Who Was Saul Alinsky? + Cloward-Piven and 8 Steps to Socialism
Here is today's commentary in my #SocialismSongs series. Full YouTube description below. Please consider also subscribing and interacting over there as it helps me get this information out to a sleeping world.
.
"8 Steps to Socialism" is a list that floats around by well-intentioned conservatives, and is falsely attributed to Saul Alinsky. However, the list is a fruit of his philosophy and work as processed by dedicated students of his writings, Cloward and Piven--known as the "Cloward-Piven Strategy."
Here today on YouTube we'll cover:
- so-called "community organizing"
- healthcare
- gun control
- government control
- Pol Pot & his 2 million dead
- Saul Alinsky tactics
- the "democratic socialism"-socialism-communism-marxism interrelatedness
I hope this helps show us how to argue against socialism, or at least opens some minds and hearts to new facts and a deeper reality, and begin to question what we've been taught most of our lives, even if it's popular or nearly universal in our schools (I explain a bit why that is).
I'm a conservative musician. I'm a Catholic. I'm frank about that being my starting point, but I do not come to what I share lightly, although I share more conversationally. I have no agenda but the truth. I come by it through experience, personal relationships, extensive reading, and advanced education. My goal is simply to start to facilitate better, authentic engagement with the political and cultural reality around us.
This is part of an ongoing "song theme" series I'll be doing throughout 2020 with regular commentary. I'll be sharing the gamut from politics, culture, and art, to love, injustice, and true humanity.
You can access the playlist for this theme so far here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzxLmV5BSt5PRNF8Mm_6EvHJ-w-tA5gV0
Subscribe to follow along on my hike through these chaotic times. Civilization is still worth fighting for.
My regular professional work is currently performing at select private events in Canada and the US. To contact my business partner and me with a request, please e-mail [email protected]. Signed, limited editions of my most recent album can only be obtained by direct request at this email.
Subscribe, like, and comment here, and find me on:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kayclarity/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kayclaritymusic
or simply type Kay Clarity in most social media options.
I suggest reading the book 'CIA as organised crime' if you want to see the true landscape of mass torture and evil on this planet. https://archive.org/details/DouglasValentineTheCIAAsOrganizedCrime2016
You can also look into the huge number of 'native' children murdered by the Catholic church too.
The bottom line is that heartlessness and denial, when combined with centralisation tend to result in suffering - regardless of the 'ism' that is used... Well, except for anarchism ;)
Thanks! I have ended up down a lot of rabbit trails and am quite familiar. I don't deny the corruption in the Church, either. Socialism is a focus, because even that most people in my age range don't know about. We have no clue. More than anything, my hope is to get people thinking.
Anarchy puts too much trust in human nature. I wouldn't trust an anarchist system, although I appreciate the free thinkers who tend toward it on these platforms. Basically, power corrupts! My hope is people wake up a bit.
In my experience not many people have thought enough about anarchy to really understand it. It's really a very simple idea - 'no rulers'. There is no inherent system that goes along with it - it's just the absence of 'power over' - leading to personal responsibility and co-operation as the means to end suffering. Anarchy doesn't work without compassion, but then neither does any other approach and the absence of rulers is itself compassionate towards the free will of beings.
Power is only 'the ability to act' so power does not inherently corrupt, you need power just to lift your arm or type on a computer. It is heartlessness and denial that corrupt and that then cause power to be used in ways that are out of balance and that cause suffering.
I am not a socialist or communist, though I do understand that the original meaning of those ideas has been hugely warped by authoritarians into something other than was intended. This, again, is just more reason to identify that anarchy is the actual solution to a lot of this.. Authoritarians can't corrupt anarchy because it's very precise meaning is 'no authoritarians' :)
'Human nature' doesn't really exist. We all have our own natures and, when free, can evolve in our own way to create our own destiny path.
Interesting take. Thanks.
Essentially, my guess is that reduced centralized power is a common goal we both have, leaving people as free as possible.
You are welcome! Ok, yes, as long as the aim is to decentralise without denying anything then most people will eventually reach similar conclusions because there are only so many ways to do it!