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2021-07-28 -Great Cultural Revolution

[American Thinker] American cities are reeling from increased crime ranging from burglary and arson to murder. Americans, rightly, are concerned -- except for Democrat officials. San Francisco, a bastion of progressive stupidity, is among the hardest hit cities -- yet the San Francisco lunatics who run the city claim anyone concerned with rising crime is a white supremacist. This is common from among the Democrat intelligentsia and leadership.

To understand why Democrats don’t care about crime, we must turn to two prophets of the new anti-American ideology. Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault are essential to understand to enter the deluded mind of the modern progressive and why they are happy to let American cities burn rather than confront crime and stop the desecration of America’s once iconic cities.

Antonio Gramsci authored his famous treatise while imprisoned in Italy under Mussolini’s government. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks offered an explanation for why the proletariat revolution failed in the West and laid out a new roadmap for revolutionary success in the future. According to Gramsci, the revolution failed by the revolutionaries didn’t have cultural-institutional power.

Gramsci’s thesis is called "cultural hegemony." The idea, in a nutshell, is that cultural values and consciousness emanate and are reinforced by societal institutions. Business, media, religion, courts of law -- all institutions controlled by the patriotic bourgeoisie prevent the underclass and exploited people from ever learning of their oppression. The task, then, of the radical is to seize control of the institutions in order to propagate the revolutionary ideology. This reached fruition beginning in the late 1960s with student radicals influenced by Gramsci eventually growing up and taking positions throughout American institutions.

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-28 07:19|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 The idea, in a nutshell, is that cultural values and consciousness emanate and are reinforced by societal institutions. Business, media, religion, courts of law

Now called WOKE for short.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-28 07:53|| 2021-07-28 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 But they do care. Crime, as the Soviets taught us, is a tool of control. Democrats *like* crime.

Posted by Angstrom 2021-07-28 09:39|| 2021-07-28 09:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Finding that the working class didn't care for communism was a huge blow, one for which they never forgave us.

Instead of just admitting they were wrong and trying something else, they went on a multi-generation project to destroy our lives and force communism on us against our will.

Posted by Slomorong Thraiger7030 2021-07-28 11:15|| 2021-07-28 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 "Criminals are class-brothers" - Archipelago Gulag

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-07-28 11:48|| 2021-07-28 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Dead on, Angstrom. No matter the details it works out for their agenda. On the one hand it keeps the population preoccupied with their own security. On the other it destroys the high trust society we have enjoyed in America.

Posted by Cesare 2021-07-28 12:24|| 2021-07-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 File under - professional courtesy

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-28 13:21|| 2021-07-28 13:21|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought the intentionally high crime rates were about gun control. They use the issue of murder rates And violent crime to blame guns, then get the guns taken away or stricter gun laws.

Posted by Xyz 2021-07-28 14:26|| 2021-07-28 14:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Now they and the MSM are yammering about GHOST GUNS as if they are the source of teh problem

Posted by Frank G 2021-07-28 14:44|| 2021-07-28 14:44|| Front Page Top

#9

End game a DC Nationally controlled Local Police Force.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-07-28 15:05|| 2021-07-28 15:05|| Front Page Top

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