of third-worlders into Western cultures. Capitalism-First folks love cheap manufacturing/ cheap labor within communist countries like China. Capitalist-First Americans seem to value hearty stock revenue growth more than healthy domestic opportunities for their own descendants. Similarly, foreign Communists countries love Capitalist America's free speech & easy university admittance for foreign-agent students who can spread cultural Marxist ideas across campus, as well as hand away American university-level technological training/knowledge with their home countries, to compete directly against the U.S.
Unfortunately, our capitalists look at first quarter earnings and rarely further while their communist countries make five year plans....and Islam makes century plans.
For sure, Trump is right on the Reds.
My 700-word op-ed on a related matter ran today in the Washington Examiner. Thought this might interest your readers, so here goes:
Vietnam’s communists quietly surrender to capitalism — with Trump resort
Story by Bob Armstrong, Washington Examiner
Two days before our July 4 celebration marked the 50th anniversary of the formal reunification of Vietnam into a single country. The war had ended the previous year, in April, 1975, when North Vietnamese army tanks rolled onto the palace grounds in South Vietnam's capital, Saigon. Surrender time. During the 14-month period of reunification, to rub it in, the name Saigon got removed with a red eraser. Not liberation and not independence. The new name on July 2, 1976, Ho Chi Minh City.
All of us who went off to war in the late '60s and early '70s remember the name Ho Chi Minh, the dictator of North Vietnam. Few Vietnam vets, if any, remember or have ever heard the name To Lam, but he is now the top dog in 'Nam, the Communist Party's General Secretary. Fifty years has brought a lot of change to Vietnam, but most startling is To Lam's and the CP's embrace of capitalism.
This is part of To Lam's drive to present Vietnam as an important regional actor in Southeast Asia. Vietnam has emerged as a hub of global manufacturing. The United States is the biggest market for Vietnamese exports: Container communism from Da Nang and other ports supplies us with one-third of our shoes, one-fourth of our furniture, and one-fifth of our clothes. Despite bickering over tariffs, both countries seek a bilateral trade agreement.
While the North's crushing of the South a half-century ago unified Vietnam and made it more formidable, during these same years, international communism pretty much went kaput, save for the occasional holdouts like Cuba, North Korea and the faculty lounge at elite universities in Boston and Paris along with the recent victories of softer but just as dangerous Democratic socialists in New York City, Seattle, and Colorado. Like any shrewd communist leader in the 21st century, To Lam is keenly aware that Marxist ideology is toast. But he keeps that insight on the down-low, while jumping on President Donald Trump's "Art of the Deal."
The Big Beautiful Bewildering Blueprint at the moment for To Lam is the Trump Organization's deal to build a $1.5 billion riverside resort outside Hanoi. The development will include a five-star hotel, private villas for guests, a clubhouse, and two championship golf courses.
Better the sound of exploding bombs in the rice fields replaced with the sound of To Lam's running dog capitalist cash register, but not without its own difficulties. Some of the local farmers living near the project about to get displaced don't think the compensation for taking over their land is worth it. "The whole village is worried about this project," one farmer told Reuters wire service, "because it will take our land and leave us jobless." Worse still, construction on the project has forced many families in the area to exhume ancestral graves and relocate the remains of their dead relatives.
The golf resort was supposed to open next year, but the grave removal controversy has pushed back the deadline. To Lam's desire to monetize Vietnam will be welcomed by one small elite group: golfers. Out of a population of 100 million, there are about 70 golf courses in Vietnam catering to at most 100,000 putter enthusiasts. Welcome to the Proletarian Paradise.
When I'm relaxing in the morning, drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, my attention is captured by big news stories from Vietnam, such as a Trump hotel rising in the sky about 40 kilometers down the road from the former American POW camp dubbed the "Hanoi Hilton." And more. As I look back on all these years from Ho to To, what stands out more than anything is this: Since I returned home from the war all those years ago, I don't believe there has ever been a single day in my life without a passing thought of Vietnam. A story in the newspaper, a flash across the TV screen, pho soup in Little Saigon, the tri-colored bumper sticker on the car in front of me, or a ride with the taxi driver from Da Nang who lives on the Oregon Coast where I now live.
