Humanist Power “Tools”
September 1, 2010 – 6:06 PM
Antonio Gramsci
Part 1 of…?
Antonio Gramsci
Gramsci Sees Lenin and Marxist Strategy as Failure…
In the years he spent in prison, Gramsci analyzed more deeply the Marxist “failure” of the Soviet revolution. In Gramsci’s opinion, Marx and Lenin erred in their thinking that the revolution that would overthrow capitalism would occur because of distressed workers looking for a way to end their exploitation. What he saw, even before the century would more fully reveal it, was the fact that Communism would NEVER come to power through spontaneous uprisings. No Communist takeover EVER came through worker uprising. The workers, he believed, had deeper priorities such as…
- marriage and family,
- love of country,
- wanting to see their children advance in quality of education and life,
- faith in God and
- belief in a Christian traditional order.
What Gramsci discerned was a revolution in totalitarian thought. He saw to win the world to socialist-Marxist victory , which he believed would establish “true justice” for mankind, there must first be “cultural hegemony”. He believed and wrote the International socialist movement must achieve what Aldous Huxley would later express succinctly in Brave New World:
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
What Gramsci knew was the center of the civilized world – thus, world dominion - was focused in Europe and its North American surrogates. And, like it or not, the socialist must come to grips with the fact Christianity has had 2000 years of dominance philosophically, morally, and ethically. Practically speaking, civilization and Christianity were inextricably bound together.
“Gramsci’s Theorems”
1. Christianity necessitates transgenerational dedication: The Christian faith is the enemy in all of its forms and has been the creative worldview force in Europe and America for 2000 years. Therefore, there is no sudden uprising of the proletariat possible in this Christian-worldview embedded culture. Marx and Lenin were impatient, hoping for victory too soon, when such was not possible.
Comment: Note he includes Roman Catholicism, though Gramsci knew Jesuitism was a brilliant revolutionary model for subverting freedom and entrepreneurship, and the Christian theological worldview. Note here the fact that Gramscian revolutionary thinkers today ARE TURNING AGAINST CATHOLICISM IN THE GREATEST DISLAY OF HATRED AGAINST ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN HISTORY! (This continues to fulfill what the Historicist’s view of Revelation foretells about them hating the Lamb-like beast (which is the harlot that fornicates with the nations as well).
Much of the dedication is coming from within Rome as Roman Cardinals and Bishops join the political Left, and are well represented within Globalist organizations such as the Bilderbergers, Trilateralists, Fabians, and CFR. This is nothing new as Roman priests provided support for the French Revolution and every major Communist victory internationally has had sponsorship from within Rome. Liberation Theology (Marxist “Christian” theology) was developed within Jesuit circles.
Knowing the hatred developing for the Roman Church, many ecumenical ties are being fashioned with Islam , Hinduism , Buddhism , and other religions such as Animism so as to CHANGE HISTORIC DOGMAS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. It is this series of subtle and not-so-subtle changes that have been distressing traditionalists since Vatican II.
The Roman Church leadership since Vatican II appears to have adopted the view that Christianity in any form is in its “death-throes”. So, it would appear, Rome is willing to dispense more and more with what formalities of Christian theology remain within it (Trinity, Deity of Christ, etc.). Rome has ALWAYS accommodated its tenets to the dominant cultural and political changes, as has been shown in an earlier volume of this series on Revelation.
2. Changing the premises of societal belief: Gramsci argued that frontal assault upon Christian Europe and America was foolish and doomed to failure. Better to attack Christianity more subtly by aiming to transform society’s collective mindset. Media, economics and public education would be crucial to the transformation. This would be done by eradicating all signs of public allegiance to symbols, signs, practices, traditions, and beliefs of Christianity.
Comment: The continuous attack upon public Christmas manger scenes seems relatively harmless. But, understand Gramsci. He knew the deeper the emotional ties to traditions and beliefs, the more important it is to eradicate such positions, ideas, ideals, signs and symbols.
His attack runs much deeper however. The government school program has always used teaching-theorists who are Gramscian in their presuppositions (guiding worldview assumptions). The brilliance of the “separation of Church and State” used to purge the schools of Christian ethic, history, or values, has marvelously shorn Christianity from the MEMORY of the culture WITHOUT TIPPING OFF ALL THE TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS AND PARENTS AS TO THE REAL AGENDA!
Media is the same monster. Remembering Yuri Bezmenov’s statement that when he defected from the Communist KGB as the Minister of Disinformation, he had over 100,000 KGB operatives in the American media. The media has done everything possible to shame, ridicule, marginalize and replace Christian values. It has been the Guardian of the culture, turning its big guns upon anything even slightly favorable to Christian thinking.
Fabian Economic Commentary: Brilliant author Rose L. Martin, in her book, Fabian Freeway, had this to say about the Fabian use of Gramscian methodology (though the Fabians arrived at many of the same conclusions earlier than he):
“If a minority group armed only with its wits hoped to subdue whole populations, the majority must somehow be induced through a judo-like action to turn its own strength against itself. This could best be done, the Fabian Socialists decided, by progressively gaining control of both education and the publishing field, so as to alter the premises on which opinions are formed and literally to change people’s minds.
Acting on the theory that
“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”,
Every refinement of popular as well as scholarly propaganda, every twist of carefully researched mass psychology would be employed, to seduce rather than goad the public down the high road to Socialism. The Fabian-approved economics of John Maynard Keynes and his successors – now taught as gospel in most of our universities and adopted as the official credo of governments – merely a latter-day device to accomplish the “peaceful transition” to a Socialist world. ”
3. Uniting Leftist Networks under Marxist Directives: Uniting with the Left: Gramsci departed from Lenin and Marx in yet another key point. They taught their cadre to attack other non-Communist leftists, leaving Marxists as the leaders. Gramsci countered their thinking by teaching them to adopt an attitude of broad networking with them, on the assumption that the Marxist could lead them and direct their social radicalism. In this respect, Lenin and he were not so far apart. “Communism is built with non-communist hands”, Lenin taught. But Gramsci moved further, advocating a WILLFUL Marxist and Leftist coordination of events and strategizing.
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Thomas Sowell writes,
3. Fabian Socialism 101
1. Churches Grow During the Great Awakening
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Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help. – Psa. 107:12
smiley face religion. Too many of the issues we face “beyond smiles and laughter”.
Worldview is a map of reality and like any map it may fit what is there, or may be grossly misleading.The map is only an image of the world…and all of us carry around such a map in our mental makeup…we act upon it.

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