Chapter 1: Who was Stanley Levison and what was his role in the Communist Party?
Here's another fun story that your researchers can bring up easily. Do you know the name Stanley Levison? No. So Stanley Levison was, until 1956, I think he was not, it was not an official title, but he was basically the CFO of the Communist Party USA. He was the, kind of ran its financial operations. And in 56, or 55 really, he
realizes that the writing is on the wall for being a minion of Stalin. It's like McCarthyism has happened. It's like, you know, it's just Hungary has happened. Like, it's just not it's it's not it's not the vibe. It's not the thing. So Levison does this interesting thing where he does he decides to revive a cause of the Communist Party from the 1930s.
And he finds a black minister with a somewhat dodgy PhD and creates a movement and an organization and writes all of his speeches and manages his whole organization. Absolutely. This organization is called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The preacher is Martin Luther King. And the funniest thing, here's a fun thing that you can do with Wikipedia.
If you go to, you know, Stanley Levison's page, you will see that it says that Stanley Levison was influential in creating the SCLC. Go to the SCLC's page. No mention. Nothing. He's not on the page. He's not on the page.
And so, like, this is the... That's what was instrumental in all the activities at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization established by Dr. King and other Southern black preachers to further the cause of civil rights.
He had initially been introduced... Go to the SCLC page?
Go to the SCLC... Search for Levison?
Why not? Man, you know, like, you've seen the Truman Show. You're like, why does that car come around every hour, you know?
But what does this mean to a guy like you? How do you process this information? It makes complete sense.
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Chapter 2: How did Stanley Levison influence Martin Luther King and the SCLC?
Businessman Stanley Levison.
Yeah, businessman, not communist, and other advisors who drafted, provided input.
I think Jones is also a communist. Clarence is also a communist? Well, you know, I don't know.
I just want to read you one more thing, because while you were speaking, I read this one part. Go back on the previous page. Go to the RFK site. It's like five sentences from the bottom. In 1963, following the revelation of Dr. King's circle, that Attorney General Bobby R.F. Kennedy and then John F. Kennedy had pressured Dr. King in person to break with Levinson and Jack O'Dell. Also communist.
Also communist? Yeah. But Levinson continued to advise Dr. King privately until Dr. King's assassination in April of 68. And afterwards, Levinson continued to work with Dr. King's wife, Coretta Scott King, the Poor People's Campaign in D.C. that took place from May 12th to November 12th.
Of course, he's actually the CEO, right? And, like, he's actually the CEO, right?
So MLK's communist ties to Levinson.
Yeah, but it was, you know, the thing is if you pull back to the bigger picture, basically even the term civil rights, so basically what you had was in the 30s with cases like, for example, the Scottsboro Boys, which was George Floyd in the 1930s, you know, you had this basically black nationalism and black liberation here. Huge, huge cause of the Communist Party in the 20s and 30s.
If you look up the phrase of self-determination in the black belt, for example, that's a 1920s era communist slogan. And they actually imagined having black SSRs in like Alabama, like Soviets, actually parts of the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet Union was intended to be a world government, of course, right? And it wasn't Russian. It was started in Russia.
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Chapter 3: Why is Stanley Levison's contribution often overlooked in civil rights history?
And it's sort of like, of course, when we see these other regimes of the 20th century, we sort of expect them to be Orwellian. We expect people to not understand what's going on in their own country. But, like, you know, the reality is, like, what is America in the 1960s? It's basically... Three TV stations, ABC, CBS, and NBC, plus for the ruling class, NPR and PBS.
And it is a very controlled, very tightly organized broadcast media environment. If you look at basically during both world wars, you'll see what we call, and conservatives call the MSM, is actually a government agency. So in World War II, it's the Office of War Information, OWI. OWI is basically the mainstream media as a government agency.
World War I, it's the Committee on Public Information, the CPI. Insane, wild propaganda. You ever take a look at, like, you know, World War I propaganda, and you're just like... This is propaganda for 11-year-olds. Like, this is incredibly simplistic, incredibly crude. Like, why are we fighting in Germany? The Hun is going to come rape your sister with his spiked helmet, right?
You know, and it's like, you look at the reality of the diplomatic, you know, machinations, you know, behind that, which is... easily as complicated as anything going on in Washington today. And you're just like, actually, this is for children. Hi there. I'm Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug, and I've created a profile on this
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