The best religion is communism.
Lee Harvey Oswald [i]
Socialism is a fake, a comedy, a phantom, and a blackmail.
Benito Mussolini
Speech in Milan, 22 July 1919
Our disease is democracy. It is not the skin that festers – our very bones are carious, and their marrow blackens with gangrene.
Fisher Ames
The abnormal man, the damaged man, Lee Harvey Oswald, said, “The best religion is communism.” The disillusioned communist-turned-fascist, Benito Mussolini, said socialism “is a fake, a comedy, and a blackmail.” More than a century earlier, the great spokesman of the Federalist Party in America, Fisher Ames, said that democracy is “our disease.” All three of these quotes reflect the same problem; namely, our obsession with false ideas and false narratives. Soren Kierkegaard said that the present age began with understandings and reflections leading to a mighty leveling tendency. “In order that everything should be reduced to the same level,” he wrote, “it is first of all necessary to produce a phantom, its spirit, a monstrous abstraction, an all-embracing something which is nothing, a mirage – and that phantom is the public.”[ii]
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