Tag: Cold War Modernists

JD Vance Speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ Screening in DC + More

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Economic Manuscripts: Marx: Capital Vol. 3 Ch. 36

JD Vance Speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ Screening in DC

“The ruling elite of the societies have become actively hostile to some of the very ideas that those countries were founded on in the first place,” Vance said before an audience of about 100 people at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. In addition to Vance’s speech, the by-invitation-only event featured a screening and discussion of the first episode of the film series Live Not by Lies released April 1, by Angel Studios.

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Quote Origin: The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Saw this on Twitter earlier, and it reminded me of the following quote that’s attributed to Vladimir Lenin.

Quote Origin: The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them

Soviet dissident and propagandist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn also attributed it to Lenin.

US-funded VoA: The CIA’s Cultural War Against Soviet Russia

During the heyday of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the CIA began to realize that the Russian revolution’s promises of social equality had won over many Western European artists, writers, scientists.

In 1950, the CIA set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom with a goal of undermining the Soviet government and winning over the hearts and minds of Europe’s left-leaning intellectuals.

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