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How Obama Revolution Came to America

Robert Chandler  —   April
6, 2009
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Editor’s note: This material has been excerpted, edited and updated from one
chapter of Robert Chandler’s important new book, Shadow World,
published by Regnery. Call 1-888-219-4747 to order. It represents the kind of
investigative reporting we desperately need but fail to get from the major
media.)

S. Steven Powell wrote in his 1987 book, Covert Cadre, that the
revolutionary activity advocated by Marxist Antonio Gramsci involved the need to
“infiltrate autonomous institutions—schools, media, churches, public-interest
groups—so as radically to transform the culture, which determines the
environment in which political and economic policies are played out.” Or, as
Carl Boggs, author of Gramsci’s Marxism wrote, “the role of
revolutionary theory is to create the foundation of a new socialist order
precisely through the negation and transcendence of bourgeois society.” This
“transcendence of bourgeois society,” Boggs explains, was the basis for
Gramsci’s first priority—“the multi-dimensional transformation of civil
society.”

The key to Gramsci’s formula for revolution centered on the idea of
breaking what he called the “hegemony” or mind-control exercised by the ruling
capitalists over the masses. Bourgeois societies were ruled, Gramsci believed,
by educating the citizenry that their accommodation of the moral, political, and
cultural values defined by the governing system was in their best interests.
Hence, Gramsci designed a “reversal strategy” that would silently challenge the
existing culture and value-systems that dominated bourgeois governance. That is
to say, his formula was based on an ideological struggle that would transform a
whole range of activities in civil society, including Judeo-Christian values,
the family, schools, unions, and politics and popular trust in the existing
government.

There are ten easy steps toward a progressive-socialist-Marxist civil
society: change the popular consensus; destroy Christianity, the traditional
family, and existing social mores; transform the culture; install a radical Left
mind-control; attain political power; impose strict control of the military and
law enforcement; restrict freedom; socialize the economy; erase American
sovereignty; and embrace a world without borders.

Four political arenas have been constructed by the
progressive-socialist-Marxist Left to “format” or erase America’s collective
brain and install a mind-control program into what is to become a robotic
America of theological radicalism, socialist unionism, radical community-state
politics, and the “Shadow Party” owned and operated by billionaires such as
George Soros.

Subverting The Moral Order

Antonio Gramsci’s formula for socialist revolution in capitalist countries is
focused on “corruption of their Christian cultural basis,” Malachi Martin
writes. Neither political penetration nor military superiority, Martin says,
will bring the capitalist West to its knees. The Christian cultures of these
countries are the ties that bind the people in all aspects of society. Hence,
Gramsci counsels his followers, Martin says, to join the capitalists in all
aspects of life, from “their profession of ethical and religious goals” to their
family needs and all social issues affecting their lives. But Gramsci had a
catch, Malachi Martin explains: Gramsci admonished his followers to “let the
entire effort be solely by man for man’s sake… Make sure man never repeats the
famous cry of German philosopher Martin Heidegger: I know that only God can save
us.”

Gramsci realized that Christian culture had to be undone quietly,
carefully, and over time. Stealth and passivity would serve as key principles of
the war on Christian culture and open the door for progressive-socialist-marxist
mind-control.

Antonio Gramsci foresaw an increase in the complexity of civil society that
would occur over time in the most advanced capitalist countries. Carl Boggs
explains Gramsci’s view that this hegemony or “socialization process” extends
throughout society and is the means through which people internalize the
dominant free market and its democratic values. It follows that the
progressive-socialist-Marxist Left’s struggle against the dominant liberal
democracy is a “precondition for socialist transformation.”

This requires a confrontation at all levels of society to undermine,
weaken, and replace traditional American values in the schools, media, family,
and unions with Gramsci’s socialist ideals. “To conduct this universalized
hegemony,” Boggs writes, “means to transform repressive consciousness into a
liberating one that makes socialist politics at a mass level
possible—the central focus of any thorough-going cultural
revolution.”

Major elements of American organized labor have
imported the alien doctrine of Antonio Gramsci as a guiding light for its
socialist ideological struggle against the traditional American way of life. For
American progressive-socialist-marxist syndicalists, labor unions are a tool for
use in transforming capitalism into a society run by working people who are
guided secretly by agents among the leadership.

It should not be surprising, therefore, that organized labor in the United
States has shifted its main focus from the worker and his/her needs to
progressive-socialist-marxist politics. For union leadership, their efforts are
all about power—power for themselves, social power, and political power. Five
U.S. labor unions stand out from their efforts of making socialist politics
possible at the mass level by applying the imported ideals of Italy’s
Marxist Antonio Gramsci: AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union (SEIU),
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), National
Education Association (NEA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Of these five leading unions, only the members of
the AFL-CIO operate primarily in the private sector. The other four are centered
more on government employees, insulating themselves from the vagaries of the
free market.

