The fictitious Left

The fictitious Left

Olavo de Carvalho
Diário do Comércio, 5/5/2009

Among liberals and conservatives, in Brazil and the rest of the world, only a few have a clear view of who is one's enemy and how to fight him. The majority fights only against an idealized Left, a trompe l’oeil fabricated by the Left to be consumed by their adversaries as a stupefying, paralyzing and incapacitating drug. The model of this ruse is a copy of something that existed historically:  a humanitarian, democratic, anti-communist Left, only separated from the Right by a different conception of the means - more statist than capitalist - to be used with the goal of realizing values that were, in the end, the same ones from the other side - liberty, human rights and a decent life for all.

Although vaguely inheriting the reformism of Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky – the “renegade”, as Lenin called him –, this Left had only became a prominent actor in the Western media during the Spanish civil war, when the murderous violence started by the Stalinist command against their own ranks served as an alert call to many leftists, making them understand that communism was at least as destructive as nazism. The Ribbentropp-Molotov pact of August of 1939 had completed the delusion. Some had switched sides completely, becoming conservatives. Others, refusing any loyalty to the Soviet government, but not denying the socialist ideal, ended up integrating the social-democrats and workers' parties and becoming good allies of the conservatives in the fight against communism, but continuing to fight them in the ground of social policies. George Orwell and the philosopher Sidney Hook are famous examples. The first one became, with his books Animal Farm and 1984, one of the greatest creators of the anti-communist language, designed to make a parody and implode the communist jargon. The second one was the main organizer of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, the only serious enterprise ever attempted - in 1949-50, with the help of CIA - to reunite anti-communist intellectuals and offer some resistance to the Soviet's massive culture attack started thirty years before.

It is not necessary to say how much the existence of a prestigious anti-communist Left had annoyed the Soviet establishment. The policy of “pacific coexistence” inaugurated by Nikita Kruschev had as one of its main purposes to reintegrate the army of stragglers into the communist strategy. The success of this operation was complete. Already in the 70s, as the writer Vladimir Bukovski would find out in the Moscow archives, virtually all of the social-democrat media on Europe was subsidized and controlled by the KGB (v. Jugement à Moscou. Un Dissident dans les Archives du Kremlin, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1995). In the United States, infiltrated and dominated by both undercover and declared agents of the revolutionary Left, the Democrat Party, which until the 60s worked as the ideal refuge of the anti-Soviet leftists, had drifted more and more to the Left, until it assumed the flag of the most radical and intolerant anti-Americanism. The bibliography that documents this transformation is abundant, not leaving any reasonable excuses for the self-proclaimed specialists in foreign policy to ignore the phenomenon, as ours had ignored it in whole. See, for example, David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party, How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and the Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, Nashville, TN, Nelson Current, 2006; James Piereson, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism, New York, Encounter Books, 2007; Phil Kent, Foundations of Betrayal. How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America, Johnson City, TN, Zoe Publications, 2007.

The transfiguration of the American moderate Left in an agent of the radical Left has reached its apex with Obama's presidency, who ostensibly protects terrorist organizations and criminalize any conservative resistance, at the same time it that continues to display the conventional signs of democratic progressiveness (v. http://truth11.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/former-presidential-candidate-alan-keyes-has-given-perhaps-his-most-dire-warning-yet-saying-that-the-obama-administration-is-preparing-to-stage-terror-attacks-declare-martial-law-and-cancel-the-2012/, http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=494798, http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=490720 and http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=).

In Latin America, the incarnation of the "moderate Left", the Worker's Party, is discreetly the coordinator of the Foro de São Paulo, that is, the maximum strategist of the revolutionary violence in the continent.

In summary, the democratic, civilized Left, loyal competitor of the conservatives, does not exist anymore as an independent political force. Financing and hiding terrorist and subversive movements everywhere, and imposing under a different guise the same policies that would be rejected by the people if presented with the communist label, the "moderate Left" is an enemy even more powerful to the conservatives than the card-carrying communists themselves, who would not have any power at all without the former.

The difference between the two Lefts is that one is willing to share power with the conservatives, according to the regular democratic rotation, while the other is not content to win these adversaries in the elections, but attempts to destroy them completely, marginalizing, criminalizing and expelling them forever not only from the politics but from social life, if not their very physical existence. The other difference is that the second Left is the only one that exists in reality;  the other, only in the residual imagination of the Right.

If the Left still makes use of the beautiful image of democratic moderation created in the battlefields of Spain, it is only to fool their enemies. However, if one continues believing in its existence and imagines that is fighting loyal adversaries when in reality one is fighting murderers and revolutionaries, this is something that comes from an unforgivable intellectual and moral cowardice, which is suicidal as any other kind of cowardice.

