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The radical Left
The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America
by David Horowitz
1960s radical turned conservative writer, David Horowitz, reveals how the American political Left is quietly, but relentlessly waging a new “cold war” on the nation. Liberals and Clinton-style “centrists” are undermining our founding principles in the guise of “social justice.”
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Contrary to popular belief, the Left in America did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nor has it learned the lessons of its tragically failed past. Nor has it given up its radical dreams for the future. Instead, writes David Horowitz, the most famous defector from '60s radicalism, the Left is doing today what it has always done when faced with its own failures: assuming a new name and a new language -- and soldiering on.
Now, in The Politics of Bad Faith, Horowitz reveals how the American political Left -- which includes those who describe themselves as liberals, even Clinton-style "centrists" -- is quietly but relentlessly waging a new "cold war" against America, undermining our founding principles and ideals in the guise of "social justice." With keen insight and a masterful grasp of history, Horowitz: - explains how leftist intellectuals are busily salvaging Marxism from the wreckage of Communism and socialism
- exposes the intellectual dishonesty -- "bad faith" -- that enables the Left to rationalize away responsibility for its catastrophic failures, and shift the blame elsewhere
- analyzes the "essentially religious nature" of Leftist beliefs, making them impervious to reason and experience
- reveals how the radical assault on the objectivity of truth -- through “deconstruction” and its bedfellows -- grew from the Marxists’ need to obscure their own disastrous history
- identifies the threat to American democracy posed by the Left's accelerating attack on free speech
- demonstrates how the Left has effectively taken over university curricula to serve its agenda
- traces the radical project from its origins in 19th-century socialism to such current "progressive" causes as radical feminism, racial preferences, and what Horowitz describes as the campaign to "deconstruct" the American idea itself
- articulates a philosophical underpinning for the contemporary conservative coalition that would be broader and more stable than the one that now exists.
Horowitz shows how, behind the facade of liberalism, the Left has continued to advance its socialist schemes: to redistribute resources according to race, gender and class; to make Americans wards of the state; and to turn Big Government into Big Brother. He also shows how the Left has even subverted the public health system, allowing the epidemic of AIDS to flourish and spread. Highlights and major themes:- How "changes in labelling” have obscured the existence -- and true extent -- of the American Left
- Why it has been easier for American socialists to disguise themselves as "liberals" than for their European counterparts
- Why the Left continues to believe that socialism, with its appalling record of failure, always has the power to reform itself into something better
- The hidden Marxist assumptions of every contemporary academic trend from Feminist Theory to Deconstruction to Queer Theory
- How so-called “postmodern” leftism relieves progressives of any obligation to acknowledge their complicity in radical crimes
- How radicals succeeded in their “twenty-year political assault on America’s institutions of higher learning”
- The Pandora’s box of radical theories now dominating academia that derive from Marxism while pretending to transcend it
- Two modes of denial used by progressive intellectuals to conceal the clear implications of Communism’s collapse
- Why academic legal theorists on the Left are now openly criticizing the Constitution’s guarantees of free speech
- The dangerous new “Fourteenth Amendment Marxism” that is sweeping American law faculties
- What's a “critical legal theorist”? A “critical race activist”? Their mindset and agenda, exposed in plain English
- The “structure of belief” that creates a permanent alliance between radicals and liberals
- How the left has systematically winnowed conservative scholars and theories from the academic environment
- How Leftist political manipulation compounded the AIDS epidemic, resulting in hundreds of thousands of needless deaths
- "Market socialism" and other language games Leftists play, as a strategy for avoiding further defeat
DAVID HOROWITZ, author of the bestselling Radical Son (c4538), is editor of Heterodoxy and president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Los Angeles.
“David Horowitz uncovers the repentant Marxism of our 'liberal' or 'progressive' intelligentsia and the spread of their destructive ideas into mainstream culture, with predictably disastrous results. Marxism is necessarily totalitarian as, not to put too fine a point on it, is modern 'liberalism'. This elegant, insightful work ought to be widely read as a necessary corrective to the most dangerous moral disease of our times." -- ROBERT BORK, author of Slouching Towards Gomorrah
"Brilliantly critiques the religion of radicalism. ... By exposing the deep roots of the left, [Horowitz] shows that those who wish to preserve American culture need just not pruning hooks, but axes."-- MARVIN OLASKY, author of The Tragedy of American Compassion
"Lay[s] bare with surgical precision the ways in which American radical intellectuals have managed to disguise themselves as liberals ... The author reveals something quite unexpected, namely the survival in academe of Marxist illusions, even after the collapse of Marxism in the Soviet Union. Written with passion, it makes for fascinating reading."-- RICHARD PIPES, Professor of History, Harvard University
"In the din of today's culture wars, Horowitz's bugle sounds through loud, clear and compelling."-- WILLIAM KRISTOL, Editor & Publisher, The Weekly Standard
"David Horowitz, like his biblical namesake, is both a poet and a warrior for what is right. He knows that destructive ideas did not perish with the demise of the Soviet empire, but still flourish among American intellectuals. And with remarkable precision, he aims his sling at the left-wing philistines who continue to terrorize the American academy and cultural discourse."-- EDWIN J. FEULNER, JR., president, The Heritage Foundation
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Not Rated LUCAS SZABO (conservative youth)
This is the first Conservative book I had ever read, and was a major blow to the leftist/anarchist political beliefs I held at the time. Mr. Horowitz crushes the utopian leftist fantasy, showing us what it really is; a totalitarian ideology bathed in the blood of the innocent, and that's not all. He goes into how PC, liberation, and identity politics within the homosexual community was partly responsible for the spread of aids, and touches on other subjects as well.
I've only been a conservative for a month or so, and Mr. Horowitz's writings have played a major role in my deconstruction of my leftism/anarchism and construction of a political stance based more in reality, and concerned with liberty and freedom instead of government force by a select elite to make everything "better."
I also recommend Destructive Generation by Mr. Horowitz and Mr. Peter Collier, and in fact should be "required reading" for anyone who wants to know what a sham the 60's radical left was, and I recommend it as a gift for any of your leftist friends or children.
 Carl E. Radon
A small series of well-documented essays on how the leftist mind works. This book will help you to understand the basic, worlds apart, differences between conservative and liberal thought processes. If you can get a liberal to sit still (cease the ad hominem retorts and the "change the topic" questions) and listen, this excellent book points the way to the basis of why the leftist way doesn't work. A gold mine of arguments against all forms of utopianism.
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