We are witnessing a watershed moment in American cultural history: the sabotaging of family and marriage. Extreme-left radicals have made their arguments and tried different tactics; from the early nineteenth century to the sexual revolution of the 1960s; but at long last they have the vehicle to make it happen: gay marriage. Now; as the legal definition of marriage rapidly changes; the floodgates are open; and the fundamental transformation of the American family will take on new speed and new dimensions. Efforts to redefine the family structure have been long at work; and there have been some influential forces on the far left and communist left that cannot and should not be ignored in that process. In Takedown Paul Kengor exposes these origins; starting with Karl Marx; and traces them through the sordid history of people like Margaret Sanger; Wilhelm Reich; Herbert Marcuse; and assorted '60s radicals. What were once fringe concepts have become accepted by mainstream thought and are today welcomed by many legislators and judges. Kengor notes how in the not-so-distant past; today's leftists who are attacking traditional marriage would have loudly raised their voices but not caused any real damage. They would have been dismissed with no serious concern as left-wing cranks; crackpot German and Austrian atheistic philosophers and campus agitators. But now; with formal legalization of same-sex marriage afoot; they are getting what they’ve wanted for generations: the literal redefinition of the family. Takedown exposes how gay marriage is serving as a Trojan horse for the far left to secure the final takedown of marriage that it has long wanted; and countless everyday Americans are oblivious to the deeper forces at work. Takedown takes no prisoners and bluntly shows the reader that even Karl Marx and his more anti-marriage comrade Engels would be dumbfounded at the mere thought that modern Americans would gladly join them in their rejection of God's design for natural marriage and the family.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Two StarsBy alex hawkinsWasn't what I thought it would be.2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A significant contribution to a vexing debateBy Paul RussellThe Wall Street Journal recently reported on a survey that indicated that 'only 48% of people under 35 were aware of it (The Holocaust). That trend is expected to continue with the fading of the generation that lived through the Holocaust; which ended nearly 70 years ago.'This reality alone gives me cause to be grateful for the translation and republishing of Binding and Hoche's work by Anthony Horvath. Less known; of course; is the origins of the thinking behind the holocaust as expressed by Binding and Hoche nearly a century ago.But simply republishing and re-translating this work by itself would simply have provided an historic curio; or; perhaps worse; an argument for revisiting eugenics in the form they proposed.Horvath's forword is; therefore; an invaluable addition in providing a scholarly reflection upon those times and looking to the question that we will have all posed; from time to time: How could this have happened?Horvath also reflects on the modern visage of the eugenics movement; it's subjective evaluation of 'lives not worth living' appearing in a number of forms and postulated by a number of notable academics.Could the holocaust happen again? Horvath will; no doubt be accused; as is anyone who mentions the holocaust in the context of euthanasia; for example; of scaremongering on that very question. However; his is a sane; sensible and valuable reflection; not upon the possibility of a new Aryanism or Nazism per se; but rather on the risks to society firstly in the loss of our collective memory and understanding of the horrors of that period in our history and; secondly; upon the dangers inherent in dismissing the intrinsic value of human life in favour of an extrinsic value arbitrarily and subjectively visited upon sections of our community such as those living with disability and the frail aged.I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone studying this period of history and to policy makers and all persons who wish to consider the full weight of euthanasia laws.Paul RussellDirector; HOPE: preventing euthanasia assisted suicide Inc. (Australia)3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Invaluable historical text with ominous implications for the present dayBy Mortal TalonUnless someone is a trained translator themselves; it is hard to take issue with the translation on its merits. Perhaps its (alleged) cumbersome nature in the English is due to the cumbersome nature of the original? I for one did not have trouble grasping the meaning of the text; even though it was also clear; too; that it was not originally written in English.I am rating this '5 stars' on the basis of this being a historically invaluable text. The ideas it contains are reprehensible. It would surely cause modern day proponents of euthanasia considerable consternation if they learned how so many of their arguments 'coincidentally' resembled the arguments employed by the Germans to annihilate so many of their fellow humans. They are not likely to learn this; however; unless they read a work such as this one; where those arguments are fleshed out in detail!
