Posted on 02/24/2018 3:41:30 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Half a century after the "Red Scare," playwright and memoirist Lillian Hellman, whose name is often coupled with her adversary Senator Joe McCarthy, has emerged relatively unscathed in the court of elite progressivist opinion despite the exposure of her manifold fabrications and deceptions. Such is the power of the press and the cultural salience of left-wing attitudes in America.
Hellman, a passionate supporter of the Soviet Union even when Stalin's crimes had been widely publicized, was subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Committee by McCarthy [see comments ed.] and was subsequently lionized by the media, the commentariat, and the entertainment industry from the 1950s to the present for refusing to name names. She was elevated to the plinth of truth and courage while McCarthy was effectively consigned to the Eighth Circle of the Inferno as an evil counselor and a sower of discord.
We cannot deny, after the release of the Venona transcripts, that McCarthy was mainly right. There was indeed a concerted and largely successful attempt to infiltrate the White House by Soviet agents during the 1940s and 1950s.
Hellman, however, was a notorious liar, of whom novelist Mary McCarthy (no relation to Joseph) said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" Dorothy Gallagher in her 2014 biography Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life wrote "She dissembles ... hedges, misleads."
In her acclaimed memoir Pentimento, Hellman told of her revolutionary generosity and grave personal risk in smuggling money to a certain Julia, a member of the anti-fascist underground in Austria just prior to the war a blatant lie, perpetuated by Jane Fonda playing Hellman in the film Julia. There was no Julia. Hellman's reported adventures in to Berlin and her cloak-and-dagger activities were the stuff of pure fiction.
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It was thought that Stalin, ever on the alert for possible plots against him and always seeking enemies to whom he could lay blame for the failures of “scientific socialism” had at last thought to have seen enemies in what once was a force in Soviet Communism: Left wing Jews.
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Russian Jews were the second largest group in the Soviet Communist party so Stalin was concerned with the loyalty of Russian Jews in his government after the formation of the state of Israel. So he envisioned a purge of Jews of the soviet communist party in what was known as the “Doctor’s Plot.” The histories say that the charges were all bogus. (If you google stalin “doctor’s plot”—you can get a lot of histories. Here’s Wikipedia.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot
I can only guess that the very WASPish Ivy League, then very much in the hands of Northeastern GOP, were very distasteful and more of a threat to the intellectuals of the Jewish Left, being geologically close and more familiar with their ideological foes(of secular, leftist Jews) and the guardians of Northern Industrialist, the Grand Old Party. (So much for Jewish Left being down for the Negro Movement, always promising blacks but never delivering..)
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Yeah this is pretty close to it. In the 1950’s New York City & much of the rest of the northeast were still ruled by WASPs. Their power collapsed in the 1960’s at the same time as all the colonial empires collapsed. For the last couple of decades, places like Harvard and other schools in the IVY’s have put limits on the number of Chinese they admit. A similar limit was placed on Jews prior to the 1960’s.
Those limits were abolished after the crack up of anglo saxon civilization in the 1960’s. Now we in the midst of another cultural crack up. I have heard that recently the number of whites entering Harvard has crossed below 50%.
However I guess Truman’s(Trump’s?)recognition of Israel in 1949, despite the Very WASPy State Department’s advice(good advice, in my opinion) of not doing so because of the fear of inflaming the “Arab Street”
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I don’t think that Trump recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel will have as much effect on liberal Jewish voting patterns in the USA as Truman’s recognition of Israel or the blood libels inveighed against McCarthy. you hear echos of these same libels today.
then as now imho there are too many arabists in the government...and then as now that plays out as a background to events.
It did solidify Jews in the Democratic Party(despite the Left’s NOW open hostility to the very existence of the State of Israel and the welcome mat the Righteous Right has for Tel Aviv in the Republican Party, which is quite a story how Southern Baptists and Evangelicals( never before being supportive of the formation of the modern State of Israel) to being it’s strongest American ally)
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The democrat party is turning arabist. why? imho the holocaust is a crippling burden to bear to non jewish whites. but to non whites the holocaust is just off putting. as well, the democrats have basically abandoned whites. they believe the future belongs to non whites. they good reason to believe so. they only need to flip Texas and Florida to lock republicans out of power in washington dc just about permanently. they’re only a couple of decades or less from doing just that.
American Evangelical Christians are different animals than most people imagine them to be. There’s nothing old world about them at all. By american evangelical tradition— america is the new jerusalem. These folk are soaked in the bible. The blessings and curses of Genesis 12:3 are taken seriously. Truman would have been the last of the democrats who knew something about the bible.
But there are also end time prophecies. For the end times to come, and Jesus to return—the state of Israel has to be constituted. That happened. imho water independence four years ago —is almost as profound as the founding of the state of Israel,.
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And gave the “George Bush’s” of this nation an excuse to support foreign wars in the Middle East of which we have no national interest and make permanent enemies of Muslims everywhere..
Its generally thought that the democrats are the evil party and the republicans are the stupid party.
The big question about trump is -—will he actually change the direction of the USA or will he be just blip of light like Reagan.
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