[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Marxista narratívák helyett szabad akarat, egyéni felelősség, krisztusi megváltás / John Horváth

[Emoke Greschik]

*https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/beware-the-godless-narratives-of-the-democratic-debates
<https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/beware-the-godless-narratives-of-the-democratic-debates>*


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*........ Marxist Narratives *The advantage of using these narratives in
these debates is that they* are abstract and predetermined.* Such is the
genius of *identity politics
<https://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/identity-politics-church-teaching>. *They
put people in neat little compartments out of which neither oppressor nor
opposed can get out. A Hispanic woman will always be a victim of systemic
*discrimination*, and no amount of wealth will take her out of victimhood.
A liberal white man will always be the holder of *“white privilege*,” no
matter how many times he confesses his sins in public.

*Narratives work because they are retroactive and have no context*. They
cannot be fixed.* People can be blamed for the deeds of their ancestors,
over which they have no control. People are born oppressors and oppressed*. *A
member of any minority must feel the oppression of the past *that is built
into present systems. No matter how hard he works*, a businessman is
prosperous because he benefits from past iniquities.*

No one can escape the narrative categories. Those who deny the narratives
only confirm their “crimes.” Those who embrace narratives can never give
enough to make things right. In this sense, narratives are useful because
they dispense with the messy facts. One need not prove anything. One must
only repeat like a mantra the narrative that can never be wrong.


*Calling Upon Non-Existent Communities *Liberals benefit from narratives
because they save them from the work of organizing those who they claim to
represent. A narrative allows them to speak in the name of all in their
categories without their consent.

In his book, *The Demon of Democracy*
<https://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/totalitarian-temptation-berlin-wall>,
Polish author Ryszard Legutko notes *how the left uses the term “women,*”
for example, as* “an abstract concept* that does not denote any actual
existing community, but only an imagined collective* made an object of
political worship among feminist organizations and their allies.”*

*The left creates the feminist woman,* bound together in an imaginary
sisterhood that sets the standard of what a woman is supposed to be. *Woe
unto** any real-life, anti-abortion woman who dares to challenge* *this
stereotype*. She risks being made into a non-woman.

Likewise, *the left can call upon non-existent “communities”* that validate
their narratives. It will call forth an abstract Hispanic “community,”
concocted outside the real world of most Hispanics. It will conjure up *an
LGBT+ “community” that does not physically exist but is created by powerful
lobby groups that promote its cause.*


*Calling Forth Opposing Movements *Along with non-existent communities,
opposing groups can also be called forth to control both sides of the
narratives. Thus, the debates will be full of reference to *unnamed
“populists,” “millionaires and billionaires” and special interest groups
that are made to assume the role of oppressor.*

Thus, white *supremacist groups (curiously not called communities)* can be
expanded to represent* all those who support, for example, the rule of law
and commonsense immigration procedures*. Judging from *New York Times*
editorials, these ineffectual fringe groups speak in the name of the
overwhelming majority of American whites who, in reality, have no contact
or sympathy whatsoever with them.


*Why Narratives Work Leftist narratives work especially in times of
decadence and decay*. They find favor when real communities come apart and
leave people without representation or means to act. *Narratives work when
pleasure and gratification rule.*

*The narrative*’s predetermined categories *take from* *people the heavy
onus of personal responsibility for their actions.** If all can be
explained by structural, systemic or societal forces beyond one’s
control, **then
there can be no*  *sin or guilt*. *All can be blamed on others. In
predetermined systems*,* people have no free will. *Things need not be
based on reality.

Indeed, *the irrational desire to be liberated from **the obligations
attached to free will **is nothing new. Superstition, esoteric
philosophies, and fatalistic religions all form justifying narratives that
enslave** fallen humanity* *to unbridled passions and irresponsibility.*


*Breaking the Narratives The narratives can be broken when people *refuse
to fit into the mold, *assume responsibility for their actions*, and step
up to the plate * in the practice of *heroic* virtue*. Narratives must be
challenged by refusing to debate inside their false premises.

*It was the coming of Christ and the establishment of his Church that freed
**humanity from** false narratives*. *The Church introduced the only true
narrative of redemption which liberated humanity from** the chains of sin.**
Christians could progress because they took responsibility for their
actions by exercising free will and striving toward sanctity. * *Christian
charity overflowed and bridged the conflicts that could give rise to class
conflict.* *These true Christian narratives make sense because they find
their end in God, thus endowing people with dignity and purpose.*

Facing a society that is coming apart, the coming debates will resolve
little. Indeed, *outside of** God*,* nothing* *makes sense**. The present
polarization and political chaos will continue inside the left’s jumble of
narratives.*


By John Horvat II <https://www.crisismagazine.com/author/john-horvat>

John Horvat II is the Vice President of the American Society for the
Defense of Tradition, Family and Property and the author of the recent
book Return
to Order <http://www.returntoorder.org/author/editor/>.
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