Editor,
Self-avowed anarchist-socialist Noam Chomsky hopes that Wisconsin protests will turn into a nationwide “democracy uprising,” just like in Egypt.
Just like in Egypt, Noam? Where hundreds died in the street? Where people were beaten within inches of their lives? Where women were gang raped and left to die? Where Molotov cocktails were thrown haphazardly into the air only to land among protesters, bursting into flames?
All of this to have the military take control and institute martial law?
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by Marxists, socialists, anarchists and other malcontents, like Chomsky, using a budget crisis brought on by decades of leftist spending on insolvent social programs. And to use it to call for violent, mob-ruled revolution under the guise of “democracy” as if pure democracy were a desirable form of government.
Tyranny of the majority anyone?
The Cloward-Piven strategy forces political change through orchestrated crises. The general idea behind the strategy is to impoverish people and force them to become dependent on leftist government social programs to survive. By overloading said programs, the government can no longer provide for dependents, and so the impoverished masses rise up in violent revolution to overthrow the remains of the capitalist system.
This creates an artificial income equality by seizing all private poverty and wealth and redistributing it to all people — thus creating the communist dream of a classless society.
Think about that for a second.
Never mind that, historically, communism has only succeeded in creating governments that have been responsible for the executions of their own citizens while keeping others down.
These people desire communism so much that they will force generations of families into poverty in the hopes that those same people will someday turn to violence, leaving their countrymen injured or dead in streets.
This willingness may best be summed up by former Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern’s recent comment that if the power of persuasion doesn’t work, then they will use the persuasion of power to unite workers against capitalism. The persuasion of power. Wow.
What I don’t understand is why the average American liberal would go along with these radicals and support Egypt style “democracy uprisings” and “the persuasion of power” in their own backyards? Surely, John Q. Citizen is bright enough to realize myriad differences between the United States with its representative republicanism and Middle Eastern and Northern African autocracies?
Do I expect too much from University of Wisconsin-Madison students, for example, to realize that equating Gov. Walker with Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Hosni Mubarak and calling for Egyptian style “democracy uprisings” against his administration might be overboard?
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Should not these students understand, aside from the violence inherent in the revolutions advocate for, their life stations might be less comfortable in a classless communist society?
We seem to be sitting upon a global and domestic powder keg. This powder keg, whose ignition could bring an end to a form of government that has provided quality life for countless people worldwide, has been carefully packed and positioned by extreme leftist radicals for decades.
Now the torch of radicalism is being passed from relics of academia like Piven and Chomsky to a younger generation. It will be up to this new generation to decide whether to use that torch to touch off the powder keg of violent revolution ending this great experiment and ushering in a new age devoid of personal freedoms and liberties.
Let us hope they choose wisely, for not only do our fortunes rely on it, but those of posterity depend upon it.
Craig Bullock
UNM student
