Marxist Terror Special Part Four
Take Your Compass #13 Special on Antifa - CONTENT WARNING!
Take Your Compass #13 - Marxist Terror Special Part Four
Welcome to part four. Please read part one, part two, and part three before preceding with part four. You will not have the necessary information for this part without reading what came before.
Take Your Compass #9 - Marxist Terror Special Part One
Take Your Compass #11 - Marxist Terror Special Part Two
Take Your Compass #12 - Marxist Terror Special Part Three
AFA: Reminder that I am using AFA as an umbrella acronym for all the violent Marxist groups.
CONTENT WARNING!
I gave a fuller warning in part three that I will not repeat here. I will just say this:
There is much evil at work here. You should be disturbed after seeing this evil. I am NOT trying to fear-monger or work you up to believe you have to go out and fight these people in the streets.
This is first and foremost a spiritual battle. As Paul said in his letter to the Ephesians:
"Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." (Ephesians 6:12)
Paul would warn us that “the prince of the power of the air is the spirit that is now at work.” There is nothing new here. This is an ancient battle wrapped in modern clothing.
Author’s note: I am against fascism. I am also against Antifa. The difference is that I am against ALL fascism. I am against Nazis, Racists, Atheists, Socialists, Marxists, and every flavor of Communism. I am against using terror and chaos to manipulate people.
Militant Marxist groups in the USA 1960-1985
Here in the US, we had a lot of AFA type groups in the 60s and 70s. Groups like the Weather Underground, United Freedom Front, Seattle Liberation Front, Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, New World Liberation Front, May 19th Communist Organization, John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, George Jackson Brigade, Chicano Liberation Front, Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army, Symbionese Liberation Army, United Freedom Front, etc.
These groups were of the same influences as the European groups we looked at in part two. They were steeped in the violent revolutionary thought of Lenin, Mao, Che Guevara, etc. They made direct and open calls for violence.
You probably have heard recently of calls for ‘decolonization.’ It is not a new term. It has simply come to the surface again. These people were talking about violent ‘decolonization’ back in the early 1960s. Decolonization is shorthand for violent revolution to bring about communism.
The calls for violence throughout the 1960s became actual violence in the 1970s and 80s. Below is a summary from an article I linked in part two.
“During an eighteen-month period in 1971 and 1972, the FBI reported more than 2,500 bombings on U.S. soil, nearly five a day.” So notes Bryan Burrough in his 2015 book Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence, which chronicles the 15-year reign of terror, idealism, and ineptitude of radical left-wing groups such as the Weather Underground, the Black and Symbionese Liberation Armies, and others that began in July 1969 with a bomb in Manhattan and ended in April 1985 with the arrest of the last members of the United Freedom Front in Norfolk, Va. - From: The Roots of Left-Wing Violence
Militant Marxist groups in the USA 1985-1995
Knowing what I know about AFA type groups before 1985 and after 1995, I was curious why the period 85-95 seemed quiet. The quiet was only on the surface. There was not much in the way of flag waving, in your face type of AFA actions. The reality is that so much happened, hidden in plain sight, during this period it would take books to cover it all.
This is a simplification, but two major things happened. First, the revolutionaries failed to get what they wanted with bombs in the early 70s. The more violent revolutionaries kept going, but many shifted from bombs to teaching. The leaders and students of the violent movements became professors and teachers.
The Long March through the Institutions*
Marxism was taken into public schools, universities, and government. Private Marxist schools were setup. The focus shifted from winning through violence to winning through ‘the system.’ The system was not just the education system. It also meant getting into the government.
Here are some notable communist revolutionaries who became professors, or who directly influenced academia:
Cornel West
Age 70. Still spewing communism as a widely known, followed and honored Marxist professor at Harvard, Princeton, etc. He is currently a 2024 independent candidate for President of the USA.
Angela Davis
Age 79. Still spewing communism. Ms. Davis did not shift into academia, she was there all along. Her first professorship was in 69/70. She was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitive list for a two month period in 1970. She held various professor positions up through 2010, and some guest lecturing through 2014.
Francis Fox Piven
Age 91. Still spewing communism. Like Ms. Davis, Ms. Piven took her communism into academia early on. She has been a professor at City University of New York since 1982. The name may sound familiar to you. She was co-author with her husband, Richard Cloward, of the ‘Cloward-Piven’ strategy.
“The Cloward–Piven strategy… is the strategy of forcing political change leading to societal collapse through orchestrated crises. …seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, amassing massive unpayable national debt, and other methods such as unfettered immigration thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse by overwhelming the system.” - Link
Todd Gitlin
Age 79. Not spewing communism today as far as I can tell. I would characterize him as still sympathetic with communism but disillusioned by the violence. He clearly denounces violence, but I still mention him here for his key role and leadership in the violent 60s protests, his radical teaching through the 70s and 80s, and his support of Occupy Wall Street.
Bill Ayers
Unconvicted terrorist: Age 78. Still spewing communism, still guilty of acts of terror that he never for which he was never convicted. Ayers was directly involved in the Weather Underground and participated in bombings in 1970, 71, and 72. Now retired after many years as a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was known there as advocating for social justice and educational reform.
“Calling Bill Ayers a school reformer is a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer.” - Sol Stern, City-Journal 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Age 81. Still spewing communism. Began teaching in the 70s. Not currently a professor. She worked with Piven and West in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was, or still is, a trustee with the Institute for Policy Studies, and on the editorial board of The Nation, both are hardcore communist organizations.
Occupy Wall Street
I am not going any deeper on ‘Occupy Wall Street.’ Just know that, all the above support or were involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Occupy is an AFA movement. Again, the symbology screams Marxist revolution:
Islamic Terror as an Ally
The second thing that happened was the rise of Islamic terror. They do not have the same exact end goals in mind of course, but the AFA types recognized Islamic terror as their cousins. Allied cousins who talked of bringing down the systems of oppression, fighting the decadent oppressors, ending capitalism, decolonizing, and bringing down the West.
So if it seems strange today that AFA types, leftists, and even parts of the Democrat party would align with a group like Hamas, understand that this isn't new. They have been aligned all along.
New AFA Groups Form
Also during this period is the formation of a new AFA group known as Anti-Racist Action (ARA). The violent revolutionaries were either active in starting this group or guiding it in the background. The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee was directly involved, and there are connections to the May 19th Communist Organization (MCO), the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, etc.
Separate ARA groups popped up around the country. It is interesting how AFA groups always claim spontaneity, disorganization, and the lack of any controlling body, but yet appear to have a core organizing force. These groups then formed one of the largest AFA networks in the country, Torch Antifa. Torch is still active.
The ARA logo has that AFA look, doesn’t it? By now you should be able to immediately catch the connection: red/black colors and black bloc attire. The weapon aimed directly at the viewer is a new twist.
Thanks for following! There is plenty more to come: up to date AFA information, the ‘internationals,’ and other loose ends. Please read and share!
Links:
*The Long March Through The Institutions
The Bombings of America That We Forgot
What Colonization and Decolonization Really Mean
Recommended Book:
Days of Rage: America's Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Thank you for reading, and God Bless!
JW
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis