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Gramsci: A Method to the Madness
http://www.grecoreport.com/gramsci_a_method_to_the_madness.htm
by William Norman Grigg
Behind the many maddening attacks on America's popular culture
is Italian Communist theoretician Antonio Gramsci's strategy for
achieving the total state.
In any totalitarian state, the oppressed always outnumber the
oppressors. While such regimes are built upon the threat and
practice of terror, it is impossible to create institutions of
state terror that can control all of the subjects, all of the
time. Thus would-be-tyrants who seek to dominate entire
populations must devise some means of inducing their victims to
enslave themselves. Aldous Huxley, author of the classic
anti-totalitarian novel Brave New World, explained that the most
efficient totalitarian system would be one in which the rulers
would "control a population of slaves who do not have to be
coerced, because they love their servitude." In Huxley's model
of the total state, the population was controlled through the
use of sex, drugs, vapid entertainment, government-generated
slogans, and manufactured social fads.
Russian anti-Communist Alexander Zinovyev, a world-renowned
author, has described how the West, particularly the United
States, is descending into a totalitarian culture of the sort
predicted by Huxley. "It is enough to switch on the TV set, to
go to the movies, to open a best-seller, ...to listen to the
ubiquitous music," complained Zinovyen in the July 24, 1999
issue of France's Le Figaro, "and you'll find them propagating
the cult of sex, violence and money. Noble slogans about
tolerance and respect for others are concealing those three
pillars of totalitarian democracy."
Zinovyev, who was persecuted as a dissident under the Brezhnev
regime, has a clear understanding of the way in which those
intent on total power work to undermine the cultural
institutions of a free society. Often, power cannot be seized
through the sudden imposition of a total dictatorship; instead,
it must be obtained through the process of patient gradualism --
the persistent subversion of vital institutions and the
incremental consolidation of power.
These efforts draw upon a blueprint composed by Italian
Communist theoretician Antonio Gramsci (photo), who understood
that the creation of the total state requires the seizure of the
"mediating institutions" that insulate the individual from the
power of the government -- the family, organized religion, and
so forth -- and a systematic redefinition of the culture in
order to sustain the new political order. The battle cry of
Gramsci's disciples is: "Capture the culture!"
In his study The Two Revolutions: Gramsci and the Dilemmas of
Western Marxism, Marxist theoretician Carl Boggs emphasizes that
"the transition to socialism must occur on two distinct but
interwoven terrains -- the state and the economy." Those seeking
the triumph of socialist revolution will not prevail by simply
overthrowing "the existing state machinery, or [destroying] the
old institutions, or even [bringing] into power leaders calling
themselves 'communists.' Beneath the level of insurrection and
statecraft there must be a gradual conquest of social power,
initiated by popular subversive forces emerging from within the
very heart of capitalist society." Rudi Dutschke described this
process as "the long march through the institutions" -- the
Marxist conquest of universities, schools, the news media,
entertainment, churches and other religious bodies, tax-exempt
foundations, and other key institutions.
The success of the Gramscian cultural assault upon America was
attested to by Michael Walzer in the Winter 1996 issue of the
Marxist journal Dissent. As evidence that the revolutionary left
is winning the "Gramscian 'war of position,' " Walzer
approvingly cited, among other developments: "The visible impact
of feminism." "The effects of affirmative action." "The
emergence of gay rights politics, and ... the attention paid to
it in the media." "The acceptance of cultural pluralism." "The
transformation of family life," including "rising divorce rates,
changing sexual mores, new household arrangements -- and, again,
the portrayal of all this in the media." "The progress of
secularization; the fading of religion in general and
Christianity in particular from the public sphere -- classrooms,
All of these developments, Walzer admitted, were imposed upon
our society by "liberal elites," rather than being driven "by
the pressure of a mass movement or a majoritarian party." These
changes, Walzer observed, "reflect the leftism or liberalism of
lawyers, judges, federal bureaucrats, professors, school
teachers, social workers, journalists, television and screen
writers -- not the population at large."
"Left Wing of the Ruling Class"
The "elites" referred to Walzer also include major tax-exempt
foundations that have generously underwritten subversive "change
agents" in the United States for decades. Such foundations are
the conduits that link "silk-hat" revolutionaries with
street-level radicals in a common assault upon middle-class
America. Great care has been taken by the architects of the
cultural war to make it appear that the onslaught is a
spontaneous revolution arising from the masses. However, the
most radical changes in American society are being imposed from
the top down, are lavishly underwritten by the Establishment. It
is through this two-pronged "scissors strategy" of pressure from
above and pressure from below that the assault on America's
cultural institutions has done the most damage.
