PoliticalChic
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….instead of government school grads and non-readers and non-thinkers, there is a very good chance that those who are elected Democrat officials today, would never have been elevated beyond crossing-guards.
GEORGE ORWELL ONCE SAID: “Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
…intelligent women, as well.
And now for ‘ground zero’ in political literature:
1.Both of Orwell’s inspiring opuses spelled out the dangers of totalitarian occupation of society, but none, perhaps, did it better than Zamyatin in his book “We.” Hence the thread title.
“We (Russian: Мы,) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre. George Orwell claimed that Aldous Huxley's 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We,[3] but Huxley denied this.”
Wikipedia.
You can read it on line. And, you should…. my thread contains spoilers.
2. Consider Zamyatin to be hated by Marxists, Nazis, Socialists and Democrats….all collectivists, and a favorite of Americans, especially conservatives, as his writing is strongly opposed to the demand for conformity and the bending to the will of the state.
3. Compare the following with what Zamyatin, and Orwell, warned of:
Colin Wilson, in “A Criminal History of Mankind,” of Russia at the time of the Revolution, in ways that reflect America under the Democrat regime:
“In 1929, the year of Trotsky’s exile, Stalin decided to make the Party an instrument for the ‘revolutionary transformation of society’. What this meant, in effect, was that everyone of influence was to swallow the Marxist dogmas about ‘collectivism’. (Stalin had already ended Lenin’s New Economic Policy in the previous year.) There was to be no more backsliding towards capitalism or individualism. According to Marx, the proletariat had to be allowed to take control, to become the true leaders of the new society. The bronzed tractor driver should finish his day’s work and go to the local Party meeting to learn about the teaching of Marx and Lenin, or to the local opera house to see an opera about the revolution. Artists and intellectuals had to abandon personal problems and begin to think in political terms. It was their job to educate the masses to recognize their own destiny.”
Recognize the milieu????
4. The warnings have come to pass:
"Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsci’s famed admonition of a “long march through the institutions”. In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths." Is this the end of progressive America?
The hand of the dictatorship weighs steadily heavier on real Americans.
Zamyatin's book could be re-titled "We- USA."
GEORGE ORWELL ONCE SAID: “Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
…intelligent women, as well.
And now for ‘ground zero’ in political literature:
1.Both of Orwell’s inspiring opuses spelled out the dangers of totalitarian occupation of society, but none, perhaps, did it better than Zamyatin in his book “We.” Hence the thread title.
“We (Russian: Мы,) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre. George Orwell claimed that Aldous Huxley's 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We,[3] but Huxley denied this.”
Wikipedia.
You can read it on line. And, you should…. my thread contains spoilers.
2. Consider Zamyatin to be hated by Marxists, Nazis, Socialists and Democrats….all collectivists, and a favorite of Americans, especially conservatives, as his writing is strongly opposed to the demand for conformity and the bending to the will of the state.
3. Compare the following with what Zamyatin, and Orwell, warned of:
Colin Wilson, in “A Criminal History of Mankind,” of Russia at the time of the Revolution, in ways that reflect America under the Democrat regime:
“In 1929, the year of Trotsky’s exile, Stalin decided to make the Party an instrument for the ‘revolutionary transformation of society’. What this meant, in effect, was that everyone of influence was to swallow the Marxist dogmas about ‘collectivism’. (Stalin had already ended Lenin’s New Economic Policy in the previous year.) There was to be no more backsliding towards capitalism or individualism. According to Marx, the proletariat had to be allowed to take control, to become the true leaders of the new society. The bronzed tractor driver should finish his day’s work and go to the local Party meeting to learn about the teaching of Marx and Lenin, or to the local opera house to see an opera about the revolution. Artists and intellectuals had to abandon personal problems and begin to think in political terms. It was their job to educate the masses to recognize their own destiny.”
Recognize the milieu????
4. The warnings have come to pass:
"Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsci’s famed admonition of a “long march through the institutions”. In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths." Is this the end of progressive America?
The hand of the dictatorship weighs steadily heavier on real Americans.
Zamyatin's book could be re-titled "We- USA."
