From Staff Reports

HORSE SHOE — The United States is ruled by an oligarchy with some aspects of fascism, but “no call for violent overthrow of the government,” the chief of the region’s Anti-Communism KTM said during a Jan. 10 lecture at Villa Roma restaurant. 

However, he said the U.S. continues to shift in the direction of communism, with too few people noticing what is happening.

Organizer-lecturer Tom Wise addressed “Communism vs. Fascism” during a two-hour program. He referenced the analysis of conservative commentator Glenn Beck — positively — several times in his talk.

Tom Wise	Karl Marx

With a grin, Wise noted — for the sake of newcomers — that the group’s motto is: “There’s still time.” He added that “the whole purpose I started this was to make people aware” of the threat posed by communism to the personal freedom.

While six people attended the meeting, Wise claimed the group has about 700 members.

He began his talk by noting that the Hegelian dialectic is a tool used by communists to bring about the change they desire. For instance, he said someone starts with a thesis and settles for an antithesis “to keep getting as much (shift in an opponent’s position) as you can, over time ....”

(The website Amerikan Exposé stated that the Hegelian dialectic “is the process by which all change is being accomplished in society today. More importantly, it is the tool that the ‘globalists’ are utilizing to manipulate the minds of the average American to accept that change, where ordinarily they would refuse it.”)

Wise also said Marxism seeks to “denigrate” religions “all the way down to the Bible” — the law of God.

While the Bible says, “Thou shalt not steal,” Wise said, “According to (Karl) Marx, there is no such thing as stealing” because he did not recognize private property rights.

Wise contended that “capitalism comes from the Bible ... Capitalism comes from religion” — in particular, Judaism.

In the United States, “they started in Plymouth (Rock) with the communism thing,” but the early experiment failed, he said. The Colonists found that capitalism worked much better. “With the capitalistic element, you’ve got individualism.”

He said Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who is a GOP presidential hopeful, “is right on booms/busts (in the business cycle), the Federal Reserve and central banks ... What he doesn’t say is (that) it’s all built on a Keynesian” foundation — where the government tries to spend its way out of financial problems.

Following the recent housing and stock market collapse and continuing hard times, Wise said, “There’s no turning back.”

In listing the stages of communism, he said the first is revolution, and the second, dictatorship of the proletariat, which Wise said also is known as “mob rule.” (The third stage, which he claimed never has occurred, is a stateless utopia.)

He said the aforementioned could be succinctly summarized as, “Meet the new boss — same as the old boss.”

Further, Wise asserted, “You won’t find this in the history books because they’ll tell you communism is based on peace, brotherhood and compassion ...

“Marx founded his idealogy on the (Second) French Revolution,” he said, noting that that was “the synthesis for him.

“We know it today as the Overton Window,” which is defined by Wikipedia as a political theory describing “a ‘window’ in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on a particular issue. It is named after its originator, Joseph P. Overton, former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.”

Regarding the Overton Window, Wise said it translates in today’s America as “compromise, compromise, compromise.”

With a grimace, he asserted, “They say you can’t put the genie back in the bottle,” in reference to what he sees as contemporary America’s downhill slide. Wise said much of the problem is because “we, as individuals, don’t question” or challenge what is happening.

“It’s the Hegelian thing — they push you here and you end up there.”

He said the leftists are “always screaming in chorus ... If you say, ‘Communism killed 100 millon people,’ they say, ‘It’s false history.’”

Wise said “an anarchist is best-suited to go against the communists because they (the anarchists) don’t care about structure.”

Over the years, “every single dynamic has been moved off the scale” by the leftists, resulting in a too-powerful federal government, he said. Conversely, “I believe state rights are (supposed to be) more powerful than federal rights,” under the Constitution.

Wise charged that a “big thing in Marxism” is to “find a grievance, organize it and exploit it ... It doesn’t matter what it is. The object is to seize power.”

He told the group that “they (the communists) know how to organize; you don’t ... They want to be able to take your property without a fight.”

Further, Wise said, “Very, very few people in this world are real communists. Most are dupes, useful idiots, stooges.” He added that “we have communist states” in the U.S., citing California, Oregon and Michigan among the examples.

In communism, he said lower-case “c” is the idealogy and upper-case “C” is the party.

In turning to fascism, he said, “Small ‘f’ fascism is the police state, but any state that protects private property has an element of fascism. The United States, with the Constitution, keeps the fascism to a minimum.”

Wise said fascism “begins when the police power oversteps its power to protect private property.

“Communism with fascism is what we know” in the real world, he said. “There’s never been a communist nation — and you never get to a stateless utopia ... They always want a strong leader.”

“At the very end, we don’t want communism,” resulting in the banning of private property, religion and other aspects of a free society, Wise said. “The capitalist society is the freest.” 

For the future, Wise predicted that “we’ll be forced into it (capitalism) because of the economy ... I don’t think we’ll go back to caveman times.”