After the psychopath Dylann Roof murdered nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015, the United States lost its mind. Roof declared himself to be a racist and a supporter of the Confederacy; the nation—encouraged by politicians, pundits, academics, and activists—went into a frenzy of moral preening by…
Our current status: Rotten farce
June 20, 2015
[I]t really seems as though old Hegel, in the guise of the World Spirit, were directing history from the grave and, with the greatest conscientiousness, causing everything to be re-enacted twice over, once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten farce[.] —Friedrich Engels, 1851 Engels was the co-inventor of Marxism. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich…