Mao summed up the Marxist approach: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
Modern Democratic foundational ideology is militant and glorifies violence. Like animals, evil-doers and petulant children, violence is all that remains. The hard-left radical wing, now emerging as the party's mainstream leadership, calls for full socialism. Karl Marx held that violence and terror are essential political tools to gain power.
Vladimir Lenin encouraged mobs to riot, loot and create chaos in Russia. He promoted terror, asking, "How can you make a revolution without firing squads?" Mao summed up the Marxist approach: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Noah Rothman, in "Blood and Progress," explains this well. A senior writer at National Review, he contends "Violence designed to advance political objectives is, in our time, more often a product of the left."
The history of violence is extensive. Since the Fabians introduced creeping socialism during the Progressive Era, leftist violence has grown. In the early 1900s, dozens of radical union organizers were convicted for organizing dynamite plots. Luigi Galleani, a Marxist anarchist, influenced these revolutionaries. Galleanists set off bombs overwhelming police. They bombed St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1914, with bombs discovered at the Bronx and Manhattan courthouses.
September 16, 1920, a hundred pounds of dynamite planted by "American Anarchist Fighters" on Wall and Broad Streets exploded, killing pedestrians and damaging the stock exchange and J.P. Morgan Building.
Communist uprisings of the 1960s disguised as protests produced hundreds of race riots. Members of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground studied Lenin, Mao, Che Guevara, and bomb-making manuals. The Marxist Weathermen were responsible for bombings throughout the country in the early 1970s. On May 19, 1972, they bombed the Pentagon.
"This fetishization of violence," Rothman writes, "as a remedy to the abuses of the state... crystallizes the callous but poetic notion that the blood of innocence lubricates the gears of history."