printNEW COLUMN: Why on earth is communism still kosher? The topic has to be revisited occasionally, given that a good chuck of your kids are being groomed to be followers of this death cult.
“A ‘Victims of Communism Day’ Is Long Overdue” was on WND. It appeared last week on the Unz Review. It is now a feature on the great American Greatness, which, together with the Unz Review, is the freest, smartest spot for the dissident right.
On Sunday evening, you’ll be able to read this column on American Greatness.
The fact that socialists and communists are still voted into power with swagger; the fact that this creed’s savage foot-soldiers, Black Lives Matter and Antifa, are cast as pacifists, seekers of equity and justice—demonstrates that communists, despite their murderous past, “belong to the camp of democratic progress,” whereas the Right is forever open to suspicions of unforgiven fascist and Nazi sympathies.
If anything, “The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression”—that “800-page compendium of the crimes of communist regimes worldwide”—treads too lightly when it comes to qualitative comparisons between the Nazi and the “Marxist-Leninist phenomenon.”
On the quantitative front, “Nazism, at an estimated 25 million dead,” turned out to be distinctly less murderous than Communism, whose “grand total of victims, variously estimated at between 85 million and 100 million murdered, is the most colossal case of political carnage in history.”
Qualitatively, the “‘class genocide’ of Communism” is certainly comparable to the “‘race genocide’ of Nazism.” In its reach and methods, moreover, nothing compares to Communism’s continual, ongoing invention of new classes of “enemies of the people” to liquidate. “Mass violence against the population was a deliberate policy of the new revolutionary order; and its scope and inhumanity far exceeded anything in the national past.”
The Jewish people have carried out “the solemn obligation to keep the memory of its martyrs alive in the conscience of the world.” The civilized world has internalized the methods and meaning of the “Final Solution.” As “The Black Book” observes approvingly, “Hitler and Nazism are now a constant presence in Western print and on Western television.”
Alas, although “their practices were comparable,” the “moral auras” of Nazism and Communism are still “antithetical.” “The Communist project” is permitted to claim “a commitment to universalistic and egalitarian goals, whereas the Nazi project” is said to offer only “unabashed national egoism.” The liberal world has refused to similarly stigmatize Communism. “The status of ex-Communist carries with it no stigma, even when unaccompanied by any expression of regret.”
Even more skewed is the situation in the East. No Gulag camps have been turned into museums to commemorate their inmates; all were bulldozed into the ground during Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization. The only memorial to Stalin’s victims is a modest stone brought to Moscow from the Arctic camp of Solovki and placed in Lubyanka Square (though well off to the side), where the KGB’s former headquarters still stands. …
READ ON. “A ‘Victims of Communism Day’ Is Long Overdue” is featured now on American Greatness.
Ilana, it is totally immaterial whether or not Communism is worse than Fascism. Despite repeated left-wing lies, Fascism is not right wing. The two forms of tyranny are just competing forms of left-wing statism, and socialism/communism has a better PR department.
Why would you invite us to respond to anything using Facebook? I refuse to use all social media. The disadvantages are far greater than any benefit.
I agree. In the 20th century alone, governments (especially Communist ones) killed, imprisoned, exiled, or otherwise ruined more people in the names of social justice, progress, and national liberation than suffered for heresy or non-Christian belief in the 15 centuries between the conversion of Constantine and Ruggles v. New York. We are told by all and sundry that the struggle against Franco was a noble one; yet, seeing how Dr.Bentzion Netanyahu counted some 4000+ victims of Spain’s inquisitions in Spain itself between 1480 and 1804, one sees his number is equivalent to perhaps a few months toll in the intramural struggles of the Spanish Left during the 1930’s. But let’s go behind Marx: what of Rousseau’s infamous desire that people be “compelled to be free”?
BTW, the author of the Chinese pamphlet suffers from bad grammar. It would be better to write 1918?d?’?? rather than ???918??Solzhenitsyn griped that Communism had ruined the Russian language. It looks as if it did the same for the Chinese.