Communism - The Preferred Ideology of the Liberal West

This is a brilliant letter that was written to Jonah Goldberg, the Author of Liberal Fascism. This is exactly what I have been talking about. The socialist controlled media is whitewashing communism's brutal history, to make it appear like it is no different than Capitalism.

I recently found out that NBC owns the History channel, so I am wondering if that has something to do with the lack of documentaries about Stalin, Lenin, Mao and the millions that were murdered by these brutal dictators.

Jonah,

Your reader who discounts the Holocaust in favor of starting World War II as the primary reason fascism is reviled while communism is (at least in those countries that did not experience it) is not, ignores one simple fact: the USSR as much as Nazi Germany is responsible for starting the war (at least its European phase, which is, let's face it, the only part that Europeans and Americans really care about).

Without the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Hitler could not have invaded Poland, or if he did, would have had to contemplate running headlong in the the Red Army coming to Poor Little Poland's "rescue". The Pact also allowed the USSR to occupy the eastern half of Poland, and gave Stalin a free hand in Finland and the Baltic states. In other words, Stalin was just as much a co-conspirator in the initiation of the war as Hitler (which, of course, raises the irony of Ribbentrop being hanged for war crimes after Nuremberg, while Molotov lived in peaceful retirement to a ripe old age).

I think the real reason for fascism's evil reputation vs. the relatively benign reputation of socialism, or even communism, has more to do with the adoption of the latter two as the preferred ideology of the intelligentsia in the liberal West, which permits them to engage in intellectual peregrinations to justify their beliefs despite the manifest results thereof. In their minds, fascism per se is evil (evil in its essence?), while socialism and communism are per se good—and only evil in their execution.

The conceit allows them to think, "If only we had been running the show, things would have turned out differently". To paraphrase G.K. Chesterton's aphorism on Christianity, they believe "Communism has not been tried and found wanting. it has been found difficult and thus never tried". As long as the Left can engage in such sophistry, they will never have to confront the reality of their beliefs. And, from their perspective, a good thing, too.

http://liberalfascism.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDEzNjdlMzIyZTU3ODhmMzUwZTkwYzUwODNiMDhkZGM=