Cancel Culture Like the Soviet Style Control

There is an utterly fallacious belief championed by the promoters of Democratic Socialism who advocate socialism: “It would not be the same here, here such things are impossible.” Solzhenitsyn wrote in December 1983 in The Gulag Archipelago, “Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.” Would people and nations learn from the experience of other people without having to live through it personally?  

This is evident if one talks to the survivors of communism and their children who have been indoctrinated. These people reminisce longingly about communist tyranny. They want their tyrants back. And so do the young indoctrinated by George Soros’ education manuals printed after 1989 and who attended western colleges on George Soros scholarships.

The Communist Party members worshipped Ceausescu and his wife because they had a better life than the rest. In exchange for their evil souls and the promise to shoot, torture, and imprison anyone who objected to Ceausescu’s tyrannical rule, these boot lickers lived much better lives and were able to travel abroad.

A distant relative told me in 2015 that she wished Ceausescu could come back. Why, I asked. Her answer surprised me. “We all had a job, we did not make much money, but we did not have to try very hard or work every day. He allowed us to take weeks off from work if we turned in a fake excuse from a bribed doctor. Now we must work hard.”  

Same communist mantra I’ve heard before, “we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.” Once you get used to oppression and lose hope for a better life, you become a lethargic human satisfied with scraps.  There is nothing to look forward to, but you are still alive.

Solzhenitsyn wrote about the Soviet prison industry, about the guards who arrived there via military conscription, and about the prisoners sent there after they were arrested for thought crimes, hate crimes, telling off-color jokes or any joke about the oppression of the Communist Party, printing a political leaflet, typing essays against Bolshevism, hiding one’s wealth, having a large house, refusing to give it to the police state, refusing to give up farmlands and farm implements to the state, having unapproved items in homes, reading forbidden literature, stealing food to survive, bribing the wrong person, having a nicer home, nicer furniture, a typewriter, etc. These prisoners were forever canceled by the Soviet style cancel culture and likely never survived the horrible hard labor gulags.

Those arrested were taken in their pajamas and barefoot because they “didn’t need anything where they were going.” The hard labor prisons needed workers driven daily to the point of exhaustion with little nutrition. Solzhenitsyn wrote that when the family received the note that their loved one was “deprived of the right to correspond” meant that he “had been shot.”

Being the cruel humans that they were, security police officers chose different methods of arresting someone. Taking them in the middle of the night had the advantage of fear, people were sleeping, and officers could steal valuables without having to make a truthful inventory of possessions confiscated which afterwards were given as gifts to those faithful to the State.

The worst arrests were political arrests because people were usually guilty of nothing and had no prepared resistance during the arrest. And the neighbors had to see it all to instill fear in the public. As if people were not afraid enough of the well-armed communist Securitate who dwelled in the tunnels underneath Bucharest like the moles that they were. They had food, clothes, weapons, and anything their hearts desired in those tunnels. And, upon orders, they emerged suddenly from museums, art galleries, opera houses, theaters, and cinemas, all connected to miles of tunnels.

In this country, for the last six years, the leftist wing of politics unleashed cancel culture on the rest of the country if leftists were offended by or disliked what the other side did or said. Cancel culture took an exact page from the conduct of the Soviet Communist Party which controlled the other communist countries in Eastern Europe.

How is the cancel culture movement identical to what the communists did?

The Soviet style communists kept dossiers on every citizen in their countries. To keep tabs on everyone, a huge army of spies and informers had to be employed by the Communist Party. For example, one in three people in Romania worked for the dreaded Securitate police.

These folders were used to cancel people - those who needed to be disappeared, imprisoned, shot, made an example of, their lives and the lives of their loved ones ruined forever.

If their great-grandfather was a landowner, that was a black mark in a person’s file. That individual would never be recommended for any promotions, vacations, travel, awards, college admissions, or better jobs. They were permanently canceled.

People in the U.S. were canceled and lost their jobs, their professional chairs, their medical licenses, hospital privileges to operate, their social media accounts, their platforms, their roles in movies, they were banned from any public discourse, mass media, television, if they talked about masks not being effective against the Covid virus, if they refused to vaccinate or wear a mask, if they questioned the 2020 elections, etc.

Americans on the left, terrified for their lives, listening to their Dr. Fauci vaccine czar, were wearing masks alone in cars, went nuts in public, yelling at people to stay far away from them, and even got lost in thorny bushes in the woods trying to avoid crossing paths on the trail with an incoming person without a mask.

Cancel culture drove the mass hysteria against their citizens on the opposite side of politics, against their own families, against all those who disagreed with them.

Cancel culture drove the crazy mobs that destroyed statues and symbols of our history because they disagreed with it. They wanted to manufacture their own version of history, just like the communists did to their own people.   

Beware that cancel culture is a serious hard left movement that is identical to the Soviet style communist control of the masses which failed painfully and disastrously everywhere it has been tried in the twentieth century.

 

 

The Marxist Cultural Revolution

"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudo-science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” —Carl Sagan

The Marxist Cultural Revolution is in full swing with social emotional learning.  Who needs academics when you have Marxist indoctrination?

