{"id":238368,"date":"2023-07-03T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=238368"},"modified":"2023-07-01T04:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T03:31:47","slug":"the-bolshevik-color-revolution-of-1917-and-prigozhins-2023-gambit-trotsky-russell-and-the-war-on-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/the-bolshevik-color-revolution-of-1917-and-prigozhins-2023-gambit-trotsky-russell-and-the-war-on-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bolshevik Color Revolution of 1917 and Prigozhin\u2019s 2023 Gambit: Trotsky, Russell, and the War on Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_238374\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trotsky-milner.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238374\" class=\"wp-image-238374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trotsky-milner.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trotsky-milner.webp 1032w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trotsky-milner-300x187.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trotsky-milner-1024x637.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trotsky-milner-768x478.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-238374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Last American Vagabond<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>27 Jun 2023 &#8211; <\/em>Amidst this week\u2019s strange attempt to instigate a military coup from the head of Russia\u2019s Wagner Group, President Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20230624\/putin-we-will-not-let-russia-be-split-will-protect-its-people-1111438289.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took a loud stand calling out the operation<\/a> as a foreign directed insurgency with parallels drawn from the chaotic revolution of 1917.<\/p>\n<p>Just as in 1917, the nation was at war with an enemy on the verge of defeat, and just as 1917, foreign manipulations using fifth columnists resulted in sucking the nation into Civil War. Putin stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cExactly this strike was dealt in 1917 when the country was in WW1, but its victory was stolen. Intrigues and arguments behind the army\u2019s back turned out to be the greatest catastrophe, destruction of the army and the state, loss of huge territories, resulting in a tragedy and a civil war\u2026 Russians were killing Russians, brothers killing brothers. But the beneficiaries were various political chevaliers of fortune and foreign powers who divided the country and tore it into parts. We will not let this happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I don\u2019t know if the events catalyzed by Prigozhin\u2019s attempted coup are part of a \u2018game within a game\u2019 designed to flush out fifth columnists while providing a headfake to western strategists\u2026 OR if this was an authentic coup. But what I do know is that there are historical processes at play which too few recognize and which President Putin understands very well.<\/p>\n<p>Some might think Putin\u2019s comparison to the 1917 revolution to be hyperbole, or a disrespect for the glorious Soviet revolution. They would be mistaken.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Aborting a System of Win-Win Cooperation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The sad fact is that neither the Bolsheviks nor Mensheviks which emerged onto the stage of history at the turn of the 20th century were organically arising \u201cpeoples\u2019 movements\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Upon deeper analysis conducted by historians like Anthony Sutton, Kerry Bolton, and Robert Cowley, both organizations which eventually merged into a singular force, enjoyed vast financial patronage of western imperial powerhouses such as Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff (head of Kuhn, Loeb &amp; co.) and even Lord Alfred Milner \u2014 head of the newly formed <a href=\"https:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/2018\/11\/28\/origins-of-deep-state-part1\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Round Table Movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These characters bankrolled much of the Bolshevik movement as early as 1905 in order to destroy a truly revolutionary process that was spreading across much of the world in the wake of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>One of the leading champions of this revolutionary process was Lincoln\u2019s former bodyguard and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/2018\/10\/29\/william-gilpin-and-the-original-world-landbridge-project\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first Governor of Colorado William Gilpin<\/a>. Governor Gilpin envisioned a world of sovereign nation states united by rail lines stretching through the Bering Strait and bringing all the continents and cultures into harmonious co-existence. In his famous <a href=\"https:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/2018\/10\/29\/william-gilpin-and-the-original-world-landbridge-project\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1890 \u2018Cosmopolitan Railway\u2019<\/a>\u00a0Gilpin stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe cosmopolitan railway will make the whole world one community. It will reduce the separate nations to families of our great nation\u2026 From extended intercommunication will arise a wider intercourse of human ideas and as the result, logical and philosophical reciprocities, which will become the germs for innumerable new developments; for in the track of intercommunication, enterprise and invention invariably follow and whatever facilitates one stimulates every other agency of progress.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/brotherhood-Russia-USA.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-238371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/brotherhood-Russia-USA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/brotherhood-Russia-USA.