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To THE NATION For over two centuries, tends to give a political connotation as opposed to the left and right. We know that comes from casual seating in the hectic days of the French Revolution. On the left were the Jacobins who were the most rebellious, demanding, idealistic and determined to impose radical changes to the old regime. With the passing of time, that distinction went through an arc of variations that at times seemed extreme, others small and confused or inverted.
Ortega y Gasset in 1937, wrote to electrical insolence: "Being Left is right as being one of the countless ways that man can choose to be an idiot: both, in effect, are forms of moral hemiplegia. Moreover, the persistence of these descriptions helps to further falsify the reality of this, as evidenced by the fact that today the right and left promising revolutions proposed tyrannies. "Was written during the English Civil War and continues today.
It is amazing that there is overlap between a positive force as from the beginning has tried to present the left with the word accident. The sinister thrills and scares. Freud has unraveled their mental somersault, because it means the return of what is aims to keep suppressed. But the clarification of their research has not taken off like it has with the diabolical and disturbing. The left, along with their qualities and mysteries, says something annoying. Values \u200b\u200bthat reside there shaking and unconscious awareness, values \u200b\u200bthat tend to be circumvented, or deform, despite its qualities. The left appealing in its rebellion, transgression and dissonance. So, engage young people and also those who are not young, but have a vital and sensitive spirit.
Maybe early leaders of the wonderful values \u200b\u200bthat form the core of the left were the prophets of Israel. Formed a series of strung personalities for conduct clean and altruistic preaching. Sprang up almost by magic in difficult times. Switched voice and boundless courage, questioned the powers of his time, are kings, priests and families of rank. Denouncing injustice, abuse, lack of solidarity, hypocrisy and lack of mercy. The people of Israel were no better nor worse than other peoples, but had the privilege of generating these eloquent and fearless individuals whose actions left a huge mark of universal significance. With them, "said Alfredo Palacios, unforgettable first socialist deputy in Argentina," social justice began.
In the Bible mandates and examples stand for freedom, justice and human brotherhood. Also the respect due to animals and all nature.
Certainly there were demonstrations of that tenor in China, India and elsewhere in the world. Then came utopian ideas intended to keep alive the old message, but often tinged with fanaticism catastrophic. Flourished in the seventeenth century accelerated progress of science began to limit the powers of the monarch and increased production of wealth. The Glorious Revolution in Britain and then the French Revolution marked milestones.
But even if the shop to identify, leading to different ports. Lacked the English epic guillotine and fanfare, but it was consolidating democracy increasingly solid, with a growing respect for individual rights, the French Revolution caused more noise and seduction, but tangled paths of democracy and inspired through various links, totalitarianism right and left. While in Britain there were no new coups or hesitation legal system in France several republics alternated with kingdoms and empires.
is interesting to note that the right-wing totalitarianism has strong similarities with its apparent opposite, the left. Same as left, fascism claimed to be revolutionary, creating the "new man" and also down from socialism, to the point of using that word in its own name (National Socialism in Germany). How is it possible to identify left-wing totalitarianism in the right? Does the left from their original values, not abhors tyranny? Yes, the abomination of lip service, but has continued to impose when it gets radical. On evidence.
We are used to denigrate Fascism, Nazism, and various right-wing dictatorships. But there is resistance to insult forms, called socialist or leftist, imposing the label of progressive, but they betray the values \u200b\u200bof the prophets. On behalf of the collectivist abstraction, imposing despotism.
"reviewed the original values \u200b\u200bof the left?
know them. The highest is that of freedom. Freedom, for millennia, it means respect for the rights of every human being, including freedom of thought and expression, to decide, traveling and doing as he pleases while the same does not prejudice the rights of others.
Freedom also means questioning the dogmas, ideologies or alleged official truths. Includes, of course, the plurality of approaches and criteria, which are enriched by the exchange. Includes freedom of expression by all means the man has access, covers, of course, creativity artistic and scientific. Creativity remains a strong correlation with the freedom of the press, which should not be censored either directly or indirectly, because that censorship is a grievance as scary as when a king murdered a prophet because he had questioned.
