I’m sorry for a longish quote, but it is too good for me not to share. This is Whittaker Chambers talking about the people who will be able to defeat the evil of the leftist dream:
No one knows so well as the ex-communist the character of the conflict and of the enemy, or shares so deeply the same power of faith and willingness to stake his life on his beliefs. For no other has seen so deeply into the total nature of the evil with which communism threatens mankind.
Counter-revolution and conservatism have little in common. In the struggle against communism, the conservative is almost helpless, for that struggle cannot be fought, much less won or even understood, except in terms of total sacrifice, and the conservative is suspicious of sacrifice. He wishes first to conserve above all what he is and what he has. You cannot fight against revolutions so. . .
The final conflict will be between the communists and the ex-communists.
-Whittaker Chambers, The Witness
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