Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on personal responsibility
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”
“All you freedom-loving “left wing” thinkers in the West! You left-laborites! You progressive American, German, and French students! As far as you are concerned, this whole book of mine is a waste of effort. You may suddenly understand it all someday – but only when you yourselves hear ‘hands behind your backs there!’ and step ashore on our Archipelago.”
"The Gulag Archipelago"
#communism
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”
“All you freedom-loving “left wing” thinkers in the West! You left-laborites! You progressive American, German, and French students! As far as you are concerned, this whole book of mine is a waste of effort. You may suddenly understand it all someday – but only when you yourselves hear ‘hands behind your backs there!’ and step ashore on our Archipelago.”
"The Gulag Archipelago"
#communism
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on freedom, good and evil
Although Solzhenitsyn was not exactly a classical liberal, he strongly emphasized the linkage between personal freedom and personal responsibility. To his thinking freedom in the West developed so as to emphasize rights, without any corresponding development of obligations, and as such was unbalanced. His defintion of freedom as self control is one that is compeling. Not that freedom requires self-control (although it surely does) but that it is self-control.
“After the Western ideal of unlimited freedom, after the Marxist concept of freedom as acceptance of the yoke of necessity- here is the true Christian definition of freedom. Freedom is self-restriction! Restriction of the self for the sake of others”
– From Under the Rubble (1981) [p. 136]
On the second point: Solzhenitsyn was no moral relativist, he believed in good and evil as absolute categories. Yet falliable humans must never get too arrogant about their own goodness! Gulag outlined incredible evil, yet he states in the work:
“So let the reader who expects this book to be a political expose slam its covers shut right now. If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.
Socrates taught us: Know thyself!
Confronted by the pit into which we are about to toss those who have done us harm, we halt, stricken dumb: it is after all only because of the way things worked out that they were the executioners and we weren’t”
The Gulag Archipelago (1973) [p. 169]
#communism
Although Solzhenitsyn was not exactly a classical liberal, he strongly emphasized the linkage between personal freedom and personal responsibility. To his thinking freedom in the West developed so as to emphasize rights, without any corresponding development of obligations, and as such was unbalanced. His defintion of freedom as self control is one that is compeling. Not that freedom requires self-control (although it surely does) but that it is self-control.
“After the Western ideal of unlimited freedom, after the Marxist concept of freedom as acceptance of the yoke of necessity- here is the true Christian definition of freedom. Freedom is self-restriction! Restriction of the self for the sake of others”
– From Under the Rubble (1981) [p. 136]
On the second point: Solzhenitsyn was no moral relativist, he believed in good and evil as absolute categories. Yet falliable humans must never get too arrogant about their own goodness! Gulag outlined incredible evil, yet he states in the work:
“So let the reader who expects this book to be a political expose slam its covers shut right now. If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.
Socrates taught us: Know thyself!
Confronted by the pit into which we are about to toss those who have done us harm, we halt, stricken dumb: it is after all only because of the way things worked out that they were the executioners and we weren’t”
The Gulag Archipelago (1973) [p. 169]
#communism
What are the errors of Russia?
The “errors of Russia” (as they were developing at the time of the Bolshevik-Russian Revolution shortly after the Fatima apparitions) would seem to include, among other things, the following list of characteristics:
1. A reductively atheistic materialist world-view which aims at undermining anything Christian in society;
2. An ideology that is disconnected from Truth and reality;
3.A cultural Marxism that later permeated also the West with the help of the Frankfurt School and Antonio Gramsci’s ideas;
4. A revolutionary socialistic spirit that undermines especially major aspects of family life.
5. A Hegelian dialectic philosophy, along with dialectic materialism, which claims that strife and ongoing contention in society are necessary in order to bring about higher and unfolding forms of life; such an approach essentially denies and purportedly transcends the principle or law of non-contradiction.
6. A form of governing “revolutionary socialism” that is also constitutionally called “Democratic Centralism,” the latter formulation meaning that things have the appearance of being openly democratic, yet they are all centrally organized and managed in the background ;
7. A disregard for tradition and for the traditional institutions of society (or now of the Church, such as the Curia?) as “counter-revolutionary forces”;
8. A deceitful misuse of language with the intent to manipulate the public;
9. A method of branding one’s own opponents with sweeping and demeaning epithets that abstractly categorize them as “right-wing” or “counter-revolutionary” [and what about the most-common term in use among the left: “fascist”?];
10. An approach to ongoing revolutionary changes where there is both “a slow path” and “a fast path” of the Revolution; such is “the Dialectic” and the “dialectical process”;
11. Toward more moderate and compromising opponents, one first tries to incorporate them into the professed new system so as to use them as Lenin’s “useful idiots” in the sense that they help give to the world the illusory idea that nothing has really changed;
12. As a last element – but of course a very important and painful one for those who lived under Communism – there is a constant sense of distrust and fear, unto the imprisonment and killing of one’s intransigent opponents.
#communism
The “errors of Russia” (as they were developing at the time of the Bolshevik-Russian Revolution shortly after the Fatima apparitions) would seem to include, among other things, the following list of characteristics:
1. A reductively atheistic materialist world-view which aims at undermining anything Christian in society;
2. An ideology that is disconnected from Truth and reality;
3.A cultural Marxism that later permeated also the West with the help of the Frankfurt School and Antonio Gramsci’s ideas;
4. A revolutionary socialistic spirit that undermines especially major aspects of family life.
5. A Hegelian dialectic philosophy, along with dialectic materialism, which claims that strife and ongoing contention in society are necessary in order to bring about higher and unfolding forms of life; such an approach essentially denies and purportedly transcends the principle or law of non-contradiction.
