Communism would still be evil and vile no matter what. Erecting a replacement for God in the form of the socialist state is worse than not erecting a replacement for God but letting people find their own way for either good or ill.
Untold billions of man-hours of work, of effort, of thought, of time have been spent writing paragraphs, and tracts, and novels, plays, and movies, all to make communism look good and appear to work, all to sell the idea that this perverse bizarre concept will bring to mankind an earthly paradise, the exact opposite of what actually happens wherever it is tried.
False dichotomy.
Communism is always wrong.
I’ve stood in what was once the pumpkin patch where Chambers hid the microfilm rolls that sent Hiss to the slammer.
In Washington, DC, the homes where Chambers, Hiss and Nixon lived are still standing. However, when I was last in DC, the hearing room where Chambers confronted Hiss is closed and undergoing renovation.
I read “Witness” by him in the early ‘90’ at the suggestion of my mother. My world view changed. With his testimony particularly concerning the times of the story, I got continuity. That is, I saw WHY we are where we are now. He connected the dots, so to speak.
“a long but enlightening read.”
indeed. should be on the must-read list for serious conservatives ...
Unfortunately the Millennials and the generations which succeed them will never read this book and therefore never know the truth.
As President Ronald Reagan said "Freedom is only one generation away from extinction."
Also unlike today, Hiss was sent to prison two years after the hearings.
Chambers had accused Hiss of being an undercover agent for the Kremlin. Hiss vehemently denied the charges. Referring to the disputed statements between the two men, Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey began the proceedings, informing both witnesses that, certainly one of you will be tried for perjury. After more than six hours of testimony, the day of questioning ended inconclusively. In an open letter dated August 24, 1948, Hiss claimed that the committee needed to end its verdict-first-and-testimony later tactics. After the hearings, many Republicans asserted that the investigation demonstrated that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were soft on communism; Democrats claimed it was a smear campaign. Committee investigators subsequently turned up additional evidence against Hiss, and a federal grand jury indicted him on two counts of perjury. In 1950, a trial jury convicted Hiss and he was sentenced to five years in prison.Always true to form, the 1948 Democrats sided with the communist spy just like in 2018 they are siding with the intelligence community traitors and subversives.
Godless commies
Nonsense, why would those be the only two options.
Bump.
Witness and Atlas Shrugged. Two great books by two great minds.
Too bad they couldn’t stand each other.