Dei said (July 8, 2012):

In response to Ken Freeland's theory that communism is dead, this is, among other memorable quotes, what Gorbachev had to say about it:

“Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.” -Mikhail Gorbachev, speech to the Soviet Politburo, November 1987

Also Gorbachev's books make for illuminating reading. But remember also, that even communists and socialists are only tools in the forging of the world, as revealed, for example, by Carroll Quigley in his books on the history of the CFR, Tragedy and Hope and The Anglo-American Establishment.

Ken Freeland said (July 8, 2012):

You dead wrong on all this, including your distorted view of what constitutes Marxism. Your allegation about Chavez and drugs is so lame as to be laughable. You are intoxicated with the cult of Anticommunism, which should have died with the fall of the USSR, but lives on in pundits like you. Get a life, Henry.

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Bruce replies:

Hey Ken, if Henry and Marcos are so dead wrong and distorted concerning his views on communism; why not explain? Explain why communism is dead and why they misconstrued information about Chavez. I will be waiting for you response.

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Ken replies:

Bruce,

At your request, I will clarify the actual meaning of Marxism, as oppose to the imputation of it to these struggling Latin American nations. Marxism, or rather Marxist-Leninism, is the theory of socialism that the best resolution to the social problem is to enact state ownership of all the major productive property, and its administration supposedly on behalf of its working people. This WAS attempted in the USSR with questionable results. IT IS NO LONGER THE CASE THERE, any more than it is in China, where the bulk of US consumer goods are now produced by privately owned factories using highly exploitable Chinese labor. The quote that you cite from Gorbachev was issued in 1987. Within a few years, a major coup (or counterrevolution) occurred in the USSR wherein the bulk of state-owned enterprises reverted to private ownership, with the greatest ones enriching an emergent kleptocracy of largely Jewish financial oligarchs. This is STRUCTURAL change, and not “cosmetic.” For better or for worse, the mass of workers in what is today Russia and its former Eastern European satellites is at the mercy of privately owned mega-companies, the same as here. This is a complete regression to a capitalist economic modality.

More to the point, the Latin American countries cited by “Marcos” are not by any stretch Communist. There is no widespread nationalization of productive property, nor is there an explicit movement to this end. There are, indeed, some strident nationalist tendencies, most notably the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, but capital ownership remains largely in private hands, and there is no explicit movement to alter this economic arrangement. If anything, these countries are striving for “social democracy,” the same as their more advanced Western European counterparts, but to call this Communism or a new Iron Curtain betrays real ignorance of the meaning of those terms.

Peace,

Ken Freeland

Peter in Thailand said (July 8, 2012):

Superb analysis!

Thank you for that post from Marcos about Communism in South America.

On a huge and complex topic, Marcos provides a clear and concise
summary.

I especially appreciated his closing warning, " this is the structure of
the New World Order, to be duplicated in every country of the globe."

I hope to see more of Marcos' thinking and writing on your site.

Kevin said (July 8, 2012):

I couldn't agree more with Tony Blizzard's comment below.

I had to laugh at the former Paraguayan Justice who 'defected' to the US to become an informant for the DEA. Apparently this judge did not comprehend that the United States Military runs drugs, too. It hasn't been reported in significant numbers yet by the American media, but since the American military invaded Afghanistan the USA is now awash in heroin. This is fortuitous timing, as the unprecedented increase in opium imports coincides with the US Gov't and US Media's pressure on doctors and pharmacists to restrict patients' access to synthetic opiates (Oxycontin, Morphine, Codeine, etc).

Now citizens battling full-time pain who are turned away by their mandatory health insurance's doctor can instead turn to their corner drug dealer for cheap heroin to treat their pain. And kids, safe from the evils of cigarettes and beer, are instead treated to cocaine from the left wingers in S America and heroin from the right wingers in Asia.

The Right wing and the Left wing together herd us down the road to hell.

Bruno said (July 7, 2012):

About your post "Iron Curtain Encircles Latin America; USA Next". I have never heard it stated so unequivocally that communism really never died as in this story. I couldn't agree more. And I have always believed that; ever since 1988. A big, militant empire like Soviet Russia just doesn't go away by itself and 'peacefully' at that without a big fight.

Look at the USA. They will create and fight wars until total collapse in an attempt to survive. The same should have been true for the Soviets. And 25 years later we have the proof. Now that they achieved the destruction of the USA by stealth and have expanded even into the Western hemisphere despite the Kennedy doctrine of no communism in the Americas. They clearly were smart and their plans were well thought through for long term conquest unlike the USA storming into Iraq and Afghanistan after-burners blazzing. It is very ironic: the country that defeated the Russian totally wrecked the US even more. Well done Gorbachev and KGB Putin. The next move predictably will be to invade USA using their Latin American Marxist Allies along with the Mexicans and the 1.5 million strong armed criminal gangs. Americans are such poor and pitiful suckers. Okay girls go slap'em around like you do the American boys. Have fun! They will have fun with you too, guaranteed. Tell'em you have rights. How can one be so stupid and so self-defeating? And they still wallow in their own self-delusion and think they are the greatest. That indeed is their greatest fault and the main cause of their defeat along with their girl scout 'be-nice-to-each-other' army. And there is nothing you can do about it.

Tony B said (July 7, 2012):

I like most of Marcos' comments on your site but this article seems strange in places. Especially his comments of capitalists having no real power with the actual control of the economy by the state. If that's the case the U.S. has no worries whatsoever as the state here is totally controlled by the monopoly capitalists, with the private bankers who own our medium of exchange as their private profit machine at the apex and government as their paid lackey.

Methinks he doesn't realize the marxist dangers on the "teaparty" side of politics as though he is caught up in the false concept of one side being pure the other impure when, in fact, both are controlled by the same satanic agentur, as made clear in the protocols.

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Marcos replies:

International banks and large multinationals are a special case, for they are part of the elite structure. Local and national businesses indeed have no political power.