How to destroy a country: Part 1
PAUL WESTON
In 2012 Paul Weston published a four-part series on the website Gates of Vienna entitled ‘How to destroy a country’. Although written 13 years ago, these articles remain prescient and relevant. The tragedy is that no one in the British political establishment took any notice. Even now, it is far from clear that the main parties of the so-called right have reached a real understanding of the post-war left-wing transformation of Britain. In Part 1 Paul describes the rise and rise of the East European Marxist intellectuals whose theories successfully corrupted the West.
‘THERE is a revolution coming. It will not be like the revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture and will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. This is the revolution of the new generation.’ — Charles Reich, The Greening of America, 1970.
Every generation bemoans the slippage of standards and the ‘going to the dogs’ of society, but history shows that civilisations and peoples really do collapse utterly. Some even become extinct. Great Britain, needless to say, is no longer as great as it once was, but has the degradation we see around us on a daily basis been caused by well-intentioned liberal stupidity, or by brilliantly planned leftist malevolence?
Perhaps it is a mixture of both. It has long been known the hard left wished to transform the traditional Britain (and West) I was born into. Via a protracted campaign of brainwashing and propaganda they were able to recruit well-intentioned liberals into an unknowing alliance. This was not particularly difficult, of course; liberals are easily duped by propagandised platitudes and fall very easily into Lenin’s denouncement of ‘useful idiots’.
First, let us deal with some facts. During and after WWII the Soviet Communists gobbled up as much of Europe as they could. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia disappeared behind the Iron Curtain, followed by Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and East Germany. In essence, any country within Moscow’s military strike capability fell into its clutches and became part of the Soviet empire.
The Communists really did have global aspirations, so countries outside their military sphere were not simply ignored and written off: they were earmarked for destabilisation and subversion, to be taken over at a later date. The Kremlin office assigned this task was the Department of Agitation and Propaganda, which worked with Western Communist parties, including the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).
Added to this subversive mix was a group of thinkers who became known as the Frankfurt School, which wielded enormous social pressure — initially in America and subsequently in Britain — in the decades after the Second World War. It was established in Frankfurt in 1923 by the Hungarian Communist Georg Lukacs and was known in those days as the Institution for Marxism. Lukacs was an agent of the Communist International (Comintern) which had been established in Moscow in 1919 to ‘fight by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie for the creation of an international Soviet republic’.
Karl Marx wrote of the anarchy necessary as a precursor to outright revolution, in which he would ‘stand astride the wreckage a colossus’. Lukacs, whose reputation in the revolutionary world was almost on a par with Marx himself, said: ‘I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution. A worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries.’
In the 1930s Lukacs was joined by two other Marxists, Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno. The rise of Hitler made it impossible for them to stay in Germany so they moved to New York City where the institute became known as the Frankfurt School. In the 1950s they were joined by Herbert Marcuse, and between them they started to write the Marxist future of the democratic West.
The Frankfurt School was the birthplace of Critical Theory, which may be described as the destructive criticism of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethno-centrism and conservatism — whilst the basic tenets of Western evil are repeated over and over again: racism, sexism, colonialism, nationalism, homophobia, fascism, xenophobia and imperialism.
Herbert Marcuse is probably the most infamous person that most people today have never heard of. His book Eros and Civilisation promoted ‘free love’ and the ‘pleasure principle’. His counter-cultural ideologies gradually transformed American and Western society from that which built Western civilisation into that which exists only to tear it down. The greying politicians who now run the West and the majority of its institutions are the same fresh-faced students of the 1970s who once sang the Marcuse-inspired ‘Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ [civilisation] has got to go.’
A cult developed around Marcuse during the 1960s and 1970s. The student-hippie generation was the Marcuse generation. He was held in such esteem that everything he penned was taken seriously, resulting in the students’ absorption of not just Marcuse’s most famous expression, ‘make love not war’, but also the rest of the Frankfurt School’s anti-Western, counter-cultural propaganda. Never had Lenin’s useful idiots been more abundant.
But Marcuse was an evil man. He genuinely wanted to overthrow the traditional West. When asked who would play the part of the Russian proletariat in the Western revolution, he replied it would be all the marginalised groups, including black militants, feminists, homosexual militants, the asocial, the alienated and Third World revolutionaries represented by the mass murderer Che Guevara.
The destructive policies of the Frankfurt school were known collectively as ‘cultural terrorism’. Today, they are simply referred to as ‘political correctness’, an ideology people are aware of, although very few know of its anti-Western, destructive and revolutionary roots. Doubters should ask why the targets of the politically correct lobby are overwhelmingly white, Christian, capitalist, heterosexual and male, or DWEMs as they are crudely referred to in America, short for Dead White European Males.
