Who is funding the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and riots and why?
As people go through life, most learn that many things are different from what they seem, and that the views and positions people have are rarely consistent with what they think is their self-interest.
In the spring of 1968, I was a student at Columbia University in New York. Over a matter of weeks, there were demonstrations, eventually ending in riots in May 1968. The school was shut down, and almost immediately “spontaneous” classes suddenly appeared on the lawns around the buildings. Some of these “classes” were taught by recognizable Columbia faculty or graduate students, but many were “taught” by outside socialist/communist agitators.
Being an economics major, out of curiosity, I wandered over to a “class” with a sign indicating it was Marxist economics. Long texts were being distributed. They had been professionally printed with color illustrations and graphs, etc. This was years before the days of personal computers, inexpensive color printers and insta-print services. It was obvious that the printed materials had not been prepared the night or even a couple of weeks before. I asked who had prepared them and where they came from. My question was not answered, and I was verbally attacked for even asking it.
Almost three decades later, I was in Moscow, assisting the newly democratic Russia in its economic transition from communism to capitalism. Many of the KGB files were being opened and made available to Western journalists and scholars. One day, I learned, not that it was a surprise, that agents of the Soviet Union had for some decades arranged for the preparation and printing of Marxist materials in English. These books and pamphlets had been warehoused in major U.S. cities, with the intent that they would be distributed to the naive and (in purportedly Lenin-speak) “useful idiots” — when the revolution came to the United States.
Richard W. Rahn – The Washington Times – June 29, 2020.
