How do violent leftists delude themselves into thinking they’re good?

 We all want to feel as though we’re on the side of good, on the side of the angels.  Most leftists — but not all — know that communists, socialists, and yes, even fascists are on the left.  So it’s probably hard for them to wrap their minds around the fact that they are on the same side of history as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, etc.  How could they be “good” while following the purveyors of the worst evils of modern history?

This happens to be a critical current topic because of the “assassination culture” and “ideological possession” that have become so pervasive on the violent left in recent days.  Not to mention the fact that the “Nazi tattoo guy,” AKA Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, is the New Face of the Democrat party and is a communist, mimicking the fact that in the article on Brown Bolshevism in the April 1939 issue, The Atlantic noted that “former communists ... made the best Nazis.”

Most political spectrum models show that moving left means more authoritarianism, oppression, and mass murder on an industrial scale, with numbers that boggle the mind and atrocities that overwhelm the sensibilities.  The left’s socialist national agenda is rife with the stepping stones to the same dead end: censorship, mass surveillance, authoritarian controls over people, and the deprivation of their means of self-defense.

Leftist-collectivist ideologies are really just “lite” versions of the authoritarian horror shows seen in the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact, and any other remaining socialist nations.

Looking back in time offers a clue to how they cope.

Back in the day, 100 years ago, in the 1920s and ’30s and the early days of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, the left could fantasize about “remaking the world.” Leftists could try to ignore reports that socialists filled Soviet jails and that the only building going on was the construction of more prisons.  The justification was that they needed to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

They lucked out in that another national party of socialists was just as bad, and so began the lie that because they were the “non-Marxist” variant (as though that makes any difference), they were somehow, some way “far-right.”

Never mind that the national party of socialists expressly voiced opposition to the red front and reaction (far-right) in their co-national anthem:

Kam’raden die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen

 

(Comrades shot by the Red Front and Reaction)

Marschier’n im Geist in unsern Reihen mit

 

(March in spirit with us in our ranks.)

One of the left’s prime condemnations of the Brown Bolsheviks of the Third Reich was that they persecuted their political rivals, just like the Red Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union.  

The sinister and violent left can salve its conscience with the simple expedient that the far left’s excesses are “balanced out” by the ridiculous idea that non-Marxist variants of socialism were somehow “right-wing” and a dire threat to “democracy.”

Never mind that many of us have been accumulating and documenting over the years the disturbing similarities between the Democrats and the Brown Bolsheviks of the Third Reich, to the point that we have more than 50 predominant traits between the two.

It’s time we finally rip the bandage off this pervasive leftist lie and stop coddling the violent left in its delusions.  Moving to the left side of the political spectrum means bigger, more authoritarian, and unlimited government.  If leftists can’t deal with that fact, then maybe they need a different set of values.

D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history; former director of communications for a civil rights organization; and a longtime contributor to conservative websites.  Find him on Substack.

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