In his 1968 book The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College
Revolutionary, New Left radical James Kunen describes how
emissaries from Rockefeller interests "offered to finance our
demonstrations in Chicago." One of Kunen's radical comrades from
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a domestic terrorist
network allied with Moscow and Havana, was surprised to learn
that "men from Business International Round Tables" had offered
to "buy up a few radicals." "These men are the world's leading
industrialists," commented Kunen with reference to the SDS's
would-be corporate angels. "They are the left wing of the ruling
class." One objective of the Establishment, commented Kunen, was
to help the New Left "make a lot of radical commotion so they
[the corporate elitists] can look more in the center as they
move to the left." [This "pressure from below" tactic should be
remembered by the reader the next time he sees the manipulated
liberal morons who demonstrate against "corporate globalism,"
ala Seattle, take to the streets. Their demonstrations are
The experiences Kunen describes were by no means unique.
Consider onetime student radical Gerry Kirk, whose vita included
membership in the SDS, the Black Panthers, the Communist Party,
and other subversive organizations. In 1970, one year after his
break with the Communist Party, Kirk presented testimony to the
House and Senate Internal Security panels regarding the
conspiracy's "scissors strategy" at work: "Young people have no
conception of the conspiracy's strategy of pressure from above
and pressure from below. ... They have no idea that they are
playing into the hands of the Establishment they claim to hate.
The radicals think they're fighting the forces of the super
rich, like Rockefeller and Ford, and they don't realize that it
is precisely such forces which are behind their own revolution,
financing it, and using it for their own purposes."
Building the Culture of Death
The strategy Kirk describes can be seen at work in every
significant assault upon America's traditional culture. It is
particularly visible in the campaign to overturn legal
protection for the unborn and to enshrine the "death ethic" as
our society's standard. The accepted history of the abortion
revolution, author Mary Meehan wrote in the Fall 1998 issue of
Human Life Review, dictates that all "brave civil libertarians
and women's rights advocates, encouraged by liberating currents
in the 1960s, dared to raise the abortion issue in public and to
prompt serious debate about it. ...The U.S. Supreme Court gave
them a huge victory with its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision."
However, Meehan continues, "A wealth of inside information, now
available in private and government archives," documents that
No name is more prominently associated with the "power elite"
than Rockefeller, and from its beginning the American abortion
movement profited from Rockefeller largesse. "John D.
Rockefeller 3rd and his family, and their foundations provided
much of the money" to advance the designs of the eugenicists
movement, Meehan observes. Rockefeller's grandfather, John D.
Rockefeller, and his son, John D. Jr., "were members of the
American Eugenics Society, and JDR 3rd helped keep the eugenics
group afloat financially during the depression." Among the other
financial luminaries in the power elite that supported the
eugenicist movement were Mary Harriman, widow of railroad baron
E. H. Harriman, and George Eastman of Eastman Kodak.
Socialist and anti-Christian agitator Margaret Sanger, founder
of the Birth Control League (later re-named Planned Parenthood),
shared membership with the Rockefellers in the American Eugenics
Society (AES) and benefited greatly from their financial
support. Not only was Sanger a liaison between the power elite
and street-level agitators, she was also a conduit between the
AES and its counterparts in National Socialist Germany. The
April 1933 issue of Sanger's Birth Control Review, which was
devoted to the subject of eugenic sterilization, featured an
article by Dr. Ernst Rudin, a high official of the Nazi regime.
Hitler, Meehan observes, openly admired the AES. When this
affinity became a political liability for the AES in the late
1930s, it was John D. Rockefeller 3rds financial support that
kept the organization alive. It was at this same time, Meehan
In 1939, the Rockefeller Foundation (which was still financing
the pro-Nazi AES) underwrote a secret project called "Studies on
American Interests in the War and the Peace." Conducted by the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on behalf of the U.S. State
Department, this Rockefeller-funded initiative created the
framework for what would become the United Nations. Among the
studies prepared for the project was a paper by eugenicist Frank
Notestein that called for "propaganda in favor of controlled
fertility as an integral part of a public health program."
Julian Huxley, the first director-general of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
built upon that recommendation in his 1947 book UNESCO: Its
Purposes and Its Philosophy.
Although "any radical eugenic policy will be for many years
politically and psychologically impossible," wrote Huxley, "it
will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is
examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is
informed of the issues at stake so that much that is now
unthinkable may at least become thinkable." In 1952, to pave the
way for the advent of the "unthinkable," John D. Rockefeller 3rd
and AES's Frederick Osborn founded the Population Council. As
Mary Meehan points out the work of the Population Council was to
convince "government leaders in poor nations that they had a
serious population problem" and then show them "how to solve it
through population control."
