How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism (1955)
25 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics Tags: communism
@SeumasMilne @BernieSanders put Peter Fechter’s murder down a memory hole @jeremycorbyn @NaomiAKlein
28 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics Tags: Berlin wall, communism, fall of communism, Leftover Left
We should never forget Peter Fechter & the 253 others who died at the Berlin Wall at.FEE.org/1HWKr1s #RealHeroes http://t.co/mbkFxt64D2—
FEE (@feeonline) June 25, 2015
In an otherwise sustained defence of Communist tyranny because they made the trains run on time, Seamus Milne and George Galloway do lament the restrictions on international travel and immigration from Communist dictatorships. They do mutter about perhaps something should have been done about that.
What an extraordinarily callous way to refer to the murder of East Germans at the Berlin Wall. Peter Fechter was the first to be murdered at the Berlin Wall.
Anyone who supports communism supports murder. Central to the Communist strategy of taking power is to murder their political opponents and then to maintain power through murder and torture.
Traffic Jam near the Brandenburg Gate as East Germans move into West Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989. http://t.co/hVWT9Mwh4L—
Vexy Vox (@Vexyvox) November 14, 2014
Bernie Sanders too put the drowning of Cubans attempting to flee to Florida in leaky boats down the memory hole of the Left over Left.
Why are ex-Communists still on the Left forgiven for their past?
15 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: autocracy, communism, ex-Communists, genocide, mass murder, reigns of terror, tinpot dictatorships, totalitarian dictatorships
When communism fell, so did mass killings. buff.ly/1PhbuYd #peace http://t.co/kZ3kKD3RI3—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 11, 2015
Ideas: When Mao died, The Economist wrote
06 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, growth disasters, liberalism, Public Choice Tags: China, communism, How China Became Capitalist, mao, useful idiots
In the final reckoning, Mao must be accepted as one of history’s great achievers: for devising a peasant-centered revolutionary strategy which enabled China’s Communist Party to seize power, against Marx’s prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society, wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified, egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao’s words, ‘stand up’ among the great powers.
via Ideas and http://www.scottmanning.com/content/visualizing-the-great-leap-forward/
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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