6. A form of governing “revolutionary socialism” that is also constitutionally called “Democratic Centralism,” the latter formulation meaning that things have the appearance of being openly democratic, yet they are all centrally organized and managed in the background ;
7. A disregard for tradition and for the traditional institutions of society (or now of the Church, such as the Curia?) as “counter-revolutionary forces”;
8. A deceitful misuse of language with the intent to manipulate the public;
9. A method of branding one’s own opponents with sweeping and demeaning epithets that abstractly categorize them as “right-wing” or “counter-revolutionary” [and what about the most-common term in use among the left: “fascist”?];
10. An approach to ongoing revolutionary changes where there is both “a slow path” and “a fast path” of the Revolution; such is “the Dialectic” and the “dialectical process”;
11. Toward more moderate and compromising opponents, one first tries to incorporate them into the professed new system so as to use them as Lenin’s “useful idiots” in the sense that they help give to the world the illusory idea that nothing has really changed;
12. As a last element – but of course a very important and painful one for those who lived under Communism – there is a constant sense of distrust and fear, unto the imprisonment and killing of one’s intransigent opponents.
#communism
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen on Communism
Taken from "The World's First Love"
"There are no more struggles of the gods against gods, or of inferior religions against Christianity, but rather the absolutely new phenomenon of an antireligious force opposing all religion. Communism is not an atheism which intellectually denies God in the manner of the sophomore who has just read the first fifteen pages of a textbook in biology. Rather, Communism is the will to destroy God. It does not so much negate the existence of God; rather it challenges Him, changes His essence into evil, and makes man in the form of a dictator, the Lord and Master of the world."
"Whether we will it or not, we are being confronted not with a choice between religions, but with the supreme alternative of God or anti-God. Never before were democracy and belief in God so nearly identified; never before were atheism and tyranny so much a twin. The preservation of civilization and culture is now one with the preservation of religion. If the anti-God forces of the world conquer, culture and civilization will disappear, and we will have to start all over again."
#fultonsheen #communism
Taken from "The World's First Love"
"There are no more struggles of the gods against gods, or of inferior religions against Christianity, but rather the absolutely new phenomenon of an antireligious force opposing all religion. Communism is not an atheism which intellectually denies God in the manner of the sophomore who has just read the first fifteen pages of a textbook in biology. Rather, Communism is the will to destroy God. It does not so much negate the existence of God; rather it challenges Him, changes His essence into evil, and makes man in the form of a dictator, the Lord and Master of the world."
"Whether we will it or not, we are being confronted not with a choice between religions, but with the supreme alternative of God or anti-God. Never before were democracy and belief in God so nearly identified; never before were atheism and tyranny so much a twin. The preservation of civilization and culture is now one with the preservation of religion. If the anti-God forces of the world conquer, culture and civilization will disappear, and we will have to start all over again."
#fultonsheen #communism
"The Anti-Priests"
(Communism in the Church)
This is the story of a man who dedicated his life to the Party. Nothing but the Party mattered for him; his dedication was complete, absolute, uncompromising, unrelenting. But a human being is more than a cog in a machine; a mechanical part has no soul, but man has - even though he may regard himself as no more than a thinking animal. In fact, the higher animals respond to love. For man, love is essential. But love is not to be found in the Party Machine: "If you get caught, we will disavow you", his chief warned him.
Many men find love in marriage, or, if not in marriage, at least in their children. A few, however, are celibate all their life: scientists, composers, men of God. Even then, human warmth is not entirely lacking: Beethoven knew human admiration, and Fr. Damien was loved by his lepers. In the last resort, a man completely bereft of human love can still turn to God. But a man who has no human love at all and no belief in God, and who chooses celibacy to better serve a Party that manufactures hatred will either break down, become insane and perhaps commit suicide, or seek oblivion in drink and gradually destroy himself. Unless, of course, this man gives himself the illusion of a human dialogue by keeping a diary or writing his memoirs.
This is the story of a man who wrote his memoirs, about which he had had dreams for many nights until it had become an obsession. He yielded to the urge to write them though not understanding why. "Anyway, it does not matter", he ruminated, "for no one will ever read this; I shall destroy it in due course."
This man was a Communist agent who became a Catholic priest to better destroy the Church. He was ordained in the early forties, died in the late sixties, and his confessions survived him. He had overlooked one very important fact, however, that no man is master of his own life. He died in hospital as the result of a car accident. His papers were found in his briefcase, and read by the Catholic nurse who looked after him.
We are not relating the story out of sympathy for this Anti-Priest. His ruthlessness, his contempt of man, his demonic hatred of God and His Church, preclude such feelings of sympathy. We sincerely hope, however, that the grace of repentance was given to him before consciousness left him.
The reason we are relating this story is to reveal that, as early as 1938, there were over one thousand Communist agents ordained as Catholic priests or studying for the priesthood. They formed an efficient network of Anti-Priests whose main function was the infiltration, subversion and control of the Catholic press and Publishing Houses with the aid of Soviet money. New ideas were to be spread, a new religion was to be promoted. How well they have succeeded can be seen in a comparison of their avowed aims with the state of the Church since the Council. The reader will be able to judge for himself.
The state of the Catholic Church today bears witness to the success of the Communist subversion. Incredible as the current crises may have seemed some l8 years ago, it is here now for everyone to see. Surely; the Pontiffs who have followed Pius XII must assume some responsibility for this, for such is the meaning of leadership: to accept responsibility. Their greatest error, no matter what their motives may have been, has been to throw the doors of the Church wide open just when the enemy was trying to get in, and they should have been strengthening the locks.
Full article:
http://www.unitypublishing.com/Apparitions/TheAntiPriests.html
#communism #church
(Communism in the Church)
This is the story of a man who dedicated his life to the Party. Nothing but the Party mattered for him; his dedication was complete, absolute, uncompromising, unrelenting. But a human being is more than a cog in a machine; a mechanical part has no soul, but man has - even though he may regard himself as no more than a thinking animal. In fact, the higher animals respond to love. For man, love is essential. But love is not to be found in the Party Machine: "If you get caught, we will disavow you", his chief warned him.
Many men find love in marriage, or, if not in marriage, at least in their children. A few, however, are celibate all their life: scientists, composers, men of God. Even then, human warmth is not entirely lacking: Beethoven knew human admiration, and Fr. Damien was loved by his lepers. In the last resort, a man completely bereft of human love can still turn to God. But a man who has no human love at all and no belief in God, and who chooses celibacy to better serve a Party that manufactures hatred will either break down, become insane and perhaps commit suicide, or seek oblivion in drink and gradually destroy himself. Unless, of course, this man gives himself the illusion of a human dialogue by keeping a diary or writing his memoirs.
