But having brought about the opposite of the prosperity, health, wisdom, or happiness that their ideology advertised, they have been unable to force folks to ignore the gap between political correctness and reality.Įspecially since the Soviet Empire’s implosion, leftists have argued that Communism failed to create utopia not because of any shortage of military or economic power but rather because it could not overcome this gap. Progressive parties everywhere have sought to monopolize educational and cultural institutions in order to force those under their thumbs to sing their tunes or to shut up.
Because that power is insecure as long as others are able to question the truth of what the progressives say about themselves and the world, progressive movements end up struggling not so much to create the promised new realities as to force people to speak and act as if these were real: as if what is correct politically-i.e., what thoughts serve the party’s interest-were correct factually.Ĭommunist states furnish only the most prominent examples of such attempted groupthink. Hence, any progressive movement’s nominal goal eventually ends up being subordinated to the urgent, all-important question of the movement’s own power. But since reality does not yield, progressives end up pretending that they themselves embody those new realities. Because all progressives, Communists included, claim to be about creating new human realities, they are perpetually at war against nature’s laws and limits. The notion of political correctness came into use among Communists in the 1930s as a semi-humorous reminder that the Party’s interest is to be treated as a reality that ranks above reality itself. “ Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.”
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