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Exclusive: Dawn of A New Epoch? » Publications » Family Security Matters: "We stand at the threshold of a great new epoch. For a hundred and fifty years the world has suffered under the influence of a pernicious philosophy; one so fundamentally at odds with human freedom, so contrary to human nature that its preeminence is a testament to human will and mankind’s capacity for self-delusion on a grand scale. The wonder is not that it has survived so long. The wonder is that it survived at all. And, of course, it could not have done so absent the authoritarianism at its root.

Marx’s project, whether in its purer form of Soviet Communism engrafted, as it was, to Stalinist tyranny, or in its more benign form, Western European socialism, brought about the cultural and moral destruction of European civilization. It undermined sound institutions. It ushered in a profound decadence. It degraded the citizen. It left its subjects helpless even to defend themselves in the face of foreign threat. Absent American power as a check, Western Europe would have voluntarily gone the way of Eastern Europe, undermined by its intellectuals, abandoned by its cultural leaders and sapped by its citizens’ self-indulgent desire for comfort without effort. Strength, itself, was discredited and Europeans were left irresolute, morally bankrupt, physically weak, economically feeble, culturally enervated and spiritually bereft. Decadence became fashionable as Europeans consumed the last of the great wealth created by their ancestors.