Why are the left so in love with communism, socialism, marxism, maoism, etc, etc???
Maybe they should move, GTF out...
THE LEFT'S CONTINUING HOMAGE TO COMMUNISM
Why progressives pay no price for clinging to their murderous ideology.
May 5, 2017
Bruce Thornton
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One hundred days into Trump’s administration, of course, nothing has happened that comes even close to beginning a fascist transformation of America. But the persistent phenomenon of the eternal fascist threat raises old questions about and other failed collectivists political ideologies.
Why is “fascism” or “right-wing” an epithet, but “communist” or “left-wing” isn’t? Why do the media, even those considered conservative, use a phrase like “extreme right” or “hard right,” but seldom use “extreme left” or “hard left”? Why is Le Pen’s National Front regularly described with such epithets, but Communist Parties or radical Green Parties rarely are? And why is there the vaguely honorific cliché “a man of the left,” but not the equivalent “a man of the right”?
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And why do there still exist legal Communist Parties in the West, and a superpower like China that still identifies itself as communist, but Nazism is a despised fringe cult that gets attention only because it’s a useful political demon for the left? If murderous tyranny is our standard for condemning and ostracizing Nazism, why isn’t it equally used to judge and proscribe the most murderous tyranny in human history?
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In other words, irrational beliefs, gratifying myths, and the craving for higher meaning and the social status that comes from being the champions of “progress” and “science”––as we saw in last week’s fatuous “March for Science”––have allowed a murderous ideology to keep its respectable place in our culture and politics. Meanwhile “fascism” has been drained of any historical meaning, the lessons of its horrendous crimes lost in a crude epithet. Once more the self-proclaimed party of “reason” and “objectivity” reveals itself to be an incoherent and intolerant cult.
The Left's Continuing Homage to Communism
Maybe they should move, GTF out...
THE LEFT'S CONTINUING HOMAGE TO COMMUNISM
Why progressives pay no price for clinging to their murderous ideology.
May 5, 2017
Bruce Thornton
...
One hundred days into Trump’s administration, of course, nothing has happened that comes even close to beginning a fascist transformation of America. But the persistent phenomenon of the eternal fascist threat raises old questions about and other failed collectivists political ideologies.
Why is “fascism” or “right-wing” an epithet, but “communist” or “left-wing” isn’t? Why do the media, even those considered conservative, use a phrase like “extreme right” or “hard right,” but seldom use “extreme left” or “hard left”? Why is Le Pen’s National Front regularly described with such epithets, but Communist Parties or radical Green Parties rarely are? And why is there the vaguely honorific cliché “a man of the left,” but not the equivalent “a man of the right”?
...
And why do there still exist legal Communist Parties in the West, and a superpower like China that still identifies itself as communist, but Nazism is a despised fringe cult that gets attention only because it’s a useful political demon for the left? If murderous tyranny is our standard for condemning and ostracizing Nazism, why isn’t it equally used to judge and proscribe the most murderous tyranny in human history?
...
In other words, irrational beliefs, gratifying myths, and the craving for higher meaning and the social status that comes from being the champions of “progress” and “science”––as we saw in last week’s fatuous “March for Science”––have allowed a murderous ideology to keep its respectable place in our culture and politics. Meanwhile “fascism” has been drained of any historical meaning, the lessons of its horrendous crimes lost in a crude epithet. Once more the self-proclaimed party of “reason” and “objectivity” reveals itself to be an incoherent and intolerant cult.
The Left's Continuing Homage to Communism
