The Marxist Revival (4): the Assault on Free Speech

~Continued from Part 3: The Marxist Revival: The All Purpose Invective~

Reading through the next instalments on the special relationship between language and Neo Marxism - also known as Postmodernism (Pomo) - we have to keep in mind the recent revelation: an article adapted from a lecture address given by Stephen Hicks at The Objectivist Center during the 2002 (!) Summer Seminar: Pomo's Declaration of War on free speech.

It is beyond me why Hicks' discovery, done within the walls of American universities, wasn't picked up by the professionals in our societies, those whom we are paying to keep the general public abreast of such developments. The subject has become a particularly hot topic as laws governing so-called 'hate speech' are proliferating. As it turns out, this is Pomo's attempt at 'redistributing' free speech among unequal groups, at the expense of The Oppressor, through the soft power of political correctness. Hate speech laws are having kittens around the Western world, potentially turning it into an intellectual desert as debate and free enquiry are stifled. More about this all important subject in later instalments of this series.

Herbert Marcuse in 1974 made good on his threat, uttered after the failed Marxist revolutions of 1967 and 1968: "It will be resurrected in the universities". It is now filling the corridors of power, criminalizing opposing views, poisoning younger generations, and perverting Liberalism even further, as Leftist politics is by now fully usurped by Pomo.

Many have wondered: what's with the gross hyperbole, the unreasonable generalizations, from the downright insulting to the quasi sentimental baby-talk? "All hetero-sexual males are rapists", "Zionists are Nazis", "History is one wave of ethnic cleansing after another", alternated with dramatic, sentimental tugging of the heart strings.

Surreal equations abound, like: Hitler had a mustache, Stalin had a mustache, Hitler is the same as Stalin; a fundamental fallacy only forgivable if perpetrated by very young children. An exaggeration? Try this one. Speech is a weapon, because the sound-waves are beating against the eardrums. Heterosexuality, ditto an act of violence. Ayaan Hirsi Ali's polemics against Radical Islam have rendered her a 'warrior', an equation potentially endangering her life. Heck, I am even doing it myself as my fingers touch the keyboard, turning them into an entire arsenal of pyrotechnic weaponry with the purpose of vaporising Pomo.

This German cartoon "American Way" is equating a death cult suicide Jihadi with an the Americans' right to bear arms, a good illustration of Pomo's infantile inability to distinguish one essential difference from another: here, intent, legal status and ... hey, let's make this a "find the differences"! The winner, detecting the most, gets a copy of Hicks' "Explaining Pomo".

Another live example was Keith Ellison's recent irresponsible remarks involving 9/11 and the Reichstag. Where Pomo comes crawling in, reason takes flight by the backdoor!

And here it is again - that gross piece of Pomo 'art' - a measure of the perpetual scatological phase they cannot seem to outgrow; flea size, so the viewer can make his own choice whether the stomach is up to it.

To sane people this imagery has no relation with the real world whatsoever, but they just might persuade a few psychologically immature specimens of alternate reality in which pigs may fly. When just reading an introduction written by someone with the oxymoronic pen-name Badchristian, it occurred to me that the whole Emergent Church thing is probably hippy grandfathers' way of repenting before swapping the temporary with the permanence of the strawberry fields in heaven - as usual misguided, as they have been during the whole of their sad lives.

As seen in part 3 on the extraordinary Postmodern attitude towards language it is in keeping with the crypto Marxist principles in general - the lofty cause justifying any means - the rejection of morality by way of the denial of objective reality and truth [1], coating deliberate lies with an ineffective layer of intellectual justification. I cannot think why they bother.

As language is used as a weapon to convert or vanquish, no tactic is left untried. We will in due course have a look at a number of them, some methods and a few authors as well.

~ To be continued in Part 5: "Political Justification to Violence"... incitement to violence, or political justification to violence, hate speech ... we enter a world of infinite bile - of rancor, hatred, and contempt ... the hecatombs his followers piled up are - to the last million victims - implicit in the Manifesto ..." ~