Or the Coast Guard helicopter turning in the wind. Or the police chopper. Or the ambulance chopper. Doesn't matter. There is a rippling, thumping sound of rotor blades, a Huey with a door gunner blasting away, 500 rounds per minute off his machine gun. That's in my head. And in my hand, a book, my just-published memoir as a photographer in the 3rd Marine Division snapping pics of the war from Da Nang to the DMZ.
Bob Armstrong is the author of No Exit from Vietnam, Pen & Sword Books, and a contributing writer to Thursday Review, an online magazine covering politics and culture.
thanks, very affecting
Henry Ford, bless his heart, imported muslims to work in his factories, thus establishing Islam in Dearborn. Allegedly he did it to avoid unions but maybe it was anti jew? He could have done better
FWIW Grok says Ford made no deliberate effort to import Muslims. Would have been very difficult after the 1924 cut-off anyway. But enough did come (including Christians) to establish a beachhead that was exploited after the 1965 Hart-Celler disaster
Yes, we owe a sincere debt of ingratitude to Henry Ford for that.
"The re-emergence of the term “communism” in political discourse is one of those rare cultural victories, like the emergence of the War On Christmas concept,
Communism really means totalitarian Leftism, which the Biden Regime was clearly displaying, for example in its persecution of the J6 Martyrs. It also includes totalitarian lawfare, which is why I can no longer write this on VDARE.com.
The term “communist” pre-exists formally organized “Communist” parties. Marx used it in his 1848 Communist Manifesto. At that time, remember, he hadn’t written Das Kapital."
When I was a kid, I asked my father what was wrong with communism, after all, it sounded like it was all about being fair. Kids have an instinctive desire for fairness-we all get the same amount. He responded with something about life not being fair, and then described his trip to the U.S.S.R. in 1961 or 1962. Apparently, not only was it poor, but the leaders of the Communist party behaved like aristocrats of old.
Communism is a philosophy of jealousy. If you are doing better than me, then you owe me. You owe me reparations, you owe me welfare, you owe me the right to your country, you owe me an education, etc...
Whether he calls himself socialist or not, Mandami has this same philosophy of jealousy. (He ain't givin' the po' his money).
Checking out the links and reading on the Weather Underground terrorists, I barely even had to check the early life section. Yup, it’s about as Jewish as an Epstein list. Color me shocked!
Communism, def. : "The political philosophy of transferring all sovereignty from the individual over to the political party." The individual will own nothing, the individual will control nothing. NOTHING.
Lol, So when are you going to rescue your ManJawed Troon Looking Daughter from that Pants-Shitting Bestialitic Pervert Cuck Jeremy Hambly?
Yeah, no.
Communist/Marxist means something--now, today, NOT before Marx, NOT during the French Revolution. Now. 21st Century. Post-Communist USSR and their bloc, present Cuba, North Korea. Communist means something. Specific.
Just waving a wand and calling all your opponents "Communist" only makes you look foolish.
Just as your opponents calling us "Fascist" makes them look foolish.
There are good terms for them. I suggest PC-Progs (Politically Correct Progressives). This is the belief system that was inserted into our culture by the Communist International. It is the belief system of Mamdani, it is the belief system of the Democrat Party.
But it is NOT based on Communism. It is based on hatred. Hatred of Normal America, Normal Americans, and the systems that created Normal America.
PC-Prog belief system, in 6 bullet points:
America is a:
Racist
Sexist
Homophobic
Capitalist
Imperialist
Xenophobic
...hellhole.
And the PC-Prog action corollary: It (America) must be changed.
Full details:
https://kentclizbe.substack.com/p/politically-correct-progressive-belief
That covers all the bases of what you're (lazily?) choosing to call "Communist."
The prime proponent of screaming "Communist" is the zany New Zealander, Trevor Loudon. Putting yourself in his company is probably not a good idea!
Loudon popped up all over America during the Tea Party days. In 2016:
“The other interest group that hi-jacked the Tea Party movement was spear-headed by a freakish New Zealander, Trevor Loudon. Loudon hides his affiliation and traipses around the USA (on whose dime?) presenting to Tea Party groups his fetish-weirdness–that all American Progressives are directly connected to overt Socialist/Communist organizations.
