In 2012 Paul Weston published a four-part series on the American website Gates of Vienna entitled ‘How to destroy a country’. Although written 13 years ago, these articles remain prescient and relevant. The tragedy is that no one in the British political establishment took any notice. Even now, it is far from clear that the main parties of the so-called right have reached a real understanding of the post-war left-wing transformation of Britain. In Part 1 Paul describes the rise and rise of the East European Marxist intellectuals whose theories successfully corrupted the West.

‘THERE is a revolution coming. It will not be like the revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture and will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. This is the revolution of the new generation.’  — Charles Reich, The Greening of America, 1970.

Every generation bemoans the slippage of standards and the ‘going to the dogs’ of society, but history shows that civilisations and peoples really do collapse utterly. Some even become extinct. Great Britain, needless to say, is no longer as great as it once was, but has the degradation we see around us on a daily basis been caused by well-intentioned liberal stupidity, or by brilliantly planned leftist malevolence?

Perhaps it is a mixture of both. It has long been known the hard left wished to transform the traditional Britain (and West) I was born into. Via a protracted campaign of brainwashing and propaganda they were able to recruit well-intentioned liberals into an unknowing alliance. This was not particularly difficult, of course; liberals are easily duped by propagandised platitudes and fall very easily into Lenin’s denouncement of ‘useful idiots’.

First, let us deal with some facts. During and after WWII the Soviet Communists gobbled up as much of Europe as they could. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia disappeared behind the Iron Curtain, followed by Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and East Germany. In essence, any country within Moscow’s military strike capability fell into its clutches and became part of the Soviet empire.

The Communists really did have global aspirations, so countries outside their military sphere were not simply ignored and written off: they were earmarked for destabilisation and subversion, to be taken over at a later date. The Kremlin office assigned this task was the Department of Agitation and Propaganda, which worked with Western Communist parties, including the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).

Added to this subversive mix was a group of thinkers who became known as the Frankfurt School, which wielded enormous social pressure — initially in America and subsequently in Britain — in the decades after the Second World War. It was established in Frankfurt in 1923 by the Hungarian Communist Georg Lukacs and was known in those days as the Institution for Marxism. Lukacs was an agent of the Communist International (Comintern) which had been established in Moscow in 1919 to ‘fight by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie for the creation of an international Soviet republic’.

Karl Marx wrote of the anarchy necessary as a precursor to outright revolution, in which he would ‘stand astride the wreckage a colossus’. Lukacs, whose reputation in the revolutionary world was almost on a par with Marx himself, said: ‘I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution. A worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries.’

In the 1930s Lukacs was joined by two other Marxists, Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno. The rise of Hitler made it impossible for them to stay in Germany so they moved to New York City where the institute became known as the Frankfurt School. In the 1950s they were joined by Herbert Marcuse, and between them they started to write the Marxist future of the democratic West.

Read More – How to destroy a country: Part 1