[rcocean]

Suggest you review the link shown above or simply go to Google and type in Einstein and communism. Like most Communists he was always in favor of peace when Stalin was building his war machine and taking over half of Europe.

This love of peace disappeared in the case of Nazi Germany since it threatened and then made war on the Socialist Paradise of Stalin's Russia.

I have no doubt he was a gentle man but his views on politics were moronic. Like celebrities today, he was given a lot of ink because the left-wing press liked him.

Being a scientist takes a particular brand of intelligence, like being great at math, and it has nothing to do with wise about law,philosophy or politics.

[snarks_when_bored]

Einstein's views on the politics of his time were mistaken in many respects, as were the views of so many other intellectuals of the early decades of the 20th century. These intellectuals were seduced by their egalitarian sentiments to embrace communist principles, but they either failed to see, or turned a blind eye, to the monstrous abuses carried out by the men who implemented the communist ideals in the Soviet Union and Red China and elsewhere.

I agree with you that deep insight and high achievement in one area does not translate into the same in other areas. Clearly, Einstein was a much better scientist than he was a political observer.