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 In his article "The Fascist Roots of the American Left," Dinesh D'Souza first compares the boycotting and harrassing that Theodor Lessing experienced in 1925-26 at Hamburg University by the Hitler Youth to that of Charles Murray in March 2017 at Middlebury College: an apt parallel. Then D'Souza traces both events back to the same source: the leading founder of the "Progressive Left," sociologist Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt School that later fled to Columbia University in New York and then to California. The Left prefers to portray Marcuse and his coworkers as "refugees from Nazi Germany, Jews fleeing the prospect of Holocaust. Consequently, the credibility of these men in formulating an anti-fascist doctrine has gone largely unquestioned. In reality, the Frankfurt School’s relationship to Nazism is much more complicated. Marcuse, for instance, was a student and devotee of the philosopher Martin Heidegger, and Heidegger was a lifelong anti-Semite and member of the Nazi Party who championed Hitler’s rise to power." My university major was Central and East European Studies: the history of Germany, Russia and all the countries in between. I speak German and Russian fluently and I've lived there for twenty years, so I know the history and culture. Basically, we can consider politics like a spectrum with the moderates who are calm and cool, rationally considering both right and left positions, at the top of the arc. As one moves to the right or left on the arc, positions become less rational and more emotional, until red merges with blue and becomes purple at the bottom of the arc where they become quite violent and "duke it out behind the barn." The MSM decries any efforts to portray the violence in Charlotteville VA by both sides as "morally equivalent." Of course, Heather Heyer's death by a deranged, neo-Nazi alt-Right extremist far outweighs the mutual beatings each side administered to the other in this instance. But her murder can be compared to the murders of five police in Dallas TX and three police in Baton Rouge LA by BLM-oriented, deranged alt-Left extremists. The first step to totalitarianism is lumping people together using inflammatory or derogatory labels - "Nazi" or "Pig" - thus depriving them of their personhood. Then, by making them less than human, one can feel justified to eliminate these "harmful elements" (not real people created in God's image and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights). The anti-Semitic name-calling by White Nationalists and the alt-Left calling everyone who disagrees with them "haters," "racists" or bigots" must stop. We need to unite around the top of the arc and return to calm, cool, rational discussion of the problems facing society. We must put an end to "identity politics" - lumping everyone on the Left or the Right, or all "Whites" or all "Blacks," together with the extremists at the bottom of the arc. Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |