The Creeping Dangers of Socialism and Political Correctness

This is a very good piece on why socialism and political correctness are so dangerous and harmful to free societies. It is precisely because of these two things that most of Europe will be under Islamic rule in my lifetime, and the new Islamofascist overlords will impose horrific conditions that make Adolf Hitler look like an amateur or a piker and threaten the survival of civilization as we know it. I take it as a duty and personal responsibility to confront and dismatle these two threats at every opportunity, because it beats the alternative of turning into Europe and my childrean and grandchildren being forced to live under sharia law.

Via Gates of Vienna:

"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. (Theodore Dalrymple)

Karl Marx himself has stated that The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism, a sentiment that corresponds almost exactly to the Islamic idea that peace means the absence of opposition to Islamic rule. Cultural Marxism (a.k.a. Political Correctness and Islam) share the same totalitarian outlook and instinctively agree in their opposition to free discussion, and in the idea that freedom of speech must be curtailed when it is offensive to certain groups. Former Muslim Ali Sina notes that there is very little difference between the Left and Islam. What is lacking in both these creeds is the adherence to the Golden Rule. Just as for Muslims, everything Islamic is a priori right and good and everything un-Islamic is a priori wrong and evil, for the Left, everything leftist is a priori oppressed and good and everything rightist is a priori oppressor and evil. Facts don't matter. Justice is determined by who you are and not by what you have done. Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means expediently lying when telling the truth is not expedient. (emphasis mine --Ed.) This practice is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal. Sina also quotes historian Christopher Dawson in writing: It is easy enough for the individual to adopt a negative attitude of critical skepticism. But if society as a whole abandons all positive beliefs, it is powerless to resist the disintegrating effects of selfishness and private interest. Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. This will be the end result of Multiculturalism, and one suspects that this was the point of it to begin with.

...Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, who has personal experience with living under Socialism, warns that it may not be as dead as many seem to think: We can probably confidently say that its hard version communism is over. However, fifteen years after the collapse of communism I am afraid, more than at the beginning of its softer (or weaker) version, of social-democratism, which has become under different names, e.g. the welfare state the dominant model of the economic and social system of current Western civilization. It is based on big and patronizing government, on extensive regulating of human behavior, and on large-scale income redistribution. The explicit socialism has lost its appeal and we should not have it as the main rival to our ideas today. Klaus warns that illiberal ideas are making a comeback in different shapes: These ideas are, however, in many respects similar to it. There is always a limiting (or constraining) of human freedom, there is always ambitious social engineering, there is always an immodest enforcement of a good by those who are anointed (Thomas Sowell) on others against their will. The current threats to liberty may use different hats, they may better hide their real nature, they may be more sophisticated than before, but they are in principle the same as always.

I have in mind environmentalism (with its Earth First, not Freedom First principle), radical humanrightism (based as de Jasay precisely argues on not distinguishing rights and rightism), ideology of civic society (or communitarism), which is nothing less than one version of post-Marxist collectivism which wants privileges for organized groups, and in consequence, a refeudalization of society. I also have in mind multiculturalism, feminism, apolitical technocratism (based on the resentment against politics and politicians), internationalism (and especially its European variant called Europeanism) and a rapidly growing phenomenon I call NGOism.

Given the fact that Muslims in Canada had quite recently been pushing for the partial implementation of sharia laws in the country (before the recent discovery of a massive terrorist bombing plot of almost 2 dozen young Muslims in Canada --Ed.), one would suspect that smart integration would mean that non-Muslims should demonstrate a little more appeasement. After all, if Canadian authorities listen to the advice of their compatriot Naomi Klein, these planned mass-killings of Canadian civilians were all due to Canadian racism and because the country wasnt Multicultural enough. Muslims want to kill Canadians, Canadians smile back, tell them how much they respect them and ask what more they can do to please them.

This is what Political Correctness leads to in the end. It's not funny and it's not a joke. Political Correctness kills. It has already killed thousands of Western civilians, and if left unchecked it may soon kill entire nations or, in the case of Europe, entire continents. As I have stated before, Islam is only a secondary infection, one that we could otherwise have had the strength to withstand. Cultural Marxism has weakened the West and made us ripe for a takeover. It is cultural AIDS, eating away at our immune system until it is too weak to resist Islamic infiltration attempts. It must be destroyed, before it destroys us all.

Very few Americans realize that Political Correctness is in fact Marxism in a different set of clothes. As that realization spreads, defiance will spread with it. At present, Political Correctness prospers by disguising itself. Through defiance, and through education on our own part (which should be part of every act of defiance), we can strip away its camouflage and reveal the Marxism beneath the window-dressing of sensitivity, tolerance and multiculturalism. Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job. Multiculturalism is not about tolerance or diversity, it is an anti-Western hate ideology designed to dismantle Western civilization. If we can demonstrate this, an important part of the battle has already been won."