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Hard Revolution:
Minneapolis, Marxism and 'Riot Ideology'
Hard Revolution: Minneapolis, Marxism and 'Riot Ideology'
Explore the connection between Marxism and urban riots in Minneapolis and beyond.
hotair.com
The riots that are likely to erupt in Minneapolis will have nothing to do with the death of a woman who was involved in an altercation with ICE officers. Her death will be the excuse that Marxists use to try and burn down the United States.
We’ve been here before. After Martin Luther King was assassinated in April 1968, more than 1,200 buildings in Washington, D.C.were burned. The cost was almost $25 million. The mayhem was caused by Marxist radicals. Near the end of his book Ten Blocks From the White House, Washington Post reporter Ben Gilbert - a black man and no conservative - introduces a theme that has reverberated through urban riots for more than fifty years. That theme is Marxism.
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From the D.C riots to George Floyd to the unrest in Minneapolis, the driving force is the same thing - what the late great urban historian Fred Siegel called “riot ideology.” In his 1997 book The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities Siegel describes “riot ideology” as when“public officials are reluctant to confront public disorder and crime for fear of violent opposition.” Riot ideology was once a hallmark of Marxist groups like the Black Panthers and Weather Underground. It is now ignored by the mainstream media even as it has helped destroy America’s cities. The 2020 urban riots over the death of George Floyd cost an estimated $2 billion, a record.
In “Forever 1968,” a 2016 City Journal article, Siegel argued that “there is [a] continuity between the current moment and the never-ending sixties: the revival of Black Pantherism in the form of the Black Lives Matter movement and the writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates, the new Eldridge Cleaver.” Siegel noted that “the sixties are sometimes associated with the idea of participatory democracy, but that concept was buried under the weight of Great Society bureaucracies.” Siegel pinpoints the main problem: “One feature of the sixties has endured: the glorification of violence…Violence incarnate was glamorized by the dashing, handsome, leather-clad Black Panthers and their gorgeous consorts. The Panthers colonized the minds of the New Left—particularly Students for a Democratic Society and its offshoot, the Weathermen—who longed to win their approval. Liberals were caught up in Panthermania, too.”
This dynamic was captured not just in the work of Ben Gilbert and Fred Siegel but in Hard Revolution, a novel by the great D.C. author George Pelecanos. Hard Revolution is set in 1968 and revolves around the riots. As Pelecanos notes, there was trouble brewing long before Martin Luther King was killed:
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Pelecanos has written over 20 great novels and has written scripts for the television show The Wire. I’m inviting him to our Anti-Communist Film Festival this year. Hard Revolution was published in 2003 but it’s more relevant than the mainstream media coverage coming out of Minneapolis in 2026. The story is not about a tragic death, it’s not about community policing, it’s not about Donald Trump. It’s about what it’s always been about - Marxist revolution.
Commentary:
These are the Democrats of a Socialist America doing what the Dem Party does. They use violence to get their way. They've been doing it for over 150 years - the Civil War, KKK, MLK assassination. LA Riots, Occupy Wall Street, BLM, Antifa. These are all the paramilitary arm of the Democrat Party.
So Mayor Frey of Minneapolis claims that ICE has killed more people in his city as other murderers, this year. Problem is, the year is only 8 days old.
Meanwhile, the death of Renee Good has been determined not a homicide by Federal authorities and various videos of the incident.
