John A. Gentry

So by the 20s,

good Marxists were saying, this original Marxist plan is not working.

So what we need to do is find other ways to divide people and generate the kinds of conflicts, the kind of conflict that Marx envisioned.

So in other words, get to the Marxian state

a different way.

And the way they proposed to do this is through social means, through societal means.

And fast forward a lot of ways.

Basically, there were five areas that were targeted for efforts to subvert the old

Western capitalist way of doing things and help generate the Marxian nirvana, if you will.

Five of them.

Education.

Why?

You want to go after a young mind.

It's a relatively effective way of converting people, either all the way or at least getting sympathetic allies.

And it's relatively cheap.

The young people of today are the leaders of 20 and 30 years from now.

You have a long time horizon.

You're trying to do this in a subtle way, so you go after education.

You're targeting the press.

Basically the same argument.