“No, Communists become successful because they are given aid and comfort by spineless, lily-livered useful idiots who believe that the governments the communists seek to overthrow are terrible.”
So, you reckon The Tsar of Russia, Batista, Chiang Kai-Shek etc were excellent leaders, and that the regimes they ran were bastions of freedom, the rule of law and fair play? Give me a break. They were bad regimes. That point is not debateable by any reasonable mind. What replaced them may well have been worse, but hatred for a bad regime does have the effect a afflicting it’s sufferers with blindness about the nature of the revolutionary movement which seeks to replace it....