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Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance Hardcover – April 1, 2014


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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Broadside Books (April 1, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0062231766
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062231765
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Over the past fifty years, a silent revolution has allowed the radical left to seize power to an extent unthinkable only a decade ago. Stranger still, no one has noticed.

Throughout the twentieth century, leftists worked tirelessly toward their goal of a proletarian revolution. But they continually fell short. American workers rejected socialism in the 1920s and declined to join the international communist movement in the 1930s. The New Left flowered briefly in the 1960s but petered out with the end of the Vietnam War. When the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991, radical Marxism seemed to have been defeated and discredited for good.

Not so fast, says the political scientist Barry Rubin in this sharply pointed history of the modern American left. Far from disappearing, the radical left has undergone an ideological revolution and has rebranded itself as liberalism. Rubin traces the roots of this new ideology to the ideas of domestic radicals like Saul Alinsky, cultural Marxists like Antonio Gramsci, and Third World revolutionary thinkers like Frantz Fanon. This new brand of leftism constitutes a Third Left that now dominates the liberal movement in the United States.

The Third Left's main ideological innovation is the abandonment of the working class as a revolutionary vehicle. Instead it targets the education system, and it has now trained several generations of Americans to think in leftist terms of fairness and social justice. Imbued with this new "common sense," these young people have fanned out through the professions, the government, and the media, where they unhesitatingly advance the ideas and goals of the left: anticapitalism, a state-controlled medical system, the seminationalization of key industries, the redistribution of wealth, and a rejection of America's leading role in the world. As a result, without any real debate or understanding, the citizens of the United States have elected the most radical left-wing government in the country's history.

Silent Revolution offers a brief, readable, and utterly devastating critique of the radicalism that masquerades as liberalism today.

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.

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It is very well written, but not a casual read.
Richard Dale
This book 'Silent Revolution' is a gift to the America he loved and a harsh warning of how it is being destroyed and why.
yoelarry
This book identifies the movement that has taken over our Republic.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful By W. Doyle on June 30, 2014
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Great read. Very strong on psychological appeal of progressivism. Less focus on the particular lineages and founders of progressivism (easily found elsewhere). This focus makes for interesting reading and is spot on. I will be recommending this book to those willfully clueless moderates who might pull there heads out of the sand long enough to learn some highly perceptive insights about current progressivism. This book deserves a much wider readership and is on par with the better recent analytical works on The Left such as Goldberg's 'Liberal Fascism'
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful By Cestusdei on August 25, 2014
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This book identifies the movement that has taken over our Republic. If you are wondering who they are and how they did it then read this book. One thing that Professor Rubin mentions is that he cannot seem to understand why there is a decline of a certain something that has led to lower birthrates and a loss of confidence and joy. I can help with that. Many in Europe and a growing number in America think that happiness comes from wealth or power or sex. They reject the summum bonum of life which is God himself. Barring a new Great Awakening of Christianity we will not survive this invasion and will become something other then the United States of America. Something different and something less.
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13 of 20 people found the following review helpful By Richard Dale on June 27, 2014
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Over the last several years, I have watched as the Progressive movement in the United States has hijacked the once proud Democratic party, elevated a man who is a proven radical to the Presidency, and held the economy and our national culture hostage to their political goals. From the deeply unpopular Affordable Care Act to myriad foreign policy failures to increased lawlessness, contempt for the Constitution, demonization of the opposition and disrespect of American traditions, the Progressive left has demonstrated convincingly that they are, indeed, “fundamentally transforming America” – and for the worse.

Over the course of the past two years, in particular, I have learned more about how the Progressives have taken control of the Democratic Party – the party of Jefferson, Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Kennedy and transformed it into an illiberal, angry mob demanding that America conform to their vision or else; and that the social conservatives have taken the Republican Party – the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan and transformed it into an equally illiberal, angry mob demanding an end to abortion and seeking to abolish same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, moderates in both parties have been purged by their more ideological peers, pushing the two main parties even further apart. The result: gridlock in Washington and state capitals, extreme partisanship such that working with the other party is the exception rather than the rule, and strident demands for change from angry partisans on both sides.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful By yoelarry on July 29, 2014
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Barry Rubin died last year. This book 'Silent Revolution' is a gift to the America he loved and a harsh warning of how it is being destroyed and why.
Every American who loves their Nation should, Must, read this most important and well written book....before They
Take it away or hide it from we the People.
Thank You Barry. RIP
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