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Saturday, July 23, 2022 8:11:48 PM
Let's start with Bannon being a dishonest, power-hungry far-right wing prick. Likes to see himself as a 'for the people' revolutionary, but was one of the assholes responsible for Trump becoming as influential as he is today. And seriously, how did Trump care for 'the people.' Both of them ' gain power in any way possible' people. Both 'by any means to my end' people.
"I figured that The Shower Cap would have an entry in his Rogues Gallery for Bannon. "
Did he describe himself as a Leninist? Probably, though apparently unproven.
Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a ‘Leninist’ Who Wants to Destroy the State?
After reports about the quote emerged, President Donald Trump's chief strategist told journalists that he did not recall the conversation.
Dan Evon Published 3 February 2017
[...]
We searched for other instances in which Bannon referred to himself as a Leninist and came up empty-handed. However, we did find multiple instances of Bannon’s espousing anti-establishment ideals (although there was no other instance of him saying that he wanted to “destroy the state”).
In January 2016, for instance, Bannon was quoted by the Washington Post‘s referring to him as “virulently anti-establishment”:
“We call ourselves ‘the Fight Club.’ You don’t come to us for warm and fuzzy,” said Stephen Bannon, Breitbart’s executive chairman and one of its guiding editorial spirits. He adds, “We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly ‘anti-’ the permanent political class. We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.”
In 2013, Bannon said that he didn’t believe that the United States had a functional conservative party:
“We don’t believe there is a functional conservative party in this country and we certainly don’t think the Republican Party is that,” he told a gathering of conservatives in Washington, D.C. “It’s going to be an insurgent, center-right populist movement that is virulently anti-establishment, and it’s going to continue to hammer this city, both the progressive left and the institutional Republican Party.”
While the purported quote bears a resemblance to other comments that Bannon has made, we have marked it as “Unproven” since we have been unable to turn up any other documentation of the conversation Bannon specifically said he does not recall. A request for comment from Bannon had not been responded to by publication time.
Dan Evon Published 3 February 2017 .. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bannon-leninist-destroy-state/
But really, who cares about that, eh. Shower Cap gets it right in that he is a destroyer.
Like every other far-right or far-left, whatever, Bannon says things which some opponents of his would agree with. Like his comment above that the GOP is not a functional conservative party. Some agree with it, right? Still, in itself it's bullshit Bannon-speak because, whether Bannon agrees with it's function or not, the GOP is a functional conservative party in the United States.
Say Bannon is a Leninist. Guess he is in the sense he wants to tear capitalism down. It's a joke eh, capitalism has given Bannon all the comforts he has today. Use and abuse, could call it. As all great thinkers Lenin too got many things things pretty right. He saw capitalism as leading to a globalism which would exploit poorer countries labor.
When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became
apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.
Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/quotes.htm
However though we relative centrists have much to bitch about the globalism , as corruption, inequality, injustice et al whoever said it will ever be a perfect world.
Bannon in sticking to strict Leninist dogma, seems to me, is nothing more than a out-dated
wannabe destroyer of a deeply-flawed, yet beats the hell out of Russia, capitalist democratic republic.
Apology. It's messy.
"I figured that The Shower Cap would have an entry in his Rogues Gallery for Bannon. "
Did he describe himself as a Leninist? Probably, though apparently unproven.
Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a ‘Leninist’ Who Wants to Destroy the State?
After reports about the quote emerged, President Donald Trump's chief strategist told journalists that he did not recall the conversation.
Dan Evon Published 3 February 2017
[...]
We searched for other instances in which Bannon referred to himself as a Leninist and came up empty-handed. However, we did find multiple instances of Bannon’s espousing anti-establishment ideals (although there was no other instance of him saying that he wanted to “destroy the state”).
In January 2016, for instance, Bannon was quoted by the Washington Post‘s referring to him as “virulently anti-establishment”:
“We call ourselves ‘the Fight Club.’ You don’t come to us for warm and fuzzy,” said Stephen Bannon, Breitbart’s executive chairman and one of its guiding editorial spirits. He adds, “We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly ‘anti-’ the permanent political class. We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.”
In 2013, Bannon said that he didn’t believe that the United States had a functional conservative party:
“We don’t believe there is a functional conservative party in this country and we certainly don’t think the Republican Party is that,” he told a gathering of conservatives in Washington, D.C. “It’s going to be an insurgent, center-right populist movement that is virulently anti-establishment, and it’s going to continue to hammer this city, both the progressive left and the institutional Republican Party.”
While the purported quote bears a resemblance to other comments that Bannon has made, we have marked it as “Unproven” since we have been unable to turn up any other documentation of the conversation Bannon specifically said he does not recall. A request for comment from Bannon had not been responded to by publication time.
Dan Evon Published 3 February 2017 .. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bannon-leninist-destroy-state/
But really, who cares about that, eh. Shower Cap gets it right in that he is a destroyer.
Like every other far-right or far-left, whatever, Bannon says things which some opponents of his would agree with. Like his comment above that the GOP is not a functional conservative party. Some agree with it, right? Still, in itself it's bullshit Bannon-speak because, whether Bannon agrees with it's function or not, the GOP is a functional conservative party in the United States.
Say Bannon is a Leninist. Guess he is in the sense he wants to tear capitalism down. It's a joke eh, capitalism has given Bannon all the comforts he has today. Use and abuse, could call it. As all great thinkers Lenin too got many things things pretty right. He saw capitalism as leading to a globalism which would exploit poorer countries labor.
When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became
apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.
Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/quotes.htm
However though we relative centrists have much to bitch about the globalism , as corruption, inequality, injustice et al whoever said it will ever be a perfect world.
Bannon in sticking to strict Leninist dogma, seems to me, is nothing more than a out-dated
wannabe destroyer of a deeply-flawed, yet beats the hell out of Russia, capitalist democratic republic.
Apology. It's messy.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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