Stalinism did not die with Joseph Stalin (March 5, 1953). It has always been present with the Left and sadly with the people who influenced Barack Obama. No matter how hard the committed Left tries to wash it off, the stain of Stalinism will never go away. The author tells his how Western correspondents in Moscow during the purge show trials such as Walter Duranty and Malcom Muggeridge deliberately acted as propaganda spokesmen for the murderous regime – sort of like MSNBC running cover for Obama. In the 1930’s, 40’s and early 50’s the Stalinists loved to throw terms around at their perceived enemies; “Fascists”, “Trotskyites”, Mensheviks”, Titoists”, “Cosmopolitans”, “Wreckers”, and “Saboteurs” – anticipating the Alinsky methods.
by James Lewis
“Stalinism” is a useful term for the totalitarian left — even to the left itself. It’s one word they haven’t been able to chew up, gulp down, and transform into its opposite. They still know what “Stalinist” means, even after generations of new names for the same community agitators: “The New Left,” “hippies,” “Black Panthers,” “youthful radicals,” “idealistic students,” “feminists,” “the workers,” “black nationalists,” “Third World socialists,” “the wretched of the earth,” “Green Party,” “Gay activists,” “LGBT,” “Global Warming,” “peace and freedom party,” “eco activists,” “civil rights campaigners,” “post-modernists,” “gender studies,” “J Street,” “Bolivarismo,” “ACORN,” “undocumented workers,” “Moveon.org,” “Liberation Theology” — there must be hundreds and hundreds of front labels for the Same-Old, Same-Old. They make up new ones all the time. This year’s fashionable lefty cult is called … “progressivism!”
But they do remember what “Stalinism” means, because that was the bad left. It’s what they call each other in their constant civil wars. Wasn’t Stalin somebody eighty years ago? It’s hard to remember. Don’t know much ’bout history, don’t know much ’bout nuthin, but Stalin still rings a bell.
The fact is that Stalinism is still here today because it has never gone away. Or what do you suppose Bill Ayers and Jodie Evans were doing in Egypt and Cyprus before sailing toward Gaza with that boatful of Turkish suiciders who were all ready to kill and be killed for Allah? Was that a coincidence? It looked like a classic piece of agitation-propaganda. A whole mob of journos were there to get pictures of all the blood and gore. The media are basically lazy, and they want onlly to hustle for photo-ops when they know they can get a big headline. It’s simple laziness. The Turkish suicider stunt on the “peace flotilla” gave them headlines for weeks. Today the brainwashed masses in Europe and the Muslim countries still think the innocent side was guilty, which was the whole purpose of the stunt. Turkish fascist demagogues like Erdogan are still making hay off it.
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We have a big jihad sympathizer in the White House, just like Obama and his buds from Chicago, just like Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan, just like Obama’s hero Malcolm X, and just like Jodie Evans and Bill Ayers whipping up crowds for Hamas. These people are predictably on the side of medieval reactionaries who practice barbarities against women, gays, Jews, Christians, and especially any creed that advocates tolerance and open-mindedness. The left is enabling evil today, just as it enabled Mao Zedong’s evil in China, Pol Pot’s evil in Cambodia, and Stalin’s evil in Russia, Poland, and Ukraine.
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Agitprop was the Stalinist name for “community organizing,” back when Communist agitators were proud to be called Communist agitators. The Gaza crisis served community agitator Obama with perfect timing, because it put overwhelming pressure on Israel just when he wanted to do some heavy-duty arm-twisting.
Yes, I know — Obama loves Israel this week. But Obama is a cold-blooded Stalinoid. His slogan is “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a pistol.” He just pulled the race card on Israel while seeming to sound friendly. He “has a gift” for that kind of double-message. Look at old photos of ruthless Malcolm X, and you can see a bit of Obama.
The radical left is run by agitprop artists who practice the same mob incitement that worked so well for Mom and Pop the Reds in the good old days. The Reichstag Fire was an agitprop stunt by the Nazis, but they learned to do all that in the same Bohemian cafés that Lenin used to haunt. It was Hitler and Goebbels who first articulated the Big Lie technique, but it was the Marxists who have used it since 1848. The Communist Manifesto starts with a threat to stir up class revolution throughout Europe. The left knows Marx and Engels wrote that threat in to make it happen all over Europe. Their agitprop created the reality, they think. This is a standard Alinsky tactic, but it’s old, old.
Saul Alinsky just wrote up those old techniques for sixties radicals to memorize and made them look brand-new. There is nothing new about it. Every mob leader in history has used the same gambits.
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Stalinism is no stranger to the American left. It is part of its very being. Every time another old Stalinist dies, the New York Times has a crying fit, telling us what a sweetheart the bloody-minded old fanatic really was. That’s all you really need to know about the New York Times.
At some point you have to conclude that the left knows exactly how bloody and destructive it really is. Sure, a lot of the brainwashed followers live in deep denial, but the big names know. Chomsky knows where the bodies are buried, and he knows where he wants to have the next Gulag. So does Jimmy Carter, another peace-loving fan of Hamas and Hezb’allah. So does Obama. They know, they know. They are not innocent.
Malcolm Muggeridge, who ended his life as a passionate conservative and a Catholic, was born into that “progressive” little world in Manchester, England. Muggeridge became a journo for the BBC and the Guardian, the left-totalitarian organs of propaganda in the U.K. He admitted in his excellent autobiography that the Guardian writers just lied their heads off every day to push the Party Line.
George Orwell was part of that circle, and after he saw the bloodshed in Spain by the Reds and the fascists, each killing innocents with abandon, he satirized the mendacious BBC as the Ministry of Truth in 1984. Guess what? They haven’t changed one little bit. Today, the Guardian and BBC combine leftist agitprop with Islamist ideology. That’s why they constantly beat up on Israel in the Euro media, just like the New York Times. The left is predictable, marching in lockstep just like the old days, and they always pick the most destructive and mendacious side. They think it’s Progress because to the left, we are the enemy. Don’t believe me? Look it up in Alinsky’s little book. America and its middle-class culture are the enemy.
But they know what really happens when leftists take over. They can’t be stupid enough not to know, not after all these years. Some of them even read history books. It was a Marxist historian in France who pinned the “100 million dead victims” on the left. They know, they know.
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Historically, liberal Democrats played footsie with Stalin for thirty years (1922-1953). So did Labour socialists in Britain and Western Europe. An estimated 40 million people were killed by Stalin during that time, and that was no secret on the left. They knew, they knew. They just covered it up in the media, and thereby kept the mass killers in power. It’s pretty much what they are doing right now for the genociders in the Sudan and the Congo. Scratch a Stalinist, and you find a willing defender of mass murder. All for the good of humanity, of course.
Read the rest here: Alinsky, Stalinsky, it’s the same old agitprop
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