Antifa, the BLM and the globalist elite standing behind them are driven by the desire not for reforms, but for the total destruction of Western civilization. In their hatred they merge with the “jihadists”
In April 1918, the Bolshevik government headed by Lenin signed the decree “On the Monuments of the Republic.” Monuments “in honor of the kings and their servants” must be demolished, but with a significant reservation: they should only be demolished if they had no “significance from either historical or cultural point of view.” This allowed for the preservation of a significant part of the cultural and architectural heritage of Russia. Thanks to it, in our time tourists can see the beautiful monuments of Russian tsars and emperors, although all of them were “ruthless exploiters of the working people”: Peter the Great, who built Saint Petersburg on the bones of millions of peasants; Catherine the Great; Alexander I of Russia (the famous Alexandrovskaya Kolonna in Petersburg), Paul I of Russia, and so on. The People’s Commissariat for Education even preserved the monument to Nicholas I because of its cultural value (the monument was erected by the French architect Auguste de Montferrand), although Nicholas I is traditionally considered as retrograde and a tyrant in Russian historiography. Surely, nobody could even think about demolishing monuments to victorious Russian generals and sailors, or to its greatest scientists, composers, writers and poets. Thus in St. Petersburg they preserved the monument to the sailors of the Russian battleship “Imperator Alexander III” (1908), who died during Battle of Tsushima against Japan.
Moreover, instead of desecrating monuments to the great, as Antifa did with the monument to Miguel Cervantes in San Francisco, the Bolshevik government erected monuments to many great figures of the past, for example the poets Heine and Goethe.
For the Bolsheviks, all these people were not faceless and odious DWEM (Dead White European Males), but objects of national pride and part of the heritage of the world culture. Yes, the Bolsheviks dreamed about the “new world,” but unlike Antifa and the BLM, they didn’t want to lose continuity with the past, and on the contrary, attempted to strengthen and emphasize it in every possible way.
Do I mean to say that the Bolsheviks were better than Antifa and the BLM? Not exactly… I want to say that they were much better than they!
Antifa and BLM cannot stand comparison with Lenin and Trotsky. No! There is only one relevant analogy to the ideology of Antifa and BLM — that of the Islamic State. That’s where we really see a complete and stunning resemblance: the desire for a total destruction of History as such, the destruction of all artifacts of the “old world,” regardless of their historical and cultural value.
Monuments to Columbus, Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson, Churchill, Kipling, Cervantes, and even Lincoln and Gandhi are doomed to destruction like the masterpieces of Palmyra, Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, the Assyrian Nimrud and the library of Mosul. Is it not symbolic that both the Islamic State and the “fighters against racism” are calling for the demolition of the Giza pyramids?
The resemblance is not limited to the demolition of monuments and destruction of artefacts. The absolute similarity of the ideologies is also manifested in the system of destruction of personality. The Bolsheviks committed many disgusting, monstrous and bloody crimes, but they didn’t put people on their knees. It was a weapon from the arsenal of other cultures.
There is a deep and ancient symbolism in this very action. A human put down on the knees ceases to be a human. He or she is turned into a slave, a worm that can be crushed, or perhaps spared. But even when spared, the victims are no longer human beings – they are worms. Such methods were widely practiced in the Asian tyrannies of the past and present, for example, during the Cultural Revolution in Maoist China and under Pol Pot’s regime. They have been replicated by the Islamic State, and today have become a way of subjugation of the “white masses” of the West, too.
The similarity between the current “revolutionaries” of the West and the Islamic State is not limited to symbolism. It is much deeper. A significant part of the Russian elite supported the Bolshevik revolution, just as the Western elite supports the BLM and Antifa now. The overthrow of Nicholas II occurred with the direct support of Russian generals, many of whom were as famous as Aleksei Brusilov, who subsequently sided with the Bolsheviks. The Russian intelligentsia thirsted for the destruction of the monarchy. Many representatives of the nobility, including Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgy Chicherin, People’s Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky, the writer Count Alexei Tolstoy, and Count Aleksey Ignatyev, worked for the Bolshevik government. However, there is a significant difference. Aristocrats who served Soviet Russia thirsted not to destroy their country, but to change it for the better. The globalists behind Antifa and the BLM don’t thirst for reforms. They thirst for the total destruction of Western civilization as such, and the destruction of nation-states and national democracies in the name of their utopias or dubious interests.
The revolutionaries of Russia can be understood, if not justified. They dealt with a dying despotism, an obsolete “prison of nations.” The current progressives and globalists have inherited healthy, stable, and prosperous communities that eliminated or nearly eliminated essentially all the flaws and shortcomings of the past. They don’t demolish dying, rotten regimes. Instead they bulldoze forceful democratic states.
