Brief review of reading while away from home

Productive 3 days at the lake

Finished …. Igor Shafarevich’s, “Socialist Phenomenon”
Finished …. Anthony Sutton’s, “Skull and Bones”
Almost finished … R. J. Rushdoony’s, “Chariot’s of Prophetic Fire”

Made good progress in David Hall’s “The Genevan Reformation & the American Founding

RJR’s book is great as a kind of devotional for the lives of Elijah and Elisha. RJR gives insights consistent with what you find elsewhere in RJR — to wit — the warnings against Statist control, the development of the antithesis in the life of Israel, Observations about the dangers of syncretism and what it means to be a “Throne man.” Very good

Shafarevich’s book is a must read if you want to understand what we are living through. Shafarevich connects the dots between atheism as a belief system and socialism as the incarnation of atheism into a social order. Shafarevich lays bare the irrationality of socialism and in a treatise that is worth the price of the book he spends time exposing how socialism is popular among those who think only as animals (intuitively) as opposed who think like humans (using reason). A fantastic book and if one were to combine this read with Dr. Fred Schwarz’s “You Can Trust the Communists to be Communists,” and Toledano’s “Cry Havoc,” and Von Mises “Socialism,” and Hayek’s “On the Road to Serfdom,” one would have a pretty good working foundation on the worldview that is our greatest enemy in our time.

Anthony Sutton’s book made me realize again how deep the worm hole goes. Much of what we get from the thin crust media is 100% spin. The next level isn’t much better with what we get from the court historian publishing houses. Sutton documents the role of the Skull and Bones order in US and world History. Sutton re-emphasizes that most of the conflict that we see in our times is purposely created as part of the dialectic between a manufactured left vs. right that has as its goal the result of a New World Order. Read in conjunction with other Sutton books, Carol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope,” and books like “None Dare Call It Conspiracy,” “The Zionist Factor,” “Behind Communism,” and “Secret Societies and Subversive Movements,” one begins to realize that the need for heaven sent Reformation is far greater than any of us could possibly be aware of. Good book.

Hall’s book is the antidote for the disease that Sutton names. Hall gives us how Liberty minded Calvinism is and he traces the impact of Calvin’s thinking on the creation of the West and especially the founding of America. Quoting numerous sources Hall probes how and why genuine Calvinism has always revolted against those who revolt against the Lord Christ as King. This book explodes the myth that R2K thinking is Calvinistic in the least. I still have 75% of this book to read but if the last 75% is as good as the first 25% … Katy bar the door. Hall has done us a real service with this work.

Shafarevich & McAtee On The Irrationality Of Marxism

“For the very reason that the basic driving force of socialist ideology is subconscious and emotional, reason and rational discussion of the facts have always played only a subordinate role in it. the socialist doctrines are reconciled with contradictions with an ease reminiscent of ‘prelogical’ primitive thinking, which functions outside any framework of consistency, as described by Levy-Bruhl. They are equally unconcerned with the fact that socialist conclusions are radically at odds with experience. Most astonishing of all is that these contradictions do not diminish the impact of the doctrine in the least.

Marxism reflects all these traits to a remarkable degree. Well known thinkers have pointed out numerous fundamental
contradictions, each of which would have been sufficient to demonstrate the groundlessness of a theory that lays claim to be scientific. For example, Berdiaev demonstrated that the concept of dialectical materialism is contradictory, since it attributes to matter a logical category — dialectics. Stammler showed that the idea of of historical determinism postulated by Marxism contradicts its own appeal to influence history, since it is equivalent to taking a conscious decision to turn with the earth around the sun. (Sergius Bulgakov paraphrased this as follows: ‘Marxism predicts the onset of socialism just as astronomy predicts the beginning of the lunar eclipse, and to bring about the eclipse it organizes a political party.’) The very heart of Marxist doctrine — the labor theory of value — was demolished by the work of the Austrian school (in particular by Bohm-Bawerk) and has been abandoned by political economy. Yet even without this heart, Marxism proved to be capable of survival.”

Igor Shafarevich
Socialist Phenomenon

So, in Marxism we have a philosophy that has been shown to be inherently contradictory in several of its key claims ( Dialectical Materialism, Labor theory of value) and just flat out wrong about several of its observations (Historical determinism, Capitalism always precedes and yields Socialism). Second, we see that Marxism is a theory wherein the theory is reversed engineered only after the desired conclusions are embraced. Further, we have the clear death delivering record of Marxism in the works of men like Robert Conquest, R. J. Rummel, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn and yet despite all this the death loving, self-destructing, man enslaving, Satan glorifying, doctrine of Marxism lives on and is even at this moment being pursued in this country.

What else can this drive to death be characterized as, except as the social order of Hell as inspired by Lucifer himself?

And yet despite this clear testimony that Marxism is anti-Christ to its core we have a whole school of thought (R2K) that has arisen and is telling the Church that the Church has no authority to speak to anti-Christ Marxist social theory from the Pulpit.

Dewey, Hegel, and Modern Education

“The school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”

John Dewey
My Pedagogic Creed

1.) In order to interpret this correctly the reader must understand that Dewey was a Hegelian in his philosophy. Hegelians believed that the State is the idea of universal Spirit in the external manifestation of human Will and that the universal Spirit was God becoming. Hegel said,

“The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.”

