Only the NYT could have a story like this yesterday and not realize the irony.
This Just In: Pete Seeger Denounced Stalin Over a Decade Ago
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Actually, this is a change of religious cannon. That is if you accept that certain doctrines of the old left had the weight of religious orthodoxy.
If an old line stalinist denounces stalin then its possible to accept McCarthy as being correct
The time to have denounced Stalin was soonafter he came to power. The NYT writer thinks the headline is cute because Pete Seger, a longtime communists, actually denounced him ten years ago, not just the other day as was recently reported. And what makes the NYT so terrible is that their reporter,
Walter Duranty, knowingly covered up Stalin's mass murders in Ukraine. Duranty received a Pulitzer prize for his reporting, and the NYT to this day has not given it back. The NYT has a long history of
Herbert Matthews supporting tyranny. See, for example, as well. The list goes on too. Really, someone should write a book on the subject.