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I have decided to develop a step by step analysis of America’s progression towards Communism and inevitable Globalism. This slippery slope isn't something that has be...
Patriot: John Locke 1632-1704
John Locke must be known as one of the greatest influences of our American founders. Thomas Jefferson was most known for the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson paraphrases Locke in one of the most important groups of words in American history and c...
Patriot: Adam Smith 1723-1790
Adam Smith is the classical capitalist. His alignment with John Locke’s moral and civic theory marries well in the founder’s design. With Locke’s moral beliefs and Smith’s economic free market design, our founders built the United States Constitution to protect the p...
Immanuel Kant 1724-1804
Immanuel Kant’s relevance to “The Machine” is extremely important. His theory that "If one cannot prove that a thing is, he may try to prove that it is not.” Seems like a valid position at face value. What Kant did was unveil a paradox in reason brilliantly but also delive...
MARXISM: Introduction
Influence: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: 1770-1831
Karl Marx: 1818 – 1883
Friedrich Engels: 1820 – 1895
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MARXISM: Unionism
Influence: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: 1770-1831
Karl Marx: 1818 – 1883
Friedrich Engels: 1820 – 1895
Marxists are anti-capitalists. They believed that capitalism is unjust to the working class. In 1844 Friedrich Engels published a book called “The Condition of t...
MARXISM: Dialectic Materialism
Influence: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: 1770-1831
Karl Marx: 1818 – 1883
Friedrich Engels: 1820 – 1895
Dialectic materialism is the fundamental perspective of history for the Soviet Marxist-Leninist ideology. The concept of the dialectic process expl...
MARXISM: Atheism
Influence: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: 1770-1831
Karl Marx: 1818 – 1883
Friedrich Engels: 1820 – 1895
“Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, th...
MARXISM: Summary
Influence: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: 1770-1831
Karl Marx: 1818 – 1883
Friedrich Engels: 1820 – 1895
What must be understood about this perspective of Marxism is recognizing the aspects of the Marxist ideology so you can realize that there is an infrastructure be...
Radical: Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
Charles Darwin is most known for his evolutionary studies on the Galapagos Islands. His “Journey of the Beagle” brought him around the world where he developed one of the most controversial theories known to modern man. His development of theory of evolution wo...
Radical ideas of the “New Freedom”
Radical: Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
Woodrow Wilson’s policies as President of the United States can be viewed as extremely radical. Wilson , who was a white supremacist and apologist for slavery, slipped passed Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taf...
He said that “God is Dead”
Radical: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
Nietzsche is most known for his radical views on spirituality and morality. His existentialism and postmodernism philosophy was delivered in a distinct German Language style which often rejected Platonism, Chri...
”A Modern Utopia & the Fabian Society”
Radical: H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
Radical: George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950 Link 1 Link 2
Radical Group: Fabian Society
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The October Revolution 0f 1917
Radical: Vladimir Ilych Lenin 1870 – 1924
Radical: Leon Trosky 1879 – 1940
Vladimir Lenin was the first to utilize the Marxist model to start the machine in Russia. In 1917 there was a culture of corrupt capitalism and government that was being recogni...
The Great Purge
Radical: Joseph Stalin 1878 - 1953
Joseph Stalin took the baton from Lenin and did it against Lenin’s wishes. Lenin wished to have Stalin removed because of his very rebel rousing personality and unpredictability. As Stalin manipulated the powers brilliantly, he placed h...
Frankfurt School or Institute for Social Research
Radical: Theodor W. Adorno 1903 – 1969
Radical: Max Horkheimer 1895 – 1973
Radical: Jurgen Habermas 1929
Radical: Erich Fromm 1900 - 1980
Radical: Franz Neumann 1900-1954
Radical: Karl Wittfogel 1896-1988
Radical: Herbert Marcuse 18...
Fall of the Weimar Republic
After World War I Europe was in turmoil, nearly 8 million soldiers had died. It was said that 15% of the German male population was killed in battle or as a result of attacks. The war was one of the bloodiest in human history. The turmoil caused massive stints ...
