'The revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move to universal egalitarianism." - Max Horkheimer
That seems to rebut the entire piece; however, Germany was Karl’s birthplace and his spawn already inhabit the halls of Europe. Europe’s socialism is in its final cycle which only adds another complication to an intractable problem.
The author of this piece seems to offer a reasonable analysis of the current “refugee” situation with a unique perspective. There exists today an attempt to rewrite history and create a Golden Age of Islam out of whole cloth—portraying Medieval Muslims as innovative custodians of culture when, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The few who appreciated science and culture stole the work of more advanced civilizations whom they had conquered and even then worked in defiance of the Islamic faith.
Yet there was a Golden Age for many Muslims, and that was a period in the late nineteenth century and lasted until the latter twentieth. The brief age of secular Muslim states flourished when Turkish, Lebanese, Iranian and Syrian leaders attempted to join modern society. While not popular democratic states and many flirted with socialism, these were nations struggling to enter the twentieth century with all her complications. They failed and are failing and our feeble attempts at resuscitation have only furthered that decline.
The true irony in the situation when Westerners call for Islamic reform. The Islamic Reformation has already occurred, and its greatest adherents are known as ISIS. The secularists and minorities have been slaughtered and displaced by Islamic fundamentalists, and yet it is those very fundamentalists who comprise the bulk of the “refugees!”
These people cannot and will not assimilate. They are incapable of reason and inculcated with hatred for their hosts.
Inviting such a force into your country is to ensure generations of violence. The only question that remains is why so many leader do so. Those who grant these leaders charitable intent are much more charitable than I.
Your conversation raises a good question. What is the relationship between the modern European Left, Marxism, and Islam?
All three hate Christianity. That is what unites them; so when one of the three does something hurtful to the Christian West, the other two assist. Islam has energy that others lack; so the Left makes up a legal environment with unenforceable national borders, and the USSR gave them weapons and a secular philosophy, which the governments of the last half of 20 century could attach to Islam.
But they also hate each other. The Left dreams of peaceful Islam and hates the violent misogynistic reality of it. The Marxists hate any religion, especially one inspiring millions. The Left and the Marxism oppose each other on the usefulness and desirability of democracy. Merkel, for example, is no Marxist: she saw Marxism in operation in East Germany and did not like it.
I don’t think our enemy can be properly seen as a single entity.