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Saturday, October 25. 2014The Gramscian revolution rolls on
Proletariat-free zone. Thursday, December 8. 2011How it works, the Gramsci WayIt's about political strategery. From James Bowman's Tactical Progressivism:
Leftists take the long view, the Gramscian approach. At one bite at a time, their growing Leviathan wants to consume all that it can of private life in America. It's never enough, and never will be. That's the essential problem: there is no end-point. Sunday, October 9. 2011Sunday morning linksVia BI, Here's A Rarely Seen Video Apple Employees Made For Steve Jobs On His 30th Birthday:
Preschool isn't much good:
Preschool antics at Occupy Atlanta What a joke Real scientific humility, on neutrinos:
Trump, Kiyosaki: Real Unemployment Near Depression Era Levels VDH: The Coming Post-Obama Renaissance. Quote:
A quarter century of civil rights progress: Spread of the right to carry Alarmists push back — on Al Gore! Via Junk Science:
What? Solyndra loan deal: Warning about legality came from within Obama administration Corrupt and incompetent is a bad combination From Rich State to Poor State - California’s decline will only get worse unless lawmakers loosen regulations. The War Over the Vietnam War - A new biography puts an end to the idea that we could not win Trump's new book: Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't Who Is Occupying Wall Street? With a video of Francis Piven speaking in NY Our readers have all been educated on the Cloward-Piven strategy. We have an admin in DC which is steeped in Alinsky, Gramsci, and Cloward-Piven. Just add Lenin and you have their Founding Fathers. Obama Ethics: Safer to Be a Golden-Winged Warbler than a Baby Human
How often does the MSM call the O out on his habitual lying?
Thursday, December 9. 2010Thursday morning linksHeads up! Meteor showers and Lunar eclipse this month And later in the month, heads up for Santa and reindeer. Concerning Wikileaks, Governor Mike Huckabee said: "If we want to keep our nation's secrets 'SECRET,' store them where President Obama stores his college transcripts and birth certificate." The American: Demography vs. Geography: Understanding the Political Future Hot New Fashion Trend: The Femiman Trolls, Spoiled Boys and Tired Women Chart below via Shrinkwrapped's Misunderstanding the Tea Party Movement: Waivers Double to 222 as More Unions ‘Opt Out’ of ObamaCare Honey, I got trapped in the pub by the snowstorm Yes, the Gore Effect is on track this year. Record chill for Cancun. Also at Watts: Cancun COP16 attendees fall for the old “dihydrogen monoxide†petition as well as signing up to cripple the U.S. Economy Harsanyi on the O:
There - he said it again. The long game, the long march. Pure Gramsci/Alinsky. Obama Opens The Door To Raid Social Security Noemie Emery: Obama, Palin met fame before they could grow Pajamas: Net Neutrality: Treating the Internet Like a Utility Sorkin has never gone a-hunting. I can tell. Michele Bachmann: New Congress Should Defund Planned Parenthood Same issue as PBS - government should not be picking our charities for us. Also, "If you want to give to a charity... UNICEF is a poor choice" Surber: The problem is regulation, not just taxes Book Review: “The Perils of Diversityâ€. Quote:
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Tuesday, November 23. 2010Tuesday morning linksIt's the time of year again for the war to try to marginalize Christianity Somebody at NRO loves Redeemer Presby in NYC McArdle: In Health Care, No Free Lunch Pajamas: The Bizarre Case of Nietzsche: The Pro-Jewish Writer Who Inspired a Million Anti-Semites The Terrible, Awful Truth About Supplemental Security Income (h/t Vanderleun) IPCC Official: “Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth†What else would it be for? States' rights battles rage in Old Dominion AVI on body-worship and wellness fairs Ace on constitutional challenges to Obamacare Mankiw: Deficit-reduction plan is realistic It doesn't have a prayer Dr. Vincent Grey: Anatomy of a Climate Fraud More on McCloskey's Bourgeois Dignity and Modern Prosperity Defending Beck from smears They're using Alinsky Rule #13 on him Biofuels bad for the environment Top political scientist: U.S. voters are 'pretty damn stupid' He means now. We were smart in '08. Report: Murdoch, Jobs Prepping iPad-Only Daily Newspaper (h/t, Other McCain) Politico: View from Middle East: President Obama is a problem Am Thinker: No Business, No Jobs American: Europe Confronts Stein’s Law Art below from a Sissy piece about Gramsci:
