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100 1 a| Mahoney, Daniel J.,d| 1960-e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqHdPTCXKhBqpxmVFytVd=| ^A477574;

245 10 a| Persistence of the ideological lie :b| the totalitarian impulse then and now /c| Daniel J. Mahoney.;

246 30 a| Totalitarian impulse then and now;

250 a| First American edition.;

264 1 a| New York :b| Encounter Books,c| 2025.;

300 a| 159 pages ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| From Ideological Negation to the Affirmation of the Real -- The Path Toward Woke Despotism and Beyond -- The New Age of Uniformity -- The Persistence of the Lie : Despotism Then and Now -- Postcolonial Ideology and Its Discontents -- "Virtue and Terror" : Robespierre and His New Apologists -- Marx and Marxism : Emancipation as Servitude and Essential Questions Foreclosed -- Dostoevsky on the Spirit of Revolutionary Negation -- The Lost Promise of 1989 -- The 1619 Project : Racialism as a New Form of the Lie -- Moral Inversion : Why Radical Relativism Leads to Ideological Fanaticism -- A Time for Courage and Moderation -- A Final Word to the Left, Center, and Right.;

520 a| "The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil, backward, racist, colonialist, sexist, etc. Jacobinism, Marxism-Leninism, National Socialism, Progressive Democracy, the New Left, and now, the new woke dispensation have all iterated upon this central conceit. Their adherents were all frenziedly preoccupied with being on "the right side of history"--the side of "progress." In The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, Daniel Mahoney chronicles each manifestation of the Ideological Lie, up to and including contemporary wokeism. He explains how they are marked by the same errors: impatience with piecemeal reform; contempt for self-limiting constitutional order; and the belief that people are guilty for their immutable characteristics--belonging to the wrong class or race--rather than for their actions. He shows how the woke, moved by self-loathing and a disdain for our civic inheritance, are transmuting our so called "democracy" into a new form of despotism. Mahoney ultimately argues that our failure to learn from the totalitarian tragedy of the twentieth century allowed the ideological virus to metastasize in new and alarming ways. Above all, he takes aim at the omnipresent "culture of repudiation," as the late Roger Scruton called it, and elucidates multiple paths for overcoming the ideological clichés that continue to deform intellectual and political life today"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Persistence of the ideological lie : the totalitarian impulse then and now / Daniel J. Mahoney.

Author/creator	Mahoney, Daniel J., 1960- author.
Format	Book
Edition	First American edition.
Publication	New York : Encounter Books, 2025.
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	159 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Totalitarianism--Moral and ethical aspects. Totalitarianism--History. Political ethics--History.

Portion of title	Totalitarian impulse then and now
Contents	From Ideological Negation to the Affirmation of the Real -- The Path Toward Woke Despotism and Beyond -- The New Age of Uniformity -- The Persistence of the Lie : Despotism Then and Now -- Postcolonial Ideology and Its Discontents -- "Virtue and Terror" : Robespierre and His New Apologists -- Marx and Marxism : Emancipation as Servitude and Essential Questions Foreclosed -- Dostoevsky on the Spirit of Revolutionary Negation -- The Lost Promise of 1989 -- The 1619 Project : Racialism as a New Form of the Lie -- Moral Inversion : Why Radical Relativism Leads to Ideological Fanaticism -- A Time for Courage and Moderation -- A Final Word to the Left, Center, and Right.
Abstract	"The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil, backward, racist, colonialist, sexist, etc. Jacobinism, Marxism-Leninism, National Socialism, Progressive Democracy, the New Left, and now, the new woke dispensation have all iterated upon this central conceit. Their adherents were all frenziedly preoccupied with being on "the right side of history"--the side of "progress." In The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, Daniel Mahoney chronicles each manifestation of the Ideological Lie, up to and including contemporary wokeism. He explains how they are marked by the same errors: impatience with piecemeal reform; contempt for self-limiting constitutional order; and the belief that people are guilty for their immutable characteristics--belonging to the wrong class or race--rather than for their actions. He shows how the woke, moved by self-loathing and a disdain for our civic inheritance, are transmuting our so called "democracy" into a new form of despotism. Mahoney ultimately argues that our failure to learn from the totalitarian tragedy of the twentieth century allowed the ideological virus to metastasize in new and alarming ways. Above all, he takes aim at the omnipresent "culture of repudiation," as the late Roger Scruton called it, and elucidates multiple paths for overcoming the ideological clichés that continue to deform intellectual and political life today"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Mahoney, Daniel J., 1960- Persistence of the ideological lie First American edition. New York : Encounter Books, 2025 9781641773744
LCCN	2024053685
ISBN	9781641773737
ISBN	1641773731 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book

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