Jack Posobiec on Human Events had a very interesting series of postings over the last few days dedicated to some of the post Enlightenment revolutions. Generally there are two, very distinct types. The first is the struggle of newly discovered feelings of "national awakening" within the context of the old multicultural concept of empire. Examples of rebellions of this type are the Dutch, the Greek and the American revolutions. The other model is much more violent and is a civil war within the national context on the basis of religion, ethnicity or more usual, social class. Examples of the latter are the French, Russian, German and Spanish revolutions. We will post them all, in parts. Some we have already covered over the years. In part 1: the Dutch Revolution (or the Eighty Years' War), the English Civil Wars, and the American Revolutionary War (link). In part 2: the French Revolution and the Greek War of Independence (link).
Dec. 28, 2023 Human Events: CHRONICLES OF THE REVOLUTION — BLOOD ON THE SNOW.
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1917 marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. Following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war Russia adopted a Marxist form of government, putting the Bolsheviks in power.
The 1905 Revolution had led to some reforms, including the establishment of a State Duma, which did not go far enough to satisfy the revolutionaries. Russia's entry into the First World War was initially supported by most Russians, but its infrastructure struggled to cope with the demands of war. (More)
2020 Kings and Generals: (Playlist) The History of Russia.
The German Revolution
The German Revolution of 1918-1919, also known as the November Revolution, began with the downfall of the German Empire and ended with the establishment of the Weimar Republic. On 11th November 1918, delegates from the new Social Democratic government of Germany officially signed thearmistice, ending Germany's part in the Great War 1914-1918. The Kaiser moved to comfortable exile in The Netherlands.
But mob rule reigned Germany. Newspaper offices, government buildings, stores, and telegraph offices were seized by criminal mobs. The government took the responsibility and the blame for the humiliating surrender, while simultaneously delegating political power - the state's monopoly of force - to Rightist officers.
As the army demobilized in Berlin, all moral constraint melted away. Demobed soldiers started selling their weapons on the streets. Those who held on to their arms followed their unit commanders into mafia-style, loosely connected militias, known as the Freikorps (Free Corps), a proto type of the later Waffen SS, but originally consisting of volunteers in the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon in 1813-1815.
The Western powers restricted the German military, but motivated by fear of the Soviet revolutionary threat, refrained from disarming and restraining the Freikorps. In 1919 the Freikorps spontaneously and without orders moved against Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
The more the Freikorps suppressed the revolution, the faster it spread. Bolshevik cells and councils (Soviets) sprang up in towns and cities across Germany.
The Munich Soviet was led by a former mental patient who wrote threatening letters to the Pope and declared war on Switzerland for failing to provide a shipment of locomotives. The Freikorps attacked Munich as if it were a foreign city. The Reds held the town for three days, at the end of which more than a thousand were shot, including seminary students.
The next year saw a coup by Dr Kapp and General Ludendorf. According to an anecdote Corporal Hitler came too late to join it. The ousted Social Democratic government being unable to turn out the Freikorps against the Freikorps, called for a general strike. This succeeded, sending the putschists fleeing to Sweden.
The reinstated Social Democratic government retaliated by setting the Freikorps loose on Berlin. As major disturbances ended, street battles and small uprisings continued to break out in towns. In the spring of 1921 the country had fallen into uneasy quiet. (Original posting, more)
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War, (1936–39), was a military revolt against the Republican Government of Spain. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides.
Dec. 28, 2023 Human Events: CHRONICLES OF THE REVOLUTION — THE LAST CRUSADE.
The Nationalists, as the rebels were called, received aid from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The Republicans received aid from the Soviet Union as well as from the International Brigades, composed of volunteers from Europe and the United States. (More)
The Counter Cultural Revolution of the 1960s The Counter-Cultural Marxist revolution of the 1960s is often referred to as the Sexual Revolution, but evidently it was much more than that. And it certainly wasn't the root, only a tool, as it still is today.
Dec. 29, 2023 Human Events: CHRONICLES OF THE REVOLUTION — BLOOD ON THE STREETS.
Ayn Rand's book "Return of the Primitive: the Anti Industrial Revolution" (first published in 1971 under the title, "The New Left") (link), explains the Counter-Cultural Marxist revolution of its time. In the 1960s and early 70s, the Left condemned America, the West and everything it stood for: reason, individualism, material wealth, liberty, science, technology, capitalism.
