Both seek to establish a new world order:
leftists in the form of a classless communist society
and Islamists in the form of a caliphate ruled by Sharia law.
To achieve these goals, both are willing to wipe
the slate clean by means of limitless carnage,
with the ultimate goal of erecting their utopia upon the ruins
of the system they have destroyed. /

..left wing radicals have had no humanity towards anyone who was
a victim of the totalitarian regimes or bloodthirsty terrorist
movements that they have supported over the last century.

The shameful death cult odyssey that has lead left wing radicals
of the intellectual elite, academics, lawyers, writers, ..
to always identify with the most evil and monstrous regimes
and leaders on this planet
and to pretend to turn a blind eye to the death and destruction
they have sowed .. is what the author explores..

The Leftist wishes to punish the West for their rejection of
Marxism and so has found in the Islamist terror, the new heroes
to venerate as those who are able to defeat the West
and the individual freedom it represents.

At the roots of this phenomenon is a nihilistic death impulse
rooted in the resentment by the Western Leftists of their own
societies which makes them identify with anything
which is adversarial against the Western culture they so despise,
no matter how destructive and murderous.
This erases any empathy for the victims of these regimes
and terror networks.
This is what the author refers to as the adversarial culture of
negative identification.

..the Leftists who venerated Lenin and Stalin would not feel
any sympathy for the victims of their purges,
dekulakization and forced famine.
The admirers of Mao would not feel anything for the millions
of victims of cultural revolution or tens of millions of Chinese
who starved to death during the Great Leap forward.

Similar callousness would be shown to the victims of the Khmer
Rouge -- a third of Cambodia's population
or the tortured and murdered by the Castro regime in Cuba
or the Sandinistas in Nicaragua ..
The Left's unholy death cult worship of Arab and Islamic terror
is no different. /

Unable to find meaning in life, many of the ‘Left’ find meaning
in death.
They strive to fill the void in their life with causes.
Since our society no longer needs to struggle for food each day,
they are a ‘lost’ group, finding a new purpose to live for.
We are no longer taught to live our life for God, to mimic Jesus
in out actions, to practice self-denial or to put the needs of
other first.

( fra omtaler: goodreads.com )