Children of the Long March
The pattern is clear: foreign born, Neo-Marxist academics come to America, work at major universities, teach Neo-Marxist ideas to their students, and their children, inheriting their parents’ ideologies, enter politics.
Pattern recognition — the brain’s ability to perceive similarities and relationships between objects, numbers, and events — is used in IQ tests as a way to help measure cognitive intelligence.
Here’s a pattern to consider.
Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City on the steps of an old, abandoned City Hall subway station early on New Year’s Day.
His father, Mahmood Mamdani FBA (Fellow of the British Academy) is a Ugandan academic, political commentator, and the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University. He also serves as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda. Mahmood teaches African and international Politics, colonialism and post-colonialism, and his work is based on Marxist theory, although he identifies as a democratic socialist, not as a Marxist.
His son, Zohran, identifies as a Democratic Socialist as well, and is a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Zohran was born in Uganda, but is a naturalized U.S. citizen. However, his mother, left-wing filmmaker Mira Nair, explains; Zohran… “was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian.”
Both Mamdani’s parents are Indian born, but live in America. Judging from their work and rhetoric, they don’t like America very much. Neither does their son. However, they seem to like living here.
Like Zohran Mamdani’s mother and father, former Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in India. Gopalan became a naturalized American citizen in 1970. She was involved in the American civil rights movement while a graduate student at wildly progressive UC Berkley and met her future husband, Donald Harris, at a meeting of the Afro-American Association — a students’ group whose members would eventually go on to help found the Black Panther Party. While neither a prominent Marxist nor a university professor, Gopolan was involved in radical, neo-Marxist political circles in the 1960s.
However, Kamala Harris’s father, Donald Harris, is Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. Donald Harris claims to be a “Neo-Keynesian” economist. But, according to the left-wing New Yorker Magazine, Harris taught courses in Marxian economics. While calling himself a “Neo-Keynesian”, Mr. Harris gives great credence to Marx’s economic theories. For example, he wrote an article in the Journal of Political Economy in 1972 called “On Marx’s Scheme of Reproduction and Accumulation.”
Harris was born in Brown’s Town, Jamaica but was naturalized as an American Citizen. He taught at University of Wisconsin (Madison), Northwestern, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: all bastions of far left, progressive (Neo-Marxist) ideology.
Harris also worked as an economic adviser to the Jamaican government for many years. According to Atlas of Economic Complexity “Jamaica… rank(s) as the 76th richest economy per capita out of 145 studied. Its 2.75 million inhabitants have a GDP per capita of $7,032 ($11,856 PPP; 2023). GDP per capita growth has averaged 0.6% over the past five years, above regional averages.”
It appears that Harris’ expert, Neo-Keynesian “advice” hasn’t done much to help Jamaica’s economy — or its people.
Like Donald Harris and Mahmood Mamdani, former Secretary of Transportation and potential Democratic Party candidate for President Pete Buttigieg ’s father, Joseph A. Buttigieg was a left-wing professor.
Born in the small island nation of Malta, Joseph Buttigieg was a Professor at University of New Mexico Las Cruces and at Notre Dame, where he served as chairman of the English Department. Buttigieg retired as the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English. He co-translated and co-edited the three-volume English edition of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, and was a founding member and president of the International Gramsci Society. In the far-left publication The Nation, Sara Marcus wrote “…Joseph A. Buttigieg was internationally renowned for his authoritative translations of Antonio Gramsci, Italy’s most enduring Marxist intellectual.”
Joseph A. Buttigieg , like Zohran Mamdani, Donald Harris, and Shyamala Gopalan, became a naturalized American citizen.
Closely matching the pattern is former President Barack Obama. Obama’s father, while not a professor, was an economist of a “leftist bent.” His economic and political views were influenced by mid-20th-century “development economics” and a form of Africa Socialism — an ideology which focused on state-led development to address poverty and inequality. Although he hardly knew the man, former President Obama wrote Dreams From My Father about him.
Obama’s mother, Anne Dunham, held a PhD from the university of Hawaii. Dunham completed her coursework at the University of Hawaii for an M.A. in anthropology in December 1974 but wasn’t awarded her PhD until August 9, 1992 – more than 20 years of university affiliation. Moreover, Obama was closely tied to radical Neo-Marxist mentors and surrogate father-figures Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and Frank Marshall Davis.
The pattern is clear: foreign born, Neo-Marxist academics come to America, work at major universities, teach Neo-Marxist ideas to their students, and their children, inheriting their parents’ ideologies, enter politics.
The apples haven’t fallen far from the tree.
The question is, to what end?
Joseph A. Buttigieg’s favorite communist, Antonio Gramsci, was head of the Italian Communist party. After an assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini, he was imprisoned in 1923 as “a threat to the state.” Gramsci died behind bars in 1937. While in prison he wrote his Prison Notebooks, which contained, among other communist ramblings, his theory of “cultural hegemony” — the claim that a ruling class maintains power by controlling a society’s worldview as much as by use of direct force. Gramsci argued that social change requires protracted cultural and intellectual struggles in order to build a new “counter-hegemony” within civil society. Only after winning this battle for public consciousness can a “war of maneuver” (direct revolution) succeed; a “war of maneuver” like the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020.
During the turbulent 1960s a prominent German student leader and activist Rudi Dutschke advocated radical social change through a “long march through the institutions.” Dutschke’s idea was for Marxist to take positions in institutions — government bureaucracies, the judiciary, and the universities — and undermine the culture from within. Inspired by Gramsci, Dutschke named his strategy after Mao’s 6,000-mile tactical retreat in 1934, the Long March. The retreat kept Mao’s communist army from annihilation and led, eventually, to the Chinese Communist Party taking control of China.
Rudi Dutschke’s “long march through the institutions,” based on Antonio Gramsci’s’ “counter-hegemony” theory, has had some success.
Vladimir Lenin famously said, “Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.”
His adherents have been taking his advice. The pattern is clear.
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