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S<\/span>ecretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s speech at the opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism to an audience that included representatives from 67 countries is a reminder to the West that the greatest threat to our civilization comes from within. The great political philosopher James Burnham diagnosed the threat more than 60 years ago in his book Suicide of the West<\/em>. Whittaker Chambers revealed what we are up against and what is at stake in his autobiographical masterpiece Witness<\/em>. Paul Hollander provided evidence of Western intellectuals\u2019 sympathy with the enemies of our civilization in Political Pilgrims<\/em>. And Claire Sterling exposed the tactics of left-wing terror groups in The Terror Network<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Secretary Rubio began his speech by noting that while the United States and some of its Western allies have had some success in combatting Islamic jihadist terrorism, the West\u2019s counterterrorism efforts have had a \u201cblind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left.\u201d Left-wing terrorism often gets a pass from Western intellectuals, academics, and legacy media, Rubio said. Indeed, the threat of left-wing terrorism, he noted, \u201cwill be dismissed as a partisan fiction.\u201d The only terrorism threat Western progressives perceive comes from the political right.\u00a0(RELATED: Now We Know What \u2018Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All the Time\u2019 Means)<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Modern Western progressives, the French Revolutionary slogan \u201cpas d\u2019ennemis \u00e0 gauche\u201d (\u201cNo enemies to the Left\u201d) guides their every utterance and political outlook. Secretary Rubio rightly characterized this as an \u201cideological prejudice\u201d that has become \u201caccepted as the neutral and objective baseline\u201d that is now \u201centrenched in the mainstream conventional wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

This ideological prejudice, Rubio explained, is why in the United States and other Western countries \u201cso many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression so long as they served a left-wing cause.\u201d Rubio provided examples: the George Floyd riots, left-wing attacks against immigration officers, transgender violence, multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, the murder of Charlie Kirk, deadly political violence in Greece, the terror during the Berlin blackout, and left-wing violence in France.\u00a0(RELATED: Why Assassins Almost Always Go After Republicans)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Left-wing terrorism, Rubio said, is \u2026 \u201ca poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Rubio noted that the phenomenon of left-wing terrorism is nothing new. He cited as evidence the 1970 terror groups who wreaked havoc in Europe, Latin America, and the United States in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s \u2014 the Red Brigades in Italy, the Red Army Faction in Germany, the 17 November in Greece, the Shining Path in Peru, the Tupamaros of Uruguay, the Montoneros in Argentina, the FARC in Colombia, the Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army, and Symbionese Liberation Army in the United States. Claire Sterling showed in The Terror Network <\/em>the Marxist inspiration and Soviet-funding of these terror groups, and traced their tactics to a terror manual written by the Brazilian Marxist Carlos Marighella, which taught that terrorist violence would produce government repression that in turn would create a revolutionary situation that could lead to a communist seizure of power.<\/p>\n

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Left-wing terrorism, Rubio said, is \u201cdriven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself.\u201d He described it further as \u201ca poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice\u201d that goes by different names: Marxist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anarchistic. And Rubio noted that left-wing violence and terror are not new to our time. Its ideological roots can be traced to the French Revolution and Karl Marx\u2019s political theories. Whittaker Chambers believed its roots go all the way back to the Creation story in the Bible, where the serpent entices Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit by promising them \u201cYe shall be as gods.\u201d Paul Hollander explained that Western intellectuals\u2019 acceptance of left-wing terror and political violence grew out of the desire to perfect man, to create a Utopia on earth because for them God and heaven do not exist.<\/p>\n

As in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Rubio noted, this left-wing terror phenomenon is a \u201ctransnational threat.\u201d \u201cThese are not distinct and isolated cells,\u201d Rubio said, using the example of Antifa. \u201cThey are interconnected networks \u2026 that share the same infrastructure \u2026 the same enemies \u2026 the same mission.\u201d All this is similar to the terror network described more than 40 years ago by Claire Sterling.<\/p>\n

In Suicide of the West<\/em>, James Burnham called liberalism \u2014 what we now call progressivism \u2014 the \u201cideology of Western suicide.\u201d The progressive left is unequipped to defend Western civilization because progressives don\u2019t believe in the superiority of their civilization.\u00a0(RELATED: The West Is a Superior Civilization (And I Don\u2019t Care If That Offends You))<\/strong><\/p>\n

The true defenders of Western civilization are those political leaders who have what Burnham called the \u201cpre-liberal conviction\u201d that Western civilization is worth defending because it is the greatest civilization in human history. As Secretary Rubio said: \u201cIt is time for the people of the civilized world to defend ourselves, to stand united against this encroaching darkness, and fight \u2014 fight for what is ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

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