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/brotherhood-Russia-USA-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Describing the obvious brotherhood of Russia and the USA in spearheading this project, Gilpin wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is a simple and plain proposition, that Russia and the United States, each having broad, uninhabited areas and limitless undeveloped resources, would by the expenditure of two or three hundred millions apiece for a highway of the nations through their now waste places, add a hundred fold to their wealth and power and influence. Nations which can spend in war their thousands of lives \u2013 the lives of the best and bravest of their sons and citizens \u2013 can surely afford a little of their surplus wealth and energy for such a work as this.\u201d [p.35]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>The American System Goes Global<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Gilpin was not alone in this vision.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he represented a network of statesmen spread all across the globe who recognized that the only way to break out of the endless cycle of wars, usury, and corruption, which the Hobbesian structures of the British Empire maintained globally, was through the adoption of an anti-Free Trade system known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/americansystemnow.com\/what-is-the-american-system\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American System of Political Economy<\/a>\u201d. This was a very different concept of \u201cAmerica\u201d than the Pax Americana which has run roughshod over the world since WWII.<\/p>\n<p>In Russia, this process found its champion in the figure of Sergei Witte (Finance Minister and Minister of Transportation from 1892-1903) who led a faction of the Russian intelligentsia in a struggle for progress and cooperation both internally and with allied nations against powerful forces committed to feudalism both within the Russian oligarchy and externally. The regressive forces which Witte had to contend with included powerful reactionary traditionalist forces who yearned for the good old days before Czar Alexander II freed the serfs and on the other extreme, the emergence of vast clusters of anarchist movements threatening to burn down the state in a replication of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/2019\/08\/30\/the-jacobin-terror-1789-1794-just-another-color-revolution\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacobin frenzy of the French revolution.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Martin Sieff has demonstrated through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/08\/11\/prince-peter-kropotkin-and-murder-of-liberator-tsar\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his many writings on Prince Kropotkin<\/a>, many of these anarchist networks enjoyed the patronage of powerful forces that cared little for the plight of the working class.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iPYKyWnfbNs\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international spread of the American System<\/a> between 1876-1905 took the form of large-scale industrialization and railroads. The funding mechanism was located in a practice that has fallen out of favor in the West (although has made a powerful comeback in China in recent years) called \u2018dirigisme\u2019 \u2014 the emission of productive credit from state banks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trans-siberian-railway-usa-russia-czar-alaska-map.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-238373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trans-siberian-railway-usa-russia-czar-alaska-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trans-siberian-railway-usa-russia-czar-alaska-map.jpg 797w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trans-siberian-railway-usa-russia-czar-alaska-map-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trans-siberian-railway-usa-russia-czar-alaska-map-768x467.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was Witte who had spearheaded the Trans Siberian Railway\u2019s construction between 1890-1905 with plans to extend rail lines to China and beyond utilizing state directed capital and a blend of private enterprise. A fuller exposition of Witte\u2019s fight will be unveiled in the next installment.<\/p>\n<p>The British Empire which always relied on keeping nations divided, underdeveloped and dependent on the use of maritime shipping was not amused.<\/p>\n<p>By controlling the international maritime choke points, the tiny island was able to exert its influence across the globe. Through the vigorous enforcement of laissez-faire doctrines of free trade, nations were blocked from protecting themselves from the financial warfare launched by the city of London against victim states (speculative volatility, usury, cheap dumping, cash cropping, and drug running). Anyone wishing to engage in long term planning in the building up of the land-based transport corridors via rail, roads, and industry would be easily sabotaged if the British System were shaping their world.<\/p>\n<p>The international movement to break this system of evil was the only real revolutionary process animating the world during this time.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Bolshevik Counter-Revolution: An Anglo-American Fraud<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In 1905, Wall Street financier Jacob Schiff had given $200 million to the Japanese to assist their victory against the Russians during the 1904-05 Russo Japanese war. This generosity ultimately earned the banker the Medal of the Rising Sun in the Meiji Palace in 1907.<\/p>\n<p>After crippling the Russian state and military (it\u2019s navy was wiped out during the war), Schiff turned his attention to financing revolutionary activities within Russia itself. How money was spent by Schiff was difficult to say until 1949, when Schiff\u2019s grandson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historie.cc\/amp\/questions\/275780001\/viewpoints\/275800003\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Schiff bragged to<\/a>\u00a0the <em>New York Journal<\/em> that his grandfather had given $20 million \u201cfor the triumph of communism in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>American journalist, and Schiff asset George Kennan, played an instrumental role as perception manager of the revolution and bragged that he had converted 52,000 Russian soldiers imprisoned in Japan into Bolshevik revolutionaries. A March 24, 1917 interview recorded in <em>The New York Times<\/em> celebrating the revolution read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMr. Kennan told of the work of the Friends of Russian Freedom in the revolution. He said that during the Russian-Japanese war he was in Tokyo, and that he was permitted to make visits among the 12,000 Russian prisoners in Japanese hands at the end of the first year of the war. He had conceived the idea of putting revolutionary propaganda into the hands of the Russian army.