Befuddled Professor Apologists

The National Post has an article penned by Robert Fulford entitled “Communism’s true believers won’t give up." The article looks at some of the apologists’ arguments for communism, spying for communism and those who vigourously pursued the unveiling of communists.  A couple of choice quotes from Fulford’s piece.

"The faculty at Bard College, a liberal arts school at Annandale, NY, includes a scholar who glories in the title Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies. Anyone aware that Hiss was a Washington bureaucrat who spied for the Soviet Union will consider this as sensible as a John Dillinger Chair in Business Ethics or a Jack the Ripper Chair in Criminology. But at Bard College no one is laughing, least of all the occupant of the chair, Joel Kovel, who believes the Soviets were never a threat to the Americans and that U.S. criticism of communism was the product of hysteria. His views resemble those of Hiss, and he’s not lonely. Hard as it may be for outsiders to imagine, a lingering affection for communism remains part of American university life."

And this one,

"Haynes and Klehr have written books on American communists as they appeared in the Soviet archives and in the intercepted Venona transcripts from the 1940s. But despite everything, many other historians persist in showing American communists as good-hearted, noble citizens who often sacrificed themselves for a great ideal. It’s like the romantic myth of the Old South, Haynes and Klehr argue, an attempt to cast a favourable light on a despicable cause by arguing for the nobility of those who pursued it. Haynes and Klehr also compare these historians to Holocaust deniers who invent fanciful explanations for damning evidence and ignore inconvenient testimony."

This is not a matter of degrees.  The “ideals” of communism are mere sugar coating to assist its proponents in choking down the evil they hope to foist on free individuals.  Communism is nothing more than a false utopia at the point of a gun.

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

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