Soviet Union gone, but influence continues

MARXIST EDUCATION AND THE GREEN MOVEMENT BEGAN IN USSR

INFLUENCE CONTINUES IN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES

At one time the Soviet Union was the leader of the world communist movement. The Marxist ideology may have originated in Germany, but found its first opportunity for experimentation with the Russian Revolution in 1917. It was not the first choice of the communist revolutionaries, but being that Germany had a strong opposition to communism, the collapse of the government in Russia was an opportunity that could not be resisted. Communists always favored to bring communism to prosperous advanced economies that had the economic wealth to support their communist experimentation.

After the communist's of Russia stabilized their hold on the country, they set out to expand their influence around the world. First in Europe and then America. They understood that to advance Marxist principles they had to change the culture of countries from the inside. They were patient, and began by targeting the educations systems of Europe, England and the United States. By the late 1930's they had been successful at positioning professors in many universities that would implant their ideology into the students who they taught. After the collapse of most of the social order in Europe after WW2  that opportunity was taken to insert many Marxist principles into the economies of those countries. This was also implemented in the United States with the New Deal initiatives, while resisted by many, it found a foothold and continued to grow. There were successful communist revolutions in China and all of eastern Europe was incorporated into the USSR.

The 1950's saw a push-back in the United States with a strong anti-communist movement. It was evident to some, that the expansion of communist ideology was well underway, with this ideology being incorporated into not only education, but Hollywood, media and the government bureaucracy. 

It reached a peak in the 1960's and 1970's with actual communist revolutionaries becoming much more militant and open in their embrace of communist ideology. This was evident with open groups, like the Weather Underground, that openly embraced violent revolution. Interesting that many members of that early movement have been active in the Obama and Biden administrations.

This was also a time when we witnessed communist revolutions in Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, India, Philippines,Turkey, Nicaragua, Thailand, and Malaysia and other countries. Not all these revolutions were successful, but they had lasting influence on many of these counties.

Much of the financing for these groups came indirectly from the USSR and its subsidiaries. With a push-back to actual revolution it became more patient and labeled itself the progressive movement, slow steady progress, toward Marxist totalitarianism,  never moving backward. The idea was, Move Foreword and hold. With opportunity move forward again. It has been a very successful strategy.

In the late 1960s' and 1970's a new front was opened up by the Marxist ideologues with the introduction of the green movement into western Europe. This was pushed with the books with apocalyptic depictions of the future without government measures to control most industries and the population. "The late great planet earth" and the "Population bomb" were some examples. They caught the imagination of the younger generation and resulted in many government initiatives to control emissions, pollution and population. While controlling pollution was a good thing, it also gave government control over most industries and also led to the elimination of many industries in the western world. It is now evident that these policies have destroyed much of the manufacturing base of the United States and Western Europe.

One of the main tenets of communism is government control of the means of production. This has largely been accomplished through regulation. Energy and food production are now the last remaining parts of the economy not completely controlled by the government. They are in the process of accomplishing that now.

In the late 1980's the Soviet experiment in totalitarian socialism came to an abrupt end. It became obvious to many of the new leaders in Russia that they were becoming stagnate and declining and that they soon would be facing the inability to continue due to no incentive for industry and competitiveness. It took 70 years to realize that socialism is a failed economic experiment. It just began to collapse from its own weight of mismanagement, incompetence and lack of incentives.

No one in the west listens to the former leaders of the Soviet Union who have openly warned the west of their fate. Former victims, like writer Solzhenitsyn and former government officials have all been rejected by the elites of this country, who believe somehow our fate will be different and continue to double down on these failed experiments. It appears that Russia is now viewed as a traitor to the international communist cause.

Over $30 trillion dollars of deficit spending has been able to prolong the inevitable collapse of democratic socialism. It is now approaching the point of were it cannot be propped up any longer.

We are now witnessing the result of the policies of Marxist ideology in the United States and Western Europe. The West is about to collapse from the weight of its own mismanagement, incompetence and lack of incentives. The question is, will it be able to manage this collapse in an orderly way or will it descend into chaos, death and destruction.