Friday, September 15, 2017

Charles Sasser Marxist infiltration

from WND


  • Black Lives Matter
  • Charles Sasser
  • Congressional Progressive Caucus, founded by admitted socialist Bernie Sanders. The CPC included 83 Democratic House members in 2010.
  • Institute for Policy Studies
  • Socialist International, whose leadership includes or has included Democratic Party figures such as Howard Dean, Madeleine Albright and Tom Daschle. Socialist International worldwide association of political parties, most of which seek to establish democratic socialism. It consists mostly of democratic socialist, social-democratic and labour political parties and other organisations.

Marxist infiltration in America 'virtually complete'Charles Sasser believes nation facing 'last chance' to stay free
http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/marxist-infiltration-in-america-virtually-complete/

“Anti-fascism” is all the rage (literally) in America today. Some media outlets excused the violent actions of the “Antifa,” or “anti-fascists” in Charlottesville, Virginia, because they opposed white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

But what power do the white supremacists have to bring “fascism” to America when they are a small, fringe, nearly universally reviled group of people? That is what puzzles Charles Sasser, a longtime historian, journalist, photographer and author.

“These people have very little financial support from anybody,” Sasser said in an interview this week on “Stand for Truth Radio” with Susan Knowles. “They’re such small numbers. They may be reprehensible, but they don’t really pose a threat to our society.

“The left is the one that’s been doing all the rioting, tearing up college campuses, etcetera. Those people are well supported. I mean, they’re financed. But these people – KKK, white supremacists – they’re never going to be a threat to this country.”

Sasser noted Black Lives Matter activists were able to march through the streets of major American cities chanting “Pigs in a blanket; fry ‘em like bacon” and “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” without arousing fears of fascism from the establishment media. But when a small group of white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, it was seen as a sign of fascism in America.

There’s a reason the Democratic-liberal establishment and mainstream media seem to condone left-wing chaos, according to Sasser: It helps them advance their preferred method of government.

“Chaos is the mother of socialism,” Sasser told Knowles, pointing out former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once said a good crisis should never go to waste.

“Collective government thrives on such opportunities. They thrive on chaos because it gives them an opportunity for more control. So there’s a reason all this chaos is occurring. It’s being instigated.”

Sasser details the individuals and organizations instigating chaos in the service of socialism in his brand-new book "Crushing the Collective: The Last Chance to Keep America Free and Self-Governing."
Socialism’s infiltration into America really began with the Frankfurt School, according to Sasser. This collection of Marxist intellectuals fled Nazi Germany and settled in New York’s Columbia University in 1935.

They believed a communist revolution could not succeed in a fully developed country like the United States, so instead they proposed a “long march through the institutions.” The idea was that if communists infiltrated the institutions of American society – government, religion, media, education, entertainment and religion – they could subvert the country and create the conditions necessary for a communist takeover.

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“This long march through the institutions has been going on a long time; it’s virtually complete,” Sasser asserted. “So here I am being pessimistic, but I think it may be too late. And I’m supposed to be optimistic, but I can’t be. I’m a historian, so I look at this and say, ‘It’s too late.’”

A Gallup poll last year found 55 percent of young American adults now have a positive view of socialism, which is roughly the same number of young adults that view capitalism positively (57 percent). Sasser sees this as a disturbing trend.

“That’s the thing that astounds me, is how many people, especially young people, look favorably on socialism without thinking about the 100 million people that socialism was responsible for … killing,” Sasser said.

He noted Hitler is universally reviled as history’s greatest villain, yet the notorious fascist dictator did not murder as many people as communist tyrants Mao Zedong of China or Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.

One hallmark of communist nations is a government-controlled press, and Sasser fears that’s exactly what the American left wants. He noted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced a bill in 2013 that would have offered protections to journalists, but it effectively defined “journalists” as those working for mainstream news organizations – not bloggers, freelancers or non-salaried reporters.

In addition to encroaching on freedom of the press, the left has encroached on education.

“Books like ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ they’re being censored in many schools, and they’re also being edited to reflect political correctness through e-books and so forth,” Sasser noted. “And a lot of books are being done that way, and that’s the thing with putting all these books on electronics – there won’t be any preservation.”

Sasser decried the rampant use of technology among today’s children, particularly the types of audio and video technology that have replaced books.

“You make them dependent upon technology, you make them dependent upon their peers, then it’s just one step away from being dependent upon government,” he warned.

In fact, Sasser believes the whole country is in the grip of dependency. He subscribes to Scottish professor Alexander Tyler’s belief that societies undergo an endless cycle: bondage to spiritual faith, spiritual faith to liberty, liberty to abundance, abundance to complacency, complacency to apathy, apathy to dependency, and dependency back into bondage.

Sasser thinks America is currently in the dependency stage, just one step away from bondage.

