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As someone who has always been very sensitive to social injustices and someone who has learned a thing or two in their 64 years, studied history and understands the language behind the rhetoric I wish to comment on this.
I have never been and never will be part of the Right and a lot of the language and assumptions still leave me cold.
However, when I saw the tweet below from an academic at Cambridge University I could see as clearly as night and day that there is a very dangerous movement to attack religious people and people who are conservative-minded and white.
Here is the tweet:
"Now we have the opportunity to carry out a resolute offensive against the whites, break their resistance, eliminate them as a class and replace their livelihoods with the livelihoods with the livelihoods of people of colour and LBGTQ.
First, who IS Priyamvada Patel?
The first thing I discovered that her twitter account has been made secret and the more I learn the more I can understand why.
This is her item in Wikipedia:
Priyamvada Gopal
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Priyamvada Gopal
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| Born | 1968 (age 51–52) |
| Title | Professor in Anglophone and Related Literature |
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| Alma mater | University of Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru University Cornell University |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge Churchill College |
Priyamvada Gopal (born 1968)[1] is a Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Churchill College. Her main teaching and research interests are in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, gender and feminism, Marxism and critical race studies.[2] She has written three books and regularly contributes to several newspapers and publications, including The Guardian, The Hindu, The Independent, Medium, New Statesman, Open Democracy, Outlook India, India Today, Open, HuffPost, New Humanist, Al Jazeera, The Nation, and The Times Literary Supplement.
She seems to be doubling down on her obnoxious views:
https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/priyamvada-gopal-s-white-lives-tweet-matters-here-s-why-11593512962676.html
Not only that but her university, Cambridge are not only
defending her but PROMOTING her.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html
The language of genocide
Because of earlier involvements in left-wing movements I understand the language and what it REALLY means.
The Jacobin Revolution of 1789 in France had its reign of terror and Karl Marx in the 19th Century was in favour.
“There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terrorism.”
– Karl Marx, “The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna”, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Nov. 7, 1848.
In the first successful "proletarian" revolution (that was actually a coup d'état) Lenin "eliminated the bourgeoisie as a class" : that meant that they were shot or sent to a labour camp.
Stalin followed by "eliminating the kulaks as a class" using even more extreme tactics and this was followed by Mao, Pol Pot and just about every communist movement since.
Let's see what Lenin and Trotsky had to say about this:
“We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the
immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.”
– V.I. Lenin, “Lessons of the Moscow Uprising”, Proletary, No.2, 29 August 1906.
“For us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the ‘sacredness of human life’.
– Leon Trotsky, Terror and Communism 1920 (Toned-down for the Western audiences as Dictatorship Versus Democracy, Workers Party of America, 1922, p.63.)
This, also, has to be taken into account. Every revolution needs its "useful idiots"and ends up eating its own children.
The tactics of BLM and Antifa
This young woman qualifies as "useful idiot"
She is telling people how to break the windscreens of cars and drag the occupants out.
How this rhetoric can be seen as "peaceful" is beyond me.
Because she is a public representative and presumably took an oath to defend the US consitution this could easily be construed as sedition.
Here are some more quotes from the fathers of insurrection and revolution.
The Exercise of Political Power
"Political power ... is merely the organized power of one [socio-economic] class for oppressing the other."
From Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. Cited in E. Burns (ed.), A Handbook of Marxism (1935), p. 46.
On the Need for Terror
"[The working class] must act in such a manner that the revolutionary excitement does not collapse immediately after the victory. On the contrary, they must maintain it as long as possible. Far from opposing so-called excesses, such as sacrificing to popular revenge of hated individuals or public buildings to which hateful memories are attached, such deeds must not only be tolerated, but their direction must be taken in hand, for examples' sake."
From Karl Marx, Address to the Communist League (1850). Cited in E. Burns (ed.), A Handbook of Marxism (1935), p. 66 or 135ff.
On the Need to Use Force
"Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can only be attained by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions (e.g. bourgeois democracy)."
From Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, conclusion.
"The Communists support everywhere every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order (e.g. including in established democracies)."
From Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, conclusion.
"The immediate aim of the Communists is the ... conquest of political power by the proletariat."
From Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. Cited in E. Burns (ed.), A Handbook of Marxism (1935), p. 37.
"From the first moment of victory, we must no longer direct our distrust against the beaten reactionary enemy, but against our former allies (i.e., democratic forces)."
"The arming of the whole proletariat with rifles, guns, and ammunition should be carried out at once [and] the workers must ... organize themselves into an independent guard, with their own chiefs and general staff. ... [The aim is] that the bourgeois democratic Government not only immediately loses all backing among the workers, but from the commencement finds itself under the supervision and threats of authorities behind whom stands the entire mass of the working class. ...As soon as the new Government is established they will commence to fight the workers. In order that this party (i.e., the democrats) whose betrayal of the workers will begin with the first hour of victory, should be frustrated in its nefarious work, it is necessary to organize and arm the proletariat."
From Karl Marx, Address to the Communist League (1850). Cited in E. Burns (ed.), A Handbook of Marxism (1935), p. 67.
On Disdain for Democracy:
"Democracy is of great importance for the working class in its struggle for freedom against the capitalists. But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism, to communism."
From Karl Marx, The State and Revolution, p. 77. Cited in E. Burns (ed.), A Handbook of Marxism (1935), p. 756.
On Marxist "Democracy" and the Goal of Revolution:
"The proletarian movement is the self-conscious independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority."
From Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. Cited in E. Burns (ed.), A Handbook of Marxism (1935), p. 35.
On the Purpose of the State:
"In reality the state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and this holds for a democratic republic no less than for a monarchy."
From Friedrich Engels, Introduction to Karl Marx, Civil War in France (London: Martin Lawrence, 1933), p. 19. Also see E. Burns (ed.), A Handbook of Marxism (1935), p. 45.
On Moral Relativism as Linked to the Historical Evolution of the Class Struggle:
"What morality is preached to us to-day? There is first Christian-feudal morality, inherited from past centuries ... alongside [this] we find the modern bourgeois morality, and with it, too, the proletarian morality of the future."
From Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. Cited in E. Burns, ed., A Handbook of Marxism (1935), pp. 247f
And then there is Lenin...
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