19 de Mayo 2006

Hablando de Dalrymple

Ya que le he citado en el post previo, recomiendo su (creo) último artículo en el Times.
“The religiosity of Marxists has long been remarked by the non-believers, the doctrine of Marxism being that history has a plan for the redemption of mankind. When it became impossible for anyone, except perhaps Professor Eric Hobsbawm, to believe any such thing, just as earlier Christianity had lost its credibility for most people, a new outlet for the religious impulse that motivated belief had to be found.
A further two axioms need to be added to explain the rise of monomaniacal fanaticism. The first is that hatred is a much more powerful political emotion than love, and is therefore also a stronger motive for action. It is my guess, for example, that Mr Brown (ZP) hates the rich (sociological right) much more than he loves the poor (working class), and that anti-racists (progres), for example, hate whites (rich), even when they are white (rich) themselves, more than they love members of minorities (working class)“. La negrita es mía, ya se ve que cambiando algunos nombres el párrafo sirve para dedicar el artículo completo a nuestro presidente y su difícil relación con el mundo. Exagero, desde luego.