Engaging Communism for Its Evil ☭
It’s as if Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn knew in 1973 what would happen to the USA in 2021 under the Biden administration: …the heart of the matter is not personal guilt, but social danger. One can imprison an innocent person if he is socially hostile. And one can release a guilty man if he is socially friendly. …
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Humans are both cooperative and competitive, and any group–from a clique of awkward teenagers to a professional soccer team to a military organization–will establish clear hierarchies. Humans are not indistinguishable and equal worker ants. E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said about socialism: “Great idea. Wrong species.” Any …
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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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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[Communist Herbert Marcuse] redefined “clear and present danger” to mean whatever he disliked, much as twenty-first century leftists do when they classify constitutionally protected gun ownership as a “public health crisis” or the predictions of fickle meteorological models as a “national emergency.” Rather than admit the enormity of his plan to reorder society, Marcuse pretended …
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