The Ideological Lieampamp160as Solzhenitsyn calls it was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the ageold distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress evil was called goodness and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil backward racist colonialist sexist etc.Jacobinism MarxismLeninism National Socialism Progressive Democracy the New Left and now the new woke dispensation have all iterated upon this central conceit. Their adherents were all frenziedly preoccupied with being on the right side of historythe side of ampamp8220progress.ampamp8221In The Persistence of the Ideological Lie Daniel Mahoney chronicles each manifestation of the Ideological Lie up to and including contemporary wokeism.