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This Is a Communist Rebellion
I write articles on war. I have spent the last ten years studying revolution and rebellion cause I find it interesting and it pays. So imagine my surprise this weekend, when I saw a straight-up Communist Rebellion break out on the streets of the USA.
People in the media, on Ricochet, and my friends on Facebook just think this more of the same that we have seen in recent years. No, that was Stage 1. We are at the beginning of Stage 2. What Stages am I talking about?
First, let’s talk a little about Che Guevera. After the Cuban Revolution, he realized three things.
- Popular Forces can win against a regular army if properly led.
- The Revolution does not have to wait for favorable social and political conditions, the insurrection itself can create these conditions.
- The Countryside is the main battleground in underdeveloped Latin America.
All these Antifa guys wearing Che shirts; does it occur to anyone that they might be reading his books as well?
The US is not Latin America. The countryside is not the main battleground, it’s the cities.
Now we get to the three stages.
Stage 1. A defensive stage, where revolutionary cadres establish themselves in sanctuaries (universities) and begin popular resistance. I have no doubt there are hundreds of safe houses littered across American cities, not all of them known, where stockpiles of pre-positioned materials are set.
Stage 2. An equilibrium stage, where the guerrillas move amongst the people, increase their strength, and destroy government support and morale. This is where we are now.
Stage 3. A popular offensive stage, where the guerillas, acting as the vanguard, will lead the entire people in overthrowing the government and consolidating their power.
This is organized action by Antifa, an honest-to-goodness Communist front who has been preparing for something like this for years now. Berkeley, Oakland, Portland. Those were practice runs. They were testing police response in preparation for a large series of planned riots.
The Wuhan Flu has prepared the stage for this action in a way that Antifa could never dream. Tens of millions of people unemployed and cooped up for months. The perfect ingredients to encourage large scale rioting. I have no doubt that they dusted off operational plans and the leadership cadre set things in motion probably a few weeks into the virus.
Antifa is following the work of men such as Carlos Marighela, Douglas Bravo, and Abraham Guillen. They are Latin American revolutionaries from the 1960s and 1970s who took Che’s ideas and applied them to the then-new modern city environments.
It is in American cities where large groups of discontented people can be found. Workers, students, and the unemployed. Right now there are tens of millions for Antifa to go with.
They consider this a political-military struggle.
There are now Antifa cells that serve as revolutionary cadres.
They are out in the streets pre-planning and staging material for the riots at this very moment. Those pallets of bricks and water scattered about.
The actions they are to take will include assassination, kidnapping, sabotage, attacks on police stations (already happening), propaganda, and agitation through all media. They are currently working through some organizations for protest demonstrations, strikes (hard to do with everything shut down), civil disobedience, and what Antifa excels at, rioting.
All of these things are planned to have political effects. They are trying to undermine the faith in government by proving how inadequate and incompetent they are (lucky for them most of the places they are doing this to are run by Democrats). Urban guerilla warfare is designed to increase social disintegration.
They are trying to force the government to overreact and then crackdown, so they can get more recruits, more supporters, and more money.
That’s the goal of the riots. Antifa does not think this will work out in undermining the government; they think they can use this to recruit more people to their side. This is the start of a years-long struggle, one that has been going on since the Obama administration. They are the Vanguard for a true revolution that will strike down capitalism and lead to their new world vision for the USA.
I have no doubt their leadership cadre has been trained and is actively getting support from Russia and China. It’s not Twitter farms stirring up trouble. What do you think those Chinese Cultural Centres on University Campuses are just there to steal your secrets? They have been used to target people who would be interested in being Marxist guerillas, and many of them have flown to China on “cultural visits” where they have been given training in tradecraft and information operations in preparation for the rebellion.
I am not saying that the Chinese ordered this into active operation. That some sort of “Climb Mount Nitaka” order was given. But the idea that they and Russia are not training and supplying Antifa seems ridiculous.
So, this is the big one. I can’t believe it’s actually happening. That someone would actually try it in the continental US. But it’s happening and people need to be aware.
Certainly law enforcement seems to be getting the message. I don’t expect Antifa to succeed. I expect this to be crushed in a few months’ time. But we need to start changing the narrative because it’s the wrong one. Antifa is trying for a Communist Revolution in the streets of America.
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He rode around on his horse trying to find someone to help repel the British invading Washington DC. My recollection is he didn’t find anyone that could help much, but he rode around a lot and his wife, Dolly, rescued the silver or some such thing. I don’t mean to sound harsh, there wasn’t much of a military back then.
Edit: At least he wasn’t a craven coward like Jefferson when the Brits came his way when he was governor of Virginia.
If there had been no riots, Trump would have looked pretty good. If he can shut the insurrection down fast without rivers of blood and amplified economic damage he looks pretty good. If he fails, the Democrats will offer an apparent alternative. Every Democrat mayor, DA, AG, and governor must know this. If they have political ambitions past whatever position they hold now, they’ll know what to do.
