Cultural Survival Skills

Chandler’s “Shadow World”, 2

In his book, Shadow World, Robert Chandler discussed the tiers of a “political-ideological pastry. The top tier included “thought leaders” and members of “non-government organizations (NGOs) including anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists.

There are the strategists guiding the operational commanders who direct Gramsci-embracing street fighters. By and large, one can expect to find these enablers in the darkest shadows of the world. Examples of leading members are the Washington, D.C.-based  revolutionary centers–the Institute for Policy Studies, the so-called ‘think tank of the Left, ‘ as well as the coopted mainstream media and politicians making up the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the ‘Shadow Party’ hiding inside the Democratic Party that has been seized by George Soros and the sixties radicals” (p. 9).

The second tier described by Chandler is comprised of individuals and NGOs that are more observable and have their own funding resources. He lists the