Plus Ça Change
After the murderous savagery of the Stalin regime could no longer be denied, excused or rationalized, the American (and I suspect other countries's) Left was demoralized
David Horowitz, one of whose books I recently read, was a founding member of the new Left of the '60s. He swore he would not lie or rationalize the way his parent's generation had for the Soviet Union (he was what's called a "red-diaper baby"). Then he got involved with The Black Panther party. He knew the members intimately enough to call the organization "Black Murder, Inc.". He recounts drug-trafficking, extortion, shake-downs and murder, sometimes simply because a member felt insulted. He also has spoken to members who have recounted acts of brutality against their own members for disloyalty that defy imagination--including bullwhips, one of the most horrible iconic instruments of slavery.
I recently picked up a Socialist friend from the airport who told me one of the highlights of her trip to California was A VISIT TO THE BLACK PANTHER MUSEUM.
A museum to a brutally criminal organization? To me, that is the equivalent of a museum dedicated to the Nazi Party. And now, all of their crimes are being whitewashed EXACTLY AS THE STALIN REGIME'S WAS.
The French have a wonderful saying "Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose. Or, as George Santayana put it, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
David Horowitz, one of whose books I recently read, was a founding member of the new Left of the '60s. He swore he would not lie or rationalize the way his parent's generation had for the Soviet Union (he was what's called a "red-diaper baby"). Then he got involved with The Black Panther party. He knew the members intimately enough to call the organization "Black Murder, Inc.". He recounts drug-trafficking, extortion, shake-downs and murder, sometimes simply because a member felt insulted. He also has spoken to members who have recounted acts of brutality against their own members for disloyalty that defy imagination--including bullwhips, one of the most horrible iconic instruments of slavery.
I recently picked up a Socialist friend from the airport who told me one of the highlights of her trip to California was A VISIT TO THE BLACK PANTHER MUSEUM.
A museum to a brutally criminal organization? To me, that is the equivalent of a museum dedicated to the Nazi Party. And now, all of their crimes are being whitewashed EXACTLY AS THE STALIN REGIME'S WAS.
The French have a wonderful saying "Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose. Or, as George Santayana put it, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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