Leftism and missing history

Enter Stage Right ^ | 1/26/04 | Bruce Walker

[writer33]

Leftism is one grand, evolving lie. Leftist use all the tricks which Aristotle warned against - attacking premises by attacking the proponent; flattering particular groups; relying upon official "truth" as proof; and drawing false conclusions - and by these tricks, Leftists can support any particular branch of the Leftist lie for awhile. Leftist lies, masked as truth, are not immune to the crucible of human experience, but Leftist "history" is routinely filled with oceans of trivia and no inconvenient facts.

[writer33]

Leftism is one grand, evolving lie. Leftist use all the tricks which Aristotle warned against - attacking premises by attacking the proponent; flattering particular groups; relying upon official "truth" as proof; and drawing false conclusions - and by these tricks, Leftists can support any particular branch of the Leftist lie for awhile. Leftist lies, masked as truth, are not immune to the crucible of human experience, but Leftist "history" is routinely filled with oceans of trivia and no inconvenient facts.

Consider "Cuba." Most "histories" of Cuba go something like this: a wicked man named Batista ruled over Cuba as a Yankee stooge; a brave leader named Castro drove Batista out of Cuba; Castro brought in social programs, redistributed wealth, and ended tyranny.

It is very easy to expose these lies: ordinary citizens of paradise do not risk their lives to leave it; the maxim "one cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs" is lame, but particularly when forty after the omelet making began, Castro is still breaking eggs; and so on.

Castro: Not long after his admiration of Nazism But more important is what is never said. Fidel Castro was not a peasant, but a scion of an affluent lawyer. He did not grow up as a communist or a devotee or Marxism, but rather as a committed supporter of Fascism and an ardent admirer of Nazism.

The books he lugged around as an impressible young man were not editions of Das Kapital or The Communist Manifesto, but rather copies of Mein Kampf. His heroes, like the heroes of Evita Peron, were not Stalin and Lenin, but Hitler and Mussolini. No one denies these facts. They are just too inconvenient to every mention.

What of Batista? He was a radical socialist who legalized the communist party in Cuba. Batista appointed members of the Communist Party to his cabinet. It was Batista who began the much heralded social welfare programs and economic leveling in Cuba. During most of Castro's guerilla war against Castro, the Communist Party of Cuba supported Batista, not Castro.

Batista also did something Castro did not. Batista won free elections. He also lost free elections, and gave up power after losing, but he was genuinely popular among the poor of Cuba. Did this make Batista a good man or good leader? No, of course not! But the fact that Batista was less malign than Castro in virtually every way is a critical fact of history simply ignored.

If you doubt this, try to find a book on the history of Cuba. Better yet, try to find a biography of Batista. The Leftist-approved "History of Cuba" simply pretends that the decades of electoral victory, electoral loss, and return to power of Batista nothing happened. There is no history.

Consider the civil rights movement. The Republican Party was founded expressly because no other political party would stand up against slavery. Leftists eagerly note that Abraham Lincoln did not call for the abolition of slavery and said that preserving the Union was more important than ending slavery. This, Leftists would have you believe, represented mainstream Republican thought. It did not.

Fremont The first Republican presidential nominee was John Fremont, the famous explorer and Governor of California. Unlike Lincoln, but like every other major Republican, Fremont openly hated slavery. Lincoln was nominated in 1860 in spite of the reservations of many Republicans that he was soft on slavery; he was nominated because he could win.

The leadership of the Republican Party in Congress more passionately opposed slavery and the inequality of black Americans than Lincoln. How strong did Republicans feel about the natural rights of black people? Thaddeus Stevens, routinely mocked as a "radical Republican" under Lincoln and Johnson, was buried - at his specific request - in a segregated black cemetery.

The Left - in America a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat National Committee - does not wish people to know the real Fremont or Stevens. They also simply pretend that "nothing happened" between 1864 and 1964 in the crusade to grant equality to black people.

What did happen? Republicans passed three constitutional amendments - the most devoted to a single issue in American history - to protect the rights of black people, and passed the very federal civil rights law used most often in civil rights cases today.

Republicans elected blacks to Congress as congressmen and senators. Blacks voted as delegates to every Republican conventions and these conventions consistently passed resolutions condemning the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and denying black people the right to vote. That is the tip of a very big iceberg.