Of course, these "unthinkable" designs were not intended solely
for export to other countries. "By the early 1960s," wrote
Michael S. Teitelbaum of the CFR's Study Group on Population and
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Winter 1992-93 issue of Foreign
Affairs, "elite public opinion on population matters --
Republican and Democratic, conservative and liberal alike -- had
shifted closer to that advanced by Rockefeller a decade earlier.
Key figures in the Kennedy administration initiated the first
U.S. foreign policy initiatives on population, in spite of
opposition from the Catholic Church. ..." In 1963, according to
journalist Benjamin Bradlee, a confidant of JFK, Kennedy told
him privately that "he was all for people solving their problems
by abortion (and specifically told me I could not use that for
publication in Newsweek)." In the same year, Planned Parenthood
President Alan Guttmacher explained to his co-conspirators that
laws protecting the unborn could only be changed "inch by inch
and foot by foot, but not a mile at a time. ... I am in favor of
abortion on demand, but feel from the practical point of view
that such a social revolution should evolve by stages."
Legal Demolition
To undertake the task of demolishing laws protecting the unborn,
the Rockefeller-led power elite created the National Association
for the Reform of Abortion Laws (NARAL, now known as the
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League). NARAL
co-founder Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who has since become a
stalwart pro-life advocate, described the group as "the
radicals, the Bolsheviks. We would settle for nothing less than
striking down all existing abortion statutes and substituting
abortion on demand." One of NARAL's most successful tactics was
"to blame the church for the death of every woman from a botched
abortion," recalls Nathanson. "There were perhaps three hundred
or so deaths from criminal abortions annually in the United
States in the sixties, But NARAL in its press releases claimed
to have data that supported a figure of five thousand."
NARAL co-founder Lawrence Lader, a doctrinaire Marxist, was an
eager collaborator with the Rockefellers in the assault on the
right to life. Lader's background, Dr. Nathanson recalls, "made
it ... easy for him to understand the Rockefellers and the other
principalities and powers with whom he had to deal. ..." Those
anti-life "principalities and powers" began to roll up victories
for the death ethic, as new permissive abortion laws were
enacted in California, New York, Nevada, and other states. With
the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, all remaining protection for
the unborn -- and, as we have recently been reminded, those in
the process of being born -- was annihilated. But the grisly,
Stalinesque abortion toll, horrifying as it is, is just one
aspect of the social revolution brought about by the power
elite's eugenicist movement.
In a 1967 Science magazine essay, population control advocate
Kinglsey Davis noted that "the conditions that cause births to
be wanted or unwanted are beyond the control of family planning
... the social structure and economy must be changed before a
deliberate reduction in the birthrate can be achieved."
According to Davis, "changes basic enough to affect motivation
for having children would be changes in the structure of the
family, in the position of women and in the sexual mores." He
also suggested that governments could manipulate the tax
structure to discourage marriage (creating the so-called
"marriage penalty"), and that "women could be required to work
outside the home, or compelled by circumstances to do so." In a
Apostle of Perversion
The role of changing America's "sexual mores" was assigned to
sexologist Alfred Kinsey, who in 1948 published Sexual Behavior
in the Human Male -- the opening salvo in the "sexual
revolution." Underwritten by the Rockefeller Foundation and
eagerly embraced by strategically placed subversives who had
honeycombed American institutions of law and social sciences,
the Kinsey report targeted the moral foundations of our culture
and opened a Pandora's Box of social evils, including
promiscuity, divorce, abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and
the sexual exploitation of children.
In fact, as Dr. Judith Reisman has carefully documented in her
two invaluable exposes, Kinsey, Sex and Fraud, and Kinsey:
Crimes and Consequences, the methods employed by Kinsey and his
despicable associates included "scientifically" supervised
episodes of child molestation, as well as the use of convicted
sex offenders and other deviants as the "representative" sample
of American society. On the basis of this fraudulent "research,"
Kinsey insisted that, at any given time, 95 percent of adult
American males were actively engaged in some form of deviant
sexual behavior.