This is the story of a man who wrote his memoirs, about which he had had dreams for many nights until it had become an obsession. He yielded to the urge to write them though not understanding why. "Anyway, it does not matter", he ruminated, "for no one will ever read this; I shall destroy it in due course."
This man was a Communist agent who became a Catholic priest to better destroy the Church. He was ordained in the early forties, died in the late sixties, and his confessions survived him. He had overlooked one very important fact, however, that no man is master of his own life. He died in hospital as the result of a car accident. His papers were found in his briefcase, and read by the Catholic nurse who looked after him.
We are not relating the story out of sympathy for this Anti-Priest. His ruthlessness, his contempt of man, his demonic hatred of God and His Church, preclude such feelings of sympathy. We sincerely hope, however, that the grace of repentance was given to him before consciousness left him.
The reason we are relating this story is to reveal that, as early as 1938, there were over one thousand Communist agents ordained as Catholic priests or studying for the priesthood. They formed an efficient network of Anti-Priests whose main function was the infiltration, subversion and control of the Catholic press and Publishing Houses with the aid of Soviet money. New ideas were to be spread, a new religion was to be promoted. How well they have succeeded can be seen in a comparison of their avowed aims with the state of the Church since the Council. The reader will be able to judge for himself.
The state of the Catholic Church today bears witness to the success of the Communist subversion. Incredible as the current crises may have seemed some l8 years ago, it is here now for everyone to see. Surely; the Pontiffs who have followed Pius XII must assume some responsibility for this, for such is the meaning of leadership: to accept responsibility. Their greatest error, no matter what their motives may have been, has been to throw the doors of the Church wide open just when the enemy was trying to get in, and they should have been strengthening the locks.
Full article:
http://www.unitypublishing.com/Apparitions/TheAntiPriests.html
#communism #church
''A Freedom Within.''- A Cardinal's Prison Diary
By Blessed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
On September 25, 1953 Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who from the end of World War II to the present has been the personification of Poland's struggle against Communism and Soviet domination, was arrested and imprisoned. The Soviet Government in Poland, which saw the Roman Catholic primate as a threat to its stability, had earlier jailed eight bishops, 1,000 priests and more than 1,000 nuns, despite an agreement safeguarding the rights and freedom of the church.
Late in the evening of Sept. 25, 1953, the feast day of Warsaw's patron, the Cardinal was roused from his bed by the Polish Internal Security Police. Without trial, or even adequate explanation, he was stripped of his constitutional rights and shuttled out of the capital to a Capuchin friary in the countryside. During the three years of his imprisonment, he was moved about five times, always at night. His refusal to compromise the freedom of religion and independence of the church was the reason for his imprisonment and internal exile.He was deeply aware of the unchanging goals and changing tactics of Communism. He told that Communists did not want to coexist with the church.They wanted to destroy it.
The notes the late Cardinal made in prison and the prayers he wrote there were brought out of Poland to Paris through the underground after his death in 1981.
"Jesus called Judas ''my friend.'' I could not harbor a grudge against these men who were my keepers and who had been rather polite to me. In a way, they had only facilitated the inevitable, which was obvious to everyone. I would have to appreciate all that was happening to me at their hands."
"I offered a 'missa sicca', a dry mass, as I did not have the elements required for the usual Mass"
"Polish police responsibilities belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. One section of this ministry is U.B., the security police, with national headquarters in Warsaw and a local headquarters in each voivodeship ,or province.The U.B. is politically oriented and is interested in ideological adversaries, especially bishops and priests."
''We are living here in this desolation,'' I said, ''amid ruins and rubble of World War II destruction, and therefore we do not let anybody in at night.'' All the more so since our visitors at the gate tonight opened the proceedings with a lie.
Finally, it all became clear. One of the gentlemen took off his coat, took a letter out of his (To suffer abuse for the name of Jesus.) I had feared that I would never share this honor, which had befallen my seminary classmates. They had experienced concentration camps and prisons. The majority of them had lost their lives there; several returned as invalids and one died after a term in a Polish prison."
"Those who did survive the concentration camps were practically invalids. Father Kardynski had been used as a guinea pig, and long remained ill from inoculations given to him there."
"And this is the story of just one small class of Polish priests in the 20th century. My brother, Tadeusz, had his share of camps and prisons: Soviet, German and Polish. Most of the priests and bishops with whom I worked had experienced prisons. Something would have been wrong if I had not experienced imprisonment."
"If a citizen does not demand his rights, he is no longer a citizen. He becomes a slave."
''The spirit of freedom still prevails (in Poland), and the aspirations of the people for human rights seems to increase with attempts at repression.''
#communism
By Blessed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
On September 25, 1953 Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who from the end of World War II to the present has been the personification of Poland's struggle against Communism and Soviet domination, was arrested and imprisoned. The Soviet Government in Poland, which saw the Roman Catholic primate as a threat to its stability, had earlier jailed eight bishops, 1,000 priests and more than 1,000 nuns, despite an agreement safeguarding the rights and freedom of the church.
Late in the evening of Sept. 25, 1953, the feast day of Warsaw's patron, the Cardinal was roused from his bed by the Polish Internal Security Police. Without trial, or even adequate explanation, he was stripped of his constitutional rights and shuttled out of the capital to a Capuchin friary in the countryside. During the three years of his imprisonment, he was moved about five times, always at night. His refusal to compromise the freedom of religion and independence of the church was the reason for his imprisonment and internal exile.He was deeply aware of the unchanging goals and changing tactics of Communism. He told that Communists did not want to coexist with the church.They wanted to destroy it.
The notes the late Cardinal made in prison and the prayers he wrote there were brought out of Poland to Paris through the underground after his death in 1981.
