WARNINGS - Nikita Khrushchev (1959) & Norman Mattoon Thomas (1944)

Norman Mattoon Thomas, six time Socialist candidate for POTUS, said, "The American people will ... under the name of liberalism... will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, The Democratic Party has adopted our socialist platform." 

     67 years ago Norman Thomas knew what was going to happen to our country in 2008!
     Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884-December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.  The Socialist Party candidate for President of the US, Norman Thomas, said this in a 1944 speech:
     "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.  But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." 

      He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party.  The Democrat Party has adopted our platform."

(note: Revisionist historians are wont to cast doubt as to the quote's authenticity; regardless, it has, ex post defacto, become fact. -- rfh)

Norman Thomas, 1948: "It has been a favorite indoor sport of political commentators, Socialist and non-socialist, to tabulate how many immediate demands of former Socialist platforms have been enacted after some fashion into law by Republicans and Democrats". [cf. "Do Left-Wing Parties Belong in Our System?" AAAPSS, vol 249 (Sept 1948) 24-29.] → http://web.archive.org/web/20090801123303/http://s10.zetaboards.com/The_New_Coffee_Room/topic/7160278/1/

(note: Norman Thomas and Gus Hall, the U.S. Communist Party Candidate, both quit American politics, agreeing that the Republican and Democratic parties had adopted every plank on the Communist/Socialist and they no longer had an alternate party platform on which to run. (quoted from: http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Norman.Thomas.Quote.FFB1)

P.S. ...he was the only national political figure to take a public position against Executive Order 9066.  One could suppose he'd be against the FEMA camps of today.)

P.S. ...a 'Norman Thomas' research paper, archived at: http://web.archive.org/web/20061210230953/http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/thomasn.pdf

might help in researching the quote.  -- rfh

(The "red diaper baby" o'commiecrat must've missed this one...or not! -- rfh)

From: thy Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 Subject: NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV

 

Nikita Khrushchev Quote
September 29, 1959
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN HE APPEARED AT THE U.N. AND BANGED HIS SHOE?

(I wonder, is this what o'shovel ready really meant to say? -- rfh)

"We will bury you!" (Russian: My vas pokhoronim!) was a phrase famously used by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956.^[1][2][3]

The actual verbal context was: "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in."  In his subsequent public speech Khrushchev declared "We must take a shovel and dig a deep grave, and bury colonialism as deep as we can".^[4]  Later, on August 24, 1963, Khrushchev remarked in his speech in Yugoslavia, "I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it.  Of course we will not bury you with a shovel.  Your own working class will bury you,"^[5]  a reference to theMarxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism", based on the concluding statement in Chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto: "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers.  Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable".  Khrushchev repeated this Marxist thesis at a meeting with journalists in the U.S. in September 1959.  However, many Americans interpreted the quote as a nuclear threat.^[6]

Mikhail Gorbachev wrote in his book Perestroika and New Thinking for our Country and the World that the image used by Khrushchev was inspired by the famous discussions among Soviet agrarian scientists in the 1930s, nicknamed "who will bury whom".  Khrushchev's phrase was also used as the title of Jan ?ejna's book on communist Cold War strategies. The phrase also appears in Sting's song "Russians".

The quote, paraphrased as "We will bury them!", was used as a taunt in the video game Red Alert 2, in which the Soviet Union wages World War III against the Western Allies.

(quote source: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you)

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