The Nation of Tyranny Lovers
March 13, 2013
By Daniel Greenfield
In 1951, Chinese and North Korean forces had captured a charred Seoul, the atom bomb spies were sentenced to death and Clement Greenberg was the leading art critic in America.
As The Nations art editor, Greenberg had helped put American art on the map. And as the war with Nazi Germany gave way to the war with the Soviet Union, he began to take a leading role in the cultural struggle between America and the Soviet Union.
Operating from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Greenberg denounced the magazine that he had worked for, accusing it of echoing Stalins interests. And The Nation responded by suing its own former editor for libel.
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After Stalins death, The Nation published an essay on Stalin by Browder praising the bloody tyrant for overcoming all obstacles whatever the cost, driving the entire nation along the marked path, imbuing it with his will, mercilessly sacrificing the laggards.
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As the decades passed, The Nations ugly track record remained unchanged. In the 70s, Chomskys denial of the Cambodian genocide appeared in The Nation. In the first place, is it proper to attribute deaths from malnutrition and disease to Cambodian authorities? he asked.
Chomskys question embodied The Nations attitude toward every Communist atrocity. Why should the Khmer Rouge be blamed for the deaths of millions when Stalin and Mao werent?
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And staying true to totalitarianism to the last, when Chavez died, an article in The Nation suggested that the biggest problem Venezuela faced during his rule was not that Chávez was authoritarian but that he wasnt authoritarian enough.
If only Chavez had been more like Stalin.
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The Nation aided the Soviet plan for world domination. Now it is doing the very same thing for the Islamists. A century later its only skill lies in acting as the messenger boy for mass murderers.
?The Nation? of Tyranny Lovers
March 13, 2013
By Daniel Greenfield
In 1951, Chinese and North Korean forces had captured a charred Seoul, the atom bomb spies were sentenced to death and Clement Greenberg was the leading art critic in America.
As The Nations art editor, Greenberg had helped put American art on the map. And as the war with Nazi Germany gave way to the war with the Soviet Union, he began to take a leading role in the cultural struggle between America and the Soviet Union.
Operating from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Greenberg denounced the magazine that he had worked for, accusing it of echoing Stalins interests. And The Nation responded by suing its own former editor for libel.
...
After Stalins death, The Nation published an essay on Stalin by Browder praising the bloody tyrant for overcoming all obstacles whatever the cost, driving the entire nation along the marked path, imbuing it with his will, mercilessly sacrificing the laggards.
...
As the decades passed, The Nations ugly track record remained unchanged. In the 70s, Chomskys denial of the Cambodian genocide appeared in The Nation. In the first place, is it proper to attribute deaths from malnutrition and disease to Cambodian authorities? he asked.
Chomskys question embodied The Nations attitude toward every Communist atrocity. Why should the Khmer Rouge be blamed for the deaths of millions when Stalin and Mao werent?
...
And staying true to totalitarianism to the last, when Chavez died, an article in The Nation suggested that the biggest problem Venezuela faced during his rule was not that Chávez was authoritarian but that he wasnt authoritarian enough.
If only Chavez had been more like Stalin.
...
The Nation aided the Soviet plan for world domination. Now it is doing the very same thing for the Islamists. A century later its only skill lies in acting as the messenger boy for mass murderers.
?The Nation? of Tyranny Lovers
