worth quoting - II

do artigo de Roger Kimball publicado no TNC.

"... Kolakowski puts it in his introduction to My Correct Views on Everything,

Communism was not the crazy fantasy of a few fanatics, nor the result of human stupidity and baseness; it was a real, very real part of the history of the twentieth century, and we cannot understand this history of ours without understanding communism. We cannot get rid of this specter by saying it was just 'human stupidity', or 'human corruptibility.' The specter is stronger than the spells we cast on it. It might come back to life."

(...) "Writing about the amorphous New Left of the 1960s, for example, Kolakowski notes that although

the ideological fantasies of this movement … were no more than a nonsensical expression of the whims of spoilt middle-class children, and while the extremists among them were virtually indistinguishable from Fascist thugs, the movement did without doubt express a profound crisis of faith in the values that had inspired democratic societies for many decades. … The New Left explosion of academic youth was an aggressive movement born of frustration, which easily created a vocabulary for itself out of Marxist slogans … : liberation, revolution, alienation, etc. Apart from this, its ideology really has little in common with Marxism. It consists of “revolution” without the working class; hatred of modern technology as such; … the cult of primitive societies … as the source of progress; hatred of education and specialized knowledge.

Sound familiar?"

a isso acrescento: O Socialismo é doença do espírito! escreverei um dia sobre isso...agora estou estudando Gramsci...dever de consciência...que Deus nos ajude.