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				Revolution And Economic Sabotage J.R. Nyquist (WorldNetDaily) - Commentary

J.R. Nyquist, Feb. 7, 2000, WorldNetDaily.com

In Sept. 1967, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union sent one of its top strategists, Konstantin Katushev, to Prague. His mission was to provide an oral briefing to Czech Communist Party bosses on Moscow's long-term strategy. Besides organizing for the fake collapse of the Warsaw Pact to weaken NATO, Moscow's plan called for exploiting a future economic depression in the United States.

Soviet economists have long held to a theory of economic cycles that predicts a depression every fifty to sixty years. According to Marxist theory, an economic depression in the capitalist countries signifies an opportunity for revolutionary action.

"Soviet and other communist economists keep a careful watch on the American economic situation," wrote KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn in 1984. "The communist bloc will not repeat its error in failing to exploit a slump as it did in 1929-32."

A severe economic depression, in Marxist terms, would bring about a "pre-revolutionary" situation in many capitalist countries. Given our current social problems, an economic depression in America might lead to a social explosion. The U.S. Constitution could then be overthrown by Moscow's clandestine network, provided Russia's agents are properly positioned.

But what if a social explosion in this country resulted in a patriotic revival? -- a shift to the right rather than to the left?

According to defector Jan Sejna, who was present during Katushev's 1967 visit to Prague, Katushev noted that America could "move to either extreme." But Katushev noted that if the American economy were seriously disrupted, "the working and the lower middle classes will suffer the consequences and they will turn on the society that has failed them. They will be ready for revolution."

There are two faint but discernible revolutionary impulses in present-day America. One impulse is from the Marxist left, which has been mistakenly presumed dead, and the other is from the populist right. Both of these revolutionary impulses hate the present U.S. establishment, which is regarded as illegitimate and tyrannical.

Looking at various far-left organizations and front groups, we find there is more unity on the left, a longer history of professional revolutionism, and a greater refinement of organizational skill. The history of leftist groups -- from the Weather Underground to the anti-war movement in the 1960s -- is a history that involves massive infusions of cash from foreign communist sources. It is well known, for example, that the Communist Party USA received millions of dollars directly from Moscow. Many leaders of the communist movement in America also received specialized training in Russia. More recently, the Revolutionary Communist Party, whose spokesmen openly boast of their role in the L.A. riots, probably received similar support from Beijing.

Among the revolutionists of the populist right we find there is much less unity, a greater disparity of views, and almost no trace of either professional revolutionism or a scientific approach to political power. Such groups also lack foreign sources of support, either in funding or training. One cannot help noticing that, in terms of political warfare, the populist right has poor strategic sense. Feelings of outrage and quotations from the Founding Fathers are not enough. One has to have detailed knowledge and a strategy that will work.

In political contests, superior knowledge, organization and strategy will always hold the advantage. It does not matter if you are a minority of less than 1 percent. If you build a solid organization -- openly or clandestinely -- and you attempt to manipulate the key institutions that shape society, something will be gained. This has been one of the accomplishments of Marxism in the 20th century. In terms of a future social explosion or severe economic crisis, a carefully contrived clandestine organization is likely to prove more effective than an ad hoc mass of half-baked "patriots."

Katushev believed that America's left had other advantages, as well. But he was met with skepticism from the Czech communists. The Czechs thought America was a country with strong powers of resistance. If America suffered a social explosion, they cautioned, America might "swing violently to the right."

Katushev had an interesting answer to the Czech concerns. "It's more likely," he replied, "that a progressive regime will emerge (in America) because, in spite of their power, the governing bureaucratic and industrial elite, and the media, are fundamentally liberal in their outlook and ashamed of their failure to solve basic problems."

The psychological point here should not be missed. Whenever a capitalist economy suffers a "market correction" after a period of excess optimism, there are those who will blame the market, who will blame capitalism, and who will thereby advance a socialist political agenda. Liberal guilt then emerges to agree with the socialist critique. This might spell the end of our economic freedom -- and the end of American prosperity. Once you put an end to economic freedom you destroy the economy's recuperative power. Once you destroy the economy's ability to recover, your dictatorship must institute more and more crushing controls.

An interesting tidbit related to this has emerged from the strategic writings of two colonels of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In a book entitled "Unrestricted Warfare," published in 1999 by Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, it says: "If the attacking side (i.e., China) secretly musters large amounts of capital without the enemy nation being aware of this ... and launches a sneak attack against its financial markets, then after causing a financial crisis, buries a computer virus and hacker detachment in the opponent's computer system in advance, while at the same time carrying out a network attack against the enemy ... financial-transaction network, telephone-communications network and mass-media network ... this will cause the enemy nation to fall into social panic, street riots and a political crisis."

From defector sources we know that Russian strategists have also developed contingencies for economic sabotage against the West. According to Joseph D. Douglass Jr., author of "Red Cocaine," Moscow's strategy against America includes the penetration of U.S. banks through illegal money-laundering operations. Such infiltration might lead to the creation of a powerful economic time bomb within the U.S.

At present there is an emerging financial crisis in America. The dollar has been weakening. If it gives way, the stock market might fall. Perhaps adding a little push of its own, Russia has been withholding precious metals from the world market, driving the prices of platinum, palladium and rhodium skyward. Some auto manufacturers are said to be panicking because of the metals shortages. The Defense Logistics Agency, which loaned the U.S. Mint 200,000 ounces of platinum in 1997, wants its metal returned because the agency cannot otherwise meet its commitments for fiscal 2000.

Even more curious, there is talk that the Clinton administration has misused the Exchange Stabilization Fund to artificially depress the price of gold.

Whatever the future holds, recent events point in a sinister direction. The Russians, Chinese and North Koreans have been mobilizing their military forces in recent months. Russian economic measures suggest that Moscow is anticipating some kind of military crisis. A few days ago, President Putin of Russia called up an additional 20,000 reservists, even though the war in Chechnya is winding down. Many Russian pre-war indicators remain high, and U.S. defense computers have continued to suffer mysterious lapses. On Jan. 24 a significant part of the U.S. intelligence computer network -- at the NSA -- blinked off for three days. This was the third major failure of U.S. intelligence computers in four weeks.

Do the strategists in Moscow and Beijing expect a severe economic crisis in the near future? Or have they given us a little push, on purpose, hoping to exploit an impending social explosion in America?

It is hard to know what is going to happen. America is a volatile society and this is a presidential election year. Come to think of it, of all the candidates now running, there is only one who might profit by a severe economic downturn. He is a candidate that otherwise would not stand a chance. Don't miss this column on Thursday when I discuss the unusual ideas of presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan.

J.R. Nyquist is a WorldNetDaily contributing editor and author of 'Origins of the Fourth World War.'