Covert Capture and Hostile Takeover: Using "The Long March" To Subvert Institutions and Corporations From Within
Dutschke's strategy "The Long March Through The Institutions," which gradually infiltrates and subverts society's pillars, is still in active use today - here's how it works and how to stop it
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The Socialist Blueprint for Ideological Subversion
In 1967, German student radical Rudi Dutschke introduced an unconventional idea called "the long march through the institutions," envisioning a coordinated strategy to fundamentally transform establishments through ideological subversion from within rather than direct external confrontation.
Dutschke's Core Strategic Insight
The core insight was that openly confrontational protest tactics were ultimately limited in effecting systemic change by themselves. So Dutschke proposed instead this gradualist scheme of first stealthily embedding enough socialist operatives into obscure but important posts scattered throughout academia, media outlets, government agencies, and cultural pillars across society.
Leveraging their insider status once embedded, these infiltrators could then persistently disseminate corrosive ideological narratives from a position of credibility. The goal was to systematically erode those institutions' classical liberal values and standards of merit from the inside-out over time - gradually rotting the pillars of integrity upholding society until they cracked and collapsed.
End Vision of Complete Ideological Conquest
Dutschke envisioned this approach of concealed, incremental warfare playing out across generations until all major institutions were fundamentally transformed by absorption into the socialist ideology. Whereas the direct confrontation favored among 1960s activists was shown to spark resistance, subtle infiltration of societal pillars would dominate the heights of institutional power once a critical mass of key leaders, influencers, and decision-makers could be ideologically turned from within.
So Dutschke saw profound asymmetrical potential in shifting towards this more subtle, intergenerational campaign for mass scale ideological conquest. Because once the converts and true believers controlled and conditioned the institutions, the rest of society would eventually follow in line.
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The Rotten Fruits of a Postmodern "Long March"
Today, we see Dutschke's tactical doctrine of subversion manifesting itself through a postmodern “long march” across society's pillars. Neo-Marxist theories have successfully occupied critical leadership nodes across elite government, academic, corporate, and press institutions.
At these institutions, small cadres of activist-scholars use establishment prestige and influence to systematically erode once broadly accepted standards of merit, excellence, and empiricism. In their place, new complex hierarchies emerge glorifying group identity and perceived oppression as the currency of power and moral legitimacy.
Truth Under Ideological Attack
Across institutions, the existence of objective truths itself has come under attack by activists adhering to postmodern critical theories. In this ideological framework, the scientific method's aim of accurately modeling reality gets recast as a myth invented by dominant groups to preserve their societal power.
So empirical facts and logically derived insights become conveniently dismissed by loyalists as tools created specifically to reinforce systems of oppression against marginalized identities. By categorically denying an attainable, shared truth, the activists protect their orthodoxy from potentially contradictory evidence.
The scientific disciplines broadly representing reasoned analysis now stand accused of enabling and perpetuating alleged systemic injustices against any perceived or fabricated “group.” So, within this paradigm, science and rationality exist mainly to preserve arbitrarily constructed hierarchies conferring unfair “privilege” upon the oppressor classes, as the argument goes.
Ironically, the academic fields and institutions originally founded expressly to pursue universal truths free from bias now find themselves partially colonized by hostile actors using prestige to not advance knowledge, but to immobilize genuine progress by attacking the epistemological foundations of the entire enlightenment project.
In essence, politicized scholarship aimed more at framing all inquiry as an act upholding exploitation rather than discovering reality has steadily displaced good faith open-ended truth-seeking in many elite domains - diminishing returns as research gets coopted to reflect perceived societal ills foremost rather than to expand the frontiers of human understanding.
So the great irony emerges within our truth-seeking institutions of whole departments and journals now harboring hostile actors who use establishment prestige to undermine the pursuit of factual reality itself - by weaponizing sympathy, deception and elite credentials against the values that granted them in the first place.
Naïveté Toward Ideological Capture
Many elite universities and academic associations pride themselves on being institutions dedicated to the pursuit of factual reality through reasoned inquiry and debates exchange. However, in recent decades activist scholars preaching neo-Marxist philosophies fundamentally hostile to measurable truth have successfully occupied influential positions across the humanities and social sciences.
Blindly trusting in rational debate, establishments assumed the activist cadres operated in good faith and would moderate their views when confronted with empirical facts contradicting core tenets of their worldview. This profound miscalculation ignored the reality that many adherents treated the postmodern philosophies as religious dogma - infinitely molding logic to suit existing beliefs rather than updating beliefs to fit logic.
Provided initial footholds, the activist vanguard established ideological beachheads within their institutional hosts. Thus, when granted platforms to “freely exchange ideas,” the activist scholars leveraged academic generosity and openness to consolidate control and impose uncompromising doctrines from within key departments and journals. Ethics and principles were instrumental - selectively applied to accumulate influence but readily discarded when undermining power.
