Without prejudice to Jared's IMO quite unwarranted assertions about
Stalin[ism], I think that to say
> People became
> communists because of the obvious horrors of class injustice and racism and
> they left if they had an ounce of integrity.
>
> I could go on and on but these grotesque self-parodies provided endless
> ammunition for those defending the status quo so that a person fighting
> "anti-communism" was not merely fighting lies, he or she was also fighting
> the truth and thus there was always more than a little that was sect-like
> about those that stayed in communist organizations. This of course greatly
> multiplied the strength of the Establishment since the hurdle that
> it placed
> in the way of supporting the Left became greater and greater. It
> also helps
> explain why so many individuals in the Soviet bloc leadership have migrated
> to being henchmen of the West.
is to say something which is profoundly true, not only of pro-Soviet or
pro-Stalin currents and organisations but of almost all others which professed
to be Marxist or Leninist during most of the past century. The reasons bear
serious scrutiny.
Mark
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