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Recently I had a great discussion with Jamie Glazov about my book ‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left‘ in which we covered some of that long history of the Left’s war on America.
The Glazov Gang discussion touched on particular themes including the rise of the ‘communes’ in the early 19th century.
The ‘Communists’ from those communes then went on to play a major role in our public policy.
It leads to a line that Mark Tapson quotes in his own very kind review of my book at Front Page Magazine.
“The Utopian Left is convinced that history can be broken away from the past and that its ideology will carry us away to ‘the right side of history,” writes Greenfield. The past is an inconvenient reminder to these utopians that human nature exists – it is not merely a social construction – and that any endeavor to engineer a perfect society inevitably begins with coercion and ends not in the ideal society but in mass misery and death.”
The communes have always proved unworkable, whether in the 19th century or the 20th, but rather than learn from the failure, leftists insisted that they hadn’t tried to make us miserable on a large enough scale.
Having failed at the local level, they aspired to try again at the national level. And having failed at the national level, they aspired to try again on the global level.
The left have a genetic mutation affecting their amygdala. The fear flight reaction and sexuality. Hence the difficulty of reason and change.
No the Left never does learn from their mistakes, because they do not see them as mistakes. They see them as unfair defeats, and double down on them. Socialism has failed everywhere it’s ever been tried, catastrophically, and has cost more than 100 million lives in the last century. Each time it fails it’s supporters claim it wasn’t real socialism or wasn’t done right, or it was sabotaged by outside actors.
Ask them how they would do it right and you will get either crickets or shouted down and cancelled. They can advance no cogent argument in support of socialism because there is no right way to do a wrong thing.
Socialism has always failed, and yet it never goes away because it so strongly appeals to our basest emotions, envy, resentment, and anger at those more accomplished than ourselves.
And these are ably manipulated by the charismatic utilitarian ideologue who invents a multiplicity of issues to divide the people against each other pursuant to his seizure of absolute power over everyone and everything in perpetuity, which is the only real issue being considered. All the other invented issues are to keep us all distracted from that.
The Russian revolution resulted in the Russian people simply exchanging one tyranny for another. In the former the Czar owned everything, in the latter the party owned everything. So much for the dictatorship of the proletariat. Socialism is for the masses, not for the socialist.
The book is great! A very enjoyable read. A new style of historical writing, brilliant yet easy to follow. Only Daniel could do that.
thank you, the goal was to make it as readable and accessible as possible, sometimes in a ‘thriller’ fashion
From Hanoi Jane to Collage Students IF YOU KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT COMMUNISM YOU WOULD HOPE YOU WOULD PRAY ON YOUR KNRRES WE WOULD ONE DAY BECOME COMMUNISTS. Someone needs to remind her that Communism is totally Secular/Humanists No Form of any religion allowed