Making sense of the ANC local government defeats
The election outcome is a severe setback for the ANC. But the broader crisis of democratic life is unlikely to be remedied by existing parties.
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The election outcome is a severe setback for the ANC. But the broader crisis of democratic life is unlikely to be remedied by existing parties.
Simmering for decades beneath the surface of autocratic repression, conflicts such as the Sunni uprisings in Syria and Iraq, Shia unrest in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, not to mention the rancour of the Kurds and Palestinians, are ongoing. The West is partly to blame. By Ishac Diwan
From the blog of Tony D. Senatore at The Times of Israel
This book, translated into English for the first time, analyses Gramsci's intellectual formation through analysis of his writings from 1915-1935 that culminate in a new theory of the political subject that still speaks to us today, point the way toward a new narrative of world history.
Which brings us to the point and purpose of Cultural Marxism; it is a method of conquest. Not conquest with guns, tanks, planes, or armies, but with ideology. Control the dominant ideas in a nation, and you can control the nation itself. The Red Trojan Horse: A Concise Analysis of Cultural Marxism, by Alasdair Elder Elder has written a book examining, first, the history of Cultural Marxism, and second, the situation today. In this post, I will review and examine the history. He offers, early on, his meaning of the term: Cultural Marxism is a wide-ranging designation which refers to th...