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Japanese authorities favoured it and gave him permission. After which he sent to America for all the Russian revolutionary literature to be had\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The movement was financed by a New York banker you all know and love,\u2019 he said, referring to Mr Schiff, \u2018and soon we received a ton and a half of Russian revolutionary propaganda. At the end of the war 50,000 Russian officers and men went back to their country ardent revolutionists. The Friends of Russian Freedom had sowed 50,000 seeds of liberty in 100 Russian regiments. I do not know how many of these officers and men were in the Petrograd fortress last week, but we do know what part the army took in the revolution.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Schiff himself jubilantly stated to the New York Times, March 18, 1917:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMay I through your columns give expression to my joy that the Russian nation, a great and good people, have at last effected their deliverance from centuries of autocratic oppression and through an almost bloodless revolution have now come into their own. Praised be God on high!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Historian Kerry Bolton wrote of New York Federal Reserve director William Boyce Thompson who had been installed as head of the American Red Cross during the 1917 revolution and was largely recognized as the true U.S. ambassador to the government,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/counter-currents.com\/2013\/10\/wall-street-and-the-november-1917-bolshevik-revolution\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThompson set himself up in royal manner in Petrograd reporting directly to Pres. Wilson and bypassing U.S. Ambassador Francis. Thompson provided funds from his own money, first to the Social Revolutionaries, to whom he gave one million rubles, and shortly after $1,000,000 to the Bolsheviks to spread their propaganda to Germany and Austria.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Writing in 1962, historian Arsene de Goulevitch who experienced the events of 1917 firsthand wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIn private interviews, I have been told that over 21 million rubles were spent by Lord Alfred Milner in financing the Russian Revolution\u2026 The financier just mentioned was by no means alone among the British to support the Russian revolution with large financial donations.\u201d (1)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to his own accounts, during the four months Leon Trotsky spent in New York in 1917, much of it was spent hobnobbing with the upper crust of Wall Street and being driven around in limousines (2).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik.jpg.webp 1580w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-280x107.jpg.webp 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-600x229.jpg.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-1536x586.jpg.webp 1536w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"739px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik.jpg.webp 1580w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-280x107.jpg.webp 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-600x229.jpg.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-1536x586.jpg.webp 1536w\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56392 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 739px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik.jpg 1580w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-280x107.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-600x229.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-1536x586.jpg 1536w\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"282\" data-eio=\"p\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik.jpg 1580w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-280x107.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-600x229.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Financiers-bolshevik-1536x586.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is also noteworthy that after Trotsky was arrested by Canadian authorities while en route back to Russia with tens of thousands of dollars of Wall Street money, it was none other than Claude Dansey (Cecil Rhodes disciple, deputy chief of the new MI6 and <a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/SSdansey.htm\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founder of US military intelligence in 1917<\/a>!!) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2001\/jul\/05\/humanities.highereducation\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that directly intervened to liberate<\/a> Trotsky and company.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Leon Trotsky\u2019s Immortal Treachery<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Leon Trotsky, who Lord Milner, Schiff, Paul Warburg etc., always intended to be the leader of the movement that would take control over the dead bodies of the Romanovs, was fortunately ousted by the saner forces around Joseph Stalin in 1927.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/msuweb.montclair.edu\/~furrg\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historian Grover Furr<\/a> masterfully documents using recently declassified material, testimonies, and other evidence from archives in the USA and Russia, Leon Trotsky made several attempts to return to power in Russia after his expulsion. He didn\u2019t do this alone, however, but largely with the help of fascist forces in Britain, Japan, Ukraine, and Germany all the way until the moment he met his untimely end in 1940. This will be the subject of a future review of Grover Furr\u2019s work (3).