“It’s All in Plain Sight”

It wasn’t a “Red Scare”. It was a Red reality.

Diana West appeared yesterday on Andrew Wilkow’s program on Blaze TV to talk about Socialism in America. She discussed her book, American Betrayal, which examines the penetration of the Roosevelt administration by Communist agents of influence:

Previous posts about the controversy over American Betrayal by Diana West:

2013   Aug   11   Diana West: On the Question of “Scholarship”
        13   Yet Another Circular Conservative Firing Squad
        14   Cordon Sanitaire: FAIL
        15   On Reading the Book
        16   Banishing the Cathars
        18   Form and Substance
 

18 thoughts on ““It’s All in Plain Sight”

  1. It’s true that Stalin had spies in the USA, and it especially became apparent when the USSR got the atom bomb. But just what does that have to do with Islam, which is what I thought this blog was all about? Are you suggesting that Roosevelt was a closet Muslim? Or for that matter, that Stalin was Muslim?

    I have no love of Islam, and the Jihadists are subhuman as far as I’m concerned. But if you’re suggesting that Communism=Islam, I can’t help but think that you’re reaching here.

    • Well, lotsa folks reach for that same equation . They find peculiar and intriguing parallels in the two totalitarian systems.

      Diana West is one of those reachers and she explains why in the first chapter of her new book. But you don’t actually have to buy the book to discover her reasoning. In fact, since so many reviewers found it entirely unnecessary to read her book to draw their unfavorable conclusions regarding Ms. West’s account, there is no necessity for you to bear any such burden either, though what I offer here puts you well ahead of those grumpy folk.

      Here’s all you have to do:

      1. click on her book on our side bar . This will open on the Amazon page for her book.

      2. once there, click again, this time on the little blue triangle at the top of the book’s image where is says “Look Inside”.

      3. that triangle opens yet again, this time to some excerpts of the book, including Chapter One.

      4. Scroll down to Page 9 or so, ff., in that first chapter and read what she has to say.

      Voila! Just 3 clicks and a scroll brings you to Ms. West’s arguments re those previously mentioned parallels between two modern totalitarian systems. Having accomplished that, you’ll be miles beyond a number of her reviewers.

      The book is definitely a phenomenon: never have so few read a book and yet felt so confident in offering their opinions as to its merits. This seems to have degenerated into a dispute between 900 footnotes vs. 900 airy assertions.
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      As for “what this blog is all about”… we do not live by the bread of jihad alone, sir:

      The time has come,” the Walrus said,
      “To talk of many things:
      Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
      Of cabbages–and kings–
      And why the sea is boiling hot–
      And whether pigs have wings.”

      In other words, while we are primarily concerned with preventing any further eruptions of the Ummah, there are other things in this wide green world which sometimes catch our eye. And when they do, why…we write about them, with or without prior approval.

      All jihad all the time would be boring. No jihad at all would be a dangerous omission. Thus do we seek a happy medium…

  2. The interviewer is very uneducated as he referred to Das Kapital as being a communist document.It was written by Hitler who was a fascist and hated communists.Unbelievable .

  3. In order to understand the spread of fascist Islam in the west it is imperative that we educate ourselves about previous fascistic regimes that oppressed the west.
    IMO, there are many parallels to the infiltration of Islam in western gov’t as how communism/socialism spread.
    It is a very real lesson worth learning. Those much more educated than I do me a tremendous service by pointing this out.

  4. Marxism is a disease that has destroyed European Christendom’s immune system. Marxism has enabled the colonization of Europe by Muslims.

    • In who’s interest might it be to import Arabs, Subcontinentals and Turks into Christendom…A very dangerous train of thought. Marx, Freud, Luxemburg, Adorno, Boas… They brought the plague.

