Our own feelings and the British temperament are quite different. We ought not to seek after some rigid, symetrical form of doctrine, such as delights the minds of Socialists and Communists. "I do not believe in looking about for some panacea or cure-all on which we should stake our credit and fortunes trying to sell it like a patent medicine to all and sundry. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Checka."Īleister Crowley, THE CONFESSIONS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. "The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napole- ons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. Sir William Osler, MONTREAL MEDICAL JOURNAL (September, "The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." RE: Political Doctrines & Political Dogmatism. John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1814). They had not considered the force of early education on the minds of millions." They seemed to believe that whole nations and continents had been changed in their principles, opinions, habits, and feelings by the sovereign grace of their almighty philosophy. But they were all totally destitute of it. and liberty that would have been rendered by the encyclopedists and economists, by Voltaire, D'Alembert, Buffon, Diderot, Rousseau, La Lande, Frederic and Catherine, if they had possessed common sense. No man is more sensible than I am of the service to science. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and every respect diabolical. Despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. "I never could understand the doctrine of the perfectibility of the human mind. RE: Radical Ideology & Human Imperfection. George Orwell, INSIDE THE WHALE AND OTHER ESSAYS (1940). "So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot." "Helvetius and Rousseau preached to the French nation liberty, till they made them the most mechanical slaves equality, till they destroyed all equity humanity, till they became weasels and African panthers and fraternity, till they cut one another's throats like Roman gladiators." RE: The Radical Ideology & Democratic Excesses of the French Revolution. Russell Kirk, THE POLITICS OF PRUDENCE (Intercollegiate
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"Ideology, in short, is a political formula that promises mankind an earthly paradise but in cruel fact what ideology has created is a series of terrestrial hells." corrupt the vision of salvation through grace in death into false promises of complete happiness in this mundane realm. Ideology's promises are what Talmon calls 'political messianism.' The ideologue promises salvation in this world, hotly declaring that there exists no other realm of being.ideologues. usually has signified a dogmatic political theory which is an endeavor to substitute secular goals and doctrines for religious goals and doctrines and which promises to overthrow present dominations so that the oppressed may beliberated. "A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air."įranklin Delano Roosevelt, Radio Speech (1939). RE: A Definition of the Political Radical. RADICAL & TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGIES: RADICALISM, UTOPIANISM, & TOTALITARIANISM Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies POLITICAL EDUCATION, CONSERVATIVE ANALYSIS POLITICS, SOCIETY, & THE SOVEREIGN STATE Website of Dr.
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