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发帖数: 209 | 1 The American Experiment Is on Life Support
Neo-Marxists on the street and in institutions want to erase their opponents
and deconstruct the country.
‘Death to America!” is a common refrain from antifa rioters from Portland,
Ore., to Kenosha, Wis. Children are in the streets calling for the country
’s destruction while mobs of college kids trash public spaces, filming
themselves as though part of a performance-art spectacle. Neither political
party has been willing or able to end this anarchy. Extremism becomes more
entrenched in American politics with each passing day.
These acts of violence encapsulate five decades of neo-Marxist
indoctrination in American schools, colleges and universities. The left’s
“long march” through the institutions is all but complete. Extreme
intolerance has now replaced the liberal notion of negotiated compromise
that is the sine qua non of democracy. America’s young, especially those
raised in middle-class or affluent homes, have been so brainwashed that they
no longer notice how absurd it is to call for the eradication of their own
nation-state, and to do so in the lingo of Iran’s mullahs.
Their ignorance of history is the hallmark of the current crisis. Few seem
able to grasp the complex, often painful, but on balance grand story of
America—one that is an example of what a people committed to individual
freedom can achieve. Instead, they have been indoctrinated to reduce
American life to a racial binary of whites vs. “people of color.” It’s
much like the communist binary of the bourgeoisie vs. the proletariat that
the Bolsheviks used to seize power in 1917, with millions perishing in the
totalitarian Soviet experiment that followed.
The violence suggests that tribalism based on group identity is poised to
succeed the larger national community that for more than two centuries has
protected and expanded freedom around the world. The American nation-state
is a unique experiment, unparalleled in history: a political project that
grew from an established Anglo colonial settler culture, and that forged a
distinct national identity strong enough to acculturate the many ethnic
groups that have immigrated, while preserving a strong sense of its unitary
creed.
The American nation has its dark sides, with slavery remaining a deep scar
on its history. Nonetheless, the power of the American ideal offered
millions something that no other culture could, namely the chance to
reinvent and renew one’s life, advance one’s position, and create a better
future for one’s children. The passionate nationalism of America has been
rooted in the belief in exceptionalism as a people ordained for greatness,
and that equality of opportunity under the law could constrain the base
impulses of man.
It is a tragedy that the young seem to have jettisoned this foundational
American ideal, or more likely were never exposed to it in the first place.
The traditional view that political victory and loss are both part of the
democratic process and the gist of a self-constituting polity has been
replaced with a Leninist drive to nullify one’s opponent. The principle of
the radical politics now consuming the country seems to be “I win, you
disappear.”
Elites, especially the professoriate, bear much of the responsibility for
this state of affairs. For decades in classrooms and lecture halls they laid
the groundwork for the present moment. The politics of intolerance preached
in nearly every realm of American life assumes that those in “flyover
country” are in effect no longer fellow citizens, as they are incapable of
grasping the shibboleths of the globalist international order. They are
irretrievably from somewhere, and once stripped of their community—say,
because their job was shipped off to Asia—they become internally displaced,
with neither their views nor lifestyle deserving of elite respect. Those
who speak on their behalf are dismissed as “populists,” all but unfit to
be heard in polite society.
American free-market capitalism has been both the most destructive and the
most creative framework for generating wealth and innovation. Yet
historically, its destructive quality was tempered by the regnant
nationalism of its people, one that ultimately superseded the idea of class.
The Rockefellers, Fords and Carnegies—and more recently the Kennedys and
the Bushes—saw themselves bound to their nation and the attendant principle
of mutuality of obligation, giving back in money and service to the country
that made their success possible. They saw themselves as Americans first,
even though they had the means to be citizens of the world.
In contrast, America’s corporate elite today, especially its financial
plutocrats on the East Coast and digital aristocracy on the West Coast, seem
keener to work on “global problems.” The commitment to one’s country is
seen as a sign of retrograde populism to be stamped out at the first
possible opportunity.
Corporate elites have pushed a self-serving vision of a world of
transnationalism unconstrained by local cultures and institutions, many of
which took centuries to establish and consolidate. The new credentialed
oligarchy—people simultaneously from everywhere and nowhere—feels an ever
more tenuous sense of obligation to its fellow nationals.
The assault on the constitutional right of citizens to speak freely unless
they affirm first the increasingly intolerant orthodoxy has been unrelenting
. The nation’s freedom is being abridged by incessant charges of structural
racism, white privilege, homophobia and intolerance, with few pausing to
consider the effect on liberal traditions. Today the neo-Marxists control
almost all areas of elite discourse in the U.S., and can thus cancel any
opposition by hurling “populism” or “racism” at anyone who refuses to
submit to their ideological line.
As cities burn and racialists push to resegregate public spaces, the
deconstruction of the American nation is coming dangerously close to
completion. The Western nation-state as the irreducible unit of the
international system is weaker than at any time since the end of World War
II. The neo-Marxist left is separating the institutions of American
democracy from their national foundations. If they succeed, the U.S. will
over time lose its republican culture and morph into a state in which the
new aristocracy wields power over a disenfranchised and impoverished
populace. The stakes are in full view for anyone to see.
Mr. Michta is dean of the College of International and Security Studies at
the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-
Partenkirchen, Germany. | m*k
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opponents
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【在 h******g 的大作中提到】
: The American Experiment Is on Life Support
: Neo-Marxists on the street and in institutions want to erase their opponents
: and deconstruct the country.
: ‘Death to America!” is a common refrain from antifa rioters from Portland,
: Ore., to Kenosha, Wis. Children are in the streets calling for the country
: ’s destruction while mobs of college kids trash public spaces, filming
: themselves as though part of a performance-art spectacle. Neither political
: party has been willing or able to end this anarchy. Extremism becomes more
: entrenched in American politics with each passing day.
: These acts of violence encapsulate five decades of neo-Marxist
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: opponents
: Portland,
: country
: political
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: opponents
: Portland,
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