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Order Jamie Glazov’s new book, ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas’: HERE.
When ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas‘ first appeared, the Obama era was only beginning, Obama’s ‘New Middle East’ was still far on the horizon, and the ‘Iran Deal’ had yet to be dealt. What made Jamie Glazov’s magnum opus so remarkable was how thoroughly it not only recapitulated the ugly history of Communism, but anticipated what was only an emerging alliance between two terrible ideologies united by their hateful mutual ambition to destroy civilization as we know it and love it.
Even as it connected the dots between the two totalitarian ideologies, ‘United in Hate’ also helped conservatives bridge the Cold War era and the 9/11 period. Many conservatives were struggling to understand the nature of the new Jihadist enemy and how it differed from the old Communist foe. The Carter and Reagan era flirtations with the Afghan ‘Mujahadeen’ was only one manifestation of deeper links that had been built with the Saudis, the Pakistanis and other players in Al Qaeda during the Cold War, and some conservatives continued to defend Islam.
Even though the Obama era is in the rearview mirror, the situation today is not so different.
Some conservatives view Islamists as ‘natural allies’ against ‘woke’ leftists the way that some foolishly believed that Islam was a natural opponent, rather than a partner, of Communism. In doing so, they ignore much of history, including the vital role Communists played in spreading and supporting Islamic terrorism, and the Marxist-Islamist riots taking place in major cities now.
Including in Minneapolis.
That is why the return of ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas‘ is badly needed. The book’s vital dive into the bloody murk of Communist brutality and evil, and the ideological underpinnings of Islamic mass murder, is supplemented by a new section of Oct 7 which chillingly and recently brought Marxists and Islamists together with the common aim of not only destroying Israel, but America, and the entire civilized world (the Columbia University pro-Hamas encampment insisted it was “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization”) that connects it to the current events of the moment.
And from Minneapolis to the Hamas riots, the moment couldn’t be more relevant.
“The believer has filled the void left by communism’s disappearance with radical Islam. Instead of living vicariously through the oppression imposed by the KGB or the Red Guards, the believer now satisfies his yearnings through the violence perpetrated by suicide bombers,” Glazov warns in ‘United in Hate’. “We can see a balance in this scale. The less brutal an ideology is, the less interest the average believer has in it and the less praise he is inclined to give it. By contrast, when the death cult is in full gear, the believer supports it most strongly.”
That is what we have seen in the embrace of the BLM riots, the riots for Hamas and now for illegal alien murderers and pedophiles in Minneapolis. The more evil and violent the cause, the more enthusiasm there is for it. Hamas became far more popular after Oct 7. The BLM race riots and the riots in defense of illegal aliens only took off once they became truly violent.
That’s why the abortion rallies petered out and #NoKings recorded sizable crowd sizes, but no real enthusiasm and fire. It’s why the violence of Jihad will always attract the most leftist support. Nothing today can quite compare to the untarnished brutality and genocide of Islam.
That is why Islam and the Left are natural allies. Both seek to realize a utopia ‘tabula rasa’ through revolutionary violence. Violence in this scenario is not just a means, it’s an end in and of itself, a cleansing ceremony that transforms the world, and makes the otherwise unworkable communes and caliphates seem more real, while excusing the inability to maintain them.
What cannot be achieved can always be exterminated. And that is what the triumphs of Communism and Islam come down to, not triumphs of civilization, but conquest and destruction. A new and better world never came into being, whether it was given 70 years in the USSR or over 1,000 years under Islam, Homo Sovieticus and Homo Islamus led only to barbarism.
Those on the right who seek to make common cause with Islam are either fundamentally naive about Islam or are telling on themselves about what sort of new world order they envision.
The destruction of America, specifically, and Western Civilization in general, ‘unites’ the two terror ideologies profiled in ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas‘. Both Marxism and Islam represent warped religions, heresies promising a kingdom of heaven on earth that is to be realized through the gross material agency of the sword, not by heaven.
America is everything they resent and are jealous of. Its perfect imperfection must be shattered and torn apart so that everyone can see once and for all that their way is the only right one.
As Glazov writes in ‘United in Hate‘, radicals “gravitate toward genocide because believers consider themselves higher life forms, their inferiors become not only expendable but necessary waste… this is where the Western Left and militant Islam (like the Western Left and Communism) intersect: human life must be sacrificed for the sake of the idea.”
