We were fools to think the fall of the Berlin Wall had killed off the far Left. They're back - and attacking us from within
“We were fools to think fall of Berlin Wall killed off far Left. They’re back and attacking us from within.”
As has been said many times, the place where you can find communism alive and well in US academia.
And those whom the academics persuade.
From the U.K. Daily Mail:
Twenty years ago today, supporters of freedom and human rights cheered and wept for joy as the Berlin Wall was torn down by jubilant young Germans.
To so many, that heady day seemed to herald the emergence of a better world. The spectre of communism had finally been laid to rest. Liberty had triumphed over tyranny.
The end of the Cold War even led some to proclaim that this was 'the end of history' - which was to say that liberal democracy was now the dominant and unchallengeable force in the world.
However, the 9/11 attacks on America tragically proved this to be absurdly over-optimistic. The eruption of radical Islamism revealed that, while the West may have been rid of one enemy in the Soviet Union, another deadly foe had risen to take its place. So much is, sadly, all too evident.
But what is perhaps less obvious is that communism did not just vanish in a puff of historical smoke. The Soviet Union was defeated and fell apart, for sure. But the communist ideology that fuelled it did not so much disintegrate as reconstitute itself into another, even more deadly form as the active enemy of western freedom.
I commend the entire article to you. It is quite excellent. It will give you a European perspective on the liberal-progressives and what they are after.
HT: Rod D. Martin