<\/p>\n<p>For all of Lenin\u2019s many problems, he differed from Trotsky on two interconnected points of 1) a general belief in voluntarism and 2) a rejection of the theory of permanent revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Where Lenin believed that productive labor could be channeled towards the improvement of productive forces of society, Trotsky believed that any such effort at peaceful productive improvement would lead only to decadence. Permanent revolution was thus needed to keep workers from falling into sloth amidst the eternal striving for global class struggle. In 1914, a frustrated Lenin spoke of Trotsky\u2019s fetish saying:\u00a0<em>\u201che\u00a0<\/em>[Trotsky]<em>\u00a0deserted the Mensheviks and occupied a vacillating position, now co-operating with Martynov (the economist), now proclaiming his absurdly Left \u2018permanent revolution\u2019 theory.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another point of conflict between Lenin on the one side and Trotsky on the other centered on whether or not Russia should continue to participate in WWI.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semana.com\/resizer\/VGtqN3r8kOKdKgfUQoWNlWhrvC0=\/1920x1080\/smart\/filters:format(jpg):quality(80)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/semana\/YAKF6BBSOBF3RHXBYN6NOTSIR4.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.semana.com\/resizer\/VGtqN3r8kOKdKgfUQoWNlWhrvC0=\/1920x1080\/smart\/filters:format(jpg):quality(80)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/semana\/YAKF6BBSOBF3RHXBYN6NOTSIR4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"331\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.semana.com\/resizer\/VGtqN3r8kOKdKgfUQoWNlWhrvC0=\/1920x1080\/smart\/filters:format(jpg):quality(80)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/semana\/YAKF6BBSOBF3RHXBYN6NOTSIR4.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center><i><\/i><i>A mind-numbing over-simplification of Russian history has destroyed the ability for countless historians to recognize the reason for the life and death battles that took place between Trotsky and Stalin during the first 20 post revolutionary years [in photo: Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky]<\/i><\/center><center><\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Where Lenin wanted to bring Russia out of the insane conflict in the first moments of their coup in 1917, Trotsky and his close ally Bukharin demanded that Russia stay in the war with the aim of converting it into a total pan European (and ultimately global) revolution. Trotsky\u2019s commitment to global socialist revolution vs Stalin\u2019s commitment to \u201csocialism in one country\u201d was at the heart of an unbridgeable divide between the two revolutionaries throughout the years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Upon taking charge of the Russian economy, Trotsky and Lenin unleashed a destructive wave of economic reforms titled <a href=\"https:\/\/byjus.com\/free-ias-prep\/new-economy-policy-lenin-1921\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018The New Economic Policy\u2019<\/a> (NEP) that saw vast liberalization of the entire state with western corporate powers sweeping in to buy up former national utilities for pennies on the dollar. The most powerful figure of the western magnates to be granted full access to buy up Russia under this new policy was Occidental Petroleum\u2019s Armand Hammer (1898-1990) who was only forced to leave Russia the moment Trotsky was kicked out (and returning to dominance in the weeks after Stalin\u2019s 1953 death).<\/p>\n<p>Later on in life, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinancefriday.com\/2021\/05\/14\/armand-hammer-millionaire\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hammer described<\/a> how Lenin told him: <em>\u201dWe do not need doctors, we need businessmen\u2026 communism is not working and we must change to a New Economic Policy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Working closely with Lenin and especially Trotsky, Hammer became the principal moderator of nearly every business deal made between the Soviet government and western corporations during the 1920s which saw Russia sink into brutal economic enslavement to foreign powers at a pace which would not be seen again for over 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>The vast liberalization of the Russian economy during the dark 1920s paralleled closely the Perestroika program of free trade\/privatization of the 1990s and it is no coincidence that George Bush Sr dubbed this program of Balkanized looting of Russia \u2018Operation Hammer\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>If one saw a proto-George Soros in the figure of Armand Hammer, they would not be far off.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Parvus and the Pan-European Union<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Trotsky\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/cliff\/works\/1989\/trotsky1\/06-parvus.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">close association<\/a>\u00a0with Alexander Israel Helphand (aka: Parvus) throughout the revolution of 1905 and beyond is also suspicious and should be considered in the context of a much broader imperial geopolitical strategy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky.jpg.webp 1032w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky-280x187.jpg.webp 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky-600x401.jpg.webp 600w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"485px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky.jpg.webp 1032w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky-280x187.jpg.webp 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky-600x401.jpg.webp 600w\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56394 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 485px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky.jpg 1032w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky-280x187.