The myths and lies still fogging up the history of "actually existing communism", and its overthrow in countries such as the Soviet Union, force a re-examination of the facts underlying this enormously important phase for humanity.
THE OVERTHROW OF SOVIET COMMUNISM WAS NOT
A VICTORY FOR HUMANITY
Michael Parenti
Watch Parenti demolish many of the longstanding slanders and outright myths about the Soviet Union, from its putative ruthless tyranny to the Gulags...
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Things to ponder
While our media prostitutes, many Hollywood celebs, and politicians and opinion shapers make so much noise about the still to be demonstrated damage done by the Russkies to our nonexistent democracy, this is what the sanctimonious US government has done overseas just since the close of World War 2. And this is what we know about. Many other misdeeds are yet to be revealed or documented.
Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
Although this was clearly done in prob the late 1990’s — his comments esp at the end in the questions are very prescient esp in regard to identity — brilliant —
His comments about self proclaimed socialists who are purists can be directed at the World Socialist Website and Trotskyites specifically.