Yep, it's from a surprisingly late blogpost compared to most of his other classics. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/09/technology-communism-and-brown-scare/ …
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"When the story of the 20th century is told in its proper, reactionary light, international communism is anything but a grievance of which Americans may complain. Rather, it’s a crime for which we have yet to repent."
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"For example, my favorite example of a culturally ancestral aristo-American is Thomas Wentworth Higginson. As a young man, he made pioneering strides in terrorist finance as a member of the Secret Six...."
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"In the 1890s, he worked hard to promote revolution in Russia. Some friends Russia had! And as an old man, Higginson helped Jack London and Upton Sinclair start the Intercollegiate Socialist Society; which later became the awesomely named League for Industrial Democracy...."
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"Which really should have been a band or at least a nightclub; which begat the SDS; which begat (shh!) B. H. Obama. Clearly, this is the authentic American tradition, unbroken and unchallenged. Accept no substitutes!"
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"In Bolshevik communism, who is the revolution for? The workers and peasants. But, in Bolshevik communism, who actually makes the revolution? Nobles (Lenin) and Jews (Trotsky). To wit, the groups in Russian society who are in fact most distant from actual workers and peasants."
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"Similarly, the most passionate anti-racists in America are all to be found, in early September, at Burning Man. Everyone at Burning Man, with hardly an exception, is highly altruistic toward African-Americans. But, there are no African-Americans at Burning Man."
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"But wait—What’s wrong with nonempathic altruism? Why does it matter to the helped if the brains of their helpers genuinely light up in the love lobe, or not? Loved or not, they’re still helped—right? Or are they? How’d the Soviets work out for the workers and peasants?"
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Replying to @bespokecommie @readyinafewdayz
The Jim take on that point is more powerful. People who make a show about caring about far over near are actually sadistic towards near and want cover. The sadism isn't an accident - near or far.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @bespokecommie
I've always been suspicious of people whom put moral weight on empathy. That is, if you lack empathy, then you're a bad person. Maybe in articulating it improperly, but I think you understand what I'm referring to.
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Sadism is empathy too.
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