1. Warnings abound, but the most clear and specific might have come from a Russian novelist/historian who died on this day.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a]Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Wikipedia (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and Communism and helped to raise global awareness of the Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp system.
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2. While Orwell wrote this: “Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them," Solzhenitsyn put it in terms that he might hve meant for the current Leftist intellectuals who fuel the Democrat Party.
Solzhenitsyn writes about the intelligentsia in a way that echoes the social justice insanity at present.
"The most devastating critique of the Russian intelligentsia was mounted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in a 1974 essay called Educationdom (Obrazovanshchina). Solzhenitsyn traced the sources of the Bolshevik revolution and its cataclysmic aftermath to the vices of the old intelligentsia, which included “a sectarian, artificial distancing from the national life,” unsuitability for practical work, an obsession with egalitarian social justice that “paralyzes the love of and interest in truth,” and a “trance-like, inadequate sense of reality.” Intelligentsia Elegy
Worse still for Solzhenitsyn was the intelligentsia’s fervent rejection of Christianity, replaced by faith in scientific progress and a mankind-worshiping idolatry. This atheism was all-embracing and uncritical in its belief that science is competent to dispose of all religious questions, finally and comprehensively. In Solzhenitsyn’s view, the intelligentsia had yielded to the temptation of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor—may the truth rot, if people are the happier for it."
Intelligentsia Elegy
3. He's speaking of the Soviet Bolsheviks.....but it fits the Democrats like a glove.
It's a checklist for the Democrats and Liberals!...an obsession with egalitarian social justice paralyzes the love of and interest in truth hypnotic faith in its own ideology and intolerance for any other; and the adoption of “hatred as a passionate ethical impulse fervent rejection of Christianity."
4. “A social-justice agenda, therefore, is a political commitment, and politics is not disinterested. Indeed, it is often tribal. Such tribalism caricatures political opponents and whitewashes political leaders, ignoring facts along the way…”
The Cost of America’s Cultural Revolution
5. "While many Westerners recall Nazi-run death camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald, few remember Soviet death camps named Kolyma and Magadan. True, Alexander Solzhenitsyn mentioned them in "The Gulag Archipelago" as did Varlam Sjalamov in "Tales from Kolyma," but as the late Swedish journalist Andres Kung wrote, "There are people who have still not heard of these communist extermination camps -- even though the communists preceded the Nazis in creating such camps and killed an even larger number of people in their camps."
Cal Thomas Archives - Monument to murder
"Bernie Campaign Staffer Advocates Gulags for People Who Disagree"
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a]Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Wikipedia (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and Communism and helped to raise global awareness of the Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp system.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
2. While Orwell wrote this: “Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them," Solzhenitsyn put it in terms that he might hve meant for the current Leftist intellectuals who fuel the Democrat Party.
Solzhenitsyn writes about the intelligentsia in a way that echoes the social justice insanity at present.
"The most devastating critique of the Russian intelligentsia was mounted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in a 1974 essay called Educationdom (Obrazovanshchina). Solzhenitsyn traced the sources of the Bolshevik revolution and its cataclysmic aftermath to the vices of the old intelligentsia, which included “a sectarian, artificial distancing from the national life,” unsuitability for practical work, an obsession with egalitarian social justice that “paralyzes the love of and interest in truth,” and a “trance-like, inadequate sense of reality.” Intelligentsia Elegy
Worse still for Solzhenitsyn was the intelligentsia’s fervent rejection of Christianity, replaced by faith in scientific progress and a mankind-worshiping idolatry. This atheism was all-embracing and uncritical in its belief that science is competent to dispose of all religious questions, finally and comprehensively. In Solzhenitsyn’s view, the intelligentsia had yielded to the temptation of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor—may the truth rot, if people are the happier for it."
Intelligentsia Elegy
3. He's speaking of the Soviet Bolsheviks.....but it fits the Democrats like a glove.
It's a checklist for the Democrats and Liberals!...an obsession with egalitarian social justice paralyzes the love of and interest in truth hypnotic faith in its own ideology and intolerance for any other; and the adoption of “hatred as a passionate ethical impulse fervent rejection of Christianity."
4. “A social-justice agenda, therefore, is a political commitment, and politics is not disinterested. Indeed, it is often tribal. Such tribalism caricatures political opponents and whitewashes political leaders, ignoring facts along the way…”
The Cost of America’s Cultural Revolution
5. "While many Westerners recall Nazi-run death camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald, few remember Soviet death camps named Kolyma and Magadan. True, Alexander Solzhenitsyn mentioned them in "The Gulag Archipelago" as did Varlam Sjalamov in "Tales from Kolyma," but as the late Swedish journalist Andres Kung wrote, "There are people who have still not heard of these communist extermination camps -- even though the communists preceded the Nazis in creating such camps and killed an even larger number of people in their camps."
Cal Thomas Archives - Monument to murder
"Bernie Campaign Staffer Advocates Gulags for People Who Disagree"
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