‘Common Sense Gun Laws’: Obama’s Attack on the Second Amendment
goy @71
There was no particular incident or person that is responsible for me leaving the Left. It was complicated and involved a lot of factors, people, and incidents. However, mostly it was where my intellectual journey took me. It would take a very long post to explain it, and I think it would be an intrusion on the topic of this thread. Very briefly, my entrance into the Left in 1977 and my exit from it in 1987 involved the way my Catholic faith and passion for the poor expressed itself. However, I was not an activist. Rather, as an undergraduate student, then as a Jesuit seminarian and graduate student, it was mainly an intellectual journey that took me down a particular path. I chose that path in response to the critiques of socialism coming from Michael Novak and other traditional theologians. As a budding young academic Marxist picking up on Frankfurt School thought and Liberation Theology currents, I decided to conduct a long investigation into the issues of utopian thought and human nature. What I discovered is that socialism will always be a failure because it is not compatible with human nature. Evil and evil people will always – ALWAYS – disrupt the attempts to bring heaven to earth. We have already seen this in history. The results have been devastating. Horrific. I found out, by doing a lot of investigation into psychology, neuroscience, and genetics that evil itself does have an organic basis as well as a human choice component. Once I realized this, I saw the handwriting on the wall. Furthermore, the fact that other Marxist intellectuals could not or refused to see this told me that something was seriously wrong with them. I also experienced and witnessed, in subtle ways and in very ordinary incidents, the degree of corruption and selfishness of these people. The depths of deceit they are willing to submit to in order to further their aims.
Not all on the Left are personally corrupt. There are many good people who are just fools. They don’t have malevolent motives, but intellectually they are lacking rigorous curiosity about the ideology that governs their worldview.
However, the leaders of the Gramscian Marxist movement are not simpletons. Be very afraid of them, and never let down your guard with them. This is why we must keep our wits about us and wage this war vigorously on the political/ideological front, while being prepared if the worst should be forced on us.