Sheltered from a lack of accountability, the indoctrinated cadres consolidated control before bursting outward on conquering missions backed by administrative power and public shaming to overwhelm all philosophical dissent.
So across increasingly many prestigious truth-seeking institutions, the sciences rooted in logical analysis now find themselves surrounded by occupied humanities departments viewing facts and reason as tools invented solely for constructing oppression. And once the window of permissibility around reasonable dissent cracked open further than necessary, the zealous infiltrators reinforced the breach.
Now, these occupied humanities territories wear the hollowed out husks of once impartial fields dedicated to truth-discovery. Within them, politics and cherry-picked oppression narratives have explicitly superseded evidence, reasoned debate, and philosophical consistency. Scientific disciplines find themselves surrounded by activist fiefdoms viewing facts and logic as tools invented solely for constructing illegitimate power hierarchies.
And so the fundamental corruption of intellectual integrity keeps spreading into further elite institutions as the rot advances, converting once neutral departments into Trojan horses for postmodern theories predicated upon denial of objective reality.
The Phases of Ideological Subversion
Phase 1: Establishing Footholds
The initial phase focuses on infiltrating relatively peripheral roles concentrated around the administrative arteries flowing into centers of actual power and influence.
Positions like diversity bureaucrats, human resource administrators, municipal clerks, and progressive media figures pose little scrutiny threats while providing access channels into institutional capillaries.
By adopting accepted rhetoric around representation, oppression, and victimhood, the operatives successfully wedge their foot in the organizational door. Their credibility goes unquestioned due to a symbolic false value alignment even as the underlying intentions grow more and more subversive.
Phase 2: Indoctrinating & Expanding Underground
Once securely embedded, the infiltration shifts from deception towards active indoctrination and expansion of underground loyalist cadres. More junior staffers get targeted for radicalization.
The silly terminology of critical theories causes outside observers to dismiss rather than investigate the ideological army swelling in numbers for the long march upon the meritocratic heights like hard sciences still ruled by expertise over identity.
Phase 3: Executing the Pivot
With enough indoctrinated cells permeating the lower bureaucracy and administrative nerve centers, the pivot towards outward assault on prestigious heights is executed.
Skilled professionals find fiercely ideological loyalists with little subject competence mysteriously promoted into managerial authority above them. Through coercion and intimidation in the name of equality, they impose compliance.
Phase 4: Capturing Adjacent Spheres
With critical structural power secured, the takeover spreads outwards as the indoctrinated permeate pathways of influence, methodically replacing now isolated independent voices.
Corporate HR departments, NGOs, and civil service sectors find themselves infected from the inside, even as a loud circus of “wokeness” rages to distract any concerned observers.
Phase 5: Stealth Subversion of Society
Professionals across fields wake up daily to more cult members untethered from reason displacing the reasonable in ridiculous zero-sum games for power rather than progress. The strategy relies upon societies tolerating the intolerant. Few realize the scope of this strategy until it’s too late.
Replicating Institutional Takeovers Within Companies
The same sequence of ideological infiltration and capture established within elite institutions soon replicates itself on corporate boards - though driven by external activist forces who issue extreme demands rather than internal loyalists.
Through aggressive vilification campaigns exploiting media vulnerabilities, groups like Wake Up Walmart or Substack Against Nazis coerce cultural concessions out of executives through ransom-style tactics, aided by insider activists. Each victory establishes new baselines of control.
Before long, the now partially “turned” board itself grows ideologically captured and aligned with the activists they likely saw initially as a mere nuisance. Instead of defending founders and shareholders, they begin actively purging defiant executives or internal voices presenting obstacles to the transformation agenda.
These defiant guardians of shareholder interests get abruptly replaced by specially cherry picked loyalists imported externally from the activist ranks sharing their rigid style of cultural politics and ideology.
With this fifth column vanguard now embedded into the executive ranks, critical corporate functions like marketing, communications, and especially human resources, shift into the hands of the infiltrators-turned-conquerors.
From these bureaucratic chokepoints, the new regime swiftly moves to consolidate control by systematically exiling all remaining personnel perceived as obstructionists to the sweeping culture overhaul.
Soon enough, the “unwoke” and principled find themselves completely exiled en masse from the very companies they built and led - their life’s work stolen almost overnight by dedicated operatives negotiating in inherent ideological bad faith all along behind superficial corporate social responsibility platitudes.
Facing extreme activist pressure from the outside and growing ideological sympathizers from within, the corporate board ends up conveniently rubber stamping approval for the entire executive suite cultural takeover.
They officially sign off on ratifying the radical workplace transformation despite evident conflicts of financial interest and breaches of fiduciary duty owed to shareholders.
