Political Purity is Killing Us
If it behaves like a fascist and sounds like a fascist, it's a fascist.
"It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain
I am so sick of hearing people agonising over political labels like ‘left,’ ‘right,’ ‘liberalism,’ ‘neoliberalism,’ ‘libertarianism,’ and ‘conservatism.’ Every time someone starts pontificating about political purity or some nuanced difference between ideologies, I can feel my eyes involuntarily roll back into my skull. And silently, I scream. Who cares? No, really, who actually cares? Well, okay, I suppose I do, but only because I’m endlessly frustrated by how people consistently manage to get it so spectacularly wrong.
As someone who’s spent most of my life comfortably classified as "far left," I find it astonishing that the left is now being blamed for the madness we see today. Postmodernism, that slippery, reality-denying, logic-twisting cult of idiocy, is not of the left. Not remotely. If anything, it’s a creature of the insane libertarian right—a Frankenstein’s monster sewn together from the scraps of academic nihilism, egoism, and middle-class pseudo-rebellion. Yet somehow, like an intellectual contagion, it’s infected the very same privileged, bourgeois imbeciles who always claim to be ‘on the left’, polluting the space once filled by genuine progressivism. These are the same people who pat themselves on the back for dismantling "patriarchy" while simultaneously denying biological sex. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so grotesque.
And so, here we are—blaming the left for the most reactionary, authoritarian, and disturbingly irrational ideologies I’ve ever seen masquerading as "social justice." What we’re dealing with here isn’t a product of Marx or Engels. It’s the bastard child of radical laissez faire libertarianism, disguised as progressivism, nurtured by academic cowards, and raised by a social media mob with all the depth of a filled in puddle. It’s time we call it what it is: it’s a very nasty, dangerous far-right authoritarian movement wrapped in a black, rapist’s ski mask waving a bastardised rainbow flag.
How much longer will people buy into the lie that Critical Social Justice (CSJ), Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Queer Theory (QT) are left-wing movements? It’s almost comical when you think about it. Here’s a movement, supposedly progressive, wrapping itself in the flag of liberation while enforcing dogmas so rigid, so obsessed with conformity, that it’s more akin to the ‘fascism’ it claims to fight. You know the types—those ones that wear black, pull ski masks over their heads, and protest in the streets shouting about oppression. Funny, they look like fascists because they are fascists.
It’s time to ask the question no one dares to voice: what if the modern social justice movement is, in fact, a far-right authoritarian cult in progressive clothing? What if those advocating for "equity" are closer to Mussolini than Marx? The parallels between Italian fascism, German Nazism, and today’s identity politics are so glaringly obvious, yet people are still caught in the false belief that CSJ and QT are "liberating left wing” ideologies. Let’s rip off that mask and see them for what they are: rigid, anti-democratic, anti-scientific, and profoundly authoritarian.
Here’s a bit of irony for you to ponder on: Nazis loved uniforms, right? Everything was about order, control, classification. Jews were forced to wear yellow stars, homosexuals pink triangles, and political dissidents red ones. Today, under QT and CSJ, we have the same obsessive labelling and categorization of people - they all have their own very specific flags, exquisitely designed and described with their own special narrative of oppression. You’re not just a person anymore. No, no, you’re a “cis white heteronormative oppressor,” or perhaps you’re a “non-binary genderqueer ally,” or some other equally concocted, convoluted, meaningless, bullshit. The modern social justice movement has created a labyrinth of identities, with each label placing you somewhere on the totem pole of oppression or privilege. It’s identity eugenics, pure and simple—a pseudo-scientific nonsense designed to divide, classify, and conquer.
This identity-driven hierarchy mirrors the rigid social orders created by fascists in the early 20th century. Italian fascists had their "New Man," a perfect citizen who embodied the virtues of the fascist state. Today, QT insists on creating new categories of people whose moral value is derived not from character or actions, but from their adherence to ever-shifting doctrines about gender identity and oppression. The absurdity of denying the biological reality of sex while zealously enforcing the binary of "oppressor vs. oppressed" would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous.
Historian Emilio Gentile’s study of fascism notes that “totalitarianism is not only a political system, but an ethical regime, which demands adherence to a specific worldview, from which one must not deviate.”¹ This describes CSJ to a tee. Much like fascism, it’s not enough to passively agree—you must actively participate. If you question the party line, you're branded a heretic, a bigot, a ‘fascist’ (ironically), and then excommunicated. In Nazi Germany, dissenters were silenced by force. Today, they’re cancelled, deplatformed, and defamed.