They are driven by blind hatred and they are no different from the builders of the “new Caliphate.”
Like the progressives in the West, the jihadists and Iran are absolutely indifferent to the fate of Muslim states. They are ready to destroy entire countries completely, and they do it without the slightest remorse wherever they can: in Syria, Libya or Yemen.
Antifa and BLM receive support from Western globalist elites; ISIS and jihadists from Islamic clergy. Two heads of the hydra torment the body of the world civilization.
However, the hydra has problems. Her heads can’t tolerate rivalry, and at the earliest opportunity they will cross swords. And one doesn’t have to be a prophet to predict who will be the winner in this battle.
Alexander Maistrovoy is the author of “Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger),” available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Just Venting says
I think the more accurate comparison would be Mao and his “Cultural Revolution” to the current wave of Anarchists that the West has decided are worthy of our genuflections. When Mao was done, China was a disaster. The manufacturing base, educational system, and military were decades behind the West when he was done. Then he was “awakened” and decided he needed the rest of the world. Stupid moneygrubbers like Nixon could not jump into bed with Mao fast enough. Now we are descending into chaos, stagnation, and weakness. If the PRC comes over to “help” us, it won’t be pretty. Kind of like how Stalin helped “liberate” Poland and Hungary.
gravenimage says
+1
Ray Jarman says
The article forgot to mention what eventually happen to the elites that supported the Bolsheviks were eventually killed; even Lenin was killed by Stalin, who in the end, was killed by Beria. People like Soros and friends don’t realize that if ever the likes of BLM and Antifa stole power that they would be among the first to go.
One more question is has anyone noticed the similarities between the Brown Shirts and Antifa?
Phil Copson says
“One more question is has anyone noticed the similarities between the Brown Shirts and Antifa ?”
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Definitely – and made the same comparison on several sites. Been waiting for Jeremy Corbyn’s mates in Momentum / Antifa to stage their own Kristellnacht, but the rioters in the USA seem to have got their first, judging from the accounts of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and memorial being targetted.
FYI says
Antifa have a lot in common with with the Italian Squadristi,the Fascists.
Squadrismo{squadre d’azione:action squads} was the Italian fascist movement which ultimately became the Blackshirts and inspired Hitler’s SA Brownshirts.
Surely nobody is fooled by the virtue-signalling pretense that antifa are antifascist:they ARE Leftwing Fascists like the Soviet Bolsheviks.
Fascists use violence,dissembling and propaganda :just like the antifarts do,dressed in their Leftist Fascist regalia.
James Lincoln says
And Ray, further along, BLM and Antifa will go the way the Communist Tudeh Party did in Iran after the Islamic revolution…
Keith O says
Ray, the big difference between them is that the brown shirts had the courage and conviction of their beliefs to show their faces.
These scum are just criminal thugs.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
Jim says
Have you seen the statue of Lenin in Seattle? It’s huge and quite a spectacle. Seattle is a lost city, homeless ruled by crazies.
Roland says
Islam specializes in destroying the past. Pre-Islamic history is referred to as “jahiliya” (“period of ignorance”) by Muslims. Artifacts of the past, especially if considered idolatrous, may thus be destroyed. Most notably the Buddhist Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan. Also, the Islamic Waqf is busy excavating the Temple Mount, destroying past evidence of the Jewish presence in the Land of Israel. The Waqf must be thrown out forthwith.
Walter Sieruk says
This jihadwatch.org fitting starts off with the beginning sentence…
“Antifa, the BLM and the globalist elite standing behind them are driven by the desire not for reforms, but for the total destruction of Western civilization. In their hatred they merge with the “jihadists”
Those two Marxist groups joining forces with the jihadists is twenty -first century movement of evil that is an actual Communist – Islamic alliance. This is also known as the “Red/ Green Alliance.”
This union of demonic movements will do all its members no good in the long run.
For the Bible teaches “Though they join forces , the wicked wil not go unpunished.” Proverbs 11:21. [N.K.J.V.]
curious george says
Walter Sieruk says
For the Bible teaches “Though they join forces , the wicked wil not go unpunished.” Proverbs 11:21. [N.K.J.V.]
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Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,
against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.
Psalm 2:1-4 (ESV)
curious george says
Humor Video: ‘In Black and White, Because We Care’
https://patriotpost.us/articles/71722-humor-video-in-black-and-white-because-we-care-2020-06-29
FYI says
If it looks like a fascist,dresses like a fascist and acts like a fascist.
It’s a fascist.
Unless it is a Leftist Bolshevik… who behave exactly the same.
Like antifarts do.
mortimer says
Yes, FYI.
