[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]

See also: VDARE.com’s Brimelow: “This Is A Communist Coup. But White America Is On The Move”

Communism has always suffered from tensions caused by the need for both political rectitude and expertise in fields of practical knowledge.

Fields like medicine, for example. Lenin nursed a deep distrust of Bolshevik doctors. In a letter to the writer Maxim Gorky, who suffered from TB, Lenin wrote:

The news that you are being given a new kind of treatment by "a Bolshevik," even if a former one, has really worried me. The saints preserve us from comrade-doctors in general, and Bolshevik-doctors in particular! …In 99 cases out of 100 the comrade-doctors are "asses," as a good doctor once said to me. I assure you that you should consult … only first-class men. It is terrible to try out on yourself the inventions of a Bolshevik!

Lenin: TO MAXIM GORKY, November 1913  

So at least where medicine is concerned you can put Lenin on the side of the experts against the ideologues. He didn't care how Bolshevik his doctors were; in fact he preferred them not Bolshevik at all. He just wanted them to be good at doctoring.

Stalin not so much. The late Boris Zeldovich, son of the great Soviet physicist Yakov Zeldovich, told me that Lavrenty Beria, the head of Stalin's secret police, saved many lives among Zeldovich's fellow physicists working on the early Soviet nuclear program.

Stalin, said Boris, would have anyone shot on suspicion of political "unreliability," but Beria knew that some personnel had knowledge and skills critical to the USSR's progress, so he protected them even when they strayed from the Party line.

In Mao Tse-tung's China this dichotomy between people who were politically pure and people who actually knew useful things was expressed as "Red" versus "Expert." In his writings Mao tried to fudge the issue by appealing to the Interpenetration of Opposites, one of the principles of Dialectical Materialism.

Mao wasn't much of a philosopher, though. The much-advertised Mao Tse-tung Thought was just a cheap Chinese knock-off of Marxist-Leninism. Mao kept losing the thread of his argument and coming down on the side of the "Reds" against the "Experts." Sample quote:

Ideology and politics are the commanders, the soul. A slight relaxation in our ideological and political work will lead our economic and technological work astray.

Red And Expert, January 31, 1958

In our own Cultural Revolution in the West today, that same divide between "Red" and "Expert" is plain to see, and we don't even have the philosophical mumbo-jumbo of Dialectical Materialism to tell us about interpenetrating opposites. When "Red" and "Expert" are in conflict, the "Red" must win and the "Expert" be crushed, expelled, canceled.

I offer you three and a half case studies from just the past few days. I

• Case Study One:

Fifty-four-year-old David Sabatini, a world-famous molecular biologist specializing in how cancer tumors develop.

Four years ago Sabatini was a tenured professor at MIT. For twenty years he'd been running a big lab at the nearby Whitehead Institute for biomedical research, supervising a team of 39 researchers.

Sabatini is a real Expert—a genius, according to colleagues. He made a key discovery in cancer research while he was still at medical school. Back in 2018 he was a good bet for a Nobel Prize.

So what's the latest news on David Sabatini? I'll let Suzy Weiss, writing on her sister Bari Weiss’ Substack site, tell you: 

Today, Sabatini is unemployed and unemployable. No one wants to be associated with him. Those who do risk losing their jobs, publishing opportunities, friends, visas, and huge federal grants.

He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He's Collecting Unemployment, May 19, 2022

What precipitated such a downfall? The key here is in those lines penned by William Congreve three and a quarter centuries ago:

Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd..

In April of 2018, Sabatini, separated from

Earlier: VDARE Book Club—The Myth Of The Andalusian Paradise (Sign up for Book Club here.)The Spanish territory known as Al-Andalusia under Muslim control (711-1492) is widely touted in academe and the Main Stream Media as a paradise of multicultural tolerance. Of course this is a lie, as Dario Fernández-Morera’s book  The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain makes devastatingly clear. Al-Andalus was simply another chapter in the vicious history of Muslim subjugation of Europeans and Christians. It’s critical for immigration patriots to stamp out this lie because it is being used to justify the replacement and eventual extinction of our own civilization. As Fernández-Morera reminds us, this has all happened before.The myth of Andalusia has become integral to the project of The Great Replacement:

• Culture in the Time of Tolerance: Al-Andalus as a Model for Our Time, by Maria Rosa Menocal, Yale Law School, May 9, 2000

• Al-Andalus’ Lessons For Contemporary European Models of Integration, by Myriam Francois and Bethsabee Souris, New Direction, accessed May 14, 2022

• Islamic Spain: Model of Peaceful Coexistence, by Garbriela Profeta Phillips, Journal of Adventist Mission Studies, Vol. 1 [2005], No. 1, Art. 9

• Spain’s Moriscos: A 400 Year old Muslim tragedy is a story for today, by Matthew Carr, The Guardian, March 14, 2017

Narrative control is fundamental to nationhood. Ethnic kinship is necessary but not sufficient. Challenging the fundamentals of national identity is subversion in the deepest sense. In America today, there are diametrically-opposed visions: the traditional story of American settlement and expansion vs. the progressive vision of America as a “crime scene,” according to “our” vice president [For Kamala Harris, America Is the ‘Scene of a Crime,’ by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, February 22, 2019]. This ideological conflict is driven by demographics even as it facilitates future demographic changes, specifically mass Third World immigration.Back in 2002, speaking of what has happened in the United States, the late Sam Francis argued:

What is happening or has happened in almost all these instances is that the common cultural and political framework that enabled racially conscious whites to deflect non-white drives

Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: Was The Buffalo Massacre (Bad!) Caused By The Great Replacement (Undeniable)?

The “Great Replacement Theory” (GRT) has taken the media by storm! It seems that the white racist who shot up a grocery store full of black people last weekend cited GRT in his 180-page “manifesto.”

First of all, journalists need to understand that GRT is only a theory taught in advanced law school seminars. It is not something designed for indoctrination of mass audiences of young people.

So what is GRT? The New York Times describes it thus:

“[T]he notion that Western elites, sometimes manipulated by Jews, want to ‘replace’ and disempower white Americans.”

(You want a conspiracy theory about a secretive cabal of Jews? Check out the Times’ series of articles on “neoconservatives” back in the early 2000s.)

But then—just as every argument about abortion suddenly becomes an argument about contraception—a few paragraphs later, the crackpot theory jumps from a Jewish cabal replacing whites with blacks…to the idea that Democrats are using immigration “for electoral gains.”

Wow, that is nuts! Where’d anybody get that idea?

Oh yeah—from liberals.

Here’s Democratic consultant Patrick Reddy in 1998:

“The 1965 Immigration Reform Act promoted by President Kennedy, drafted by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and pushed through the Senate by Ted Kennedy has resulted in a wave of immigration from the Third World