Every time I am required by comments on what I said about the unfortunate effect of Marxism in American leftist politics and culture to look at that history, I come to the conclusion that I've never adequately expressed what a rational, practical and moral disaster that influence has been. There are few areas in American politics where the Marxists and their sympathizers didn't have a disastrous effect.
And that only began with the fact that anyone who saw the Soviet Union under everyone from Lenin to Gorbachev and the Putin post-Marxist continuation of the gangster governance that that entire history was would know it was nothing any rational American would want. The list of American Communists, communists, commies, sympathizers who admired the Soviet Union and Communism in its colonies and other states who elected to live in those workers paradises is notably short. Especially among those who actually went there to be feted in propaganda events, especially those in the arts and show biz and the lit'rary life, it is telling that they, in virtually every case, returned to the hellish United States where they lived that good life far more often.
It is about 85 years past the time that the fabled, celebrated American Communists and other Marxists were seen as being the moral equivalent of the American supporters of Hitler, I date that from the year when the Communist genocide against the Ukrainian People was first credibly reported in the West. And that's probably overly generous, reports that turn out to be true as to the murderous oppression that Communism was preceded that date. If it's any comfort, it would have been as easy for the American right to identify the Nazis as the moral equivalent of the Lenin and Stalin governments in the 1920s and 1930s, up to the beginning of the War, Stalin having come to his idiotic accord with the Nazis to share the spoils of their upcoming invasions and the beginning of their genocide program.
I think the most durable effect of that, other than the idiotic rehashings of the idiotic right-wing use of the idiot commies in masturbatory movies about the Hollywood 10 and their like is the enduring effort of American intellectuals and legal figures and people in the writing trade to expand the First Amendment to prevent commies from being suppressed in their impotent and inevitably stupid attempts to propagandize the American People. The ACLU, of course, but other groups, especially those based in university and college faculties, in the media and others promoted an interpretation of the First Amendment which, after it was installed by the Supreme Court has proven to be most useful to exactly who any rational person would have known it would, the domestic fascists and Nazis of the United States, the indigenous racists and white supremacists, the wealthy enemies of democracy, equality and equal justice, what has developed into the billionaires whose "free speech" produced Trump. It opened up opportunities for the Australian-Brit porn merchant to come here to pollute our politics in the way that Rupert Murdoch has done.
That is the most consequential and enduringly damaging delusion of the Marxists and their enablers, that they would be permitted to spout their bull shit by distorting the First Amendment and The People would buy it and they would shove the dialectic to the right setting on the dial and they could produce the Soviet Union here. How those idiots thought they were going to compete in the American media set free to not provide even real American liberals equal time to make their case only shows how totally stupid they were. That the self-regarding, alleged intellectuals believed that they could sell that here is all the proof anyone would need that they are as stupid as they are morally deficient. They are something to be ashamed of and to learn what not to do from, not heroes. Seeing them as heroes through the self-generated propaganda of the idiots and feeling sorry for the champions of one of Hitlers competitors in mass murder and oppression is the enduring stupidity and the enduring self-damage that the American left got suckered into. This American liberal ain't getting suckered by Hollywood and the publishing industry anymore.
This has been yet another response.
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