Propoganda of the Secular Left
Author's Note: This essay was written purely out of my own intrinsic motivation. I wrote this after a Christian conservative challenged me to right an essay on propoganda of secular leftists, after having read my essay Propoganda of the Christian Right and referring to my attitude in that essay as "smug."
So dude, this one's for you! (you know who you are)
Note: I used information from the exact same book used when I wrote "Propoganda of the Christian Right".
��� Angela Davis, a young black UCLA philosophy teacher during the 1969-70 academic year, has been a known instigator of youth violence. She was fired from her teaching position in 1970. The education board maintained Davis� removal was due to controversial public speeches she had made. However, there is also speculation that Davis� termination was based on her membership with the Communist party, a charge fervently denied by the UCLA college board. In August of 1970 following her dismissal from UCLA, Davis proved to be a threatening presence to the world around her. She purchased four firearms which she bequeathed to a 17-year-old Black Panther sympathizer named Jonathan Jackson.
��� Following Jackson�s accession of weapons from Davis, he invaded a courtroom in Marin County, California where he attempted to take the ward hostage. Jackson armed three other inmates with the guns given to him by Davis, and demanded the release of three prisoners, among them his older brother, George. In the resulting shoot-out, Jackson, two inmates, and the presiding judge were all killed. According to California state law, this homicide made Davis equally as guilty as Jackson, as she was named an accomplice for having provided the weaponry to a minor. A warrant was issued for Davis� arrest, and she received an unenviable slot on the FBI�s "Ten Most Wanted" list.
��� Davis mysteriously disappeared, receiving public support from Communists and officials in the Soviet Union. The irony of this international intervention was that Communist Soviets denounced the FBI�s warrant on Davis; but when the Soviet government was asked about the plot of Leningrad Jews to hijack an airplane, Soviets brushed off that matter as an "internal affair." The double standard exists where apparently America�s affairs are Russia�s business, but Russia�s affairs aren�t America�s business. Davis� subsequent award of the Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow only reinforces this implied double standard.
��� Another atrocious contributor to secularist extremism has been Wilfred Burchett, a radical who possessed great influence over the weekly Marxist-Leninist news publication, Guardian. Burchett reported fictional accounts of American germ warfare during the Korean War. He voluntarily collaborated with the brainwashing and torture of American POWs to induce false "confessions" from them, in order to support his tall tales of American germ warfare. As a primary force behind Guardian, Burchett allotted ample publication space to the dictatorial rantings of Marxist-Leninists, Trotskyists, and Maoists. Through his Guardian power, Burchett used the magazine in an attempt to claim the "innocence" of Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK�s assassination involvement. Following Martin Luther King�s assassination, Guardian unfairly asserted that "white Americans . . . lost their best friend." Guardian editorials commonly justified crimes of weather underground terrorists, insisting that the terrorists were "victims of persecution." The powers-that-be of Guardian actively supported single-party Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. Content of the newsweekly continuously excused suppression, censorship, and dictatorship in sects of the Chinese Communist regime and the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. Yet, Guardian hypocritically accused rightist groups of the very same oppressive fascism which the magazine was promoting.
��� Robert F. Williams, an ex-marine who was honorably discharged in 1956, became a notorious figure in the racist movement advocating black separatism. A leader of his Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, Williams started out with understandable and purposeful crusades. For example, he lobbied his Monroe city council to allow black citizens to be able to use the white-only city swimming facility one day per week. When the council turned him down, Williams pointedly insisted on total integration of the facility. His solicitation was, of course, denied. Frustrated, Williams organized "self-defense units" composed of black citizens who armed themselves against southern Klan members. The Monroe NAACP ended up suspending Williams in 1959 after he claimed to a media reporter that violence could only be met with violence. He said this in response to an all-white jury�s acquittal of a white assailant who attacked an innocent black pedestrian.
��� Williams began embracing the totalitarian ideology of Marxist-Leninism. He made frequent visits to Cuba, and fled there for a prolonged stay in 1961 to escape a kidnapping charge. At first Williams found solace among the castroites who treated him well. But his disillusionment with the Cubans culminated when they claimed to Williams that they, as Communist workers, understood black Americans� problems in the U.S. better than did he. Williams further became infuriated when the Cuban newspaper, Hoy, referred to Malcolm X as a "black fascist." Although the Cuban-based publication was making a hypocritical allegation, they were indeed correct regarding the racist and tyrannical beliefs of Malcolm X. Fidel castro himself rejected Williams� request for monetary funding from the Cuban government to train blacks. All this time, Williams had been spearheading a violent revolutionary newspaper, Crusader, which he produced in Cuba and smuggled into the United States. Proposals found in the editorial content of Crusader included burning forests, firebombing, and planting explosives on police property. As Williams once said, "We must become adept in methods of massive defense. The new concept of revolution defies military science and tactics . . . [It means] lightning campaigns conducted in highly sensitive urban communities . . . [to] reduce the central power to the level of a helpless, sprawling octopus."
