Here’s a thumbnail history of vast right-wing conspiracies by Janet Levy at American Thinker. The historian, Gary Allen, thought he was researching history in order to “prove conservative anti-communists wrong.” He came to the opposite conclusion. Here’s the opening:
Fifty years ago, journalist Gary
Allen set out to write a book to prove conservative anti-communists
wrong. But while researching, he realized he had not seen the
"hidden picture." There indeed was a conspiracy, shielded
by a narrative advanced by liberal academia and the mainstream media, both
actually in the service of an elite cabal that included Rockefeller, Ford,
Morgan, Rothschild, Loeb, Kennedy, and Carnegie. No longer willing
to dismiss "right-wing conspiracy theorists," he titled his book,
published in 1971, None Dare Call It
Conspiracy. It was a surprising bestseller: more than four
million copies were sold during the 1972 presidential
elections. Many received it as gifts through an informal grassroots
distribution system.
What Allen claimed to have
discovered was that a plutocracy of 3% of the population covertly controlled
the lives of the rest. They had wrested control of the
constitutional republic, with its separation of powers, limited government, and
competitive free enterprise, and turned it into a system of centralized control
by a few. How was this achieved? According to Allen, the
conspiratorial clique was hidden and protected by a complicit media
establishment they own and control. Also, they are accomplished
liars and farseeing planners. Their subversive tour de force has
been to advance the lies that a) communism is inevitable and b) communism is a
movement of the downtrodden. The first lie aims to destroy the will
to fight, the second to gain the support of the poor masses and justify the
destruction of a vigorous, innovative middle class.
Allen offers an alternative,
realistic definition of communism: an international conspiratorial drive for
power on part of men in high places, who are willing to use any means for
global conquest. In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels
said a proletarian revolution would necessitate a temporary socialist
dictatorship, which would give way to full-on communism if three things were
achieved: a) the elimination of private property rights, b) the dissolution of
the family, and c) the replacement of religion with Marxist
ideology. These, in fact, are exactly what academia and left-wing
groups in America are pushing for, today and when Allen wrote the book.
But all that, as Allen claims, is
an elaborate ruse. Behind it are the super-rich.
Recommended reading. Full article is here.
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