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky-600x401.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"324\" data-eio=\"p\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky.jpg 1032w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky-280x187.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Parvus-Trotsky-Jabotinsky-600x401.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parvus\u2019 association with the Pan-European Union founded by Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1923 is another relevant anomaly that takes us into the deeper power structures lurking below the surface waves of history (4).<\/p>\n<p>Other members of Coudenhove-Kalergi\u2019s institution included likes of Benito Mussolini, Walter Lippman, Nazi finance minister Hjalmar Schacht and Nazi geopolitician Karl Haushofer, while financiers Max Warburg and Louis de Rothschild openly bankrolled the organization.<\/p>\n<p>In 1932, Kalergi delivered a speech celebrating the great restoration of order that would emerge in the unified pan-European effort to put down Bolshevik anarchism saying:\u00a0<em>\u201cThis eternal war can end only with the constitution of a world republic\u2026. The only way left to save the peace seems to be a politic of peaceful strength, on the model of the Roman Empire, that succeeded in having the longest period of peace in the west thanks to the supremacy of his legions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This group played a much greater role in history than many realize and set the stage for the European Union.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maviboncuk.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/young-turks-jabotinsky-and-parvus.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parvus\u2019 (and Trotsky\u2019s) close association with Vladimir Jabotinsky<\/a>\u00a0set the stage for the most fascist elements of Zionism to emerge in the wake of WWII, and Parvus\u2019 work as propagandist and arms dealer for the leadership of the Young Turk movement (deployed to set a weakened Ottoman Empire on fire and provoke what became the Balkan Wars of 1912-13) can still be felt across the Turkish world to this day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ddb3814-3b1a-4c1f-b92c-02dc81d38989_864x740.jpeg\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ddb3814-3b1a-4c1f-b92c-02dc81d38989_864x740.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"564\" data-src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ddb3814-3b1a-4c1f-b92c-02dc81d38989_864x740.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is also noteworthy that none other than Otto von Hapsburg himself had run this organization for over 30 years and also created a sister organization called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dignitatishumanae.com\/index.php\/about-us\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dignitae Humanae Institute<\/a> to <em>\u201c<\/em>united the right of the world\u201d under a gnostic Catholic veneer with a Clash of Civilizations rebranding for the alt right. As the ultra-liberalized dissolution of society proceeds expectedly apace under the moral mush of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/tag\/transgender\/\" >LBGTXYZ gobbledygook<\/a>, pagan Gaia worship, and critical race theory, it is obvious that a knee jerk leap into radical conservativism will accelerate. Hence, a net has been cast to catch conservative fish.<\/p>\n<p>Located in an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dignitatishumanae.com\/index.php\/abbey-of-6th-century-marian-apparition-now-under-dhi-management\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">800-year-old monastery<\/a> in Trisulti, Otto Hapsburg\u2019s organization has found a useful frontman in the form of a Jesuitical fascist right-wing priest of the American alt-right by the name of\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/steve-bannon-chinas-deep-state\/\" >Steve Bannon<\/a>. (5)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Trotskyites Mutate into Neocons<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I say this here and now just to draw a parallel in the reader\u2019s mind to the strange transmogrification which leading Trotskyists took in the USA once their leader\u2019s life was snuffed out in 1940. Trotsky\u2019s body wasn\u2019t even cold before such devotees as James Burnham, Sidney Hook, Max Schachtman, Albert Wohlsetter, and Irving Kristol abandoned Trotskyite socialism and adopted a new rabidly right-wing paradigm, which came to be known as \u2018neo-conservativism\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons.jpg.webp 1267w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons-280x226.jpg.webp 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons-600x484.jpg.webp 600w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"626px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons.jpg.webp 1267w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons-280x226.jpg.webp 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons-600x484.jpg.webp 600w\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56393 lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 626px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons.jpg 1267w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons-280x226.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons-600x484.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"505\" data-eio=\"p\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons.jpg 1267w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons-280x226.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trotskyists-turned-Neocons-600x484.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This poisonous movement grew quickly throughout the Cold War and took over the USA <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/kennedy-zero-sum-game\/\" >over the dead bodies of JFK<\/a> and his brother while unleashing a new global dis-order \u2018clash of civilizations\u2019 each-against-all logic onto the globe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2021\/10\/06\/guterres-and-great-reset-how-capitalism-became-a-time-bomb\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">under the watch of the Trilateral Commission<\/a> of Kissinger, Brzezinski, and David Rockefeller.