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 Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: Levy: "Shadow World..." review |
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Here's one for GenrXr...and, by anyone's standard, with Obama the "internal socialist movement" now has it's "significant position of power within the United States"...
| Quote: | "The United States is at a critical juncture in its history faced with threats from international Marxists, an internal socialist movement and global jihadists. Once any of these elements achieves significant positions of power within the United States, they will proceed with their plans to destroy Western civilization. Our freedom, sovereignty and way of life could be extinguished by any of these forces that are acting against our democratic republic. Robert Chandler's warnings in Shadow World must be heeded if we are to survive."
November 28, 2008
Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, The Global New Left, and Radical Islam
By Janet Levy
Inset: Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, The Global New Left, and Radical Islam
By Robert Chandler
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2008
622 pp., $29.95
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 is viewed by the West as the end of the Cold War and the death knell for Communism. In reality, Communists continued to push for the same ultimate goal -- creating a socialist world order -- but their violent Marxist-Leninist revolutionary tactics were supplanted by an insidious cultural Marxism. Today, that push has evolved into a Moscow-led, global strategic quadrangle consisting of Russia, China, Iran and a collection of Latin American dictatorships.
The West is also threatened by a fifth column of global, radical Leftists with ideological connections to Russia and the theo-political-legal ideology of radical Islam. All of these antagonists, including the Russians, cultural Marxists and Salafists/Wahhabists, employ terrorist tactics but largely conceal their agendas. They use clandestine strategies of propaganda, disinformation, subversion and denial through their agents of influence and networks of organizations.
In Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, The Global New Left, and Radical Islam, Dr. Robert Chandler argues that the West is in the midst of a three-way global competition pitting the future of democratic republics against Marxist totalitarianism and Islamic fundamentalism. Despite their vast ideological differences, Communist Russia, the Far Left and Islamists embrace a common goal: destroying Western civilization. While the Communists endeavor to replace Western society with secular totalitarianism under a Marxist regime, the Islamic fundamentalists seek to implement a Muslim-controlled theo-political-legal ideology that relegates women to second class citizenship and non-Muslims to slavery enforced under the doctrine of Koranic shariah law.
Chandler, who holds a doctorate in political science and is a former political strategist with the Air Force, Defense Department and the CIA, believes the United States is at a critical crossroads. Parallel Marxist and Islamist movements are currently underway with established fifth columns at all levels of American society. If either of these totalitarian ideologies infiltrates the power structure, the liberties enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights would be jettisoned and capitalism and freedom eliminated in the service of the collective "greater good" or in the name of the Prophet Mohammed. Shadow World, is Chandler's explanation of the dangers facing the United States. How we respond will determine if the country will sustain a free market, capitalistic democracy or veer precipitously toward autocracy or theocracy.
Chandler's main points are summarized in detail below. Basically, he outlines how Russia used a duplicitous policy of seeming acceptance of increased freedoms, which enabled it to create existing alliances with other countries allied against the West. The undermining of democracy continues at home thanks to Marxists who have adopted the beliefs of World War II-era, Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci.
Chandler examines these attempts in the media, education, government and national security. Further, he outlines how the global,anti-war movement is also aligned with the conspiracy against the West to undermine Western values and institutions and pursue a one-world government overseen by the United Nations. The United States is further under siege by Islamists, who also seek the destruction of the United States.
American Thinker - cont'd |
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