Buchanan calls Neocons Trotskyites
The Comintern, or Communist International, also known as the Third International, was the 1919 creation of Vladimir Lenin. Its declared purpose: Fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic.''
Fomenting the communist revolution worldwide was, in brief, the Comintern's mission.
At its Seventh World Congress in 1935, however, on Stalin's orders, the Comintern repudiated the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism as its mission and called for formation of popular fronts in Western nations to combat fascism.
For this act of heresy, Leon Trotsky, the champion of permanent revolution, excommunicated Stalin -- and was himself rewarded in 1940 with an ice ax in the head, courtesy of Stalinist assassin Ramon Mercader.
But Trotskyism did not die with Trotsky. It mutated and is today the taproot of that neo-conservatism that calls for permanent revolution to advance global democracy. Today, this ideology is embedded in the Party of Reagan and the Bush administration, and neoconservatives are using tax dollars to create and operate their own Neo-Comintern.
The US National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which pumps out millions of dollars to "promote democracy'' abroad, is its pivotal agency.
