They Never Learn

A short excerpt from the introduction to my Woke Fascism: The Real Threat to Democracy

The following is an actual dialog between the author and a professor at the notoriously liberal Sarah Lawrence College.

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Student to professor: "Where has communism ever actually worked? " Professor: He pauses, smiles, and says, "For a few months in Barcelona [Spain] in 1936." Student: "Just a few months? If it failed everywhere else, why try it again?" Professor: "Because if we keep trying, we’ll get it right."

To apply communism is an aspiration; in fact it has never been applied anywhere; it is really still a utopia. — Alejandro Castro Espin

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This bizarre conversation between myself and a Marxist professor of literature reveals the naivete and complacency of the progressive movement. In effect, the professor said, "Yes, my Utopian dreams have failed again and again at great cost in human misery. Yes, I have learned nothing from those endless failures. Yes, I am willing to subject countless millions of people to the endless repetition of physical, social, political, and economic disaster in the name of my personal dream of justice."

Safe and sound in a comfortable office, it was easy for a tenured, solidly upper-middle-class professor at an ultra-liberal college to be complacent. Not that the professor was an evil man. On the contrary, he was intelligent, well-educated, and a decent person. Yet, he was willing to impose his personal fantasies by force, if necessary, on the rest of us. In his view, America was and is a terrible place, and therefore it is mandatory to fervently pursue the destruction of our country, culture, faith, and history.

As you will see, the professor and a great many others like him are indispensable enablers of fascism. They are the "Fascists Next Door" (FND), Americans who knowingly or unwittingly support doctrines that have generated more human misery and death than any other social or political system in history. In the hands of ruthless politicians and activists, people who think like the professor are the bricks and mortar of fascism's Utopian fantasies. Without these zealous followers, fascism is just another nasty political theory.