Attacking Corporations

The move toward embracing Gramsci’s formula is a result
of the 1960s radicals having come of age. The late Michael Harrington gave
intellectual and organizational leadership to labor unions and other societal
elements that preserved an alliance with the remnants of the New Left in the
Democrat Party and Democratic Socialists of America. SDS’s Paul Booth, for
instance, coordinated student support for a United Auto Workers slate and
marshaled some two thousand students in the Chicago region in support of the
union. Booth, like other Leftists, highlighted General Motors
“nastiness.”

One can track members of the 1960s radicals, Students for a Democratic
Society, and the New Left into key leadership positions in several labor and
teachers union positions.  These aging radicals have not given up on
remaking America. “A new politics must include a revitalized labor movement; a
movement which sees itself, and is regarded by others, as a major leader of the
breakthrough to a politics of hope and vision,” explains the 1962 Port Huron
statement of the Students for a Democratic Society.  “Labor’s role is no
less unique or important in the needs of the potential political strength, its
natural interest in the abolition of exploitation, its reach to the grass-roots
of American society, combine to make it the best candidate for the synthesis of
the civil rights, peace, and economic reform movements.”

Gramsci understood that a revolutionary undertaking in a bourgeois society
like the United States could proceed only from a sound “philosophical base” and
an “ongoing political involvement.” According to editor Bernie Horn’s commentary
in the “Progressive Agenda for the State 2008,” which was prepared by the
radical Left’s Center for Policy Alternatives, “most Americans are progressive
on most issues.” But, Mr. Horne adds, “most Americans also support traditional
conservative principles—limited government, lower taxes, free markets, and
personal responsibility.” The way out of this conundrum, he suggests, is to
alter the balance of power by espousing “an attractive progressive philosophy.”
That is a socialist philosophy. Since “progressive” is but a euphemism for
“socialism,” the Left once again promises a full blast of political denial and
deception, propaganda and disinformation in “framing the future.”

Two major influences have helped shape these policies over the years:
Antonio Gramsci’s cultural transformation formula and Saul D. Alinsky’s radical
community organizing methods.

Several radical Leftist groups are dedicated to bringing the
progressive-socialist-marxist message to prepare Americans for socialist
governance.  One of the most important radical organizations dedicated to
peddling socialism to Americans at the community and municipal level is the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and it has close
relations with organized labor. ACORN was founded by Wade Rathke, who organized
draft resistance for the Students for a Democratic Society in the
1960s.

Barack Obama was a community organizer for the progressive-socialist-Marxist
ACORN before becoming a practicing lawyer, entering politics, and running for
President.

The Shadow Party

Operating from the impact of Antonio Gramsci’s revisionist Marxism of
cultural transformation as a precondition to achieving political power, and the
radicalism of the New Left’s continuing focus on the politics of neighborhoods
and state legislatures and union political power at the national level, an
infrastructure, or a “solar system of organizations,” has been created that
promises to bring socialist governance to America. These mind-control efforts
have been designed to create a false reality for the American people. Pounded
incessantly by propaganda tricks, false images, and denial of truth, many
Americans understandably see only the contrived negative images of traditional
culture, societal norms, and contrived historical “truths” that were spoon fed
to them so carefully by progressives-socialists-Marxists.

Carl Boggs sees the “ideological-cultural struggle and political action “as
part of a long-range political strategy. It is a thorough-going cultural
revolution that sets out to transform all dimensions of everyday life and
establish the social-psychological underpinnings of socialism before the
question of state power is resolved. And that brings up George Soros.

Said to be the world’s thirty-eighth richest man, George Soros possesses
about $7 billion in net worth, $11 billion in investments, and his foundations
disperse more than $400 million a year for a variety of causes ranging from
euthanasia and abortion to legalization of recreational drugs and Left-wing
political power building. His political philosophy is drawn from some rather
balmy ideas about “open societies” expressed by Karl Popper, under whom Soros
studied in 1948 at the notorious left-wing London School of Economics. For
Professor Popper, an atheist, nothing was “self-evident.”  Drawing on
Popper’s teaching, Soros concluded that the U.S. Declaration of Independence,
rather than based on so-called “self-evident truths,” is but a statement of “our
imperfect understanding” of the world around us.  Hence, America’s founding
documents are disposable in what Soros believes is our godless society.

Moreover, for Soros, “the state can be an instrument of oppression.” Soros
argues for development of an interdependent world based on the principles of
open society.  This requires fostering “open society within individual
countries and international laws, rules of conduct, and institutions to
implement these norms.” But, since nation-states contradict a development of
international open society, the impulse for change must come from “citizens
living in open societies” who “recognize a global open society as something
worth sacrifice.”

To create the “Age of Open Society,” Soros’ vision would require
terminating U.S. sovereignty, disposing of the Declaration of Independence, U.S.
Constitution, and Bill of Rights, or at least significant amendments to make
them square with open society norms, and reforming the United Nations to
facilitate a world socialist governance with the new social-political
institutions to enforce its principles, such as the International Criminal
Court.

