So You Say You Want a Revolution?
If Antifa and Black Lives Matter help Democrats beat Trump, history tells us we should not be surprised if it is the Democrats who are targeted next.
Via American Greatness
Antifa is a radical, dangerous, group and you should be careful with them, they’ll overthrow you,” President Trump told his opponent Joe Biden after Biden refused to condemn the violent anarcho-Marxist group.
Trump is right.
Within the tactics and goals of Antifa and the “trained Marxists” of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization, there are visible echoes of previous revolutions. We saw them first in the Russian Left’s removal of Czar Nicholas II from power. Then the same tactics were deployed by the Bolsheviks against their former allies in October 1917. None believed the tiny Bolshevik Party—with between 5,000 and 10,000 members—would successfully seize control of a country of 97 million people. But Russia’s leftists underestimated the brutality and determination of the Bolsheviks.
None would survive the purges that followed.
Smash the World of the Present
Russian socialists long had sought to work within the existing system to establish a new socialist democracy. Scattered abroad in exile or in prison, the Bolsheviks did not participate in the February revolution of 1917 that forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate the throne. They were not popular, but the socialists invited them back to the country and asked for their participation in governing in the name of collegiality.
Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia with a determination to overthrow the very socialists who had granted him amnesty, upholding Karl Marx’s dictum that revolutionaries must “smash” existing institutions instead of occupying them, as the defenders of the failed 1848 Paris Commune had done. While the Russian Left sought to implement basic reforms and solidify their new provisional government, Lenin was obsessed with “smashing the world of the present.”
Similarly, even while Democrats represent the political establishment, they refuse to denounce, and frequently defend Antifa. Yet “Antifa defines the entire American political system—regardless of party affiliation as ‘fascist,’” and seeks to use violence to overthrow our “fascist” constitutional system. BLM advocates critical race theory, which assumes racism is permanent and underlies every interaction in America. It openly rejects liberalism—the idea that racism is combated by encouraging society to look at all people as individuals with equal rights. Critical race theorists advocate replacing free societies with something they control. BLM even called for the “disruption” (read: end) of the nuclear family.
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No Enemies to the Left
The Russian Left—from liberals to socialist revolutionaries—were convinced that a counterrevolution on the Right was inevitable. This was always irrational and paranoid, as the Tsar had finally stepped down when he lost support of the Right (in large part due to his wife’s fixation with Rasputin). Even the Right did not want to restore the czar. While vigilantly watching the right flank, the Left was stunned when they were attacked from the Left—despite three previous coup attempts in April, June, and July of 1917.
The Worse the Better
The Russian revolutionaries’ motto was “the worse the better.” “Committed radicals fear reform because it deprives them of leverage and establishes the ruling elite more solidly in power: they prefer the most savage repression,” wrote historian of Soviet Communism Richard Pipes.
Turning the Tables
Protests in Portland, Oregon continued for over 120 days, during which there have been 27 riots. Rioters have thrown glass bottles at police and pointed lasers directly into their eyes risking permanent loss of vision Rioters set a federal courthouse on fire. Nearly 300 Department of Homeland Security officers were injured defending that courthouse.
It would take a three-year civil war for the Bolsheviks truly to secure power. Unable to garner any real support, they subdued the population through terror. Every institution was systematically uprooted and crushed. Lenin pioneered a one-party state, built on brutality and violence previously unseen in human history, that would be used in communist revolutions all over the world. Once Lenin had used the Left to eliminate the Right, they next were liquidated. By 1941, 98 percent of all Russian socialists had been murdered. Full Article By Morgan Wirthlin @ American Greatness
