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NY Times Publishes Column Critical Of The Left's Soft Spot For Communism With Predictable Results |
2017-10-30 |
Selected Excerpt from the NYT article [Hot Air] How many readers, I wonder, are familiar with this history of atrocity and denial, except in a vague way? How many know the name of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s principal henchmen in the famine? What about other chapters large and small in the history of Communist horror, from the deportation of the Crimean Tatars to the depredations of Peru’s Shining Path to the Brezhnev-era psychiatric wards that were used to torture and imprison political dissidents? Soetoro takes Mooch, kids, and free-rent granny to Robben Island prison courtyard. Why is it that people who know all about the infamous prison on Robben Island in South Africa have never heard of the prison on Cuba’s Isle of Pines? Why is Marxism still taken seriously on college campuses and in the progressive press? Do the same people who rightly demand the removal of Confederate statues ever feel even a shiver of inner revulsion at hipsters in Lenin or Mao T-shirts? These aren’t original questions. But they’re worth asking because so many of today’s progressives remain in a permanent and dangerous state of semi-denial about the legacy of Communism a century after its birth in Russia. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#10 Procopius2k, agree 100%. If not in Russia at least among the commies of the left. The entire ideology should have been stamped out and villified as loser anti-Semitic genocidal nutbags. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-10-30 17:15 |
#9 I wonder if the Menshevics would have worked out better |
Posted by: 746 2017-10-30 12:44 |
#8 ^ He absolutely loved London. |
Posted by: 2017-10-30 12:26 |
#7 The German father was in England when he wrote about it though, if memory serves. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-10-30 11:19 |
#6 When the Wall came down, there should have been a reckoning for those who towed that line. See what turning the cheek got you? |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-10-30 09:27 |
#5 The only legacy in which the proggs are interested is that of ultimate power and self aggrandizement. Screw the proles!!!! Kill the Czar!! Born in Russia of a German father and a daughter of Satan. |
Posted by: AlanC 2017-10-30 09:08 |
#4 d'Hupay was so 18th century, no mo uro. |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-10-30 09:08 |
#3 A "fact"? The idea of "facts" (objective reality) is just a DWEM construct. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-10-30 05:47 |
#2 Communism was "born" in Russia? Are there no journalists left who can fact check? |
Posted by: no mo uro 2017-10-30 05:36 |
#1 They are in 'denial' simply because they too are communists. I hope this helps solve the perplexing riddle. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-30 02:37 |