Thursday, August 6, 2009

Review of "Liberty and Tyranny" pt 3

I'll post excerpts almost daily from "The work of generations", a review by Andrew C. McCarthy, of "On Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin. Hopefully, you will be inspired to buy the book and read it this summer:

"To trace the dynamic struggle between liberty and tyranny, Levin must both locate conservatism and frame the attributes of statism. The latter is easier to do, and not merely because statism is today engulfing us. It owes to the fact that the statist has an agenda.

"He seeks the agglomeration of power in government for the purpose of wielding it to impose his preferences, though the goal is pursued under the seemingly noble auspices of enforcing “equality”—the statist’s primary organizing principle. Self-determining individuals are the impediment to this vision, so the statist must eviscerate the bedrock of civil society that enables them to thrive. He accomplishes this by relentlessly attacking bourgeois values; abrading American exceptionalism with multi-culti relativism; and inculcating a resentment-driven class consciousness that sets tribe against tribe along racial, ethnic, and economic lines—exploiting the divisions beneath the banner of “economic justice,” through such toxins as the “progressive income tax.” In every sense, the statist’s project is a conscious, Fabian one, with coconspirators and useful idiots throughout the international community (with its global governance aspirations), the academy, Hollywood, and the media."

(to be continued)
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-work-of-generations-4086

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