Communist Activist Angela Davis Admits The Socialist Activist Left Took Over The Free Palestine Movement
This is how the left gains power - they hijack movements.
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In The Unabomber Manifesto, Ted Kaczynski warned that some activist movements may not initially start out as leftist movements specifically, but that leftists are attracted to them once they gain power.
At that point, those movements become co-opted, and the goals change.
213. Because of their need for rebellion and for membership in a movement, leftists or persons of similar psychological type often are unattracted to a rebellious or activist movement whose goals and membership are not initially leftist. The resulting influx of leftish types can easily turn a non-leftist movement into a leftist one, so that leftist goals replace or distort the original goals of the movement.
This is a point that is very worthy of consideration. It’s what we’ve seen happen with queer Marxists taking over and hijacking the legitimate LGBT rights movements around 2015.
He recommends that activist organizations take vigilance to protect themselves from such a takeover, again discussing the left’s drive for power:
214. To avoid this, a movement that exalts nature and opposes technology must take a resolutely anti-leftist stance and must avoid all collaboration with leftists…Above all, leftism is driven by the need for power, and the leftist seeks power on a collective basis, through identification with a mass movement or an organization. Leftism is unlikely ever to give up technology, because technology is too valuable a source of collective power.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot in watching what’s happened in the Middle East and, more importantly for our purposes, the protests on college campuses in response to it.
If you haven’t seen it, there has been a wave of Pro-Hamas protests on college campuses. Seeing student support of Hamas has angered Jewish donors to those institutions, who have called for their blacklisting for jobs and have pulled millions of dollars of donations to schools because of it. Additionally, some of the student groups have started escalating recently, going after Jewish students directly.
It’s not pretty.
There is certainly a link here with the woke left’s ideology, but I haven’t yet commented on it on this site because I wanted to watch it unfold.
Initially, my thoughts were this:
We know that Marxists generally aren’t the biggest fans of the Jews, because they equate them to capitalism.
Anytime the left speaks about antisemitism, it’s more opportunism than it really is about antisemitism.
The left consistently uses things like protests to gain power, hijacking issues they don’t really otherwise gain about to have a reason to protest.
The Palestinian Freedom movement existed long before the emergence of the woke left as we know it today.
Therefore, there are probably multiple groups protesting:
The legitimate Palestinian Freedom movement that has existed for decades,
And the far-leftists who are jumping on the bandwagon to exploit the issue for their purposes.
My working theory is that most of the leftists we see causing the move trouble on college campuses were a part of the latter group - they haven’t ever really cared too much about the Palestinians, but it was an opportunity to protest and cause problems, and so they did.
I believe this is an important distinction to make because there are many people (and I am one) who believe that what’s happening to Palestine is wrong. If that describes you, it can be uncomfortable to think you’re on the same team as leftists. This is not a one-sided issue.
And last night, Angela Davis confirmed my suspicion.
Here is a video from a training on November 1, 2023, where famed communist activist Angela Davis confirmed what I believed was true that the Palestinian Freedom movement existed separately from the far-left social justice activists until they proactively integrated them.
This is how you hijack a movement.
Hear it in her words:
What else did Angela say that reveals the far-left agenda?
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