How Modern Liberalism came to existence

How Modern Liberalism came to existence

The modern liberals, a.k.a. cultural marxists, emphasize that they don't have anything to do with the classic marxism, however the modern liberalism is not only a culture against Christianism, but also tries to fool people proposing anti-Christian ideas as if they were Christian. For example, the idea of worldly peace without Christ, symbolized by the logo of the inverted cross with the broken arms (peace logo).

Democracy needs a moral basis of mutual respect where left and right can get along. But with the cultural marxism hegemony, things have changed in such a way that what was considered leftist has became center; what was the ultra-radical left, has became the current left; and what was right, is in the endangered species list and disappearing very rapidly from the political scenario.

The communist manifesto of Marx called the proletarian workers from around the world to unite and proposed that they should revolt against the property owners. From this perspective, Marx foresaw a great conflict across Europe in which the "oppressed workers" would attack "the oppressors bosses" according to the interests of their economic class.

However, the conflict occurred not according to the Marxists' vision. The First World War started in 1914 and lasted until 1919. The German Kaiser said "there are no more parties, we are all Germans" and turned workers against workers from other countries, each defending the "interests of their bosses."

In 1917, the Bolshevik revolution gave hope to Marxists, although all other attempts to communist revolution failed.

In 1919, the Spartacus revolution in Berlin - with Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and Spartacus - failed.

Also in 1919, there was a Soviet government in Munich, whose interim government failed to attract the support of workers.

In Hungary, the provisional government of Bela Kun, with involvement of the philosopher Georg Lucács, also failed.

In Italy there was a unionist revolt in Turin, which also failed.

These failures were a major problem for the Marxism theory: the reality does not follow this theory! A normal brain would have discarded any theory that it is not compatible with reality, but the Marxist brain is not normal: if the reality does not confirm the theory, to hell with the reality!

Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukács concluded that the Western culture "alienated the proletarians and prevented them from fighting against the interests of other classes." They concluded that Russia was not "Western" enough, so the revolution was successful there for that reason.

In their view, Western culture is sustained in 3 columns: Roman law, Greek philosophy and Judeo-Christian morality.

To deploy socialism in the West, they concluded that it was necessary to destroy Judeo-Christian morals. That is why the new Marxism, the cultural Marxism, or modern liberalism aims to destroy anything that is Jewish and Christian.

However, this has created a schism in Marxism. In the West, they began to fight for a different kind of Marxism that was different from the orthodox Marxism practiced in the East, behind the Iron Curtain.

The CULTURAL MARXISM

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a French philosopher, coined the term "Western Marxism" to differentiate that heterodox Marxism which was somewhat heretical in the eyes of communist Russia. Stalin hated the Communists in the West who did not accept the orders from Moscow despite also being Marxists. Later, the KGB welcomed these new collaborators, seeing how they could be useful, and started paying them.

Several famous writers and philosophers in the West were participants in the Western Marxism. Ernst Bloch (important influence on the European students revolution), Walter Benjamin, Jean Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Jürgen Habermas (who once discussed with the future Pope, who was then Cardinal Ratzinger).

In 1923, Germany held the Week of Marxist Labor. Marxist philosophers gathered to discuss the crisis of Marxist theory (why the reality was not following the theory?) That crisis had existed since 1919. At that meeting, stood out Felix Weil and Georg Lukács. Felix Weil came from a rich family and spent his dad's money creating and sustaining financially the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt in 1924: the famous School of Frankfurt.

This group originally intended to use the name "Marx-Engels Institute," mirroring the office of the same name in Moscow, but in the West they have decided that there was greater advantage in not identifying themselves as Marxists. The institute published the first volume of the General Works of Marx and Engels (a.k.a. MEGA - Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe) at the same time the office of Moscow did.

These rich young studied the German society and the Western thinking to figure out how to destroy it. With the rise of Hitler to power and his persecution of Jews and Marxists, they fled to the United States.

A main feature of the cultural Marxists is that they do not predominantly want armed struggle, however they want to "occupy territories" in the culture, preaching their doctrines in the universities, in the media, in churches or anywhere where there is speech.

Several of these thinkers, who did not identified themselves as Marxists, infiltrated and taught in American universities. Of these, it is worth mentioning Teodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, who were teaching at Columbia University, in New York. Horkheimer and Adorno returned to Europe after the end of World War II and made many disciples. Marcuse worked for the CIA (then called the OSS) in anti-Nazi propaganda projects and then moved to California. At the time the student revolution of 1968 flared up, he was teaching at the University of San Diego.

