The Trump Agenda – the Roots of Its Opposition
Contributed by Doug Ferguson
Noting the reactions to Trump’s election victory last November and his taking office this month, many have expressed optimism in seeing that a majority of Americans finally had enough of the destabilizing and disruptive “woke” onslaught to which we have been subjected over the past twenty years or more. They want to go back to an honest and more “common sense” American government.
However, as time runs out for the Biden era, we have also seen opponents to these reforms “doubling down” to sabotage it and continue these fundamentally “Neo-Marxist” plans to destroy America as we know it. Biden’s last minute atrocious “pardons,” “Medal of Freedom” awards and petroleum drilling restrictions are but a symbol for this opposition. The LA wildfires are results of the left’s pre-occupation with “green” vs. “public safety” policies at any cost. The Trump Tower perpetrator’s “Drone” manifesto highlights “Secrecy in government” and “Lack of Congressional and Judicial Oversight”, especially in our security establishments. A NYC Judge’s labeling Trump a “felon”, and widespread graft, resulting in millionaire Senators and Congressmen, have fostered overwhelming distrust in government.
Who knows what else by the time you read this!
In addition to the above, the byproducts of this chaotic movement have created many powerful billionaires in the world. With total self-interest, they took advantage of disruptions in the climate, communication, computer, medical and, especially, the “war” industries to make fortunes. Many are part of the “Davos One Worlders”, seeing a strong, independent America as an obstacle to their world government goals. This includes proponents of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to use technology to rule the world.
While not in the same “communism tent” as the Neo-Marxists, these individuals will not give up power easily and use what they have to protect their interests. As we have seen, consistency, honesty and fairness have no place in their values. “Dis-information” is a key weapon in their quest. They will use their influence by lobbying, bribing or blackmailing politicians and key members of our bloated bureaucratic institutions the old fashion way!
Why has this destructive modern Marxist movement has been as successful as it has at this point in history?
A fundamental difference exists between the original “Marx-Lenin” form and “Neo-Marxism”. The original was based on pure anti-capitalist “economic equity” and a “Ends Justify Any Means” mentality. It was also seen to alienate the masses once the actual cost in life and liberty destroying the existing systems in Russia and China became known. Neo-Marxism, on the other hand, depends on convincing the majority of the population and it’s leaders that “Man has the ability to counter history” and “Peacefully develop a new collective identity, namely communism in it’s “true form”. It also employs the concept “hegemony” to describe a process of “intellectual and moral leadership” that embeds “a ruling class” across this new type of society.
These ideas originated in the communist movement in the turbulent, but politically diverse years after WWI in Italy. Antonio Gramsci was a young intellectual and communist leader there who later was jailed in 1926 for opposing the Mussolini regime. While incarcerated until he died in 1937, he wrote extensively developing these concepts.
Just prior to WWII, Gramsci’s works surfaced and became popular with intellectuals in Europe, spreading from the leftist Frankfort School in Germany to progressives in colleges as “Communism: The enemy of Nazism” became a popular theme after the war’s outbreak. Several Frankfort professors escaped Nazi Germany to the U.S. and joined Columbia University’s faculty. Then these ideas spread to other well-known colleges, growing among U.S. progressives.
Later in the 1950’s-60’s when past Soviet and Chinese communist atrocities surfaced, the new “peaceful & democratic” approach to this form of “communism” was promoted, despite its also calling for dismantling existing democracies due to their “inequities”.
Many intellectuals “buy into” these concepts by calling them “Post-Modern”. With complex reasoning and “wordsmithing”, they dispute the evolution of both scientific and historical concepts of human nature, personal freedom and human rights as being outdated, flawed or arbitrary. Once they take a position, these egotistic intellectuals will never change it. Gramsci’s appeal to intellectual elites, plus modern electronic communications have enabled the progress of this Neo-Marxist movement with it’s “woke” derivatives in much of the Western world.
While not endorsing these concepts themselves, our publicly proclaimed communist enemies like China, having learned from the heavy handed mistakes of the Mao era, are happy to endorse them for us as it makes their plan to eliminate America as an obstacle to their goals for domination much easier. It will be a battle to reverse all this, requiring courage, fearlessness and selflessness from the new administration as well as those who support them.
To Alaska politicians: Take notice, this also means you!