The simple answer is that these men and the qualities they embodied laid the foundations, erected the props, and over many centuries built the various layers of intertwined ideology and structure that formed Western civilisation. If our memory of them can be destroyed, if the ideology can be destroyed, and if the race of people who represent that ideology can be destroyed, Western civilisation can itself be destroyed and replaced with a ‘Communist utopia’.
Only when we understand this harsh reality does the modern world make any sense. Western society has not suddenly become insane. We do not live in a society of political correctness gone mad. It is not that we are old and just don’t get it. The terrifying truth is that we are being set up for deliberately engineered control by a well-planned Socialist operation that has been decades in the making.
Partial proof of this fact is the typical white liberal/leftist who denounces the historical European colonisation of foreign lands as imperialistic and oppressive yet celebrates the foreign colonisation of Europe. This tells us it is not colonisation per se with which the liberal/left have a problem, but Western civilisation itself.
To be continued
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This article (How to destroy a country: Part 1) was created and published by Conservative Woman and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Paul Weston
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How to destroy a country: Part 2
PAUL WESTON
These articles were first published in 2012 in the website, Gates of Vienna. In yesterday’s Part 1, Paul Weston described the ascendancy and influence of Marxist intellectuals in post war Europe and America. Today he continues to track their systematic destruction of values, culture, education and the economy in Britain
THE Marxist left/liberals have completed their ‘long march through the institutions’. They claim the varied lunatic policies they enacted were for the benefit of society, but can this really be the case? When viewed through the prism of reality, much of Socialism’s ideology appears to have one aim and one aim only: the total destruction of society. This is not an overreaction by any means — if societal destruction was your bag, would you not carry out the following?
Destroy industry: What is the difference between booming Germany and bankrupt Britain? Simple: Germany manufactures and Britain consumes – but this was not always the case. Britain once had a dominant engineering and ship-building industry and was Europe’s biggest manufacturer of cars and motorcycles. It was therefore essential to sabotage our industrial base – our ‘means of production’ – in order to destroy capitalist Britain.
Many trades union leaders of the 1950s through to the 1980s were Communists or Communist sympathisers who organised strikes and ‘downed tools’ so successfully that Britain’s industrial base went to the wall. Writing in the Spectator, Douglas Eden outlined Moscow’s infiltration of British unions and how their pro-Soviet ideology was tolerated by Labour prime ministers until the election in 1979 of Margaret Thatcher. Mrs Thatcher, incidentally, is hated so viscerally by the left/liberals because her defeat of the unions was perceived to have ended the dream of international Communism.
Destroy education: Having defeated the unions, Thatcher inexplicably never promoted British industry in the aftermath. She decided instead that Britain’s economy should be based around a service industry, which essentially meant paper-shuffling and number-crunching. As paper-shufflers and number-crunchers need to be educated to a reasonable standard, so the left/liberals took their Marxist war against the economy into the classrooms.
The British state school curriculum essentially revolves around the Frankfurt School ideology of anti-Western Critical Theory, with traditional education placed second best. An exposé of the overt Socialist propaganda in our schools may be read here, but the results of Britain’s progressive educational policies are visible all around us. Semi-literate and semi-numerate university graduates sit atop a pile of the most badly educated young people in Europe, many of whom are completely unemployable, according to the heads of British business, just as was intended by the hard left and implemented by their eager armies of liberal ‘useful idiots’.
Destroy the family: Feminism has often been described as a war against men or a battle for equality. It is more than just that, though. Feminist ideology is really about war against the family, because families tend to be self-sufficient and therefore less reliant on the state. As socialism is all about state control, the family must be smashed.
Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir and Germaine Greer, Communist supporters all, took their dysfunctional ideology from Friedrich Engels’s statement in The Origin of the Family: ‘The modern individual family is founded on the open or concealed slavery of the wife . . . within the family he is the bourgeois and his wife represents the proletariat.’
Greer is in complete agreement with Engels, and her book The Female Eunuch is essentially a clarion call for destruction, anarchy and Communism, as we can see from this quote: ‘Women’s liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary structure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let’s get on with it.’
Greer goes on: ‘But man made one grave mistake . . . he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.’
Well, thanks, Germaine! The demolition not only began; it is now all but over. Surveys suggest children raised in conventional families are far less likely to go off the rails, but in the Socialist world the ends justify the means, so feminists ignore the broken lives and thwarted ambitions of fatherless, state-supported children, particularly those of West Indian origin and the white working-class members of the abandoned proletariat.
In addition, brainwashed British women have put abortion and careers before motherhood and are giving birth to a new generation 25 per cent smaller than their own, which destroys any hope of an equal or growing future tax-payer base to fund the running of the country.
Eradicate religion: All great civilisations are built around great religions. Western civilisation is built on the foundations of Judaeo-Christianity, so if Western civilisation is to be destroyed, its religious pillars must first be undermined. Again, this destructive ethos is derived from Communist ideology. Christianity and Communism are fundamentally incompatible – one is a spiritual creed, the other materialist.
