from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 07:23 PM PST

Oliver Stone, the American left's answer to Leni Riefenstahl,
having drained the swamps of Viet Cong propaganda dry is going to apply
his talent for cinematical historical revisionism to WW2 in a Showtime
miniseries, "The Secret History of America". Like virtually every piece of
left wing historical revisionism, Stone's new miniseries will sweep aside
normative history and its villains like Hitler and Stalin, replacing them
with the real villain, big business.

The left, which has never come up with an original idea since
the 19th century, always trots out the same Marxist reinterpretation of
history, in which every major event in history, from the Fall of Rome to
the Rise of Hitler; comes down to the capitalist imperialists working to
suppress the poor. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States,
the red bible of the American college leftist, reduces American history to
a narrative of the rich (the Founding Fathers) staging the American
Revolution to suppress minorities and the poor.

The sheer absurdity
of 20th century American liberals rewriting all of human history in
keeping with their one idee fixe, class struggle, is a demonstration of
the lasting influence of Marxist dogma on leading figures on the American
left such as Howard Zinn, Michael Moore and Oliver Stone. There is a story
about a Communist leader who began a sidewalk address through a megaphone
by shouting, "Workers and Peasants of New York". But while that story may
seem laughable, his ideological heirs on the left continue to stick to
their same rigorous dogma of class warfare, even when they themselves are
millionaires.

The very corporate system that Oliver Stone inveighs
again, is the one that distributes his movies. Last year Stone completed
filming Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, the awkwardly titled sequel to
Wall Street, as a timely commercial opportunity in the wake of the
economic crisis. The movie stars the expected Hollywood lefties like Susan
Sarandon and Josh Brolin, there for a chance to participate in Stone's
indictment of big business-- in a movie that will be distributed by
FOX.

If there's anything that more obviously punctures the
left's narrative about the evils of business, it is that if big business
is evil, they themselves are that evil. Stone, Zinn and Moore have become
very wealthy men by ranting about the evils of America and big business,
while collecting paychecks in dollars from all of the above. While Oliver
Stone works with FOX's Rupert Murdoch in Hollywood, Howard Zinn has his
Marxist rantings aired on the History Channel (a subsidiary of Disney,
Hearst and NBC) and voiced by prominent Hollywood actors. His book, A
People's History of the United States, framing all of American history in
terms of class struggle, is published by HarperCollins, a subsidiary of
NewsCorp... owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Michael Moore's Stupid White
Men was published by HarperCollins (again Rupert Murdoch). Since then his
books have been published by such small basement presses as Simon and
Schuster (owned by CBS) and the Hachette Book Group, the second largest
publishing company in the world. The evils of big business indeed.

As a matter of fact, without all those evil multinational
corporations, Michael Moore would be riding back and forth to radical film
festivals at his own expense, Howard Zinn would be boring students at
Boston University and Oliver Stone would be just another NYU film student
waiting tables off Union Square. And what's more, they know it
too.

The real secret history of America, the one that Oliver Stone
would never film and Howard Zinn would never write about, is that the
American left would never have had a fraction of the success that they did
in the 20th century without corporate backing. There would have been no
counterculture in the 60's and 70's without corporate backing and even
sponsorship. Without money from a chain of drug stores, Woodstock would
never have happened. And how many of the musicians who played there would
have ever been heard of without the record industry promoting their
music?

It wasn't the grassroots that elected Obama. It was the
trial lawyers, unions and Wall Street figures piling money into his
campaign, and into the unrestricted coffers of left wing 501's, many of
whom also bring on the likes of Moore, Zinn and Stone for speaking
engagements. Without big money backing, Obama would still be a small time
Illinois State Senator, hitting up the likes of Tony Rezko for some spare
change.

The secret history of America is that
the two richest men in the country, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are
liberal Obama backers who stand for wealth redistribution and socialism.
On paper both these men, a monopolist and a speculator, are exactly the
sort of figures that the left should be struggling against. Instead they
are the left. And without the likes of George Soros, would the so-called
left wing grass roots movement, by which I mean the thousands of
progressive groups that suckle at the Soros teat, ever have amounted to
anything more than angry people in basements?

