Indyvidual,

Librarians don't have unions.
So you'd know more about them than me.
I've never had a need for one. Plus I've worked
in a variety of jobs - private and public.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/386688-the-war-therefore-if-we-judge-it-by-the-standards

“The war, therefore if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that the hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word "war," therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that is exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and has been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This--although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense--is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE.”
― George Orwell, 198

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/16.html

Part 2, Chapter 9- It's a bit long but interesting.

Concepts- Hate week (Marxist Permanent Revolution), War is peace, slavery is freedom (freedom by global principles such as diversity DIE), ignorance is strength (expert power), the superstates of Oceania/ Eurasia/ Eastasia (US, China, Israel), The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism (Marxism), permanent war (Marxist Permanent Revolution), war is waged by each ruling group (the university academy) against its own subjects, doublethink (self censorship for fear of death), Newspeak (using language to destroy communication),..

CM,

That is so interesting I can hardly wait for the next instalment! Now I think I'll go off and watch paint dry, grass grow, washing dry, other just as exciting things as your posts about Woke/Markist/Commies, none of whom you can even name!

Indyvidual- I agree that bureaucracy is a factor in the tyranny of Marxism. Soviet military commanders shoot retreaters...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_No._227
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_troops#Soviet_Red_Army

The first use of the barrier troops by the Red Army occurred in the late summer and fall of 1918 in the Eastern front during the Russian Civil War, when People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs (War Commissar) Leon Trotsky of the Communist Bolshevik government authorized Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the commander of the 1st Army, to station blocking detachments behind unreliable Red Army infantry regiments in the 1st Red Army, with orders to shoot if front-line troops either deserted or retreated without permission.

This seems like the sort of bureaucratic regulation that can be very effective on bureaucrats to achieve a leaders goal. It can apply throughout the hierarchy at different levels to create a whole of nation effect. Leaders at any level that refuse to execute the policy will be killed, sub-commanders can use this as a way to be promoted. It creates a feedback loop

Herbert Marcuse could be considered as being one of the first Woke/ Marxist's as he was a Gay Hebrew Marxist Psychologist who is considered the Father of the New Left. It's been said by others that when the unfathomable horror of Marxism were realised, in Soviet Russia and Mao's China, many Marxist's reframed their beliefs as Social Democracy but still pointing to Marxist literature and principles. Another Woke Marxist could be considered to be the Hebrew Writer of "Rules For Radicals", Activist, Saul Alinsky apparently a mentor of Hillary Clinton.