One of the first things I noticed when I first landed in America of the late seventies was how unfamiliar with their own history, world geography, and mathematics Americans were, even those with college degrees, yet they were not ashamed to confess it, they were quite proud of their lack of knowledge. I wondered then, how did America become so successful with so much ignorance walking about?

Surely, I thought, it was not the fault of the public schools. It must have been that America was such a vast country, far removed from the rest of the world and separated by two oceans. They did not need to know.

The Internet was just a pipe dream in sci fi novels. There was a large following of readers who delighted in sci fi, western, and romance novels. It was a time when there were sales of door-to-door encyclopedias and dictionary salesmen. People living in the country areas subscribed to the Book of the Month Club or borrowed books from libraries on wheels. 

As such a large country, few seemed to read much unless it was something high schools and colleges required. It was quite fascinating when I discovered that my next-door neighbor, a highly regarded and published college professor, spent his free time reading romance novels. 

I never thought at the time, having just escaped a strict socialist regime ruled by the Communist Party, that I would ever have to worry about it in this vast and free country where people did what they pleased and what they found enriching – going to church, picnics, family events and gatherings, football, and baseball on weekends. 

As decades passed, Marxist elements in the public schools grew louder and louder and more influential. Textbooks were rewriting American history, demonizing America and glorifying socialism and Marxism. Parents never pushed back against this tidal wave of indoctrination, they assumed that teachers and administrators did their jobs they were trained to do – educating young minds to protect America’s bright future.  

Dr. Aurel Mircea, a defector from a communist regime, having found freedom and opportunity for achievement in America, wrote: “Marxism-Leninism has been successfully disseminated in the Land of the Free; we are now having a few generations of USEFUL IDIOTS calling the policies and deciding America's future.” 

Ron Ewart wrote, “In the name of racism and so-called equity and diversity, we are creating a nation of morons. The U. S. government, special interests, and academically educated idiots are literally tailoring a society based on the lowest common denominator, in an attempt to prop up and pander to a single race. To accommodate Black and Latino learning disabilities, we’re dumbing down the White and Asian races.

On top of that, we have replaced reason, logic, intellect, common sense, and objective learning with diversity, reverse racism, and racial emotion, creating never-ending racial tension in our entire culture.”

The newest Marxist tide of destruction is “cancel culture,” young generations appointing themselves the arbiters of right and wrong, judge, jury, and executioner. Thanks to the social media and corporations, the cancel culture promoters get to dole out retribution to those who oppose their wave of cultural destruction. Past history is judged through the lenses of their 21st century woke sensibilities. Nobody is immune to punishment if they come in the crosshairs of the “cancel culture” Marxist movement. 

Everything that was good about America became evil in 2020. People who love America found themselves out of a job, out of social circles, censored on social media, censored in person, diminished, disparaged, demonized, and barred from participating in college life, organizations, college courses, and conferences. A Corona virus gave this Marxist group in America an opportunity to invent 50 different ways to rob half of America of their rights and freedom of speech. 

Suddenly, it is elitist to mark down bad spelling, to give bad grades to those who fail, to achieve, to learn advanced mathematics, real science, chemistry, and other difficult courses because it makes the non-achievers feel bad about themselves and it is thus racist. 

Enter Critical Race Theory (CRT) already present in most public, private, and charter schools in America, the most tolerant country on the planet. CRT is an indoctrinating tool through racial identity, divisiveness, and hatred through skin color. 

The current American schools’ and the mainstream media’s talking points narrative of “systemic racism, white privilege, whiteness, oppressors and the oppressed,” was brought to America to Columbia University in 1930s New York by Marxist academics from Goethe University (Frankfurter School) in Frankfurt, Germany.

These German Marxists undermined American traditional principles using the ideology of Critical Theory which attacked all societal norms through the promise of revolution [cultural revolution], the seeds of which have finally sprouted today into a huge forest of Marxism, watered constantly by American professors and teachers who graduated from universities that modeled their College of Education teacher curriculum for decades after the Columbia University’s Marxist model. 

Ideological conformity and Marxist equity were enforced in communist countries by the security police (Stasi in Germany) and its vast network of activists and informers. Because of today’s advanced technology, these same goals are achieved in America with the help of big tech companies who censor any dissenting, patriotic “thought criminals,” who dare post, comment, write, or publish on their social platforms and on the Internet in general. 

Millions of illegal aliens are clamoring to cross our southern border illegally, to enter our country that these Marxist radicals consider a “white supremacist country” riddled with “systemic racism.”  If that were true, why in the world would anyone want to come to such a country? Why wouldn’t they go to what the left considers the best places in the world to be, like Amsterdam?  As the talented cartoonist Branco wrote about illegal aliens knocking at the border wall, “Please let us in so we can become victims of systemic racism and white supremacy.” 

Modern Marxists realized that the major obstacles to their revolution in the vein of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, and Mao, “workers of the world unite,” were the family, Christian faith, a Republican government, nation-states, reason, and free speech. These were stumbling blocks in the march towards a totalitarian Marxist state and thus a world government. Bit by bit these “stumbling blocks” are being destroyed in all western societies simultaneously, taking advantage of the abject fear of death from a virus with a 99.8 percent survival rate and several drugs that can cure it.