Neo-Communism and the Fundamentalism of the Left
It is at this point that we reach the flip side of the coin of the Unholy Alliance that threatens the American way of life. We have thus far spoken of the Islamists and the Islamist terrorists who perform acts of Jihad in order to impose Islamic doctrine and Sharia law on unsuspecting Western Constitutional democracies. The alternate realm of this argument, which—demonstrating its indelible link to Islamism—has come up often enough in our heretofore discussions, lies with the ties between the radical political left and the Islamist movement as a whole (entailing all those individuals and groups who espouse its ideology). At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be common ground between the goals of the political left and the oft-violent Islamists. Aside from several quips regarding President Obama’s Muslim ancestry during the 2008 elections, nothing much has been said regarding the cozying up between the radicals on the left, and the growing population of Islamists in this country. Before any comments are made however, it is necessary to elaborate on a few terms.
According to McCarthy, Neocommunism is a “leftism of the most insidious kind: secular and uncompromising in its rejection of bourgeois values, but feverishly spiritual in its zeal to tear down the existing order, under the banner of its all-purpose rally-cry: ‘social justice’”. (McCarthy, 12) He also notes, “[Neocommunism] is leftism liberated by the collapse of the Soviet Union”. (McCarthy, 13) It’s characteristic feature, is nihilism: “Today’s hard left is defined by what it is against: the United States, free market capitalism, and any foreign policy premised on defending American interests or promoting individual liberty”. (McCarthy, 14) The principles that the neocommunists support are an ill-defined murky set of abstractions consisting of such terms as “social justice, equality, redistributive rights, and rule of law”—all which can be taken to mean everything and anything at once and thus essentially nothing at all. (ibid) The goal of the progressive movement, of both radical and non-radical sects of the Left, has always been to fundamentally alter the current system in favor of certain “enlightened” ideas such as equality, diversity, and social and environmental justice. Barack Obama’s “Change” slogan was a clarion call for all Liberals to join the tide of change in America. Questions such as “What are we changing… How?” were not prominent features of the Obama rhetoric. The point was only that we needed “Change”, and we needed it NOW. As McCarthy explains, “This “change” [was] not designed to create a new system. Its purpose [was] to destroy the old one. What comes next is negotiable”. (McCarthy, 15)