Try to find, in the history of the civil rights movement in America, the positions of the two political parties between 1864 and 1964. Amazingly, a whole century of major differences between Republicans and Democrats simply has vanished from textbooks and PBS documentaries.

This list of abolished history is long. What was the economic policy of the Nazis? Good luck trying to find out much about that. What horrors have federal courts committed against the American Republic in the first century of this Republic? None, according to Leftists. Missing history, much more than outright lies, hides the enormous intellectual and moral crime of Leftism.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - HISTORY - EDUCATION

[JohnGalt]

Actually, the most famous Leftist of all supported Lincoln. I think you need to re-check the basis of some of your assumptions.

[RunningJoke]

Like any group the left abhors the individual. Those that join the left have weakness in common. Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, the human species the weak not only survive but triumph over the strong. There is a sober realism in St. Paul's stilted words that: "God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty."

[BenLurkin]

"Leftism is one grand, evolving lie."

Bump.

[Tribune7]

for the black conservatives.

[mhking]

The Republican Party was founded expressly because no other political party would stand up against slavery.

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[KC_Conspirator]

Of course, I'm sure Robert Redford's new movie on Che Guevarra will be truthful!

[writer33]

*Undoubtedly. :) *Note the sarcasm within the word.

[BluSky]

Bump.

[sauropod]

Interesting link.

[dwd1]

Makes me wonder how so many southern Baptists are in the Republican Party today... I heard a rumour they supported slavery...

When did this alleged liberal propoganda occur that says that Democrats represent the common man and Republicans represent established interests?


Also, why would the Republicans who were so interested in the way we live as blacks in America allow the end of Reconstruction which basically left blacks in the South with no legal or political protection... I am sure no one got sold out but it does appear that perhaps some political or economic convenience may have resulted in the abandonment of civil rights protection for minorities.... I appreciate the comeback that was made in the 1960's but there seems to be a period in time where someone (don't know who) was asleep at the the wheel...

[Dead Dog]

Major Lie #100000: Nazism is Right Wing, ie extreme conservatism

[writer33]

Nope. Only on one single issue. Otherwise, it believed in one, controlling federal authority. In this case, Adolf Hitler. Liberalism is based on a bigger, more expanding, controlling federal governement. It believes that government can solve all problems, eliminating capitalism. Therefore, Liberalism and Nazism are really one in the same. Communism also falls into this principle. All defined as a whole.

[writer33]

Nope. Only on one signle issue. Otherwise, it believed in one, controlling federal authority. In this case, Adolf Hitler. Liberalism is based on a bigger, more expanding, controlling federal governement. It believes that government can solve all problems, eliminating capitalism. Therefore, Liberalism and Nazism are really one in the same. Communism also falls into this principle. All defined as a whole.

[Dead Dog]

Jealous siblings in the same dysfunctional family.

[narby]

In the coming election, a good strategy would be to attack leftisim hard (something you can do more aggresivly than attack a particular candidate). Particularly the wing that directly supported North Vietnam during that war via "peace" protesters that led to Hanoi's "victory". Those people have blood on their hands from hundreds of thousands of boat people, and millions killed under Pol Pot.

If the nominee is Kerry, he's toast if enough education can be done between now and Nov. Any any other anti-war democrat would have trouble with that history as well.

[Stultis]

Actually, the most famous Leftist of all supported Lincoln. I think you need to re-check the basis of some of your assumptions.

Huh?

How does the fact that Lincoln got a letter from Marx (with the "controversial" content that, uh, slavery was a bad thing) impugn Lincoln?!?

[Susannah]

Hitler and Stalin were both extreme Socialists.

I think the confusion of labeling Nazis as right-wing versus left-wing comes from where they lived. The Americans that followed Hitler and protested involvement in WWII were definitely viewed as right-wing...partly because they opposed FDR.

The followers of Hitler in America after WWII continued the hatred for the Jewish and at one point added Catholics to their hate list. This is odd because FDR is known to have made statements to his cabinet members such as "We are a Protestant nation, you Jews and Catholics are here through suffrage." (I saw a former Jewish cabinet member of FDR's on PBS who was quite upset about that)

[writer33]

Thank you, Susannah. That was the point I was trying to make to Dead Dog. Yes, the only resemblance of Hitler the modern American Nazi is the hatred of jews, etc...

I feel vindicated. :)