The globalist elites are the leaders of this New Fascist movement … they are exploiting the ‘Leftist’ ethos of certain groups which share the intention of suspending free speech and democracy and imposing a Fascist oligarchy world-wide.
The cooperation of politicians with billionaires along with the suppression of freedom and implementation of globalization is a new political force that can most accurately be called ‘GLOBALIST FASCISM’.
Big-Tech wants advertising revenues from Globalist commercial giants to they can continue their monopolistic, predatory practices of taking over all news and all information as well as all communication.
gravenimage says
Heads of the Hydra: Convulsions of Liberal Democracy
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Good article.
Aussie Infidel says
Alexander wrote in conclusion, “However, the hydra has problems. Her heads can’t tolerate rivalry, and at the earliest opportunity they will cross swords. And one doesn’t have to be a prophet to predict who will be the winner in this battle”.
If the ‘religion of peace’ ever manages to gain political power in the West, the useful idiots in Antifa and BLM who helped them, will be in for a rude surprise. Islam is the most intolerant and violent religion ever invented and will not stand for any opposition. If these leftist agitators think they will be allowed to live as anarchists or set up some socialist utopia within the Islamic Ummah, they are in for a rude surprise. They will be among the first to be ‘invited’ to accept Islam; and if they refuse, they will suffer the same fate as millions of infidels before them – summary execution. It’s all spelled out in the Islamic scriptures and the Sharia – if only the ignorant fools would make the effort to read them.
“Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth (Islam) from those who were given the Scripture (Jews & Christians) – [fight] until they give the jizyah (protection tax) willingly while they are humbled (as dhimmis or second class citizens).” (Quran 9:29).
“Indeed, those who disbelieve will be addressed. The hatred of Allah for you was [even] greater than your hatred of yourselves [this Day in Hell] when you were invited to faith, but you refused.” (Quran 40:10).
“Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them.” (Sahih Muslim 4294).
“There is no indemnity for killing an apostate (or any expiation, since it is killing someone who deserves to die)”. (Reliance of the Traveller, a manual of sacred Islamic law’, o8.4).
James Lincoln says
Aussie Infidel says,
“If the ‘religion of peace’ ever manages to gain political power in the West, the useful idiots in Antifa and BLM who helped them, will be in for a rude surprise.”
Exactly.
Look what happened to the Communist Tudeh Party in Iran after the 1979 revolution…
gravenimage says
All true, Aussie Infidel and James.
Phil says
These loonies must be stopped before they move on from statues to people.
LB says
What sort of garbage is this? Comparing Antifa/BLM to Bolsheviks? Are you out of your damn mind?! Their ideologies are be similar, but their results are Heaven and Earth apart. Nowhere in this article is mentioned that Bolsheviks (who are of… controversial descent; not a topic for this site) MURDERED UNCOUNTED MILLIONS OF NATIVE SLAVIC RUSSIANS (estimates are over 100 million)!!! How many did Antifa and BLM kill? Maybe a few dozen or so? And it’s not like they always got away with it, arrests were made. There is only this line in the entire article which briefly mentions the Bolsheviks’ atrocities:
“The Bolsheviks committed many disgusting, monstrous and bloody crimes, but they didn’t put people on their knees.”
Really? Well I’m happy to hear that even though they may have murdered some hundred million people, at least they weren’t “on their knees”. It’s a relief to know that the Bolsheviks kept the best interests of their people in mind as they were brutally slaughtering them by the millions!
……I’m so angry that I want tear this entire article apart sentence by sentence, it pisses me off that much. The author even has the balls to say that Antifa/BLM are actually WORSE than Bolsheviks! What sort of mental gymnastics do you have to do in your mind to even think that? There are no greater casualties in the entire 20th century combined (WWI, Armenian Genocide, WWII, etc…) than in post-WWII Russia done by Bolsheviks. Hitler was an innocent puppy compared to those bloodthirsty leeches. Also, remember this line: “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic”? I wonder who said that…
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending Antifa/BLM here; I hate them as much as anyone on the Right. But to even compare the biggest genocidal masterminds of the 20th century to some ragtag soyboys and racebaiters in the USA is an insult to everyone who died in the Gulags.
Wellington says
I don’t think the comparison inapt when looked at from a theory standpoint as opposed to an implementation standpoint. The Bolsheviks got their chance to run a nation and did incalculable harm while Antifa and BLM have not gotten their chance—but if they did, if Antifa and BLM had their way of things here in America, the results would be much chaos, economic Armageddon, a dearth of liberty and plenty of death—as with the Bolsheviks.
