The Left and the Decline of the Moral Community

With the continuing rise of woke progressivism, Western culture and civilisation are regressing to an earlier age. The celebration of amorality and barbarism signals the imminent loss of the moral community. That much is now clear. In the UK, for example, the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in London is soon to display a statue of a black Baptist preacher who went from being a pacifist with anti-colonialist views to a brutally-violent rebel against the British in Nyasaland (since renamed Malawi) in 1915.¹

John Chilembwe’s grip on sanity might have collapsed under the burden of suffering and oppression, and we can all sympathise with this. But he then incited a violent armed uprising against the British which involved the beheading of a white man, an act all the more barbarous for being carried out in front of the man’s wife and children. The severed head was then displayed on a spike beside Chilembwe’s pulpit as he incited further atrocities against whites in general….