ARE STALINISTS CONSERVATIVES? | 2009-07-06
The bewildering and contradictory set of groups that are listed as "conservative" is easily explained.
Any group that opposes established liberal doctrine is defined as conservative. They can be libertarian and militantly atheist like Ayn Rand's Objectivist or they can be fanatically theocratic, like Islamic militants. They can be fundamental Protestant or Tom Fleming's total papists. All are defined as conservative or rightist.
One of the funniest examples of this was when the media started declaring old-line Stalinists in Russia as "right-wingers."
As usual, conservatives bitched about the people they had fought almost alone to the death being defined as belonging to conservatism, but they MISSED the critical point they could have made from it.
One thing that the media let slip here was that Stalinists were now conservatives because old Communism was no longer as a part of "progressivism."
Such is the cost of failure.
The one thing the established religion monomaniacally hides if the obvious fact that there IS "an established point of view." There is absolutely no other way to explain the sudden change of Marxist-Leninists to conservatives except by the fact that they no longer fitted into the ESTABLISHED "progressive" framework.
Conservatives did not make that point. Conservatives did not even REALIZE that point.
That is why conservatives are so useful to the establishment. They NEVER see the POINT.
I have said many times that I am the least conservative person you are ever likely to meet. The MOST conservative people you could possibly meet make the editorial board of the New York Times.
They like the way things are going. The kept opposition thy call conservative represent a few bumps on the road, and very small bumps at that, as we can see from the 1994 Contract With America and the results of the Republican Ascendancy until it totally collapsed in 2008.
In the real world, "conservatism" is a way to make a living. Professional conservative pimps like this writer was spend most of their time finding out what the establishment opposes and then getting checks from people who want to object to it. Their only function is to provide people who don't like the way things are going with the illusion that they are opposing it.
That is reality I find it very heard to get across.
It is the ONLY important reality. To get anywhere, you have to start with hard reality.
Not with wise-sounding analyses of what was just said in the newspaper, but with time and hard thought dedicated to the real world you are trying to redirect.