Below are portions from Andrew Breitbart's book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!:
But just because Marx's dialectic materialism had been proved false, and just because soon the new Soviet Union would be slaughtering its own citizens at record rates, didn't mean that the Marxist intellectuals were going to give up on the worldwide revolution.
That was where Antonia Gramsci and Gyorgy Lukacs came in.
Gramsci was an Italian socialist who saw tearing down society as the necessary precondition for the eventual victory of global Marxism. Marxism simply hadn't won because men were weak. And men were weak because they were the products of a capitalist society. "Man is above all else mind, consciousness," Gramsci wrote in 1916. "That is, he is a product of history, not of nature. There is no other way of explaining why socialism has not come into the existence already." (Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2001, p.86.)
Lukacs's view was so influential that for a time, he actually became deputy commissar of culture in Hungary, where he proceeded to push a radical sex-ed program encouraging free love and rejection of Judeo-Christian morality. In that role, he tried to live out his ideology of destruction: "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." (As quoted in Chilton Williamson, The Conservative Bookshelf, Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 2005, p. 207.)
If you think the above sounds eerily familiar, you're right. It's the mandate of the Occupy Wall Street protest. Marxism never died. It just went behind the curtain and changed costumes.
Marxism hates freedom and individuality. It depends upon groupthink. It is why an Occupy Wall Street protester can only spout off talking points given to them from their "facilitators." It is also why they can't articulate any clear objectives to their protest.
The whole point of Occupy Wall Street isn't to protest the injustice of banks being bailed out by the government. It isn't even to champion the "99%" who are ticked off about foreclosures and job loss. The whole point of Occupy Wall Street instead is to destroy society by leeching a city's coffers for police protection and kill the ideals of hard work, faith, ethics, and morality.
Everywhere an Occupy Wall Street protest is held, you see the truth. In New York City, they clogged up the sidewalks and subways as average citizens tried to make their way home after their workday. They persist in painting a corporation as "the enemy" when in fact, a corporation has individuals working for it. In essence, they hate the "collective" (to use their language) of a corporation because they want to replace it with their own repressive ideology -- Marxism.
What are "old values?" The same values that made the United States of America a great nation is viewed by these ingrates as oppressive. Civility is the first to go. Marxists believe in a lot of yelling and screaming because they think you're stupid and will only understand them if they shout. Reasonable debate also has fallen victim to the Occupy Wall Street crowds. Any honest question of their purpose quickly deteriorates into childish name-calling. There is no substance to them. Only anger. And Marxism, quite frankly, is really boring.
When one looks at history, it's easy to see why Marxism doesn't work. People enjoy the fruits of their own labor. They like having the freedom to say "no" or "yes" to work. There will be consequences to those answers, but in the the U.S., everyone has the freedom to pursue their own happiness in whatever way they deem desirable.
The freedom that United States citizens enjoy are the envy of the world. There are dark forces intent on robbing us of that freedom. Don't let them get away with it.
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