Episode #38 Part 2: Bolshevik Iconoclasm

For the second part of this special two-part episode, Jacob and Eric take a closer look at the roots of the Marxist Left's efforts to rewrite and erase American history, with the primary example being the efforts to ruin the legacy of General Robert E. Lee.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro
01:10 Virginia has fallen
05:30 Pfizer vials for posterity
10:50 Coping conservatives
15:40 Should we have statues to “losers” and “traitors”?
19:34 The national poisoner-in-chief behind Confederate iconoclasm: Eric Foner
26:15 Foner's leftist father
35:56 Foner's historical worldview
37:14 American Marxism and race
51:21 Foner's understanding and use of Reconstruction
54:14 Foner's Marxist thesis director
57:30 Controlling the past to control the present; controlling the present to control the future

SHOWNOTES

President Trump’s based statement on Robert E. Lee: https://gab.com/TheRightTake/posts/106898605679175318

Ralph Northam’s absurd list of items that will go into a new time capsule in the former Robert E. Lee statue’s pedestal: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/Time-Capsule-Replacement-Vision-and-Artifact-List.pdf

Historian Eric Foner’s revisionist take on Robert E. Lee: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/books/review/eric-foner-robert-e-lee.html?.?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&gclid=CjwKCAjw-ZCKBhBkEiwAM4qfF35EknfgYWNDnUvZ1_M1V64RXv__vDGlZdT9fOmUiaiDNY_UfssjYBoCMXEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

“Jews and the American Military” by Jack Foner, forward by Eric Foner: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/16883846/the-american-jewish-archives-journal

Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World by Eric Foner: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Who_Owns_History/H3I-Z8KW5REC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Who+Owns+History%3F:+Rethinking+the+Past+in+a+Changing+World&printsec=frontcover

Foner mentions that Karl Rove is a fan of his first book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49McwjkZmlw

Making slavery the end-all, be-all of American history: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ill-bet-they-know-all-about-malcolm-x-mona-charen/

Transcript on how Foner ties every contemporary political issue to his interpretation of Reconstruction: https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/eric-foner-significance-reconstruction-american-history

The Rapp-Coudert Committee and anti-communist liberals of New York: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/eandc/vol29/iss2/art4/

Marxist historian Mary Stanton on Lenin's orders to American communists to recruit blacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aEJbg_cMO8

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