The pursuit of the ‘idea’ killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Just as it licensed the murder of thousands in Tehran. Reasonable causes, right or wrong, fight for realizable benefits, from territory to individual rights, but the fanatical causes depicted in ‘United in Hate’ fight for the supremacy of their ideology, and whether they are Nazis and Communists or Marxists and Islamists, horseshoe theory draws them together, at least for a time, because their governing monad is ideology, the transcendence of the real by the unreal, the limitations of the world by the unlimited will of the ego through the medium of unlimited power to build a new world order.
What we call ‘extremism’ is really the desire to unmake the real world for an unreal one.
That is why the reemergence of ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas‘ is worth celebrating. A book too long absent returns now at just the right time.
Over the past 25 years, I worried that conservatives might become soft on Islam. Since Oct 7th this worry has grown. Hopefully this will make clear to our friends that the “axis of nihilism,” as I call the red-green alliance, is no accident. I look forward to reading the book.
PS, Islamists “natural allies” like to impose woke only on westerners. See: TRashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Zohran Mamdani, Linda Sarsour, Keith Ellison…
“That is why Islam and the Left are natural allies. Both seek to realize a utopia ‘tabula rasa’ through revolutionary violence.”
To the Jihadi Islamis and the the leftist pussies holding up their telephone cameras:
My ammo stockpile is getting itchy. Watching the muslims in Brooklyn with their asses up in the air, and the Leftist children yelling “Who streets” in front of a line of ICE cops is getting old. Time to put that money where your big mouths are.
I am thinking that, not just being united in hate, these are conspirators with narcissistic personality disorder, totally lacking in empathy, who have conspired against a common hatred; but each conspirator has his own private, all-or-nothing replacement agenda, which, of course, requires subduing/exterminating all conspirators except himself.
There is a view that the undeniable basic nature of man is savage, and that this savagery is acceptable as an intrinsic part of his nature and not necessarily evil. It makes a man a man, a man a man’s man, a man a woman’s man. This is problematic.
It explains a lot about the prevalence of hero and villain violence in the ‘entertainment’ industry.
The globally transmitted footage in real time of the October 7th abominations was dismissed as if it was a vicarious thrilling entertainment for the entire world’s consumption.
Those horrified by the fact that the ‘movie was real’ were a minuscule minority. But hey, what’s reality? What’s reality got to do with anything?
The world has become addicted to violence; and being addicted, it will require more, even greater, more overwhelming violence to satisfy the addiction.
The savages with power in government to wreak havoc have always looked for the opportunity to intensify the addiction, little by little over time, over years, unfortunately for forever, to manipulate, to soften up and to desensitize the masses, their savagery nurtured so that they will do the savages-in-charge dirty work. And here we are today…….
Every so-called protest (read: riot), be it over ICE, Israel, No Kings, etc. is an example of united in rioting against the government and rule of law, or what Daniel Mahoney calls the “persistence of the Ideological Lie.”
Hatred and delusional notions of utopia are the primary motivating factors.
In the US, progressivism behaves as a religion where Obama is its Jesus, Trump is Satan and being born white is the original sin.
Eric Hoffer wrote “all great causes begin as movements, turn into businesses and end up as rackets”.
A friend of mine was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam era and served his obligations as part of Synanon. He stayed with the group for years after his required obligations and later quit the group and wrote a book “Paradise Incorporated” which described his experience. He traced the groups purpose from its beginning as a drug rehab program. It became what he called a life style experience. Finally it ended up as a religion.
Matching the Hoffer quote with my friends book, Hoffer is describing the grifters who profit from a cause long after it has been dealt with. The synanon story is about the followers.
What is driving the religion of wokeness are grifters and followers; hustlers making a good living off the woke grift and followers who are lost souls seeking a meaning in life. Having abandoned organized religion completely, they seek a purpose and find it in the catechisms of race and gender mythology.
The woke revolution is profoundly irrational.
*United in Hate* helped me to understand in a deeper way the core of hatred in the far left worldview: why leftists have so much revulsion against America, why they revel in attacking and undermining, western institutions and values, why they delight when their own country is brought low and have so much tolerance and even romantic idealization for the barbarities of Islamic regimes. The first chapter about the self-alienation that occurs in the western leftist is very effectively argued, and is brilliantly born out by the chapters that follow. I highly recommend this book and am excited to purchase the new edition.
The maturing intersection of red and green is creating synergy toward the destruction of the Western world system. Honestly dont see a way to devolve this beast without national Christian revival. The governments of the former Christian West were not willing to deal with either the red or green movements before this time…how can they deal with both?
They have classes where they teach people how to hate, how to destroy their victims with a false narrative, at the same time how to control others with a false positive narrative.