Good video here where a former American BLM leader who had genuine idealism in the cause of improving black lives, and presumably the wellbeing of society as a whole has left the group, after its blatant toxicity became all too blatant. How it has as a core ‘value’ the attacking of the traditional family as an enemy of its ideology even though it is simply unarguably clear that black youths thrive to an incomparably greater degree within a traditional family structure, and conversely are endlessly more likely to struggle where the traditional family structure is broken.
The other example Turley gives is of a Spanish teacher cancelling herself from practicing her profession because of her sin of being white. Critical race theory which is at the centre of this progressivism is unarguably racist. Remember the identity of the race being denigrated isn’t supposed to matter! Once a race is being negatively targeted, that’s racism. This is all obvious stuff but what I want to try to elucidate and what came to mind for me is the contrast or connection between socialism in the form of communism and Nazism, or National Socialism as the German Nazi Party was officially called. I’m not going to try to get into the intricacies of Nazism, and to what degree this “right-wing” movement was genuinely socialist, and which route is actually a bit of a red-herrring. One of the famous drives is the Will to Power, and Aldous Huxley wrote that, “Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen draw over their will to power.” So this psychological drive is far more to the point than the kind of bureaucratic nature of the idealism - the particular make-up of the supposed ideal state the political movement is driven towards achieving. Those are likely to be superficial intellectual aesthetics that lots of words will be wasted on, but it is the drive for power, and more and more of it, that is the core.
And so left-wing radicalism and right-wing radicalism both despise democratic systems of government, and both seek one-party totalitarian rule by of course themselves. So the psychological essence is basically identical, and the doctrinal differences not much more than window-dressing. It means little more than within each system certain elements of society are more likely to be heads of the queue in getting utterly screwed over first. The communists focused on class struggle, and so the middle-classes and upwards were the enemies of the people. They were also allegedly internationalist in scope, even if constrained by realities in having to work within national structures. The National Socialists were far more focused on good and evil divided along racial/ethnic lines with Jews, gypsies, Slavs and so on as prime targets.
And here finally is where I was trying to get to. Socialism is corrosive in its essence, and needs ‘privileged’ elements to serve as targets for negative emotions. It is always focused on oppression. What is interesting or striking now is that we’ll call left-wing socialism or progressivism is now shifting targets, and is now blatantly moving into the racial territories that National Socialism focused on. They focused on particularly the Jews. The progressives now seem actually strongly focused in their direction again, but also whites in general are the most targeted area, and white males particularly. It’s all toxic garbage, but it is interesting to see how they have largely moved away from class struggle, which is obviously felt to no longer be an especially useful target, and have shifted into the racial areas which was the focus of their supposed ideological enemies, the National Socialists. Gender has been very much added to the mix as something to exploit also.
Just a final reminder that the very name Antifa is supposed to be Anti-Fascist, and I’m just recalling something I wrote before about such convenient ‘oppositions’:
Evil was losing respectability, so it divided itself into two halves, and each one justified the other.
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