Perhaps it is a mixture of both. It has long been known the hard left wished to transform the traditional Britain (and West) I was born into. Via a protracted campaign of brainwashing and propaganda they were able to recruit well-intentioned liberals into an unknowing alliance. This was not particularly difficult, of course; liberals are easily duped by propagandised platitudes and fall very easily into Lenin’s denouncement of ‘useful idiots’.
First, let us deal with some facts. During and after WWII the Soviet Communists gobbled up as much of Europe as they could. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia disappeared behind the Iron Curtain, followed by Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and East Germany. In essence, any country within Moscow’s military strike capability fell into its clutches and became part of the Soviet empire.
The Communists really did have global aspirations, so countries outside their military sphere were not simply ignored and written off: they were earmarked for destabilisation and subversion, to be taken over at a later date. The Kremlin office assigned this task was the Department of Agitation and Propaganda, which worked with Western Communist parties, including the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).
Added to this subversive mix was a group of thinkers who became known as the Frankfurt School, which wielded enormous social pressure — initially in America and subsequently in Britain — in the decades after the Second World War. It was established in Frankfurt in 1923 by the Hungarian Communist Georg Lukacs and was known in those days as the Institution for Marxism. Lukacs was an agent of the Communist International (Comintern) which had been established in Moscow in 1919 to ‘fight by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie for the creation of an international Soviet republic’...<<<Read More>>>....
