Dupes: How the Communist Left Has Manipulated the Progressive Left for a Century
On Monday June 29, The Institute of World Politics welcomed Dr. Paul G. Kengor to discuss the topic of his recent book, Dupes: How the Communist Left Has Manipulated the Progressive Left for a Century. He presented aspects of his extensive research on the role of the "dupe" in modern American history, exploring how many progressives have been manipulated to aid the communist agenda.
While "dupe" may initially sound like a derogatory or rude terminology, its usage actually has historical and biblical precedent, noted Dr. Kengor. It was utilized throughout the Cold War by the Soviets as they developed a propaganda strategy to sell communism to the Western world. A dupe is an innocent individual with no malicious intent who is manipulated to aid and abet the opponent unwittingly. Because the progressive left ideology was most similar to that of communism, they were found to be an easy target for deception. In the 1930s, the United States Communist Party amounted to less than 100,000 people. In need of larger numbers to gain any sort of political leverage, communists resorted to duping progressives in an attempt to take down the West through cultural disruption.
Dr. Kengor's first example of such a case was John Dewey, otherwise known as the father of United States education and renowned as an influential progressive icon. Coincidentally, the Bolsheviks were also great fans of Dewey's work, and used his teachings as a blueprint for the Soviet educational system. Beginning in 1918, at the height of the Russian Revolution, Dewey's books began to be published in Russian. The admiration between Dewey and the Russians was mutual, and in the 1920s he made a pilgrimage to experience the Bolshevik culture himself. He was reportedly "impressed by the orderly and safe characteristic of life in Moscow", saying that life goes on with "regularity, safety, and decorum" following the "great success" that was the Bolshevik Revolution, just as the Soviets had hoped.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was similarly taken by the display of the Potemkin villages created by the Soviets. Sanger was actually a proponent of birth control for the purpose of racial eugenics, and met with the KKK on several occasions concerning the potential for "racial improvement" via birth control. In the 1920s, the Soviets legalized both abortion and divorce and the rates of both skyrocketed. The number of abortions was appalling, said Dr. Kengor, but the Soviets claimed that as soon as their economic and social plans were realized, birth control and contraception would be unnecessary. Sanger fell for this logic, believing that a functioning communist society would ensure the happiness of every child, effectively acting as a dupe for communist ideals.
Dr. Kengor next addressed Frank Marshall Davis, a mentor to Barack Obama in the 1970s. According to Kengor, Davis joined the Communist party in Chicago following the Hitler-Stalin pact and testified concerning their activity in Congress in the 1950s, providing advice and influence tainted by the Communist party agenda. Kengor also cited the American Peace Mobilization in Chicago in 1940 as an organization which similarly has a progressive left façade but is run by communist undercurrents.
In the question and answer period Dr. Kengor responded to concerns about numerous and at times controversial topics. Among these were the application of his ideas to issues recently highlighted by the media, including the racially motivated shootings in Charleston, the erosion of the traditional marriage structure by the recent Supreme Court decision, the manipulation of mainstream media for various political agendas, and the goal of effectively demonstrating Christian charity.
Dr. Kengor is a professor of political science and the Executive Director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He is a New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, his articles have appeared in various publications, and he has frequently contributed to MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, the BBC, PCN-TV, EWTN, and FoxNewsChannel. He is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, and holds a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and his Master's degree from American University's School of International Service. He is well-known as an authority on several subjects including Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and Communism.
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The Jimmy Carter example was great and frightening
Glad I stuck around for the bonus quotes by Communism's founders on why religion (not capitalism) is their ultimate object of enmity! (1:12:07)
@brian78045
9 ай бұрын
"Glad I stuck around for the bonus quotes by Communism's founders on why religion (not capitalism) is their ultimate object of enmity! " That's right. Marx was always a theist who manufactured a fake materialist philosophy in order to bring about the "requirement...[for the] abolition of religion"... "The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.” “The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.” “It is, therefore, the task of history, once the other-world of truth has vanished, to establish the truth of this world." Google: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right ntroduction
@kimobrien.
5 ай бұрын
@@brian78045 In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
@brian78045
5 ай бұрын
@@kimobrien. "In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." Marx was always a theist who believed he was going to Hell for his libertine behavior that commenced at university in Berlin, so he created a fake materialist philosophy to destroy humanity, as we are witness today with the global administration of the toxic inoculations. In his poetry, Marx informs us of his "War on God", this war requiring the annihilation of all those who are followers of a religion... "Thus Heaven I've forfeited, I know it full well, My soul, once true to God, Is chosen for hell." ...and... "With disdain I will throw my gauntlet Full in the face of the world, And see the collapse of this pygmy giant Whose fall will not stifle my ardour. Then will I wander godlike and victorious Through the ruins of the world And, giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator."