Marcuse has greatly influenced the culture of the West, changing the Western marxist thought into a kind of intellectual marriage between Marx and Freud. The Marxists wanted a revolution and so they needed angry people. The revolt of workers, exploited by classical Marxism, was demonstrably inadequate. It was necessary to find more angry people. Marcuse discovered the youth and the sexually repressed people.

Their discourse then became: "the capitalist society" - that is, Western society - "is a repressive society. It oppresses people, repressing them sexually. You can not freely exercise your sexuality. Revolt!" They wanted to destroy the Christian morals but did not openly confess their intentions.

These Marxist "preachers" proposed the liberation of sexuality, abortion, homosexuality and divorce, calling the monogamous marriage as "bourgeois morality" (codename for Christian morality).

Erich Fromm, Cornelius Castoriadis (who took part in the student revolution in Paris), Michel Foucault (one of the first victims of AIDS - he was a drug addict and a quite promiscuous homosexual) and Herbert Marcuse were the biggest influences in universities. When the student revolution of 1968 broke out, Marcuse, Foucault, Castoriadis and others helped the students in Paris.

In Hollywood, the Marxists also worked to destroy the "bourgeois morality". About twenty of them were denounced by Senator Joseph McCarthy but he ended up being victim of the ideological police.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Venona Code was discovered in the KGB archives and it revealed that not only twenty, but more than a hundred Marxists were working in Hollywood under orders of KGB. The book "Venona Code" explains in detail these historical facts.

In 1955, Marcuse wrote "Eros and Civilization", a widely used book in universities which became the "bible" of the hippie revolution. According to its text, the capitalist society leads to war and sexual repression, therefore, "make love, not war," "Love and peace, dude!"

To have the courage to de-repress, some young people, who were also raised in Christian families, needed to take drugs so they could practice those sexual perversions (the "sexual liberation"). With that came Woodstock and the protest against the war in Vietnam. The young and the perverted served as fuel for the engine of Marxist revolution.

CASE STUDY: BRAZIL

In 1964, Brazil was a very conservative country, with a society capable of uniting for the "March of Families for Freedom with God" in protest against the impending revolution of president João Goulart, who among others was pushing the country towards a Cuban-style communist dictatorship.

That has changed with the indoctrination through the widely watched soap operas of Rede Globo - among several other occupied spaces in the media. There were many Communists working in the Globo organizations and other bodies of the mainstream Brazilian media. Roberto Marinho (big media owner) reacted against the military regime and protected the communists in the Globo enterprises: "Let me handle my Communists by myself." Of these communists, the most notable - Dias Gomes and Janete Clair - dominated the 70 with their soap operas.

In Dias Gomes' biography, "Just A Subversive", he recounts preaching divorce - it was taboo at that time - in his 1970 soap opera "Red Summer". In his second 1970 soap opera, "On Earth just as it is in Heaven", he attacked the Catholics for their celibacy. In the 1975 soap opera "Roque Santeiro", which had been censored by the military government, he attacked Christianity by way of Catholicism.

In "Roque Santeiro," Father Albano (a liberation theology priest) and Father Hipólito (supposedly a conservative) discussed before the statue of Roque Santeiro, who had died and became worshipped as a Catholic saint. Under the protest of priest Albano, corrupt Father Hipólito sold images of Roque Santeiro and tried to cover up the fact that Roque Santeiro had not died. The intent of Dias Gomes was to make people believe that Christianity created false myths and the denounciation of these myths was necessary to prevent Christians from taking advantage of people.

The military government had no idea about cultural Marxism. They searched the house of Dias Gomes looking for weapons and books teaching guerrilla tactics and they didn't find anything. Only with wiretapping they discovered something when Dias Gomes explained his intentions to his friend Nelson Werneck Sodré: "But will the censors miss this?" "... Doing it this way it will pass. The military is very stupid!" That conversation was described in Arthur Xexéo's book, "Janete Clair, the Maker of Dreams." Once the government learned of it, they outlawed "Roque Santeiro" and explained: "The novel contains affront to morality, public order and good customs, and attacks the church."

The general Golbery do Couto e Silva, with his "theory of the pressure cooker," was one of the main culprits for the misfortunes that occur today in Brazilian universities. "Every pressure cooker should have a valve." The valve that he handed to the Marxists in a platter were the universities.

Although there were military government agents watching the lessons of the Marxists in the universities, they could preach anything, provided they would not touch the topics of land redistribution and guerrilla. They were free to talk about abortion, divorce, free sex because that was not identified as Marxism. Today the universities are completely dismantled in terms of Christian culture, becoming barely disguised anti-Christian factories, accusing the conservatives and denouncing their "bourgeois morality" and their "backward thinking".

