The Patient Strategy of Entryism – Allah's Willing Executioners

By Lars Møller
The twentieth century taught the revolutionary Left a bitter lesson: frontal assaults on power fail when the state commands loyalty and firepower. Supposedly, the reason Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks triumphed in 1917 was that the Russian state had already collapsed; elsewhere, such as Hungary and Germany in 1919 and 1923, respectively, insurrection was crushed. From this defeat emerged a subtler doctrine—“entryism”.
Instead of “storming the palace at once”, as it were, revolutionaries were advised to patiently infiltrate every institution shaping public opinion and exercising authority: unions, universities, civil services, media, judiciary, police, army. As soon as they controlled the “commanding heights of culture and administration”, power would fall into their hands without a single shot. Communist party leader Antonio Gramsci, Italy, refined the theory; student activist Rudi Dutschke, Germany, popularized the slogan “the long march through the institutions”; the …