Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And The American Left by David Horowitz

Author:David Horowitz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2009-04-28T07:13:00+00:00

The relentless double standard in the U.N. resolutions was the expression of the new radical worldview, which had been refashioned as a result of the Communist fall, and which framed its indictments in terms of gender and racial oppression. Traditionally, Marxists had condemned the Western democracies as "class dictatorships." But in the wake of the Communist debacle, these rhetorical formulas were less effective in their political impact than the charge of "racism." The same logic inspired radicals to introduce the term "globalization" to replace "international capitalism" as a description of the oppressor system and to use the term "social justice" as a code for socialist and totalitarian agendas."

In leftist theory, the tripartite model of class-race-gender oppression assigns each element an equal weight. But in the political war that requires a moral indictment of entire social systems, race inevitably assumes the dominant role, trumping other factors. Thus Arab regimes that oppress women and rule tyrannically over impoverished multitudes can be excused by progressives because they occupy a low rung of the international hierarchy and are not white.

In the new radical worldview, racism is redefined in order that it may be integrated with traditional Communist theories. Racism is no longer regarded as a social attitude or philosophical belief, but is the objective expression of an inequality of power that is pervasive and outside individual control. In this analysis, an individual does not have to be prejudiced to participate in racial oppression but merely to occupy a "privileged" position in an alleged hierarchy of groups and classes. (In Western democracies characterized by upward mobility, the very concept of hierarchy is, of course, a fictional construct.)

In the radical view, racism is alleged to be "systemic," or "institutional" that is, built into the very structure of capitalist societies. In its most vulgar form this idea is expressed in the proposition that "only whites can be racist." This is because whites are allegedly a cohesive group that monopolizes power. Since America and Europe can be said to include the most prosperous and powerful societies, radicals allege that the same hierarchy of class and race exists globally. Hence the global system and the "globalization" process that express this hierarchy are also "racist."

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