Sunday, September 12. 2010Time to review Cloward-PivenHere's an excellent explanation of it. Yes, it's Alinsky/Gramsci-type strategy. Saturday, July 31. 2010Saturday morning linksBrilliant ad for Linda McMahon in CT. We think she has a real chance against Blumenthal. Tim Pawlenty talks. He seems like Mr. Rogers. A Dagestan wedding. Good grief. Bruce told me about the 1949 movie, The Third Man. Sounds wonderful. A reader sent this link which explains Gramsci's cultural hegemony More about the sleazy Sherrods Powerline: Whatever happened to the Constitution? Apparently it is too radically right wing for modern times, with all its focus on individual freedom and restrictions on state power. I like to remind myself that King George lll had nothing close to the power that our modern federal government wields today. Reason: Growing Pains - ObamaCare won't stop rising health care costs. A basic component of air remains illegal Justice Department Encourages Voting by Felons as It Suppresses Military Vote VDH: The Truths We Dare Not Speak About Illegal Immigration Forbes: Why Keynes Was Wrong Did The Government Cause The Gulf Oil Spill? Indirectly, yes. But the government directly caused the housing bubble and housing bust. Maybe it’s Time For Jews to Fess Up. Evil Jews run the world. Everybody knows that. More about the evil Jews at Legal Ins. Wednesday, January 6. 2010Weds. morning linksDodd out? That's a problem for the Repubs. Dodd would have been easy to run against. We think Linda McMahon might be the best deep-pocket bet against Blumenthal. She is not a social conservative so she won't frighten the CT voters - and her past co-ownership of the WWF (now WWE) gives her some street cred. Oh, great. Democrats Considering Health Care-Immigration Deal To Overcome Key Sticking Point. Gotta pander to that illegal immigrant vote. Didn't Adam Smith cover this already? What makes a nation rich? One economist’s big answer Your climate scientists at work:
Pondering and pondering David Brooks' "educated classes." The cowboy spirit. Dr. Sanity. What gal would want a guy without some cowboy in him? 9 points. Republican Heir To The Liberal Lion? Now they are using the redskins to block Cape Wind. What next? Of course, the whole project is a dumb scam anyway, but uncovering the elite hypocrisy is the fun part. They don't want oil, they don't want wind, they don't want nuclear - but they do want their overland SUV permits and their 10,000 square foot houses overlooking Nantucket Sound. Another org co-opted by the long march through the culture: AALS: A Learned Society or a Bunch of Left-Liberal Busybodies? Gramsci tactics, Prof. We should have a category for New England sites. This good one is new to us: As Maine Goes. We posted on Sol Stern and ED Hirsch yesterday. This is about the opposite: Thoughts on the Rotenberg Letter. Isn't the notion of "institutional racism" a bit dated these days?
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Friday, October 2. 2009The Kingsley Memo to the appalling ACORNYou can read the whole legal memo to ACORN posted via Big Government. Devastating. But ACORN seems to have ignored the advice they paid for. h/t, Big Govt They assumed that none of the laws or rules applied to them. "By all means necessary" is the Gramsci-ite term. Thursday, September 17. 2009Thursday morning linksW.H. collects Web users' data without notice More details of Baucus' bill. Who would like this? More grim details at WaPo. Why Dems are balking at health care reform From Doug Ross, on What do Jimmy Carter, Maureen Dowd and Mike Lupica have in common?
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We linked to Cloward-Piven last year thus: "Here's an excellent explanation of it. Yes, it's Alinsky/Gramsci-type strategy." From Why are liberals still angry?