But for that matter,
the secret history of Marxism, that tainted wellspring from which the
likes of Stone, Moore and Zinn all drink, is that it would not have
existed without the backing and work of Friedrich Engels, at Ermen and
Engels. The profits from that textile company went to fund Marx and
Engel's work denouncing capitalism and the free market. For decades, Marx
lived off Engels' textile factory income, while arguing that capitalism
should not exist. Which was a perfectly reasonable to take for a man who
never worked for a living, but at the same time wouldn't have had a penny
to his name without the labor of workers in a factory that he never
saw.

And that indeed is the paradox of the left, that its attacks
on the free market are so appealing precisely to those who don't work for
a living, both on the corporate and the intellectual side. What connects
the likes of Bill Gates and Howard Zinn, George Soros and Michael Moore,
Warren Buffett and Oliver Stone, is the very same thing that connected
Engels and Marx, in that they don't see any value in honest labor within a
free market economy, because they don't engage in it. The businessmen in
such an arrangement see the free market as worthless, because they see
their own achievements as worthless. The propagandists see it as
worthless, because they can get paid without actually working. Both are
the same sides of the coin, men who fail to see the most powerful element
in a free market economy, freedom and social mobility, because their own
privilege has blinded them to it.

The ideology of the left was
never that of the common man, but that of the elite. It has as much to do
with the working class as Danton, Robespierre, Marx, Engels and Lenin had
to do with the working class. In fact invariably the common element is
that leftism is the preoccupation of the dilettante sons of upper middle
class fathers, who attended university, often hovered around a law degree,
but went on to promote revolution instead. And their latter day
intellectual descendants are all around us. The ideological spawn of the
physically lazy, the intellectually indulgent and the morally weak
redesigning the world for the benefit of the working class, a class whose
biggest aspiration is to become middle class and send their sons to
university, thus perpetuating the same cycle of revolution.

The
leading lights of the left in the past have been united in either being
aristocrats or wanting to live like aristocrats, despite being born middle
class. If they lusted to chop off the heads of kings and marquises, it was
only because they wanted to take their place. And with the kings and
marquises gone, their only answer was to create totalitarian states with
them at the head to engage in perpetual revolutionary purges of the
political elite-- a mania that suspiciously recalls aristocratic
infighting in the dark days of empires and kingdoms.

And so if
there is one fundamental reason that the left so despises America, is that
it is because America is anti-elitist. Because instead of making himself
First Citizen and nationalizing the country's wealth, George Washington
served his time in office and left. It was certainly what the radicals of
the time like Thomas Paine despised him for. And that rejection of a
an-powerful state and a ruling elite would go on to define America for
some time to come. It is why European rulers, both monarchs and prime
ministers, would look on the American Experiment with suspicion.

It
is why today the American left inveighs against mobs and warns about the
danger of anti-elitism. It is why corporate heads and billionaires rush
forward to support socialist schemes, because like all aristocracy, they
do not believe in the idea of a government for the people, by the people.
They believe that an enlightened elite must be the ones to rule the people
for their own benefit. And that idea is at the heart of the left's
proposals for revolution. When all the empty rhetoric about the peasants
and the workers, whom they have never met and have no use for, the working
class, whom they would turn into serfs, and the middle class, whom they
would grind away, the factory workers, whom they would turn into slaves,
and minorities, whom they would use up and dispose of, is stripped away--
that is the left's only real idea of government. A society ruled by the
elite and populated by indoctrinated workers, who are happy to be taken
care of by their rulers.

That is the secret history of the left. It is not a history
that the History Channel or Showtime will ever air. It is not a story that
major publishers will print. And for all that the left inveighs against
them, like peacocks strutting their radical red feathers for the
admiration of college students, the fact of the matter is that without
corporate support, the American left would look a lot like that homeless
unshaven man with a placard warning everyone that the end is near. The
secret history of the left is the story of a struggle by intellectual and
business elitists to uproot democracy and replace it with an all-powerful
state. Their propaganda is a mirror image of the real story, their lies
are the cosmetic covering pasted over the rotten visage of the men
propounding the same ideas that led to the mass murder of millions and the
eradication of freedom across the globe.

The secret history of the
left is not the story of basement radicals or mimeographed placards. It is
not the story of red flags and strikes. It is not the story of economic
theories written by those who had never worked or the story of moralist
philosophers who justified mass murder, though those are closer to the
heart of things. But they too are only frosting on the cake. The secret
history of the left is at its most naked, the story of those who would
wield power in the name of their own superiority.