Simply put, for Hegel and later his disciple Dewey, the State was God. This is important to understand for Dewey’s education is not child centered but state centered. We see this in the quote above with the repeated references to the word “social” serving as the adjective for the subsequent noun. For Dewey, the Hegelian, “social institution”, “social processes” and “social ends” means “state institution,” “state processes,” and “state ends.”

This is where the gulf of misunderstanding between modern parents and the educational system begins. Parents believe a child goes to school to learn skills to use in the adult world, but Dewey states specifically that education is “not a preparation for future living.” The Dewey educational system does not accept the role of developing a child’s talents but, contrarily, only to prepare the child to function as a unit in an organic whole — in blunt terms a cog in a wheel of an organic society. Whereas many Americans have moral values rooted in the individual, the value of the school system are rooted in the Hegelian concept of the State as the absolute.

That Dewey is channeling Hegel can be seen by yet another quote from Dewey,

“Education consists either in the ability to use one’s powers in a social direction or else in ability to share in the experience of others and thus widen the individual conscienceness to that of the race”

In each case the individual is lost in either the left wing Hegelian collective of the State (i.e. — social direction) or the right wing Hegelian collective of the race.

The point to be taken in all this is that modern education is geared towards training the child to be a cog in the machinery of a State that has become so overarching that the society, and every individual in it, is identified with the State. When children go to school they are being trained against Christianity which opposes the State as God.

2.) When Dewey says that “education is a process of living” he means to communicate that education is to the end of molding little people into the stream of societal consciousness. Students, in modern education, are not trained to think critically, or prepare for future living, they are trained in how to be good citizens. In contemporary education public schooling has the teleology of creating Borg. It does not have the teleology of training independent thinkers.

The New Proletariat & The Obama Presidency

The question of who would be the chosen people to destroy the old world was answered by Marx as “the proletariat.” However, Herbert Marcuse complained that “the proletariat (working class) had become a support for the system,” and Jean Paul Sartre observed, “what is a proletariat if it is not revolutionary? And it is, indeed, not Revolutionary.” In light of the “compromise” of the former proletariat Marcuse advocated reconstituting the proletariat in a different direction. Instead of depending on the working class to be the “revolutionary bringing shock troops” a different proletariat would be formed that would be comprised of disenchanted minorities, filled with Marxist envy, having been convinced that the Christian WASP bourgeoisie had done them wrong. This core minority proletariat would be joined by students, academia, feminists, and the pervert class to form the new proletariat that would take down the remnants of the old Christian order. This group of people (most of them no more than useful idiots) will be those used by the cultural Marxists to accomplish their long march through the institutions.

It is this new proletariat that Obama is trying to form into a coalition that can propel him to election in 2012. The deception of 2008 will not work again and so Obama has forsaken the white middle working class completely and is seeking to ride the new proletariat to power. You see this new proletariat at every turn. On MSNBC you see it in guys like Joe Williams, Martin Bahsir, Tour’e and Melissa Harris,

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/04/melissa_harris_perry_talks_slavery_imperialism_in_segment_on_july_4th.html

Indeed MSNBC should be viewed with the understanding that it is the informational water carrier for the “anti-Christian new Proletariat.

The current Obama administration can not be understood apart from this filter. From Eric Holder’s decision to not prosecute the new Black Panthers for voter intimidation, to the gun running of “Fast and Furious,” to Obama’s early indicting of the “Cambridge cops who acted stupidly,” to Obama’s comments that “If I had a son he would look like Trayvon Martin,” to the usage of ACORN as a political vehicle, to the Obama administrations taking Arizona to court for their immigration policies, to Obama granting amnesty to about 1 million illegal aliens, to the passage of Obama-care, to Obama appointing the “wise Latina” Sotomayor and the Lesbian Kagan to the SCOTUS, all of this is about empowering the new proletariat to overthrow the remnants of WASP culture and people. In point of fact the citizen who can not or will not understand the dynamic of the new proletariat in this country will not and can not understand the Obama Presidency.

Through The Centuries, From The Greeks & The Incas, To Today, Wherever You Find Socialism You Find,

Throughout history where ever you find Socialism, there you find at least these four phenomenon.

1.) Abolition of Private Property

This includes not only material wealth but also includes immaterial wealth such as our lineage, heritage, and family identity. As there is no private property there is no private property wherein you have a sense of ownership of anything or anyone moving back into the past, or forward into the future. This denial of private property therefore means the individual is cut off from their past and their future. The purpose of this is so the individual can only define themselves in keeping with the State who owns them.

2.) Abolition of Family

Wherever you find the success of Socialism there you find the break down of both the extended and nuclear family in favor of a atomistic social structure that does not allow the family to congeal into a unit that identifies itself vis a vis the State. The destruction of the family is done by a immorality that fractures the family bonds and so redefines the import of stable family structures.

3.) Communality or Equality

Socialism always aims a integrating all into the void. It builds a social order that is a machine and so while it may allow for different cogs to exist in the machine all the cogs are equal and are easily replaced by other trained cogs. Equality applies to the two areas we’ve already mentioned. Equality is striven after in private property among all citizens (except the elite) and all perverted types of family ordering is seen as “equally” valuable.

On the communality factor commonality of wives is often a feature in Socialism as well as commonality of living quarters. Think Kibbutz in terms of living. Think Hippie love ins in terms of commonality of women.

4.) Abolition of all religions that compete with the religion of Socialist Humanism

Socialism is the anti-religion religion. Socialism insists that it is not a religion while attacking religion in general as being a blight upon humanity. As it attacks religion in general it subtly advances itself as the anti-religion religion