France is burning; so are Brussels, Milan, and Turin. Barbarians run wild beneath Palestinian and Algerian flags. Politicians are impotent, law enforcement is helpless, and the media lament the “difficult conditions” these “poor children” face in their schools. If this is not yet a total collapse, it is certainly the harbinger of one.
Western Europe has administered a lethal dose of poison to itself, and is now writhing in convulsions. This process began long before the advent of multiculturalism, progressives, globalists, or the “red-green alliance.”
I shall attempt to reconstruct the story of a suicide committed by a once-great culture.
Since the French Revolution, a passion for revolutionary madness and the dream of a “strong leader” has fatally poisoned the soul of the Western intellectual.
Thomas Carlyle didn’t hide his admiration for “the Incorruptible” Robespierre (“the incorruptible sea-green Robespierre”), and called the French Revolution, with its Jacobin terror and mass atrocities, “the crowning phenomenon of our Modern Time.”
The 20th century created new idols. Walter Duranty, an Anglo-American journalist who served as the Moscow Bureau Chief for The New York Times, ardently denied the Holodomor: “There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation… Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda.” (Up to 4.5 million people died in Ukraine alone during the Holodomor of 1932–1933. Today, that same New York Times grieves over a “famine in Gaza,” where about 560 tons of food are delivered per day).
Bernard Shaw, Romain Rolland, Aragon, Barbusse, and Jean-Richard Bloch glorified Stalin! Rolland praised Stalin for his “modesty and humanism.”
Bernard Shaw fully agreed with him. From his point of view, everything was just marvelous. The Holodomor? “…I saw no underfed people there; and the children were remarkably plump” (though cannibalism was the norm in many places in Ukraine). The “Red Terror”? “Malicious inventions driven by class hostility.” The “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”? In Russia, “the proletariat is much more effectively dictated to for its own good than under our system.”
His admiration for Lenin, Stalin, and the Bolsheviks, however, did not preclude him from admiring Hitler and Mussolini. He felt a strong sympathy for a “personal friend of mine, Sir Oswald Mosley.”
Barbusse authored an apologetic biography of Stalin: Stalin: A New World Seen Through the Man. He was convinced that the establishment of Soviet Russia was “the greatest and most beautiful phenomenon in world history.”
Let’s guess: who is writing about whom? “Lonely, overbearing man… damned disagreeable,” “friendly and commonplace,” possessing “an intelligence far beyond dogmatism,” […] “sucked thoughtfully at the pipe he had most politely asked my permission to smoke… I have never met a man more fair, candid, and honest.” Got it? It was Stalin, as H.G. Wells portrayed him. They talked for three hours in the Kremlin and… “discussed liberty of expression.”
“I would do nothing against Stalin at the moment; I accepted the Moscow trials [against Trotsky-Zinoviev ‘traitors’ – author’s note] and I am prepared to accept those in Barcelona,” said the French novelist André Malraux during the Communists’ massacre of POUM (Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification) anarchists in Barcelona in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.
Mao Zedong, “The Red Sun in Our Hearts,” illuminated the path for Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Chairman Mao’s “Red Guards” caused the deadly convulsions of China — and the ecstatic rage of Jan Myrdal, Charles Bettelheim, Alain Badiou, and Louis Althusser.
In Paris, Barbusse and Aragon created a “pocket monster” — Enver Hoxha in Albania; at the Sorbonne, Sartre worked out an apology for the “Khmer Rouge Revolution” of Pol Pol, Hu Nim, and Ieng Sary. Sartre’s driver and bodyguard was Hans-Joachim Klein, a participant in the OPEC headquarters hostage-taking in Vienna and a comrade of the infamous “Jackal,” Ilich Ramírez Sánchez. Together, they visited the leftist extremist Andreas Baader, one of the leaders of the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the “Baader-Meinhof Group,” in Stammheim Prison in December 1974.
The hatred for the “petty bourgeois philistine” — as Trotsky dubbed ordinary people — together with the dream of guillotines, bayonets, and “red terror,” continues to inspire Western intellectuals.
Juan Benet, a famous Spanish writer, declared: “I am strongly convinced that while people like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exist, concentration camps will and should operate. Probably it’s worth strengthening the guards, so that people like Solzhenitsyn would not escape.”
Gareth Porter, an American historian, investigative journalist, and winner of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, stated in May 1977: “The notion that the leadership of Democratic Kampuchea adopted a policy of physically eliminating whole classes of people was… a myth.” (Up to 3 million people died in Cambodia at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. Please, tell me again about this “genocide in Gaza.”)
Noam Chomsky characterized the proofs of Pol Pot’s genocide as a “third-rate… vast and unprecedented propaganda campaign against the Khmer Rouge.” The experience of the Khmer Rouge regime deeply impressed him.
