> You may think it "just happened" that today's society is saddled with > cultural rot. > > You may think it "just happened" that many kids graduate from high school > with atrocious grammar, poor writing skills, and ignorance of American > history, or — in some cases — are barely literate. > > You may think it "just happened" that so many of today's clean-cut kids > enter college only to emerge spewing hatred for America, its traditions and > customs. > > You may think it "just happened" that the counter-culture of the Sixties > was rooted in raw hatred, violence, and destruction. > > You may think it "just happened" that today's establishment universities, > establishment foundations, and establishment media march to the drummer of > "political correctness" that (at the very least) downgrades our > Judeo-Christian heritage, while condoning — if not celebrating — same-sex > marriage. > > None of these things "just happened." > > Western Civilization itself has been under a concerted, planned attack for > decades. The step-by-step erosion of the values that served so well as the > underpinning of America's greatness — or "that shining city on the hill," as > Ronald Reagan used to say — did not "just happen." They were planned. > > > > *Cry Havoc!* is Ralph de Toledano's most ambitious work. Its modest length > (254 pages) belies a volume jam-packed with information. One hardly knows > where to begin. Anyone seriously absorbing it will end up with a heavily > underlined book that connects the dots and timeline of the planned decline > of Western Civilization. > > Those dots lead ultimately to the Institute of Social Research planted in > prestigious Frankfurt University in Germany in the Twenties. The "Frankfurt > School," as it was called, was "dedicated to neo-Marxism — contributing to > the corrupt miasma of Weimar Germany and the victory of Adolph Hitler's > National Socialists." > > Ultimately, the "school" moved to America where it was accepted by Columbia > University in New York. This was accomplished by John Dewey, the educator > credited (or blamed) by many with leading to the corruption of America's > education system. Dewey, as Toledano notes, was in league with "a > crypto-communist professorial cabal — and a conspiracy and a war so vast and > so cunning that it went unnoticed." > > A few — unfortunately *very* few others — have written about the Frankfurt > school. Toledano takes one more step toward laying the conspiracy directly > on the doorstep of the Comintern. As with Soviet funding of the Communist > Party USA, it takes no great leap of imagination to surmise as much. Again, > the question lies in "the smoking gun." Toledano makes the case that it is > there in writings or words of V.I. Lenin and other original Bolsheviks. > > *Cry Havoc!* traces the Frankfurt school plot to 1922 and to the > Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow and to Karl Radek — a power in the Politburo > — and to other key players in the then-new Bolshevik revolution. Among them > was Muenzenberg, who openly boasted, "We will take over the intellectuals. > We will make America stink." > > > > Toledano's book is based not only on much original research, but on > information the author has pieced together from his own conversations, > interviews, and correspondence with presidents (including Herbert Hoover and > Ronald Reagan) and other insiders — including the likes of J. Edgar Hoover. > Some of the author's sources have witnessed the makings of this global > mischief from the inside. > > Space here does not enable us to do justice to everything Ralph de Toledano > has found. >
-- Sandwichman
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