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New York Times: When communism inspired Americans
Canada Free Press ^ | 05/01/17 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 05/01/2017 3:14:00 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Totalitarian leftist state: Lapses back into an opium dream of Marxists sitting around a kitchen table and debating whom to shoot first.

It’s inconceivable that the New York Times or any paper would run a glowing piece titled, “When Nazis Inspired Americans.” No fond recollections from participants in the Madison Square Garden rally. No fond memories of Bund camps. No sugar-coated recollections of how the Thousand Year Reich would create a better world… only to then learn that Hitler wasn’t a very nice man.

But the New York Times will run “When Communism Inspired Americans.” It will run it because while Communism didn’t inspire Americans, it did inspire the left to try and turn America into a totalitarian state. It still does. This is the dirty little secret that leaks out of the left.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: american; communism; leftiststate; totalitarian
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1 posted on 05/01/2017 3:14:00 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

Socialism, which is what the hate group, known as the Democratic Party, supports, ALWAYS devolves into communism/totalitarianism/fascism or whatever disaster you choose to call it.


2 posted on 05/01/2017 3:17:30 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The largest and most dangerous hate-group in the US is now the Democratic Party)
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To: Sean_Anthony

It did NOT inspire Americans.

It inspired a few freaks and traitors in places like NY City, that’s all.


3 posted on 05/01/2017 3:18:25 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Sean_Anthony

The Bolsheviks called themselves Social Democrats. Communism always starts with the idea of equality, workers’ rights, and the benefit of a loving, all-powerful state to replace evil capitalism. Look at how Democrats refer to capitalism today. They’re filled with the same hate for it and want it destroyed (same as Hitler, btw), but as always they’ve nothing to replace it with other than communism.


4 posted on 05/01/2017 3:19:00 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Sean_Anthony

I don’t see any significant difference between national socialism and soviet socialism. There are minor variations in packaging, but both are socialist systems where the government has nearly absolute power. The flaws of both systems come from totalitarianism, not from the superficial details. They both even targeted the Jews and wiped out very large numbers of their own people (as did Mao’s socialist utopia, and others). Somehow, progressive-communist-socialist-leftist-democrat journalists either cannot see the truth or are so lost in #FakeNews that they refuse to report the obvious.


5 posted on 05/01/2017 3:20:15 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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And all these May Day marches across the country.
Bet none of the participants realize the significance vis a’vis communism.
And a lot of them would smile if they knew.


6 posted on 05/01/2017 3:31:37 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Sean_Anthony

Stalin, Pol Pot, Chavez, Mao...Great humanitarians all.


7 posted on 05/01/2017 3:36:21 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Sean_Anthony

socialism has two primary appeals....
1. it can be dressed up to sound good (”helping people”)
....and
2. in times of great economic hardship (like the Great Depression or Obama’s Great Recession) people can look for whatever help they can find

of course, socialism also destroys the economy and jobs, so that it creates its own demand (item 2 above)


8 posted on 05/01/2017 3:42:37 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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9 posted on 05/01/2017 4:03:33 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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10 posted on 05/01/2017 4:03:57 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
>>Communism always starts with...

...the usual suspects:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Marx+Jesuit+Reductions



11 posted on 05/01/2017 4:06:46 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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The Times has never rejected the Pulitzer Prize granted to its reporter, Walter Duranty, who in the 30s reported on the glories of the Soviet communist system and denied in the articles that he wrote that there was a famine in Ukraine (Stalin’s henchman deliberately starved eight million peasant families to death in Ukraine while Stalin exported Ukrainian grain). I remember being in Red Sqaure shortly after the fall of communism; you can see why Ethel Rosenberg’s brother, David Greenglass, when asked if he would be traded to Russia in return for an American spy and get out of prison early, replied why would I go there?? Its a dump.


12 posted on 05/01/2017 4:08:20 PM PDT by laconic (that)
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Hey, sure, why not! We KNOW for DAMN SURE that the so called scumbag republican party is down for communism! My God people, we have been so very badly used and abused by these republican scum for so long. It is WAY past time to flush every last republican down the toilet of history. WAY past time.


13 posted on 05/01/2017 4:09:23 PM PDT by DonPaulJonesII (The only thing worse than a democrat is a lousy, dishonest, disloyal scumbag republican.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The bad thing about Capitalism is capitalists — the bad thing about Socialism is Socialism.


14 posted on 05/01/2017 4:12:47 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Sean_Anthony
New York Times: When communism inspired Americans


Yeah, I am inspired all right. Why can't we have a revolution so we can ship the people we don't like off to the gulag? /s
15 posted on 05/01/2017 4:14:31 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Parroting fake news is highly profitable for some.)
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To: Vinnie
And all these May Day marches across the country. Bet none of the participants realize the significance vis a’vis communism. And a lot of them would smile if they knew.


Funny the media never mentions the significance of May 1.
16 posted on 05/01/2017 4:15:43 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Parroting fake news is highly profitable for some.)
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To: immadashell

The bad parts of capitalism can be remedied through regulation. Socialism cannot because it already represents too much regulation.


17 posted on 05/01/2017 4:27:22 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Sean_Anthony

Wow. The NY Times finally admits the Nazis were Leftists.


18 posted on 05/01/2017 5:04:37 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Yeah, my birthday.


19 posted on 05/01/2017 5:16:54 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
New York Times: When communism inspired Americans

That wasn't inspiration I felt when I returned from the Vietnam War and realized I had been killing the wrong Communists.

20 posted on 05/01/2017 5:44:26 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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