Robespierre, Lenin, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler. All temperaments for murder. The government of those types that change society, they always end in blood. After having recently reported about writer Ulrich Schlacht , today there?s an excerpt from his new book ?On Snow and History (?ber Schnee und Geschichte).? Please don?t think, though, that it?s only about politics in this work. In these notations there is also talk of love, of nature and encounters. Here, though, we?re interested in politics. And Schacht has surprising perspectives there:
November 2, 2003
Unfortunate line, historically. Europe?s Left is rooted, historically speaking, in a bloodbath ? in the bloodbath of the French Revolution of 1789. As a result of that revolution, which is still always positively mysticized as the moment of birth for institutionalized human rights on the Old Continent, the prototype for all of Europe?s later totalitarian movements such as the one developed into a Bolshevik government of intimidation after October 1917, as a fascist dictatorship in Italy after October 1922, and finally in January 1933 produced its National Socialist variation in Germany.
After all, it was none other than Horkheimer who called this macabre development a ?logical? one. Israeli scientist Zeve Sternhell reconstructed the leftist origin of Mussolini in a meticulous study, and the Swiss publicist and philosopher Denis de Rougemont, a direct contemporary witness of the NS government after 1933 in Germany and known through his great postwar essay ?The Devil?s Portion (Der Anteil des Teufels)? (on the World and Individual History of Man), speaks in his writings of those years about the ?brown Jacobins.?
These voices are only few of many on the same level of recognition. What Jacob Burckhardt, in his ?Observations of World History? and ?Historical Fragments? of the French Revolution at the zenith of terror 1792/93, attests as a deciding character trait is irrefutably applicable: ?Murder in itself is the desire, which from this time forth will be the temperament of revolution ? The Days of September have infected revolution with the temperament of murder.?
The absolutist Left, in contrast with moderate social democracy, has never been able to liberate itself from this temperament. Going back to the 20th Century, its hate anchored deep within its structure for any form of intellectual and economic freedom became abundantly notorious in history, now enhanced only by an abysmal rage against everything ecclesiastical, let alone Christian.
Alexis de Tocqueville, in ?The Old State and the Revolution,? diagnosed the ?irreligiousness among the French of the 18th century,? how they went on to develop after the climate of the Enlightenment, as a ?general and dominating ? tyrannical passion? and emphasized its radical ?influence on the character of revolution.?
However, this is all self-evident, as much as the Christian ultimately ?obeys God more than people? (Acts 5:29), the Leftist has proclaimed the person as the Ultimate Being over people: Their ?gods,? who were to be obeyed were thus called Robespierre, Lenin, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler. ?Temperaments of murder,? all of them, and all of them criminals in the name of the people, democracy, prosperity and justice, the nation and liberty ? terms that today are almost all at the heart of political phraseology of left-wing society changers; in Germany, though, it has long disguised its harsh core under the color green.
But the ?greed of being like God,? the Protestant theologian Gerhard Ebeling says, ?is the presumption of being able to judge like God.? For the absolutist Left, everything revolves, symbolically and practically, around this fundamental presumption wherever they seize power, first and last, and the result, if they can make it become practical, is always a bloody one.
(Ulrich Schacht, On Snow and History, Notations 1983-2011, Berlin 2012)
Posted by kewil on PI / Translation: Anders Denken
Source: http://www.pi-news.org/2012/10/ulricht-schacht-leftist-changers-of-society-always-end-up-in-blood/
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