RR
There are lots and lots of geniuses with lots and lots of analysis and we can
go nuts
listening to all of them. Anyhow I am letting my Bcc list take a look at it
like I do with
most of the crap you post. They have the privilege to delete or read it.
Shouldn't you
thank me?
Stan the simple man
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Feb 11, 2017 11:42 am
Subject: [sparkscoffee] WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PLANNED U.S. CIVIL WAR
This week’s news is dominated, once again, with reports of violent
demonstrations against the Trump administration. We have seen violent
demonstrations before, but something new has been added that is profoundly
significant. It is the rhetoric of civil war and revolution.
The organizations spouting civil-war rhetoric are following a playbook taken
from the writings of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Communist Party. It is a
rhetoric that demonizes all enemies as ‘capitalist exploiters’ (in America,
where there still is a latent affinity to capitalism, the word ‘Fascism’ is
preferred.) and calls for an overthrow of the government. Followers are not
supposed to think about what would replace it but, for those who are curious,
the answer is a ‘socialist’ government responsive, not to big business, but to
the people.
You may think that, boisterous as these demonstrators are, and although they
can draw a few thousand youngsters to their events, they are but a tiny
fraction of the population and could never pose a serious threat to any
government. But how wrong you would be.
Major political changes always are achieved by minorities. All revolutions are
the work of less than three percent of the population, and the American
Revolution was no exception. It’s not how many people there are, but how well
organized they are and where they are. If the three percenters are influential
in a nation’s power centers (political parties, government agencies, courts,
military, schools, activist groups, labor unions, etc.), then the odds are in
their favor. The masses will follow the winners.
When you look at the rag-tag bunch carrying placards and shouting obscenities,
you may be comforted thinking that they have no influence in the real power
centers, but be mindful that street theater is only half the picture. Classic
communist strategy involves, not one, but two types of revolution. The first is
by force and violence (they call it a war of national liberation), but the
other is political and peaceful (what they call a proletarian revolution).
The two are designed to work together, one from the bottom (masses in the
streets) and the other from the top (agents inside government waiting for an
excuse to introduce legislation that will move the nation closer to the
Leninist ideal. The strategy is, not to conquer in one fell swoop, but to do so
by a series of steps, each one seen by the public as a necessary compromise to
end the violence.
In 1969, I delivered a lecture on this subject, entitled More Deadly than War.
That was in the day when I was hanging out at the communist book store in Los
Angeles doing research on collectivism, so I was loaded with communist
publications to illustrate my message. The presentation was recorded on
black-and-white film, released in VHS format, and then forgotten. Someone put
it on YouTube about five years ago.
It has been almost fifty years since I gave much thought to that lecture so,
when I started to write this commentary, I decided to watch it again to see
what I said. Frankly, I was blown away by how every point applies directly to
what is happening today.
If you are interested in my analysis, here is the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOa1foc5IXI
G. Edward Griffin
2017 February 10
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