This is a guest article comparing how Marxism commandeered Russia and the Obama-management take over of the so-called Biden Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/to-stage-the-counter-counter-revolution-gop-must-learn-from-lenin_3858666.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-06-16&mktids=6f4ba3b413059fe562ccd0c6d5b27a96&est=CCp3KBA0FCdUsJB3NlnpmaYGCZeKeuUbe3pwdKf4enV7I559EZDdLxtKK%2FS%2B9%2FN%2F<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Or read it here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Walsh<\/a>\u00a0June 14, 2021\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commentary<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat is to be done?\u201d That\u2019s the question posed in a 1902 pamphlet by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as \u201cLenin,\u201d as the young revolutionary began to flesh out his weaponization of Karl Marx\u2019s principles of communism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It wasn\u2019t enough, argued Lenin in typically turgid prose, to expect Russia\u2019s nearly non-existent industrialized working class\u2014the proletariat\u2014to come to international Socialism on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, he believed, the radical \u201cPopulists\u201d who advocated the communization of the peasantry as a necessary first step were in fact advocating a form of capitalism\u2014and that couldn\u2019t be allowed to happen. True Socialism, said Lenin, could only be found in Marxism, and for that a strong Communist Party was needed to guide the Russian people to the correct conclusions. And so he provided one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two decades later, Lenin was the absolute master of the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Against all odds, a true communist society had come into being without ever having passed through a capitalist phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The horror that resulted would last until Christmas Day, 1991, when the USSR collapsed of its own \u201cinternal contradictions\u201d and in the face of implacable opposition and a clear objective from Ronald Reagan. \u201cWe win, they lose,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, as the rising tide of socialism washes over most of the so-called \u201cblue\u201d states and has begun to lap at the steps of the Capitol, it\u2019s wise for us to revisit the lessons of Leninism and to repeat his question. What, indeed, is to be done?<\/p>\n\n\n\n For too long, conservatives have been on the back foot, constantly reacting to the Left\u2019s ongoing provocations and, mostly fruitlessly, attempting either to resist them or roll them back. From gay marriage to transsexuals in the military\u2014both long thought not only unthinkable but, in the case of the latter, unbelievable\u2014has been but the work of a few years. During the same period, not a single major conservative policy has been enacted, in part because the Republican Party is engaged in defense, when it should be on offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration managed briefly to roll back via executive order some of the most egregious excesses of the Obama administration, but it failed to finish off Obamacare\u2014thanks, John McCain!\u2014and even its legislative victories, such as tax reform, are in the process of being swiftly negated, thanks to the Democrats\u2019 narrow control of both houses of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, under the \u201cBiden administration\u201d\u2014which is by all accounts being run directly and indirectly from chez Obama in Washington\u2019s tony Kalorama<\/a> neighborhood\u2014the goal is to bury the Trump administration and make sure such a thing never happens again. (Why do you think Obama, alone among past presidents, broke with tradition and remained, along with his family and his advisors, in D.C. throughout the Trump administration?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sentient Democrats wish to make Trump an object lesson in the price of political insubordination, even to the point of trying to jail the former president as well an anathematizing his allies and supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the 2020 election wasn\u2019t a counter-revolutionary coup, abetted by unconstitutional changes in state election law \u201cjustified\u201d by the non-threat of COVID-19 and assiduously promoted by the media, it certainly is beginning to look very much like one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So let the counter-counter-revolution begin. Over the course of the next several weeks, I\u2019ll outline here some concrete answers to Lenin\u2019s question. Some of my prescriptions I first published in \u201cRules for Radical Conservatives<\/a>\u201d (writing under the name \u201cDavid Kahane\u201d) in 2010, including \u201cKnow Your Enemy,\u201d \u201cGet on Offense and Stay on Offense,\u201d and \u201cGet Better Officers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s also the book in which I coined the term, \u201cThe Cold Civil War,\u201d which seems increasingly on the verge of turning hot unless we can find a political way back from the BLM\/Antifa brink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just as I paid homage to Saul Alinsky\u2019s practical wisdom in \u201cRules,\u201d let me now advocate a strong dose of Leninist spirit as we open up a new front in our war against the radical Left. Lenin knew that his Marxist revolution could not be left to the \u201cpetit bourgeois democrats\u201d of the populist left in Russia; he had to grab the country by the ears while the grabbing was good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similarly, conservatives cannot leave the new Resistance to the current crop of Republican \u201cleadership,\u201d including Kevin McCarthy and, until recently, Liz Cheney, who are held in contempt by a large number of House Republicans. But while the Democrats will follow Nancy Pelosi to hell and back, the GOP<\/a> is still riven by the conflict between actual conservatives, represented by the House Freedom Caucus and others, and the country club wing personified by former House speaker Paul Ryan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, as we start thinking about winning the congressional elections of 2022, American patriots must first resolve to primary, defeat and replace every single Republican who voted to impeach or convict Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not the place to argue the merits (non-existent, in any case) of the two bogus impeachments. Rather it is to force the GOP to act more like the Leninist\/Stalinist Democrats and speak with one voice, in the pursuit of a single objective: winning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In these fraught times, \u201ccomity\u201d is luxury only congenital losers can afford, and the sooner the party purges itself the better off both it and the country will be. As Barry Goldwater famously offered: \u201ca choice, not an echo.\u201d Now\u2019s the time to take him up on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is also no time for a \u201cbig tent\u201d party. As the Lenin Democrats have illustrated so vividly since the planned and scripted rise of Barack Obama<\/a> in 2008, a narrowly configured tent will do the job. Their party is a cozy little snuggery of woke tech oligarch billionaires with a chokehold on their media lackeys and access to more money than ever before in human history; and a seething, resentful, and violent underclass that functions as their \u201cconscience\u201d but more importantly as their street thugs and enforcers while posing as perpetual victims of their ideological opponents as they seek redress for their \u201clegitimate grievances\u201d (shopworn but still potent communist terminology).<\/p>\n\n\n\n That homogeneity has been good enough to win three of the past four presidential elections, and there\u2019s no sign they wish to change, especially now, in the third term of the former Barry Soetero. So ideologically rigid and confident are they that they\u2019ve cheerfully jettisoned their former base, the now-vilified white working class, and have never looked back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike a GOP which has taken too readily to heart William F. Buckley\u2019s famous \u201cstanding athwart history, yelling Stop!\u201d maxim, the Democrats stand for something they call \u201cprogress\u201d: fiscal irresponsibility, the collapse of traditional American values and virtues, sexual license, military weakness, cultural pornography, and civilizational fecklessness, all in the name of \u201cdiversity,\u201d \u201ctolerance,\u201d and \u201cfairness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What does the GOP stand for? The party fought Trump every step of the way, double-crossed him constantly, feebly supported his policy positions, undercut his authority via the media at every opportunity, and otherwise made it clear to the conservative electorate that in the GOP establishment they had an enemy every bit as dangerous as the Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lenin won his counter-revolution against both the Tsar and his fellow radicals, and did so with just a relative handful of followers: Trotsky, Sverdlov, Zinoviev, Kalinin, Bukharin. Together, they delivered the intellectual destabilization of the Tsarist regime, created the conditions for the short-lived Kerensky government in early 1917, and then seized power for themselves later that year. They never had the majority of the Russian people behind them but they had one thing their rivals lacked: a will to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s a lesson here somewhere. About which, more next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Walsh is the editor of <\/em>The-Pipeline.org<\/em><\/a> and the author of \u201c<\/em>The Devil\u2019s Pleasure Palace<\/em><\/a>\u201d and \u201c<\/em>The Fiery Angel<\/em><\/a>,\u201d both published by Encounter Books. His latest book, \u201c<\/em>Last Stands<\/em><\/a>,\u201d a cultural study of military history from the Greeks to the Korean War, was recently published.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a guest article comparing how Marxism commandeered Russia and the Obama-management take over of the so-called Biden Administration. https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/to-stage-the-counter-counter-revolution-gop-must-learn-from-lenin_3858666.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-06-16&mktids=6f4ba3b413059fe562ccd0c6d5b27a96&est=CCp3KBA0FCdUsJB3NlnpmaYGCZeKeuUbe3pwdKf4enV7I559EZDdLxtKK%2FS%2B9%2FN%2F Or read it here: To Stage the Counter-Counter-Revolution, GOP Must Learn From Lenin Michael Walsh\u00a0June 14, 2021\u00a0 Commentary \u201cWhat is to be done?\u201d That\u2019s the question posed in a 1902 pamphlet by Vladimir Ilyich […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nTo Stage the Counter-Counter-Revolution, GOP Must Learn From Lenin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Turning peasants into populists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Bury Trump<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Obama v. Trump vis Biden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Counter-Counter-Revolution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Rules for Radicals Rehash<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
One Voice, Small Tent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
GOP lassitude<\/h2>\n\n\n\n