By Steve Levy
Something of historically negative proportions is happening right before our eyes, and its threat to the American way of life is being treated with a yawn. I’m referring to the seismic change where Marxism — once shunned by both major political parties — is now being comfortably embedded within the Democratic Party.
Since Lenin toppled the czar in 1917, creating the world’s first Marxist experiment, there have been underground movements throughout the U.S. to spread communism to our shores. For the next century, the radicals who pushed this utopian agenda were forced underground because the concept was anathema to American freedom and the established political parties, who — despite their relatively minor ideological differences — were united in their commitment to vigorously fight back against any inroads the Marxists might have attempted within our borders.
But something alarming and unprecedented came about in the last decade. That united front of the two parties against Marxism no longer exists. Only one party today, the Republicans, can be said to be the bulwark against socialism. The leadership of the Democratic Party is either on board with the tilt toward socialism or it is too terrified politically to push back against this growing wing that has crept into prominence within the party apparatus and platform. In fact, Democrats are now dependent on the socialist votes to keep them afloat, since the party has hemorrhaged the working-class vote that traditionally had comprised a large chunk of the party.
The post-World War Marxists would never have stomached the idea of forging an alliance with the liberal Democrats. From the Marxist/anarchist perspective, the Democrats were just as loathsome as the GOP. They were both part of the evil capitalist sphere.
Despite the far-left tilt of the Democrats in the Vietnam and Watergate eras, it would have been unfathomable for an established Democrat to appear to be supportive, appeasing, or even indifferent toward the radical and violent actions of the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers or the Simbianese Liberation Army, all of whom made the targeting of law enforcement or the bombing of buildings their modus operandi.
But the violent radicals of more recent times, from Antifa, to Occupy Wall Street, to the Free Palestine groups, and those that burned down police buildings, churches and courthouses, are now considered part of the Democratic base.
The radicals themselves have eschewed the notion of treating both parties as the enemy and have shifted to a new strategy that embraces the Democratic Party as the vehicle through which it can gain protection and best promote their progress. In other words, they’ve come to the logical conclusion that the best way to accomplish their goal of a Marxist state is not by fighting both parties, but, rather, to claim one of the two major parties as their own.
And it’s working.
Decades of indoctrinating gullible young minds in our polluted university systems have graduated a generation, almost half of which loathe their country, believing it is racist, homophobic and misogynistic. They are so immersed in Marxist Critical Race Theory that they view every issue through the lens of the exploiter — straight White male capitalists, and the exploited victims — people of color, gays and women.
A majority of liberal youth polled say they wouldn’t defend their country if they were attacked, as was Ukraine by the Russians. And far more favor socialism over a free-market economy.
The success of the indoctrination first became evident via the surge of socialist Bernie Sanders, who might have actually won the 2016 Democratic Primary had the party’s establishment not sabotaged his chances by using the corrupt super delegate process to crown Hillary Clinton at the top spot.
Bernie lost that battle, but won the war, with the party adopting much of his socialist platform. Bernie was denied again in 2020 when party elders crafted the ultimate deal to ensure Joe Biden became the party nominee. But the die was cast and the establishment realized it needed to bow to the Sanders wing by agreeing to implement the far-left Sanders agenda if they won the general election.
That started it all. And now we have an actual communist as the mayor of the center of capitalism. In the sixties, the communists couldn’t beat the Democrats, so they changed tactics and joined them. And now they run the party and are a force within American politics no one could have dreamed of just a decade ago.