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Robert Stacy McCain refutes Salon’s article praising Communism

hammer_sickelSometimes, the mask slips off the leftists in this country. Some idiot at Salon Magazine recently wrote an article praising Communism entitled:

Why you’re wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism)

Leftists in this country have been drifting towards being full fledged Communists for decades now. The ‘slow drift’ began in the 1970’s. Now, in the 21st century, the progressive liberal Democrat party are full fledged Communists. Progressive liberal Democrats openly praise Che Gueva, Mao, Stalin, and Fidel Castro. Progressives feel that if you disagree with their government owns you policy, you must either be racist, sexist, a dumb redneck, or any other insult they can think of. Robert Stacy McCain of American Spectator takes on the Pajama Boy who praised Communist on Salon. If you need any further proof that the Democrat party is the 21st Century version of the Communist, look no farther than the State of New York and New York City. You have a Democrat governor who considers pro-life, pro-second amendment people ‘not welcome in New York’ and a Mayor is quick to agree.

Salon’s resolute commitment to failure extends to the realm of failed ideas, and on Sunday it published a defense of Communism by Jesse Myerson entitled, “Why you’re wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism).”

Illustrated with photos of Karl Marx and Gordon Gekko (the latter being the villain of Oliver Stone’s 1987 anti-capitalist film Wall Street), Myerson’s article is a particularly tedious example of a genre familiar to anyone old enough to recall the Cold War-era style of liberal discourse known as “anti-anti-Communism.”

From the 1940s onward, the Left blamed the Cold War not on Stalin’s armed conquest of eastern Europe nor on the subversion and espionage fomented by the KGB and the Comintern, but rather on the opponents of Stalinism in the West. Harry Truman and Winston Churchill were bloodthirsty warmongers, according to anti-anti-Communist belief. Everything from the Marshall Plan to the execution of Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg was attributed by Moscow’s stooges to the manipulations of capitalist plutocrats and crypto-fascist hysteria. According to anti-anti-Communists, ignorance and irrational prejudices led Americans to “misunderstand” the peaceful glories of the Soviet paradise. By a process of intellectual osmosis, pro-Soviet arguments made their way from the Daily Worker (official organ of the Communist Party USA) into the rhetoric of the leftist fringe, thence into the pages of liberal books and journals and, eventually, into the minds of leading Democrat politicians. Less than three decades after Truman fought off the CPUSA-backed challenge of “Progressive” Henry Wallace, President Jimmy Carter in 1977 expressed his pride that America had finally gotten over its “inordinate fear of communism.”