Communism Rebranded – the American Left Today

This article was written exclusively for the New York Analysis of Policy and Government by the distinguished retired judge, John H. Wilson.

It is an open secret that the radical movements of the day – including Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter (BLM), and Seattle’s “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (aka CHAZ) – all have their basis in communist theory and practice. BLM Activist Shaun King, states on Twitter that he “support(s) the communists & socialists standing against Trump and against bigotry & white supremacy.” One of the founders of BLM, Patrisse Cullors, freely admits that she and her fellow organizers ” are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories,” and credits the Labor/Community Strategy Center with providing her with that training. She describes the Center as “having deep historical ties to the long history of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-communist resistance to the US empire.”

The organizers of CHAZ have issued a series of demands on line. These include, “replacement of the current criminal justice system (with) the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment,” “the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into… Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle…Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege (and) Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called “undocumented” because no person is illegal),” and “a decentralized election process to give the citizens of Seattle a greater ability to select candidates for public office such that we are not forced to choose at the poll between equally undesirable options.”

Similar demands were made by “Occupy Wall Street,” who wanted a “guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment,” “free college education,” and “open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live,” while an anonymous poster at Crimethinc.com explains that “the proposal to abolish the police is not a proposal to defund a particular institution, but to overhaul our entire society, abolishing the disparities that make police necessary to maintain the prevailing order.”

Meanwhile, Black Lives Matters states their “continued commitment to liberation” and “to co-creating alongside comrades, allies, and family a culture where each person feels seen, heard, and supported…”we intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle that is restorative…we disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another…”

Note in particular the words that have been highlighted above – do they sound familiar?

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Karl Marx was a German philosopher of the 19th century. “Marx declared that philosophy must become reality. One could no longer be content with interpreting the world; one must be concerned with transforming it, which meant transforming both the world itself and human consciousness of it.” Based upon this view, Marx believed that “underlying everything (that is, all of our material world and reality) as the real basis of society is the economic structure. This structure includes (a) the ‘material forces of production,’ that is, the labour and means of production, and (b) the overall ‘relations of production,’ or the social and political arrangements that regulate production and distribution…above the economic structure rises the superstructure, consisting of legal and political ‘forms of social consciousness’ that correspond to the economic structure.”

Marx also believed that “the political relations that individuals establish among themselves are dependent on material production, as are the legal relations,” and that eventually, some “individuals become conscious of the conflict within the economic structure between the material forces of production and the existing relations of production expressed in the legal property relations.”

In other words, Marxism consists in understanding that you, as a physical being, have an obligation to transform both yourself and your world; that economic structure is the basis for that material world you live in; and that there is a conflict between the economic structure and the legal relationships that have been imposed on that economic structure. It follows, then, that once you are aware of this conflict, you have an obligation to do something to transform those legal relationships.

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Putin’s Saber Rattling

Earlier this week, President Biden reversed his 2022 decision, authorizing the provision of antipersonnel land mines to the Ukrainian government. It follows an earlier Administration authorization to allow the use of an advanced American missile system capable of striking as deep as 100 miles inside Russian territory. The US election season may be ending, but both Russia and the West show no indication of stepping down the conflict. Russian propaganda continues to swell as the Kremlin increases its threats to use nuclear weapons against the West. Last week Andrey Sushentsov, program director of the pro-Kremlin think tank Valdai Discussion Club (VDC), published an article on growing nuclear tensions in the region. Official Russian language in the last few years has been threatening. Since the US election, rhetoric like that in the Sushentsov article, has approached the level of nuclear blackmail. The VDC article’s main theme centers on Russia’s intent to directly confront the West militarily if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) becomes involved in Russia’s conflict with Ukraine. “On the one hand, these threats are intended to frighten the West, but on the other, Russian propagandists themselves are starting to believe in the inevitability of escalation,” according to Ksenia Kirillova of the Jamestown Foundation. On November 11, Sushentsov wrote that “The conflict will reach a completely new level, with unpredictable consequences for Europe and the entire world.” Kirillova points out that Putin’s distorted image of the world is divorced from reality and is causing the Kremlin to issue demands that are impossible to fulfill. Financial and other Russian resources needed to support Putin’s war are growing scarcer at the same time. This week the Kremlin announced a reduction of payments to its soldiers. Recently North Korea acknowledged it was sending soldiers to fight in Ukraine as Putin is running out of bodies to use as cannon fire. The war is not going well for Russia. One question floating around the Washington intelligence community is whether Putin will act out of desperation before President-elect Trump assumes office. In recent months the Russian propaganda machine is spewing out materials from fairly reputable analytical platforms inside the country. Kirillova says that “Kremlin ‘experts’ do not conceal that such threats are only intended to break the West psychologically, as they themselves are not prepared for full-scale nuclear war.” Despite Russia’s lack of preparation for an all-out war with the West, the expanding nuclear rhetoric carries with it an increase in the threat of a full-scale war in multiple theaters of operation. In June 2023 a founder of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Sergey Karaganov, called for “delivering a pre-emptive strike of retaliation” on Poland to force the West to surrender. In the previous month, Dmitry Suslov, a direct of research programs at the policy center proposed organizing “a demonstration nuclear explosion” aimed at intimidating the West. In September, President Putin announced a reappraisal of Russian nuclear doctrine after speaking earlier in the year at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and jokingly calling Suslov a “scary person.” Pavel Baev, writing in the European Daily Monitor, says “Putin intends his announcement to mark an escalation of nuclear brinkmanship and influence the proceedings of future Ukrainian peace efforts.” Putin is expanding the list of environmental conditions that are acceptable for using a nuclear weapon and incorporating it into Russian military doctrine. Baev adds that “The ups and downs of Russian brinkmanship are disconnected from the kinetic battles of the war, correlating instead with Ukrainian peace offensives, such as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first peace summit in Bürgenstock, Switzerland.” Despite the increase in vitriolic language, in a You Tube video published a week before the US presidential election, Karaganov openly assured the West the primary goal of the escalation is to break the American spirit and that of the West, not outright nuclear war. By Election Day in the US, with political prognosticators predicting a win for former president Trump, Karaganov changed his tune and called for an increased role in nuclear deterrence. Kirillova points out that Western concessions to Russia are unlikely to reduce the risk of nuclear escalation. The distorted reality inside the Kremlin continues to push that President-elect Trump is an adherent of “world government,” that Ukraine will create a nuclear weapon, and Russia must prepare for a nuclear conflagration to achieve its ambitions for a new world order. President-elect Trump has indicated he will not agree to concessions that destabilize Europe, the Middle East or other regions. Going forward a strong US foreign policy may be the most stabilizing course the West can count on to restrain Putin and his intent to rebuild the Russian empire. Daria Novak served in the U.S. State Dept. Illustration: Pixabay

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