Labor camps, Mass Murder, all part of Marxism. Didn't they Tell You
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Antonio Gramsci, a Marxist philosopher during the twentieth century, realized no thinking person would just roll over and submit to a system that is going to enslave him. Rather he believed one could, through years if not decades, slowly subvert a culture in which the public could be influenced into a Marxist ideology. In his deluded idea of someday achieving an egalitarian utopia he wanted the victims to actually enjoy being a party to a collective and a repressive regime. In other words, he wanted them to be happy in Marxist slavery.
Why on earth would you want to be a slave?
Gramsci believed that if Communism achieved "mastery of human consciousness," then labor camps and mass murder would not be necessary. How does an ideology gain such mastery over patterns of thought inculcated by cultures for hundreds of years? Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people would be attained, Gramsci contended, if communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture --- churches, education, newspapers, magazines the electronic media, serious literature, music, the visual arts and so on. By winning "cultural hegemony," to use Gramsci's own term. Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not control all of the information itself if one can gain control over the minds that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, serious opposition disappears since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism's opponents. Men will indeed "love their servitude," and will not even realize that it is servitude.