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Socialist stepping-stones to Communism in America Excerpts from America's 30 Years War (1998: Chapters 2 and 3) by Balint Vazsonyi |
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Socialist stepping-stones to Communism in America Excerpts from America's 30 Years War (1998: Chapters 2 and 3) by Balint Vazsonyi |
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Nazi National Socialism
My first encounter with socialism occurred at the age of eight. In 1944, on a Sunday before dawn, the armed forces of the Third Reich occupied Hungary. The Third Reich was ruled by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party; thus, “my first socialism” happened to be national socialism. ‘Within days, the nazis interned or executed the leadership of all other political organizations....
Soviet Socialism
The war over, several old and new political parties competed for votes.... Because the aggressive pursuit of influence by the—relatively small—Communist Party of Hungary was inescapable, I decided to read the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.... Marx radiates a degree of anger, aggression, and sheer ugliness of mind that would make acceptance of his thought difficult...
By 1948, the Communist Party had assumed police authority over all economic activity, and began to classify people’s political attitudes. Communist operatives worked out of the same building occupied not long before by the Gestapo and wore the same shining leather jackets as the nazis. The next year, in 1949, the communists seized complete control of the country...As the nazis before, they interned or executed the leadership of all other political organizations.
Once again, we were controlled by the armed forces of a socialist country....Hungary was occupied by armored divisions of the Soviet Union to make it a part of the Russian Empire, using socialism as a pretext....a few years back, the objective was to make Hungary a part of the Third Reich, using (national) socialism as the pretext.
Reading Marx, it seemed that socialism could be used as a pretext for just about anything—for the confiscation of people’s belongings, for determining what could and could not be taught in the schools, for pronouncing what did or did not happen—and what should have happened—in the course of history. Since Marx listed more than a half dozen different kinds of socialism back in 1848......the ultimate goal of socialists was to build communism. That was why “real” socialists called themselves “communists.” In communism, the state would assign everyone a role in the national production. There would be no place for a concert pianist ...
The year following the assumption of total control by the Communist Party, I made a comment to a fellow student, also a serious pianist. “A real artist,” I said, “cannot be a communist.” I was thirteen years old, and so was he. He reported my comment to the authorities. I was tried by a panel of politically correct students and given a warning....
Four years later, when I was seventeen, I had the “pleasure” of another disciplinary trial. After the head of the piano department at the famed Liszt Academy gave his “communist word of honor” in public that no harm would come from a frank airing of complaints, I spoke at some length about being denied permission to go abroad either to study.... This time, my trial involved the entire Communist Party organization of the Music Academy....
...all my experiences confirmed the perception that socialism in all its forms placed unlimited power in the hands of persons who were contemptuous of other humans...
Escape
...it took two days and two nights of dodging checkpoints, military search lights, and potential minefields. At the end of it, in the dead of night,
I met my first American.... He was one of countless American students who had formed a human chain to make sure that those who had made it across the zigzag frontier did not accidentally reenter Hungarian territory....
On April 20, 1964, the day I became American, I gave special thanks because all of that seemed forever behind me. (pp. 7-11)
Transforming America
The years of unclouded joy were short. During the late 1960s I watched in despair as my brilliantly gifted piano students suddenly began to speak as if someone had replaced their brains with prerecorded tapes. They spoke in phrases -- repeated mechanically-- which were neither the product of, nor accessible to, intelligent [or logical] consideration. At first, these tapes seemed to contain only a few slogans about “love and peace.”...
The situation became alarming when the “tapes” began to include words and phrases that had become familiar to me in Hungary during the nazi and Soviet occupations...
“Reactionary,” “exploitation,” “oppressor and oppressed,” and “redistribution” were some of the words taken straight from the Marxist repertoire. The term “politically correct” first came to my attention through the writings of Anton Semionovich Makarenko, Lenin’s expert on education. Adolf Hitler preferred the version “socially correct.” Then came the affirmative action forms which classified people by ancestry—first signed into law in Nazi Germany—and the preferential treatment of specific categories, introduced by the Stalinist government in 1950.
More than any single component, however, I was struck by the growing overall hostility toward long-standing American traditions....
If nazis and communists—supposed opposites—agreed about their primary enemy, could there be further similarities?
You can read the first chapter of this book online at http://balintvazsonyi.org/.
See also God's Warnings for our Times
The War on Christianity: Social Justice and the New Morality
Animal Farm by George Orwell | Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
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