{"id":267,"date":"2006-02-28T06:15:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T11:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=267"},"modified":"2006-02-28T06:16:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T11:16:30","slug":"the-meme-war-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"The Meme War Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.brusselsjournal.com\/node\/865'>Former Soviet Dissident<br \/>\nWarns For EU Dictatorship.<\/a>  Sound like a crazy premise?  Wait.  It gets<br \/>\nbetter.  Vladimir Bukovsky, a leading dissident of the Soviet era whom was<br \/>\ninvited to testify at the Russian government&#8217;s inquiry into whether the<br \/>\nSoviet Communist Party had been a criminal institution. got to see more<br \/>\nof the KGB&#8217;s secret reports to its masters than perhaps anyone else since<br \/>\nthe old Soviet Union fell.  He says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 1992 I had unprecedented access to Politburo and Central<br \/>\nCommittee secret documents which have been classified, and still are<br \/>\neven now, for 30 years. These documents show very clearly that the<br \/>\nwhole idea of turning the European common market into a federal state<br \/>\nwas agreed between the left-wing parties of Europe and Moscow as a<br \/>\njoint project [&#8230;] the structures of the European Union were initially<br \/>\nbuilt with the purpose of fitting into the Soviet structure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.  The European Left cooperated with a Soviet project<br \/>\nto make Europe amenable to totalitarian control from Moscow, and not<br \/>\nway back in the 1950s, either; the key agreements were made around<br \/>\n1985!  Read the whole article; I can&#8217;t do justice to Bukovsky&#8217;s report<br \/>\nin a summary.<\/p>\n<p>To anyone who read my essay on <a href='http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=260'>Gramscian Damage<\/a> and scoffed<br \/>\nat the idea that the western Left operated as instruments of Soviet<br \/>\nideological subversion intended to wreck the West, wake up!  This is<br \/>\nnot a phenomenon of the far past.  Bukovsky draws a straight line from<br \/>\nWestern &#8220;political correctness&#8221; back to the Soviet meme war. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]hat is one field in which I am an expert,&#8221; Bukovsky (who spent twelve<br \/>\nyears in Soviet labor camps) says, &#8220;I know how Gulags spring up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship. Sound like a crazy premise? Wait. It gets better. Vladimir Bukovsky, a leading dissident of the Soviet era whom was invited to testify at the Russian government&#8217;s inquiry into whether the Soviet Communist Party had been a criminal institution. got to see more of the KGB&#8217;s secret reports&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=267\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Meme War Continues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}