The radical declares,
“Everyone belongs to all, and all belongs to everyone. All are slaves and equal in their slavery… Slaves are bound to be equal. Without despotism there has never been either freedom or equality, but in the herd there is bound to be equality…. The moment you have family ties or love you get the desire for property. We will destroy that desire; we’ll make use of drunkenness, slander, spying; we’ll make use of incredible corruption; we’ll stifle every genius in its infancy. We’ll reduce all to a common denominator!
Complete equality!”
The Possessed
Fydor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was a 19th century Russian writer who explored the human psyche, particularly as that psyche was conditioned by ideology and religion. In the quote above we find that Dostoevsky understood the nascent proto-Marxist type ideology which he believed were Demon like ideas from Western Europe that was possessing Russia.
It is interesting that even in 1873 Russia, Dostoevsky could identify the heart of collectivism that remains with us yet today. Dostoevsky understood that the end of equality, absolutized, is slavery….
Without Biblical distinctions regarding gender, roles, racial/ethnic groups, and authority structure, we will be amalgamated into the herd reality that Dostoevsky warns about. It will be a herd reality where a few elites are, in essence, the Farmers over the undistinguished and undifferentiated mass herd. Those who advocate complete equality in terms of “equality of identity” are the enemy and they are the enemy because Scripture identifies them as such. They are the enemy who overthrow the 5th commandment where a distinction and hierarchy of parents is required before they can be honored. They are the enemy who overthrow the great commission where a distinction of nations is required before those nations can be baptized, discipled and taught to observe all things taught by Christ. They are the enemy who overthrow Galatians 3:28 where a existing distinction between Jews and Gentiles, Slave and Free, Men and Women, must exist before there can be comforted that all can be justified in Christ. They are the enemy who overthrow the 9th commandment where a distinction must exist between what is my property and what is not my property before any forbidding of theft can make sense. Egalitarianism is the enemy and egalitarians are the enemy precisely because their egalitarianism strikes at the heart of God’s revelation. Keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Father of egalitarianism is to erase the distinction and hierarchy between the Creator and the creature. They desire to make God and man a common denominator. That is the ultimate distinction that is under attack in all of these penultimate battles.
“You’ve bled us sufficiently! It’s our turn now to suck your blood. We’ll now claim the right of enjoying the tender flesh of your sweethearts; we’ll settle down in your mansions and consume your reserves of wine and food. We shall organize a feast for the paupers and we shall plunder you of all the riches that you have collected. Ha! Bygone days, ancestors, history, fame! The devil take your fame and history! Everything has become pale and grey, and heroes do not exist! … All that is beautiful and fine must be done away with. And the best of the ‘goys’ (Christians) must be slain. … May humanity grovel in bestial sensuality, like worms in a dunghill! That’s what I call equality! All identical, all white, slimy, stinking of the dung they feed on! This is the end we are aiming at! The equality of worms!” p. 398.
Pyotr N. Krasnov, ‘From Double Eagle to Red Flag’, trans. 2nd ed. by Erik Law-Gisika
Egalitarianism has also intimate connection with Libertinism. The ideal of total human autonomy, or “liberty” in the sense that carnal, fallen man understands it, is also high on the Luciferian wish-list. But ever since Hobbes, cynical men of the world have seen that there needs to be the omnipotent Leviathan-state to “equalize” all these free individuals, to keep them in their place, or else there will be dystopian war of all against all.
This is a fertile field for hypocrisy, for many or most fallen humans may tout “equality” while they are still resentful underdogs, but tend to forget it once they themselves have reached the top. At that point, the praise of equality usually becomes mere hypocritical lip service.
The dialectical interplay between the humanistic ideal of liberty and the humanistic ideal of equality has largely defined modern politics.
Viisaus,
Yes, I’d say that egalitarianism, by necessity, must exist alongside its dialectical partner, Libertinism.
Marquis de Sade was an example of a fallen man who clearly prioritized libertinism over egalitarianism, not wishing to go through the mealy-mouthed hypocrisy of conventional egalitarian morality that would have us pretend to have some kind of undiscriminating love for all our fellow individuals. Instead, other human beings were supposed to be mere fodder for his own perversions.
But every secular humanist who believes in “the right to abortion” is no better than de Sade, really. The unborn humans have been deemed to be acceptable targets for sadistic treatment, as they are outside the protection given by the Hobbesian Leviathan-state (due to the majority decisions of corrupt fallen humans, as well as “revolution from above” imposed by corrupt human judges).