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Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage Paperback – May 26, 2015

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: WND Books (May 26, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1942475101
  • ISBN-13: 978-1942475101
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Challenge to Solzhenitsyn. And Ourselves.
By Albert Alioto on July 4, 2015
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As I read TAKEDOWN I was reminded of a sentence from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's unforgettable 1978 Harvard Commencement Address: "Without any censorship, fashionable trends of thought and ideas in the West are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable;
nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges." In the wake of the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling -- anticipated, though not yet handed down at the time of publication -- TAKEDOWN will hardly be considered fashionable. (Solzhenitsyn did not say that such things would never appear.) Perhaps our ability to consider and discuss the exhaustive case
Dr. Kengor presents will be a good test of whether or not this is a better country than Solzhenitsyn described in 1978.

TAKEDOWN takes us through the role cultural Marxists played in helping create the atmosphere in which marriage is considered and defined in the media, colleges and the circles of elite opinion. He traces the development of cultural Marxism that went beyond the largely, but not exclusively,
economic writings of Marx and Engels, by their ideological heirs at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt in the
1920s. Scholars from that Institute brought their doctrines to the United States when they fled Hitler in the 1930s and found a welcoming home on
American campuses, most prominently at Columbia University. Dr. Kengor follows the train of their teaching and writings down to very recognizable names today. Again, the documentation in the book is exhaustive, as will not surprise anyone familiar with any of Dr. Kengor's other works.

The link between all that is presented and Orbegefell v. Hodges may be highly debatable.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars for Takedown
By James Rich on August 8, 2015
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Do You want to know a bit more about the slow, purposeful efforts -- intellectual and social -- that led to the takedown of Traditional Marriage? Do you want to know some of the real, openly-stated reasons for the takedown that preceded DOMA by more than 100 years? Do you want to learn about all the preparatory (and under-handed) work that led to Justice Kennedy's fateful decision?

If so, then this book is an excellent resource to begin your education. For those of us who have been pointing out that the destructive impacts of Communism are still with us today, Mr. Kengor explains it more clearly than anyone I've ever read.

And the author even shares some interesting historical facts about some of the things inside the closet of Obama's Hawaiian mentor -- and his Communist Card number is the least shocking!! The MSM, of course, couldn't be bothered to investigate any of it, because it would have discredited Obama; Obama, of course, was no dummy, which is why he simply called him "Frank" in his autobiography. Obama is simply standing in a long line of Marxist sympathizers -- or actually Commies -- who have planned and worked for the takedown for a number of generations now. You may normally find reading about 19th-century philosophers tedious, but Kengor keeps it pithy, interesting, and relevant. (He doesn't bog down the reader in philosophical ruminations.)

Knowing those who have advocated these recent changes, you'll be able to figure out that changing the nature of marriage isn't the end game. The people who have fought for so long and so hard for the overthrow of America, by overthrowing the Judeo-Christian belief system, are NOT going to be satisfied with their current victory and gains, because "changing marriage" is just one of the means chosen to help them realize their ends.

Here's a professor who isn't a boring egghead. I finished the book in days, and you will too.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Marxist Goal of the destruction of the sacred American Institution of Family; Complete
By S. Hisel on June 25, 2015
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This is an exceptional book that in detail lays out the timeline of the Marxist plan of eradicating the institution of family from American society by effectively decoupling it from the acknowledged boundaries of Religious Moral Principle and necessary self restraint. Having succeeded by elevating to Moral Equivalence, self gratification through Perverse Sexual Deviancy to the long practice of sexual self restraint. The Marxist's found their Trojan Horse to unleash their dark evil plan of destroying the family. Those advocating Special Rights for the Perverse Sexual Deviants at the expense of the time tested, time honored and time proven institution of traditional marriage between one man and one woman. Will soon reap the Dark Horrors of that which they have sewn and will truly know the Dark, Vile, Evil, Destructive, Despairing, Utopian Hell they have unleashed on humanity and their children.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAmerika is already here...
By Steve Glass on July 8, 2015
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Dr. Kengor has penned a number of books, but it must be stated without a shadow of a doubt that "Takedown" is his most personal and provocative book yet.

Sadly, he fails to understand just how many modern Americans are willingly Communists/Progressives and have no allegiance to the version of "America" he so loves and defends. This is a problem for the American Right, with most of their leaders failing to understand how far gone America is at this point.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFrom Marx to the Redefinition of Marriage
By M. A. D'Virgilio on August 16, 2015
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There is little doubt in my mind that progressives/modern liberals are Marxists. What was fantastic about this book is how Kangor connects the original economic Marxism of Marx and Engels, with the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt school, especially as it has been mediated through American colleges and universities. One especially pernicious player in the narrative is John Dewey, the very John Dewey whose influence destroyed American education. The destruction of the traditional family was a foundational tenant of Marxism, as it is for the cultural Marxists of our age who dominant the heights of American culture. Redefining marriage to make gender optional, which is patently absurd, is just the latest strategy to accomplish this goal.
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