<\/p>\n<p>I think we can intimate what Trotsky ultimately saw as the final destination for his aims of a global revolution of the masses, and willingness to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/not-just-azov-documents-prove-cia-has-been-cultivating-fascism-ukraine-since-1948\/\" >collaborate with Nazis<\/a> to achieve his ends by considering the writings of former Trotskyite James Burnham.<\/p>\n<p>As Cynthia Chung pointed out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2021\/09\/21\/how-great-reset-was-first-thought-up-by-original-proselytizer-totalitarianism-and-father-neo-conservatism\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in her recent article on the topic<\/a>, Burnham, (Trotsky\u2019s former personal assistant and a man known to many as the father of the neocons), saw the resolution to the Manichean problem of class struggle and Cold War in a one world fascist government. Right before Trotsky\u2019s 1940 death, Burnham wrote an essay renouncing Dialectic Materialism in favor of the superior philosophy of Bertrand Russell as outlined in the 1913 Principia Scientifica, and hence his rebirth as a neocon was ensured (6).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image8-45.jpeg.webp\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image8-45.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"489\" data-src=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image8-45.jpeg.webp\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center><i><\/i><i>Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead\u2019s three volume Principia Mathematica published between 1910-1913 set the stage for the latter development of cybernetics and information theory by Russell\u2019s pupil Norbert Wiener<\/i><\/center><center><\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The question now sits before us: Was Burnham\u2019s conversion to Russell\u2019s worldview inconsistent with the actual goals and mission of Leon Trotsky?<\/p>\n<p>It is too often forgotten that Leon Trotsky, acting as chairman Of the technical and scientific board of industry, quite literally controlled all science policy of Russia from 1924-25. During this time,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=2Xbat5z5HIgC&amp;pg=PA40&amp;lpg=PA40&amp;dq=Trotsky+%22The+human+species+will+once+more+enter+into+a+state+of+radical+transformation,+and+in+his+own+hands,+will+become+an+object+of+the+most+complicated+methods+of+artificial+selection+and+mass+psycho-physical+training&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=qx-isXP2v8&amp;sig=ACfU3U231TBXyfSEraA6bMU89YOQniv5xA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi-3Oaj7uvzAhUsnOAKHeEYDPEQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=Trotsky%20%22The%20human%20species%20will%20once%20more%20enter%20into%20a%20state%20of%20radical%20transformation%2C%20and%20in%20his%20own%20hands%2C%20will%20become%20an%20object%20of%20the%20most%20complicated%20methods%20of%20artificial%2\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he wrote a 1924 pamphlet<\/a>\u00a0outlining his pro-eugenics vision of the future global order that would be brought into existence through the forces of Darwinian natural selection saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe human species will once more enter into a state of radical transformation, and in his own hands, will become an object of the most complicated methods of artificial selection and mass psycho-physical training. This is entirely in accord with evolution\u2026 man will make his purpose to master his own feelings, to raise his instincts to a higher consciousness\u2026 to create a higher social biological type, or if you please, a superman.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether we consider Trotsky\u2019s relentless efforts to integrate Darwinism with Marxist Dialectic Materialism or the Neoconservative commitment to a Darwinian survival of the fittest ethic merged with a gnostic Christian end times doctrine, the effects are largely identical: Global chaos with a supposed point of rapture\/synthesis to resolve the chaos of the material world. Getting to this destination, whereby a new order and new Nietzschean human being were to emerge, simply required a cleansing experience.<\/p>\n<p>In this sense, Trotsky could be compared to a Russian version of his contemporary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2021\/10\/26\/pierre-teilhard-de-chardins-transhumanism-and-the-cult-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where Chardin was tasked with merging Darwin\u2019s theory of natural selection into Christianity, Trotsky was tasked with merging Darwin\u2019s theory into the state religion of Marxist dialectic materialism in Russia. The end result in either case was identical.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Wohlstetter and RAND Corporation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Albert Wohlstetter is another devout Trotskyist who became a leading neo-conservative and controlling hand behind RAND Corporation. It was under Wohlstetter\u2019s influence that RAND Corp became the principal conduit for the intellectual takeover of all branches of US policy on military, economic, and cultural levels.<\/p>\n<p>How did this occur? Through a process known as Cybernetics.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Norbert Wiener as the \u201cpractical application\u201d of Lord Bertrand Russell\u2019s \u201ctheoretical\u201d Principia Mathematica of 1910-1913, Cybernetics was essentially a \u2018science of control\u2019 which became the conduit used to re-brand eugenics into new clothes after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>As I outlined in my recent essay \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/2022\/06\/investigative-reports\/the-revenge-of-the-malthusians-and-the-science-of-limits\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Revenge of the Malthusians and the Science of Limits\u2019<\/a> the language of Cybernetics was called \u2018systems analysis\u2019 and presumed that all systems could be described as closed units susceptible to pure mathematical description and most importantly\u2026 manipulation from a scientific elite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image11-51.jpeg\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image11-51.