Christianity lays down that a man’s responsibility to his neighbour is personal, a matter for his individual conscience, while communism decrees that all duties are collective, to be enforced by the state. Karl Marx wrote: ‘The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.’
Communists believed the Ten Commandments to be a form of ‘class morality’ that served only the interests of the bourgeoisie.
Anatole Lunarcharsky, a Russian commissar of education, declared: ‘We hate Christianity and Christians . . . they preach love of one’s neighbours and mercy, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is an obstacle to the development of the Revolution! What we want is hate, only then can we conquer the world.’
In Britain, Christianity is not outlawed, just sidelined, sneered at and its practice sometimes criminalised. The persecution of British Christians has reached such a level that in 2010 Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and six prominent bishops, penned an open letter to the Labour government stating: ‘We are deeply concerned at the apparent discrimination shown against Christians and we call on the government to remedy this serious development. In a number of cases, Christian beliefs on marriage, conscience and worship are simply not being upheld. There have been numerous dismissals of practising Christians from employment for reasons that are unacceptable in a civilised country.’
Perhaps Lord Carey actually understood that the Marxist elites in Britain share the same hatred of Christianity for precisely the same reasons as the Soviet communists. The BBC certainly hates Christianity. In 2006 the Corporation was shamed into rewriting an anti-Christian pro-Islamic text aimed at schoolchildren, which described Christianity as a religion of racism, sexism, colonialism, enslavement and murder, whilst Islam, with its arranged marriages, honour killings and second class status for women under Sharia law was deemed by the BBC to be a female-friendly religion. Britain’s left/liberal elites clearly consider Christianity to be an impediment to the ideology of the New Socialist Man they seem intent on building.
Eradicate morality: There is little point in eradicating religion without ensuring the concomitant destruction of morality, hence the invention of moral relativism which argues there is no such thing as right or wrong. Lenin invoked the same ideology but did so in a more honest manner when he said: ‘Morality is that which furthers the revolution.’
The Marxists and liberal/left who now control the education and media establishments in Britain know that massive social change cannot be brought about by outright revolution and thus realise anarchy must first prevail, just as espoused by Georg Lukacs. A sure-fire way to create a revolutionary/anarchic situation is to remove the young from the codes of behaviour that religion and morality demand.
Destroy the community: Like families, communities tend toward self-sufficiency and are the bedrock of nation states. The community is simply part of a chain – family, community, village, town, city, country and nation state. Communities are capable of acting together in defiance of the state – ergo, they too must be smashed. How to do so?
Demolish streets of family houses and build impersonal blocks. Close schools/hospitals and build mega-versions controlled by faceless bureaucrats rather than locally known people. Close post offices where the elderly meet and gossip once a week. Outlaw smoking and make pubs (the nerve centres of individual resistance) prohibitively expensive. In short, fragment and isolate the population so that they feel alone and powerless before the all-powerful state and its ever-growing army of interfering bureaucrats.
Destroy the middle class: Shortly after the jailed dissident-turned-President Vaclav Havel came to power in Czechoslovakia in 1989, he stated that the rebuilding of Socialism’s shattered economic, moral, spiritual and environmental 40-year catastrophe could not take place until a new middle class had formed.
This is exactly right. The middle classes are the backbone of any functioning democracy. They pay taxes; they participate in their children’s education; they form committees and pressure groups; they raise money for local causes; they are self-sufficient and require little or nothing from the state. Such independent actions make them an acute threat to the state and must therefore be smashed. Disguised as the promotion of a ‘classless society’, Britain’s middle classes have been systematically traduced by the educational and media establishments because they represent the bourgeoisie in ideology, if not income.
Destroy the working class: Britain has been importing a low-skilled ‘workforce’ from less developed countries for decades whilst simultaneously exporting low-skilled jobs abroad. Slave labour is welcomed by highly paid BBC liberals who have availed themselves of cheap nannies and cleaners, but the working class find themselves in direct competition with immigrants, which is an area where they simply cannot compete. A foreign builder who works for half the rate of a British builder does not have to pay a mortgage or support a family, and is happy living 15 to a house for a few years. Big business has no problem with this, nor do the left/liberal elites who are happy to create an unemployed British under-class which can be relied on to keep foolishly voting for them simply because they offer the highest rewards for enforced unemployment.
Destroy the nation state: This is more about the European Union than internal British politics, but it is very important. The unelected commissars who run the EU are fully aware they cannot control fully functioning nation states, which is why the United Kingdom has been broken up into 12 regions. One Labour government even went so far as to appoint Regional Ministers for each area. This destruction of our ancient counties and governance, with the word ‘England’ actually removed from EU maps, is otherwise known as ‘divide and rule’.
To be continued
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This article (How to destroy a country: Part 2) was created and published by Conservative Woman and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Paul Weston
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