"Jesus called Judas ''my friend.'' I could not harbor a grudge against these men who were my keepers and who had been rather polite to me. In a way, they had only facilitated the inevitable, which was obvious to everyone. I would have to appreciate all that was happening to me at their hands."
"I offered a 'missa sicca', a dry mass, as I did not have the elements required for the usual Mass"
"Polish police responsibilities belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. One section of this ministry is U.B., the security police, with national headquarters in Warsaw and a local headquarters in each voivodeship ,or province.The U.B. is politically oriented and is interested in ideological adversaries, especially bishops and priests."
''We are living here in this desolation,'' I said, ''amid ruins and rubble of World War II destruction, and therefore we do not let anybody in at night.'' All the more so since our visitors at the gate tonight opened the proceedings with a lie.
Finally, it all became clear. One of the gentlemen took off his coat, took a letter out of his (To suffer abuse for the name of Jesus.) I had feared that I would never share this honor, which had befallen my seminary classmates. They had experienced concentration camps and prisons. The majority of them had lost their lives there; several returned as invalids and one died after a term in a Polish prison."
"Those who did survive the concentration camps were practically invalids. Father Kardynski had been used as a guinea pig, and long remained ill from inoculations given to him there."
"And this is the story of just one small class of Polish priests in the 20th century. My brother, Tadeusz, had his share of camps and prisons: Soviet, German and Polish. Most of the priests and bishops with whom I worked had experienced prisons. Something would have been wrong if I had not experienced imprisonment."
"If a citizen does not demand his rights, he is no longer a citizen. He becomes a slave."
''The spirit of freedom still prevails (in Poland), and the aspirations of the people for human rights seems to increase with attempts at repression.''
#communism
Excerpts taken from:
''A Freedom Within.- A Cardinal's Prison Diary"
By Blessed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
September 25, 1953
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''A Freedom Within.- A Cardinal's Prison Diary"
By Blessed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
September 25, 1953
#communism
Excerpts taken from:
''A Freedom Within.- A Cardinal's Prison Diary"
By Blessed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
September 26, 1953
September 27,1953
June 7,1956
#communism
''A Freedom Within.- A Cardinal's Prison Diary"
By Blessed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
September 26, 1953
September 27,1953
June 7,1956
#communism
Archbishop Fulton Sheen on the subject of equity and equality
Taken from "The World's First Love"
The two basic errors of both Communism and Historical Liberalism on the subject of women are: (1) that women were never emancipated until modern times, since religion particularly kept them in servitude; (2) that equality means the right of a woman to do a man's work.
It is not true that women began to be emancipated in modern times and in proportion to the decline of religion. Woman's subjection began in the seventeenth century, with the breakup of Christendom, [taking its] form at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Under the Christian civilization women enjoyed rights, privileges, honors, and dignities which have since been swallowed up by the machine age. No one has better dissipated the false idea than Mary Beard in her scholarly work: Woman as Force in History. She points out that, of eighty-five guilds in England during the Middle Ages, seventy-two had women members on an equal basis with men, even in such professions as barbers and sailors. They were probably as outspoken as men, for one of the rules of the guilds was that "the sistern as well as the brethren" may not engage in disorderly or contumacious debates. In Paris, there were fifteen guilds reserved exclusively for women, while eighty of the Parisian guilds were mixed. Nothing is more erroneous historically than the belief that it was our modern age which recognized women in the professions.The records of these Christian times reveal the names of thousands upon thousands of women who influenced society and whose names are now enrolled in the catalogue of Saints --- Catherine of Siena alone having left eleven large volumes of her writings. Up to the seventeenth century in England, women engaged in business, and perhaps even more so than today; in fact, so many wives were in business that it was provided by law that the husbands should not be responsible for their debts. Between 1553 and 1640, ten per cent of the publishing in England was done by women. Because the homes had their own weaving, cooking, and laundry, it has been estimated that women in pre-industrial days were producing half the goods required by society.
In the Middle Ages women were as well educated as men, and it was not until the seventeenth century that women were barred from education. Then, at the time of the Industrial Revolution, all the activities and freedom of women were curtailed, as the machine took over the business of production and men moved into the factory. Then came a loss of legal rights by women, which reached its fullness in Blackstone, who pronounced woman's "civil death" in law.
As these disabilities continued, woman felt the loss of her freedom, and rightly so, because she felt she had been hurt by man and robbed of her legal rights; and she fell into the error of believing that she ought to proclaim herself equal with man, forgetful that a certain superiority was already hers because of her functional difference from man. Equality then came to mean, negatively, the destruction of all privileges enjoyed by specific persons or classes, and, positively, absolute and unconditioned sex equality with men. These ideas were incorporated into the first resolution for sex equality passed in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848: "Resolved that woman is man's equal, was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she be recognized as such."
This brings us to the second error in the bourgeois-capitalistic theory of women, namely, the failure to make a distinction between mathematical and proportional equality. Mathematical equality implies exactness of remuneration, for example, that two men who work at the same job at the same factory should receive equal pay. Proportional equality means that each should receive this pay according to his function.
#fultonsheen #women #communism
Taken from "The World's First Love"
The two basic errors of both Communism and Historical Liberalism on the subject of women are: (1) that women were never emancipated until modern times, since religion particularly kept them in servitude; (2) that equality means the right of a woman to do a man's work.
It is not true that women began to be emancipated in modern times and in proportion to the decline of religion. Woman's subjection began in the seventeenth century, with the breakup of Christendom, [taking its] form at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Under the Christian civilization women enjoyed rights, privileges, honors, and dignities which have since been swallowed up by the machine age. No one has better dissipated the false idea than Mary Beard in her scholarly work: Woman as Force in History. She points out that, of eighty-five guilds in England during the Middle Ages, seventy-two had women members on an equal basis with men, even in such professions as barbers and sailors. They were probably as outspoken as men, for one of the rules of the guilds was that "the sistern as well as the brethren" may not engage in disorderly or contumacious debates. In Paris, there were fifteen guilds reserved exclusively for women, while eighty of the Parisian guilds were mixed. Nothing is more erroneous historically than the belief that it was our modern age which recognized women in the professions.The records of these Christian times reveal the names of thousands upon thousands of women who influenced society and whose names are now enrolled in the catalogue of Saints --- Catherine of Siena alone having left eleven large volumes of her writings. Up to the seventeenth century in England, women engaged in business, and perhaps even more so than today; in fact, so many wives were in business that it was provided by law that the husbands should not be responsible for their debts. Between 1553 and 1640, ten per cent of the publishing in England was done by women. Because the homes had their own weaving, cooking, and laundry, it has been estimated that women in pre-industrial days were producing half the goods required by society.