“We’ve got 47 percent of our people now that depend upon the government one form or another for their largesse, and we get almost half of our people that depend on the other half,” he said. “We’ve got serious problems, because when you make a man dependent, you own the man.”

Charles Sasser ties Democrats to Marxist plan to collapse U.S. from insideCites ominous results of Obama's 'five days away from fundamentally transforming America'
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” declared Barack Obama during a campaign stop on Oct. 30, 2008, five days before the election that would make him the most powerful man in the world.

The concept of “fundamental transformation” has been discussed vigorously since then, especially in light of the many sweeping changes Obama brought to the country over his eight years in office.

Historian Charles Sasser sees Obama’s “fundamental transformation” in the context of an older and more sinister plan articulated by a pair of Marxist activists nearly 50 years ago.


“What we’re seeing now is this fundamental transformation, and it goes all the way back to [Herbert] Marcuse,” Sasser said during a recent appearance on the “Prophecy Hour” radio program. “In the 1960s when he  [Marcuse] was talking about the ‘long march through the institutions,’ this is what Obama was talking about – the fundamental transformation of America.”
The “long march through the institutions” was coined by student activist Rudi Dutschke in the late 1960s to describe his strategy for bringing about the conditions for a Marxist revolution in the United States.

 The plan was for Marxists to infiltrate all of America’s major institutions – politics, the news media, the education system, the churches, the entertainment industry – and slowly subvert those institutions from within, thereby subverting America.

 Marcuse, a prominent Marxist intellectual associated with the Frankfurt School, agreed with Dutschke’s strategy and brought it to wider attention in his 1972 book “Counterrevolution and Revolt.”

 Sasser, author of the brand new book “Crushing the Collective: The Last Chance to Keep America Free and Self-Governing,” pointed out Hillary Clinton has expressed shades of this idea as well. During a 2015 speech, the soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee declared, “Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”
 
 

The imposition of political correctness is an integral part of this long march through the institutions, according to Sasser. Viewed from this perspective, the march is making excellent progress in certain areas.

“Let’s look at our education,” Sasser said. “We’ve got safe spaces; we’ve got all these people who refuse to listen to anyone who has an opinion different from their own. They will riot, break windows, everything else to keep people from free speech.”
The Marxists are also slowly but surely undermining Christianity, according to Sasser.

“In 2012, when Obama was nominated for a second term, the Democratic National Committee took God out of their platform, and when someone proposed that they put God back in the platform, the entire stadium [at the Democratic National Convention] booed the idea of putting God in the platform,” he recalled.

“Now, look a few months later: There was a prayer at an abortion rally, and they prayed to God for God to help on abortions.”
The radical leftists are subverting the political arena as well. In “Crushing the Collective” Sasserreveals a long list of organizations through which “socialist and authoritarian radicals” are working to undermine America.

This includes Socialist International, whose leadership includes or has included Democratic Party figures such as Howard Dean, Madeleine Albright and Tom Daschle.

It includes the Congressional Progressive Caucus, founded by admitted socialist Bernie Sanders. The CPC included 83 Democratic House members in 2010.

Sasser also singles out the Institute for Policy Studies, an old and influential far-left think tank whose membership has included many current and former congressmen, including Leon Panetta, Obama’s defense secretary and CIA director.

“Socialist International, the Progressive Party – look at the Progressive Party a little closer,” Sasserurged the “Prophecy Hour” audience. “Progressive Democrats of America, the Congressional Progressive Caucus – look at how many of those people in there are socialists and Marxists. Nobody wants to do that because it’s politically incorrect to say anything about it.”

So, what can Americans do to beat back the long Marxist march? Sasser is not optimistic; he does not believe conservatives can ever take back the cultural institutions now that those institutions have succumbed to the left.

Nor does he believe a single American president can stop the long march. Not even Ronald Reagan could stop it.

“Reagan was successful in what he did, but then as soon as he was gone, the march through the institutions continued, and I think we’re going to see the same thing now,” Sasser commented.

He noted the radical left is stronger than ever, and they seem to sense that.

“Obama said, ‘Now is our time.'” Sasser said. “Yes, now is their time. They think that they have the upper hand, that they can make America socialist, and I think they’re going to do that because we don’t fight back. We’re afraid to say anything because of political correctness.”

Sasser, who has spent much of his life studying history, knows societies that fall as far into the clutches of collectivism as the U.S. has do not bounce back well. They may survive, but in a diminished form. Italy is still around, for example, but it is nothing like the Roman Empire. Iran is a regional power, but it is not as prestigious as the great Persian empires of the past.

“I want to believe that Trump may be another Reagan, that we may have a chance,” he said. “But then I look at the institutions. Like Newt Gingrich said, once they own the cultural institutions, they’re impossible to regain, and if they own all of the institutions, including many of our churches right now, if they do that we can’t retake them if we can’t crush this idea of the collective.” 

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