How the Left deceives us

A brief guide to Stategies employed to impose Socialism on the masses despite its evident failings

Classical Marxist revolution

Wait for capitalism to collapse by itself and then take over Workers/Peasants revolution

 

 

If the workers wont rise up to bring about the revolution can intellectuals usher in the golden age of Socialism - whether we want it or not?

Postmodernism Redefining Language

 

Multiculturalism Environmentalism

 

Rewrite Ethics

 

 

There you have a short and incomplete overview of some of the ways socialism is being imposed on us by stealth.

 

The Results

select from the approaches on the left, that the left, has taken to bring about nirvana to see the consequences of that approach in the real world.

 

The Results

select from the approaches on the left, that the left, has taken to bring about nirvana to see the consequences of that approach in the real world.

Socialist Revolution

This happened in Russia (workers) and China (peasants)

In both cases when the schemes of the central planners didn't work according to plan the citizenery were blamed and punished.

In any case the noble experiments in the Soviet Union and China failed and they have both moved back to capitalism.

Cuba and North Korea remain as the only two doctrinairely Marxist states (although Venezuaela is going down that path) and neither of these nations serves as a good advertisement for the joys of living under communism - do they?.

Capitalism's Collapse

This has happened in a few places - where it has it hasn't led to nirvana though. Think of Kampuchea (Cambodia) or Zimbabwe as examples.

The funny thing is the people who loath capitalism the most would hardly thrive if it were to collapse.

There isn't much call for Politcal Science or Gender studies graduates in Zimbabwe now is there?

Capitalism may well collapse but if it does, based on past precident, the outcome will be far from good for the majority.

Postmodernism

Fredric Jameson, reckons Postmodernism is the "dominant cultural logic of late capitalism". Implying, of course, capitalism is on its way out.

Postmodernism rejects objective truth and plays word games to construct "narratives" often about "power relations" between disparate groups.

Modern business communication is often reduced to unambiguous bullet points, but the screeds produced by the postmodernists contain long turgid sentences that meander through multiple ideas before eventually reaching a full stop.

read part 2

Postmodernism

Failure to understand what these sentences actually mean is invariably a sign of stupidity, rather than the authors poor sentence structure - or so the postmodernists would like to have us believe.

Personally I think they are just trying to pull the wool over our eyes with obfuscation and ambiguity.

return to part 1

Redefining Language

Out of Postmoderism comes political correctness

Old words and phrases that are deemed "oppressive" are replaced by new more cuddly ones.

Sometimes an old word with no etymological connection to the term being replaced is highjacked because of its positive connotations. Homosexual becomes Gay, Atheist becomes Bright and so forth

At other times convoluted phrasing is used - such as "African-American Frenchman" as once heard on CNN to describe a French citizen of a darker hue.

read part 2

Redefining Language

Although Political Correctness is often subject to mockery it has had its successes, we no longer use the terms "Husband" or "Wife", "Partner" has almost entirely replaced them.

And "Firemen" are now univerally referred to as "Firefighters".

return to part 1

Multiculturalism

Another patent absurdity of the left is the concept that all cultures have equal merit.

Well all except for one that is - Western culture, which gave us the technological and medical advances that have enriched and prolonged our lives is universally condemned as the source of all the world's evils.

Multiculturalism is an endless source of confusion to the left.

read part 2

Multiculturalism

Since all cultures are of equal validity and must be accepted, what does one do about cultural practices that conflict with other left wing belief structures.

The treatment of women and female gentital mutilation in much of the third world is a classic example of this type of conundrum.

return to part 1

Environmentalism

This is a good one - everybody wants to live in a clean pristine environment - everybody without exception.

The left though has made this issue their own and use it to prevent entrepeneurs from developing resources which would benefit us all.

In extreme cases they would have the vast majority resile from 21^st century lifestyles and return to eighteeth century ones.

The benefits of modern technology would be then reserved for an elite few.

read part 2

Environmentalism

The folly of this thinking is evident if you travel to the third world, which is far more degraded environmentally than the first world.

The reason for this is obvious, if your entire existance is predicated on survival you neither have the time nor the resources to "care for the environment".

Never the less, if the environmentalists get their way, the bulk of the population will live in poverty and in that state will be easier to rule over - or so the thinking might go.

return to part 1

Rewrite Ethics

A huge change over the course of my life has been the shift of emphasis from the concept of personal responsibility and duty to your own to one of personal rights and entitlements.

Indeed even with infinite resources the things people now feel entitled to now cannot be provided by the State and the State will never be in a position to do so.

Particularly pernicious has been the slow and subtle shift to the State providing for children what was once the parents responsibility, the vast majority of whom did and did it far better than the State ever will.

read part 2

Rewrite Ethics

Coupled with this has been the breakdown of the family which has helped extend the states role in child upbringing.

Strengthening the family unit is something that politicians of all stripes pay lip service to - even while introducing policies that have just the opposite effect. S59 anyone?

It is the capture of our children and the imposition of leftwing ideologies upon them that presents the greatest hope for those who would remake the world in their own image. A hope doomed to failure but one which may well bring about the destruction of all that we hold dear.

return to part 1