“This is such a horrible misunderstanding of American politics that it could only come from a foreigner–which he is. But Loudon is even worse–he represents a strange convolution of two cults–Scientology and a rump-remnant branch of the John Birch Society.
“Loudon is a long-time representative of, spokesman for, and true-believer in a New Zealand cult (ZAP–Zenith Applied Philosophy) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Applied_Philosophy ) that blends Scientology (their leader, “Johnny Ultimate”) was defrocked from Scientology and had to form his own cult) and documents they dredged up from John Birch Society of the 1950s.
“Since the Tea Party was formed, Loudon appears, as if by magic, at local meetings all across the country. Who’s funding this insanity?”
I think I dealt with this in the section of my AMREN speech that I excerpted. Communism, properly understood, is Left-Totalitarianism. It does back to Jacobinism and pre-dates Marx. We have become used to identifying it with the USSR and its pupper organizations, and hence we're generally unprepared for its resurgence in alliance with minority identity politics. That the term has resurfaced in the teeth of elite obfuscation is a blessing.
"Communism, properly understood, is Left-Totalitarianism. It does back to Jacobinism and pre-dates Marx."
For sure.
However, what's happening in America is NOT Jacobinism or Marxism, or Communism.
There ARE pitiful little pockets of Communists in America: "In 2026, CPUSA claimed to have recruited 20,000 members since Trump's 2016 win, of which 11,000 remain active."
That tiny little band is properly termed "Communists." Democrats' beliefs are 100% PC-Progressivism. Totally based on hatred of Normals. Nothing to do with Marxism, Leninism, Communism.
The belief system that drives the anti-Normal American political and social movements is best termed Politically Correct Progressivism. It has NO overlap with Communism.
The belief system was created by Communists, specifically by the Comintern's genius of covert influence, Willi Muenzenberg. He used espionage and covert operations to build networks in the USA to spread this attitude/belief system.
He targeted the transmission belts of American culture: Hollywood, the media, and education/academia. He created front organizations, and took up causes. The Sacco and Vanzetti global publicity was a Muenzenberg operation [Payload: America is xenophobic]. As was the Scottsboro Boys operation [Payload: America is racist].
The belief system Muenzenberg created had six core tenets and an action corollary, all based on hating Normal America:
America is:
--Racist
--Sexist
--Homophobic
--Capitalist
--Xenophobic
--Imperialist
Action Corollary: American must be changed.
He built a massive network of front organizations (ACLU, NAACP, Teachers for Peace, Ironworkers for International Understanding, etc). He called these "Innocents Clubs."
He planted the seeds, from about 1920 till he fled Stalin in the late 30s.
But the beauty of Muenzenberg's covert influence belief system is that it sticks in the head and in the culture. His message and tactics took on a life of its own--see Frankfurt School, Alinsky, etc, all descendants of Muenzenberg's operations. Even when all the Communist operators were slaughtered (the NKVD strung Willi up by the neck in a forest in France) and long dead, the American willing accomplices promulgated the belief system.
It grew quietly until the 1990s, when it emerged in full bloom. PC-Prog is the belief system, and it's grown more and more since then.
Full details:
https://kentclizbe.substack.com/p/origins-of-todays-normal-hating-lying?utm_source=publication-search
Book: Willing Accomplices: How KGB Covert Influence Agents Created Political Correctness, Obama’s Hate-America-First Political Platform, And Destroyed America
--An eye-opening book about covert influences in America, 'Willing Accomplices' is a must-read.
https://amzn.to/3TvMxo0
Your mention of communism & political correctness reminds me of this quotation:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple,
Jewish Athiest physician, and son of a Russian communist, who writes a weekly column for Taki's Magazine.
