Something's Burning

"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism." So begins The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - the 1848 tract which began the rise of a murderous political ideology that would enslave and kill millions the world over. What was merely academic to Marx and Engels was realized with deadly efficiency during the reigns of such tyrants as Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin. Together, both men were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 60 million people, all in the name of liquidating political undesirables in the pursuit of an elusive earthy paradise of total equality.

The murderous rampages of Mao and Stalin, of course, are well-known and documented. What is less known is that there were some political radicals within the United States of America that dreamed of replicating the misdeeds of the Great Helmsman and Uncle Joe. Who were these individuals? They were the leaders of the Weather Underground: Jeff Jones, Celia Sojourn, Bernardine Dohrn, and William Ayers.

In 1974, Jones, Sojourn, Dohrn and Ayers published a tract entitled Prairie Fire, in which they declared that their bombing campaign was intended to instigate the violent overthrow of the United States government. A comprehensive analysis of the tract can be seen at the ZombieTime blog (found via Ace of Spades). Here is an image of the manifesto:



Dohrn, Ayers, et al. were communists, and I'm not saying that pejoratively, but rather as a statement of fact. In the first chapter of Prairie Fire, they write:

We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years. We are deeply affected by the historic events of our time in the struggle against U.S. imperialism.

Our intention is to disrupt the empire, to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks, to make it hard to carry out its bloody functioning against the people of the world, to join the world struggle, to attack from the inside.

They were revolutionaries in the unvarnished, Marxist sense of the term, wanting to literally destroy American society in order to build their international socialist paradise. In bringing down the United States, they thought they would thus extinguish American "imperialism," which they blamed for much of the world's ills:

Our final goal is the destruction of imperialism, the seizure of power, and the creation of socialism. Our strategy for this stage of the struggle is to organize the oppressed people of the imperial nation itself to join with the colonies in the attack on imperialism. This process of attacking and weakening imperialism involves the defeat of all kinds of national chauvinism and arrogance; this is a precondition to our fight for socialism.

And there you see the term "socialism" - brought to the forefront of the 2008 presidential campaign by Senator Barack Obama's chance encounter with Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher. How did Ayers and his crew define socialism? Like so:

Socialism is the total opposite of capitalism/imperialism. It is the rejection of empire and white supremacy. Socialism is the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the eradication of the social system based on profit. Socialism means control of the productive forces for the good of the whole community instead of the few who live on hilltops and in mansions. Socialism means priorities based on human need instead of corporate greed. Socialism creates the conditions for a decent and creative quality of life for all.

But what of those Americans who would absolutely not heed the revolutionary call of the Weather Underground, even should their war against America succeed? Undercover federal agent Larry Grathwohl received a disturbing answer, recounted in this video:



Yes, you heard that correctly. Reeducation camps would be established in which some 25 million people - bitterly clinging to their Americanism - would have to be killed.

Mao and Stalin in America. That was and is the vision of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Yet instead of rotting away in a federal prison or living in exile in some forgotten part of the world, they occupy lofty positions in American universities, feted by thousands of like-minded academics.

And thus, America's communist fifth column lives on.

Update:

Go ahead and re-read this aforementioned quote from Prairie Fire:

Socialism is the total opposite of capitalism/imperialism. It is the rejection of empire and white supremacy. Socialism is the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the eradication of the social system based on profit. Socialism means control of the productive forces for the good of the whole community instead of the few who live on hilltops and in mansions. Socialism means priorities based on human need instead of corporate greed. Socialism creates the conditions for a decent and creative quality of life for all.

And then juxtapose it with this video I found at Gateway Pundit, in which Barack Obama, back in 1995, accused "white executives" of not wanting to have their wealth redistributed to poor, inner-city children:



Disturbing? You bet.