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"203\" data-src=\"https:\/\/unlimitedhangout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image11-51.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author Alex Abella described RAND\u2019s systems analysis repackaging of Dialectic Materialism in the following terms in his <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/soldiersofreason0000unse\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Soldiers of Reason<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cRAND\u2019s systems analysis\u2026refused to be constrained by existing reality\u2026Systems analysis was the freedom to dream and to dream big, to turn away from the idea that reality is a limited set of choices, to strive to bend the world to one\u2019s will\u2026the crux of systems analysis lies in a careful examination of the assumptions that gird the so-called right question, for the moment of greatest danger in a project is when unexamined criteria define the answers we want to extract. Sadly, most RAND analysts failed to perceive this inherent flaw in their wondrous construct. Not only that, the methodology of systems analysis required that all the aspects of a particular problem be broken down into quantities\u2026Those things that could not be eased into a mathematical formula\u2026were left out of the analysis\u2026 By extension, if a subject could not be measured, ranged, and classified, it was of little consequence in systems analysis, for it was not rational. Numbers were all \u2013 the human factor was a mere adjunct to the empirical.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The key that gives both Dialectic Materialism the same power of evil as the upgraded tool of Bertrand Russell\u2019s Principia Scientifica extolled by Burnham or Norbert Wiener\u2019s cybernetics\/systems analysis is found in the following axiom:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cQuantity must always govern quality\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Under the influence of Wohlsetter\u2019s RAND Corporation, the USA was driven into full scale insanity with a military outlook driven by computer models that presumed nuclear war was a winnable endeavor bringing the world closer to full scale nuclear holocaust. The merging of Darwinism with social science created \u201ceugenics\u201d which presumed that quantitative properties like genetic codes and DNA gave rise to qualitative attributes like \u201cmorality\u201d, \u201cwisdom\u201d or \u201cfitness to rule or live\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In order for society to be brought into acceptance of this new soul-less paradigm of existence, with an invisible master class governing depopulated slaves from above, a vast shock therapy would be called for.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Frankfurt School Global Revolution<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>That cleansing experience would take the form of ritualistic climax of purgative violence which would usher in a state of total despair and thus a new scientific priesthood managing the slaves of the other under a renewed form of technocratic feudalism. But how would society be brought to such a state of despair such that the masses would clamor for a new age to be imposed upon them in the form of a one world technocratic government?<\/p>\n<p>When Christianity, nationalism, and respect for family values still governed society, such a state of nihilistic despair requisite to achieve this breaking point was more than a little difficult to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Here the role of Trotsky\u2019s associates Georg Lukacs, and Willi Munzenberg\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theeye-witness.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/a-concentration-camp-without-tears.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">play an important role<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were not only radical Bolsheviks but also founders of a new organization founded in 1923 known as the Institute for Social Research founded in Frankfurt Germany, otherwise known as \u201cThe Frankfurt School\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Frankfurt School would lay out a comprehensive intellectual framework for a new global aesthetical and scientific revolution premised on the worship of decay, ugliness, and death within a Weberian-Freudian-Marxist synthesis. The system developed by these misanthropic leading priests of the new cult of death would justify the CIA\u2019s funding of abstract art, post-modernist literature, a-tonal music, and other most modernist garbage throughout the Cold War. The launching of this project in full force took the form of a CIA-MI6 funded operation in 1949 dubbed \u2018The Congress for Cultural Freedom\u2019. Leading organizers of this congress included Lord Bertrand Russell and two former Trotskyists: Sidney Hook and James Burnham.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"_ytid_46117\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"How the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory Turned our Minds to Mush- Canadian Patriot Lectures\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6cmKOLhKHSg?enablejsapi=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;cc_load_policy=0&amp;cc_lang_pref=&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;loop=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autohide=2&amp;theme=dark&amp;color=red&amp;controls=1&amp;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This group and their role in steering mass education and culture over the ensuing century will be the topic of a future report.