Agitprop in America: Political Art & Propaganda History - Perfect for Activists, Educators & History Enthusiasts

Did you know that calling welfare an entitlement confuses government largess with individual property rights; So that “Entitlement Reform” and seeking to “control entitlement spending” already concedes the moral (and possibly legal) high-ground to those who don’t want to do either? How shocked would you be if you discovered that “entitlement” was first used in that way by Communist agitation propaganda or Agitprop? Would it shock you if someone used the term “Negro American” in public or in polite conversation? How much would it shock you to discover that Black public intellectuals and civil rights campaigners had used the term since before the Civil War to the early 1960’s? The term “African American” first appeared in Communist Agitprop. Its purpose is to remind American Blacks that they were transported here in chains—sometime before 1808! Now, anyone using the term “Negro American” is called a racist and risks losing their job. Was Martin Luthor King racist against Black people?There will be those who argue that I should have limited myself to three or four stars After all McElroy’s parenthetic phrases will cause some to climb the walls and, if they reach the ceiling, bite the light fixtures. But his style is consistent. The book can be read straight through. Writing a more scholarly book would have undercut his argument. First, most Americans’ only exposure to American History was in High School. Second, that history has been dumbed down and intentionally misrepresented. Third, a very broadly defined middle class should be imparting its values and aspirations to those above and below it; This is what keeps American Society, and thus American Culture, centered. Sources are cited in the text. Lists are used instead of footnotes. There are appendices but the back matter in the hard copy is intended for the reader’s notes. Also, those who already have some prior experience of the subject matter will always wonder why he does not go further. McElroy watched the spread of Cultural Marxism or political correctness through higher education (and the public schools) from 1966 to the present, there will be much that is surprising to self-described culture warriors.McElroy is simultaneously correcting a general ignorance of American history and calling attention to the organized subversion that created that general ignorance. His guided tour approach allows readers to look over the railing and see American history on one side and the Cultural Marxist revisionism on the other. American history relates to a specifically American Culture that went through its formative stage between 1610 and 1770. The foundational families had the shared experience of the Frontier, a Stone Age Wilderness; a common morality provided by deeply held but divergent Christian beliefs, sometimes called Judeo-Christianity by the author; And a public ethos built on individual responsibility which manifested itself in individual and lateral collective action broadly consistent with a personal oath of loyalty to a distant English Crown. The Result was a diamond-shaped distribution where a broadly defined middle class formed the majority, imparting its belief-behaviors to those both above and below it. It is these belief-behaviors that McElroy cherishes. This is contrasted with a much more continental view where an atheist intellectual priest class or “PC Marxists” rules over biological classes of oppressor and oppressed, berating the oppressors for their sins in the distant past, and forgiving the oppressed for their personal transgressions, always creating society anew, uprooting everything that came before, but somehow never weakening or over-throwing an economic oligarchy at the very top of a pyramid