Category: Communism
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Semper Fidel
Robert Royal: It's not hard to understand why many secular people in the West were fascinated by a figure like Fidel Castro. Where religion retreats, political faiths tend to advance to fill the absence of meaning, purpose, authority (yes, people crave that, too). Add a bold, charismatic leader willing to fight – even die –…
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Horribile Dictu: Orthodox Patriarch Praises Castro
A must read by Rod Dreher. Contains excerpts from the autobiography of Armando Valladares, a Cuban dissident who spent 22 years in Castro's horrific gulag. More by and about Valladares here.
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Did the United States Defeat the Soviet Union Only to Become Another Soviet Union?
I have posed this question in several forms over the past few years. In his latest, Publius Decius Mus offers an excellent exposition and answer: Comprehensive Conservative Failure If I may address professional conservatives directly: It seems to me undeniable that you have already failed. Don’t take it personally. I can rephrase that as “we”…
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Ron Radosh Defends Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature
Here. Radosh addresses Andrew Klavan's objections. I wonder if Radosh is aware of Dylan's 1983 song in defense of the Rosenbergs. See below. Did you see Radosh on 60 Minutes Sunday night during the segment on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? Radosh and co-author Joyce Milton definitively showed that the Rosenbergs were guilty as charged, or…
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There is no Religious Liberty Under Leftism: The Albanian Example
Do you value religious liberty? Then you must work to defeat Hillary Clinton, which is to say: you must vote for Donald Trump. The Left, being totalitarian, brooks no opposition and is brutal in its suppression of religion. Consider the example of Fr. Ernest Simoni: Persecution in Albania was exceptionally harsh, even for Communist Eastern…
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The Rosenbergs: Still Guilty After All These Years
On this date in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death as atomic spies for the Soviet Union. They were most certainly guilty as we now know. But no amount of proof of their guilt will stop the Left from lying about them as victims of American 'fascism.' In those days we weren't the decadent…
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What Happened to Angela Davis?
Roger Kimball: Saturday marked the 44th anniversary of Angela Davis’s acquittal on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. Remember Angela Davis? I asked several of my younger colleagues: No one under 35 had heard of her. But the former Black Panther, recipient of the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize, and two-time vice-presidential candidate on the…
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A Red-Diaper Baby I Once Knew: Anecdotes Illustrating Leftist Illusions
In graduate school I was friends for a time with a New York Jew who for the purposes of this memoir I will refer to as 'Saul Peckstein.' A red diaper baby, he was brought up on Communism the way I was brought up on Roman Catholicism. Invited up to his room one day, I…
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Socialism Kills
Literally
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Ron Radosh on Trumbo
Here. Excerpts: The film presents [Dalton] Trumbo as a hero and martyr for free speech, a principled rich Communist who nevertheless stands firm, sells his beautiful ranch for a “modest” new house in Los Angeles, and survives by writing film scripts — most run of the mill but some major films (such as the Academy…
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On the Tombstone of the USSR
"Man is neither an angel nor a beast, and it is unfortunately the case that anyone trying to act the angel acts the beast." (Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Krailsheimer tr., p. 242) Related articles Pascal, Buber, and the God of the Philosophers The Extremism of Simone Weil Time Apportionment as Between Athens and Benares
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The Neo-Com Left’s Nihilist Agenda
The following reproduced verbatim from Tully Borland's weblog. In the absence of a practical alternative to the capitalist system, the [Marxist] revolutionary project is a nihilism–the will to destroy existing societies without an idea of what to do next. The persistence of the revolutionary illusion without the revolutionary fact has given rise to what…
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Like a Moth to the Flame
Jean van Heijenoort was drawn to Anne-Marie Zamora like a moth to the flame. He firmly believed she wanted to kill him and yet he travelled thousands of miles to Mexico City to visit her where kill him she did by pumping three rounds from her Colt .38 Special into his head while he slept.…
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The Impulse to Wipe Away the Past is Stalinist
An impulse whose manifestation may be coming to a monument near you. Did the US defeat the SU to become the SU?
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Of ChiComs, Cojones, and Civilization
At least the ChiComs have the cojones to defend their civilization against the Islamist barbarians. Not that I approve of the method, the use of state power to force shop keepers to sell alcohol and tobacco products. But if you put a gun to my head and force me to choose between Communist and Islamist…