Mariusz Wesolowski TARTUFFES WITH RED STARS, OR THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF THE

LEFT

On January 3rd, 2017, in Chicago, Ill., four black young people - Brittany Covington, 18, her sister
Tanisha Covington, 24, Tesfaye Cooper, 18, and Jordan Hill, 18 brought home their white, mentally
disabled schoolmate, also 18, and tortured him for hours while shouting F*ck white people and F*ck
Trump. Then, they demanded a $300 ransom from the victims mother and posted a video of this atrocity
on YouTube. There are many other vile details to this story but their importance pales in comparison to
the hypocritical reaction of a large portion of the media, some public figures and many social justice
warriors.
Scrupulously observing the liberal linguistic superstitions, the majority of the media reports which I have
read did not dare mention the race of the young sadists while at the same time publishing their very
explicit photographs. CNNs host Don Lemon dismissed the event as not evil, just a result of bad home
training (as if it were a case of peeing on the toilet seat). The New York Times buried the story of the
crime on page 17 of its January 4th edition; even though the article called it an apparent racial attack, the
incident did not qualify for the Times weekly compilation of hate crimes and harassment around the
country since the election of Donald Trump published one day later. Worse still, a CBS radio report,
while remaining technically factual, managed to create an impression that some white Trump supporters
tortured a helpless mentally ill black man (1).
The shrill denial of the social justice mob was even more pathetic. Calm down my white friends your
white privilege is showing. yall carry on; Hmmmlets see what white people are fake outraged over
this morning #BLMKidnapping; White people cannot suffer racism, its an actual impossibility if
you understand WTF racism is; Black people die at the hands of white terrorists everyday. stfu these
are some examples of the callous, patronizing or just plain stupid tweets issued by people who certainly
consider themselves nice, tolerant, unbiased and rational (2). But such duplicity is nothing new for the
Left. In fact, it is its birthright and cornerstone.
When we take a long, hard look at the history of the struggle between the Right and the Left, we cannot
help noticing if we are honest about it - that the Lefts claim to the higher moral ground usually rests on
hypocrisy and double standard. Despite its many grave and obvious sins, especially in its extreme
political forms, the Right is seldom found guilty of this particular vice. Thus, unlike Stalin, Hitler did not
try to disguise his brutal realpolitik aims under the noble-sounding verbiage about the progress of
humanity and liberation of the masses. Incidentally, Stalin had killed substantially more people than
Hitler, albeit by different means and without racial prejudice - he was a truly egalitarian mass murderer.
Yet in popular perception, fueled by the overwhelming liberal slant in official historiography and the
mainstream media, Hitler is evil incarnate while Stalin still retains quite a few shreds of his benevolent
Uncle Joe disguise. The ongoing trials of war criminals project this bias into the realm of politico-
judicial praxis: while even the lowest Nazi camp guards, now in their nineties, are still being prosecuted
and sentenced to fairly long prison terms, not a single Stalinist (or a Communist, for that matter)
functionary has ever been put in the dock, no matter how homicidal were his or her actions in the past (3).
Historical instances of this double standard are numerous. For example, the Spanish Civil War was
triggered in 1936 by the inability (or perhaps unwillingness) of the democratically elected Republican
government to stop the atrocities committed daily in the streets by the extreme Left and the anarchists.
Political opponents and priests were slaughtered and churches were burned, even in Madrid, a few blocks
away from the parliament building, yet the government did nothing, thus forcing an already disgruntled
group of army officers to initiate a coup d'tat. This act of self-defense was immediately presented by the
Left as an assault on democracy itself and the Spanish Civil War was turned into an iconic event in the
leftist mythology (4).
Ernesto Che Guevara, an Argentine physician and Marxist revolutionary, is still considered a good
guy and even a role model in the progressive circles despite the fact that he was personally responsible
for hundreds, if not thousands, of political executions in Cuba and South America. Nevertheless, his
present-day admirers are finding all sorts of excuses for his murderous behavior, or simply ignore it
altogether while wearing T-shirts and buttons with his heroically staring-into-the-glorious-future image.
Unsurprisingly, Che also helped create the totalitarian regime in Cuba with its secret police, labour
camps, hellhole prisons, and the comprehensive surveillance of the population. As we all know (or as we
all should know), the same thing had happened practically everywhere under the rule of the Left in the
Soviet Russia, Republican Spain, Maoist China, the Soviet Block countries, North Vietnam, Pol Pots
Cambodia, and so on. But this elephant in the room remains deeply camouflaged. Nowadays, the hip
social justice warriors simply dont care if their past and present idols drip with blood and engage in all
sorts of violence as long as they provide free education and public health care. Many such people often
wear the red star somewhere on their clothing even though the swastika as a fashion accessory would fill