The politically correct is a Marxist invention. It was created to try to convince people that Christian moral convictions were flawed and that it would be necessary to make everybody equal.

On September 7th (Brazilian independence day), a date that should be a commemoration of patriotism, the CNBB (National Conference of Brazilian Bishops, the part of Brazilian Catholicism dominated by liberation theology) had created the "Cry of the Excluded". The "excluded" is a category created by Pierre Bourdieu to perpetuate the idea of class warfare.

In Ibiúna in 1968, there was a congress of the UNE (National Union of Students), under the leadership of the current left-wing politicians who are in the Brazilian government and the opposition. The Marxists Aldo Rebelo (PC do B - Communist Party of Brazil), Jose Serra (PSDB - Democratic-Socialist Party of Brazil) and Jose Dirceu (PT - Workers' Party) were in that conference and all of them belong to currently hegemonic parties.

In today's Brazil, dominated by the cultural Marxism, there are virtually only leftist parties. They all try to enforce and encourage sexual promiscuity, abortion and homosexuality, racial conflict and environmental hysteria.

The PT calls the PSDB "right-wing", but the PSDB is not right-wing. PSDB is to the right of the PT but is still a left-wing party. The PSOL accuses the PT and the Lula government of not being leftists, but that only means that the PSOL is further left than the PT.

The Brazilian right today no longer exists in the form of parties, but as the Marxists still need an imaginary enemy, they use the DEM as a scarecrow and punching bag. The DEM is the former PFL, a party created to oppose the military regime which was taken by opportunists and today they form a mediocre, subservient and easily handled opposition.

IDEOLOGY PATROLLING - "You shall not disagree with the Left!"

The leftist hegemony today is maintained largely through ideological policing.

If someone dares to denounce the evil deeds of the Marxists, they use the tactic proposed by Lenin: jump on the victim collectively, making numerous allegations.

"You are a CIA agent, you are paid by Wall Street, you are bourgeois, you are the white elite, you are homophobic, you're a fool" - all possible and imaginable accusations and slander are used with the aim of intimidating other people so that they dare not agree with whoever denounced the evil deeds of cultural Marxists.

The goal is to make others afraid and make them think twice before speaking or denounce the same things - that is the ideological policing.

Documentary about the communist subversion in the US media

This is an interview with Yuri Alexandrovitch Bezmenov (*1939 +1997), a Soviet dissident who was a KGB operative and employee of the Novosti agency.
The interview is conduced by G. Edward Griffin, political commentator and author of The Creature from Jekyll Island. This interview took place in 1984.
The interview has been divided in 9 parts for YouTube and the play list is here.

Understandably, Yuri Bezmenov, being a foreigner with counterintelligence background, underestimated American society's capacity to resist the onslaught of Soviet propaganda.
With the fall of the evil empire, this interview explains the communist plans that fortunately failed, a horrible scenario from which America and the world have escaped, even though the US media continues to be infected.

Jeff Nyquist interviews Olavo de Carvalho

Click here to listen to 'Jeff Nyquist interviews Olavo de Carvalho'


Click here to download the MP3 file containing the interview straight from the RepublicBroadcasting.org website

I am gonna try to get a transcription.

Why billionaires favor socialism?

If all means of production were "nationalized" (meaning confiscated by the government), there would be no market. Without market, we would not have prices. Without prices, there is no calculation of costs. Without calculation of costs, there is no economic planning. Without planning, there is no state planned economy.

Thus, "Communism" is only a hypothetical construction devoid of materiality, a name without anything inside, an universal abstract formalism that does not escape unharmed from Occam's razor. There never was a communist economy, only camouflaged or perverted capitalist economies, barely enough to sustain a gang of political leeches.

Since Ludwig von Mises explained this obviousness in 1922, many consequences have followed.

The communist leaders, however stupid they were, understood immediately that the Austrian scholar was right, but could not concede it in public. Tolerating increasing doses of capitalism - legal or illegal - in the territories they dominated, they continued to insist on any arrangement that disguised the inevitable.
Eduard Kardelij, Minister of Economy of Yugoslavia, has even imagined that there could be a committee of planners to determine one by one, by decree, the prices of millions of articles, from supersonic aircraft to sewing needles. The idea was never put into practice, because it was too reminiscent of the dumb method of killing cockroaches by trying to hit them with naphthalene balls.

The Soviets allowed the officially banned capitalism to continue prospering in the shadow and to answer for almost fifty percent of the economy of the USSR. Hence the swarm of millionaires who emerged from their hiding places, suddenly after the fall of the Soviet state: they would never have been able to exist in a system of effective prohibition of private property.