Video featuring Project Veritas undercover reporter in Antifa (now “retired” from Portland OR Antifa)
Jefferson was entertaining some Virginia assembly members (burgesses) at Monticello with no military or militia presence when the warning came that British cavalry were looking to bag him and only a couple of hours behind. He got his guests out, got his household including slaves off to other properties or neighbors, and then evaded capture. He served as a captain in the French and Indian War and rightly assessed that his priority was the safety of his guests, his household, and his governor. He happened to be governor at the time.
Naturally, in the Schwarzenegger version he will mount the roof of Monticello and single-handedly defeat two dozen mounted British cavalry with rapid fire musket fire while summoning aid by semaphore and singing “I Have to Be Me”.
No, it’s Jefferson. In the modern Hollywood version, he’ll send his slaves out to be sacrificed while he runs away as a coward.
Meanwhile, Dem governors are rejecting Trump’s call for troops to maintain order, while Democrat prosecutors are letting any rioters the police do arrest go loose.
St. Louis’ Kim Garnder, for example.
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A lot of other prosecutors around the country are as well. Why?
Ace tells us:
You’re thinking of the Oliver Stone version. I wouldn’t know, I don’t watch his…stuff. Maybe a “Jefferson by Different Directors” thread is needed.
That’s a rather charitable account. Others say that he was warned for a few weeks that the Brits were on their way and he refused to do anything to prepare. And then he ran away and left everyone else. The state had no governor at all for a while because he resigned after he ran away and there was no successor.
I’m starting to feel like Andrew “I never would have believed it but…” McCarthy.
About that tweet,
Leslie Eastman at Legal Insurrection put it like this:
Where are you getting this? It was close to the end of his term, but he finished it according to Malone and every other account I’ve read. It was not his responsibility to fill the office any more than it would be Trump’s responsibility to extend his own term until the Electoral College got around to voting. The Governorship was in one year long terms at the time. The raid into Monticello was aimed at him and after evacuating everyone from Monticello he went to nearby Charlottesville to help organize the militia. There was no standing presence of British troops within a hundred miles of Charlottesville except the surprise raid and if memory serves, after playing patty cake with the militia and some minor action in Charlottesville the British broke east hard and fast to avoid a rapidly developing whooping with nothing to show for their mission.
As a wartime governor his treasury was threadbare and, ironically, his office was tightly bound by a very legalistic and limited government sensibility that still has vestiges in today’s Virginia. He seems to have felt that he was handed an impossible job and regretted how little he accomplished in his straightened circumstances.
Williamsburg was briefly held by Benedict Arnold and significant British actions penetrated as far west as Richmond and Petersburg in the south, and Wheeling and Boonesboro in the north (both were in the borders of Virginia at the time), though Boonesboro was an attack by Britain-allied Indians against patriot settlers, not regular British forces. So while there were anxious voices in the west calling for more defense and fortification, the British had neither the logistical resources nor significant military objectives in the area.
Of course, if you are reading his immediate predecessor as governor, Patrick Henry’s, account, you should be aware the men were political rivals who shared considerable venom each for the other. If there had been a generally held view that he had disgraced himself, it is doubtful he would have become the second Minister to France, the republic’s most important ally, the first Secretary of State, or the third President of the United States. Henry served a second two year stretch as governor in the 80’s and despite an animosity for the federal government distinguished himself as a lawyer in his later years, including when, at one point, he teamed with John Marshall on a case.
Hey if you guys want to know more about what is going on.
Come watch my interview with @bossmongo we get into this on the show Land of Confusion
http://ricochet.com/764830/land-of-confusion-with-boss-mongo/
It is a common complaint, rivals or not, many were disgusted by his behavior.
I wish I had the wisdom to write something incredible as a reply, but I am gob smacked.
Only question remaining: will it be Chinese communism, or Soviet-era style communism.
My money is on CCP, as this article from Yahoo Finance about Xi Jiping demonstrates:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-president-xi-jinping-vowed-084654413.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb
“The overall trend of world multi-polarization, economic globalization, and democratization of international relations remains unchanged. We should guide the international community to jointly build a more just and reasonable new world order,” Xi was paraphrased by Xinhua (link in Chinese) as saying during last week’s seminar. In another paragraph, the state newswire paraphrased Xi as saying “We should guide the international community to jointly maintain international security.”
Xi’s new proposal has “profound meaning,” as his speech coincided with the annual Munich Security Conference and the G20 finance ministerial meeting, noted the commentary. It added that the Western-dominated world order is near its end as Western countries are showing less willingness and ability to interfere in global affairs—as evidenced by Trump’s isolationist foreign policy.
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China has huge problems with its bad loans and artificial economy. The one child policy has given it a rapidly aging population. But of course it can a lot of damage on the way down.
Based on China’s actions that spread COVID-19, it would deliberately do a lot of damage on the way down.
This is a good summary: