How to explain the ignorance about communism....and how influential it has become in American politics?
One would be well advised to pay attention to the words of former communist, Whitaker Chambers, and what he discovered about Marxism-Leninism as related in his classic "Witness."
A famous passage in "Witness" continually bears remembering:
"In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists."
That 'upper class' is the same one found in England.....
6. In Britain, elites, including
George Bernard Shaw supported Hitler in the mass media, showing an article entitled "Shaw Heaps Praise on the Dictators....Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin." The Left supported Hitler because they knew he would kill.
Fabian Socialist George Bernard Shaw In His Own Words - YouTube
Shaw called for a poison gas to 'humanely' kill lesser groups......
a. In fact, Eichmann testified that Zyklon B was a humane gas....the same words as Shaw.
7. When Hitler began his advances on other countries, Stalin refused to join the nations talking of stopping him. Stalin was, in fact, pleased that Hitler was destroying the old order throughout Europe.
"There will be no parliaments, no trade unions, no armies, no governments....then Stalin will come as the liberator...millions of people will be sitting in concentration camps, hoping someone will liberate them, then Stalin and the Red Army will come and liberate them. That was his plan."
Vladimir Bukovsky.
8. But Hitler didn't have the supplies nor resources he needed, so August 23, 1939, Soviet Russia' Foreign Minister Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact while German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop and Soviet leader Josef Stalin look on, while standing under a portrait of Lenin materials to be provided in later economic agreements.
a. Archival footage shows Nazi and Russian officers partying together. The USSR became the supplier of oil, iron ore, construction materials for Hitler's Blitzkrieg. And trainloads of grain, even while Russians were starving.
b. Communist party members throughout Europe were ordered to sabotage their nation's forces, and aid the Nazi attackers. The French Communist Party, July 1940: "It is comforting to see workers talking to German soldiers as friends,...'well done, comrades, and keep it up,' ...the brotherhood of man will not be forever a hope, it will become a living reality."
c. The same occurred in the United States.
At the behest of the Commintern, as the archives reveals, the American Peace Mobilization committee was formed in April of 41. Its function was to support the Soviet line, bring progressives aboard, protest against the lend-lease program to aid Britain
they paraded in front of the White House, chanting FDR is a fascist,
hes starting a war!
In mid-protest, on June 22, 1941, they became pro-war when the Germans had broken their agreement with the Soviets, and invaded Russia! Suddenly the group was for lend-lease, and FDR wasnt a fascist
and they changed their name to American Peoples Mobilization.