The brothers Alexander and Andrew Cockburn (whose op-eds periodically appeared in the Los Angeles Times) explained that Stalin did not murder millions of people.
Accompanying all this was a burning hatred for the West, American values, white people, and Judeo-Christian ideals. Rokhaya Diallo, or Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe — author of the book White Savagery: Hidden Genocide from 1492 to Today — use notions such as “white savagery” and “white ferocity” (La férocité blanche). The history of the white race has been an endless, appalling horror, claims contemporary philosopher Louis Sala-Molins (as if the history of other races were somehow different).
According to Susan Sontag, an American writer, filmmaker, and philosopher: “The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone – its ideologies and inventions – which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.”
Since the middle of the last century, the “Red bacilli” have mutated with the speed of Drosophila: the New Left, Neo-Marxism, Trotskyism, Pacifism, Maoism, Structural Marxism, Anarchism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Libertarian Socialism, the New Anticapitalist Party, Marxist Humanism, Freudo-Marxism, and so on.
Their adherents take to the streets waving red flags and portraits of Trotsky and “Che” Guevara, dreaming to “f**k the system” like their idol Abbie Hoffman. They fawn over despots and bigots, while draping sadists in romantic glory.
“Dead White European Males” (DWEM) is a term that modern Western intellectuals invented to characterize the classics of European literature, philosophy, and art. The key word here is “white.” Nobody would ever dare to call Africans “black,” Asians “yellow,” or Native Americans “red.” Only “whites” “deserve” such contempt.
Pascal Bruckner, a French writer and one of the “New Philosophers,” wrote that “bourgeois-bohemian Bolshevism” captured the middle class. Every artist, actor, or journalist imagines himself as a subverter — especially when such subversion is generously paid. Every socialist leader, according to him, dreams of thrusting a clenched fist into the air and singing The Internationale after every party convention.
The “red bacillus” has penetrated deeply into all the social structures of Western civilization. At the beginning of the new millennium, these universalist theories blossomed into a lush and poisonous bloom. New concepts emerged: Identity Politics, Critical Race Theory, Institutional Racism, Intersectionality, “White Privilege / Male Privilege,” and others. Born of the vicious union of Red and Brown dogmas, all of them are pseudoscientific, dividing people into a rigid racial-class hierarchy.
Evil has reached a qualitatively new level.
And then came Islam, and the Western elite embraced it enthusiastically — as a harbinger of the Great Truth — opening their arms wide to welcome it. Michel Foucault, a leading contemporary philosopher, compared Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Martin Luther, and described the unfolding events as an example of a new “political spirituality” (spécificité / spiritualité politique). Jean-Paul Sartre sang the praises of Ali Shariati, the ideologue of the Islamic Revolution. Legal philosopher and international law scholar Richard Falk met in person with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Paris in 1979.
They were crazy about the “Palestinian resistance,” and full of admiration for Arafat. The French post-structuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze published a famous essay entitled “The Greatness of Yasser Arafat” (La Grandeur de Yasser Arafat), and the equally famous writer and playwright Jean Genet wrote an enthusiastic novel about him and Palestinian fedayeen fighters, Prisoner of Love.
After Arafat’s death, all their ardent, passionate love shifted toward the Islamists. For Judith Butler, Hamas and Hezbollah became “part of progressive social movements”; prominent Italian postmodernist philosopher Gianni Vattimo called on Europeans to launch a fundraising campaign to “buy better rockets for Hamas”; Chomsky hailed Hezbollah as a “liberation movement”; Norman Finkelstein praised Hezbollah for its courage and discipline. Leading intellectuals drew inspiration from September 11 and October 7.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
With the zeal of deranged cultists, they have brought in Muslims from the darkest cloacae of the Third World; they have handed over their own wives and daughters to be preyed upon; they have allowed them to desecrate their own sacred sites, to rob, humiliate, and terrorize their fellow citizens. They permitted Islamists to establish a cult of a “Palestine from the River to the Sea,” and to transform the keffiyeh into a symbol of freedom and virtue.
Now we are witnessing the conclusion of this drama — without pity and without regret. For it is impossible to feel pity for those who have condemned themselves to a harrowing demise.
The “Red Plague” has returned to where it came from. Let us wish it every success. It will help preserve whatever remains normal in this world.
Alexander Maistrovoy is the author of Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger), available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Pablo says
It is not the first time I read POUM party labeled as anarchist. It is not true and it is absurd. How could be a Marxist party anarchist? How could anarchists have a party? They had trade unions, federations, organisations… but no parties.
The whole article comes under suspicion for these mistakes.