In the Middle Ages women were as well educated as men, and it was not until the seventeenth century that women were barred from education. Then, at the time of the Industrial Revolution, all the activities and freedom of women were curtailed, as the machine took over the business of production and men moved into the factory. Then came a loss of legal rights by women, which reached its fullness in Blackstone, who pronounced woman's "civil death" in law.
As these disabilities continued, woman felt the loss of her freedom, and rightly so, because she felt she had been hurt by man and robbed of her legal rights; and she fell into the error of believing that she ought to proclaim herself equal with man, forgetful that a certain superiority was already hers because of her functional difference from man. Equality then came to mean, negatively, the destruction of all privileges enjoyed by specific persons or classes, and, positively, absolute and unconditioned sex equality with men. These ideas were incorporated into the first resolution for sex equality passed in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848: "Resolved that woman is man's equal, was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she be recognized as such."
This brings us to the second error in the bourgeois-capitalistic theory of women, namely, the failure to make a distinction between mathematical and proportional equality. Mathematical equality implies exactness of remuneration, for example, that two men who work at the same job at the same factory should receive equal pay. Proportional equality means that each should receive this pay according to his function.
#fultonsheen #women #communism
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen on the subject of equity and equality Taken from "The World's First Love" The two basic errors of both Communism and Historical Liberalism on the subject of women are: (1) that women were never emancipated until modern times, since…
Continued:
In a family, for example, all children should be cared for by the parents, but this does not mean that, because sixteen-year-old Mary gets an evening gown with an organdy trim, the parents should give seventeen-year-old Johnnie the same thing. Women, in seeking to regain some of the rights and privileges they had in Christian civilization, thought of equality in mathematical terms or in terms of sex. Feeling themselves overcome by a monster called "man," they identified freedom and equality with the right to do a man's job. All the psychological, social, and other advantages which were peculiar to women were ignored until the inanities of the bourgeois world reached their climax in Communism, under which a woman is emancipated the moment she goes to work in a mine. The result has been that woman's imitation of man and her flight from motherhood has developed neuroses and psychoses which have reached alarming proportions. The Christian civilization never stressed equality in a mathematical sense, but only in the proportional sense, for equality is wrong when it reduces the woman to a poor imitation of a man. Once woman became man's mathematical equal, he no longer gave her a seat in a bus, and no longer took off his hat in an elevator. (In a New York subway recently a man gave a woman his seat and she fainted. When she revived, she thanked him, and he fainted.)
Modern woman has been made equal with man, but she has not been made happy. She has been "emancipated," like a pendulum removed from a clock and now no longer free to swing, or like a flower which has been emancipated from its roots. She has been cheapened in her search for mathematical equality in two ways: by becoming a victim to man and a victim to the machine. She became a victim to man by becoming only the instrument of his pleasure and ministering to his needs in a sterile exchange of egotisms. She became a victim to the machine by subordinating the creative principle of life to the production of nonliving things, which is the essence of Communism.
This is not a condemnation of a professional woman, because the important question is not whether a woman finds favor in the eyes of a man, but whether she can satisfy the basic instincts of womanhood. The problem of a woman is whether certain God-given qualities, which are specifically hers, are given adequate and full expression. These qualities are principally devotion, sacrifice, and love. They need not necessarily be expressed in a family, nor even in a convent. They can find an outlet in the social world, in the care of the sick, the poor, the ignorant --- in the seven corporal works of mercy. It is sometimes said that the professional woman is hard. This may in a few instances be true, but if so it is not because she is in a profession, but because she has alienated her profession from contact with human beings in a way to satisfy the deeper cravings of her heart. It may very well be that the revolt against morality and the exaltation of sensuous pleasure as the purpose of life are due to the loss of the spiritual fulfillment of existence. Having been frustrated and disillusioned, such
souls first become bored, then cynical, and finally, suicidal.
The solution lies in a return to the Christian concept, wherein stress is placed not on equality but on equity. Equality is law. It is mathematical, abstract, universal, indifferent to conditions, circumstances, and differences. Equity is love, mercy, understanding, sympathy- it allows the consideration of details, appeals, and even departures from fixed rules which the law has not yet embraced. In particular, it is the application of law to an individual person. Equity places its reliance on moral principles and is guided by an understanding of the motives of individual families which fall outside the scope of the rigors of law.
#fultonsheen #women #communism
In a family, for example, all children should be cared for by the parents, but this does not mean that, because sixteen-year-old Mary gets an evening gown with an organdy trim, the parents should give seventeen-year-old Johnnie the same thing. Women, in seeking to regain some of the rights and privileges they had in Christian civilization, thought of equality in mathematical terms or in terms of sex. Feeling themselves overcome by a monster called "man," they identified freedom and equality with the right to do a man's job. All the psychological, social, and other advantages which were peculiar to women were ignored until the inanities of the bourgeois world reached their climax in Communism, under which a woman is emancipated the moment she goes to work in a mine. The result has been that woman's imitation of man and her flight from motherhood has developed neuroses and psychoses which have reached alarming proportions. The Christian civilization never stressed equality in a mathematical sense, but only in the proportional sense, for equality is wrong when it reduces the woman to a poor imitation of a man. Once woman became man's mathematical equal, he no longer gave her a seat in a bus, and no longer took off his hat in an elevator. (In a New York subway recently a man gave a woman his seat and she fainted. When she revived, she thanked him, and he fainted.)
