{"id":10638,"date":"2018-02-10T00:49:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=10638"},"modified":"2018-02-10T00:49:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:49:35","slug":"ideologies-of-undivided-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ideologies-of-undivided-devotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideologies of Undivided Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10639\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Radek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"128\" \/>From Yuri Slezkine\u2019s magnificent\u00a0<em>The House\u00a0 of Government\u2019, a Saga of the Russian Revolution<\/em>, a book centered around the idea that Bolshevism was, at its heart, just another millenarian sect, if a peculiarly malevolent one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOf the seventeen prisoners, thirteen, amongst whom were close friends of Radek, had been condemned to death, while he himself and three others had been sentenced only to imprisonment. The judge had read the verdict, and all of us had listened to it standing up..<\/p>\n<p>Radek offered himself\u2014along with Bukharin, among other friends\u2014as a scapegoat, a metaphor of unopposed temptation, the embodiment of forbidden thought. He may not have murdered anybody, or even conspired with any murderers, but in Bolshevism, as in Christianity or any other ideology of undivided devotion, it was the thought that counted. \u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018You shall not commit adultery.\u2019 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His offer was accepted.\u00a0 Radek, an enabler of mass murder, was sentenced to ten years in a Soviet concentration camp, where he was killed. He need not be mourned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yuri Slezkine\u2019s magnificent\u00a0The House\u00a0 of Government\u2019, a Saga of the Russian Revolution, a book centered around the idea that Bolshevism was, at its heart, just another millenarian sect, if a peculiarly malevolent one: \u201cOf the seventeen prisoners, thirteen, amongst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ideologies-of-undivided-devotion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[90,15,711],"tags":[143,358,1225,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10642,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions\/10642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}