��� Fed up with the Cuban government, Williams visited other Communist and Marxist-Leninist states; among them: the governments of China, North Korea, North Vietnam, and Tanzania. The latter nation was presided over by the oppressive administration of Julius Nyerere, which boasted more political prisoners than in South Africa. Williams defended the Chinese government of Mao Tse-tung, claiming that it was fueled strictly by volunteerism. He founded the black nationalist group Republic of New Africa while in Cuba, and invoked terrorism from his followers back in America while he was abroad. Students of Robert Williams conspired, albeit unsuccessfully, to commit such crimes as blowing up the Statue of Liberty and assassinating various civil rights workers. Williams finally returned to the United States in 1969. He halted publication of Crusader and proceeded to spread his concepts of black nationalism by residing in Detroit where he spoke at schools and churches. After privately testifying before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1970, all charges against Williams were dropped. He had disappeared into political obscurity by 1976.
��� Perhaps one of the most notorious and dangerous advocates of revolutionary violence within the Secular Left is Stokely Carmichael, who took on the name Kwame Ture in the late-1960s in honor of Ahmed Sekou Toure and Kwame Nkrumah, two African dictators. Ture has been known to encourage violence, threatening to set fire to American cities and placing castroite Cuba on a proverbial pedestal of praise. Moving to Guinea in 1972, Ture founded the All African People�s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) based in Guinea and other parts of Africa with a small sect in the U.S. He executed his beliefs through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, from which he expelled all white members and female members. "The only position for women in SNCC is prone," he once said, further exhibiting his own racism and sexism.
��� Apparently, the goal of the AAPRP is to unite all of Africa under one socialist government. From Africa, Ture was positioned in a sanctuary from which he could plan terrorist attacks on the United States. He learned revolutionary tactics while touring Cuba, Vietnam, and Algeria. Ture held a considerable amount of disdain for America, having refused to participate in civil rights talks with the White House because he despised American treatment of blacks in Vietnam. Determined to crush capitalism and imperialism which he associated with racism, Ture asserted that Dr. King�s death made life easier for blacks in the respect that they needed to take up arms against whites.
��� Ture has made some of the most audacious and bigoted remarks of the Secular Left, stating in 1984 at the University of Pittsburgh that "everything we gain, we gain through bloodshed." A quote of Ture�s from 1990 maintained that "We said a long time ago that integration is nothing other than an insidious subterfuge for the maintenance of white supremacy . . . America is more ripe for revolution today than it was in the �60s." As a warning to white Americans, he has cautioned that, "We [black nationalists] are not afraid of the FBI, racists, or imperialists. We would tell our people to be in the front line walking over your chests . . . In the �60s we bombed 290 cities, we can bomb this country for socialist Africa . . . If we have to throw hand grenades, we will." Furthermore, Ture frequently spouts anti-Semitic rhetoric and agrees with Louis Farakkhan on common anti-Jewish sentiments.
��� The shameful behavior and harassment from such individuals as these and their followers is unspeakably reprehensible. Due to their resentfulness toward inexcusable oppression, many radical leftists feel they have the right to kill the innocent and subject others to discrimination. Certain members of the Secular Left take it upon themselves to drag America toward potentially disastrous situations of international turmoil, in a vain attempt to exert their beliefs of terrorism and secularism upon the American population. By inducing warfare and guerrilla tactics from their counterparts, the Secular Leftists strive to gain totalitarian power through violent and bloody revolution. Be it Maoism, Trotskyism, Communism, Socialism, or Marxist-Leninism, such left-wing extremists use theoretical doctrines to impose their presumptuous and intrusive ideology upon the general public.
��� There is a clear difference between constructively and effectively expressing one�s perspective to attain liberty, and infringing upon the rights of others to control society through fascist domination. Unfortunately, the latter is a tactic frequently used - - via conspicuous or inconspicuous means - - by many left-wing extremists and sympathizers in the past and present ages of political conflict. One cannot morally use written theory and doctrines to justify mass cultural genocide and vigilante random violence. The purpose of a central government is to serve and protect citizens, not to dictate citizens� lives. No logical excuse can be made to condone violating the civil rights of innocent people in order to achieve civil rights for others who are underprivileged and oppressed. This self-serving hypocrisy possessed by many radicals of the Secular Left abominates the very core of civic justice. By executing such inhumane totalitarianism, terroristic extremists are interfering with the progressive objectives of political and social humanism. Karl Marx and Dr. King would be ashamed.
Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe
George, John and Laird Wilcox
Pgs. 125-130, 137-139, 177-179, 192-193
Prometheus Books, 1982
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