The Left’s adoration for all things far left is well documented. They love the historical “leaders” of Marxism. An obsession fueled by generations of White Tower Academics propagandizing future generations of petty thieves and tyrants.
I present the current US congress as proof of their success.
But we don’t see any of them goading college critters to topple statues of Lenin or to ban the Communist Manifesto. The indoctrination continues apace without pause or even consideration.
It seems a bit hypocritical if you ask me.
While Marx and Engles were not Russian, the Soviet Union rose on the back of their shoddy work and propelled its spread for a century. There is nothing quite as Russian as Marxism without which (at least speculatively) the CCCP never really gets off the ground or goes anywhere, possibly ever.
The failed economic lies that lead to the level of tyranny required in such a system sit idle, though not forgotten by history – men will always seek ways to accumulate power and then abuse it.
But without that success, China may never have gone so far left, and hundreds of millions would not have died. Many a likely dictator would have lacked the backing of these evil empires to feed the ideological desire for absolute rule.
Though I think we should accept that the absence of all that death would give these same intellectuals the sads.
Marxism isn’t just beloved for its tyrannical micromanagement of everyone and everything. It also “legally” cleanses the population. The ideological Left loves eugenics when they are the ones who decide who deserves to live and who must die.
Hitler may have tarnished the idea of the master race, but he got it from American progressives, and it is foundational to their program. So, is it ironic that history suggests that many of these same intellectuals will be the first ones up against the wall when the purge comes?
People so bright they are dim, obsessed with a worldview that should, if left unobstructed, be the end of them.
Until then, it is reasonable to cancel Tchaikovsky (who was Ukrainian) but not Stalin.