It should not be surprising that Soros’s Open Society Institute lavishes huge
sums of cash on U.S. progressive-socialist-Marxist civil society entities. By
fastening himself like a leech to the progressive-socialist-movement, Soros’s
open society dream sucks the life-giving blood from the Gramsci advances toward
America’s cultural transformation. By his infusion of large sums of money, and
persuading other plutocrats to contribute as well, Soros is moving toward a
“take down” of the United States through control of the Democratic Party and its
progressive-socialist-marxist candidate whose hidden payback agenda is
foreordained: move forward on the open society initiative.

Soros made his political move to ally himself with these organizations in
forming “Shadow Party” as the control-center inside the Democrat Party. A secret
meeting was held on July 17, 2003, at Soros’ Southampton beach house on Long
Island, and Morton H. Halperin was present. He had been hired by Soros a year
earlier to head the Washington office of the Open Society Institute, a part of
the global network of institutes and foundations located in fifty countries
around the world. Halperin made a name for himself by waging open war against
the U.S. national intelligence agencies, while director of the Center for
National Security Studies in 1974 and the American Civil Liberties Union from
1984 to 1992.

The Soros Plan

After licking his wounds and completing a damage assessment of what went
wrong in 2004, when his candidate John Kerry lost the presidency, Soros turned
to winning the 2008 presidential election through his clandestine Shadow Party
tucked away inside the Democrat Party. A secret meeting was held in Scottsdale,
Arizona, in the spring of 2005. Seventy well-heeled potential donors listened
intently while George Soros laid out a five-year plan to create a network of
think tanks, media outlets, and training centers to promote his own special
blend of progressive-socialist-marxist politics. Those at the secret meeting,
calling themselves the “Phoenix Group,” focused initially on three main goals:
creating progressive-socialist-Marxist think tanks, training centers for the
young progressives, and media centers.

Political
Power

Perceptions are being shaped through a combination of propaganda,
disinformation, denial and deceit by the radical left, which has seized control
of the Democrat Party. The model is based on Antonio Gramsci’s ideas to first
prepare the “masses” for a change in political power by transforming American
culture.

The “real” Obama is the “chosen one” for the far-Left
progressives-socialists-marxists. Disciples of the Gramsci Left supported
Obama’s campaign with millions of dollars to fund a massive propaganda and
disinformation campaign. In the end, however, Obama was exposed as a puppet of
the far Left, an agent of influence for the Gramsci formula of transforming
American culture and leading hard-working Americans toward a comfortable embrace
with socialism-Marxism.

Obama speaks eloquently of post-racialism but he belonged to a church that
embraces Black liberation theology. For twenty years, Obama sat in a pew on
Sundays to listen to the vile anti-White, anti-America oratory pouring from the
mouth of the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

Obama associates William Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn were both high
profile Weathermen as a result of their bombing activities. For a time,
Bernardine, who called herself a “Communist revolutionary,” was one of the FBI’s
“Ten Most Wanted” fugitives from justice. Neither Ayers nor Dohrn apologized for
their destructive tactics. The Weather Underground’s terrorist tactics may have
occurred some thirty or forty years ago, as Obama plaintively explained, but a
photograph of William Ayers stomping on a U.S. flag in August 2001 depicted in
Susan Braudy’s book Family Circle offers clear evidence that
Ayers remains very much a vicious and untrustworthy America-hater.

Ayers and Dohrn are members of the string of far-Left, hate-America
cultists stretching from Antonio Gramsci and the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s
to the present day. They are an aging clan in search of disciples to pass on the
“tear down this government” torch.  The aging radical Left has anointed
Obama to become a leader of the successor generation of
progres-sives-socialists-Marxists.

“Social justice,” as defined by the progressive-socialist-Marxist Left, can
be achieved only through confrontation with bourgeois society. A monumental
piece of who Barack Obama really is was shown in a private meeting with
potential donors in San Francisco.  Addressing the challenges he faced in
securing the support of working-class voters, Obama told the well-heeled
liberals gathered that “it’s not surprising…that they get bitter, they cling to
guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant
sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their
frustrations.”

William Kristol quickly recognized the historical and dogmatic roots
of Obama’s “cling to…religion” as a reflection of Marx’s famous statement on
religion: “Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real
suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the
oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of a
soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.” Kristol says that Obama let
“the mask slip.”

Barack Obama in reality is the progressive-socialist-Marxist soldier hiding
inside a Trojan Horse. He is the one who slips out of the wooden horse to open
America’s gates to a horde of socialists-Marxists intent on swarming the federal
government and carrying out a family-destroying, religion-busting,
freedom-infringing cultural revolution and an extended political dominance over
the entire country.

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Robert Chandler

Citizen

I  can not believe that this info hasnot been published more
widely.  Americans must know what is going on.  There have been the
slow and deliberate erosion of our values and freedoms.  We must stop
this now!!  VOTE GOP – NO MATTER WHO RUNS!!

http://www.facebook.com/people/Amy-Jones/528763794 Amy Jones

For 40 years they have been slowly stealing America. And in 2008 we
rewarded their efforts by voting in Obama. I pray that today, Nov. 6, 2012,
will be the day the people “take back America”! God bless
America!

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