In the day of the ascendency of the Bidenistas, it is important to recognize radicals who learned the truth, and turned on socialism/communism.
1. Max Eastman, in full Max Forrester Eastman, (born Jan. 12, 1883, Canandaigua, N.Y., U.S.—died March 25, 1969, Bridgetown, Barbados), American poet, editor, and prominent radical before and after World War I.
Eastman was educated at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., graduating in 1905. He taught logic and philosophy at Columbia University for four years, and he was the founder of the first men’s league for woman suffrage in 1910. Eastman edited and published The Masses, a radical political and literary journal. Its editors were brought to trial twice in 1918 because of their editorial opposition to the United States’ entry into World War I, but both trials ended with hung juries. He then edited and published The Liberator, a similar magazine, until 1922, when he traveled to Russia to study the Soviet regime. He married Eliena Krylenko, a sister of the Soviet minister of justice, but returned to the United States believing that the original purpose of the October Revolution (1917) had been subverted by corrupt leaders. In the 1920s and ’30s he wrote several books attacking developments in the Soviet Union: Since Lenin Died (1925), Artists in Uniform (1934), The End of Socialism in Russia (1937), and Stalin’s Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1939). He also translated (1932) Leon Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution.
Britannica.com
2. There are those who are strong enough, and wise enough, to revolt against the indoctrination and propaganda.
... there was Max Eastman.
Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with liberal and radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, in 1917 he co-founded The Liberator, a radical magazine of politics and the arts.
In later life, however, Eastman changed his views, becoming highly critical of socialism and communism after his experiences during a nearly two-year stay in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, as well as later studies. He was influenced by the deadly rivalry between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, by which Trotsky was assassinated, as well as the wholesale abuses committed during theGreat Purge. Eastman became an advocate of free-market economics and anti-communism, ..." Max Eastman - Wikipedia
3. What is interesting about Eastman is that, at the very height of the Soviet popularity, largely due to the propaganda advanced by Roosevelt's ministry of propaganda, he saw through the communism that was.
This....from an article he penned in the July, 1943 issue of the Reader's Digest, called To Collaborate Successfully- We Must Face The Facts About Russia"
That Stalin is an absolute dictator is the simple truth. And it is so important a truth that I am not going to leave it in my own words.
"The Soviet Union, as everybody knows that has the courage to face the facts, is a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world." That statement, made by Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 11, 1940, is as true today as it was then.
"Don't say a word against Stalin or he won't accept our tanks!" seems to be the attitude of some of those who are giving away the national treasure so avidly.
This is an attitude of spirit which I find diplomatically foolhardy, morbidly disgraceful and dangerous to the survival of democratic institutions within this country.
Those eager to be fooled about Russia make eloquent pleas for Stalin's 'good faith.' But Bolsheviks do not believe even theoretically in good faith.
4. People who do not instinctively distinguish between what is true about Russia and what Communists and their fellow travelers want us to believe are not to be relied on in this day of democratic crisis.
Of course, folks like Eastman didn't have to face the constant drumbeat of Liberal indoctrination from government schools, and the Leftist media.....
5. This should be required reading for all real Americans.
1. Max Eastman, in full Max Forrester Eastman, (born Jan. 12, 1883, Canandaigua, N.Y., U.S.—died March 25, 1969, Bridgetown, Barbados), American poet, editor, and prominent radical before and after World War I.
Eastman was educated at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., graduating in 1905. He taught logic and philosophy at Columbia University for four years, and he was the founder of the first men’s league for woman suffrage in 1910. Eastman edited and published The Masses, a radical political and literary journal. Its editors were brought to trial twice in 1918 because of their editorial opposition to the United States’ entry into World War I, but both trials ended with hung juries. He then edited and published The Liberator, a similar magazine, until 1922, when he traveled to Russia to study the Soviet regime. He married Eliena Krylenko, a sister of the Soviet minister of justice, but returned to the United States believing that the original purpose of the October Revolution (1917) had been subverted by corrupt leaders. In the 1920s and ’30s he wrote several books attacking developments in the Soviet Union: Since Lenin Died (1925), Artists in Uniform (1934), The End of Socialism in Russia (1937), and Stalin’s Russia and the Crisis in Socialism (1939). He also translated (1932) Leon Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution.
Britannica.com
2. There are those who are strong enough, and wise enough, to revolt against the indoctrination and propaganda.
... there was Max Eastman.
Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with liberal and radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, in 1917 he co-founded The Liberator, a radical magazine of politics and the arts.
In later life, however, Eastman changed his views, becoming highly critical of socialism and communism after his experiences during a nearly two-year stay in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, as well as later studies. He was influenced by the deadly rivalry between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, by which Trotsky was assassinated, as well as the wholesale abuses committed during theGreat Purge. Eastman became an advocate of free-market economics and anti-communism, ..." Max Eastman - Wikipedia
3. What is interesting about Eastman is that, at the very height of the Soviet popularity, largely due to the propaganda advanced by Roosevelt's ministry of propaganda, he saw through the communism that was.
This....from an article he penned in the July, 1943 issue of the Reader's Digest, called To Collaborate Successfully- We Must Face The Facts About Russia"
That Stalin is an absolute dictator is the simple truth. And it is so important a truth that I am not going to leave it in my own words.
"The Soviet Union, as everybody knows that has the courage to face the facts, is a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world." That statement, made by Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 11, 1940, is as true today as it was then.
"Don't say a word against Stalin or he won't accept our tanks!" seems to be the attitude of some of those who are giving away the national treasure so avidly.
This is an attitude of spirit which I find diplomatically foolhardy, morbidly disgraceful and dangerous to the survival of democratic institutions within this country.
Those eager to be fooled about Russia make eloquent pleas for Stalin's 'good faith.' But Bolsheviks do not believe even theoretically in good faith.
4. People who do not instinctively distinguish between what is true about Russia and what Communists and their fellow travelers want us to believe are not to be relied on in this day of democratic crisis.
Of course, folks like Eastman didn't have to face the constant drumbeat of Liberal indoctrination from government schools, and the Leftist media.....
5. This should be required reading for all real Americans.
