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The democratic statesman who sets out to plan economic life will soon be confronted withthe alternative of either
assuming dictatorial powersor abandoning his plans”…
— Friedrich Hayek
“In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media
by transforming the consciousness of society
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— Antonio Gramsci
“The civilised world has been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2,000 years.
Any country grounded in Judeo-Christian values cannot be overthrown untill those roots are cut. But to cut the roots — to change culture — a long march through the institutions is necessary”…
— Antonio Gramsci
“The French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order.
The revolutionary movement which began in 1789… gave rise to the communist ideawhich Babeuf’s friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea
of the new world order”…
– Karl Marx
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[LINK] - Center for Security Policy - The UN transforms itself into a world government
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“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal”…
— Friedrich Hayek
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free”…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Please read and watch - The Myth of 'Equality': Is Europe Stuck in a Disastrous, Failing Marxist Trap? [LINK] - Friedrich Hayek discussing Equality vis a vis Treating People Equally [LINK] - How Western Europe is copying Communism [LINK ] - How Europe’s New Political Class Began Rejecting Reality [ LINK ] - “Live not by Lies” - Discussion [ LINK ]
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Liberalism was inevitably pushed aside by radicalism, radicalism had to surrender to socialism, and socialism could not stand up to communism. The Communist regime in the East could endure and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who (feeling the kinship!) refused to see communism’s crimes, and when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify these crimes. The problem persists: In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero.
And yet Western intellectuals still look at it with considerable interest and empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East”…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Harvard University Commencement address 8 June 1978 - A World Split Apart
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We are moving towards a new kind of communism”
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“18. As regards this teaching and these theories, it is now generally known that the special goal of their proponents is to introduce to the people the
pernicious fictions of Socialism and Communism by misapplying the terms “liberty” and “equality””…
— Nostis Et Nobiscum - On the Church in the Pontifical States: Pope BI. Pius IX - 1849
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The Self-Destruction of the West
World War One Destruction, Altar in the church of Segusino — Photo by Austrian National Library on Unsplash