Yesterday I followed a link from Linda Kimball’s site Patriots and Liberty to their link on Socialism in America.

As most of us are well aware, the socialist agenda is being unabashedly propagated here in America. From the reduction of the competitive spirit in our youth in our public schools to the association of more than 60 members of the house of representatives with the Democratic Socialists of America or DSA.

Common household names such as Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers and Charles Rangel, all members of the Democratic Socialists of America, subscribe to the same ideology that has historically been the launch pad for decades of death, poverty and oppression from which no nation has ever recovered. These individuals among many others are bent on taking the great political experiment of America and casting it backwards in history. The American Republic has not yet failed nor can it be allowed to fail by the implementation of Democratic Socialism however, we are currently allowing it to fail by not fighting socialism tooth and nail. We will either be a free capitalist nation or we will be an oppressed socialist nation, we do have a choice.

This socialist agenda is being furthered primarily in our public schools. They are getting them while they are young; the socialists are turning our children to their ideology against our will. The revision of history is one of their greatest tools as in "In the Soviet Union, the future is known; it's the past that is always changing." It is time for us to step up or bow down. Stepping up through legal political means is just not working, they are laughing at us as they change our country. The hour is late.

I would like to draw the reader’s attention to the Young Democratic Socialists website.

Save the Date: YDS National Conference, Feb. 16-18, 2007 in NYC

The Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) is proud to announce that Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich and Gayatri Spivak will be among our keynote speakers at our annual outreach conference in New York City .  Mark your calendars for the Presidents' Day weekend.  The conference will bring together youth activists and leading left-wing figures from accross the country for workshops, trainings, parties and debates.

I wanted to learn a little bit about the keynote speakers Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich and Gayatri Spivak so I jumped over to Discover the Network.

Here are several excerpts from Discover the Network, compiled from several sources about these individuals.

Barbara Ehrenreich

• Writes for The Progressive, The Nation, and In These Times.
• Asks the U.S. to look at the 9/11 attacks with "empathetic ability"
• Author of widely required tract, Nickled and Dimed
• Socialist, 60's radical, feminist
• Honorary chair of Democratic Socialists of America

Barbara Ehrenreich, a well known socialist and former Sixties radical, is the author of the book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. As a social activist and radical feminist, Ehrenreich writes on healthcare, families and class. She is the Honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America and a board member of NORML—the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, a pro-legalization marijuana lobby. Her affinity for Communism and Marxism is not something she takes any pains to conceal. When the Communist Manifesto was re-released on its 150th anniversary, Ehrenreich celebrated the event, while pointing out the irony that in producing the Manifesto as a commercial product, capitalists were - as Lenin once observed - providing the rope that would eventually hang them.

Noam Chomsky

• Professor of linguistics, prolific pamphleteer, highly influential leftist
• Known for his extreme views (e.g., that America is worse than Nazi Germany)
• "The so-called War on Terror is pure hypocrisy, virtually without exception"

…a recent New Yorker profile calls Chomsky "one of the greatest minds of the 20^th century."

The devotion of Chomsky's followers is summarized by radio producer David Barsamian, who describes the master's effulgence in openly religious terms: "He is for many of us our rabbi, our preacher, our rinpoche, our sensei."

But unlike other cult figures, Chomsky's power is not commanded by the authority of charisma or the electricity of revelation. His speeches are flat and fatwa-like, hermetically sealed against the oxygen of disagreement by syllogism and self reference. His power comes not from his person, but from the fact that he, more than any other public intellectual, gives an authentic voice to the hatred of America that has been an enduring fact of our national scene since the mid-1960s. It is a voice that is also easily distinguished from others with similar commitments. Chomsky is interested in a few "truths" which are always "beyond dispute." His citations often loop back narcissistically to his own works. He argues with such streamroller-like disregard for other explanations that he often seems to be talking to himself: "The so-called War on Terror is pure hypocrisy, virtually without exception. Can anybody understand that? No, they can't understand it."

…his defense of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge; his support of holocaust revisionism—may surprise those who know Chomsky only generally as a critic of U.S. foreign policy.

…take the view that the two aspects of his life's work in fact manifest the same key properties: "a deep disregard of, and contempt for, the truth; a monumental disdain for standards of inquiry; a relentless strain of self-promotion; notable descents into incoherence; and a penchant for verbally abusing those who disagree with him."

But then came word of the Khmer Rouge's killing fields… In 1980, when it when it was no longer possible to deny that some 2 million of Cambodia's 7.8 million people had indeed perished at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Chomsky continued to deny the genocide, proposing that the problem may have been a failure of the rice crop. As late as 1988, when the skulls were piled too high to ignore any longer, Chomsky returned to the subject and insisted that whatever had happened in Cambodia, the U.S. was to blame.

As Thomas Nichols shows in "Chomsky and the Cold War," the long conflict with the Soviets and the fact that it was fought out primarily in the Third World allowed Chomsky to elaborate on his analogy with the Nazis and "to spin his master narrative on the evils of American power…." The Soviet dictatorship was not only "morally equivalent" to democratic America, but in Chomsky's view actually better because it was less powerful. The chief sin of Stalinism in his eyes was not the murder of millions but giving socialism a bad name.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

• Feminist professor at Columbia University
• Justifies Palestinian suicide bombings
• Calls 9/11 "a response . . . to the state terrorism practiced outside of its own ambit by the United States"

Columbia University professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a self-proclaimed crusader for "international feminism," supports the notion that suicide bombings and mass murders carried out against Israelis and Americans are justifiable - on grounds that Israel and the U.S. purportedly practice state terrorism against weaker peoples in the Middle East. She deems such slaughters the understandable actions of desperate, demoralized populations.

These are the twisted, feminist, anti-American socialists given free reign to poison the minds of the youth at the Young Democratic Socialists annual outreach conference in New York City.

Why?

The disturbing last paragraph on Gavatri Spivak’s profile speaks volumes. This is a drug addled mind rambling on incoherently trying to metaphysically justify someone killing innocents in the commission of suicide. Pure 100% top grade insanity.

I find this part particularly… amusing.

REGISTRATION & COSTS:
Registration costs for the entire conference will be based on a sliding scale of $30 - $60.  Special consideration for low-income individuals will be made with priority given to YDS members and those starting chapters.

~gregmc