MISSION 

MARXISM ASSERTS THAT the indispensable concept for interpreting all of human history is economic social  class struggle. Nazism, alternatively, asserts that that key concept for elucidating history is a gigantic struggle between the races. Finally, Islamofascism asserts that it is a struggle between the world’s religions that will bring history to its resolution.

 All three of these assertions are plainly absurd. There just is no such thing as a single key concept for interpreting all of human history. These theories amount only to hidden agendas hiding behind a cloak of cosmic truth, so called. The failure of their energetic attempts to permanently superimpose such concepts on masses of people is proof enough that those concepts are very much removed from reality. There is no empirical verification whatsoever for any of them, they consist simply of self-interested, unsubstantiated, and irrational dogma and psychopathology hiding behind a facade of science, or revealed truth. But real science must be more than pseudoscience, and revelation must be more than sociopathic mayhem.

 Furthermore, all three of these absurdities lead ineluctably to totalitarianism, because their distortions and oversimplifications are designed to mine the resentment in the human heart, and exploit it with all possible violence.  This exploitation is part of the forging of the totalitarian state. The empirical evidence for that is off the charts.

 Drawing further upon the work of Hannah Arendt, we can say that four of the chief characteristics of a totalitarian regime are (1) total domination; (2) abolition of private life, or, the subordination of the individual to the state and its ideology; (3) the internal, domestic security forces as the most powerful institution in the country; and (4) an a priori, foolish ideology divorced from experience and from common sense.

 All three of the above regime types satisfy the requirements of these characteristics, and therefore have a powerful tendency towards bringing about an unequivocal totalitarian state. People who love freedom, though, owe it to the sacrifices of those who went before to do what we can to make totalitarianism impossible. History is not the well-written story they say it is– it is, rather, in reality, the struggle between the hatred and the love of life.

Tony Downing