by Jules Gomes, Idealogical Defense Institute
Karl Marx called “religion the opium of the people.” What would the atheist philosopher say if he walked into a Western university and saw Marxists and Muslims engaging in a libidinous lovefest to secure the liberation of the Palestinian proletariat? Would he find such ideological intercourse promiscuous beyond parody?
I confess I have been discombobulated by the dissonance of the hook-up between a religion that veils women and a godless philosophy that wants to smash the patriarchy. On many occasions, readers ask me why a seventh-century religion that conducts experiments to test if gays can defy gravity would hop into bed with a 19th-century ideology that champions same-sex marriage.
“What has Marx to do with Mohammed?” the early Christian writer Tertullian might have asked. “Marxism is Marxism and Islam is Islam, and never the twain shall meet,” the poet Kipling might have quipped. Dr Craig Considine’s landmark book, When Marx Meets Islam: Navigating Radical Ideologies in Defense of the West, is an audacious attempt at resolving this coalition of contradiction.
Considine’s stellar contribution to the conversation is to dig deep and scan wide, demonstrating that the Red-Green axis is rooted in the deconstructive theories of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and Frantz Fanon and is widely disseminated by a sprawling network of subversive actors, who use the tactics of language inversion described in George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm.
Considine warns that the “soft war” between the Leftist-Islamist alliance and the West has intensified exponentially after Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023. This war is an existential threat to Western civilization. Losing the war would be catastrophic for democracy, liberty, religious freedom, free speech, equal rights, and the rule of law, he contends.