Communism down the memory hole

While the West continues to whip itself into a frenzy over its fake guilt for racism and oppression and not sharing its wealth with the Third World, it ignores the sins of which it truly is guilty. One of the worst of these is the way it—or rather the liberal elites who control its intellectual life—has blocked out of its consciousness the historical evil of Communism. Thus Julia Gorin writes in Opinion Journal about a former editor of the New York Times who “asked my father a question that could only come from someone who has known freedom his whole life: ‘Why did you leave Russia? Your family was there, you had a job, you had free health care. Why did you leave?’ The questioner … then proceeded to assert that today’s Britain and U.S. are no longer free.”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 10, 2005 10:46 AM | Send