America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. --Joseph StalinA series written by David Horowitz and posted on his NewsReal Blog, brilliantly explaining what the purpose is of the Dialectics, the Sorelian myths and the entire ideological edifice that is the Postmodern War on Reality - in effect:
"(...) political nihilism (Rules for Radicals, p. 110) — a destructive assault on the established order in the name of the “people,” which delivers power (and wealth) into the hands of a radical elite and makes them feel good about themselves in the process." (from Part V)
Alinsky [in "Rules for Radicals"] begins by telling readers what a radical is. He is not a reformer of the system but its would-be destroyer. This is something that in my experience conservatives have a very hard time understanding. Conservatives are altogether too decent, too civilized to match up adequately, at least in the initital stages of the battle, with their adversaries. They are too prone to give them the benefit of the doubt. They assume that radicals can’t really want to destroy a society that is democratic and liberal and has brought wealth and prosperity to so many. Oh yes they can. That is in fact the essence of what it means to be a radical — to be willing to destroy the values, structures and institutions that sustain the society we live in. Marx himself famously cited Alinsky’s first rebel (using another of his names — Mephistopheles): “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”This is why ACORN activists, for example, have such contempt for the election process, why they are so willing to commit election fraud. Because just as Lucifer didn’t believe in God’s kingdom, so the radicals who run ACORN don’t believe in the democratic system. To them it is itself a fraud — an instrument of the ruling class, or as Alinsky prefers to call it, of the Haves. (from Part I)
The nearest proxy is the Manichean war of Good against Evil, an epic battle which justifies anything: "It doesn’t matter who George Bush actually is or what he believes. Because your purpose is to erase him and the system he is alleged to represent. Therefore pick the symbol of the greatest evil that Americans — a small minority of Americans — were ever associated with, and use it to obliterate everything good they ever did in the service of your cause, which is to destroy the system which created them. If America’s cause in Vietnam is the Ku Klux Klan, it is evil and America is evil. If George Bush is the Ku Klux Klan, that’s it". (from Part VI)
"(...) one rule for conservatives should be this: Don’t be so polite. When progressives propose their progressive solutions, remind them of the hell they have inflicted on the people they claim to want to help — gays, blacks, Hispanics, children. And that’s just for starters." (from Part II)"Conservatives think of war as a metaphor when applied to politics. For radicals the war is real. That is why partisans of the left set out to destroy their opponents, not just refute their arguments. It is also why they never speak the truth. Deception for them is a military tactic in a war that is designed to elminate their opponents." (from Part III)
"For Alinsky and his Machiavellian radicals, politics is war. No matter what they say publicly or pretend to be, they are at war. They are at war even though no other factions in the political arena are at war, because everyone else embraces the System which commits all parties to compromise and peaceful resolutions of conflicts. For tactical reasons, the radicals will also make compromises, but their entire mentality and approach to politics is based on their dedication to conducting a war against the System itself. Don’t forget it (although if history is any indication, Republicans almost invariably will)." (from Part IV)
- Part I: "Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me" (tags: Adam and Eve, Glenn Beck, Lucifer, Rahm Emmanuel, Satan)- Part II: "Hell on Earth" (tags: Jacobins, Lenin, Pol Pot, Rachel Carson, DDT, AIDS, welfare)
- Part III: "Boring From Within" (tags: Barack Obama)
- Part IV: "To Have and Have Not" (tags: ACORN, Glenn Beck, the Dialectics, Marx, Machiavelli, Manichaeans, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin)
- Part V - "Post-modern Leftism" (tags: Al Capone, Frank Nitti, political relativism)
- Part VI-I: "Means and Ends" (tags: ACORN, Saul Alinsky, Beatles, George Bush, Hillary, John Lennon, Ku Klux Klan, Marx, Michelle Obama, Robespierre, Rousseau, Vietnam War, Vladimir Lenin)
- Part VI-II: "Means and Ends" Continued (tags: Bill Ayers, Bolsheviks, Barack Obama)
- Part VII: "The Nazi Option" Continued (tags: Manichaeans, Lenin, Nazism, social justice, Stalin)
Not part of the above series, but also on Saul Alinsky:
- "Saul Alinsky Shocks Us Like an Electric Eel, Targeted Middle Class" (Communist fellow traveler Saul Alinsky was interviewed in 1972 by Playboy Magazine)
- "Obama’s Communist Advisor and His Billion-Dollar Army" (on Cloward-Piven, Beck, George Soros)
- "Obama, Democrats, Flooding the Zones, Says Democratic Pollster" (Beck, Cloward-Piven, Dems, Pat Caddell, George Soros)
Related dossiers:
- "The Dialectics"
- "Postmodern Ravages"
- "Ruled by the Mob"
- "The Case for Neo Communism"
- "Atbashian on Commie Agit-Prop and Info War-Fare"
- Discover the Networks
- "Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis" (tags: Cloward-Piven Strategy, ACORN, Wade Rathke, Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CCIR), Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Woods Fund, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Bill Ayers, Tides Foundation, New Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Open Society Institute, Aryeh Neier, Carl Davidson)
- "What The Left Really Pledges Allegiance To" (tags: anti American Rhetoric, patriotism, postmodernism, self loathing)
More articles on Alinsky:
- American Thinker: "Alinskyite in Chief Is a Master Polarizer", by Kyle-Anne Shiver
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