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Expert warns: Communism is alive, well and dangerous
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Thursday, May 15, 2003 | Bill Steigerwald

Posted on 05/15/2003 8:52:20 AM PDT by Willie Green

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:02:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Communism is not only not dead, it's alive and well and still very dangerous.

That's the sober warning Lee Edwards, a veteran conservative journalist, scholar and expert on communism, delivered to about 60 people Wednesday at a Duquesne Club lecture sponsored by St. Vincent College's Center for Economic and Policy Education.


(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: communism; globalism; neocoms; thebusheconomy
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1 posted on 05/15/2003 8:52:20 AM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green

No doubt about it.

2 posted on 05/15/2003 8:54:41 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: Willie Green
Hallelujah for this man!! HE GETS IT!
3 posted on 05/15/2003 8:54:52 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Willie Green
The young are really dumb about the danger of communism..and then there are those who close their eyes.
4 posted on 05/15/2003 8:55:11 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: Willie Green
I can just hear the NAACP now!
5 posted on 05/15/2003 8:56:00 AM PDT by countrydummy
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To: MEG33
Communism has a new face and new name today. It usually starts with "Green" and has targeted your private property.
6 posted on 05/15/2003 8:58:15 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Willie Green
But hardline communist governments still rule with brutal force in China, North Korea and Cuba..

Berkely, San Francisco, Oregon, Minneapolis, Madison, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia...

7 posted on 05/15/2003 8:59:22 AM PDT by brbethke
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Progressive is another.
8 posted on 05/15/2003 9:00:31 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
It's very transparent: The Communists have taken over the Democrat Party by pretending to be Socialists hiding behind the Liberal label.
9 posted on 05/15/2003 9:02:06 AM PDT by Consort
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To: Willie Green
"Where are the books and movies about the communist holocaust that took 100 million lives?" he asked.

The Killing Fields?

11 posted on 05/15/2003 9:03:28 AM PDT by JmyBryan
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To: Consort
I like that!
12 posted on 05/15/2003 9:04:42 AM PDT by StriperSniper (Frogs are for gigging)
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To: Willie Green
bump
13 posted on 05/15/2003 9:12:19 AM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: Willie Green
Where are the books? Here's one I'm just now finishing - it's a long, horrifying read and I suspect that many who did not live through this have little idea of the magnitude and consistency of the evil - there is no other word for it - involved in this ideology.

The Black Book of Communism.

Highly recommended - it' well-footnoted for the skeptical.

14 posted on 05/15/2003 9:28:04 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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you may want to check out one called "The Gulag Archipelago"

look for the abridged version...about 300 pages, down from several thousand...It really shows the inner workings of Stalin's terror regime...makes Hitler look like a boy scout.
15 posted on 05/15/2003 9:31:41 AM PDT by Capitalism2003
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To: Willie Green
The commies are Alive and still kicking. Just look at the democrats in our govt.
16 posted on 05/15/2003 9:34:09 AM PDT by TLBSHOW (the gift is to see the truth)
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To: Willie Green
A useful web site with excellent statistics.

20TH CENTURY DEMOCIDE

The detail spreadsheet here is interesting for backup when lefties start spouting about the "horrible" regimes we supported. The Shah and Pinochet were pikers.

17 posted on 05/15/2003 9:47:08 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
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To: Capitalism2003
My version of The Gulag Archipeligo is the abridged version. I was reading yet another in this vein, (which, BTW, was recommended by another FReeper) by Martin Amis, named Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, also highly recommended, and Amis says the unabridged is indispensible. Dang it - another expensive set of bricks for the shelf...
18 posted on 05/15/2003 9:52:47 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Willie Green
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
19 posted on 05/15/2003 10:00:14 AM PDT by TheWillardHotel
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To: Billthedrill
Actually I'm supposed to be in class, and not here online(allergies);however I think I'm going to boycott Amazon after following your link.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743222245/qid=1053017717/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-2872311-4171914

The problem is that us FReepers gave all kinds of excellent books to go along with Hillary Clinton's "living history". Amazon deleted everything, and replaced it with pablum.

The book you recommend sound excellent. I'll look for it on another site ;-)
20 posted on 05/15/2003 10:06:16 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (America...love it or leave it. Canada is due north-Mexico is directly south...start walking.)
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