Tuesday, February 24, is the release date of Jamie Glazov’s new book, ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas’. Order it HERE.
The new and updated edition of Jamie Glazov’s seminal work “United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas” could not have come at a more critical moment.
The first edition was published to great acclaim in 2009. Since then, Glazov’s analysis has proved prescient as the Left has grown ever more enamored with cults of death and destruction.
New York City is now led by a Hamas-supporting Muslim “Democratic Socialist” who has promised to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” and refuses to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada.” Minnesota’s elected officials have embraced a Third World welfare state beset by billions of dollars in grift and fraud. Antifa operatives burn federal buildings and riot in the streets while the Left has thrown away every shred of moral principle to dedicate themselves to a Hamas death cult that promotes a medieval morality in which rape is a justifiable weapon of war, women are second-class citizens and homosexuality is punishable by death.
In a heartfelt and illuminating foreword, Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and current U.S. ambassador to Israel, sums up the essential question that Glazov’s work seeks to answer: “How could the most vocal advocates of an unrestrained, unbridled libertinism, one which embraces and even celebrates behaviors that have been stigmatized by virtually all cultures and religions up until the modern age, enter into a strong and apparently untroubled alliance with the adherents of a rigid and uncompromising code that would pronounce the death penalty upon many of precisely the behaviors that their allies celebrate?”
How indeed? “Queers for Palestine” comes instantly to mind.
In “United in Hate,” Glazov enables the reader to make sense of this apparently inscrutable contradiction. The child of Soviet dissidents who were lucky to escape with their lives, Glazov has a deeply personal understanding of the importance of the West’s hard-won freedoms and the horrors and deceptions of a totalitarian society.
During the Cold War, Glazov explains, the Left was able to “mask” its “true allegiance” to despots and dictators under the guise of supporting social justice and equality. Today, however, the pretense is gone. “The Left has torn off its own mask,” states Glazov. “Leftists have gleefully joined hands with those who perpetrated the horrors of October 7 in Israel – and who are infamous for strapping bombs around their waists and blowing themselves up next to women, children and infants in baby carriages, and then celebrating having done so.”
To understand this contradiction at the heart of the Left’s self-conception, it is essential to delve into the perverse psychology fueling their revolutionary crusade. Glazov’s analysis here will ring true for any observer of contemporary American society:
The believer’s totalitarian journey begins with an acute sense of alienation from his own society – an alienation to which he is, himself, completely blind. In denial about the character flaws that prevent him from bonding with his own people, the believer has convinced himself that there is something profoundly wrong with his society. … He fantasizes about building a perfect society where he will, finally, fit in.
Glazov astutely uses the term “believer” to describe disciples of the Left, as they are in the grip of a “progressive faith” that amounts to a “secular religion.”
“As history has tragically recorded, this ‘holy cause’ follows a road that leads not to an earthly paradise, but rather to an earthly hell in all its manifestations,” Glazov surmises. “The political faith rejects the basic reality of the human condition – that human beings are flawed and driven by self-interest – and rests on the erroneous assumption that humanity is malleable and can be reshaped into a more perfect form.”
Glazov cautions us that while the Leftist will never publicly acknowledge the depravity and bloodshed perpetrated to achieve the fantasy of utopia, this “carnage” is in fact “what attracts him in the first place.”
“The lust for destruction is at the root of Marxism,” writes Glazov. “In Marx’s apocalyptic mindset, catastrophe gives rise, ultimately, to a new perfect world.” This is equally true of radical Islam, whose adherents proclaim “We love death as you love life” as they prepare to commit mass slaughter in tribute to Allah.
Glazov takes us on a historical journey highlighting the horrors of the Left’s ongoing crusade to establish this revolutionary utopia and showing – over and over – their infatuation with tyranny, bloodshed and barbarism.
In the second section of his book, appropriately titled “Romance with Tyranny,” he showcases a compendium of atrocities, all perpetrated to achieve the elusive utopia, and all ending in monstrosity. The Bolsheviks followed by Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev, Fidel Castro’s slave camps, Hanoi’s butchers, Mao’s deliberately engineered famine, and the Sandinista’s totalitarian spy networks in Nicaragua, among others.
Glazov then turns his considerable descriptive talents to the analysis of radical Islam to help the reader understand why – in the wake of communism’s fall – the Left has embraced Islam as the next revolutionary crucible.
“Like every other death cult, Islamism wages a ferocious war on the individual,” writes Glazov. “As we have seen in our examination of Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China, a human being’s pursuit of his own desires, passions and pleasures threatens the very foundation of a totalitarian structure. For the totalism to survive, the reality we know as love must be annihilated.”
Glazov’s insights allow the reader to make sense of the modern Left’s love affair with radical Islam and the spectacle of keffiyeh-wearing college students who defend Hamas’s rape, slaughter and torture of innocent Israeli civilians on October 7 as a glorious prison break toward freedom. By bringing insight to the tortured logic and bloodlust of the Left’s crusade, Glazov’s words serve as a beacon for those whose mission is to defeat them.
More than one threat says
This is a repost of a comment made down the bottom of another thread.
Both Islam and all forms of Left Wingism are bad.
Islam has threatened humankind since the 7th Century. It is pervasive, seeks to achieve global supremacy and willing to use violence, the threat of violence and lawfare, to achieve it’s goals.
The Left has threatened humankind since the 18th or 19th Century. It is also extremely dangerous, in so far as it has cloaked itself in political legitimacy and moral virtue. However, Leftism has been prepared to use violence, lies, subversion and deception to achieve its goals. The apparent political legitimacy of the Left gives it Legistative and Executive power and influence in almost every Western country. In that capacity, the Left has opened the door to Islam and continues to act as facilitators and enablers to help Islam erode the West from inside the walls. This Leftist collaboration with Islam occurs despite the threat Islam poses to Leftist women and LGBT supporters.
If Islam is cancer, then the Left is a form of viral pathogen, in that it weakens the Western host and impedes the West’s ability to prevent and innoculate against the civilizational threat posed by Islam.
In grand stategy, sometimes priorities and sequencing decisions are required.
In WW2 the Allies decided upon a grand strategy to first defeat the National Socialists in Germany before turning their full attention toward Japan. The Allies decided that also supporting ideological rivals in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics durin WW2 after June 1941, and overthrowing the Italian Fascists in 1943, were important grand strategy lines of effort, because they allowed the Allies to further disadvantage Germany, thus resulting in Germany’s eventual defeat.
The Free World, currently facing the dual threats from both Islam and the Left, will also need to make grand strategy decisions. Maybe the Free World needs the equivalent of the December 1941 Arcadia Conference in order to form grand strategy on how to tackle the dual threats of the Left and Islam.
Personally I think the Free World must first prioritise the main effort against the Left in the immediate term, before then turning the full weight of attention towards Islam.
Islam is ultimately the more dangerous civilizational threat. But the Left allows Islam to have influence in our respective countries.
It is the Left pushing concepts like mass immigration from Islamic countries, and calling for criticism of Islam to be criminalised and declared Islamophobic.
If the Free World doesn’t do something about the enabling role of the Left regardin the threat from Islam, then the defacto demographic alteration in Western nations will ensure that in coming years and decades the West will never have the means at the ballot box to confront Islam, or the will amongst politicians, the judiciary, the media or academia, to do anything about Islam.
If Islam is the equivalent of WW2’s National Socialist German Workers Party, then the Left could perhaps be said to be the equivalent Italian Fascists.
Knocking the Left out of the ideological war frees up resources to then focus on Islam.