I trust those who have lived within Leftist totalitarian states to offer a clearer critique than dreamers who have never done so. As we have attempted to do in many essays here, Vasko Kohlmayer explores the cultural death wish implicit in what remains of Marxism. Always seemed strange to me that Western Civ. is the only civilization that welcomes self-critique: just try it in China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia or North Korea - I guess we are superior in that way. One quote:
Regardless of its rhetoric or avowed objective, the driving force behind the Left’s every movement is to strike against some aspect of Western society. Environmentalism, for instance, hits at the West’s economic foundation of free-market capitalism. Multiculturalism seeks to unravel its cultural coherence. The gay rights movement strikes at its moral underpinnings, and so on. The Left, of course, will deny the real reason for its actions. But to evaluate the true value of any act we need to look at its effect not the rhetoric behind it. And the effects of the Left’s actions are invariably – in one way or another – destructive to the West.
The Left’s gains have been greatly facilitated by its ingenious modus operandi, which is to cloak its destructive intent in the language of good causes. Civil rights, gender equality, ecological preservation are among some of its favorite ploys. The ostensible caring is not real, for these are not at all what the Left’s efforts are ultimately about.
