What the Left Thinks the Right Thinks

The largest unexplored territories in the consciousness of our time are fantasies in the minds of the Left about what the Right thinks. This is a theological question. For the Left, even when it is atheist, always thinks theologically. Marx was a mystic and a prophet. As Soviet mathematician Igor Shafarevich writes, Marx’s works do not exhibit “even the climate of science.”

In its inner world, the Left sees Good and Evil, for which it employs the code Left and Right. The Left believes that to favor social progress is noble, selfless, moral, and just. This is the divinity that shapes its ends. To resist the projects of the Left is to be not merely mistaken but reactionary. And that is, by definition, immoral.

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Michael Novak

Michael Novak was a Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat.

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The largest unexplored territories in the consciousness of our time are fantasies in the minds of the Left about what the Right thinks. This is a theological question. For the Left, even when it is atheist, always thinks theologically. Marx was a mystic and a prophet. As Soviet mathematician Igor Shafarevich writes, Marx’s works do not exhibit “even the climate of science.”

In its inner world, the Left sees Good and Evil, for which it employs the code Left and Right. The Left believes that to favor social progress is noble, selfless, moral, and just. This is the divinity that shapes its ends. To resist the projects of the Left is to be not merely mistaken but reactionary. And that is, by definition, immoral.