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Post-Script: A Final Word from Putin<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To this author\u2019s knowledge, the first time Vladimir Putin laid out a full attack on the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution as a foreign directed color revolution was during his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/66975\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Valdai Club meeting<\/a>. At his keynote address, the Russian leader called out the social engineers masquerading as revolutionaries and social reformers today driving a parallel to the destructive ideology of the Bolsheviks of 1917:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe advocates of so-called \u2018social progress\u2019 believe they are introducing humanity to some kind of a new and better consciousness. Godspeed, hoist the flags as we say, go right ahead. The only thing that I want to say now is that their prescriptions are not new at all. It may come as a surprise to some people, but Russia has been there already. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks, relying on the dogmas of Marx and Engels, also said that they would change existing ways and customs and not just political and economic ones, but the very notion of human morality and the foundations of a healthy society. The destruction of age-old values, religion and relations between people, up to and including the total rejection of family (we had that, too), encouragement to inform on loved ones \u2013 all this was proclaimed progress and, by the way, was widely supported around the world back then and was quite fashionable, same as today. By the way, the Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of opinions other than theirs.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>(1) Czarism and Revolution, published by Omni Publications in Hawthorne, 1962 French edition, pp. 224, 230)<\/p>\n<p>(2) Leon Trotsky: My Life, New York publisher: Scribner\u2019s, 1930, p. 277<\/p>\n<p>(3) One of the best and more recent among Furr\u2019s pioneering writing on this topic can be found in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Evidence-Trotskys-Conspiracy-Grover-Furr\/dp\/0578649764\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Evidence of Trotsky\u2019s Conspiracy<\/a>, Erythos Press, 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/msuweb.montclair.edu\/~furrg\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Furr\u2019s website is also an invaluable resource<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(4) Parvus\u2019s association with the Pan European Union and broader fascist operations across Turkey and the Middle East is laid out in Jeffrey Steinberg\u2019s 2005 report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/larouchepub.com\/other\/2005\/3237cheney_permwar.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCheney Revives Parvus\u2019 Permanent War Madness\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(5) This fact gives new meaning to Bannon\u2019s self-characterization as a Leninist. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/steve-bannon-trumps-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an August 22, 2016 Daily Beast article<\/a>, journalist Ronald Radosh described a conversation he had with Bannon two years earlier saying \u201cwe had a long talk about his approach to politics. He never called himself a \u201cpopulist\u201d or an \u201cAmerican nationalist,\u201d as so many think of him today. \u201cI\u2019m a Leninist,\u201d Bannon proudly proclaimed. Shocked, I asked him what he meant. \u201cLenin,\u201d he answered, \u201cwanted to destroy the state, and that\u2019s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today\u2019s establishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(6) In his Feb 1940\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/etol\/writers\/burnham\/1940\/02\/style.htm\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Science and Style\u2019<\/a>, Burnham wrote: \u201cDo you wish me to prepare a reading list, Comrade Trotsky? It would be long, ranging from the work of the brilliant mathematicians and logicians of the middle of the last century to one climax in the monumental Principia Mathematica of Russell and Whitehead (the historic turning point in modern logic), and then spreading out in many directions \u2013 one of the most fruitful represented by the scientists, mathematicians and logicians now cooperating in the new Encyclopedia of Unified Science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Matthew-Ehret-e1680938177525.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Matthew-Ehret-e1680938177525.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> Matthew Ehret is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tpu\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>, a \u00a0journalist, and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of <\/em>Canadian Patriot Review, <em>Senior Fellow at the American University of Moscow and host of<\/em> The Great Game <em>on<\/em> Rogue News. <em>He has authored the book series<\/em> The Untold History of Canada <em>and the recently published book series<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:The%20Clash%20of%20the%20Two%20Americas\">The Clash of the Two Americas<\/a>. <em>Email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:matt.ehret@tutamail.com\"><em>matt.ehret@tutamail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastamericanvagabond.com\/bolshevik-revolution-prighozin\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 thelastamericanvagabond.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 Jun 2023 &#8211; Now, I don\u2019t know if the events catalyzed by Prigozhin\u2019s are part of a \u2018game within a game\u2019 to flush out fifth columnists and provide a headfake to western strategists\u2026 OR if this was an authentic coup. But there are historical processes at play which too few recognize and which President Putin understands very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":238374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2197,253,278,961,70,2810,481],"class_list":["post-238368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-biden","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238375,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238368\/revisions\/238375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}