LB says
From a practical standpoint, there is little point in discussing “could’ve”s, and “would’ve”s. USA is still a free country (possibly the freest in the entire West). You have guns and the Constitution on your side which guarantees your liberty from any who would dare take it. The only way USA becomes another UK or Sweden is if you are dumb enough to WILLFULLY give up your freedoms.
That being said, the irreversible demographic shift is looming over you, and as the time goes by there will be fewer and fewer people in USA who identify as Americans. So technically you can say that Antifa and BLM coming to power is not ENTIRELY out of the question. And I have no doubts that if they do somehow reach the White House somehow, they would wreak absolute havoc upon the American people. I never said that they wouldn’t.
But how are they supposed to carry out the mass slaughter of white Americans in prison camps in this day and age where there are cameras everywhere and everyone is carrying a high definition camera phone? Do you think that the Bolsheviks would be so successful in carrying out their genocide against native Slavic Russians if that technology was available back then? That’s my main argument.
The Bolsheviks relied heavily on television and radio propaganda (because there were no other sources of information back then) to keep the people in the dark of their crimes. How are some soyboys from Antifa/BLM suppose to do that in today’s USA? Please explain.
Wellington says
Yes, I was talking theory and you make some arguable points, but I look with great concern how the Democratic Party of old is becoming rather quickly a Far Left party and when you couple this with the ignorance of the millennial generation which has not been educated but indoctrinated, I see the possibility of chaos ensuing, especially if the First and Second Amendments are gutted of all worth (The Fourteenth Amendment too respecting equality under the law), something which many on the Left would not only like to do but have already done respecting free speech on college campuses where the Orwellian distinction between free speech and hate speech is already in place. Also, many Leftists in America now denigrate whites simply for being white and moronic whites have gone along with this totalitarian flaggelation.
One thing I know for certain and that is no one in America should take their freedom for granted. And here is something else I know: Western Leftism, morphed from old fashion liberalism, hates freedom and hates traditional America. Just yesterday, a poll I saw showed that some 60% of liberals think Mount Rushmore should be blown up. This and the already extensive destruction of statues is ominous. Heinrich Heine, the German Jewish poet who died in 1856 asserted that where there are people who burn books, it is only a matter of time before they burn people. Nazi Germany bitterly proves his point.
And I would say the same thing about statues. Thus, think and act accordingly. Be prepared. Be informed. Take nothing for granted. Do not make the error of assuming that “it” can’t happen here.
gravenimage says
Antifa and BLM keep getting worse. LB hopes we haven’t noticed that.
LB says
Are you being sarcastic? I can’t tell.
In case you weren’t…. wow. Just wow. Do you truly believe that these soylent-infused manlets from Antifa/BLM would be capable of ORGANIZED MASS SLAUGHTER OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS IN CAMPS???!!! In this day and age? Are you joking? Read my reply to Wellington above for more context on this.
If you want to know what it’s like being under Antifa rule, look no further than CHAZ which is already imploding on itself due to rampant crime, rapes and lack of food. As for any long term goals they might have, you needn’t worry about that because they themselves don’t know what they want other than to randomly burn and loot (as long as it’s not on their property, of course). Just take a look at any session of DSA and you’ll see what I mean. Here are your genocidal masterminds that would supposedly make Bolsheviks look like innocent toddlers (according to you and the article above):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NdE9CjkvTY
Wellington says
Monumental events ordinarily have small beginnings, LB.
And what of my comment about the Democratic Party ever increasingly going Far Left, in effect losing its collective mind. Look at how Joe Biden, pathetic though he is, stated he would put Beto in charge of gun control once he (Biden) is elected President (shudder).
Here’s something else to consider: Just as so-called moderate Muslims will not themselves enforce so many of the heinous dictates of Islam (e.g., death for apostasy), they also will do nothing if more “enthusiastic” Muslims do want to implement all the many horrible directives of the worst religion of all time.
OK, so this applies to good people here in America too. You see, some good people will fight, and some good people will aid the fighters, but the sad reality is that most good people will do nothing if the forces of the Far Left start stripping their freedoms from them.
I don’t think you manifest much of a capability to think outside the box. Why not surprise me and show me in some way that you do. So far you haven’t.
And remember this too: The Bolsheviks in 1917 were an extremely tiny minority of the Russian population and looked what happened. Yes, Americans are more fortunate than the bulk of the Russian population in 1917 in sundry ways but this is not reason enough to not think in terms of worst case scenarios. Or don’t you ever?
gravenimage says
LB’s stance that anything short of genocide is must be regarded as just fine is deeply troubling.
Then–as Wellington notes–these thugs are just getting started, and need not be a majority in order to inflict great harm on the nation and her freedoms.