"An ambitious, original, and well-documented study that addresses some of the most interesting and important political-historical questions of our times."--Paul Hollander, author of Political Pilgrims and The End of Commitment.

"Jamie Glazov rolls over left-wing intellectual pretensions with a Mack truck that handles like a Porsche. He rounds them up--and when he's finished, there's nothing left." --Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Reagan administration, now a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

"A must-read for those who care about truth, the rule of law, and any hope of ultimate stability for humankind. The redefining work for twenty-first century readers of an eternal message."--Robert C.McFarlane, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, chairman and CEO of McFarlane Associates, Inc.

"Reads like a thriller."--Lieutenant General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking official to have defected from the Soviet bloc.

"In years to come, this book will become a classic, not just for conservatives but for all Americans interested in the truth and how to combat a perfidious alliance."--Steven Emerson, author of American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Amongst Us and producer of the documentary Jihad in America.

"Jamie Glazov analyses with forensic skill how and why radical leftists come repeatedly to see virtue in the most murderous ruthlessness. Alas, his book will not be out of date for a long time."--Dr. Theodore Dalrymple, author of Life At the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass.

"Any leftist who reads this, and has any honesty left in his mind, must recognize himself in this picture and, hopefully, be ashamed."--Vladimir Bukovsky, former leading Soviet dissident, author of To Build a Castle and Judgement in Moscow.

"A fascinating, illuminating, and extraordinarily insightful explanation of one of the most puzzling phenomena of our age: the alliance between the Left and the global jihad."--Robert Spencer, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad.

"A must-read if America is going to survive the global war against radical Islam." --Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.).

United in Hate is a must-read for all Americans concerned with the future of America. Jamie Glazov's writing is eloquent and thought-provoking."--Brigitte Gabriel, a renowned terrorism expert and New York Times best-selling author. She is the founder of Actforamerica.org.

In denial about the character flaws that prevent him from bonding with his own people, the believer has convinced himself that there is something profoundly wrong with his society--and that it can be fixed without any negative trade-offs. He fantasizes about building a perfect society where he will, finally, fit in...

A key ingredient of this paradigm is that the believer has failed to rise to the challenges of secular modernity; he has not established real and lasting interpersonal relationships or internalized any values that help him find meaning in life. Suffering from a spiritual emptiness, of which he himself is not cognizant, the believer forces non-spiritual solutions onto his spiritual problems. He exacerbates this dysfunction by trying to satisfy his every material need, which the great benefits of modernity and capitalism allow--but the more luxuries he manages to acquire, the more desperate he becomes. We saw this with the counterculture leftists of the sixties and seventies, and we see it with the radical leftists of today. Convinced that it is incumbent upon society, and not him, to imbue his life with purpose, the believer becomes indignant; he scapegoats his society--and ends up despising and rejecting it.

Just like religious folk, the believer espouses a faith, but his is a secular one. He too searches for personal redemption--but of an earthly variety. The progressive faith, therefore, is a secular religion. And this is why socialism's dynamics constitute a mutated carbon copy of Judeo-Christian imagery. Socialism's secular utopian vision includes a fall from an ideal collective brotherhood, followed by a journey through a valley of oppression and injustice, and then ultimately a road toward redemption.

In rejecting his own society, the believer spurns the values of democracy and individual freedom, which are anathema to him, since he has miserably failed to cope with both the challenges they pose and the possibilities they offer. Tortured by his personal alienation, which is accompanied by feelings of self-loathing, the believer craves a fairy-tale world where no individuality exists, and where human estrangement is thus impossible. The believer fantasizes about how his own individuality and self will be submerged within the collective whole.... As history has tragically recorded, this "holy cause" follows a road that leads not to an earthly paradise, but rather to an earthly hell in all of its manifestations. The political faith rejects the basic reality of the human condition--that human beings are flawed and driven by self-interest--and rests on the erroneous assumption that humanity is malleable and can be reshaped into a more perfect form. This premise spawned the nightmarish repressions and genocidal campaigns of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and other communist dictators in the twentieth century. Under their rule, more than one hundred million human beings were sacrificed on the altar where a new man would ostensibly be created.