‘The TIME has been,” said Macbeth, “that, when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an end.” But, as he found out when Banquo’s ghost came back to push him from his stool, it’s a funny old world. Likewise, though Communism has sustained at least twenty mortal murthers on its crown, its shade still haunts us. Various fashionable and politically correct Doppelgängers, from environmentalism to radical feminism, shake their gory locks at us in reminder that there are still those who want political power in order to try to change human nature.
In the old days such people might have been called fellow-travelers by the Right and “useful idiots” by the Communists themselves for furthering their agenda without wearing their uniform. But what do we call them today? They are “useful” only to themselves and the spirit of chaos, and they cannot be fellow-travelers now that their Communist traveling companion has expired. So, rather than calling them idiots tout court (why poison the wells of dialogue?), or solo-travelers, I propose re-christening them Mitgängers.
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