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Bezig met laden... The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitzdoor David Horowitz
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"David Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communist-progressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one of its founders. When the wreckage he and his comrades had created became clear to him in the mid-1970s, he left. Three decades of second thoughts then made him this movement's principal intellectual antagonist. "For better or worse," as Horowitz writes in the preface to this, the first volume of his collected conservative writings, "I have been condemned to spend the rest of my days attempting to understand how the left pursues the agendas from which I have separated myself, and why." When Horowitz began his odyssey, the left had already escaped the political ghetto to which his parents' generation and his own had been confined. Today, it has become the dominant force in America's academic and media cultures, electing a president and achieving a position from which it can shape America's future. How it achieved its present success and what that success portends are the overarching subjects of Horowitz's conservative writings. Through the unflinching focus of one singularly engaged witness, the identity of a destructive movement that constantly morphs itself in order to conceal its identity and mission becomes disturbingly clear. In Volume I of these writings, "My Life and Times," Horowitz reflects on the years he spent at war with his own country, collaborating with and confronting radical figures like Huey Newton, Tom Hayden and Billy Ayers, as he made his transition from what the writer Paul Berman described as the American left's "most important theorist" to its most determined enemy"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Oakland and Moscow and Beijing - sounds good - dreadful, damaging, and murderous in application (Black Panthers, Weathermen, Bolsheviks, Mao's Red Guard - soul brothers, baby.) Some of his points and contentions.
The left is a religious movement.
Leftist air of superiority - in academia and politics - despite the complete and utter collapse of every major socialist/communist country and enterprise ever attempted.
The Black Panthers were a criminal gang that preyed upon the ghetto. Huey Newton was a murderer.
The attempt to transform natural inequalities into social equality only leads to greater and more brutal inequality; similarly, the attempt to transform individual diversity into social unity results inevitably in a totalitarian state.
Socialism makes men poor beyond their wildest dreams.
Every leftist revolution begins with a rape of the present and continues as a cannibalization of the past. Every leftist government is a colonizer of its own country. Such politically cannibalistic countries are doomed to failure as they consume more wealth than they produce.
Conservative is an attitude rooted in the past instead of, as with liberals, hopeful expectations about the future and desired outcomes ("a better world").
Leftist ideology is committed to an imagined future - attacking that desired future provokes a moral response as opposed to an empirical response - "Are you for or against the equality of human beings"? To deny liberal ideology shows an unwillingness to embrace a liberated future and shows, they assert, a desire to will the imperfections and injustices of the past on the present order. This is why liberals instinctively hostile to the conservative view point.
Liberals have transformed the idea of America from a covenant to secure liberties to a claim for entitlements. They have expanded the powers of the state and constricted the realm of freedom. They have eroded the private economy and stifled individual initiative. By race based legislation and the concept of group rights they have subverted the neutrality of the law and the very idea of a national identity. Conservatives are now the conunterculture. "The terror of ordinary existence".
Tom Hayden. Absolute traitor to our country. Used Vietnam as background for his war against the US government - once the NVA prevailed - he ignored the millions butchered by his beloved communists - it wasn't useful to him any longer. See, his propaganda film "Introduction to the Enemy".
The left never really cared about the Vietnamese and the Cambodians. When the USA went home they did not protest about the slaughter of millions by their erstwhile buddies, the NVA/Khmer Rouge.
Stoic realism is what being a conservative is about. Accept the limits that life places on human hope.
The left is an obstinate, compulsive, destructive belief in the fantasy of change and in the hope of human redemption.
The greatest and most pernicious human folly is to attempt to stifle the truth in the name of hope.
We are born and we die. If there is no God to rescue us, we are nothing. (