Increasingly, we are seeing more and more people declare that “there are no rules” and that we must “fight like the Left” to the point of adopting Leftist thinking and frameworks, both of which are necessary prerequisites to engage in “tactics” of Gramsci, Marcuse, or Alinsky. The line of “thinking” is that everything has already been blown up by the Left so that we have to “join ‘em to beat ‘em” at their own game. That this ignores the little fact that the “rules for radicals” or “repressive tolerance” are tailor made to achieve goals antithetical to America seems beyond too many who foolishly believe that they can highjack the immanentization to steer it towards their own chosen eschaton, by sheer manliness or oracular intervention.
To put it bluntly, NO, Marx or his pseudo-intellectual dependents did not have any “good ideas” or any “good points”/insights into society or power. In reality, the adoption of Leftist thinking is nothing less than a triumph for the Left, for the Right has become them… the debate merely one of who is the bolshevik and who is the menshevik.
What the Gramscians did is replace the old with their framework via the “Long March Through The Institutions”, waiting for the Right get frustrated and toss out “the rules”. The Right only had superficial normalcy left; without those rules, they had only that new framework left—the framework of, by, and for the Left.
Totalitarian is, ultimately, in the mind, and one can’t break free because of internal capture, and nothing underlying to replace it. The superficial means nothing, at that point, at least nothing of true value or worth.
Many on the Right, purported or otherwise, only opposed things because they were outside that superficial layer of normalcy. It was alien only because it was alien and due to the momentum and habit, once it became normal in society it became normal for them individually, because the underlying fundamentals upon which lay “normalcy” had changed.
