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<div class="gmail-fusion-post-title-meta-wrap"><h1 class="entry-title gmail-fusion-post-title gmail-fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" style="line-height:1.33">When Hitler Seduces Marx</h1> <div class="gmail-fusion-meta-info"><div class="gmail-fusion-meta-info-wrapper">By <span class="gmail-vcard"><span class="gmail-fn"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/author/joseph-pearce" title="Posts by Joseph Pearce" rel="author">Joseph Pearce</a></span></span><span class="gmail-fusion-inline-sep">|</span><span>April 30th, 2021</span><span class="gmail-fusion-inline-sep">|</span>Categories: <a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/category/politics/communism" rel="category tag">Communism</a>, <a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/category/senior-contributors/joseph-pearce" rel="category tag">Joseph Pearce</a>, <a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/category/philosophy" rel="category tag">Philosophy</a>, <a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/category/politics" rel="category tag">Politics</a>, <a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/category/senior-contributors" rel="category tag">Senior Contributors</a></div></div> </div>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><a href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/04/when-hitler-seduces-marx-joseph-pearce.html?mc_cid=163892e296&mc_eid=3130c651ef">https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/04/when-hitler-seduces-marx-joseph-pearce.html?mc_cid=163892e296&mc_eid=3130c651ef</a></p><p style="text-align:justify">It seemed inconceivable that <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Marx could
be seduced by Hitler.</b></span> And yet<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> “critical race theory” is as obsessed with
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> race</span> as were the Nazis.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>According to the new generation of Marxists,
the political struggle is not about a struggle between <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the classes </span>but a
struggle between<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> the races.</span></b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><a href="https://i1.wp.com/theimaginativeconservative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Marx.jpg?ssl=1"><img class="gmail-alignright gmail-size-medium gmail-wp-image-151434 gmail-jetpack-lazy-image gmail-jetpack-lazy-image--handled" src="https://i1.wp.com/theimaginativeconservative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Marx.jpg?resize=300%2C199&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="199"></a>Many
years ago, when I was an angry teenager, I saw a play by the Marxist
playwright David Edgar which was intended to expose the false philosophy
underlying white supremacist ideology. The only scene in the play which
I recall was an angry exchange between a sympathetically portrayed
Marxist and his antagonist, a white supremacist activist. In this
dialogue the Marxist tried to convince his interlocutor that political
history was centred on class struggle, whereas the white supremacist
responded that, on the contrary, it was centred on the struggle between
the races. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>The Marxist sought <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">liberation </span>in class war, the white
supremacist in race war. One sought to sow discord in <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">society</span> by
dividing <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">one class</span> against <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">another, </span>the other by dividing <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">one race </span>
against<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> the other.</span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> In spite of their differences, an objective observer
could see that</span><b> they shared a common hatred of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">those in power </span>and a
common belief that<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> political victory </span>would take violence and the
cancelling of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">their opponents.</span><span id="gmail-more-151394"></span></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Even in the wildest reaches of the
imagination, I could not have foreseen that the Marxist would come to
endorse the white supremacist view of history. It seemed inconceivable
that Marx could be seduced by Hitler. And yet “critical race theory” is
as obsessed with race as were the Nazis. According to the new generation
of Marxists, the political struggle is not about class war but race
war; it’s not about a struggle between the classes but a struggle
between the races. Like the Nazis, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the critical race theorists don’t
believe that <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">racism is a prejudice</span> in individuals</span> but is something
<span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)">determined by history. </span></b></span>It is not something evil in the heart of men but
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>something <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)">systemic in history itself</span></b></span>.<span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"> <b>Since this is so, the solution is
not<u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span></u></b></span><u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>teaching and preaching the love of neighbour</b></span></u> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>but the destruction of
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the “system.”</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> <b>And since the “system” is history itself,</b></span> t<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>he final
solution is the cancelling of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the past</span>,</b></span> the utter erasing of the
collective cultural memory of the people.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">In this race war on culture there must
be no mercy. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>The critical race theorist demonizes </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>“dead white men” </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>as
surely as the Nazis demonized</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jews.</b></span> They are the race enemy, the
untermenschen, who must be eradicated at all costs.<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> Thus, we see demands
that </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>classical music</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>must be cancelled<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>because it is mostly <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the work </span>of
dead white men.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>The Nazis burned <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">books whose authors were Jewish</span>; </b><b>the
neo-Nazi race theorists seek to ban </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>anything and everything whose
authors were dead white males</b></span>. It’s all about skin colour. J<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>ust as the
Nazis insisted that there’s no such thing as<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> a good Jew,</span> today’s race
theorists insist that there’s no such thing as <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">a good “dead white male.”</span>
</b></span>As for living white males, they are tainted by the original sins of
their ancestors. They are to blame by association. They are guilty of
crimes committed centuries before they were born. They carry the mark of
Cain, the stain of their DNA, which makes them the scapegoats for
everything that makes the race theorists angry. They must be cancelled.
Exterminated. Crucified.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">As I ponder <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the way that Hitler has
successfully seduced Karl Marx</b></span>, I am reminded once again of the scene
between <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the angry Marxist and the equally angry white supremacist </b></span>in
David Edgar’s play. The irony is that they have much more in common with
each other than they realize. On the purely intellectual or
philosophical level, they are children of the so-called Enlightenment. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">They</span><b> are descended from Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Spengler, and other
historical determinists who believe that problems and their solutions
are systemic, not <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">moral.</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>They see things in systemic terms of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">“right” </span>
and<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> “left,”</span></b><b> not in</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>moral terms of right and <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">wrong</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>. They believe in
hating and cancelling their <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">enemies</span>, not in <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">loving and forgiving <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">them</span>.</span>
</b></span>They believe in systems so perfect that nobody will need to be good,
whether it be the Dictatorship of the Proletariat or the Thousand Year
Reich. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>They believe that <span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)">the perfect system</span> is not <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">merely worth dying
for </span>but is also worth killing for. </b><b>They are willing to practice what
they preach</b></span>, as history has demonstrated all too gruesomely,<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> with
guillotines, gas chambers, and gulags. They are ready to adopt final
solutions, such as the proto-communist genocide in the Vendée, the
Stalinist genocide in the Ukraine, or the Hitlerite genocide in the
concentration camps of the Third Reich.</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify">If the critical race theorists spent
less time hating their neighbours for the colour of their skin and more
time studying the history that they seek to cancel, they would see that
it is they and not any particular race who have been humanity’s bane.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Returning to the scene between the
Marxist and the white supremacist in David Edgar’s play, I would say
that the only rational response to such hateful anger and its
ideological theorizing is to do what Mercutio does with respect to the
feuding Capulets and Montagues in <em>Romeo and Juliet</em>. We should
call down a plague on both their houses. Having done so, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>we should seek a
different and better solution to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">society’s <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">ills,</span></span> rooted in loving and
forgiving our neighbours, not </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>in hating and cancelling</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> them.</b><b> It is in
the love of neighbour, which is ultimately rooted in t<u>he love of God, </u>
that the only final solution to <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">pride and prejudice</span> can be found.</b></span></p></div></div>
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