Dissident
Dissidents are people who publicly question, deviate from, contradict or criticize a given politically correct or religious totalitarian order or dictate; initially the term was used for political opponents in authoritarian and dictatorial regimes whose political views differed fundamentally from the ruling system of state. The Soviet Union, China and many other communist countries (Poland, GDR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, ) sent dissidents to gulag prison-camps, or killed them, for their political beliefs.
There are now also numerous dissidents in so-called democracies, where freedom of expression and identitarian patriotism are suppressed. Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in "The Art of Being Right" (Trick 30):
- What is called the general opinion is, when viewed in the light, the opinion of two or three people; and we would be convinced of this if we could see how such a generally valid opinion comes about. We would then find that it was two or three people who first assumed or formulated and asserted it, and who were kind enough to trust that they had examined it very thoroughly [...] Now agreement became a duty. Now the few who are capable of judging must remain silent: and those who are allowed to speak are those who are completely incapable of having their own opinions and judgments, who are merely echoes of other people's opinions; however, they are all the more zealous and intolerant defenders of them. For what they hate in someone who thinks differently is not so much the different opinion to which he professes, but the presumption of wanting to judge for himself; something which they themselves never undertake and are secretly aware of. – In short, very few can think, but everyone wants to have opinions [...]
Quotes
- "In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." – George Orwell
- "Typical of a system directed against its own people is to spare criminals but treat political opponents as criminals." – Alexander Solschenizyn, Russian dissident and author
- “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” – Howard Zinn, American historian and political scientist
- "The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example." – Christopher Hitchens, British and American author and journalist
- “A slave that does not realize he is in chains will never seek to free himself.” – Ursula Haverbeck, German dissident
- There is no scientific area in which those who hold dissident opinions are persecuted more mercilessly by the ‘ruling order’ than that of revisionism. That is probably why most people don’t want to touch it, and most avoid it by convincing themselves that the subject is not relevant to current problems. But for me, this draconian persecution is the best proof there is that this is a crucial subject, because the powers that be regard it as most important that nobody touches this taboo. Comprehensive and critical research in this area is therefore very important for scientific, political and social reasons. – Germar Rudolf, German chemist, author, publisher and Holocaust revisionist
- “The Polish Jew Rosa Luxemburg proclaimed: ‘Freedom is always freedom for those who think differently’! Today we, who are loyal to the Fatherland, are the dissidents – the measure of our freedom must and will also be the measure of the legitimacy of the Federal Republic of Germany’s constitutional state!” – Andreas J. Voigt, German author, political activist and dissident
See also
Further reading
- Andrew Fraser: Dissident Dispatches – An Alt-Right Guide to Christian Theology, Arktos, 2017
