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48 of 51 people found the following review helpful. Exposing the racist prog subversives for what they areBy SilversteinFantastic expose on "progressivism" which is fundamentally racist in nature; and seeks the annihilation of whiteness -- and maybe the white peoples themselves -- in order for a shadowy anti-white/anti-Christian transgressive elite to complete its takeover of western civilization through proxy wars; demographic warfare/forced diversification; defamation; and subjugation.This compilation of Horowitz' essays runs the gamut from his time as a left-wing radical supporting the Black Panthers against white society to his ongoing struggle to uncover and expose the organizations behind this genocidal movement that evolved from communism; the Frankfurt school; and wealthy subversive ethnic supremacist elites. These elites use "anti-discrimination" false fronts and prog useful idiots easily misled into thinking they're fighting for "equality" and "fairness" to foment anti-white violence; discrimination; and defamation as part of their Machiavellian agenda to establish their own supremacy and ruthless subjugation of all other ethnic groups. The wealthy extremists view white/Christian civilization as the last barrier to world domination.36 of 38 people found the following review helpful. And the Left never took responsibility for its horrible “accomplishments. ” This reviewer is of an age ...By Alan GallagherProgressive Racism (2016). David Horowitz. Encounter Books. The arc of David Horowitz’s life; traced in his autobiography Radical Son; has gone from Leftto Right; from red-diaper baby of communist parents to major critic of the Old and New Left intheir former form as supports of Stalin and the Communist Party; to their present form as“Progressives” whose chief goal is to undermine America. Horowitz graduated from Columbiaand Berkeley; was an editor of Ramparts Magazine; supporter of the Black Panthers; and workedwith Bertrand Russell and leading European Marxists. However; Khrushchev’s 1957 exposure ofStalin; and Horowitz’s direct observation of the murders by the Black Panthers; and failure of theLeft to condemn them; as they had failed or refused to condemn Stalin; led to his disaffection.But many on the Left abandoned Stalin and Communism; but still not small letter socialism andcommunism. If some no longer defended Soviet; Chinese; Vietnamese; or Cuban communism(though many still did and do); they did not abandon the dream of a purer socialism; with itsfalse promises of moralism and democracy. His philosophical revelation was that spirit andconscience were essential in making history; a departure from Marxist economic determinism.He; and co-author Peter Collier; wrote a series of best-selling books on the Rockefellers;Kennedys; and Fords; but; when they turned right; he became a non-person to the Left. To a largeextent; as Ronald Reagan famously said; he didn’t leave the Left; it left him. But; unlike theauthors of The God That Failed; he also abandoned communism; Marxism; and socialism;recognizing that they need totalitarianism to succeed; and succeed; where implemented; only inproducing poverty; slavery; and murder; as in Vietnam. And the Left never took responsibilityfor its horrible “accomplishments.” This reviewer is of an age with Horowitz and; from slightly different perspectives; haswatched the same persons and events; and mostly concurs with his judgments. Progressive Racism is volume 7 of his “Black Book of the American Left;” a series of 47essays exposing the role of the Old and New Left ideas and persons in making today’sDemocratic and Progressive Agenda. It consists of period essays; mostly from 1997-2002; withthree 2014 essays at the end dealing with more recent events such as the Zimmerman/Martincase; the Duke La Crosse case; and Ferguson. Some of these essays are prescient; but otherssuffer from his lack of legal knowledge. They represent Horowitz’s response to the events ofthose years; including 9/11; the War on Terror; and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; but areprimarily focused on the Democratic Party and the American academy becoming increasinglyservient to the new “racism;” which; lacking actual facts and cases; conceived the Marxist mythof “institutional racism;” to explain any “disproportionate” presences or absences of favoredminority groups. Whites are now; like capitalists formerly; guilty by definition; and favoredminorities possess the innocence wrongly attributed to them by Rousseau: they could return toParadise if only freed from White and Western civilization. To defend their positions; the newProgressive Racists engage in suppression of free speech and Marcuse’s Repressive Tolerance;including epithets; accusations instead of encounters and refutations; and actual violence. Usingthe methods of “McCarthyism;” the Progressive systematically employ its techniques of falseaccusation; name calling; guilt by association; violence; and