The widely accepted myth that 10 percent of the population is
homosexual is the most obvious illustration of Kinsey's
influence. However, as Dr. Reisman point[s] out, ... the Kinsey
cabal's malign influence extends far beyond the mainstreaming of
homosexuality. Kinsey and his accomplices set out with the
intention "to topple, or greatly weaken, laws concerning rape,
seduction, prostitution, sodomy, bestiality, indecent exposure,
incest, bigamy, nudity, obscenity, adultery, fornication,
adult-child sex, illicit cohabitation, pornography, smoking
opium and other narcotics." Morris Ernst, Kinsey's lawyer (who
was, not surprisingly, affiliated with the American Civil
Liberties Union), insisted that "virtually every page of the
Kinsey Report touches on some section of the legal code." With
"It is difficult to exaggerate the horrendous effects of the
widespread promotion and acceptance of [Kinsey's] work,"
comments Dr. Reisman. "Kinsey's 'research' shook America's moral
foundations and launched the Sexual Revolution in the 1960s. Its
terrible results are obvious in the skyrocketing incidence of
all the social pathologies afflicting us today: divorce,
abortion, sexual promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases,
illegitimate births, cohabitation, pornography, homosexuality,
sadomasochism, rape, child molestation, sexual crimes of all
types, family breakup, [and] endemic violence. ..."
The Feminist Assault
The most obvious and effective assault upon the traditional home
is that which has been waged by the feminist movement. This
assault -- with the unstinting financial support of the power
elite -- has effectively conquered both major political parties.
Although many commentators make great sport of feminism's more
visible absurdities, few are willing or able to recognize that
modern feminism has its origins in the Soviet-aligned Communist
movement. "While we build the movement uniting women against
their oppression, we try to win over the most conscious women to
join us in building a revolutionary party that can unite all
oppressed sectors of the population," wrote Leon Trotsky in
1917. "The women's liberation movement is a central part of the
American socialist revolution in the making."
Betty Friedan, the acknowledged "founding mother" of American
feminism, was among the "most conscious women" referred to by
Trotsky. Despite her carefully wrought public image as a typical
suburban housewife driven into radical politics by the
frustrations of domestic life (which she called a "comfortable
concentration camp"), Friedan was a professional propagandist
for the Soviet-controlled Communist Party. Prior to becoming the
anointed leader of the "Women's Movement," notes former New Left
activist David Horowitz, Friedan was "a Stalinist [and] the
political intimate of America's Cold War fifth column. ..." So
strict was Friedan's adherence to the Soviet line that she was
among those American Communists who were de facto supporters of
Adolf Hitler between August 1939 and June 1941 -- the period of
the notorious Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact. As Horowitz
concludes, Friedan's "interest in women's liberation was just a
subtext of her real desire to create a Soviet America."
To Create a Soviet America, it would be necessary to eradicate
the traditional family and to supplant the family with the
state. Karl Marx called for the "abolition of the family" in the
Communist Manifesto. "Marx was on to something more profound
than he knew when he observed that the family contained within
itself in embryo all the antagonisms that later develop on a
wider scale within the society and the state," wrote Friedan's
disciple Shulamith Firestone in her 1970 tract The Dialectic of
Sex. "unless revolution uproots the basic organization, the
biological family ... the tapeworm of exploitation will never be
annihilated." "Feminism is not just an issue or a group of
issues," wrote feminist revolutionary Ellen Willis in the
November 14, 1981 issue of The Nation. "It is the cutting edge
of a revolution in cultural and moral values. ... The objective
of every feminist reform, from legal abortion ... to child-care
programs, is to undermine traditional family values. ..."
The uprooting of traditional family institutions is also a goal
of the homosexual revolution, which -- like the feminist
movement -- has its origins in the Marxist Left and has been
nurtured by the power elite. The American "gay rights" movement
was inaugurated by the Mattachine Society, founded in the 1950s
by Marxists Harry Hay and Rudi Gernreich. The ongoing and
shockingly successful campaign to normalize homosexuality is the
product of a cunning strategy that uses the mass media,
especially entertainment, and other Establishment-controlled
institutions to re-educate the public in favor of the
unmentionable vice. That strategy was outlined, with stunning
candor, in After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and
Myth of Inevitability
Many of the problems afflicting America do not reflect the march
of impersonal, irreversible "social progress," or the process of
irresistible social decay. Instead, they reflect the destructive
accomplishments of a long-term conspiracy against American
society -- a Gramscian assault upon all of the vital
institutions that prevent the erection of the total state.
Gramsci referred to these institutions as "fortresses and
earthworks" to be overcome. However, those who love freedom
should consider these besieged institutions -- the family,
traditional religion, [Helleno-Christian] morality -- as "layers
of strength" that have remarkable resiliency and must be
restored. But the work of restoration cannot be effective unless
Such an understanding helps dispel the despair that besets good
people when they succumb to the illusion that our cultural
decline is somehow pre-ordained, and that nothing can be done to
arrest it. Understanding the covert machinations of our enemies
is also necessary in order to anticipate their moves and
organize effective resistance -- and it is only through
organized, principled defense of our heritage of liberty that
the culture war can ultimately be won.Last edited on Thu Mar 29th, 2007 02:18 pm by Antimulticulture
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