Lenin is alive and well

 
Vladimir Lenin (Ulianov) has been dead for many years. His ideas are well, alive, and being implemented in the United States. To examine the truth of the above statement let's look at some quotes from Lenin. To avoid misunderstandings I've only used quotes that cannot be misinterpreted and stand on their own:

1. A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The Soviets and Nazis used this thesis with great success. Our current administration is trying to use it with varying degrees of success. Telling us that ObamaCare is good for us doesn't make it so. If enough people believe it, it will become the "truth" and will be treated as such. Telling us again and again that the recession is over or that spending stupendous amounts of our money "created or saved" millions of jobs is a lie, but if enough people believe it it won't matter. Some of these tactics have been successful: a majority of people in this country believe that Wall Street and greed caused the housing bubble and the resulting recession. Few look beyond the propaganda. The fact is that Congress has instituted policies that encourage irresponsible loans to people who could never repay them and backed these loans with Freddie Mac and Fannie May government guarantees. These policies were the major cause for the bubble and recession.

There is not enough space here to count all the lies that are being repeatedly told by the administration, its Congressional allies or the "mainstream media". If you look carefully to find facts for yourself you'll discover the lies. Don't take the government, its lackeys, or anybody else at their word.

2. Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Every successful dictatorship takes this seriously. The Soviets, Nazis, Chinese, Vietnamese etc. A major requirement for this educational scheme to succeed is central control and uniformity. Lenin's educational goal can't be achieved if education is left to local school districts, private schools, charter schools or parents. A single center has to control the curriculum. In the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany it was the Ministry of Education. We have the Department of Education.
Have you ever asked yourself why we need a Federal Department of Education? The conventional answer (see paragraph 1) is: we need to improve the level of education in the U.S. so as not to be left behind other countries (remember "No Child Left Behind"?). Like many "conventional" truths, it's a lie. President Carter signed the law establishing the Department of Education in 1979. Since its establishment the level of education in the U.S. as measured by the percentage of high school students graduating as Scientists, Engineers or Medical Doctors is steadily declining. The reason: centralized curricula being pushed by the federal department to make as many students as possible "Bolsheviks" forever. Bolshevik means "a member of the majority" - conformity and belief in the same ideology is the main purpose of centralized control over education. For the same reason the current administration and Democratic Congress are hostile to vouchers: these would allow children of modest means to attend private schools that are out of reach of the central system.

3. It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

One can call the current administration and a large part of our Congress statists. This is, in my opinion, overly generous and naive. Being statist may sound good to people who expect the government to "do something" about unemployment or take care of their health. The same approach doesn't sound so good in light of Lenin's statement about liberty. In a Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974) Gerald Ford said: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." (This quote is widely attributed to Thomas Jefferson but I couldn't find any proof of that). Historically the first thing "big enough" government takes is liberty. Lenin was no dummy.

4. One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Ever wonder where the left's irrational fear of an armed population is coming from? Lenin didn't invent the concept of a flock of sheep being herded by an armed shepherd - armed to control the sheep - he only worded it in a short and clear sentence. Next time you hear calls for gun control ask yourself why. Be very suspicious, especially if it's to "protect our children". These demands come always from the left. If a "conservative" politician supports gun control it is a dead giveaway: this is NOT a true conservative.

5. The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
6. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Lenin knew that the capitalist system is strong and stable. Not being a fool, he noticed that it is based on satisfying basic human instincts and rewarding people for what they do. Being a revolutionary, he looked for a way to both destabilize capitalism and destroy its staunchest supporters: the bourgeoisie (middle class). He found the correct formula and implemented it extremely successfully during the Russian revolution. Lenin knew that the Bolshevik takeover of Russia was not secure as long as there was a middle class. This meant that he had to destroy the existing middle class. It could not be done directly as the Bolsheviks were not strong enough - the civil war ended only around 1921-1923 - so another way was necessary. Since just shooting them all wasn't possible at the time, the way he chose was financial destruction. After high taxes on every possible form of independent business combined with inflation and periodic re-issuance of the currency (to prevent hoarding cash) ruined the middle class, it became just one more group of government employees. Easily controlled and disposed of at leisure.

Our current fiscal policies remind me of Lenin's tactic: run up the national debt to the point where our credit rating is seriously degraded, raise taxes under the pretext of paying off the debt, create uncertainty and confusion by adding regulation to the mix and by not defining a clear economic path forward. The probable results: inflation, economic instability, rising unemployment and further strengthening of the government. A large number of small businesses will disappear and big corporations can be dealt with easily by the government's ever-growing bureaucracy. A diminishing middle class will be vulnerable to pressure by the bureaucracy.

7. The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Lenin understood the value of mass media for propaganda. He was the teacher that the Nazi Goebbels learned from and apparently was influential in the policies of every leftist or Fascist (not much difference there) movement. If we look at the behavior of our MainStream Media we will discover very quickly that it complies with Lenin's requirements and both propagandizes and organizes the masses. Propaganda is targeted dissemination of lies. Most of our press does it very efficiently.
Thomas Jefferson said that "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." People who believe otherwise are easy targets for lies carefully formulated to promote certain ideas. These ideas can range from the personal: "Candidate X wants to deny women cancer treatments just because he is mean" to the more general: "Social justice and fairness demand that those who work hard and earn a good living give their money to the Government that will select the poor, lazy or plain unfortunate to whom it will give this money. You, the hard worker, are obviously too stupid to decide what to do with your property."

So, do you still have doubts that Leninism is being implemented in the U.S.? It may be called different names: Progressivism, Socialism, Improvement of Education, Better Health Care for All. Whatever the name it is the same policy: implementing Lenin's imperatives, destabilizing and destroying the capitalist system, re-educating the next generation. In short: CHANGE.

I see no other possible explanation to the huge deficits, high taxes, regulation of everything and creation of a huge underclass of people dependent on the government for their livelihood. It seems that our President hopes that we are one push away from an irreversible transformation of our society into a semblance of what Lenin achieved in Russia.