Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #722794 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Synopsis
Sinisterists were Fascists, Comunists and Nazis and are today's Leftists "Why trust people who mock truth and who deny that lying is bad? Why believe, Stalin and Hitler, whose holocausts surpass mere nightmare, when these monstrous liars each claimed to be polar opposites? Why trust them or their disciples about anything? Why trust evil?" "Sinisterism is the vicious system of Mao, Mussolini, Marxists and Nazis. It is the alibi for holocausts, the excuse for senseless cruelty, the intolerant faith of a godless religion whose rites are nihilism and destruction." "Its disciples hate Jews, hate Christians, hate America, hate Israel, and hate the Author of Creation, and hate normal, decent people, but they love power, and they will do anything for the sake of power." -- the author

Customer Reviews

Another awful example of seriously poor political writing
I just dont know what purpose it serves to try and suggest that very disparite modern political ideologies are essentially unitary, its a very, very poor supposition which I think could only serve people who are tired of thinking politically or simply tired of thinking.

Instead of suggesting that disparite political ideologies are all essentially leftist, this author could have made a serious study of totalitarianism or a unity of means, since nazism, communism and fascism shared very little in common when it came to ends. In the end its very reductivist, simplistic and I was left feeling that the author was on a religious crusade of his own and shared a lot of the character traits that he was attributing to "the other", the villain, the baddy in this book.

You might feel what difference does it make if you are an avowed classical liberal or calvinist christian and believe that all other schools of thought are the devil in disguise but it prepares the ground for some variety of totalitarianism when you deny that diverse and disparite thinking exists or is even possible.

The writing is awful and repititous, like some sort of blood and thunder preacher, if this is what politics in America that country is in a complete mess.

What is the difference between far-left and far-right?
Sinister is the Latin root word for left. The Collins English Dictionary defines it as "located on the left side...suggesting evil or threatening harm".

In this book Walker argues that there is no such thing as a political spectrum running from far-left to far-right. All totalitarianism is essentially leftist. There is no `right`. There is conservatism and sinisterism.

Nazis, Communists, Marxists, Fascists and modern Leftists all share the same pseudo-religious mindset - a secular religion of the lie. They are all power cults. These `Sinisterists' hate Judeo-Christianity, hate America and hate Israel. Sinisterists are God-haters and see submission to a Blessed Creator as placing limits on their own temporal power.

By contrast Walker finds conservatives are normal people who neither seek nor desire power but wish to live their lives in peace and freedom without subscribing to the sort of extremist power politics that poisoned the 20th Century.

An interesting and thought provoking read let down by numerous typographical and grammatical errors which make it a difficult read in parts - hence four stars and not the five I would have otherwise given.

Collectivist power cults versus Judeo-Christianity
Walker believes there are two kinds of people - those who seek power over others by any means, and those who just want to live their lives without lording it over others. By examining politics he comes to the conclusion that terms like Left and Right or Reactionary and Revolutionary are incorrect and deceptive.

This is exactly like Ayn Rand's distinction of collectivism versus individualism, where all collectivist ideologies like Communism, Fascism and Nazism seek to subdue the individual to the state. Because the religion of Jews and Christians is based on moral and ethical principles that include respect for the individual, the aforementioned collectivist ideologies are its natural enemy.

Walker thus defines Rand's "collectivism" as Sinisterism, the secular religion of the lie. He demonstrates how these power lusting beliefs use the lie to deceive and oppress, with reference to George Orwell and the Soviet Union. He explores the many similarities between the European dictatorships of the 20th century and reveals the extent to which history has been distorted by a false dichotomy between Left and Right.

National Socialism and Communism were very similar despite the superficial differences. Nazi Germany and the USSR were in fact allies and divided up the countries of Eastern Europe between them before Hitler broke the pact by invading the Soviet Union.

Next, Walker looks at the history of Judaism and Christianity from Roman times up to the Second World War. The decline in Christian belief from the late 19th century onwards played a part in opening the door to the rise of collectivist philosophy in the 20th.

Walker's discussion of the similarity between Islamism, Nazism and other extremist religious ideologies is particularly enlightening in view of the current world situation. The author does a splendid job of revealing why the collectivist power cults have such an intense hatred for the Judeo-Christian belief system.

He also deals with the founding of America, the Puritans and their moral foundations on Judaic and Christian roots. The book is timely and valuable for these strange times that resemble the 1930s. It now appears that the secular European welfare state has merely been a type of Sinisterism Lite.

After a brief window of freedom, Russia is sliding into fascism and allying itself with enemies of the West like Iran and Hamas. In Europe, there is now a 5th column of Islamists, and the trouble has started with the murder of Theo van Gogh, the 2005 riots in France and the Danish cartoon uproar.

How will Europe respond to this existential threat? In my opinion there is a real danger that the continent might embrace a new form of Sinisterism, obscured under the mask of a Christian Renaissance. At this stage, Red State USA and other parts of the Anglosphere are the last vestiges of Judeo-Christian values, but for how long?

Other books that cast more light on various aspects of Walker's argument include Deliver Us From Evil by Ravi Zacharias, People Of The Lie by M Scott Peck, Unholy Alliance by David Horowitz, History Of The Jews by Paul Johnson, Worldperfect by Ken Spiro, The Dragons Of Expectation by Robert Conquest and The West And The Rest by Roger Scruton.