  5. I have read Ms. West’s book. She is not a “professional” historian, but like her fellow non-professional, Robert Conquest she has in instinct and talent for the truth that many of her professional detractors lack. She also, again not unlike Mr. Conquest has a novelist’s feel for how propaganda and the suppression or omission of uncomfortable truths and historical details shapes and deforms the mental climate and what passes for conventional wisdom. The professional historians should be grateful for people like Ms. West who use the products of the professionals’ archive diving and their own intuition to illuminate the current scene and save the professionals from academic inbreeding and sterility.

    Like many others, I am shocked to see how a number of otherwise sane people have volunteered to join Radosh and Horowitz’s lynch mob, many of them obviously without having bothered to read Ms. West’s book. Radosh is no great loss, but Horowitz’s conduct inexplicable.

    In any event, read the book. Your won’t regret it.

    • Well… There is mentioned a key issue in earlier comments, which is more important and revealing than people seem to understand.

      Das Kapital is the foundation and blueprint from where the broader political element that follows evolve out of. Since the monetary system of a communist system is different from system in the US, the labels or references like socialism seems to misunderstood. In regards to Das Kapital, one knows socialism is property is heavy influenced by superior ownership of the state. While in a economic system and society at large, where the state owns absolutely nothing but dept to the powerful global companies.

      Similarities comes from globalization being a shared strategy to reach their goals, either economic or political. The individual shall identify with logos and brands, but first must group identity and sense of purpose be deconstructed.

      What we are witnessing today is the fundamental split within populations and nations, seems to conceptualize different views on reality that cause tension and growing unrest. People who use same words for different things will cause social reaction in time.

      Her theory about some communist takeover depends on reality where Das Kapital is societies foundational framework. Recent development and economic situation in Europe shows states drowning in debt, while the shared state properties being owned usually by the public have changed hands as well. Look at Iceland, where they almost ended up with every citizen being forced to take share of national debt on
      about 50 000 dollar. The UN points to forced labor without pay as being the actual definition of slavery. A child born into debt, as they do today, are De Facto being born into slavery.

      Why does this matter to the Russian communist infiltration theory? Because Communism does not require debt to control and own population. The system itself constitutes in fact the very premisses. Corporate states on the other hand draws it power from obedience and compliance with participating within the system.

      Thus the claimed democratic elections and broader impact, can essentially be said to be a choice between different promoters of the same shared political policy.

      What is necessary in the greater debate is a new approach. Talking points and arguments appeal to emotions. To entertain the intellect, where reason and knowledge are weapons used to duel. More or less bring back the revered presence of someone who display gravitas.

    • Das Kapital is the foundation and blueprint from where the broader political element that follows evolve out of. Since the monetary system of a communist system is different from system in the US, the labels or references like socialism seems to misunderstood. In regards to Das Kapital, one knows socialism is property is heavy influenced by superior ownership of the state. While in a economic system and society at large, where the state owns absolutely nothing but dept to the powerful global companies.

      Similarities comes from globalization being a shared strategy to reach their goals, either economic or political. The individual shall identify with logos and brands, but first must group identity and sense of purpose be deconstructed.

      What we are witnessing today is the fundamental split within populations and nations, seems to conceptualize different views on reality that cause tension and growing unrest. People who use same words for different things will cause social reaction in time.

      Her theory about some communist takeover depends on reality where Das Kapital is societies foundational framework. Recent development and economic situation in Europe shows states drowning in debt, while the shared state properties being owned usually by the public have changed hands as well. Look at Iceland, where they almost ended up with every citizen being forced to take share of national debt on
      about 50 000 dollar. The UN points to forced labor without pay as being the actual definition of slavery. A child born into debt, as they do today, are De Facto being born into slavery.

      Why does this matter to the Russian communist infiltration theory? Because Communism does not require debt to control and own population. The system itself constitutes in fact the very premisses. Corporate states on the other hand draws it power from obedience and compliance with participating within the system.

      Thus the claimed democratic elections and broader impact, can essentially be said to be a choice between different promoters of the same shared political policy.

      What is necessary in the greater debate is a new approach. Talking points and arguments appeal to emotions. To entertain the intellect, where reason and knowledge are weapons used to duel. More or less bring back the revered presence of someone who display gravitas.

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