Founder of American Marxism
Radical: John Dewey 1859 – 1952
Quote: “Till the Great Society is converted in to a Great Community, the Public will remain in eclipse. Communication can alone create a great community”
As we have discussed previously the principles of Marxism an...
Humanism
A battle that has been raging on for many years is the battle for our minds. It is the battle being fought between the State and the Church. For centuries, people have depended on religion or spiritual beliefs to guide their decisions. In feudal days the government forced a relig...
FDR
Radical: Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the most controversial Presidents in history. His presidency was galvanized by the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, World War II, New Deal, and most of all the creation of the United Nations. Roosevel...
Adolf Hitler
Hitler was obviously a very well known figure in history. His radical view of the world pulverized humanity with the execution of 6,000,000 Jews during World War II. His rise to power was met with fascination and disgust. His oratory skills were impeccable and mesmerizing alo...
Planned Parenthood
Radical: Margaret Sanger 1879 – 1966
The discussion on “Birth Control” is a very sensitive topic due to the obvious benefits of being able to do exactly what Margaret Sanger promoted publicly with her views on family planning. A large population of American Women cho...
Radical: Saul Alinsky 1909 – 1972
Publication: Reveille for Radicals
Publication: Rules for Radicals
The leader of American Marxism
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The United Nations
Founded: 1945
I wish to first start off with the lyrics of a song. It is Imagine by John Lennon. Yea I know… how nostalgic.
[i]Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine t...
Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
Maoism
Mao Zedong is relevant to ”The Machine” due to his own version of Marxism. Much like Lenin he wished to over-throw the feudal system in China and install a government representing the worker...
Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
Nikita Khrushchev came up in a very poor in a west Russian village son of a peasant family. Nikita’s father Sergei worked as a laborer in an eastern Ukrainian province. Nikita’s mother was a teacher and supported the family at home while her husband was away. Nikita ...
Fidel Castro: 1926
In the 1940’s and 1950’s Cuba suffered from very instable government structure. With flourishing prostitution, organized crime, and political instability, the country was a hot spot for revolutionaries and political radicals. Of this environment rose the infamous revolutionary ...
Students for a Democratic Society: 1960-1969
From the time when the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement were exploding, SDS sprouted as the most widespread and influential student radical groups. SDS was the youthful offspring of the League for Industrial Democracy. League for Industrial Demo...
Lyndon B. Johnson: 1908 – 1973
“The Great Society”
The presidency of Lyndon B Johnson marks the second phase of the United States Government’s participation in the construction of “The Machine”. During the Cold War, when Communism was the most feared force of evil to approach man...
Zeitgeist: 60’s & 70’s Counterculture
Relevant people
Thomas J. J. Altizer: 1927
Ken Kesey: 1935 – 2001
Dr. Timothy Francis Leary 1920 - 1996
Hugh Hefner: 1926
Larry Flynt: 1942
Gustav Wyneken: 1875 - 1964
Hippies
The Vietnam War brought much stress on the Untied S...
"Cloward-Piven Strategy"
Columbia University
Richard A. Cloward 1926 – 2001
Frances Fox Piven 1932
The very beginning of the Communist Revolution in the United States was an attempt to remove the government in the typical manner of organizing, overwhelming, and violently overthrowing....
Radical: Weather Underground
Mark Rudd
Bernardine Dohrn
John Jacobs
Bill Ayers
Jeff Jones
Inspired by Bob Dylans lyrics from “Subterranean Homesick Blues” ("You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"}, the Weather Underground formed from the fractured ruins of the SDS o...
Radical: ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
Founder: Wade Rathke
Co-Founder: Dale Rathke
ACORN’s relevance to “The Machine” is critical. The intentions of the group, as discussed by founder Wade Rathke, are to provide assistance to low income families and individu...
Radical: Tides Foundation
Founder: Drummond Pike
Chair of Directors: Wade Rathke
Board Member: Chip Berlet
Before founding the Tides Foundation, Drummond Pike was an associate director of theYouth Project (YP) organized by the Center for Community Change. The group was designed to spearhead ...