Modern woman has been made equal with man, but she has not been made happy. She has been "emancipated," like a pendulum removed from a clock and now no longer free to swing, or like a flower which has been emancipated from its roots. She has been cheapened in her search for mathematical equality in two ways: by becoming a victim to man and a victim to the machine. She became a victim to man by becoming only the instrument of his pleasure and ministering to his needs in a sterile exchange of egotisms. She became a victim to the machine by subordinating the creative principle of life to the production of nonliving things, which is the essence of Communism.
This is not a condemnation of a professional woman, because the important question is not whether a woman finds favor in the eyes of a man, but whether she can satisfy the basic instincts of womanhood. The problem of a woman is whether certain God-given qualities, which are specifically hers, are given adequate and full expression. These qualities are principally devotion, sacrifice, and love. They need not necessarily be expressed in a family, nor even in a convent. They can find an outlet in the social world, in the care of the sick, the poor, the ignorant --- in the seven corporal works of mercy. It is sometimes said that the professional woman is hard. This may in a few instances be true, but if so it is not because she is in a profession, but because she has alienated her profession from contact with human beings in a way to satisfy the deeper cravings of her heart. It may very well be that the revolt against morality and the exaltation of sensuous pleasure as the purpose of life are due to the loss of the spiritual fulfillment of existence. Having been frustrated and disillusioned, such
souls first become bored, then cynical, and finally, suicidal.
The solution lies in a return to the Christian concept, wherein stress is placed not on equality but on equity. Equality is law. It is mathematical, abstract, universal, indifferent to conditions, circumstances, and differences. Equity is love, mercy, understanding, sympathy- it allows the consideration of details, appeals, and even departures from fixed rules which the law has not yet embraced. In particular, it is the application of law to an individual person. Equity places its reliance on moral principles and is guided by an understanding of the motives of individual families which fall outside the scope of the rigors of law.
#fultonsheen #women #communism
SchoolOfDarkness_Bella_Dodd.pdf
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School of Darkness
by Bella V. Dodd, Ex-Communist
(Book recommendation by Fr. Chad Ripperger)
Bella Dodd ranks with Whittaker Chambers as a leading converted communist. Her testimony before investigating committees revealed the extent to which communist infiltration had taken place in America, particularly among teachers in schools and colleges. This record of her life describes how she came to be a member of the Communist Party, the reasons for her gradual disillusionment and final break with the party, and her eventual return to the Catholic Church into which she was born.
Her conversion to Communism was a slow usurpation of the mind by an appeal to love of humanity, a vision of a better society, and wider social justice.
#communism
by Bella V. Dodd, Ex-Communist
(Book recommendation by Fr. Chad Ripperger)
Bella Dodd ranks with Whittaker Chambers as a leading converted communist. Her testimony before investigating committees revealed the extent to which communist infiltration had taken place in America, particularly among teachers in schools and colleges. This record of her life describes how she came to be a member of the Communist Party, the reasons for her gradual disillusionment and final break with the party, and her eventual return to the Catholic Church into which she was born.
Her conversion to Communism was a slow usurpation of the mind by an appeal to love of humanity, a vision of a better society, and wider social justice.
#communism
Ecce Verbum
SchoolOfDarkness_Bella_Dodd.pdf
Spiritual Warfare and Communism
Fr. Chad Ripperger, PhD- Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, exorcist
Summary
Fr. Ripperger talks about similarities between psychology of demons and tactics of communism.
•The mindset and tactics of communists share many similarities with those of the demons, revealing the true nature of this philosophy. It is created by people who are overcome by sin.
1) controlling what people know and how they know it
• control of information influences how people think of reality
• attack on the imagination by temptation ( manipulation through the senses, presenting sinful images in one's imagination, false associations, false interpretations of facts, inducing inadequate emotional response,), so we are not in touch with reality and don't have access to true information.
• lack of intellectual clarity
•lies as a means of control
•no humility/never admitting fault- deflecting the blame
•denying its existence
• old ideas rebranded as nuanced ones
•abuse of language- to create the atmosphere of confusion and present sin as a solution
•newspeak/ demonic inversion- "freedom is called slavery"
2) perception management (and how it relates to approach towards the other- no charity)
•no interest in cooperation, the relationships with others serve as a means to achieving personal goals
•division
•revolution/ rebellion against natural law, authority, "class struggle","non serviam"
•portraying themselves as more powerful than they actually are, so people think they can't escape them or resist, atmosphere of hopelessness
• phariseic abuse of laws
•persecution of the innocent and those who are the closest to the truth (God), who are righteous
•control of reason through emotionalism
• shaming
3) modes of operation
•corruption of morals comes before the conquest
•infiltration
•assertion of an absolutist authority structure
(taking over key positions so the changes can be made which are harmful to the members of a group, manipulating into obedience)
•crises and trauma cause suffering and weaken the will and hope
•control over every single aspect of one's life so a person doesn't make free choices
•persuasion into sinning
•double moral standards
•destruction of common sense (ability to grasp the nature of the thing and how it relates to reality)
•destruction of discipline through pleasure
•destruction of ties between people, inciting conflicts between groups leading to isolation, atomisation and loneliness
•animus delendi - desire to destroy
•revealing the method
•shifting the burden of proof from the accused to the innocent
• achievement of happiness independently of God, ignorance of the divine positive law and natural law
•attack on the religious, on clergy, making religion a materialist institution in service of the state
https://youtu.be/XeXsTgqBKeY
#communism
Fr. Chad Ripperger, PhD- Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, exorcist
Summary
Fr. Ripperger talks about similarities between psychology of demons and tactics of communism.
•The mindset and tactics of communists share many similarities with those of the demons, revealing the true nature of this philosophy. It is created by people who are overcome by sin.
1) controlling what people know and how they know it
• control of information influences how people think of reality
• attack on the imagination by temptation ( manipulation through the senses, presenting sinful images in one's imagination, false associations, false interpretations of facts, inducing inadequate emotional response,), so we are not in touch with reality and don't have access to true information.