In order to deconstruct Western civilization, political correctness was used as a weapon. Far from new, it is a worn out strategy, first applied by Communist agitators in the 1930s. The current playbook is just a very poor carbon copy of a rather poor carbon copy.
At least in the versions 1.0 and 2.0 its strategists consciously knew what they were doing. Model 2.0 was largely conducted along Saul Alynski's playbook, "Rules for Radicals". The basic idea was to co-opt a popular, semi-legitimate social cause (racism, the banksters, the Fed, Big Bonuses, the 99% versus the 1%, etc.), and taken out of context without regard of the deeper roots.
Facts and reality are irrelevant; perception is everything! Once the masses are on board, the strategists take charge, reaching over and beyond the cause, attacking the very roots of Western civilization. Rand at the time used the term 'Castroid' to define the tactics involved.
The similarities between the 1960s Counter-Cultural Revolution and today are striking. The first was initially described as "a drive for changes". In Obama's epoch it was simplified to mere "change", or more precisely "radical change", in other words, a Leftist revolution. The woke version is oriented on gender, and omits any references to rebellion.
The Cultural Marxist Revolution is calculated to mislead and sound innocent. A meme during the 60s was the destruction of the nuclear family. This has not changed. This is the reason why marriage is not encouraged for heterosexuals, but on the other hand claimed as a right for homosexuals. Children must be weaned as soon as possible and are raised collectively. Remember Hillary Clinton's propaganda book to that effect, It Takes a Village?
Despite the disillusionment, the radicals held that the Soviet Union and Cuba were well on the right track. By the end of the 1960s Joseph Stalin had already killed 20 million of his own people, while the Russian Revolution that brought the Communists to power, had cost a mere 9 million lives.
Committed to action, Cultural Marxists will ask questions later. No theorizing, like intellectuals do, but action. In fact, the entire mindset is in place for practical, instant revolution. Reason must not sit in the way of action. It brings to mind Antifa and BLM.
"Some went so far as to maintain explicitly that intellectual certainty is the mark of a dictatorial mentality, and that chronic doubt—the absence of firm convictions, the lack of absolutes—is the guarantee of a peaceful, “democratic” society. They miscalculated".
That is still the standard of woke today: absolutists are Nazis, relativists are the children of peace, although they've never explained who will arbitrate in their ad hominem wars over personals tastes, given the absence of inescapable, objective truth.
Reality and facts are irrelevant to the narrative. So instead of proving their correctness, they resort to manipulation, setting narratives and spinning lies.
In the 1960s and 70s as now, the genuine civil rights movement and other just causes are co-opted to lend an air of legitimacy to the movement. Hate speech is a 'human rights issue'. Race and class cards are also frequently drawn, but only in so far as these can be used as weapons.
No issue is really pursued to the point of success (except to further break down values and capitalism): the point here is the Hegelian dialectic, which veers from one extreme to the next, to consolidate somewhere in the middle, until the next extreme is pursued (more on "Heckling Hegel").
Jay Dyer puts it like this: "Woke isn't dead, any more than the WEF and NWO are
"dead." Any time there's a small pushback, the system will relax and then in a few months reapply the pressure when a new "crisis" emerges: look for a new managed "crisis" in 2024 which will lead to new calls for tyrannical measures."
In the Counter-Cultural Revolution students took over faculties and administrative buildings, which then, as now, they refer to as 'an occupation' or alternatively, a 'liberation'. Even the hollow excuses of the bourgeois brats are the same: alienation, the 'system', Big This, Big That, the inequities of life, student loans.
Frankly, any old grievance will do. Remember this: the issue is never the issue! The revolution is the issue!
Marx pitted international classes against each other and treated the hypothesis as settled science. While the working class never reached across the borders to their brothers abroad, the current globalist elite seems to bear out Marx's settled science beautifully. The world is currently ruled by one global elite pushing for DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion).
The woke movement has gone beyond Marx' class divisions and postmodern race theory. It has put entire sexes and genders, sexual preferences, races, religions and cultures at each others throats: sub collectives of women, Muslims, trans-genders etc. all united against the white, male, cisgender patriarchate of the imaginary power construct while ignoring the fact that is they themselves who are in power.
Update
Orthodox vlogger David Patrick Harry recently released an analysis on the Masonic origins of the second type revolutions. With an update clarifying points not made clear in part 1.
Jan. 9, 2024 David Patrick Harry: Freemasonry and the Revolutionary Spirit: Politics and Occult Spirituality. Part 2.
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