Fyodor Dostoyevsky has one of the three brothers in his novel The Brothers Karamazov declare, “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.” Stripping people of their faith and then denuding them of the essential characteristics which define them is and has always been the work of revolutions, whether of the Cromwellian attempt in the 17th century, the fanaticism of a Robespierre in France in the late 18th, or the genocide of the Marxists in Russia and China in the 20th. As now, in our day the lunatics who run our schools and colleges, dominate our churches, run our entertainment, spout our daily news, and control our politics, whether it be the Democrats or the Republicans, do the same with unalloyed frenzy. They make the spectre of “Big Brother” look like a Sunday school teacher.
Quoted in my dissertation, presented years back (1975) at the University of Navarra in Spain, Spanish Carlist philosopher Juan Vazquez de Mella stated it this way:
“Who has ever seen ‘the individual,’ if not defined by his family, his region, his profession, his language, his inheritance, his faith? Removed from these defining characteristics the individual is an abstraction, and a political system based on an abstraction must either end in despotism or revolution.” [Mella, “Discourse in the Congress of Deputies,” February 27, 1908, in Obras Completas, vol. 8, p. 150]
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For the past couple of centuries we have seen the almost unrestrained growth of a revolutionary cancer within society. What has been termed by counter-revolutionary authors as a “demonic movement against God and man,” this contagion draws its force intellectually from the concept of the Idea of Progress, that is, that history unfolds irresistibly in one direction—which its votaries denominate “progressive”—which encompasses the ineluctable advance and triumph of essentially secularist and globalist ideas. The object of these modern revolutionaries has been to expropriate and sloganize the idea of “progress” and weaponize it as their meme for conquest. Under the leadership of the self-anointed heads of the Revolution oppressed peoples will be led to victory, to that utopia where there is no want, no poverty, no sadness, where everyone is equal and happy.
Historically, it has been the South in the American confederation which has been the most resistant to this revolutionary radical change and thus a primary target. In spite of—or perhaps because of—the tragic loss of what one writer has termed a “second war for independence” (1861-1865), we Southerners were deeply aware of their inheritance. It was the South with its hierarchical culture, its regionalism, and its devotion to custom and traditions inherited from the European ancestors who settled originally in Virginia, Maryland, and Louisiana, which was our patrimony. The late distinguished professors Eugene and Betsey Genovese, in their mammoth magnum opus, The Mind of the Master Class (Cambridge University Press, 2005), have written movingly about this profound sentiment in the old South, a characteristic which in so many ways defined my region, my state, my community, down to the very family in which I grew up and was nurtured by.
