Gramscianism: The More Dangerous Communism

When the Communist Revolution failed to take root in Western countries in spite of Russia’s shining example, local Communists tried to analyze the reasons for their failure, and found them in Western civilization and culture itself. Antonio Gramsci, the founder of the Italian Communist Party, said the workers will never see their true class interests until they are freed from Western culture, and particularly from the Christian religion – that they are blinded by culture and religion to their true class interests.

It is unknown how much Gramsci’s view of Christianity was effected by the fact that his father was an Albanian Moslem, but without a doubt, today’s Left very much supports this view and revels in its anti-Christian intolerance.

The idea that Western civilization is to blame for inequality (a.k.a. anything short of Communism) is likewise dominant in Leftist circles today. In 2004, Thomas Frank published the best-seller What’s The Matter With Kansas, his native city. According to the book, Republicans shifted the the political discourse from the class animus to debating cultural issues. By using “explosive” social issues like gay marriage to blame the “liberal elite,” Republicans get the masses to vote against their own economic interest. (By which he means, people should vote to rob others through taxation if that benefits the voters.)

The book spent 18 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and was published in the UK and Australia under the title, “What’s The Matter With America”.

Thus, more than a dozen years after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, the basic idea of Western Communism, as originally developed by Antonio Gramsci, still lives on.

The big mistake Americans made after the Cold War ended was to declare Socialism dead. But here we are, nearly a generation after East Europeans rejected Communism, discovering it has penetrated every single stratum of our society, from the Universities to the media. Islamic terrorism, for example, is justified as caused by “poverty, oppression and marginalization.”. So is black crime. So is Third World poverty.

Multiculturalism and Third World immigration became hammers used to destroy the West. The Left had finally come to realize that the white man will never support their ideas. Thus, the Left not only gave up on the white race, but turned against the very people it originally sought to uplift: the working class.

If the people of the West won’t support Communism, then the West must get new people, and the world is full of illiterates just dying to come to the U.S. and vote for more welfare.

There’s a reason liberals push for immigration from Mexico and Haiti, but not from, say, Bulgaria and Serbia, formerly Communist countries where almost nobody supports Socialist policies any longer. The former can be reasonably expected to consistently support every leftist program, no matter how unreasonable, while the latter imposed the Flat Tax and other conservative policies in their countries.

Multiculturalism is, thus, the means by which Gramscian Communists are seeking to achieve what Lenin achieved in Russia.

While Lenin’s East European Communism collapse, Gramscian Western Communism has actually grown stronger, as the idea of demographic replacement of capitalist whites with Socialist minorities became undisputed and indisputable.

People who grew up in formerly Communist countries universally say that we in the West are more brainwashed by Gramscian Multiculturalism and cultural destruction than they ever were with Lenin’s ideas.

They are right.

East Europeans had to be forced to remain quiet by their secret service. Westerners, on the other hand, are so intent on following orders that the majority acts as volunteer KGB agents, willing to destroy anyone who disagrees with the PC dogma of welcoming the demographic replacement of Western people.

Not only has Gramscianism grown stronger than Leninism, but it is also much more dangerous. Eastern Europeans suffered economically under Communism, but are now rapidly rebuilding. One or two generations is enough to recover from Leninism because the countries’ demographics and culture remains largely the same.

The damage caused by Gramscianism, however, is permanent. Once you destroy a nation’s culture and replace its people, there’s no going back except maybe by Inquisition-style warfare used in 15-th century Spain.

And the Gramscian victory doesn’t require an armed revolt. Merely changing people’s minds and forcing the rest to shut up by making them outcasts is enough for Gramscians to win.

When Gramscian ideas won the day in the early 1960s, the West was lost. Even as whites were 90% of Americans, fighting Communism, they had already lost their country during the John Kennedy administration.

The Russians knew when their country turned Communist and ultimately they knew how to fix the problem. Americans, on the other hand, were overtaken without even realizing it, and no easy solution exists.