How Waxman-Markey would be a gigantic middle-class tax. As the guy says:
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Monday, August 24. 2009Monday morning linksRules for Radicals turns to the right. Tiger. We have discussed Alinsky and Gramsci many times here. Along with 1984, Brave New World, Das Kapital, and Animal Farm, they seem to be the handbooks of the Left. Oh, brother is right. The racist national parks. Related, from the hideously white Mr. Free Market The Death Book for Veterans. Nice. Didn't we already ask them to die for their country once? Related: Obama to elderly: Drop Dead A CT Rep who doesn't want to face the voters. Phone it in. From Rev. Sirico:
Cash for clunkers was great for the Japanese car companies. I thought it was supposed to help American car companies. Sen. Joe Lieberman must be listening to people. Slow it down. Is a Federal insurance mandate Constitutional? No. Not under the Commerce clause, anyway. The Constitution gives no such power to the government. h/t, Viking Important essay via Betsy: Do we expect too much from medical insurance? I believe so. At some point, some people seemed to expect "insurance" to pay all of their bills for them instead of simply insuring them against especially high or costly expenses. If a $60 pediatrician visit is too much for somebody, then they cannot afford to have kids yet. Related: It's the big government, stupid. A quote from the NY Post piece:
Related by Lewis at Am Thinker:
Noubini: A double-dip vs a U-shaped recession? Steyn via Dino:
Steyn neglects to mention that, last I heard, the Dem plan is to fold Medicare and Medicaid into the government-controlled single-payer program. Let's face it: their ultimate goal is to put us all in government-run and controlled post-office-style clinics like the Indian Health Service. Clinics in schools too, because modern parents cannot be entrusted to take care of their own kids, can they? The "Oh sh-t" photo from Theo. A timely metaphor. Monday, January 5. 2009Late Monday linksBroadway for 20 bucks. Hope and Change! 600,000 new government jobs. Heck, we all work for the gummint half the year already. Keep a civil tongue in your head for the next 365 days Obama's New Deal. Bad as the Old New Deal? The Gramsci Award du Jour: Bill Ayers Chavez' secret fan club Sea Ice back to 1979. The earth is cooling, but it doesn't fit the narrative. The funny business, in Minnesota. Related: Stop, thief cries Dick Morris Harry Reid's "worst President," and what he's done The gang rape of a Lesbian you never heard about A blog whose time has come: Democracy in Venezuela Will Neo-Conservatism die for Compassionate Conservatism's Sins? Friday, January 2. 2009Gramsci Week, #5: Saul Alinsky's Rules of Power Tactics for RadicalsAlinsky is the best-known American Gramscian. The Chicago community organizer who was an inspiration to Hillary Clinton (and maybe indirectly to Obama) wrote a deeply cynical handbook for radicals who seek power. His rules for power tactics are here. We can see those rules followed and enacted every day, mainly in Left-wing in politics. Thursday, January 1. 2009Gramsci Week, #4: "The New Left, Cultural Marxism, and Psychopolitics Disguised as MulticulturalismFrom 2006, with the above title. Linda Kimball begins:
Read the whole thing. Wednesday, December 31. 2008Gramsci Week, #3 - Best Essays of 2005: Roger KimballA re-post, for Gramsci Week: Re-Taking the University: A Battle Plan Kimball's 2005 piece in the New Criterion has been previously posted here, but it deserves a second go-round, if not a third. The author of "Tenured Radicals" goes beyond the subject of academia in this essay which succinctly exposes the tactics and strategies of the now-greying but still revolutionary 60s radicals. Some sample paragraphs:
Read the whole essay. Tuesday, December 30. 2008Thinking about Gramsci: Am I a captive of Bourgeois Thought?This is reposted from Sept, 2007 for Gramsci Week - Yesterday's handy summary of Gramsci put me ta thinkin'. I realized that when I am in the mood to be appalled by a pure strong dose of Gramsci thought, I check out what insanity our friend Van Helsing at Moonbattery has to offer. Top of his blog right now - Bloomberg compares US in Iraq to Brits during the Revolution. Perfect Gramscian confusion. The amoral elements of New York love to create moral equivalents because it makes them feel sophisticated. Of course, Bloomberg is the embodiment of the intrusive Nanny State too: it's miraculous that he is one of the world's most successful and exuberant Capitalists. And then next I happened to stop by David Warren for my weekly visit and read Reconstructing the Family. Yes, it's about Gramsci again. This stuff is everywhere. Am I a victim, a pitiful captive of counter-revolutionary Bourgeois Thought which causes me to believe that this stuff is utter, malevolent nonsense designed to mess with your mind? Photo: The Minuteman in Lexington, MA, who is the moral equivalent of an Al Qaida Jihadist. Monday, December 29. 