Belief in Social Struggle Has Destroyed Harmony by Poisoning Discourse

Antifa extremists attack a Trump supporter at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Berkeley, California, on Aug. 27, 2017. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

A wedge has been driven through society, and it’s becoming ever more rare for people of opposing viewpoints to have a civilized discussion. There was a time not long ago when the political viewpoints of friends mattered little, and when finding differences of opinion wouldn’t immediately end a discussion.

The conflicts that have arisen are partially caused by the loss of traditional discourse, and we can largely thank two communist concepts for this: the ever-changing political-moral system of “political correctness” from Mao Zedong and the Frankfurt School’s Marxist theory of “repressive tolerance,” in which viewpoints that diverge from the approved political narrative should be met with intolerance and violent suppression.