Some major Western capitalists took from Mises' demonstration some more pleasant conclusions (for themselves). If the communist economy was impossible, all efforts designed to create it nominally would generate into something else. That something else could only be a hidden capitalism, as in the USSR, a half-bred socialism, a symbiosis between the power of state and the most powerful economic groups, an oligopoly, in short.

The two hypotheses promised formidable profits - first, from the absolute absence of taxes, secondly, from the State guarantees granted to the friends of the government against any competitors. If the first feature still involved some minor risks (extortion, personal vendettas of public officials unsatisfied with the low amount of their bribe), the second was absolutely safe.

It was then that a group of billionaires created the most Machiavellian strategic plan in the world's economic history - the formula was so ironically summarized by columnist Edith Kermit Roosevelt (granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt): "The best way to fight Communism would be a socialist New Order governed by 'experts' such as themselves."

This idea spread like fire among the members of the CFR, Council on Foreign Relations, the powerful NY-based think tank. This policy has been adopted by all U.S. governments (except Reagan) in regards to the Third World: combat the "extreme left" by giving support to the "moderate left".

The scheme is supposedly infallible: if the "moderates" won, there would be monopoly, and if the Communists rose to power, the Plan B would automatically be put into action - the black market capitalism. The "extreme left", presented as "the" enemy was not the actual target, it was only the lefthand half of the plan.

The real target was the free market, which should perish under the dual attack of its enemies and their "defenders" who would use the communist revolution as a scarecrow and make increasing concessions to the "prophylactic" type of socialism of the "nice" Left.

For half a century, the permanent goal of the billionaire inventors of the New World Order has been to reduce the range of political options to a dispute between Communists and Social Democrats. Brazil today is the laboratory of their dreams.

Excerpt of "Who invented Brazil?", by Olavo de Carvalho
This translation was not reviewed by the author.
Zero Hora , 11 de junho de 2006

Why the Happiest Coutries are Happy?

Since 1981 and every year, the National Science Foundation polls the feelings of happiness and unhappiness from the people of several countries. This year, the averages pointed to the 5 happiest countries in the world being Denmark, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Iceland and Northern Ireland. The 5 most unhappy: Zimbabwe, Armenia, Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine.

In a list of 98 countries, the United States occupied the 16th place, a very reasonable performance for a nation in war, and Brazil, in 30th place, below Nigeria but way above richer nations such as Germany, China and France.

Ronald Inglehart, political scientist of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research who directed the poll, has reached a conclusion that should be printed in bumper stickers and placed in the foreheads of every bureaucrat and socialist:

"The results clearly show that the happiest societies are those that allow people the freedom to choose how to live their lives."

Puerto Rico and Colombia are not rich nations by any stretch, but their people are happy because their governments know how to protect them against the violence and chaos without that dubious protection against themselves, which is the main excuse for all the abuses of the bureaucratic authority today.

Another revelation from the research is that economic liberty is important, but it is not the most essential liberty as so many economic liberals imagine. Every normal human being is willing to suffer a degree of government interference in the economy, even if one is decidedly against it, as long as the government does not interfere in his private life - not forcing one to educate his children in a certain manner, not deciding what one should eat or not eat and, most of all, not putting one in prison for the crime of opinion.

When some soi-disant anti-socialists, in the pursuit of preserving economic freedom, negotiate with statism and make concessions in the moral and cultural grounds, they are contributing to make capitalism into a regime of unhappy prosperity and making the socialist cultural critique a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In the latest decades, in no other country has economic freedom increased as it did in China. But in the happiness ranking, the Chinese are in 54th place. The economicism is the infant disease of the liberalism.

The presence of Colombia in the third place is something that should make all of the liberals think. That is, if they did not have visceral fear of that painful activity.

How can a country in a war of several decades against terrorist organizations be happy? They can because war was the cause for national unity, creating in the Colombians that feeling of solidarity and trust that makes everyone feel strong in the midst of danger.

Ninety seven percent of Colombians hate the FARC, about eighty percent of them trust the president who has been directing with strong hands, from victory to victory, in war against that band of criminals and the gigantic diplomatic and advertising scheme built to give them support.

Under the leadership of Álvaro Uribe, Colombia has proved that it is a country capable of facing all of their enemies, internal and external - from the narco-traffickers hidden in the jungle to the Pelosis and Kennedys who give them protection in the highest circles of power. The Colombians fear no one. How could they not be happy?

This excerpt has been summarized from an article of philosopher Olavo de Carvalho.