We didn't beat them, they are just cunning and patient, it's a poisonous trap that's all well and good until you realize you've been trapped
Learned this in the 1980's in high school in America. all rights reserved
@redveiner
3 жыл бұрын
Consider yourself lucky. Many have hidden the work from inquiring young mines.
@davidleehurt333
2 ай бұрын
My history teachers were Jewish. They didn't teach us anything about any of this.
Americans especially young people need to read the 45 goals of communism from "the Naked communist' (on youtube) to understand why it's a threat to US national security.
Dupes i know many of these people
@jonnyw82
4 жыл бұрын
Robin Breeds all democrats are dupes
@lemonsarebitter2069
2 жыл бұрын
@@jonnyw82 and the Labour parties and Liberal Democrat parties and Green parties.
Very insightful
"Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials" Chaired by John Dewey
I just bought, "The Devil and Bella Dodd" by Dr. Kengor, very revealing on this subject
I'm really glad I found this lecture! The main reason for the crazy number of abortions in USSR is that there was very little access to effective birth control. The Soviet made condoms were horrific, didn't work well, and often even those were unavailable. People sought foreign-made condoms, but they were a "deficit", like many other things, such as toilet paper. Another reason was passport control - you couldn't move easily, and many 3-generation families lived in one small apartment, or even one small room in a communal apartment. You could find yourself living with your parents, their parents, and your spouse, in one or two rooms. Imagine also sharing a bathroom and a kitchen with several unrelated families - very common back then. Nobody had any money either, of course. Women felt forced to use abortion as birth control, and it was often a harrowing experience. Aside from the psychological issues, many women endured abortion procedures w/out anesthetics. (I grew up there - ugh)
@craxd1
6 жыл бұрын
ananke: Yet to hear those from the Communist Party USA, such as Bill Ayers, et al, state it, the USSR was a utopia. I have read about what you have stated, in several books, and you verify what they stated. When one reads Marx, they find that what he wanted was a commune type of feudalism brought back under a new name, but with a more severe totalitarian form government, that would gut morality. Lenin and Stalin only took it to the extreme.
Same in China - planned parenthood has been promoted or even mandated!
Jaw dropping , eye opening book "DUPES," by Dr. Paul Kengor - Read it
And now .... the trumpeters are doing it @6:35 but the do intend to be malicious
To:jwt242 Did you even listen to this?
@TheHerrUlf
8 жыл бұрын
+Albert Clerc Of course, he didn't. Since the Left rejected reason, they have stopped listening. Now it's pure whim-worship
Oh my God, Grampa Walton, my world has crumbled
@craxd1
6 жыл бұрын
Yup, Ol' Will Geer, the Qu###.
Altogether collisions between the classes of the old society further, in many ways, the course of development of the proletariat. The bourgeoisie finds itself involved in a constant battle. At first with the aristocracy; later on, with those portions of the bourgeoisie itself, whose interests have become antagonistic to the progress of industry; at all time with the bourgeoisie of foreign countries. In all these battles, it sees itself compelled to appeal to the proletariat, to ask for help, and thus, to drag it into the political arena. The bourgeoisie itself, therefore, supplies the proletariat with its own elements of political and general education, in other words, it furnishes the proletariat with weapons for fighting the bourgeoisie.
@davidleehurt333
2 ай бұрын
Just like a marxist intellectual wannabe, using 500 hundred words for what could be expressed in 3 sentences. It's like you were trying to stretch your thought so you could use the terms proletariat & bourgeoisie as many times as possible. Here's a clue to get more people to sympathize with your cause. Just call them the middle-class & the elitist administrative class.
@kimobrien.