An axial value of the left original is its support for progress, hence use the word "progressive", but in fact often prop up the backlog and resentment sterile. Finally, its quality is stronger desire to achieve the elimination of poverty through equal opportunities, transparency, competitive and merit recognition. In other words, the slogan of socialism is that "from each one according to his ability and each receives according to their product. "amazing formula A liberal.
These original values \u200b\u200bof the left is opposed to the principles of right, manifest in their expressions totalitarian: no curtailment of freedom and individual rights , persecution of dissidents, censorship of the press, stifling creativity, the abomination of pluralism, intolerance, manipulation of the poor whom you want to keep in their misery. Amazing! is what the leftist totalitarianism.
Synthesis Manichaean would have us believe that the left is associated with progress and prosperity, while the right, with backwardness and evil. One is lovable; the other, dreadful. However, the evidence shows that the left has betrayed its original values. Since Khrushchev questioned Stalinism, it is true. But Stalinism was not only the product of one man, but a system that could not work otherwise, as demonstrated by the same Khrushchev to suppress the uprising in Hungary and crush the Prague Spring. What values \u200b\u200bhad left covering one third of humanity, if China and other countries including the Soviet orbit? It was considered cutting edge of humanity and hope of the people; production of great art with its repressive and mediocre "socialist realism" torch of science idealizations grounded in the ideological myopia. For decades, the "true" left, the most successful, which made fun of social "reform."
left or moderate social democracy, however, took pains to keep the original values, including respect for the institutions of democracy. But in Latin America has remained in Cuba's Stalinist version, without shame and with teratological features it shares with North Korea. From Cuba were irradiated for half a century attributes violent, oppressive, delusional and messianic. Excels in all areas ultraconservative nature, generous to unify down. Some countries of the subcontinent hesitant seem to want to continue their anti-democratic model, which betrays, like Stalinism, the original values \u200b\u200bof justice, liberty and fraternity, curtailed the flight of people and death hurts the plurality of ideas. Is left to restore the Ancien Régime with a new label. Because ... What is the difference between these leftist totalitarian Louis XIV, Stalin or Hitler? It is no coincidence that Georges Sorel has simultaneously admired Lenin and Mussolini. Or Mussolini has banned criticism of Stalin and that Stalin has rejoiced in Hitler's Judeophobia.
way, we should not forget that the left originally was the most fought anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and early XX. But then he became anti-Semitic, with the use of other words and new excuses. It has also become complicit in ultrareaccionarios regimes where women are oppressed, homosexuals are shot at and the decisions are made, ultimately, by an ayatollah. Surely Marx must have a seizure in his grave.
The word "revolution" has been co-opted by the left. But the revolutionaries were not always left. Recall that there was a "conservative revolution" in Europe after the First World War. We said that was considered revolutionary fascism and Nazism. After the Hitler-Stalin pact, did the current "Bolshevik-Nazi" who had no trouble finding solid theoretical basis, but lacked time to develop. In short, totalitarianism on both sides agree in their hatred of democracy and falsely share Puritan character. Love and glorify violence and use the word "death" in their slogans (SS skulls and "socialism or death" with Fidel and Hugo Chavez). Coincide in their tendency to single thought, which leads to one party and one leader. Supporters of left or right have in common the catastrophic thinking, and proactive drunk omnipotence. This left treacherous original values \u200b\u200bascribed their own now, populism, with clear ingredients fascists.
This does not match the original values \u200b\u200bof the left than any well-born would not stop clapping. Can not keep calling the left, but left or pseudoprogresismo false. You do not have prophets of peace, harmony and growth, but of subjugation, corruption and drowning. No question the despots when they fit the crown that says "socialism" or "left." There is a respectable crown is a fake crown as the King Momo Carnival. Only the left leads to a tragic carnival.
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