Category: Communism
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David Horowitz versus Slavoj Zizek
A lively debate with Julian Assange in the middle. Horowitz talks sense as usual while Zizek appears to be off his meds. Horowitz: "The natural state of mankind is war." Of course. Lefties would understand this if they weren't in a permanent state of self-colonoscopy. 16:00 Horowitz on religion and leftism as ersatz religion. 18:04…
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Freedom of Speech and Freedom After Speech
What is the difference between the USSR and the USA? In the former there is freedom of speech; in the latter, freedom after speech. An old joke, but new to me. I just now heard Dennis Prager tell it. He also mentioned Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. How long would Muslim equivalents of them have…
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Do Communists Lie?
I just now found this at the CPUSA website: Communists are not against religion. We are against capitalism. A communist who is not against religion would be like a Catholic who is not against atheism or a teetotaler who is not against drinking alcoholic beverages. What we have here is further proof that truth is…
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Michael Valle on Marxism-Leninism
Our friend Mike provides us with an accurate overview of this pernicious Weltanshauung and rightly points out that it is by no means dead but (as I would put it) enjoys a healthy afterlife in those leftist seminaries called universities, but not only there: I am convinced that ML [Marxism-Leninism] is alive and well in…
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On the Origin of Political Correctness
Communism as a political force, though not quite dead, is moribund; but one of its offspring, Political Correctness, is alive and kicking especially in the universities, the courts, in the mainstream media, in Hollywood, in the Democrat Party, and indeed wherever liberals and leftists dominate. This is one of the reasons why I am interested…
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Men Have Forgotten God
As the USA drifts daily farther in the direction of leftist totalitarianism, the words of Solzhenitsyn ought to be considered. Excerpt: . . . the world had never before known a godlessness as organized, militarized, and tenaciously malevolent as that practiced by Marxism. Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart…
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From the Museum of Communism, Prague
London Ed, whom I finally got to meet at the Prague conference, sends this from the Museum of Communism: Once America had a leader resolute and real who knew totalitarian evil when he saw it and played a major role in putting it in the museum of horrors:
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Reading About Commies
In partial answer to a reader's query, here are some good books about Communism. These are 'second-tier' books. First read Whittaker Chambers, Witness; Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism (three vols.); Cszelaw Milosz, The Captive Mind. What follows is a 1 August 2004 post updated and expanded from my first weblog. …………….. I like reading books…
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Michael Valle on Marxism-Leninism and Islamism
There are four new philosophical-political posts at Mike Valle's infrequently updated weblog that I recommend. Start with Marxism-Leninism and Islamism and scroll up. Excerpts with some comments of mine: One thing that people got wrong with the communists, and they get wrong with the Islamists, is that they think that people can’t really believe this…
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Edith Bone (1889-1975)
On Myself Here lies the body of Edith Bone.All her life she lived alone,Until Death added the final SAnd put an end to her loneliness. (The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, ed. Grigson, 1977, p. 221) I am reminded of Eleanor Rigby. Dr. Edith Bone was another of those who early on looked to…
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Slavoj Žižek on the Difference Between Communism and National Socialism
Another old post from my first weblog, written 16 August 2004. I'd best capture these old posts before Google pulls the plug. ……………… My tendency as a conservative is to see moral equivalence between Communism and National Socialism. This equivalentism is reflected in my occasionally calling Communists ‘Commies.’ This offends some, but if National Socialists…
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Political Correctness: The Phrase and the Concept
William Voegli claims that the phrase first entered the American vocabulary in 1991. I don't know about that, but I do know that the concept is much older: PC derives from the CP, as I explain in Dorothy Healey on Political Correctness.
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Academic Malpractice: The Case of Grover Furr
If you are not reading Ron Radosh, you should be. In this piece, he refutes a fool who denies the crimes of Stalin.
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Ron Radosh on Woody Guthrie at 100
A very good piece that ends like this: Poor Woody Guthrie. He never expected to see the day when the newsmen, the photographers, the media as a whole would proclaim singers like Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, and Ry Cooder geniuses because they are leftists, and although like all good millionaires and billionaires, they use their…