J.-F. Revel, the last great French political thinker, defined the mental quality of “useful idiots” as the “totalitarian temptation”. The fight of these “idiots” against the capitalism has a precise sense. The capitalism necessarily products prosperity and democracy, i.e. makes impossible revolution as the condition to create a totalitarian system, to transform a society of free citizens in a crowd of slaves. That is why the same “idiots”, which supported before communism, now support Islam in hope that their totalitarian dream at last will be realized.
Absolutely, whatever it takes to re-vitalize the totalitarian dream…that which has never worked and/or come to fruition in any human society, but, hey, the fact that it’s a completely unworkable idea at odds with human nature (even the Chicoms have essentially admitted that) should never stand in the way of re-introducing it anyway you can into the mix.
I like Jean François Revel’s essays very much. Refreshingly “un French”.