The PC progressive points you mention, echo the 13 main cultural Marxist objectives which the Jewish-German Frankfurt School developed to weaken and destroy White Western Christian nations:
https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaCnZBX99hYVX13FcC0G2t1ZurYi-XDe85JFy2oRCfIzqrU67CUYJOvjimPNN8w3MHRE-Npb7DlYX3ykj9YchhOf8vOXArmcJaPJZbSmmgSJN2rt47L-7daKy11Too8p54o04cp9NSLHa-ApozAua_4_6bexHaHzaYzcTF58Yg=s0-d-e1-ft#https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da11a3fc54bfe310b664a231818a2c4dc42463893e1706d9624ad8f276d7d9d6.jpg
"The PC progressive points you mention, echo the 13 main cultural Marxist objectives which the Jewish-German Frankfurt School developed to weaken and destroy White Western Christian nations:"
You've got it exactly backwards. Willi Muenzenberg created the belief system that resulted in PC-Prog. He also created the operational model of targeting the three-legged stool of American cultural transmission: the media, Hollywood, academia/education. As a German, who operated in Germany from the end of WW1 till Hitler chased him out, Muenzenberg's covert influence ops had powerful effects in Germany.
The "Frankfurt School" belief system came directly FROM Willi Muenzenberg's covert influence ops. Muenzenberg was the Comintern's covert influence mastermind. The PC-Prog belief system was Muenzenberg's creation. He ran massively successful covert influence operations, focused on the USA, but also targeting Europe.
The German babblers who made up the "Frankfurt School" were simply repeating and enlarging on Muenzenberg's core message of destruction of Normal American culture. They didn't "develop" anything, they were Muenzenberg soldiers.
Other misunderstandings related to the "cultural Marxism" mistake: Gramsci didn't create anything. He was a note-taker at Comintern meetings where Muenzenberg laid out his strategies. His notes from prison were just Gramsci writing down the details of Muenzenberg's secret Comintern ops.
Just so Alinksky's "Rules for Radicals." That was a distillation of Muenzenberg's operations, passed down through the anti-American networks as operational guidance. Alinsky just wrote it down.
"Cultural Marxism" means nothing. There's no Marxism in PC-Prog--only hatred of Normal America.
Full details: www.willingaccomplices.com
Perhaps you're right about the chronological order.
Organized destroy-America techniques have certainly been around for some time. I was going to mention
the American Communist Party member, Leonard Patterson, and the antifa-style training he described being taught during the late '20s/early '30s in Moscow to help usher in American "Black Revolution" in the U.S. BLM recently used some of the exact same riot & extortion techniques...
But then: I became distracted by the "Outsider" BSA Eagle Scout manual you wrote.
My husband & I have raised 3 Eagle Scouts, in spite of my actively fighting their decision to include girls in the BSA. Though I volunteered at the camps, & was married to a Popcorn Kernal, I believe I might properly describe myself as even more of a BSA "outsider" to that organization than you were. : )
Thanks!
Yeah--I'm pretty disgusted by "Scouting" now too! It made my boys the men they are today. Not sure it could do the same for my grandson....
"American Communist Party member, Leonard Patterson, and the antifa-style training he described being taught during the late '20s/early '30s in Moscow to help usher in American "Black Revolution" in the U.S....."
That was part and parcel of Muenzenberg's operations. As was creation of the NAACP, the ACLU, the Sacco and Vanzetti global protests, the Scottsboro Boys protests, and the hundreds of front organizations that pushed high-sounding, but actually anti-American, agendas.
It's really important to understand where/how/when/why the Hate-America-First belief system landed in our culture. And what it is NOT.
Simplisticly calling PC-Progs and their belief and actions "Communist" (as they do in this original post above) is a distraction and makes Normal Americans take their eyes off the ball.
Rather strange that the population supporting these commie politicians was imported with the full support of big business (aka, capitalists). They don't seem to feel too threatened by this menace.
I think an argument can be made that (in the short term) capitalism & communism can each advance the objectives of the other, thanks to global consumerism + immigration of third-worlders into Western cultures. Capitalism-First folks love cheap manufacturing/ cheap labor within communist countries like China. Capitalist-First Americans seem to value hearty stock revenue growth more than healthy domestic opportunities for their own descendants. Similarly, foreign Communists countries love Capitalist America's free speech & easy university admittance for foreign-agent students who can spread cultural Marxist ideas across campus, as well as hand away American university-level technological training/knowledge with their home countries, to compete directly against the U.S.
Unfortunately, our capitalists look at first quarter earnings and rarely further while their communist countries make five year plans....and Islam makes century plans.