them with horror and disgust. Just the same, the practical difference between them and neo-Nazis is very
small indeed.
As for tolerance, it is no longer defined by Voltaires apocryphal but noble saying, I do not agree with
what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Now it is Herbert Marcuse and his
liberating or discriminating tolerance that is being practiced by the Left (that is to say, by Western
governments, Western universities and Western mainstream media.) In his 1965 essay Repressive
tolerance, Marcuse defined this new understanding of tolerance simply as intolerance against
movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left (5). Tolerance is thus intolerance -
this would be simply absurd (or a quote from Orwells 1984) if it hadnt been said and received with
absolute seriousness.
Why does the Left need to rely so heavily on deception, hypocrisy, and plain lies? The motives are
complex but one reason stands out the liberals irrationally optimistic evaluation of human nature. Olga
Tokarczuk, a contemporary Polish writer and one of the standard bearers of progressivism in her
country, has summed up very well this hopelessly nave attitude:
The conservative assumes that people are more bad than good; he believes that only external
conditioning, prohibitions, rules and laws, including the power of tradition, are able to keep the man in
proper moral order. The leftist believes that, deep down there, the man is after all good, that we only need
to leave him alone and he will spread his wings. It is better to trust, support, sympathize and let him be
free (6).
And when this wonderfully optimistic philosophy of the Left (Tokarczuks words again) starts
malfunctioning in real life, when the man refuses due to his instincts or his freedom - to blindly accept
such egregiously unempirical dogmas, the Left is forced to resort to the external conditioning,
prohibitions, rules and laws just what the Right has been prescribing all along. Of course, the Left
cannot admit this and the masquerade of deception, hypocrisy, and plain lies begins. Racism works only
one way, intolerance is tolerance, murder is peace. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal
than the others. Thus the sunny ways (7) of the Left run through the swamps of mendacity and over the
rivers of blood.
Mariusz Wesolowski
January 2017
Footnotes:
(1) See
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/cbs_radio_report_created_the_impression_chicago_tortur
e_victim_was_a_black_man_assaulted_by_white_trump_supporters.html
(2) Source: http://heatst.com/culture-wars/twitter-radicals-exonerate-black-teens-who-tortured-young-
white-man-in-chicago/
(3) A very recent exception to this rule is the sentencing of Alexandru Visinescu, 90, a Communist
Romanian camp guard, to 20 years imprisonment on February 10th, 2016 (see
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/jailing-of-elderly-former-prison-commander-means-more-
romanian-communists-will-answer-for-crimes ). It was also in Romania that its Communist dictator
Nicolae Ceauescu had been executed, together with his high-profile wife, during a popular uprising in
1989. However, these events are so far completely isolated. For example, the organizers of, and
participants in, the so-called Katyn massacre of more than 10,000 Polish officers in the Soviet Russia in
1940 a war crime if there ever was one have never been prosecuted although many of them had been
still alive after the perestroika. One of its main instigators, Vyacheslav Molotov, the foreign minister of
the USSR under Stalin, also known as the signatory of the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov pact with the
Nazi Germany in 1939, died peacefully in his bed, at age 96, in 1986. Salomon Morel, a Jewish
Communist partisan, Stalinist official and a sadistic commander of the camp for German civilians at
witochowice, Poland, in 1945, was sheltered by the State of Israel from Polish demands for his
extradiction as a war criminal until his death in 2007. Ironically, he had been receiving his state officials
pension from Poland for many years after his immigration to Israel in 1992.
(4) And it still remains so, as witnessed by the apologetic media reactions to the last years 80th
anniversary of its outbreak, even though we can easily learn about its actual reality the continuous,
brutal extermination of real and perceived opponents, crippling infighting between various political
factions in the Republican camp, poor military planning, the transfer to the USSR of the entire Spanish
gold reserve (never to be seen again), and finally a street battle between the Republican army - which by
then had turned against its own government - and the Communists in Madrid. A truly pathetic and sordid
story indeed. For the comprehensive and objective treatment of the subject, see Anthony Beevors The
Battle for Spain, (a revamping of his earlier and rather unexceptional 1982 account), Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 2006, or the older and truly magisterial The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas (Penguin
Randon House, revised edition, 2001). Avoid any publications by Paul Preston who is just a highly biased
mounthpiece for the British Left.

(5) See http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm .

(6) Quoted from the Polish text of the interview with Olga Tokarczuk at
http://wyborcza.pl/1,75410,18999849,olga-tokarczuk-laureatka-nike-2015-ludzie-nie-bojcie-sie.html

(7) Sunny ways is how the Canadian Liberal Party is fond of describing its policies.