HIDING behind a humanitarian mask as a means of gorging oneself on the narcissistic pleasures of virtue-signalling is one thing, but using it for more sinister ends another. Consider what Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) says in his 1946 work, Existentialism is a Humanism:

“We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.”

It all sounds very beautiful, I’m sure, but the fact that Sartre was both an uncritical and unrepentant Stalinist who, until 1956, knowingly suppressed the awful truth about the Soviet Union implies that “willing” the liberty of others means little more than offering them freedom at the point of a gun. Concern for human welfare, in other words, is manifested through communist dictatorship of the proletariat.