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2020-08-03 Home Front: Politix
A ‘Victims of Communism Day' Is Long Overdue
[Mercer at 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" in the eyes of the world 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."
Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-03 05:32|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1 I'd suggest May the First.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-08-03 06:49||   2020-08-03 06:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Good choice. Or how about 5th March, the day Stalin bought it.
Posted by Clem 2020-08-03 08:06||   2020-08-03 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 And speaking of Rick Steves...

"Muh fascism! Nazis!" Um... snore.
"Is Hitler once more at our door?"
A humble suggestion
For leftists: new question
To ask: "Could it happen before?"
Posted by Oscar Grumble5883 2020-08-03 21:52||   2020-08-03 21:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Always wonderful words, Zenobia F!
Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-03 21:55||   2020-08-03 21:55|| Front Page Top

#5 In the Commons, observe Oswald Mosley
And mark his allegiances closely:
Conservative first,
Later Labour... and worse.
An accursed right-winger... supposedly.
Posted by Fat Bob Platypus8073 2020-08-03 22:01||   2020-08-03 22:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Look! Right and left socialists act
In comradely caution and tact
As Nazis and Commies
Smack Polaks and Tommies: Professional Courtesy Pact!
Posted by Glavique Henbane2617 2020-08-03 22:09||   2020-08-03 22:09|| Front Page Top

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