2008Gramsci Week: Antonio Gramsci and "the long march through the culture"At vacation times, we like to re-post old material. The Dyl has proclaimed this week Gramsci week, so we'll re-post old Gramsci-related stuff daily. This from a couple of years ago - It is difficult to understand what has been happening politically in the US and in Europe for the past 30 years without understanding the influence of Gramsci (1891-1937) on Western Leftist thinking and strategizing. Gramsci was a clever Italian neo-Marxist who realized that the West, due to its prosperity, its increasingly-wide access to education and opportunity, social mobility, and its readiness to repair injustices (due to its Judeo-Christian morality), would never be amenable to a violent proletarian socialist revolution. So he came up with Plan B, which is often termed "Gramscian tactics." These were based on the idea, as the good Wiki entry says:
Thus Western "hegemonic culture" became the enemy - even more so than "the ruling class," which was simply a reflection of bourgeois culture. And defeating that enemy could not be done with guns. It required a "long march through the culture" to slowly discredit and undermine its institutions, values, and foundations. This was a brilliantly destructive idea. Eventually, the society would fall apart, opening the way to totalitarian socialism to rescue the mess. Thus the nihilistic flavor of the Western Left which is always seemingly-incomprehensively mingled with extreme Statism. One might well ask why he wasn't satisfied with the remarkable outcome of Western regulated markets, the growth of the welfare state, unionization, etc. - but he wasn't. He was determined to remain true to Marx and to find a non-revolutionary path to economic totalitarianism. A central component of the culture war he envisioned was the war on religion (also Wiki):
I hope I do not sound paranoid when I soberly say that much of the wacky, upside-down, right-is-wrong, black-is-white stuff we see in the news these days is directly or indirectly inspired by Gramsci: the attacks on Christianity, the family, individual freedom, morality and moral judgements; multiculturalism; the cult of victimhood, "tolerance," political correctness, the replacement of the roles of family, religion, individual responsibility and choice with government rules, laws, and regs; the expansion of the State and the Welfare State and the Nanny State; anti-tradition, anti-capitalism, anti-success, anti-nationalism, anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism, etc - all the stuff that makes me echo Bob Grant with "It's sick out there, and getting sicker." I am sure Antonio never anticipated that a Green movement would emerge to become an ally of the slow, incrementalist and thus less-alarming Gramscian revolution. Yes, it is all ultimately about suppression of the individual soul and spirit - his freedom, autonomy, initiative and self-definition - the highest and most noble notions of Western Civilization - in pursuit of a collectivist utopia run by "them." In short, it's about the location of power and money. OK. This is getting too long-winded for Maggie's ADD writers and readers and Editor. This Town Hall post from last year, The New Left, Cultural Marxism, and Psychopolitics Disguised as Multiculturalism is a nice little piece on the subject. I am sure our readers have many more, better links and commentary. Sunday, July 20. 2008Gramsci StreetThe Dylanologist noted to me that almost every town in Italy has a Via Gramsci or a Piazza Gramsci. No wonder Italy's politics and economics are so messed up. Readers know what we think about Gramsci (and his latter-day followers on the Left) from this and this. Here's two I noticed in Italy a few weeks ago. Gramsci Street in Baveno, next to the train station:
And here's Piazza Gramsci in Verbania, not far from the ferry dock: If Gramsci is your hero, you are in trouble. He's the guy who invented the notion of incremental socialist fascism, which is the unspoken long-term plan of the American Left, I believe. Stepwise and slowly, so as not to scare people until we finally wake up one day and find our lives boxed in by communitarian goals as determined by elitist masters who "care so much" about us poor schmucks and suckers that they want to run every detail of our pitiful, ignorant lives. Thursday, April 24. 2008"Education:" A cruel (Gramscian) hoax"Teaching for "social justice" is a cruel hoax on disadvantaged kids." Sol Stern on Bill Ayers and his ilk, at City Journal. This Ed School stuff is straight from Gramsci's handbook, and it represents a conspiracy to keep the "masses" poor and stupid - and angry, hopeless, and helpless. In other words, ripe for "rescue" by The State. Speaking of Gramsci and Ayers, we did a piece a while ago about Hillary and Obama and their Alinsky connection. Tuesday, April 1. 