By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY
When I arrived to the United States in February of 1978 as a political refugee from a socialist country, I never thought that America would attempt to destroy itself from within with the radical neo-Marxist ideology (i.e., critical race theory, white privilege doctrine, systemic racism, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter) and the new progressive far-left bumper sticker declaring something called “collective justice.”
I was born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine, one of the republics of the former Soviet Union, in the post-World War II time of the mid-late 1950s. Echoes of the devastating war and brutality of Stalinism was still present in the air of the country. Because of the Stalinists’ repressions from the mid-1920s to early-1950s, people were reluctant to speak up and act openly. Fear of persecution and punishment for disobedient individuals and free thinkers was everywhere, in all spheres of public life in the Soviet Union.
Blind pseudo-patriotism and commitment to the Communist Party programs were not questioned by most Soviet citizens. A complete compliance to the Marxist-Leninist ideology was firmly seated in all public institutions, including schools, academic and research institutions, military, governments, arts, sports, music, etc. There were no exceptions.
Historically, in contrast to my experiences with socialism in the former Soviet Union, the main reason leftism is radicalized in America today, and is accelerating among our youth, is because young people of the post–Vietnam war generations had never experienced economic hardship and/or oppression by a totalitarian regime. They have been intensely subjected to political correctness, wants, and irrational and wasteful handouts, instead of any meaningful hand–up.
In addition, far–left progressives are not as they think of themselves — liberal or open minded. In fact, they are illiberal and intolerant deflationists — i.e., “I am going to serve you (e.g., homeless, low-income people) a bowl of soup once a month at your place, as long as you don’t crash into my ocean–front home to ask for a real substantive help for your well–being.” It is an expression of a false compassion. In fact, even good intentions can produce a negative social outcome.
Far–left progressivism is now a religion to some groups; and they possess the typical zeal and emotional attachment to a far-left dogma—socialism and neo-Marxism—which blinds them to having a rational and open mind. Indeed, they are hypocritical fools.
Recent news about the politicized FBI raiding Donald Trump’s residence in Florida disturbed and alerted many Americans. I have never imagined that our country could turn into such an overtly criminal enterprise so quickly and so thoroughly as is happening right now. This sort of hypnotic blindness from political brainwashing is the basis for a totalitarian society coming from the willingness, even approval, of the masses for a far-left authoritarian government.
It is a corrupt government bureaucracy at all levels and branches (swamp) that created today’s American totalitarianism and radical leftism. As Karl Marx (1844) stated in A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: “The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism by weapons, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical.”
Indeed, today many Americans are formed by a neo–Marxist indoctrination and education system from far-left activists, which undermines any expression of the free market or Capitalism. Today, so many young people in America are confused and disoriented by the false “truth” introduced by hermetically sealed radical leftists. Howard Zinn, an American historian and socialist thinker, comes to mind.
Clearly, leftists cannot be rationalized, they can only be voted out. Rational and patriotic Americans must be well-organized and disciplined in order to save our country from a neo-Marxist and democratic socialist nonsense, and we must stand for freedom.
Freedom is not free; it has a price and value. Rational and patriotic Americans must fight for freedom. Otherwise, there will be no place to go.
Alexander B. Dolitsky was born and raised in Kiev in the former Soviet Union. He received an M.A. in history from Kiev Pedagogical Institute, Ukraine, in 1976; an M.A. in anthropology and archaeology from Brown University in 1983; and was enroled in the Ph.D. program in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College from 1983 to 1985, where he was also a lecturer in the Russian Center. In the U.S.S.R., he was a social studies teacher for three years, and an archaeologist for five years for the Ukranian Academy of Sciences. In 1978, he settled in the United States. Dolitsky visited Alaska for the first time in 1981, while conducting field research for graduate school at Brown. He lived first in Sitka in 1985 and then settled in Juneau in 1986. From 1985 to 1987, he was a U.S. Forest Service archaeologist and social scientist. He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Alaska Southeast from 1985 to 1999; Social Studies Instructor at the Alyeska Central School, Alaska Department of Education from 1988 to 2006; and has been the Director of the Alaska-Siberia Research Center (see www.aksrc.homestead.com) from 1990 to present. He has conducted about 30 field studies in various areas of the former Soviet Union (including Siberia), Central Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and the United States (including Alaska). Dolitsky has been a lecturer on the World Discoverer, Spirit of Oceanus, andClipper Odyssey vessels in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. He was the Project Manager for the WWII Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease Memorial, which was erected in Fairbanks in 2006. He has published extensively in the fields of anthropology, history, archaeology, and ethnography. His more recent publications include Fairy Tales and Myths of the Bering Strait Chukchi, Ancient Tales of Kamchatka; Tales and Legends of the Yupik Eskimos of Siberia; Old Russia in Modern America: Russian Old Believers in Alaska; Allies in Wartime: The Alaska-Siberia Airway During WWII; Spirit of the Siberian Tiger: Folktales of the Russian Far East; Living Wisdom of the Far North: Tales and Legends from Chukotka and Alaska; Pipeline to Russia; The Alaska-Siberia Air Route in WWII; and Old Russia in Modern America: Living Traditions of the Russian Old Believers; Ancient Tales of Chukotka, and Ancient Tales of Kamchatka.
A few of Dolitsky’s past MRAK columns:
Read: Russian Old Believers in Alaska live lives reflecting bygone centuries
Read: Russian saying: Beat your friends so your enemies fear you
Read: Neo-Marxism and utopian Socialism in America
Read: Old believers preserving faith in the New World
Read: Duke Ellington and the effects of Cold War in Soviet Union on intellectual curiosity
Read: United we stand, divided we fall with race, ethnicity in America
Read: For American schools to succeed, they need this ingredient
Read: Nationalism in America, Alaska, around the world
Read: The case of the ‘delicious salad’
Read: White privilege is a troubling perspective
Read: Beware of activists who manipulate history for their own agenda
Read: Alaska Day remembrance of Russian transfer
Read: American leftism is true picture of true hypocrisy
Read: History does not repeat itself
Read: The only Ford Mustang in Kiev
Read: What is greed? Depends on the generation
Read: Worldwide migration of Old Believers in Alaska
