Communism should have the leper status of Nazism. No truce with them.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I thought the counter to the No Kings protest should have been Go Home Commie!
But I’m one of those people w an actual job instead of a paid protestor
This focus on Hitler Hitler Hitler… is nefarious in the sense that it obscures mass murderers of much greater magnitude: Stalin and Mao.
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Universities are full of communists. The last gateway of indoctrination. If you can survive university commies, you’ll be alright.
I studied at three different institutions, all in social research departments. I encountered two men who were adherents of Marxism to some degree. One was a fairly decent chap who was more interested in Keynes than Marx. The other could be critiqued for his scholarly work and his personality, but he was far from the worst among academicians I have known. Professors as a class of people are at their best when they’re not congregating. They tend to re-inforce their signature vices. Marxism is seldom the problem there. Pretension, dishonesty, self-indulgence, cowardice, and a weird sort of parochialism are.
Lots of Hollywood movies about the evil Nazis and their demonic leader Hitler. Are there any about the evil communists and their demonic leader Stalin? Stalin had his holodomor against the Ukrainians just as Hitler had his holocaust against the Jews. So why no movies about the communists? About Mao Tse Tung and his “Great Leap Forward,” or Pol Pot of Cambodia, or even North Korea and Cuba? Hollywood has always avoided ever putting communists in a bad light.
LQC has a good point. Aside from The Killing Fields, little comes to mind as to major movies depicting the horrors of Communism and the bravery of those who suffered and fought against it. There was an excellent movie about the life and times of the Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński a few years back but that had a very limited release. Maybe some of the independent studios and production companies will answer the call.
Amen to all here. Also important to the current absence of truth-telling about Communists and Communism: The inexplicable failure to include in the documents of Vatican II an appropriate Christian condemnation of that murderous creed. IMO, this was the most regrettable mistake of the reign of Paul VI.
The death of Stalin was a comedy that savaged the Commies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xcg72Qv_QE
I loved Red Dawn when it came out in 84:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Bx9nyw35w
One, Two, Three (1961) was a hilarious spoof of the Commies starring James Cagney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoU2Mku4Yxg&t=7s
The Lives of Others
To Kill a Priest
I haven’t seen either of them in a long time, but I remember being impressed back then.
Don:
My favorite line from One, Two, Three: when the nutty East German boyfriend intones: “Under Communism, no woman shall have the right to two fur coats until every other woman has one.”
Thanks, Donald!
There is a TV miniseries “Monster: A Portrait of Stalin in Blood.” The Holodomor had its origins in Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture. Assaults on private property ownership can have dire consequences. IIRC Communist China had to adopt some capitalist methods.
I LED 3 LIVES – True drama series about the real Herb Philbrick with Richard Carlson as the lead.
Herbert Philbrick’s covert life as an FBI spy within the Communist underground, his dual existence fraught with constant peril and the challenge of keeping his espionage activities hidden from family and friends.
I would add to David WS’ list the Soviet leaders, not just Stalin. The PBS series The Soviet Union 100th Anniversary may be the show that told the numbers of Russians killed by the different leaders. Khrushchev’s purges killed 350,000. When I was a child my parents took us into DC to see dignitaries arriving at Blair House. The Khrushchevs were ugly inside and out.
Communism = takers vs. givers. We have reached the point in the United States where there are more takers than givers. Also remember the words of, I believe John Adams, that our government can only succeed with a moral population. Look around. May God have mercy on our nation.
JRP – Taker vs Givers: Arnold Schwarzenegger gave an interview on that train wreck show The View. I paraphrase here- if a country allows you the privilege to legally immigrate (he emphasised legally multiple times) and you receive citizenship then the first thing you must do is ask yourself, “what can I do to give back to my newly adopted country?” Those “women” were trying to corner him into saying that sending back illegals was wrong, yet he managed to put them in their place very politely.
The givers succeed in life. The takers always remain at the bottom. It’s no coincidence.