2008Why Dems lieIn no way do I believe that Dems have a monopoly on lying and other sins, but I just want to focus on one thing: What do Dems tend to lie about most? I would suggest that they lie most often to conceal their Leftist agendas from the mass of voters. It's a gramscian tactic, and well-understood and accepted by the Left. (By any means necessary..") Hillary's latest whopper was an effort to claim, essentially, that she is tough and comfortable with war. Obama's lie du jour is about his responses to the political questionnaire he completed. I wish they would decontaminate and simplify our lives by running on what they really want to do. Ah, but they're too "smart" to do that. Wednesday, March 12. 2008QQQ"You can tell ahead of time, every time, which side of a dispute a lefty will gravitate towards. The one antithetical to the interests of America and capitalism. Period. Sure there's always greed, self interest, etc., but egotism is the most powerful motivator and the egos of leftists are built entirely on the foundation of the assumed moral superiority of their politics. Gramsci and his followers combined Marxism and Freudianism in a toxic brew devised to hold the indoctrinated masses' self esteem hostage to their leftist politics. That's why it is so durable in spite of all the contrary empirical evidence and the heavy burden of massive cognitive dissonance.'' A comment from Maggie's Farm reader Paul, this week, re our Chavez post Monday, January 21. 2008Alinsky and GramsciWe posted this link yesterday from American Thinker: Alinsky's tactics: Hillary and Obama. A quote:
Here's a summary of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Simon at Classical Values considers The Democrats' Gramscian Problem. Divide and conquer to create the brotherhood of man, without use of arms. Alinksy was indeed a Gramscian Marxist, in my view, although he is often labelled otherwise. We did an introduction to Gramsci here. ("The long march through the culture.") Simon links to a piece at Armed and Dangerous about ideological warfare and the Gramscian damage to America. He lists the most important Stalinist propaganda memes:
He observes that these notions would have been considered insane just a generation ago, and comments:
Read the whole thing. Photo: Neo-Marxist tactician Antonio Gramsci Friday, September 28. 2007Friday LinksAcademic Lunacy. Hansen via Dr. Sanity. It's not insane - it's Gramscian! Oil reserves increase over time. Cafe Hayek. That seems true, for at least the next couple of hundred years, but I still like nuke power. Farm S&M Festival at Iowahawk. I can just imagine how many Google "farm p*rn sado-masoch*sm" seaches ended up there. Poor Juan Williams is getting it from the Left. Althouse. How did the Liberal Williams become what Dems consider to be a house slave? I like Williams, and would love to have a beer with him, but I disagree with him 90% of the time. He is in trouble with the Left because he tries to be calmly rational - and because he is man enough not to be afraid of FOX. Perhaps "calmly rational" is not the political game... Sexy Katrina produces inadvertent humor in The Nation, re Admadinnajabba. Hatemongers. I always give Katrina a pass though, because she is cute and sexy-looking. Just as she gives Admadinejabba a pass, because he is anti-West. SCHIP is socialized medicine. Novak at RCP. As we have said here before, when you begin handing out "free" insurance to people making over 80,000/year, you are trying to bring the middle class into the entitlement class. Same as they did with Medicare on the other end of the age range. It's a clever strategery. The Danbury, CT lawsuit. Is it illegal to arrest illegal immigrants? That would present a Catch 22. Would there be a beautiful peace in the world if we would only let the peaceful Moslems nuke the Jews? S,C&A. And, related, why is it so often Moslem doctors who are Jihadists? Did you read Barrister's post on Gramsci? It's worth a look, if you are weak on your Gramsci Thought. Eurabia is real. Fjordman at Brussels Journal. It begins:
I would put it "to the Muslim hordes." Why don't they just fix their own places instead of bringing their alien culture to us, where it doesn't fit in? Read the whole thing. Immigrants always want to come to the prosperous, civilized, industrialized Western nations - and then they want to change them. Stupid, and cruel and insensitive to their overly-generous hosts. My message to all immigrants in the world: Man-up, Stay Home and Fix It. We did that job already, and you can do it too. Difficult? Of course, but that is what the world really needs for harmony and prosperity. Photo: Lunchtime during the construction of the Empire State Building, 1930, from Dr X, who always has cool old photos.
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