Interesting but ultimately unconvincing. The US elite sponsor anti-American feeling because the denationalisation of the USA fits with the imperatives of a globally integrated economy. The elite also want to destroy the morale of those they rule in order to consolidate control at home. Soviet propaganda ertainly developed many of the themes we hear today, but their adoption and normalisation suited the needs of the US elite since the 70s. The convergence between Soviet propaganda and Washington propaganda reveals the enmity of Washington towards its people but blaming Muenzenberg and co is simply not convincing.
Obama aimed to create a BIPOC heavy elite that can rule the planet in close co-ordination with the elites of the Global South. The woke bullshit us about delegitimising the old ways and legitimising the new. Obama was not, and is not, a closet Marxist. He is a race-baiting opportunist latching on to the shibboleth of the era of Civil Rights and decolonisation. A lot of this is about signalling to Americas rivals and ememies that their elites are viewed by Washington as potential allies. It is to reassure the elites of the Global South that US elites have no loyalty or concern with the American people that might stand in the way of business.
--Obama, the man, is totally irrelevant. He is an empty suit, a ventriloquist's dummy, a teleprompter-reading cardboard cutout. He is propped by his handlers, and given lines to read. Just as Rock Hudson was NOT a macho cowboy, just a pretty boy homo who read his lines; so is Obama.
--"Obama was not, and is not, a closet Marxist." The revelations of Muenzenberg's operation to implant the PC-Prog payload virus into American culture do NOT imply that today's PC-Progs are "closet Marxists." Far from it--see this post for more on that (https://kentclizbe.substack.com/p/pc-prog-misconceptions-woke-cultural).
Summary: Though Comintern Marxists planned the payload, the beliefs, and ran the operation that implanted the payload into American culture, the results have NO connection to "Marxism." The results are NOT "Cultural Marxism" (there's no such thing). Marxists planted the seeds, but the resulting growth is a new thing. It is PC-Prog, which is pure hatred of Normal America.
--So, in your analysis the elite "sponsor anti-American feeling." Where did that belief system/feeling originate? When/how/who introduced it? How did the introducers gain initial buy-in? Just waving hands and saying "Obama done it!" ignores the long, 80 year, gestation of the belief system and the active measures used to insert it into the three transmission belts of American culture--Hollywood, the media, and education/academia--and the huge social infrastructure the Muenzenberg operation created. Dozens upon dozens of socio-political front groups repeated the anti-Normal beliefs--beginning with Sacco and Vanzetti and the Scottsboro Boys in the 1920s, and continuing through WW2. Once the template was laid, and Muenzenberg's operators taught American Willing Accomplices the basics of the operation, this approach became a self-licking ice cream cone. The Comintern operators were all killed off, and the operation abandoned in the late 1930s. But the initial groups, and the warm feelings of superiority and belonging engendered in the Americans that participated, are the root of the Muenzenberg operation. Participation, and the stories told, and songs sung about participating in them, by the early PC-Progs ("radicals") are the root of today's elite hatred of Normal American culture.
--So, yes, the elite do sponsor anti-American feeling--that's the essence of PC-Prog beliefs. And that essence came exactly from the Comintern's massive operation to implant that essence of self-hatred. It didn't just arise organically from within American culture.
--"The convergence between Soviet propaganda and Washington propaganda reveals…" What it reveals is the source of the PC-Prog belief system. If you suddenly notice kudzu vines popping up through your floorboards, you need to trace those vines back to their origin--planted in ditchbanks 100 years ago to stop erosion. Those vines didn't just pop up magically because you forgot to sweep your floor last night. Just so, with vile hatred of Normal America--it didn't just pop-up in the 70s, or from Obama. It manifested itself after implantation in the '20s, underground growth from the '30s to the '70s, emergence in the '80s, full flower with the Obama administration, and engulfing the world since then.
--"The elite also want to destroy the morale of those they rule in order to consolidate control at home." Overall, this critique is confusing results with the cause. The result of the implantation of PC-Prog hate-America-first beliefs is that now the elites understand the power of destroying the morale of Americans, and the resulting ability to consolidate power, using hatred and denigration of Normal culture.
--"The woke bullshit us about delegitimising the old ways and legitimising the new." Well, yes. That was the whole goal of the Comintern operation. They miscalculated the timeline--instead of 5 years, it took 80. And instead of the "new ways" being their Marxism, their efforts created a wholly new belief system--PC-Progism--or "Normal America sucks." When they lashed up with the neoconservatives, the new imperialist PC-Prog American was born. Destruction of Normal America at home, constant wars cloaked as "Spreading Democracy," or rainbow flags and women's rights abroad.
