The Psychotic Left Quotes

“The Left, laid bare of its ideological façade wrapped about by theories on economics and sociology, is simply a means of dragging humanity down to the lowest denominator in the name of ‘equality’.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“envy of non-achievers against creative minorities is the mainspring of modern revolutionary movements, that this envy is incited and exploited by alienated intellectuals, and that the result is aristocide - the murder of productive, gifted and high-achieving people - along with consequent genetic decline.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“the Occupy Wall Street Movement, as a reaction to the global debt crisis. Again, as is characteristic of Left-wing analysis, the vague demands are for a ‘redistribution of wealth’, through taxation or confiscation, with little or no thought given to the workings of the global banking system.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“when ‘morality’ is attacked as a method of class oppression, and a nihilistic attitude towards morality that encourages the notion that ‘all is permitted’ in the name of ‘free expression’, it is the Left that has – whether deliberately or not – laid the basis for paedophilia as a political movement, as it has with sundry other ‘minorities’.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“the Left in general long having given up on the proletariat as a revolutionary force, has focused on agitating for the ‘rights’ of sundry minorities, and has attached itself to feminism, gay politics, ‘green’, immigrant and ‘indigenous’ campaigns, ad infinitum, in what is called ‘identity politics’.[398] The strategy is no longer that of ‘class struggle’ but of recruiting alienated groups.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“What sparked the riots in Britain in 2011 was the shooting of a thug by police. The Left have a penchant for politicising and heralding common criminals as revolutionary heroes. The lionising by the Weather Underground of the murderous sociopaths of the Charles Mason ‘Family’, and even of the accidental derailment in 1947 of a train by little Latino boy, Marion Delgado, are some particularly bizarre examples of the Leftist conception of ‘heroism’.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“In a certain way the children were human guinea-pigs in this social experiment, and today there’s a generation of children who suffered from being abandoned and unprotected.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“The critics’ real goal, though, is not to protect children. The right-wingers are pushing a fundamentalist attack on mainstream American institutions such as legal abortion; acceptance of gays as normal people, and sex education in public schools.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“The rest of the life of the once apolitical youth who became ‘Lenin’ was fanatically devoted to avenging his brother’s death, and ‘Lenin’ was the persona that was adopted for the purpose.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“From the viewpoint of nature’s laws, avoidance of breeding is preferable.[153] Even infanticide is a mother’s right in nature’s laws.[154]. De Sade in 1795 was employing the arguments of the present–day feminists and abortionists: ridiculing the notion that ‘immediately an embryo begins to mature, a little soul, emanation of God,”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery’.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement

“Amusingly, one crackpot author, of The Death of the Family, collapsed into schizophrenia soon after he had written his anti-psychiatry rant – and had to be looked after by, yes, his own family.”
― Kerry Bolton, The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement