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Explaining Marxism’s Ills to the Ignorant Left
Nate Hochman of National Review Online takes MSNBC host Joy Reid up on her offer to explain Marxism “like I’m five.” Well, let’s see. Marxist theory prescribes a violent revolution…
Bolsheviks
faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; a major faction in the Russian Civil War
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Rediscovering “Darkness at Noon”
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon debuted in December 1940 and reverberated through the post-war period, though not with the universal acclaim of George Orwell’s 1984, in part because of its…
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Antifa and collectivism
Paul Krause of the American Thinker ponders Antifa‘s role on the political left. Antifa storms in and out of the news, despite that fact, the Left is unable to denounce…
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Another reminder of ‘100 years of hell’
Arthur Herman reflects at National Review Online on the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s overthrow of the Russian republic. The next day, November 8, Lenin installed himself and his Marxist…
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Refuting pro-communist revisionism
John O’Sullivan of National Review Online reminds readers of the facts associated with communism in the former Soviet Union. Russia was already a fast-industrializing capitalist economy prior to the First…
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Forbes labels them ‘regressives’
Steve Forbes explains in the latest issue of Forbes magazine why there’s nothing particularly progressive about self-professed “progressives.” FAR-LEFT DEMOCRATS call themselves “progressives” these days, but they’re actually reactionaries who…
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Bernie Sanders and Media Double Standards
In a piece at libertylawsite called “The Wackiness of Evil,” Greg Weiner objects to the media’s casual and light-hearted treatment of Bernie Sanders’ sympathetic attitude towards communism: That wacky Bernie Sanders, as…
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Stalinism was no corruption of communism
Historian Anne Applebaum reviews for The Atlantic a nearly 1,000-page book on the first 50 years of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s life. Among author Stephen Kotkin’s most interesting observations: Stalin’s…
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Goldberg reminds us why we need to study WWI
On the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, Jonah Goldberg reminds us of that conflict’s lasting importance. For most Americans, the war is like algebra or frog…
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Placing the Crimean crisis in historical context
Thomas Donlan takes a break from offering well-informed economic observations this week and instead devotes his Barron’s editorial commentary to the history and possible future of Crimea. Crimea is a…
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The arrogance of “reinventing” our health care system
In this column John Stossel reflects on the sheer arrogance of politicians in thinking that they can reinvent the nation’s health care system at all — much less do so…
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Re: Not A New Issue
It was Winston Churchill, speaking of the threat of Russian Bolshevism, in 1919. As other tyrants two decades later, Churchill accurately identified the trouble on the horizon, but at a…