--"The Global South": Again confusing effects with causes. Today's PC-Prog/Neocon lash-up couldn't give a flying fiddly what the Global South thinks, believes, or does. The best manifestation of the Global South's reaction to PC-Prog/neocon rule of America is the destruction of capitalism required by PC-Progs, and manifested as "Global Warming." The Global South sees the self-hatred and suicidal activities pursued by this PC-Prog operation, and joins in the fun. They demand reparations, payments, more and more, because capitalism. The PC-Prog action corollary--America must be changed/destroyed--fuels our PC-Prog/neocons to encourage third world demands for American destruction. Nothing to do with signaling third world elites that they're allies. They know that PC-Prog/neocon America will obliterate them (ask Kaddafy, Assad, Egypt, Serbia, etc) in a heartbeat, for any reason. American PC-Prog/neocons see the third world as fodder for spreading PC-Prog/neocon/globohomo beliefs. "Business" is a sort of low level concern--power and control of the government give PC-Progs all they need. The crumbs that business provides are tertiary effects. Total control is what they crave.
Am in a rush so can't respond in detail. My take on Soetoro was formed by Angelo Codevilla's work and that of Webster Tarpley. Codevilla worked for Senate intelligence committee. https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-chosen-one/
Would also recommend that you look at Cord Meyer's FACING REALITY. Myers was a deputy director of the CIA and was himself a Leftist when recruited by Dulles.
That Obama article by Codevilla is a stroll through several book reviews. None of them change the fact that Obama is/was an empty suit. He was talent-spotted, prepped, handled, and brought onto the stage at the right time. He plays his role, reads his lines, and delivers what his handlers want.
I've never read Cord Meyer's book. In conjunction with my research into the Comintern/KGB's operations against us, I've become quite familiar with the history of American intelligence, before the CIA's existence, and its early years. Just glancing at the table of contents of Meyer's book doesn't seem to offer much that isn't available in other sources.
An invaluable resource, which revealed the depth and breadth of the Comintern operation that sowed the seeds of PC-Prog, is Steven Koch's Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals
My work builds on Koch's magnificent revelations. He nailed the whole Comintern covert influence operation, its operators, its American targets, the payload, its goals. But then he wimped out--he pretends that since Muenzenberg died, the operation died. But he's wrong. The payload was so powerful, and Muenzenberg's front organizations so well-formed, that it became a self-licking ice cream cone. The beliefs grew and grew, the organizations grew and grew, metastasized, spread. Until it produced Obama's handlers, and PC-Progism today.
Highly recommend it, followed by Willing Accomplices!
Interesting but ultimately unconvincing. The US elite sponsor anti-American feeling because the denationalisation of the USA fits with the imperatives of a globally integrated economy. The elite also want to destroy the morale of those they rule in order to consolidate control at home. Soviet propaganda ertainly developed many of the themes we hear today, but their adoption and normalisation suited the needs of the US elite since the 70s. The convergence between Soviet propaganda and Washington propaganda reveals the enmity of Washington towards its people but blaming Muenzenberg and co is simply not convincing.
Obama aimed to create a BIPOC heavy elite that can rule the planet in close co-ordination with the elites of the Global South. The woke bullshit us about delegitimising the old ways and legitimising the new. Obama was not, and is not, a closet Marxist. He is a race-baiting opportunist latching on to the shibboleth of the era of Civil Rights and decolonisation. A lot of this is about signalling to Americas rivals and ememies that their elites are viewed by Washington as potential allies. It is to reassure the elites of the Global South that US elites have no loyalty or concern with the American people that might stand in the way of business.
Thanks for your comments on this Philip.
A couple of thoughts:
--Obama, the man, is totally irrelevant. He is an empty suit, a ventriloquist's dummy, a teleprompter-reading cardboard cutout. He is propped by his handlers, and given lines to read. Just as Rock Hudson was NOT a macho cowboy, just a pretty boy homo who read his lines; so is Obama.
--"Obama was not, and is not, a closet Marxist." The revelations of Muenzenberg's operation to implant the PC-Prog payload virus into American culture do NOT imply that today's PC-Progs are "closet Marxists." Far from it--see this post for more on that (https://kentclizbe.substack.com/p/pc-prog-misconceptions-woke-cultural).
Summary: Though Comintern Marxists planned the payload, the beliefs, and ran the operation that implanted the payload into American culture, the results have NO connection to "Marxism." The results are NOT "Cultural Marxism" (there's no such thing). Marxists planted the seeds, but the resulting growth is a new thing. It is PC-Prog, which is pure hatred of Normal America.
--So, in your analysis the elite "sponsor anti-American feeling." Where did that belief system/feeling originate? When/how/who introduced it? How did the introducers gain initial buy-in? Just waving hands and saying "Obama done it!" ignores the long, 80 year, gestation of the belief system and the active measures used to insert it into the three transmission belts of American culture--Hollywood, the media, and education/academia--and the huge social infrastructure the Muenzenberg operation created. Dozens upon dozens of socio-political front groups repeated the anti-Normal beliefs--beginning with Sacco and Vanzetti and the Scottsboro Boys in the 1920s, and continuing through WW2. Once the template was laid, and Muenzenberg's operators taught American Willing Accomplices the basics of the operation, this approach became a self-licking ice cream cone. The Comintern operators were all killed off, and the operation abandoned in the late 1930s. But the initial groups, and the warm feelings of superiority and belonging engendered in the Americans that participated, are the root of the Muenzenberg operation. Participation, and the stories told, and songs sung about participating in them, by the early PC-Progs ("radicals") are the root of today's elite hatred of Normal American culture.
