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I think you are letting your imagination come up with elaborate explanations when very simple ones are available. Soviet infiltration? Come on dude. Seeking po
by gameswithgo 5y ago
I think you are letting your imagination come up with elaborate explanations when very simple ones are available. Soviet infiltration? Come on dude. Seeking power for it's own sake is not uniquely soviet and predates any imagined university infiltration.
- agency 5y agoYeah this is some John Birch Society level shit. The Soviets invented being power hungry? The US has used its own brand of Realpolitik to maintain its empire since long before it was “infiltrated by the Soviets,” and has nearly always been co-signed by the media apparatus.
- dukeofdoom 5y agoSeeking power is the goal. But the way to achieve it is through consensus building. So you need ideas and an ideology to rally people around you. Like for example these two intellectuals that overtly had the goal of subverting society. They came up with an actual plan how to go about doing it. Antonio Gramsci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdsSIWh_VkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdsSIWh_VkQ Theodor Adorno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGnPgtWhsw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGnPgtWhsw That intellectual subversion, and propaganda is and was a political tool is fairly obvious to anyone that has lived under a totalitarian government.