Hanne Herland, "New Left Tyranny" (Christian Publishing House, 2020)

Summary

New Left Tyranny (Christian Publishing House) best-selling Scandanavian author, Hanne Nabintu Herland, argues that the neo-Marxist New Left turned their back on historical Western principles and became a destructive authoritarian force. It abandoned the working class and instead attacked Western civilisation itself. Herland, born and raised in Central and East Africa, is not a stereotypical conservative Christian critic. In our discussion, she brings a truly global perspective to her critique, sympathy for traditional left-wing thinkers and ideologies of social responsibility, and intimate knowledge of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Most interestingly, in my view, she forwards a powerful argument about the left-wing, socialist roots of National Socialism and its currently unacknowledged, widespread influence in currently dominant left-wing movements that purport to be "anti-fascist", from the perspective of a Norwegian whose country was actually occupied by National Socialist Germany and had many collaborators. The notions of universalist social evolution -- with an unquestionably superior social and moral order -- that underpin these movements' suppression of diversity is something she strongly opposes. Her exploration of how Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School consciously re-defined National Socialism as right-wing is also thought-provoking. Hanne Nabintu Herland is a Scandinavian bestselling author, historian of comparative religions and founder of The Herland Report, a Scandinavian news site, TV channel on YouTube and Podcasts reaching millions yearly.
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