An estimated 120 million people were murdered by progressives (socialists, Marxists, communists) in peacetime during the 20th century because they were reluctant to go along with the progressives' agendas.

Among goals that are not humanly possible are 1) to make people equal when they are by nature, talent, intelligence, and upbringing fundamentally unequal; 2) to make them harmonious to the point of establishing a universal peace.

The idea of a moral progress (as opposed to a technological one) is at the root of the totalitarian ideologies associated with radicalism. To any clear-headed person it is an obvious fantasy, since the worst of all centuries from the point of view of the treatment of other human beings is certainly the one we have lived in. In barbarism to incalculable numbers of people, none beats it.

This is the introduction to a book I have written about the radical mentality, which is a attitude that seeks to transform the world into something different, better than the one that we have inherited. It is a mentality seeks a kind of perfection, that people should be equal, and that they should get along and live in harmony. It is in my view also a totalitarian mentality, that is one that has to fundamentally change the kind of human beings we have been through all recorded time, and therefore has to control every area or virtually every area of our lives. Religions are totalitarian in every respect – since they seek the reformation of the individual – except one: outside of the Islamic world, they do not control the state. The decline of western religions after Darwin has been paralleled by the rise of radical ideologies – secular forms of the religious mentality. That is what this book is about.