Engaging Communism for Its Evil ☭
Conservatives come in all shapes and sizes, but they tend to acknowledge health and moderation as worthy goals, while politically correct radicals in recent years have peddled “body positivity” and “fat pride.” The “fat acceptance movement,” like so many other radical identity campaigns, began during the late 1960s. Every polite person eschews mocking the appearance …
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Greed crosses partisan lines, but the same vaunted “studies” that liberals so often invoke reveal the Left to be greedier than the Right. Even the New York Times has admitted that Republican counties give more to charity than those under Democrat control. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the two most radical candidates of the 2020 …
Whittaker Chambers pointed out that communism was not a novel ideology. “It is not new,” wrote Chambers. “It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.’” Chambers called communism “the great …
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“Consciousness-raising” derives from the Marxist concept of “false consciousness,” a phrase that Friedrich Engels coined in an 1893 letter to the Communist historian Franz Mehring. Gramsci, Marcuse, and countless other Marxists intellectuals in and out of the Frankfurt School have relied on the concept to explain why the oppressed masses seem so much better adjusted …
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