• lack of intellectual clarity
•lies as a means of control
•no humility/never admitting fault- deflecting the blame
•denying its existence
• old ideas rebranded as nuanced ones
•abuse of language- to create the atmosphere of confusion and present sin as a solution
•newspeak/ demonic inversion- "freedom is called slavery"
2) perception management (and how it relates to approach towards the other- no charity)
•no interest in cooperation, the relationships with others serve as a means to achieving personal goals
•division
•revolution/ rebellion against natural law, authority, "class struggle","non serviam"
•portraying themselves as more powerful than they actually are, so people think they can't escape them or resist, atmosphere of hopelessness
• phariseic abuse of laws
•persecution of the innocent and those who are the closest to the truth (God), who are righteous
•control of reason through emotionalism
• shaming
3) modes of operation
•corruption of morals comes before the conquest
•infiltration
•assertion of an absolutist authority structure
(taking over key positions so the changes can be made which are harmful to the members of a group, manipulating into obedience)
•crises and trauma cause suffering and weaken the will and hope
•control over every single aspect of one's life so a person doesn't make free choices
•persuasion into sinning
•double moral standards
•destruction of common sense (ability to grasp the nature of the thing and how it relates to reality)
•destruction of discipline through pleasure
•destruction of ties between people, inciting conflicts between groups leading to isolation, atomisation and loneliness
•animus delendi - desire to destroy
•revealing the method
•shifting the burden of proof from the accused to the innocent
• achievement of happiness independently of God, ignorance of the divine positive law and natural law
•attack on the religious, on clergy, making religion a materialist institution in service of the state
https://youtu.be/XeXsTgqBKeY
#communism
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Spiritual Warfare and Communism - Full Length
This is all 48 videos of this series condensed into a single video for the convenience of the viewers.
Ecce Verbum
SchoolOfDarkness_Bella_Dodd.pdf
Communist infiltration of the Church through seminaries
Bella Dodd, School of Darkness
Some notes:
Dodd testified before the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee. In a public affidavit witnessed by a number of people, she stated:
•“In the late 1920s and 1930s, directives were sent from Moscow to all Communist Party organizations. In order to destroy the Catholic Church from within, party members were to be planted in seminaries and within diocesan organizations"
•“In the 1930’s, we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within. The idea was for these men to be ordained, and then climb the ladder of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops.”
•"I, myself, put some 1,200 men in Catholic seminaries”.
•"When I was a Communist working full time for the Party, I was in close contact with four cardinals in the Vatican, working for us. And they are still very active today.”
•These changes, she declared, would be so drastic that “you will not recognize the Catholic Church.”
•A few years later, in a conversation with a Catholic philosopher, Alice von Hildebrand, Bella told her that there are four cardinals within the Vatican “who are working for the Communists.” This was twelve years before Vatican II.
•Alice von Hildebrand also recalls what Dodd told her:
When she was an active party member, she had dealt with no fewer than four cardinals within the Vatican who were working for us, [i.e. the Communist Party]| Christian Order magazine.” [“The Church in Crisis”, reprinted from The Latin Mass magazine]
*"The objectives of Communism are being steadily advanced...The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists." -J Edgar Hoover (1956)*
•Dodd describes Communism as "a strange secret cult" whose goal is the destruction of Western (i.e. Christian) Civilization. Millions of naive idealists ("innocents") are tricked by its talk of helping the poor, but it cares only for power. For example, Dodd found there was no social research at party headquarters. "We are a revolutionary party, not a reform party," she was told. (page 163) The goal is to destroy not to improve.
•Its aim was "to create new types of human beings who would conform to the blueprint of the world they confidently expected to control." (page 162)
•"I now saw that with the best motives and a desire to serve the working people... I and thousands like me had been led to a betrayal of these very people... I had been on the side of those who sought the destruction of my own country." (page 229)
•"This is the key to the mental enslavement of mankind. The individual is made into nothing ... he operates as the physical part of [a] higher group intelligence... he has no awareness of the plans the higher group intelligence has for utilizing him." (page 158)
•Dodd tried to quit but was told: "No one gets out of the party. You die or you are thrown out." (page 197)
•Eventually, Dodd was expelled and smeared as "anti-Negro, anti-Puerto Rican, anti-Semitic, anti-labor and a defender of the landlord." (page 220)
link to the book
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Bella Dodd, School of Darkness
Some notes:
Dodd testified before the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee. In a public affidavit witnessed by a number of people, she stated:
•“In the late 1920s and 1930s, directives were sent from Moscow to all Communist Party organizations. In order to destroy the Catholic Church from within, party members were to be planted in seminaries and within diocesan organizations"
•“In the 1930’s, we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within. The idea was for these men to be ordained, and then climb the ladder of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops.”
•"I, myself, put some 1,200 men in Catholic seminaries”.
•"When I was a Communist working full time for the Party, I was in close contact with four cardinals in the Vatican, working for us. And they are still very active today.”
•These changes, she declared, would be so drastic that “you will not recognize the Catholic Church.”
•A few years later, in a conversation with a Catholic philosopher, Alice von Hildebrand, Bella told her that there are four cardinals within the Vatican “who are working for the Communists.” This was twelve years before Vatican II.
•Alice von Hildebrand also recalls what Dodd told her:
When she was an active party member, she had dealt with no fewer than four cardinals within the Vatican who were working for us, [i.e. the Communist Party]| Christian Order magazine.” [“The Church in Crisis”, reprinted from The Latin Mass magazine]
*"The objectives of Communism are being steadily advanced...The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists." -J Edgar Hoover (1956)*
•Dodd describes Communism as "a strange secret cult" whose goal is the destruction of Western (i.e. Christian) Civilization. Millions of naive idealists ("innocents") are tricked by its talk of helping the poor, but it cares only for power. For example, Dodd found there was no social research at party headquarters. "We are a revolutionary party, not a reform party," she was told. (page 163) The goal is to destroy not to improve.
