The Left's Strategy To Transform America

21 June 2025

Unconstrained Analytics published a report, Re-Remembering the Mis-Remembered Left: The Left’s Strategy and Tactics To Transform America, by Stephen Coughlin and Richard Higgins, February 2019. You can download the PDF report, buy a print version, and listen to an audio version on the report website. Here are excerpts from the Executive Summary:

When associated with rising factional discord, the increased hostility from the Left resonates a violence that is becoming a clear and present danger...

National policy has come under the influence of constructed narratives that mainstream and conservative leaders neither understand nor control... 

These powerful but misunderstood narratives drive policy.

At their core, these narratives are not American. Rather, they are dialectically driven Neo-Marxist memes that infuse mass line efforts operating at the cultural level intent on powering down into the political space...

  • The political rhetoric driving American politics runs along well-trodden paths sustaining a political framework from a by-gone era incapable of coming to terms with the political movements threatening our constitutional system today.
  • Constrained by this archaic rhetoric, mainstream and conservative players are outmaneuvered in an information battle-space they hardly perceive; responding to current threats in under-inclusive manners.
  • The “otherism” strategy developed by Marxists to destroy America focuses on the systematic destruction of identity leading to the systematic disenfranchisement of Americans from America... it forces a classic dialectical negation along Hegelian lines. This activity presents a clear and present danger that will succeed if not countered. As such, this analysis does not suggest that this is a way to understand the left, it argues that it is the only way to understand it; recognizing that it is 1) Marxist, and 2) dialectically driven...
     
  • ... establishment Republicans become the defeat mechanism of the Left...
     
  • A strategic understanding of the Left recognizes that it is dialectically driven...
  • The critical theory of the Frankfurt School is classical Marxism dedicated to penetration and subversion that relies on Hegelian processes to achieve its objectives... It seeks the destruction of Western culture...

  • Frankfurt School leader Herbert Marcuse concurred with the Gramsci Marxist plan to adopt a “long march through the institutions” strategy based on Mao’s “long march” political warfare strategy...

  • What is popularly called “fake news” and the “deep-state” are better understood as propaganda and the counter-state...

 

 

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