Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance

by Barry Rubin

Respected historian and political scientist Barry Rubin exposes the radicalism that masquerades as liberalism today in Silent Revolution , his thorough history that charts the movement's unchecked rise to cultural and political power. Over the past fifty years, an ideological revolution has created a brand of radical leftism that now dominates the liberal movement in the United States. The values espoused by the left today are a far cry from the traditional progressive and Enlightenment values that have historically defined the movement. Barry Rubin argues that, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the survivors of the '60s New Left drew on the ideas of radicals like Saul Alinsky, cultural Marxists like Antonio Gramsci, and Third World revolutionary thinkers like Frantz Fanon to create a Third a radical movement that championed a new class of experts and managers to seize control from within. Silent Revolution explores the formation and ideology of The Third Left and documents how this movement culminated in 2008, when Americans elected the most radical left-wing government in their history. Concise and hard-hitting, Silent Revolution is a must for all conservatives looking to understand and overcome American liberalism.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction

352 pages, Hardcover

First published June 18, 2013

About the author

Barry Rubin is an American-born Israeli expert on terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs.

Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), and a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He is also editor of the journal 'Turkish Studies'.

Reviews

[Daniel]

If you read this book, you would probably understand the ideology of the Conservatives and the Tea Party much better. Rubin wrote about the Third Left, mainly Democrats, as wanting to impose communism on the American people. He pointed out the influence of 'communist' thinkers on President Obama. Untilmtely, he states that the government is imperfect and must therefore be contained. Full of ideology, but low on statistics, it is the new Conservative manifesto.

[Boyan_ntu]

For anyone interested in world history after 1930s, and American history in particular after 1960s, this one is a must-read.