systemic attack and eradication ofits critics. Progressive Racism describes the transformation of the Civil Rights movement from opposingracism—the denigration of individuals on the basis of skin color - into a movement endorsingrace preferences and privileges based on skin color. When the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed; itsSenate sponsor Hubert Humphrey testified that it prevented the use of race; within a few years;the Left and the Supreme Court turned in around 180 degrees; with quotas; affirmative action;preferences; and now diversities. Horowitz describes the tragic changes under the leadership ofracial extortionists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; who took the movement for Americanpluralism of King’s “I have a dream;” and turned it into a movement in which white Americansare guilty before the facts are in; and African Americans; even if they kill other blacks; areinnocent even if the facts prove them guilty. Part I shows the relationship of Marxism and modern racist politics. Part II deals the new CivilRights movement; whose values and purposes of the opposite of King. Part III with the newRacial Correctness. Part IV examines the reparations for slavery movement; of which Horowitzwas a major and successful opponent. Part V deals with Progressive Racism; where whitenesshas become the new capitalism; the new evil to be eradicated. The last three essays deals withmore recent events. Horowitz analyzes how the Left manipulates African Americans and keeps them locked up inthe liberal ghetto (except at election time); creating policies that impoverish poor blacks andforbidden them access to the American Dream. Horowitz bravely examines events ranging fromthe persecution of the Duke lacrosse team to the Ferguson riots; personalities ranging from LouisFarrakhan to Cornel West; policies ranging from affirmative action to reparations for slavery;and racist organizations ranging from Black Lives Matter to the Southern Poverty Center to theNAACP. He shows how the Democrats; in political control of America’s major cities for the last65 years; have systematically trashed them; driving out business; allowing crime to metastasize;and closing the doors on the minorities forced to live there. He shows how the police; targeted byprogressives; are the last best hope for black people forced to live in the violent cities the Leftcontrols. Democrats and the Left are African-Americans’ worst enemies. Along the way; he tellstruths; brings events and people back out of the Liberal memory hole; and tells the presentgeneration what its parents will not tell about their affairs with Marxism; communism; socialism;and all their evils. Radicals still consider themselves socialists (Witness Senator Sanders and his followers); but exonerate themselves from socialism’s crimes. The Left refuses to hold itself accountable for the results it fought for and for which it was essential; such as Communist victory in Indochina; which resulted in the enslavement; exile; and murders of millions. Dissecting the left’s hypocrisy; however; is the Horowitz métier; as he dissents from the celebration of the 1960s to tell the brutal truth about then and now. “Wherever the revolutionary left has triumphed; its triumph has meant economic backwardness and social poverty; cultural deprivation and the loss of political freedom for all those unfortunate peoples under its yoke. This is the real legacy of the left of which you and I were a part. We called ourselves progressives; but we were the true reactionaries of the modern world.”58 of 63 people found the following review helpful. "Progressive Racism" is a riveting book; that perfectly states what so many Americans have been thinking and feeling.By Chris PatrickDavid Horowitz is one of the most brilliant conservative minds of our time. "Progressive Racism" is volume 6 of The Black Book of the American Left. Horowitz’s scathing look at the way the left manipulates African Americans and keeps them locked up in the liberal ghetto (except at election time); creating policies that have impoverished poor blacks and forbidden them full access to the American Dream. Horowitz bravely analyzes events ranging from the persecution of the Duke lacrosse team to the Ferguson riots; personalities ranging from Louis Farrakhan to Cornel West; policies ranging from affirmative action to reparations for slavery; and racist organizations ranging from Black Lives Matter to the NAACP itself. He shows how the Democrats; in political control of America’s big cities for the last 50 years; have systematically trashed them; driving out business and allowing crime to metastasize; and closing the doors on the minorities forced to live there. He shows how the police; always targeted by progressives; are the last best hope for the black people forced to live in the violent cities the left controls. EVERYONE should read this remarkable book; and see once and for all why progressive leftists are African Americans’ worst enemies.