Recently, Mullah Hibatullah, the leader of the Taliban, claimed in his latest speech that he seeks “representation” from God to save all humanity. The question arises: with what power and resources can the Taliban leader split the sky and devise a new plan to save all citizens of the world from the ongoing disaster and corruption? No real power can accomplish such an impossible mission. Only a delusional mind can imagine that a representative of God is present on Earth and can guide all citizens of the world on the right path!
However, the Taliban leader is not the only one weaving this political rhetoric, and at every opportunity, there is a call for the universalization of thought and operational politics, which has been repeatedly experienced in history and has had very disastrous consequences. The Left, as a movement strongly opposed to the Right, also vigorously engages in this endeavor with the same intensity and fervor that Islamic ideologues like Mullah Hibatullah defend their immutable beliefs. They constantly open their mouths about “humanity’s salvation” and consider the Right as the primary enemy of social change. However, the reality is different: both the Left and Right have long been part of the chronic global crisis rather than being a solution to overcoming it. Left and Right play roles that capitalism considers profitable for them. As long as we do not eliminate these roles and the continued necessity of existing in the dichotomy of Left and Right, not only will we not achieve real salvation, but the scope of the illusion of humanity’s salvation will expand even further.
While both Left and Right claim to be fighting for the salvation of humanity and believe that their ideology saves people, both ideologies have proven in the political arena that ideologies are not saviors but rather, the more they advocate for the salvation of humanity, the more they enslave people. All ideologies enslave, and while they all promise paradise, they have no qualms about turning the world into hell.
The Dialectic of Left and Right
Left and Right in a tiresome and intolerable game only reproduce each other, and their entire effort is to not leave any fresh window for a free human being who wants to break away from this dialectical game. The enmity between these two phenomena is so viral and pervasive that no matter how hard you try to get out of this dualistic swamp, you drown in it to the same extent. The harsh reality of life makes you a being who must take one side of this dialectical game: either be Left or be Right. The enmity between these two is so severe that you forget how much they have in common, and in many cases, only a few simple differences distinguish them, otherwise, they are the same. The war between Left and Right flows so incessantly that you don’t even realize how they rush to each other’s aid and become each other’s saviors.
The dialectical elements (thesis and antithesis) easily unite and go after a common enemy that challenges or denies the existential philosophy of both. In the salt desert called Afghanistan’s history, even the Left has allied – it would be better to say served – the Right to bring the Left to its knees; the Left, with its crimes and follies, only made the Right more robust and cheerful.
Now, if we look at the illusion of humanity’s salvation from the perspective of Mullah Hibatullah, we can identify a deadly common point between the Left and the Right: both are afflicted with a kind of catastrophic and lethal delusion that they possess the recipe for human happiness, and if implemented, everything falls into place, and human life revolves according to their desires. However, when the Left and the Right seize this opportunity, not only do people not achieve the promised paradise, but life in the geography dominated by these two becomes even hellish than before.
We don’t need to go far; we can look at our own historical experience. The People’s Democratic Party came to create “socialism” to lay the groundwork for the creation of a “new Afghan human.” But what was observed in practice bore little resemblance to the lofty slogans, and until the end of the story, there was no news of the new type of humanity that the People’s Democratic Party intended to create. This leftist party, supportive of the Soviet Union, instead paved the way for strengthening Islamism – which until then was the weakest political force in Afghanistan – through endless massacres and repression of the people. The leftist orientation of the People’s Democratic Party caused Islamic fundamentalism to become the dominant force in war and politics in Afghanistan as a degraded and marginalized movement. The Left’s game went in such a way that only the Right benefited. If today Islamism has become so prevalent in Islamic countries, it is solely because, in the war between the Left and the Right, the latter has gained much more profit than the former.