2 ай бұрын
@@davidleehurt333and Dr. Paul G. Kengor the middle-class & the elitist administrative class.Dr. Kengor next addressed Frank Marshall Davis, a mentor to Barack Obama in the 1970s
Cope
The Soviets were true believers and the speaker is a true believer
Around halfway through his presentation Dr. Kengor mentions that he teaches at a “Christian” college, which is actually Presbyterian, but unfortunately part of the PCUSA and he is a “Christian” teaching at it. As accomplished as he is in his publishing life about politics, in spiritual matters since he is a Roman Catholic and apparently, has no idea what Christianity and no one at Grove City College, apparently, is willing to tell him that he belongs to a church that is the enemy of Christianity. Dr. Kengor, how many pedophile scandals will it take for your eyes to be opened? If you ever come across this, go here on KZread to John MacArthur’s sermons on Roman Catholicism and it’s many blasphemies. If you find them, it’s just the tip of the iceberg as to what’s available out there if you look in and compare Romanist teaching to scripture.
@Paul71H
4 жыл бұрын
Quote: "Dr. Kengor, how many pedophile scandals will it take for your eyes to be opened?" Eustace, how many apostles betraying Jesus will it take for your eyes to be opened? I hope that you will not leave Jesus because one of his handpicked apostles betrayed him, or because another of his handpicked apostles denied knowing him. Likewise, I don't think that Dr. Kengor should leave the only church founded by Jesus because of the sins of the modern-day Judases among the successors of the apostles.
@arnoldfishman1513
4 жыл бұрын
AM, Grove City College is by way of information one of only a few Colleges that refuses to take federal $ because it does not want to be compromised. The other college like this is Hillsdale. Both are Christian and both are one of a few colleges standing up to forces of tyranny and destruction of western civilization. regarding your comment about his catholicism, I guess I would rather be living in a nation run by Catholics than one run by communism any day of the year.
@Paul71H
4 жыл бұрын
@@arnoldfishman1513 If I'm not mistaken, Christendom College (a Catholic college in Virginia) also does not take federal dollars, for the same reason. I have a lot of respect for Grove City College and Hillsdale College, and I hope that their graduates will have an outsized impact on our culture.
@562mjohnson
4 жыл бұрын
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: John MacArthur preaches a works based salvation which is a false gospel. I can listen to it but ultimately it's not the real deal just like cathalocism.
@Paul71H
3 жыл бұрын
@Jason Johnson Thanks for your reply. Judas's sin was so serious that Jesus said, "It would have been better for that man if he had not been born." (Matthew 26:24) Peter denied Jesus three times, and St. Paul tells us that denying Jesus is so serious that "if we deny him, he also will deny us." (2 Timothy 2:12) The sins of modern-day priests and bishops (which you pointed out) are extremely serious, but not more serious than the sins of Judas and Peter. What can be more serious than an unrepented sin where Jesus says that the sinner would be better off having never been born? And what could be more serious than a sin that will result in Jesus denying us (if we don't repent)?
Bollocks six years ago and bollocks now.
Reagan conservstivism, boring!
Why would anyone trust the conclusions of someone who writes with as much bias as the speaker? To the IWP: let him stick with Glenn Beck and please don't ask him (or any other extreme, either left or right) to return; this is not the quality of speaker I am used to hearing to at your very fine organization.
@NuclearEngineerDOE
8 жыл бұрын
+jwt242 The truth is difficult to swallow at times.
@ebrown0071
8 жыл бұрын
No need to trust him. He is a historian. His claims are historically documented and proven. You can do the research on your own as I have and I am not an ideologue at all. Modern liberalism is an evolution of Marxist-Communism but with the cultural Marxism of the New Left at the forefront instead of Marxist-Leninist ideology and economics. Modern liberals "progressives" have hijacked the old progressive movement before the 1960's and synthesized it with cultural Marxism and Keynesian economics.
@FTTLOMS
7 жыл бұрын
Eric Brown Well said. Try not to see a writer's bias "at first" but look to see if the writer has sourced and balanced research to back up their claims. That will reveal either bias or reason/evidence-based passion for an issue.
@Fedeleness
7 жыл бұрын
That's right, don't like what you hear so attack the messenger. It is called a reprobate mind and there is no cure. You could try taking your head out of the sand but it might be to bright for you then.
@ken-ic1ne
7 жыл бұрын
I think that he said that the Soviets were so smart that not only did they take over the U.S.A. But they also made us think that we won. They were so smart that they got the USA progressives to help. The progressives infiltrated key institutions with no one noticing. The entire time being called stupid by conservatives , who celebrated the fall of the Soviet Union. Even they didn't realize they were fooled by the Soviets. He is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institute (Conservative think tank). He is admiring how completely the RIght wing America. So do you mean he is twice as biased as anyone else since he's on both wings?