Guns of the Regressive Right or How to Kill a President

[Paul Trejo]

I don't know how much a member of the Marxist intelligensia would be swayed by Smoot. I find this part interesting :'' They didn't care about it a bit - but their ideology of making all these global left-wing movements into the puppets of Corporate Giants turned out to be brilliant -- said Jean-Paul Sartre -- because they actually distrated a significant portion of the intelligensia away from the Marxist paradigm'' I take Sartre seriously so I think this quote from him (if it is, or even if it's a particular persons 'interpretation') needs to be looked at in full context. Obviously the monroe doctrine needs to be considered as well.

Anyway, if we choose we could cover lots here that really might not have so much to do with that which we do have in common, namely Walker as pivotal. In this context the clarification about the Bealle fictions. And they certainly served a pupose of providing a palatable world view to people in a part of the world being ripped apart by systemic contradictions. Further on that particular matter. I find that most people react to circumstances most with pressure on the hip pocket nerve. That was not being applied by Cuba. That was being applied by the enormous nation wide economic shifts threatened by centuries old structures that would have to change as the world focused on the equal rights situation of the USofA at a time when TV developed dramatically during the Kennedy administration. How could the USofA possibly excert any moral force in the world when the world was finding out about the mess in the USoAs own back yard? No wonder that Kennedy himself sought to diminish the Oxford days ( The Ghosts Of Mississippi ) of late sep earl;y oct '62, still obfuscated today..

John, to respond to your theoreticals from several weeks ago:

In 1963 the left-wing talked about Marx, Lenin, the industrial bourgeoisie, the industrial proletariat and the Workers of the World.

In 1963, the right-wing talked about the evils of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve Bank. They got these ideas from Dan Smoot and his 1962 book, The Invisible Government.

The ideas of Smoot were central to the John Birch Society. Basically, they said that the great Communist powers were really in New York City, because they were the same as the great Capitalist powers, namely, the International Bankers.

Notice that this was only a variation on a basic idea of the Nazi Party -- that Communism and Capitalism were both the products of the Jewish International Bankers.

After World War Two, it was clear that the Nazi paranoia was mistaken, because most International Bankers, and the richest ones, were Gentile, not Jewish.

Still, the basic contours of the Nazi ideology was continued by the American extreme right-wing; International Bankers were the great evil, and Global Capitalism along with Communism were its tools for world domination.

In many ways, this mythology was invented to distract ordinary people from talking about working conditions and the formation of a Labor Party. It was very successful, actually.

This is what Jean-Paul Sartre decried when he lamented that the discussion of Marxism had been overlooked in favor of a discussion of these right-wing ideas. Sartre tried unsuccessfully to revive a discussion of Marxism in 1960 with his pathetic, Critique of Dialectical Reason.

So, there is a fuller context of my reference to Sartre in this regard.

As for my remark about the left-wing, it appears that after the Fall of the USSR in 1990 and granting of most-favored-nation trading status to so-called "Red China", the concepts of Marxism have less of an impact today than at any time in the past 160 years.

To fill the void, the left-wing intelligensia now likes to talk about the evils of the CFR, the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve Bank! The irony is rich, actually. The John Birch Society is now a favorite source of ideology for the American left-wing intelligensia.

Anyway, I'm glad you and I can still agree on the idea that General Edwin Walker is pivotal in the research for a solution to the assassination of JFK.

Also, yes, the Economic impact of the Castro revolution did not reach the average American. It was mainly the Mafia and other Casino owners in Cuba who felt the impact (along with American dealers in sugar, rum and cigars).

It is also fascinating that on the very day that the Cuban Missle Crisis began, the conflict of James Meredith, a black Air Force pilot applying to Oxford University in Mississippi, also became front-page news.

This was in September of 1962, when the Civil Rights movement was just gaining steam.

During World War Two, the US miiltary was not very integrated racially -- but in order to wage war against Nazi Germany, we had to pretend to the world that we were fully integrated. So Hollywood began making flims showing blacks and whites serving in the same platoons, arm in arm, with comradery. This was more rare than Hollywood would lead us to believe.

The propaganda was successful not only overseas, but also here in the USA. Then TV perpetuated the propaganda. Americans really came to believe that we were integrated. That was probably a significant part of the rise of the Civil Rights movement -- that and the G.I. Bill.

JFK supported this movement, but he and RFK made a big blunder by using psychiatry to silence General Edwin Walker after the riots at Ole Miss. They had to drop all charges like a hot potato, and they never liked to talk about it afterwards.

Best regards,

--Paul Trejo

Edited February 4, 2012 by Paul Trejo