Think this is hyperbole? Consider this: George Floyd, a career criminal with a history of violence, has been elevated to the status of a martyr. His death, while tragic, is used as proof of systemic racism in law enforcement, even though his extensive criminal past—including violent armed robbery—is conveniently swept under the rug. Like Horst Wessel, the Nazi thug whose death at the hands of the police was turned into a propaganda tool by Joseph Goebbels, Floyd's life has been rewritten to suit the narrative. Neither man deserved to die in the way they did, but the attempt to cast them as heroes speaks volumes about the moral bankruptcy of movements that rely on mythologizing criminals to push their agenda.
What’s the result? We now live in a world where facts don’t matter. Truth is whatever the most vocal activists decide it is that day. This fluid approach to reality is a hallmark of fascism, where the party’s narrative is the only acceptable truth. Mussolini himself said, “Everything I have said and done in these last years is relativism by intuition… If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and men who claim to be the bearers of an eternal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than fascistic attitudes.”² Sound familiar? Replace “eternal truth” with “biological sex,” and you have the crux of the QT movement.
QT doesn’t just play fast and loose with facts—it outright denies them. Sex, once understood to be binary and rooted in biology, is now considered a “spectrum” based entirely on self-perception. You can “identify” as any ‘gender’ you please, and anyone who dares to question your self-declaration is branded a bigot. In the same breath, QT zealots obsess over enforcing rigid moral binaries: you’re either an ally or an enemy. There is no middle ground, no nuance. This is the fascist mentality in action, demanding absolute loyalty and punishing any dissent.
The obsession with binaries is where the truly absurd nature of CSJ reveals itself. Italian fascism and Nazism enforced strict societal divisions through state policy—Aryans versus non-Aryans, fascists versus anti-fascists. Today, CSJ does the same. You’re either oppressed or oppressor, ally or enemy, woke or fascist. There’s no room for discussion, no shades of grey. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism warns of the dangers of totalizing ideologies, noting, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”³
That’s exactly what we’re living through now. This cult-like insistence on conformity is a tell-tale sign of authoritarianism. It’s not enough to simply believe in “social justice”—you must live it, breathe it, and perform it daily, or risk being branded as the enemy. Sound familiar? The fascists demanded the same level of total allegiance, and dissent was met with punishment.
And while we’re here, can we talk about the outright pseudo-science at the heart of all this? QT’s denial of the sex binary is every bit as absurd as the Nazis’ belief in racial purity. Both are based on ideology rather than biology, and both have devastating real-world consequences. Women’s sports, female-only spaces, and even basic safety are being eroded by this denial of biological reality. This kind of ideological distortion of reality is a key feature of totalitarian systems, when truth is replaced by political ideology, it becomes impossible to speak honestly, and society crumbles under the weight of lies.
We are seeing this now. QT and CSJ advocate for a reality in which biological men can self-identify as women and invade women’s spaces, stripping away rights that feminists fought for over a century. And yet, this is all done in the name of "progress."
But the biggest and most sinister parallel of all is this: like Nazism, CSJ and QT are not just movements—they are worldviews. They require complete and total adherence to a doctrine that supersedes all other beliefs. Like the fascists of old, they seek to dismantle the structures of liberal democracy and replace them with a system where ideology trumps law, and allegiance to the cause matters more than objective truth. The far-right doesn’t need to come from jackboots and swastikas anymore. It can come from black-clad activists, ski masks, and Twitter mobs. And this time, they’re getting away with it by pretending they’re on the side of justice.
If we fail to recognize the stark similarities between QT, CSJ, and the authoritarian regimes of the past, we are doomed to repeat history. As historian Robert Paxton notes in The Anatomy of Fascism, “Fascism is a system of rule based on popular enthusiasm, charismatic leadership, and the constant production of enemies.”⁴ That could describe any Twitter mob enforcing social justice orthodoxy today.
The comparison between fascism and CSJ is not just convenient—it’s accurate. And it should scare the hell out of anyone who believes in freedom of speech, objective reality, and the right to dissent. Because if we don’t start questioning the real nature of these movements, we might wake up one day and realise that the fight against oppression turned into a new form of tyranny.
Maybe, the next time you hear somebody talking rubbish about ‘politics’ take a moment to reflect. Perhaps they genuinely haven’t thought long and hard about the subject, however, if they make it clear that they have, you should put them right, once and for all and explain to them that purity spirals and proselytizing half baked undergraduate bullshit is what got us here in the first place.
Footnotes:
1. Emilio Gentile, The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), 142.
2. Benito Mussolini, quoted in A. James Gregor, The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), 217.
3. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951), 474.
4. Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 218.