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Rules of Engagement: Understanding your Opponent = battle already won -

Part I We have all tried, time and time again, to understand how the Leftist mind gives the appearance of working. In my series "Rules of Engagement" starting from today, I hope to illustrate how the "great" leftist "thinkers" garnered the sheeple and led them up the alley from which they are unwilling or incapable of finding their way home.

Today we start with Hegel who was born in Germany in August 1770. Hegel has a huge groupie following amongst the Lefties of today. In his work "The Essential Destiny of Reason" he rumbles thus:

Quote: -the State is the actually, existing, realised moral life. -the practical activity of men, and in their dispositions, should be duly recognised; that it should have a manifest existence, and maintain its position.
It is the absolute interest of Reason that this moral Whole should exist; and herein lies the justification and merit of heroes who have founded states, – however rude these may have been. -It must further be understood that all the worth which the human being possesses – all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State -The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. -When the State or our country constitutes a community of existence; when the subjective will of man submits to laws, – the contradiction between Liberty and Necessity vanishes. The Rational has necessary existence as being the reality and substance of things, and we are free in recognising it as law, and following it as the substance of our own being. -Limitation is certainty produced by Society and the State, but it is a limitation of the mere brute emotions and rude instincts; as also, in a more advanced stage of culture, of the premeditated self-will of caprice and passion. This kind of constraint is part of the instrumentality by which only, the consciousness of Freedom and the desire for its attainment, in its true – that is Rational and Ideal form – can be obtained. -A State is an individual totality, of which you cannot select any particular side, although a supremely important one, such as its political constitution; and deliberate and decide respecting it in that isolated form. Not only is that constitution most intimately connected with and dependent on those other spiritual forces; but the form of the entire moral and intellectual individuality – comprising all the forces it embodies – is only a step in the development of the grand Whole, – with its place pre-appointed in the process: a fact which gives the highest sanction to the constitution in question, and establishes its absolute necessity. -The origin of a State involves imperious lordship on the one hand, instinctive submission on the other.
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And there's lots more of this zzzzzzzz stuff if you do a search for "Marxists" at the search engines. Now for a fun quote:

"The first thing to say is that Leftism is emotional. The second is to say that the emotion is negative and the third thing to say is that the negative emotion (anger/hate/rage) is directed at the world about the Leftist, the status quo if you like. The Leftist is nothing if he is not a critic, though usually a very poorly-informed critic. And the criticisms are both pervasive and deeply felt."
from the academic writings of Psychology Prof. Dr.John Ray