Four essays on the madness of our times

ESSAYS ON THE MADNESS OF OUR TIMES Gary Young March 27, 2021 1. THE BIG LIE, STALIN’S LASTING LEGACY If you never heard of the Holodomor, when Stalin purposely starved to death millions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933, it is because of his use of “useful idiots” in Western media and academia. The idiots included The New York Times’ Walter Duranty and Louis Fischer so enamored with Communism they willingly suppressed news of the horrors. It was the first major instance in which Soviet authorities adopted the Big Lie propaganda technique to sway world opinion. The most successful and enduring Big Lie Stalin created was that Nazism anchored the Right of the political spectrum while Stalin’s Socialist paradise anchored the Left. Further, the Left has since established Socialism as some sort of warm and fuzzy equality; free of wants and despair. The Left has supported the Big Lie by embellishing the Right as far more than Nazism. The Big Lie also requires the Right to be linked to Fascism and Capitalism, equating Capitalism with every evil of the Nazis. An example supporting that the Big Lie is in full force happened a few weeks ago. A past colleague wrote an article titled “Defund the Police” for the Colorado Independence Institute. In it he tied the Weimar communist mobs, the Antifasdhistische ‘Aktion, the ancestor to today’s Antifa, as attacking the Nazis for being Fascist. In fact, they were attacking a large splinter group from the Social Democratic party of Germany (SPD). The Nazis were NOT Fascist. Hitler thought Mussolini a fool for not including racism in his ideology. The Nazis also were in no way Capitalist and linking the two is a true insult to freedom loving people. It has been Capitalism and not any form of Socialism that has lifted billions of people out of abject poverty. BACKGROUND OF SOCIALISM: Germany may have been the first to have active Socialist movements decades before 1848 when Marx published his version, the Communist Manifesto. The antecedent of the SPD was a German Marxist Party founded in 1863. At one point both Marx and Engels participated though Marx was critical of the changing doctrine of the SPD. Marx’s criticism arose because the party had evolved a spectrum of factions including those that were for a national socialism and against the international part of Marxist ideology. Thus the largest faction of the SPD evolved with a Germany First nationalist orientation. The international Marxists of the early SPD became the KPD, the more ideology pure internationalist Marxist Communist Party of Germany. 1