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And that is half of my point. Equality is impossible to achieve, because humans are not equal by nature. Therefore, the ideal itself is fundamentally self-defeating. And I do not prefer oppressive government, you just have no clue. Marxism has originated in the West*, and has thoroughly...

For how long? Fact is that basically everything you have listed is irrelevant - political institutions and laws and customs simply do not matter in the long run if your children and grandchildren will be Marxists because the educational system and the media are spoonfeeding them bullshit. Laws...

Nope. Look at what is going on in the West. Under the ideal of "equality", you have oppression, culturocide, genocide... US are not the world. And US themselves are part of the Western cultural circle, same as Germany. You are not Martians, no matter how much you might pretend to be...

It is the fact. Hardly an outside force. Marxism originated in Germany, and it has thoroughly infiltrated the entire West. Marxists have not come from the Soviet Union, they existed in the West since 19th century. Equality under the law is a good idea, I can agree with that. But fact is, West...

Look at the West... also, French Revolution started with the idea of equality under the law, and ended up with a bloodbath. Communism started out with the idea of equality (though equality in general), and ended up with a bloodbath. And even so, equality under the law has not been achieved. Nor...

Personally, I subscribe to Tolkien's idea of the Long Defeat... no matter what you do, destruction is inevitable. Which is actually exactly the same as the Whig theory, except pessimistic. In other words, the arc of history is long but it bends towards destruction.

But one almost inevitably leads to the other, I'm afraid. Or at least that is how it has usually been through the history.

Nah. The moment you start introducing equality in one aspect, the moment you set up equality as a value (much less a fundamental value), you set the stage for the coming of Marxism and Communism. Conditions for the Marxism were created when people bought the whole "monarchy caused World War I"...