Burn of the Week

Did somebody photoshop Greta Thunberg in the uniform above?
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Meet the next thugs who will usher in that promised utopia. Some, ofcourse, will be a little bit more equal than others.

My son in college has encountered this. Many of his peers believe that Stalin did commit atrocities, but it was unique to him. The stories of Soviet persecution of the Church, or mass murder, or gulags, were simply American propaganda. Which isn’t new either. I remember running into a young grad student back in the mid 00s who firmly believed the Soviets were the brave defenders of freedom in the Cold War, fighting America’s racist military industrial complex. That was around 2006. Again, I sometimes think we way underestimate what the Left has been doing these years, and how well it has been doing it.

Anderson has a faculty position in Australia. The fellow who said higher education has decayed into a grifting operation nailed it.

Shortly after I was appointed professor at the Catholic University of America and particularly after Russia became an ally of the United States in World War II, communism began to have an appeal to many Americans. This prompted in me a deep interest in communism. As a philosopher, I was trained in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, which is complete and total in the sense that it embraces God, man and society. Communism also has a complete philosophy. Cajetan, in commenting on a text of Aquinas, observed that if one starts with a wrong assumption and is logical from that point on, he never will get back on the road to truth.

As a preparation for communism, I have read through the writings of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. Their philosophy can be summarized rather simply: man has been “alienated” from his true nature in two ways—by religion and by private property. Man was alienated from himself by religion, because it made him subservient to God; man was alienated from himself by private property because it made him subject to an employer. If, therefore, man was ever to be restored to his true nature, religion and private property must be destroyed. Atheism and the economics of communism are inseparable.

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Because of the position I took concerning Russia, my radio talks were carefully monitored. Someone stationed in the booth would shut me off the air in case I veered from the then-popular position of Russia being a democracy. I sent in a manuscript for one broadcast that contained the line, “Poland was crucified between two thieves—the Nazis and the Soviets.” I received a telegram from the Bishops’ Conference asking me not to say that, because I was implying that one of the thieves was Russia. I answered the telegram by suggesting: “How would it be to call Russia the ‘good’ thief?”

Just before World War II when Russia and Germany were still enemies, I made the prophecy on radio that as “Pilate and Herod were enemies and became friends over the bleeding Body of Christ, so one day communism and Nazism, which are now enemies, will become friends over the bleeding body of Poland.” The prophecy became true as the Nazis and Soviets were united.

Despite my opposition to the evils of communism, I have always loved Russia. The chalice I use every day in Holy Mass was used in St. Petersburg in its days of faith. It may very well be that the basic reason why communism appealed to Russia was religious. Deeply embedded in the Russian soul were passionate religious convictions: the universal vocation of Russia to call all men to brotherhood; the need of sacrifice and pain to accomplish this mission; and the supreme need of resigning oneself to God’s Will. Communism in the face of a declining Church promised the people the realization of these three ideals, but without clearly telling them that they would be emptied of God. Brotherhood became a revolutionary proletariat; sacrifice became violence, and the Will of God became the will of the dictator. Communism is a religion, a surrender to an absolute. That is why it appeals to those who are without faith, and why Soviet Russia is today regarded as the last hope of the Western man who lives without God.

— From “The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen”

Anderson has a faculty position in Australia.

He’s a communist fruitcake. He’s an anti-Semite. He was fired from his position at University of Sydney in 2019, for placing the swaztika over the Israel flag on a slideshow during a lecture. He had previously been spotted walking around defending a fellow who had worn a badge which read “death to Israel”, by wearing a jacket with those words. He supports the governments of Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela. He is pro-Assad and Pro-Hamas. He considers governments which suppress and murder their own people as better than Western governments. Yet he freely lives, works and is able to successfully sue his employer (University of Sydney) for unfair dismissal based on freedom of speech that he indulges in. He also has a warning under his Twitter bio which states that he will block “trolls and abusers”. The blatant hypocrisy of this crackpot is kinda amusing because of his lack of self-awareness.

Note, the situation is so dire in this country that they cannot even tolerate outside speakers anymore. The administration allows loosely-wired students egged on by enabler faculty to shut down events.

When Tin Tin in the Land of the Soviets was printed in 1929, people dismissed its claims of poor conditions and various atrocities being committed in the Soviet Union as right wing propaganda.

White-washing the Soviet Union is nearly a century long tradition at this point.