The underlying message of this book is that the modern left must be stopped and thoroughly discredited before they do society real and irrevocable harm.
A nice thought, but it ain’t gunna happen.
That’s an important message. But nobody is going to read a 1000 page book.
The real danger doesn’t come from the hard left minority. The real danger comes from the quislings that dominate the right who won’t FIGHT!!
". . . communism, socialism, Marxism, fascism, and, in the United States, progressivism and liberalism.Kudos to these writers for laying out the philosophical differences between "the ideas of liberty" and "the ideas of tyranny.""While different from each other in many important ways, all of these models originally shared several important philosophical ideas. These include an aversion to Christianity and religion generally, to capitalism, and to the concept of private property; a belief in the perfectibility of mankind; a belief in the superiority of reason over faith; a claim to an affinity with the working classes; and the promise of a world of peace, equality, and prosperity, free from the evils that religion had foisted on the mankind."
America was founded, and its Constitution framed, around the principles and ideas stated in the Declaration of Independence.
The Progressive (Regressive) ideology which threatens freedom constitutes the very "harbinger" of tyranny for future generations, and is well-described in the article and the corresponding work to which it refers.
"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver
*bump*
No Socialists = No Socialism
Added to my reading list.