{"id":24831,"date":"2021-07-29T13:48:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24831"},"modified":"2021-07-29T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:48:54","slug":"mark-levin-book-miss-immigration-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/07\/29\/mark-levin-book-miss-immigration-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Levin\u2019s Call To Action Against Anti-American Marxism Is Surprisingly Light On Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That Mark Levin\u2019s latest book, American Marxism<\/a><\/em>, quickly earned a no. 1 spot<\/a> on the New York Times\u2019 <\/em>bestseller list is no surprise. Levin is an erudite author, a famous conservative radio show host, and a veteran of the Reagan administration. His voice is thus very influential within the right-of-center political scene. And American Marxism <\/em>\u2013 which warns against and analyzes the rising tide of Marxist-inspired extremism in all its aspects \u2013 is an excellent and highly informative book. Sadly, it devotes insufficient attention to immigration \u2013 particularly in a year marked by record-high illegal migration and a new presidential administration taking a wrecking ball to our immigration and border security system from the moment it was sworn in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the context of radical neo-Marxism, Levin argues\nthat \u201c[w]hat is occurring in our country is not a temporary fad or passing\nevent. American Marxism exists, it is here and now, and indeed it is pervasive,\nand its multitude of hybrid but often interlocking movements are actively\nworking to destroy our society and culture, and overthrow the country as we\nknow it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its birth in the 19th<\/sup> century,\nMarxism has passed through many evolutions, but at its core it has always\nopposed the key pillars of Western civilization, such as family, religion,\ntradition, and private property rights. It also rejected borders and the\nsovereign nation-state, which it sought to overturn in favor of a world\nsocialist state of and for the oppressed proletariat (which \u201chad no country\u201d). Levin\nshows how these ideas form the core of various modern-day Americanized\nneo-Marxist movements and philosophies, although in recent decades the radicals\nsupplemented their classic Marxist class warfare demagoguery with grievance\npolitics based on gender, race, ethnicity, and even immigration status. The\nkey, of course, is always the \u201coppressor\u201d vs. the \u201coppressed\u201d dichotomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical Race Theory (CRT) has recently received significant attention in mainly conservative news outlets due to the desire of some school districts and teachers to introduce it, and the resulting pushback from parents of all races<\/a> (including legal immigrants<\/a>). Levin focuses on the Marxist roots of this ideology, including the Frankfurt School and philosopher Herbert Marcuse \u2013 a prophet of the 1960s \u201cNew Left\u201d \u2013 who subjected every aspect of Western society to endless criticism (hence, \u201ccritical theory\u201d). This ideology has spread to the topic of illegal immigration as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the Marxist-Critical Theory ideology and\npropaganda spread throughout academia, the media, and beyond,\u201d Levin\nemphasizes, \u201cso do the number of movements associated with it. For example,\nanother significant and growing movement is the \u2018Latina\/o Critical Race Theory\u2019\n(LatCrit).\u201d In a nutshell, \u201cLatCrit\u201d \u2013 a sister or auxiliary ideology of CRT \u2013 views\nthe U.S. as an illegitimate land of foreign \u201ccolonizers\u201d who conquered the\ncontinent and stole the natives\u2019 land, while depicting mainly Hispanic illegal\naliens as the \u201ctrue natives\u201d and legitimate successors of the colonized\nAmerindian populations. As such, America has no moral right to secure its\nborders and prevent mass illegal migration, let alone exist, and Latinos should\navoid assimilation. This mentality undoubtedly permeates much of the\npro-illegal-alien, anti-border-security movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One wishes that Levin would have mentioned that the anti-borders lobby includes not only Marxist-influenced open border proponents, but also cheap-labor-seeking corporatists (aka crony capitalists) and anarcho-libertarian utopians. Even so, the latter two groups \u2013 to use Lenin\u2019s famous term \u2013 serve as the \u201cuseful idiots<\/a>\u201d for the Marxist wing of the pro-mass-migration crowd, although it may sometimes seem the other way around. It would be foolish for this cohort to assume that the Marxist segment of the mass-migration lobby won\u2019t turn on them as soon as the opportunity arises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author states that the neo-Marxists\u2019 goal of \u201cfacilitating massive illegal immigration \u2026 is to, among other things, alter the nation\u2019s demographics and eventually add significantly to the pro-Democratic party voting base\u201d to \u201cpermanently crush\u201d all opposition and \u201cemerge as the sole political and governmental power.\u201d And one way to hasten this Marxist revolution, Levin argues, is to \u201coverwhelm and collapse the [immigration]system\u201d through out-of-control illegal alien waves rushing the southern border. The template here was the Cloward-Piven strategy<\/a> (which Levin discusses at length), a 1960s ploy to intentionally overwhelm the welfare system to implement socialist \u201cguaranteed annual income.\u201d Another tactic that Levin could have referenced as well is the continued calls by this lobby to grant amnesty to all illegal aliens, which would hasten these efforts to re-shape our society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it is unfortunate that immigration is mentioned more in passing in American Marxism<\/em>, rather than at least offered a full chapter, Levin nevertheless makes the important connections between radicals opposing immigration enforcement and a larger Marxist movement, which, Levin contends, is sadly winning (those desiring a more thorough discussion of immigration should consult Levin\u2019s 2009 classic Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto<\/a><\/em>). Even so, the author believes that American patriots can turn things around, although that will require much more civic engagement and activism on the part of regular citizens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That Mark Levin\u2019s latest book, American Marxism, quickly earned a no. 1 spot on the New York Times\u2019 bestseller list is no surprise. Levin is an erudite author, a famous conservative radio show host, and a veteran of the Reagan administration. His voice is thus very influential within the right-of-center political scene. And American Marxism<\/p>\n

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