However, from the board's perspective, acquiescing to the activists and imported loyalists allows them to avoid becoming direct targets themselves of severe public vilification campaigns.
Essentially they trade long-term shareholder value for short-term public relations cover under implicit or explicit threats from militant activist operatives to unleash cancel culture upon the board members should they resist granting formal bureaucratic blessing.
So rationalizing self-interest under an 'appeasement for peace' guise, the board clears the way for completing the hostile executive takeover they could easily prevent if operating under ethical principles and courage instead of cowardly expedience.
Turning the Tide Before It's Too Late
While the advanced institutional degradation appears an impossible predicament, swift recognition of the precise takeover dynamics combined with courageous, coordinated application of specific countermeasures anchored to reason and openness may yet deliver a victory.
The first essential step involves directly identifying and confronting the bad faith tactics underpinning the success of such takeovers thus far — coercion, intimidation, deception, censorship, and exploitation of traditionally classical liberal good will.
Bringing these malign tactics to light in stark terms and imposing social consequences remains pivotal. Broad awareness of the unethical foundations is half the battle. Authoritarian agendas thrive on the unearned legitimacy that comes from masking true intentions.
Additionally, the spread of deliberately divisive and distortive ideological narratives around group identity must face sustained rebuttal centered on universality, logical consistency, and shared human ethics. The social glue that binds takeover alliances derives from false victimhood and selective oppressor framing, which is easily debunked by facts.
Furthermore, rising above partisan divides, non-ideologues across fields and disciplines must converge to actively reanchor institutions to their founding principles, upholding free speech, open inquiry, constructive debate, and intellectual pluralism as society's highest non-negotiable operating goods.
Using this as a litmus test provides the bedrock for adjudicating all policies and decisions, short-circuiting subversive efforts to undermine objective reason itself. Rational empiricism remains the only known antidote to eventual institutional failure when operating under subjective delusions as the pretense for coercion and censorship grows.
Additionally, viewpoint diversity needs urgent reconstitution through sincere efforts to undo monoculture ideological consolidation across departments. Diversity of thought and forbidden knowledge form the immune system protecting institutions from forced intellectual conformity and ethical entropy over time.
Finally, the very spectrum of acceptable civil discourse requires conscious safeguarding as a precious boundary against predatory radicalization tactics. Confidence that free institutions can handle disagreement through reason and integrity remains the most effective assurance that rigid totalitarian ideologues shall not dominate the future.
Upholding the Values That Improve Civilization
The ongoing campaign to infiltrate respected institutions and leverage their credibility to discredit objective facts, open debate, and individual achievement should concern reasonable observers. Civilizational progress relies upon upholding core societal values.
The described strategy, whether by design or coincidence, has opened doors for an ideology fundamentally hostile toward the reason, creativity, innovation, science, and rights that produced modern prosperity.
Those hoping to continue improving the human condition through talent and labor must unify around core principles to restore institutions from growing irrationalism in various forms.
When institutions narrow opportunities for open inquiry and creative debate, accepted beliefs become more dogmatic without exposure to external criticism and a stifling intellectual conformity inevitably fills the void.
This intellectual conformity provides psychological comfort to fragile authoritarians who prioritize the seeming safety of hierarchical order and simplicity rather than grappling with uncertainty or complexity.
Yet the unpredictability coming with open-ended truth seeking and individual liberty frequently yields better societal outcomes over time. When those with new, genuine perspectives are able to openly scrutinize assumptions, errors may get corrected and innovations may emerge to improve lives. So this long march towards darkness and aristocracy of the easily offended may still halt.
Societies allowing free inquiry and earnest debate create opportunities that unlock progress when ethical visionaries question existing constraints. The reasonable voices should highlight this. Leaders who value truth and openness must find courage to defend the wellspring of progress: audacious experimentation guided by reality and ethics instead of power or coercion alone.
Defending institutions from creeping irrationality that closes off free inquiry remains the duty of reasonable civic leaders grounded in moderation and empirical reality.
History demonstrates societies standing firm to protect spaces where open debate, dissent, and creativity can flourish according to their nature rather than submit to overreaching visions of technocratic conformity or ideological unity imposed through coercion tend to unlock greater human potential over time.
The vigilant must serve as stewards, preserving institutions where:
Factual evidence matters more than subjective passions
Authority comes from demonstrated expertise rather than grievance proclamations
Forbidden areas of inquiry get explored to expand knowledge frontiers
In essence, keeping spaces free where assumptions get challenged enables correcting errors and propelling understanding - the foundation for progress.
Special thanks to Aries Azazel, Boss, and Ramblin.
We must subvert subversion. Yuri tried to warn us in 1984: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-reason-with-a-demoralized
This is absolute fire, and I am soooo here for it!
Fantastic piece, Demi!