•Its aim was "to create new types of human beings who would conform to the blueprint of the world they confidently expected to control." (page 162)
•"I now saw that with the best motives and a desire to serve the working people... I and thousands like me had been led to a betrayal of these very people... I had been on the side of those who sought the destruction of my own country." (page 229)
•"This is the key to the mental enslavement of mankind. The individual is made into nothing ... he operates as the physical part of [a] higher group intelligence... he has no awareness of the plans the higher group intelligence has for utilizing him." (page 158)
•Dodd tried to quit but was told: "No one gets out of the party. You die or you are thrown out." (page 197)
•Eventually, Dodd was expelled and smeared as "anti-Negro, anti-Puerto Rican, anti-Semitic, anti-labor and a defender of the landlord." (page 220)
link to the book
#communism
Ecce Verbum
Antony_C_Sutton_Wall_Street_and_the_Bolshevik_Revolution_1974.pdf
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolshevization of Wall Street was known in informed circles and explained monopoly control of industries by the likes of J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller could only realize unchallenged control if society could be made to go to work for the monopolists under the name of the public good and interest and that a totalitarian state is the perfect captive market for monopoly capitalists. This first totalitarian state that became their captive market came to be known as the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky in the New York Times (Dec. 13, 1938) wrote:
You will have a revolution, a terrible revolution. What course it takes will depend much on what Mr. Rockefeller tells Mr. Hague to do. Mr. Rockefeller is a symbol of the American ruling class and Mr. Hague is a symbol of its political tools.
Trotsky was banished by tsarist Russia because of his Marxist and revolutionary ideas. With an American passport provided by Woodrow Wilson, he found his new home across the Atlantic (after being banished by the tsar), in a posh Manhattan apartment in New York, where he worked as a journalist and an electrician for Fox Studios.[1]
His followers, known as Trotskyites became the revolutionaries who wrote the Constitution of Queretaro for the revolutionary 1917 Carranza government, the first government in the world to adopt a Soviet-type constitution (see Luis Medina, “When the Marxists Tried to Take Over Mexico”).
Meanwhile Vladimir Lenin spent his banishment moving between Germany and Switzerland, approved, facilitated, and financed by Germany. Deirdre Manifold in Fatima and The Great Conspiracy writes that 200 million Russians were handed over to the greatest tyranny in history known as communism and from here used Russia to roll it out throughout the world.
Later Joseph Stalin admitted two-thirds of war material the Soviet Union used in their war projects in China, Manchuria, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin, Korea, and Japan came from the US. China is of particular interest given how the revolution led by Sun Yat-Sen as early as 1912 was already funded by New York all the way to Chiang Kai-shek, who was weeded out of China into Taiwan by American money and arms. Sun Yat-Sen’s revolution was the precursor to Mao’s communist revolution. Thus began the strategy one finds in many regime-change operations framed as color revolutions—that of playing all sides. In addition, the idea of medical, humanitarian, and peace missions find their genesis in the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia, organized by Wall Street for both sides. And here’s the clincher—without the financial, diplomatic, and propaganda assistance given to Trotsky and Lenin by New York, the Bolsheviks may well have withered away together with any hope of Russia ever becoming socialist. Finally, Sutton explains, Russia had been the largest untapped market and constituted the greatest potential competitive threat to American industrial and financial supremacy. Hence, Wall Street enlarged its monopoly on a global scale and the “Russian market was to be converted into a captive market and a technical colony to be exploited by a few high-powered American financiers and the corporations under their control.”[2]
https://youtu.be/PaFklTLNy8c
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The Bolshevization of Wall Street was known in informed circles and explained monopoly control of industries by the likes of J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller could only realize unchallenged control if society could be made to go to work for the monopolists under the name of the public good and interest and that a totalitarian state is the perfect captive market for monopoly capitalists. This first totalitarian state that became their captive market came to be known as the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky in the New York Times (Dec. 13, 1938) wrote:
You will have a revolution, a terrible revolution. What course it takes will depend much on what Mr. Rockefeller tells Mr. Hague to do. Mr. Rockefeller is a symbol of the American ruling class and Mr. Hague is a symbol of its political tools.
Trotsky was banished by tsarist Russia because of his Marxist and revolutionary ideas. With an American passport provided by Woodrow Wilson, he found his new home across the Atlantic (after being banished by the tsar), in a posh Manhattan apartment in New York, where he worked as a journalist and an electrician for Fox Studios.[1]
His followers, known as Trotskyites became the revolutionaries who wrote the Constitution of Queretaro for the revolutionary 1917 Carranza government, the first government in the world to adopt a Soviet-type constitution (see Luis Medina, “When the Marxists Tried to Take Over Mexico”).
Meanwhile Vladimir Lenin spent his banishment moving between Germany and Switzerland, approved, facilitated, and financed by Germany. Deirdre Manifold in Fatima and The Great Conspiracy writes that 200 million Russians were handed over to the greatest tyranny in history known as communism and from here used Russia to roll it out throughout the world.
Later Joseph Stalin admitted two-thirds of war material the Soviet Union used in their war projects in China, Manchuria, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin, Korea, and Japan came from the US. China is of particular interest given how the revolution led by Sun Yat-Sen as early as 1912 was already funded by New York all the way to Chiang Kai-shek, who was weeded out of China into Taiwan by American money and arms. Sun Yat-Sen’s revolution was the precursor to Mao’s communist revolution. Thus began the strategy one finds in many regime-change operations framed as color revolutions—that of playing all sides. In addition, the idea of medical, humanitarian, and peace missions find their genesis in the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia, organized by Wall Street for both sides. And here’s the clincher—without the financial, diplomatic, and propaganda assistance given to Trotsky and Lenin by New York, the Bolsheviks may well have withered away together with any hope of Russia ever becoming socialist. Finally, Sutton explains, Russia had been the largest untapped market and constituted the greatest potential competitive threat to American industrial and financial supremacy. Hence, Wall Street enlarged its monopoly on a global scale and the “Russian market was to be converted into a captive market and a technical colony to be exploited by a few high-powered American financiers and the corporations under their control.”[2]
https://youtu.be/PaFklTLNy8c
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Antony C.Sutton - Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974)
In his book, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Antony Sutton presents the historical data showing that the Bolshevik Revolution was funded by European banks, Wall Street, and the…