Walter Sieruk says
Two of the major reasons for the corruption decadence and decline and “suicide” of the Western civilization is its foolish adoption far leftist philosophy of multiculturalism and Cultural Relativism.
To uphold this thesis statement it needs to be revealed that some of the many politically correct ideas of folly which is tragically alive in the different countries of continental Europe and the United Kingdom as well as the United States is the of the politically correct philosophy of that ideology of multiculturalism and Cultural Relativism which includes WOKE and CRT, many Westerners are infected by that worthless , sick and unrealistic fool philosophy.
With its teaching of the concept that all cultures are equal, because this multiculturalism concept teaches the foolishness that all values derive their meaning within the specific social content. This folly of thinking leads, or misleads, many people to view every position as only “opinion” and that truth is only relevant to the person or society holding that view. In other words, discovering actual truth in impossible.
Multiculturalism and Cultural Relativism are absurd, nonsensical and contradictory. For example, to say “finding the truth is impossible” Is a statement of contradiction. For in making that statement that is saying, in essence, “I have found the truth which is finding the truth is not possible.” It should be obvious that this “Cultural War’ needs to and should have a solidly based in and on truth and not by a worthless “war of opinions.”
With the Left Wing, with their mindset of multiculturalism, they claim that there is no absolute truth but only “opinion.” On every subject. Of course, the leftist who make that claim do so as an “absolute truth.” What a flip –flop!
Two other examples of the falseness of multiculturalism. with its teaching that everything is only “opinion.”
First is in the late 1970’s two guys said “There are so many different religions that no one can ever know the truth about religion.” They were really saying that statement so dogmatically that they were self-contradicting. For they were saying that they know the truth about religion that is not one can know the truth about religion.
Second, a shallow man in the 1980’s said when asked the question “Why do you always small talk ? You don’t ever talk about a topic that might have some value, as politics? After ll. all things are related “ That shallow man replied “There are so many different political ideas that finding the true one is unattainable and all things are not related.” The wisdom-less man was saying that he obtained the truth which is the he can’t obtain the truth and who does can is really truthfully say that all things are not related in he can’t find the truth. How foolish, an obvious contradiction. What is needed to counter this nonsense multiculturalism is the concept of “Absolutism.” Which a definition of this, with the scope of the topic, is “An absolute standard or principle .”
In this cultural war it’s the Bible with its absolute standards and principles to stand firm against the extreme folly and foolishness of the multiculturalism and Cultural Relativism concepts of WOKE and CRT.
In conclusion, in this War of Ideas a firm foundation for truth may be found in the Bible and not the weak folly of multiculturalism and Cultural Relativism in which everything is “opinion.”
Lurker says
It bears repeating that long gone are the days when pure-blooded European ✝️ Roman Catholic Christians ✝️ and, to a lesser extent, European ☦️ Orthodox Christians ☦ decimated Koranimals in thousands of battles and wars, chief among them being the 732 A.D. Battle of Tours, the First Crusade, the 1177 A.D. Battle of Montgisard, the 1212 A.D. Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, the 1340 A.D. Battle of Rio Salado, the 1475 A.D. Battle of Vaslui, the 1529 A.D. Siege of Vienna, the 1565 A.D. Siege of Malta, the 1571 A.D. Battle of Lepanto, the 1595 A.D. Battle of Călugăreni, the 1621-and 1673-A.D. Battles of Khotyn, the 1683 A.D. Battle of Vienna, the 1694 A.D. Battle of Hodow, the 1697 A.D. Battle of Zenta, and the Russo-Ottoman Wars, except for the 1850s Crimean War, in which the then-largely Protestant Brits ran interference for their Mohammedan pets!
rick says
Wow!! What a litany of so-called learned men, usually referred to as great “artists”, Alexander Maistrovoy has exposed as being instead absolute Idiots! Untrue to their very own ideals as well as their chosen craft. These fools cheered the worse murderers of thousands if not millions such as Stalin and Ayatollah Khomeini and denounced truly great artists Not only did they embrace Communism and Islamic Jihadism but kicked truly great writers in the groin because they had the audacity to write great literature which exposed the lies of Communism. The most dangerous among them were the journalists like the brothers Alexander and Andrew Cockburn who reached millions of readers in respected newspapers with denials of suffering and starvation due to their Communist hero, Stalin or Gareth Porter who called the millions murdered by Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, a myth!!!
The worst case (for me) is a Spanish writer. “Juan Benet, a famous Spanish writer, (who) declared: “I am strongly convinced that while people like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exist, concentration camps will and should operate.” Solzhenitsyn, arguably the greatest novelist of the 20th and 21st centuries should be put in a concentration camp! These words written by a so called “fellow” writer!! That shows the blindness and extremism the Left produces in these absolute idiots and is able to them to its false extremist faith. The very intellectual artists who should know better than to believe the Left’s most despicable lies instead become common Soviet style apparatchiks who call for the blood of the greatest writers of our times! It is beyond just being “duped”. It is almost impossible to believe, yet the Record which proves their guilt is public and written proudly in their own words.
