By: Borut Korun
It repeats itself because human beings are “made” according to the same pattern; in similar situations, individuals behave in similar ways. And masses, and their leaders, then behave similarly as well.
We do not need to reach far back into history to observe such patterns, to compare Alexander the Great, Caesar, and Napoleon. Studies of this kind formed the basis of the philosophy of history, such as the philosophy of Oswald Spengler in the period after the First World War. He predicted the collapse of Western civilisation, and we are now witnessing this decline. Why a civilisation collapses is just as difficult to understand as the question of why it arises in the first place. The current American vice president also warned Europeans about this process of decline. He told us that European society is rotting and decaying from within. Naturally, no one listened. For the process of decay in a society is characterised precisely by the fact that it is carried out by those who should be preventing it. And they do so with the sincere belief that they are doing something good and beneficial, even as they pave the way for totalitarianism.
In Europe and in the United States, the instruments of this decline are the so‑called leftist forces. Western civilisation and its fragile democracy are their greatest enemy.
Iran, in its current form, can also be defined as an enemy of European civilisation, even if geographically distant. Above all, it is an enemy of its own people, whom it rules with an iron fist, enabled by the fanatical members of the Revolutionary Guard. In the entire history of civilisations, it would be difficult to find a society comparable to Iran’s, one that in the 21st century governs according to the primitive principles of Arab Bedouins from the 7th century.
It must, of course, be acknowledged that Iran’s political development was also a consequence of actions by the West, which interfered with Iranian sovereignty. But the response of the Iranians was misguided and led them into a dead end. The revolution in Iran was a return to antiquity. Supported by oil profits and religious fanaticism, it transformed into a true empire of evil, one that cannot be defeated from within. Nor can this evil be stopped from the outside, given its possession of modern weaponry. We therefore have an “empire of evil” that terrorizes its own people while posing a real threat to its surroundings and a potential danger to the wider world. One would expect that the leftist forces, so full of rhetoric about various rights, would be the natural enemies of an Islamic theocracy, yet the opposite is happening.
In the heart of Europe in the previous century, another “empire of evil” emerged. The strongest European nation was overtaken by an ideology that permeated a large part of it with fanaticism and, with the help of advanced military technology, became a threat to the entire world. Its leader publicly announced the destruction of Jews and Slavs and the conquest of the world. But the Nazi state did have an opponent. In Nazi and also communist newspeak, these were the “imperialists,” primarily the British and the Americans. Internally, these “imperialists” were democratically organised. This is also why Slovenian communists saw them as their enemy, even after the German empire of evil attacked the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and therefore, on April 26 or 27, 1941, they founded the “Anti‑Imperialist Front” in Ljubljana. For the leftists, the imperialists were a greater enemy than the Nazis, who had already occupied our country and made no secret of their intentions.
The similarity between the behaviour of leftists toward Nazi Germany and now toward religiously fanatical Iran, toward both centres of evil, is more than obvious. And this tells us the most about leftist ideology, which in its destruction of our civilisation does not choose its methods or its allies. Leftists, too, have created several empires of evil, led by Stalin’s Soviet Union. What connects them with Iran’s theocracy and Nazi totalitarianism is the drive for absolute domination, which all such systems justify with quasi‑religious ideas. Behind their ruthless, bloody rule there is always some higher force or utopian promise that gives them the appearance of absolute legitimacy.