Eurocommunism
The evolution of Socialism and Western Marxist Ideology in the 3rd Decade of the 21st Century
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“Every State is a dictatorship”…
— Antonio Gramsci
“The ideology of New Labour came out of the magazine “Marxism Today” an organ of Eurocommunism”…
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Eurocommunism
a trend among European communist parties toward independence from Soviet Communist Party doctrine during the 1970s and 1980s
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Context: Episode 2: The Soft Revolution [LINK]
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“It was theFabian socialists of England who demonstratedthat without a violent revolution,a handful of cultural elites could transform a country from a free society to a collectivist one. Collectivism is a world view which believes that selected elites or “anointed” members of society possess superior knowledge and should be the ones chosen to engineer society according to central planning schemes. The ordinary citizen under such a system becomes a mere cog in the wheel of the state. The common person's views, personal plans and desires must be subordinated to that of the grand designers of the state”…Refer - Managed Truth: The great danger to our Republic [LINK]
Refer - Hammering out a new world – the Fabian Window at LSE [LINK]
“With the Covid response,the administrative state got over its skis, bit off more than it could chew, jumped the shark, pulled out the wrong Jenga block, or whatever other cliche you want to choose. It is the precipitating event, the event that exposed the whole. One is reminded of Mikhail Gorbachev’s war on vodka, which did more than Glasnost or Perestroika to end the regime and undermine the last shred of credibility of the party’s rule”…
—The Systematic Unraveling of the Administrative State [LINK]
“We have a very powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy, quangocracy, and judiciary, all of which have been captured by left-wing ideology and work only to ensure their own job security.The “impartial” civil service and “independent” bodies that were variously brought in to stop corruption and outsource decisions to experts have now become the masters, not the servants. Democracy is being undermined”…
— Liz Truss, ex UK Prime Minister
Refer - Britain is a failed State [LINK]
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“The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends”…
— Roger Scruton
Refer - United States President warns Europe [LINK]
“Anation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.But it cannot survive treason from within.An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself”…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The following two podcasts are excellent and worth listening to.
They provide a brief overview of some of the prevailing ideologies that shape Modern and Post-Modern intellectual thought.
Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas can have catastrophic consequences[LINK ].
John Anderson interviews Peter Hitchens [ LINK ]
Peter discusses the role & power of a progressive orthodox Corporate Main Stream Media, the rise of Eurocommunism ideology, the reengineering of institutions, the decline of education, the influence of advertising & public relations in politics, the diminishing role of family and local government, the void of conservative ideas to respond, the societal ignorance of sound money, the diminishing role of Christianity etc…
Planet Normal - The King’s Labour Speech - Extended Interview with Professor Matthew Goodwin [ LINK ] - Extended interview with Matthew begins at ~55 seconds.
Professor Matthew Goodwin discusses inter alia the failure of Liberal Progressivism, left-wing media bias, woke ideology, the progressive orthodoxy in Universities and the intolerance towards alternative perspectives, the rise of a conservative public intellectual, the opportunity presented by new media (e.g. substack) etc…
Link to Professor Matthew Goodwin’s Substack [ LINK ]
Please listen, read and watch:
European Parliament - The EU as a superstate or a community of sovereign states? [ LINK ];
How Europe’s New Political Class Began Rejecting Reality [ LINK ];
“Live not by Lies” - Discussion [ LINK ]; and
We must reverse climate communism. Policies based on left-wing ideology instead of realism are disastrous for our economies in Europe”… [ LINK ].
Refer - Mao Tse-Tung: Dialectical Materialism [LINK]
Refer - Joseph Stalin: Dialectical and Historical Materialism [LINK]
Refer - Karl Marx: Historical Materialism [LINK]
Footnote:
Why is the West committing Civilisational Suicide? [ LINK ] - Absolute Zero Report[ LINK ];
The Marxification of Education - Part One [ LINK ] and Part Two [ LINK ];
Marxism Died in the East Because It Realised Itself in the West [ LINK ];
Secularisation, Marxism, and the Enlightenment in Augusto Del Noce [ LINK ];
The Crisis of Modernity - Augusto Del Noce [ LINK ]; and
10 May 1983 Templeton Prize - Acceptance Address - Mr. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [ LINK ].
The Self-Destruction of the West
World War One Destruction, Altar in the church of Segusino — Photo by Austrian National Library on Unsplash