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When Communism Inspired Americans
NY Times ^
| April 29, 2017
| Vivian Gornick
Posted on 05/01/2017 8:09:15 AM PDT by C19fan
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Just as a reminder in 1962, the world knew about Stalin's crimes, the Iron Curtain was in place, how the Soviet Union crushed Hungary, and the Berlin War was being constructed. Where is the op ed about how wonderful the German American Bund was??
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posted on
05/01/2017 8:09:15 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
The NY Slimes never got over its love for Communism.
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posted on
05/01/2017 8:16:31 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
To: C19fan
NYT pining for the Good Old Days...................
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posted on
05/01/2017 8:17:23 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: C19fan
NYT making a good case for why it is known as an enemy of America.
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posted on
05/01/2017 8:23:20 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: C19fan
The NY Times still believes Walter Duranty’s reports from the Soviet Union.
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posted on
05/01/2017 8:24:35 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
To: C19fan
Communism—the ideology that becomes popular only when people know as little as possible about it.
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posted on
05/01/2017 8:26:17 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: C19fan
People who were interested knew from the beginning what the Bolsheviks were up to. The ignorance defense does not work.
To: Vehmgericht
The Times in the 30’s. Complicit?
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posted on
05/01/2017 8:35:34 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: C19fan
Communism still inspires the Slimes.
To: C19fan
The subtitle should be:
“Ah, The Good Old Days...”
To: C19fan
Stupid ass liberal commie gets it ass-backwards. America inspired communism. Before America it was quasi-feudal Aristocrats dominating over a huge under-class. Enter the American Republic onto the world stage with the “People” governing themselves without their aristocratic masters. Marx, tried to take it one step farther but failed due to his ignorance of human psychology.
To: MichaelRDanger
That was a damn good post
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posted on
05/01/2017 9:16:59 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Multiculturalism: Everyone wants to inhabit the world of white men with no white men in it)
To: C19fan
If you’re “inspired” by communism you’re an American in name only.
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posted on
05/01/2017 9:18:34 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Liberals are locusts.)
To: C19fan
Interesting in that the NY Times of its day, Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, published columns by Karl Marx for years. Some things never change.
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posted on
05/01/2017 9:22:25 AM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: C19fan
Communism still inspires the Left.
You will see plenty of RevCom signs at their demonstrations.
RevCom = Revolutionary Communist Party
only in America-
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posted on
05/01/2017 9:44:08 AM PDT
by
Pelham
(Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
To: jjotto
That was back in the day when old Karl championed the Radical Republicans, who had plenty in common with him.
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posted on
05/01/2017 9:45:51 AM PDT
by
Pelham
(Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
To: MichaelRDanger
Marx, tried to take it one step farther but failed due to his ignorance of human psychology.I think he understood the motivation of the weakest and least intelligent 1/3 to 1/2 of his society-- they want to rely on government to provide for them, even if it's not much, because the thought of competing in the real world is their greatest horror. I think Marx did underestimate the motivations of the other part of society-- he thought they were few in number and could all be murdered. I think his primary failing was his ignorance of economics, as indicated everywhere Communism is attempted and in his personal life.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
The NY Slimes never got over its love for Communism. Ah, well, you see, Communism would succeed, if only they put the right people in charge...LOL
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posted on
05/01/2017 10:01:28 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
To: C19fan
It is perhaps hard to understand now, but at that time,... the Marxist vision of world solidarity as translated by the Communist Party induced in the most ordinary of men and women a sense of ones own humanity that ran deep, made life feel large; large and clarified. It was to this clarity of inner being that so many became not only attached, but addicted. No reward of life, no love nor fame nor wealth, could compete with the experience......of not loving God and not being saved.
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posted on
05/01/2017 12:04:57 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
To: C19fan; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs; NFHale; KC_Lion
“Commies are kewl cause my mommy was a commie.”
Eff you, Vivian.
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posted on
05/01/2017 4:02:24 PM PDT
by
Impy
(End the kritarchy!)
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