Wednesday, February 17, 2021

John O'Sullivan on the Marxist Revolution that's upon Us

By An Old Friend
Sat, Aug 29, 2020 1:12 a.m.

John O'Sullivan on the Marxist Revolution that's upon Us

AOF: What O'Sullivan writes below is a treatment of a much longer article by Yoram Hazony (which I haven't yet read).  John Derbyshire recommended both.


Donald Trump personifies resistance to the Marxist revolution.


The Republican National Convention has foregone having an actual platform, preferring instead to ask support for whatever President Trump decides in due course — what the Brits called a "Doctor's Mandate" in the 1931 election, which returned a conservative National Government to do whatever it took to solve a banking and currency crisis. That may not be Caesarism exactly, but it looks unseemly to me, and if the program is to be whatever Trump thinks necessary, perhaps the word "doctor" doesn't exactly draw attention to his strengths. That may not mean overmuch, though. In the older conventional language of partisan politics, a Trump administration's policies are unlikely to be "conservative" anyway. There's not a green eyeshade in sight around today's White House. But its ideological politics are a different and healthier matter. The GOP's convention is happily uninterested in policy except as a target for attacking the Democrats. But it is a powerfully staged fiesta of popular conservative resistance to the progressive-cum-Marxist revolution that it sees ravaging Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, and wherever Democrats rule today — and threatening the rest of America, in particular suburbia, tomorrow. I think it's hitting home.

Media, political, and cultural critics will doubtless pooh-pooh this picture. But as Andrew Sullivan has pointed out acutely (admittedly in a very different context), he was repeatedly assured that his anxieties over the spread of critical race analysis were hugely overblown until one day the New York Times abandoned such antique notions as impartiality, let alone objectivity, and published in its 1619 Project the argument that the United States was a project for the preservation of slavery from the first as . . . well, as if it were an old-fashioned truth. Schools have now declared it will be taught in their history curriculum. And it soon became clear that America's schools, colleges, corporations, and cultural institutions were staffed at all levels by people to whom "Woke" ideology is the commonsense of our day, to the point that those who deny it can be rightly dismissed, silenced, or otherwise punished.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The liberal by not saying STOP enables. Silence is complicity. Hell, the liberal might even hoping for what is occurring all along.