Navarro
Well-known member
There, in a nutshell, is the sum of the New Left’s commitment: We know nothing of the socialist future, save only that it is both necessary and desirable. Our concern is with the ‘compelling’ case against the present that leads us to destroy what we lack the knowledge to replace.
A blind faith drags the radical from ‘struggle’ to ‘struggle’, reassuring him that everything done in the name of ‘social justice’ is well done and that all destruction of existing power will lead him towards his goal. He desires to leap from the tainted world that surrounds him into the pure but unknowable realm of human emancipation.
This leap into the Kingdom of Ends is a leap of thought, which can never be mirrored in reality. ‘Revolutionary praxis’ therefore confines itself to the work of destruction, having neither the power nor the desire to perceive, in concrete terms, the end towards which it labours.
- Sir Roger Scruton
A blind faith drags the radical from ‘struggle’ to ‘struggle’, reassuring him that everything done in the name of ‘social justice’ is well done and that all destruction of existing power will lead him towards his goal. He desires to leap from the tainted world that surrounds him into the pure but unknowable realm of human emancipation.
This leap into the Kingdom of Ends is a leap of thought, which can never be mirrored in reality. ‘Revolutionary praxis’ therefore confines itself to the work of destruction, having neither the power nor the desire to perceive, in concrete terms, the end towards which it labours.
- Sir Roger Scruton