It is exactly these famous dupes Mr. Maistrovoy has outed in this essay who should serve time in a concentration type camp. I believe the communists would call it a “re-education camp”. That should help make it acceptable to them.
William David Pappas says
The Democratic Party has been on the wrong side of nearly every issue since it’s founding. They have always had a soft spot for totalitarian governance, but until recently have portrayed themselves with a moderate veneer. One of the greatest benefits of President Trump’s emergence on the political scene is that he has prompted them to take off their masks of respectability completely. One result of this is the ascendance of the DSA destructionists. It is sadly comical to witness the supposed “traditional” “moderate” Democrats trying to disavow themselves from this DSA contagion, as, in their heart the secretly advocate for much of their agenda. With their mask off, it should be obvious to any patriotic, sentient, thinking individual that they do not deserve to serve in any position of power. While the Republicans and conservatives certainly are not perfect paragons of governance, their platforms and beliefs are more in line with the ethos of this country and the West.
William David Pappas says
On neglected to add.. Leftists in general have been on the wrong side of history.
Ralph says
Very well said, William. Yes, the Democrats via the DSA, surely have removed their masks and have revealed the treachery within them. I wonder if there will be a civil war with these communists/anarchists. I hope not, but I’m pessimistic.
Edward Amos Brandwein says
Leftists always immolate themselves on the altars they erect.
Beans🫘 says
ISLAMIC MIGRANTS NOW GET TO PRAY IN BREASTFEEDING AND BABY CHANGING STATIONS
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kv49qC0Jhxw&t=603s&pp=2AHbBJACAQ%3D%3D
one woman reports multiple instances. Including migrants recording nu*e ch****** without repercussions. The migrants have found a new shortcut in Britain.
Other sources state, migrants “bumping up” against the women and ch*******, as well as spending abnormal time periods in these stations. As well as multiple migrants not praying to Mecca, but facing the direction of the people inside. Other migrants even told the women that she cannot breastfeed in a breastfeeding area, which sparked conflict.
Other sources say, security officials generally do Nothign, as migrants stay inside for an hour, scoping out the situation. One woman in the video reports this becoming more normalized as she has seen multiple migrants stay inside in different areas, and she even is a leftist.
CryHavoc says
4.5 million dead in the Ukraine is a bottom level figure. When people tried to conduct a census in the late 40’s, Stalin had them shot. Stalin is also responsible for the WW II dead (42.5 million) five years of purges and pogroms (1945 – 1950), the establishment of the Kolkhozy (death camps) and so on.
Mao Zedong killed 20 million in three years (1958 – 1960) with The Great Leap Fprward)
Po Potl killed or maimed. H alf the male population of Cambodia (1975 – 1977) The worst per capita slaughter.
China’s political prison (Laobang Gaizou) is the biggest prison in the world. Re-Education used to mean tilling fields… Now it involves making sale goods for no wage.
I recommend reading The Black Book of Communism.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
In Italy, are their riots just in Northern Italy – Milan, Turin, Genoa,…. or have they spread to all of the country?
Giancarlo MATTA says
I would point out two facts:
1] strong economies give rise to “weak thought” ( *pensiero debole* ), which is, in turn, one of the primary causes of their own ruin;
2] “left-wing” thought — by whatever name it goes — is a degeneration of the thought of Western Civilization. the “reds” are conscious, monumental failed. consequently, they loathe themselves and love those who will exterminate them: this is why the “reds” love muslims.
muslims will exterminate the “reds”;
then, the Counter-Jihadists will exterminate the muslims : and Western Civilization will progress.
andrew says
Old Chomsky is an idiot beyond the level of Village Idiot as he complains and denigrate everything about America however I never hear of him moving to a country that fits his needs even though he certainly has enough money.
For that old fart to suggest Pol Pot did not kill so many people tells me he really is a stupid stupid man as I live in Cambodia and pretty much every family across the country could tell that old Communist prick what really went down from 1975-1979 in Cambodia…
If I met him I would have to hold myself back from punching the prick in the mouth.
OLD GUY says
Open the doors to your home and who knows what will come in. Diversity brings in the people who want what you have and are unwilling to work for it.
somehistory says
Old Guy, you introduce commonsense.
Recently, there was a case where a young university student was murdered more than a decade ago, but the perpetrator was last week found guilty of the murder and some other crimes.
It was revealed that the young woman’s roommate had left the apartment door unlocked, which made it easy for the criminal to enter to do terrible things to the sleeping girl.