First the good news. The New York Times has repudiated Walter Duranty’s 1930s-era “journalism” for whitewashing — “underestimating” — the murderousness of Soviet Communism.
So that’s done, right?
Whatever its failings today, the paper will certainly no longer allow writers to use its august pages to discount blatant systematic evil.
Right?
But Helen Raleigh, a writer for The Federalist who is an immigrant from China, finds that the Times does indeed persist in glossing over the sins of Communism. In commemorating the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the paper is “once again proving itself Communism’s greatest apologist” through articles variously arguing that “women had better sex under socialism to now claiming China’s Communist revolution taught Chinese women to ‘dream big’…”
As if, suggests Raleigh, Duranty’s ghost were still calling the shots.
In rebuttal, she recounts what so many people suffered under Communism, as exemplified by the fate of her Aunt San.
At age 15, her aunt was forced by Mao’s government to leave the city and work in the countryside, separately from her siblings, who were forced to do the same but in different villages. Cutting family ties was important “so people could devote themselves 100 percent to the Communist Party’s causes.”
Primitive farming, mandatory singing of gruesomely cheerful revolutionary songs, food rations, malnutrition, ritual humiliation, derailed education, derailed or extinguished lives.
Just a few of the standard ingredients of the totalitarianism that, according to the Times of 2017, taught women to “dream big.”
Which should remind us: despite only a few countries’ close ties to the doctrine — Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea — Communism’s threat to world peace, prosperity, and freedom remains big.
The Times must change.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
2 replies on “Not So Bad, Communism?”
The old gray lady
still senile after all these years.
If America and patriotic Americans wake up in time to save themselves from the horrors of Socialism and Communism, those who are promoting both may find themselves riding in bright aluminum human boxcars, heading for FEMA camps where they’ll either be “reprogrammed” to accept the American way, or they’ll simply be snuffed because we CANNOT CONTINUE TO ALLOW THIS WAR OF IDEOLOGIES TO EXIST AND STILL MAINTAIN ANY FREEDOMS FOR ANYONE! IF THE UNITED STATES ISN’T GOING TO BE A FREE COUNTRY ANY LONGER, IT WOULD BE BETTER TO GO DOWN FIGHTING AND KILLING THE KILLERS OF FREEDOM THAN LETTING EVIL PREVAIL!