South Africa street demo against mass immigration? Canada should be treated like Cuba by the US pretty soon: Links 1 for July 5, 2026

1. Diana West: Marx Didn’t Distinguish Between “Communism” and “Socialism”; Why Should We?

NB: This column in its original form ran in The Epoch Times on February 3, 2020. As Americans once again clash over the unimportant and purposefully distracting “differences” between socialists and communists, it seemed like a good time to run it again.

When President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he believes the Democrats’ frontrunner, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is a communist, the president clarified, “You could say socialist,” but then again, “I think of Bernie sort of as a socialist but far beyond a socialist.”

As the pundits trip over poli-sci-class definitions, my question is, what’s the difference?

As far as freedom-lovers go, safeguarding our liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, there is none. To be sure, communists and socialists argue and split hairs. They fight and break heads. But they also work together and destroy liberty because they all travel to the same soul-crushing destination of collectivism.

What anti-communists need to know is that communists and socialists—and “democratic socialists,” Fabians, progressives, “Alinskyites” (not to mention most Democrats and an awful lot of Republicans)—believe in the same centrally planned, varyingly totalitarian vision for America that our Founding Fathers would have had to declare independence from all over again.

To that point of ideological convergence, here are a couple of argument-settling quotations from recognized experts—one, from the anti-communist camp; the other, from the communist camp.

Please read the rest of this important post at Diana’s substack. This does matter. The number of arguments I have had with Canucks over Canada, or Scandinavian countries being Socialist not communist etc. is large. Even the ones well onside tend to look at socialism as a gateway drug for communism. In fact, becoming communist like an area becoming Islamic. its a process, always moving towards more of itself.

Our personal view is that what Canadians see as “socialism” in Canada, obviously prior to the communist revolution of the election of Justin Trudeau, is actually just civilization. Stay with me here a minute please.

Civilization is about skimming surplus wealth from a culture within a jurisdiction or polity that allows the state to make everyone’s lives better. Roads, rail when needed and useful, infrastructure, police, military to protect the liberties and culture of the state etc. And as the people get more affluent because of their activity, it may generate more tax revenue that could allow for more things that in theory could make life better for everyone. THIS IS NOT Socialism.

This is civilization.

Socialism is not state paid medical care. Socialism is when the state decides who is worthy of it for political or narrative reasons. When people are discriminated against within the system for any demographic or political reasons. Most of what we see in Canada is the retaking of legitimate civilizational impulses for the purpose of destroying civilization itself. The Cloward Piven Strategy is an apex example of this.

Socialism/Communism is diabolical. It is the evil transformation of all that is good into a destructive, hate filled, cynical force of destruction. It is the obliteration of all that is right and good. It is no accident that before Marx started in on his Communist writings he was a Satanist. Wrote poetry to Satan and his disciple, Saul Alinsky, dedicated his most famous book, Rules for Radicals to Satan.

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”

As it turns out, Solzhenitsyn agrees.

Templeton Prize Address (1983) – “Men Have Forgotten God”

“Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions. Militant atheism is not merely incidental or marginal to communist policy; it is not a side effect, but the central pivot. To achieve its diabolical ends, communism needs to control a population devoid of religious and national feeling, and this entails the destruction of faith and nationhood.

Anyway, please click through to Diana’s full article.

2. Extrapolating on what we have seen the Trudeau/Carney state do up to now, we think the black redacted square in this document which was redacted, would likely be an aporxamation of: Any speech published from any kind of authoritative position that is in defiance of or contradiction to, a state narrative. It won’t be those exact words. But it will be that concept. The definitions they use to describe speech that is verboten also is so nebulous that it can be interpreted however the state wants and to whomever the state wants. Just like it is now for hate speech etc.

This documents specifically lists a number of Maoist mass line narrative attacks as things that need to be protected. The memo also explains that the CSE will be the ones to “educate Canadians on on what disinformation is, while also increasing awareness of who creates it and why they do it.”

Ladies and gentlemen I would like to point out that the photo below is in fact of the CSE, Canadian Security Establishment agency building HQ in Ottawa:

If anyone had been told for the last several thousand years that a man could become a woman or a woman could become a man merely by declaring themselves as such, and various mutilations could be done to slightly approximate the effect but not the reality in any reproductive sense, and then had it explained to them that the word, Disinformation means the deliberate spreading of a falsehood in order to damage a target, then the flag on the CSE HQ the size of a soccer field would perfectly constitute disinformation.

Watch the video and be afraid. And send it to anyone you know in Canada, or that needs to understand the nature of Canada as it actually is and as it is becoming today.

3. Wanna know why the British government took away force multipliers from the public?

A few facts on how the British people dealt with guns, the public and the police prior to 1920:

Gun ownership was more common in Britain (especially pre-1920) than it is today. Middle-class and upper-class people could legally buy handguns and rifles relatively easily for self-defence, sport, or protection of property. There was no strict licensing system like today.
British police (bobbies) generally did not carry firearms routinely. This was a deliberate policy from the founding of the modern police force in 1829 — they were meant to be a civilian force, not militarised.
There were occasional incidents where unarmed police borrowed pistols from members of the public during emergencies. The most famous example is the Tottenham Outrage in 1909, where during a long armed chase, several police officers borrowed handguns from bystanders to return fire. Some civilians also joined the chase while armed.

Anyone think Pakistani harems of British children would have been a thing then?

4. Conservative Treehouse has this exactly right. The CBC is an extension of the Canadian government, and uses some of the same condescending devices especially used by Trudeau and Carney. Especially when they state what Canadians think, feel and what our culture is.

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra appears for an interview on CBC News to share perspectives on U.S-Canada relations.  However, what happens within the interview is a case study on how Canadian media represent an extension of the Canadian government.

This example is exactly why the Canadian people have no reference point for information counter to the official propaganda policy from their government offices. Rebecca Zandbergen, host of CBC’s Ottawa Morning represents the voice of government in combative tone, condescending attitude and refusal to accept counter arguments.

The level of passive-aggressive condescension highlights why Canada has continued to lose position in a world where pretending has become devalued.  However, it’s clear why the Canadian people will be stunned when it all collapses around them.  They have no reference points. Ambassador Hoekstra should get hazard pay. WATCH (prompted):

The best thing I have seen on this was something along the lines of, ‘The Canadian people may or may not realize the fact that the Elbows Up movement has in fact become the Ankles Up one. Read the article over at the

5. When South Africa has street demonstrations against mass immigration, you know something huge is going on, and where the people of the world have no damn say in their own affairs or governance.

And when one of the signs reads against not have any “no go zones” we can assume the issue is Islamic immigration.

Thank you all for checking out this site, and to Gates of Vienna for several tips on things concerning the world and Canada.