Vladimir Lenin Called Them “Useful Idiots”

As I was listening to the video of my recent post, Agenda: Grinding America Down, by Curtis Bowers, I learned What Vladimir Lenin called those fools that helped him come to power, “useful idiots.”

Since I have been studying Marxism, the democratic left, BLM and other communist groups, I have been troubled that so many support these forces which will inevitably take their freedom, rights, children, property…. I have also been angered that people can be so stupid, putting America at risk.

When I heard Curtis Bowers use the term “useful idiots,” describing the people that Lenin used to come to power, I realized that those same people are the dupes that I have been struggling to understand.

It turns out that many knowledgeable people have written about them. Below, I quoted some well-known authors…to describe these foolish people and the harm they have done in history to date. They are ‘useful’ to political leaders in helping to DESTABILIZE a nation.

[Emboldening is mine]:

From a post on Townhall by Thomas Sowell, titled Useful Idiots

The term “useful idiots” has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen’s new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us.

Long after the Soviet Union’s horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics.

As Mona Charen’s book makes painfully clear, this usually happened in a pattern that was repeated again and again, with the same useful idiots saying the same kinds of things again and again. She spells this out and names names, quoting Peter Jennings, Jesse Jackson, Anthony Lewis, Ted Kennedy, Ted Turner and a long list of others.

The founding of the Castro dictatorship in Cuba set the pattern that was followed later in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Grenada. By initially concealing the fact that he was a Communist, and having some non-Communists around him as window dressing, Fidel Castro was able to play the role of a popular liberator, out to end oppression, hold free elections, and do all sorts of good things for “the people.”

The useful idiots in the United States and other Western democracies ate it up. Many still do, to this very moment.

Once in power, Castro tolerated no opposition, held no free elections, and established a police state that made the previous dictators look like amateurs. Those who spoke out against what was happening were jailed or executed. So were those who tried to flee the country.

To continue reading https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/05/20/useful-idiots-n1147831

From the blog Goodreads

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. […] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to DESTABILIZE a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”

― Yuri Bezmenov  [Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India.Wikipedia]

“Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.”

― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

This last example connects Saul Alinsky, the useful idiots and the democratic left; it also clarifies Alinsky’s plan that is the democratic left’s handbook:

Recall that Hillary did her college thesis on this writing and Obama writes about him in his books.

Saul Alinsky died about 43 years ago, but his writings influenced those in political control of our nation today.

Died: June 12, 1972, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA Education: University of Chicago Spouse: Irene Alinsky Books: Rules for Radicals, Reveille for Radicals.

Anyone out there think that this stuff isn’t happening today in the US?

All 8 rules are currently in play.

How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky:

There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important.

1. Healthcare– Control healthcare and you control the people.
2. Poverty– Increase the Poverty level as high as possible; poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3. Debt– Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4. Gun Control– Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5. Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6. Education– Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.
7. Religion– Remove the belief in the God from the government and schools.
8. Class Welfare– Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more disconnect, and it will be easier to take (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

Does this sound like what is happening to the United States of America?

Saul Alinsky merely simplified Vladimir Lenin’s original scheme for world conquest by communism, under Russian rule. Stalin described his converts as “Useful Idiots”

The Useful idiots have destroyed every nation in which they have seized power and control. It is presently happening at an alarming rate in the US. “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere”.

Article link: http://www.kegley-inc.com/8-levels-control-useful-idiots-saul-alinsky/

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If you question any of the above, just search the phrase, “useful idiots” and you will find much on them. You might even look into the 135 million fatalities caused by communist regimes which those idiots helped bring to power, from 1900 to date.

Curtis Bowers’ two-part documentary brings a lot of these matters to light; it is a matter of urgency that American citizens be awakened to this great threat.

This great threat may be a great judgment from God for the 62 million babies that have been slaughtered; for gay marriage…it is certainly a time to turn to God in fervent prayer.

[Addendum 9-21-24: something I did not take into consideration when I wrote this post is that the left has been brainwashing students in public schools since the 1970’s or 80’s; therefore, generations after mine (baby-boomer) tend to be pro left. They weren’t raised to mistrust / hate communism, they were raised to think it is a good thing…. And they do not believe that every attempt to create the communist utopia ended in millions of people being murdered or starved.]

[7-19-23 Addendum: I want to add to my opening statements, that the events unfolding in our nation have more to do with God’s judgments against America than the personal choices of Americans today. Pastor John MacArthur brings that out in many of his more recent sermons. Therein, he speaks of Romans 1 type judgments from God that have been unfolding since the 1960’s: the music / drug / sexual revolution that began then and was followed by feminist revolution, homosexual revolution, and now, transgender revolution. In looking at Romans 1, he equated the trans revolution with the ‘reprobate mind,’ indicating that the only way a man can perceive himself to be a woman is to already have been in the possession of a reprobate mind, a mind devoid of reason; and those legislators who are making laws to protect transgenderism and punish those seeking to be righteous [see Isaiah 5] also possess a reprobate mind. The highest offices of this land are being governed by that mind….

Additionally, I believe that there are at least two reasons the current administration is so supportive of LGBTQ…: 1. For votes; 2, because globalists want to rid the earth of much of the current population: if LGBTQ becomes even more popular and the youth and their parents continue to diligently seek social relevance via mutilation of themselves, many will be rendered incapable of reproducing, helping the globalists reach their goal of diminishing the earth’s population to around 500 million. The vaccines are also aiding in this way too, it seems. [Paragraph added 11-30-23.]

To increase your own understanding of this scenario, just study Romans 1:16-32 [pasted in below for your convenience].

The following link is to Bible Hub, there you will find many commentaries from which you can obtain a deeper understanding of MacArthur’s sermons from godly men of the past:   https://biblehub.com/bsb/romans/1.htm

Using Bible Hub:

The link will take you to a page for Romans 1. You will have to type in the verse you want to read commentary about. Usually, commentators work on groups of verses, but not always.

Type in Romans 1:18  [or the verse from the pasted in portion below, that you would know more about] and then ‘comment.’ The commentators will be listed in alphabetical order, some commenting only on 1:18; some on passages.

Understanding the heading of the Bible Hub page:

The line of abbreviations in light blue consists of the many VERSIONS of the Bible you may read from.

Below that, there is a line of words beginning with ‘parallel,’ a few words later, ‘comment,’ click that to open up a listing of their Bible commentaries. If you clicked ‘parallel,‘ then you would be able to read Romans 1:18 from all the versions of the Bible.

Below that, there is a line beginning with ‘SUM,’ those are different types of commentaries. For example, if you click on ‘SUM,‘ then you will be able to read a summary of Romans; about half-way across, is TSK; that commentary provides cross references for about any single verse you type into the search bar. It is a good commentary to use to ‘let scripture interpret scripture.’

ROMANS 1:18-32    ESV:

Romans 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17  For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness

Romans 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
21  For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22  Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24  Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25  because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26  For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27  and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28  And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

29  They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
30  slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31  foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32  Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

[Therefore, we are about to be taken over by a group of atheist Marxist elites who will treat us like China treats anyone who dissents in the least from the approved narrative. Marxism is godless; to them, the state is god. Since America has turned away from the living God, we have incurred His judgment….]