There are slogans due to the frequency with which their promoters repeated them, then the press repeated them, thus we came to imagine that they were facts, though they are mere lies blatant lies that gained roots merely from constant repetition.

Among these lies, it is claimed that leftism is progressivism and anything else is regressive – that religion is the opium of the people... and that communism is liberation.

And that Russia is the fortress of progress in the world, and that the Eastern bloc is the paradise of workers while the Western bloc is the hell of the proletariat and the inferno of exploitation.

Some of these phrases have acquired an abstract value, giving them sustaining power and self-propelling influence like the word “left” being circulated to say that someone is automatically right. You see someone labeling so-and-so as leftist, meaning thereby that they don’t bother to understand what this “left” actually means; rather, they believe it with animalistic credulity and repeat it mechanically, as if it were an indisputable fact.
If only one bothers to think, even just a little their judgment would change considerably.

So, for example, what does the word “left” mean in our countries?

Let us think it through, with extreme neutrality.

The word “left,” in our countries, in every country, and in its original lexicon, means, at its furthest extreme, achieving justice through radical solutions and radical means: seizing capital from its owners, taking land from its possessors, factories from their proprietors, and expropriating ownership of the means of production from every productive hand, so that all of this becomes state property instead of private property, and the entire population becomes employees of this state – what we call nationalization or the public sector. Simply put, it means the ruler transforming the entire populace with the stroke of a pen into slaves; their sustenance in his hands, their livelihood in his hands, and thus their freedom in his hands too. And thereby, everyone is turned into a flock without opinion, without power, without strength without courage for anything, and without incentive for anything.

It doesn’t take long for this public enterprise to lead to a society of indifference, laziness, loss of drive, negligence, and poor productivity, becoming exactly like the condition of religious endowment lands (waqf), which we see reflected around us in all public-sector institutions. The result is a decline in production both qualitatively and quantitatively... until the situation flips entirely. What leftist philosophers envisioned as an economic solution ends up failing, leaving no remedy but to return to openness, to economic deficits, and to reaching out to the private sector, enticing individual investors from within and outside the country. We do this in our country... and they do it too – in Romania, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, and all the strongholds of the left, everyone takes a wide step back toward the right.

Thus, the left was not the truth.

The left was not progress, but backwardness. It was not a progressive vision but rather a biased and foolish one.

It was not economic prosperity but economic collapse.

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Taken from the book: “Lie of the Islamic Left.”