The reality is this: Socialism won the Cold War. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian socialist from early 20th century, realized that there was no way to fight a pitched battle against the industrialized societies of the west. The socialist instigators would not be able to sway the workers nor gain popular support for revolution. Yet, Gramsci believed that socialism could win the day if it supported a lengthy insurgency that slowly destroyed the bedrock institutions of our free societies: family, church, etc.
So while we stared-down the Evil Empire, the rats slowly gnawed holes in the concepts of liberty that founded the US and made England great. Gramsci never lived to see the dawn of the forthcoming new age (he died soon after Benito Mussolini released him from jail), but his like-minded minions proved that nuclear power is no match for an uncoordinated subversive attack against the mind.
A good source to understand our current mess is the classic treatise Theory and History, Ludwig von Mises. Mises exposed the flaws in the concepts of socialism and other strains of such thought.
A good source to view the current mess is your local public schools. Progressive socialist administrators and their minions - the unionized labor force - have gained control of the minds of our next generation - public school students. From my experience, many school employees are not people to be trusted with children.
Certainly all school employees are not evil, but, with the exception of a very small few, the good ones never seem to question the direction in which the schools are headed. The silence of good ones becomes tacit support for the evil ones. Sad, but true.
Jim Fedako
2 comments:
the link to Theory and History doesn't work :(
Repaired. Sorry about that.
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