--So, yes, the elite do sponsor anti-American feeling--that's the essence of PC-Prog beliefs. And that essence came exactly from the Comintern's massive operation to implant that essence of self-hatred. It didn't just arise organically from within American culture.
--"The convergence between Soviet propaganda and Washington propaganda reveals…" What it reveals is the source of the PC-Prog belief system. If you suddenly notice kudzu vines popping up through your floorboards, you need to trace those vines back to their origin--planted in ditchbanks 100 years ago to stop erosion. Those vines didn't just pop up magically because you forgot to sweep your floor last night. Just so, with vile hatred of Normal America--it didn't just pop-up in the 70s, or from Obama. It manifested itself after implantation in the '20s, underground growth from the '30s to the '70s, emergence in the '80s, full flower with the Obama administration, and engulfing the world since then.
--"The elite also want to destroy the morale of those they rule in order to consolidate control at home." Overall, this critique is confusing results with the cause. The result of the implantation of PC-Prog hate-America-first beliefs is that now the elites understand the power of destroying the morale of Americans, and the resulting ability to consolidate power, using hatred and denigration of Normal culture.
--"The woke bullshit us about delegitimising the old ways and legitimising the new." Well, yes. That was the whole goal of the Comintern operation. They miscalculated the timeline--instead of 5 years, it took 80. And instead of the "new ways" being their Marxism, their efforts created a wholly new belief system--PC-Progism--or "Normal America sucks." When they lashed up with the neoconservatives, the new imperialist PC-Prog American was born. Destruction of Normal America at home, constant wars cloaked as "Spreading Democracy," or rainbow flags and women's rights abroad.
--"The Global South": Again confusing effects with causes. Today's PC-Prog/Neocon lash-up couldn't give a flying fiddly what the Global South thinks, believes, or does. The best manifestation of the Global South's reaction to PC-Prog/neocon rule of America is the destruction of capitalism required by PC-Progs, and manifested as "Global Warming." The Global South sees the self-hatred and suicidal activities pursued by this PC-Prog operation, and joins in the fun. They demand reparations, payments, more and more, because capitalism. The PC-Prog action corollary--America must be changed/destroyed--fuels our PC-Prog/neocons to encourage third world demands for American destruction. Nothing to do with signaling third world elites that they're allies. They know that PC-Prog/neocon America will obliterate them (ask Kaddafy, Assad, Egypt, Serbia, etc) in a heartbeat, for any reason. American PC-Prog/neocons see the third world as fodder for spreading PC-Prog/neocon/globohomo beliefs. "Business" is a sort of low level concern--power and control of the government give PC-Progs all they need. The crumbs that business provides are tertiary effects. Total control is what they crave.
Thanks for the opportunity to expound and expand.
Merry Christmas! Think positive!
Am in a rush so can't respond in detail. My take on Soetoro was formed by Angelo Codevilla's work and that of Webster Tarpley. Codevilla worked for Senate intelligence committee. https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-chosen-one/
Would also recommend that you look at Cord Meyer's FACING REALITY. Myers was a deputy director of the CIA and was himself a Leftist when recruited by Dulles.
Thanks, Philip.
I'm familiar with both Cord Meyer and Codevilla.
That Obama article by Codevilla is a stroll through several book reviews. None of them change the fact that Obama is/was an empty suit. He was talent-spotted, prepped, handled, and brought onto the stage at the right time. He plays his role, reads his lines, and delivers what his handlers want.
I've never read Cord Meyer's book. In conjunction with my research into the Comintern/KGB's operations against us, I've become quite familiar with the history of American intelligence, before the CIA's existence, and its early years. Just glancing at the table of contents of Meyer's book doesn't seem to offer much that isn't available in other sources.
An invaluable resource, which revealed the depth and breadth of the Comintern operation that sowed the seeds of PC-Prog, is Steven Koch's Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals
https://www.amazon.com/Double-Lives-Munzenberg-Seduction-Intellectuals/dp/1929631200
My work builds on Koch's magnificent revelations. He nailed the whole Comintern covert influence operation, its operators, its American targets, the payload, its goals. But then he wimped out--he pretends that since Muenzenberg died, the operation died. But he's wrong. The payload was so powerful, and Muenzenberg's front organizations so well-formed, that it became a self-licking ice cream cone. The beliefs grew and grew, the organizations grew and grew, metastasized, spread. Until it produced Obama's handlers, and PC-Progism today.
Highly recommend it, followed by Willing Accomplices!