David Horowitz pulls no punches in a recent interview with the Western Standard looking back on his past life as a leftist activist. I loved this:
Q: Back in the 1960s, you were a strong supporter of the Black Panthers, a militant black power movement. Why do you think that you and so many other middle-class liberals and leftists of that era were so captivated by an organization that, looking back, seems so steeped in violence and division?
Well, first of all, I was not a liberal. I was a leftist. People who are called liberals today are not liberal. They're intolerant. They're rude. They're socialists. They're not liberal. But it's very simple. The left is a crypto-religious movement. They believe in an earthly redemption created through politics. [They think] a world will be created in which there is no racism, no sexism, no war. That realm of social justice is prevented from taking place by the United States, because the United States is the most powerful capitalist country. That's the way leftists think. Therefore, any crime that Panthers or black people commit is really committed by American capitalism. That would have been my refrain. That is an evil argument and it is an excuse for all matter of criminality.
Read the whole thing.
