A Slight Glimpse, Very Slight, Into Leftism

Barbara Kay: The Left's need to believe in utopian tyrannies
Posted: April 22, 2009,
In The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn noted that Shakespeare’s evildoers were content to commit only a handful of murders. They stop killing, Solzhenitsyn explained, because “they have no ideology.”
This pithy observation succinctly distinguishes Macbeth from mass executioners Stalin, Mao, Che and Saddam. But what explains the curious fact that intellectuals can apply critical thinking to the study of Shakespeare’s murderers, while ideological massacrists inspire — in leftists — the very opposite: a lapse in critical thinking so egregious that it amounts to a pathology?
You’ll find persuasive answers in the just-published United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror, by historian Jamie Glazov. Glazov is the managing editor of FrontPageMagazine, a popular online conservative Web site with 500,000 regular readers, published by former leftist turned conservative David Horowitz.
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