Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance

Respected historian and political scientist Barry Rubin exposes the radicalism that masquerades as liberalism today in Silent Revolution, his thorough history that charts the movement's unchecked rise to cultural and political power.

Over the past fifty years, an ideological revolution has created a brand of radical leftism that now dominates the liberal movement in the United States. The values espoused by the left today are a far cry from the traditional progressive and Enlightenment values that have historically defined the movement.

Barry Rubin argues that, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the survivors of the '60s New Left drew on the ideas of radicals like Saul Alinsky, cultural Marxists like Antonio Gramsci, and Third World revolutionary thinkers like Frantz Fanon to create a Third Left: a radical movement that championed a new class of experts and managers to seize control from within. Silent Revolution explores the formation and ideology of The Third Left and documents how this movement culminated in 2008, when Americans elected the most radical left-wing government in their history.

Concise and hard-hitting, Silent Revolution is a must for all conservatives looking to understand and overcome American liberalism.

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Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance

Respected historian and political scientist Barry Rubin exposes the radicalism that masquerades as liberalism today in Silent Revolution, his thorough history that charts the movement's unchecked rise to cultural and political power.

Over the past fifty years, an ideological revolution has created a brand of radical leftism that now dominates the liberal movement in the United States. The values espoused by the left today are a far cry from the traditional progressive and Enlightenment values that have historically defined the movement.

Barry Rubin argues that, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the survivors of the '60s New Left drew on the ideas of radicals like Saul Alinsky, cultural Marxists like Antonio Gramsci, and Third World revolutionary thinkers like Frantz Fanon to create a Third Left: a radical movement that championed a new class of experts and managers to seize control from within. Silent Revolution explores the formation and ideology of The Third Left and documents how this movement culminated in 2008, when Americans elected the most radical left-wing government in their history.

Concise and hard-hitting, Silent Revolution is a must for all conservatives looking to understand and overcome American liberalism.

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Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance

Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance

by Barry Rubin
Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance

Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance

by Barry Rubin

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Respected historian and political scientist Barry Rubin exposes the radicalism that masquerades as liberalism today in Silent Revolution, his thorough history that charts the movement's unchecked rise to cultural and political power.

Over the past fifty years, an ideological revolution has created a brand of radical leftism that now dominates the liberal movement in the United States. The values espoused by the left today are a far cry from the traditional progressive and Enlightenment values that have historically defined the movement.

Barry Rubin argues that, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the survivors of the '60s New Left drew on the ideas of radicals like Saul Alinsky, cultural Marxists like Antonio Gramsci, and Third World revolutionary thinkers like Frantz Fanon to create a Third Left: a radical movement that championed a new class of experts and managers to seize control from within. Silent Revolution explores the formation and ideology of The Third Left and documents how this movement culminated in 2008, when Americans elected the most radical left-wing government in their history.

Concise and hard-hitting, Silent Revolution is a must for all conservatives looking to understand and overcome American liberalism.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062231765
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 04/01/2014
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Barry Rubin was the director of the Global Research for International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya as well as editor of the journals Middle East Review of International Affairs and Turkish Studies. The author or editor of more than thirty books, he was also a columnist for the Jerusalem Post. Professor Rubin passed away in February 2014.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 America's Fundamental Transformation Has Already Happened 5

Chapter 2 The Marxist Challenge to Western Society 23

Chapter 3 Why Marxism Failed and the West Succeeded 41

Chapter 4 The Making of the Third Left 69

Chapter 5 A New Political Philosophy in Power 103

Chapter 6 The Conquest of Institutions 119

Chapter 7 Barack Obama as Case Study of a Third Left Cadre 169

Chapter 8 Obama at Osawatomie 223

Chapter 9 Liberal, Conservative, Radical 265

Notes 305

Index 321

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