Two Far-Left Reference Documents
Anybody paying half attention to what is happening in America has realized the former “Democrat Party” is rapidly turning into the “Democratic Socialist Party,” with plans to bring Communism to American as quickly as they can.
Two historical document that provide insights on what their ambitions will bring and how they will get there are “The Communist Manifesto” and “Rules For Radicals.”
Summary information on both documents are provided for you disenchantment below.
The Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels, 1848)
History as class struggle — All of history is a series of conflicts between oppressor and oppressed classes: freeman vs. slave, lord vs. serf, and in the modern era, bourgeoisie vs. proletariat.
Bourgeoisie as revolutionary force — Capitalism swept away feudal relations, but only replaced them with naked self-interest and “callous cash payment.” It created global markets, but also its own gravediggers.
The proletariat as the only truly revolutionary class — Workers own nothing but their labor power. As industry centralizes, the working class grows in numbers, discipline, and consciousness. Unlike previous lower classes, the proletariat cannot rise without destroying the entire system of private property.
Abolition of private property — Not personal possessions, but the private ownership of the means of production (factories, land, capital). This is the central demand.
Ten-point program — Immediate transitional measures: heavy progressive income tax, abolition of inheritance, centralization of credit in a state bank, centralization of transport and communication, expansion of state-owned factories and farmland, free public education, abolition of child factory labor.
Abolition of the family — Not literally abolishing family bonds, but abolishing the bourgeois family model where women and children are effectively property and instruments of production. Marriage becomes a free union.
Internationalism — “Workers of the world, unite!” National boundaries are irrelevant to class identity. The proletariat has no country.
Dictatorship of the proletariat — A transitional state where the working class holds political power to crush bourgeois resistance before the state eventually “withers away” into a classless, stateless society.
Ideology as superstructure — Law, morality, religion, and culture are products of material economic conditions. Change the economic base, and the ideological superstructure transforms. There are no eternal truths, only class truths.
Communists as the vanguard — The most advanced, theoretically clear section of the working class, pushing the movement forward and articulating its interests across national boundaries.
Rules for Radicals (Saul Alinsky, 1971)
Power is not what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have — Perception is everything. Build an image of strength before you have it.
Never go outside the experience of your people — If your tactics confuse your own base, you’ve already lost. Speak their language, operate within their frame of reference.
Wherever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy — Confuse, disorient, and unsettle the opposition. Drag them into unfamiliar terrain where they make mistakes.
Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules — Use their stated values and principles as a weapon against them. Hypocrisy is the most vulnerable flank.
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon — You can’t reason someone out of power. But mockery bypasses the rational defenses. The powerful can absorb argument; they cannot absorb being made ridiculous.
A good tactic is one your people enjoy — If the work feels like drudgery, the movement dies. Sustain morale through creative, satisfying action.
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag — Novelty fades. Attention spans are short. Keep rotating the pressure points.
Keep the pressure on — Never let up. Constant, unrelenting pressure forces errors, exhaustion, and eventual capitulation. The action itself is the catalyst, not the reaction.
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself — Anticipation paralyzes. People fear the unknown more than the concrete. Exploit this.
The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition — Make the status quo more expensive and painful than the change you’re demanding.
If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside — Every negative contains the seed of its opposite. Push hard enough and the polarity flips.
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative — Never tear down without being able to point to what goes up in its place. You cannot merely be against; you must be for something.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it — Don’t fight “the system.” Fight a specific person. Cut the issue to a single, vivid villain. Complexity is the enemy of mobilization.