The Machine in motion: Part 1
By the end of the 1970’s “The Machine” has been completely assembled and become operational. Communism was now in the United States. It was like a Cancer to the hope of the World. The Champions of the free world which had fought foreign overseas Communist nations wou...
The Machine in Motion: Part 2
Globalization
There is a misconception that with the rise of the United Nations that all wars will cease, all of the hungry will be fed, and all environmental justice will be achieved. This misconception is led by the same socialists in America that believ...
Radical: Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was said to have been a better man than President. He is most known for his humanitarian efforts and his fight for the “so called” underdog. Like many typical Progressives, Carter ignored the possible repercussions of bad policy and pushed the policies on humani...
Patriot: Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan is known as one of the most loved Presidents in American history. In a time when politics was bruised and stained by Johnson and Kennedy’s Vietnam War, the Nixon Watergate scandal, Carter’s Iran Hostage crisis and terrible economic growth, Reagan broke away fr...
Radical: Enviro-Socialism – Part 1
Al Gore – born 1948
Barack Obama – born 1961
Maurice Strong – born 1929
The Creating of Enviro-Socialism
Saul Alinsky is a hero to many Progressives, Socialist, Communists, and Marxists because of his philosophy of arriving at an end with the use ...
Radical: Enviro-Socialism – Part 2
Al Gore – born 1948
Barack Obama – born 1961
Maurice Strong – born 1929
The New Socialism
Socialism fundamentally takes all the rights away from its people. It is the grasping of all power by a totalitarian government or dictator. In previous to...
Radical: Enviro-Socialism – Part 3
Al Gore – born 1948
Barack Obama – born 1961
Maurice Strong – born 1929
The New Feudalism
When Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote the “Communist Manifesto”, Feudalism was still a familiar memory. Kings and Queens still existed. Former feudal n...
Radical: Enviro-Socialism – Part 4
Al Gore – born 1948
Barack Obama – born 1961
Maurice Strong – born 1929
The New Feudalism
What is occurring with Global Warming or what is now being called Climate Change is the development of an entirely new economy. Sadly the economy is driven...
Radical: Enviro-Socialism Conclusion
A clean environment is extremely important to all of us. Recently I had a very engaging debate with a dear friend that is ideologically aligned with the Global Warming and Environmentalist community. I learned many key aspects about the polarized arguments and...
Radical: Van Jones (b.1968)
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Seems like a reasonable vision? Van Jones recently received a lot of press during his brief membership to the Obam...
Radical: Walter Lippmann
Radical: Sigmund Freud
Radical: Edward Bernays
The modern intellectual elite
In a day when information is at everyone’s finger tips, the freedom of speech in America is more magnified then in the past. In the America of our founders this would be an incredible...
Radical: Progressivism
Now that “The Machine” has been theoretically realized, we must now discuss the implementation of the organism that is “The Machine”. The reason why it is described as an organism is that there are many components to the organism that are necessary for the product to be del...
Radical: Progressivism
In the last post we discussed the brain behind the Progressive movement and the outlining agenda. George Soros has become one of the most influential people in American politics over the last 20 years. We also outlined that the Progressive movement is an organism that has m...
Radical: Progressivism
Now that we have laid out the organism we must now explain the environment that the organism exists in. All around the world socialism has been slowly being implemented. The United Nations has been gobbling up sovereignty in order create a global economy and also a global w...
Radical: Progressivism
For months we have laid out the step by step progression to the socialist and inevitable communist end. The United States is unique in that it is the only country founded on freedom and liberty endowed by a supreme immortal creator which is listed within the declaration of ...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in the early nineteen nineties, most Americans have ignored the shrinking land of liberty and the silent encroachment of the “Iron Curtain”. Soviet style communism has been masked by various special interests with a Trojan Horse type infiltration One of those Trojan...
Radical: Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci is known as an Italian Neo-Marxist and member of the Italian Communist Party who was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime. Gramsci can also be attributed to the creation of philosophic and sociological concept of cultural hegemony. It is ...
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