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January 10, 2006

The Leftist Intelligentsia's Whitewashed Psychopaths

"The left may be in decline in most Western societies," observes Gerard Henderson in The Sydney Morning Herald. "Yet left-wing mythology still prevails, especially in the taxpayer-subsidised media."

A case in point is a program in Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Dynasties series on the Aarons family, which was "once called the royal family of Australian communism."

The program's producers evidently didn't wonder what Australia would be like if this clan — which supported vicious genocidal dictators such as Stalin and Mao — had ever found its way to power. Would Oz have been reduced to the sort of totalitarian hell on Earth that communists have created whenever they've had the opportunity?

Henderson could have told them, had they thought to ask:

The answer is an unequivocal yes. Eric Aarons said as much in his memoirs, What's Left? On page 118 he related how, in 1956, the party's leadership discussed what response it should take to Nikita Khrushchev's confirmation that Stalin was a mass murderer: "I made the point at the central committee meeting which decided the matter that our outlook was such that, had we been in power, we too could have executed people we considered to be objectively, even if not subjectively (that is, by intention), helping our enemies."

In other words, Aarons is an authority for the proposition that if the communist party had gained power in Australia, it "could have executed" not only its outspoken enemies but also those who were opposing communism unintentionally. There should be no surprise here. After all, that is precisely what communist regimes were doing at the time in Eastern Europe and parts of Asia.

Don't forget, we are talking about an ideology in whose name 100 million people have been killed. You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs!

But the Aaronses are hardly the only proponents of this depraved doctrine who are coddled by the left-leaning intelligentsia in Australia, just as they are in Europe and North America.

Here's how Henderson explains it:

The left retains its heroes only because so many leftists are in denial about the real crimes of communists, or about what their favourite comrades would have done had they attained power.

That's why it's possible for ABC TV to report favourably on the "royal family" of communism. And that's why it would be unacceptable for Dynasties to report favourably on, say, a "royal family" of Nazism or fascism.

You have to wonder though, just how deep the denial goes. At some level, communists and their apologists know perfectly well that they are endorsing pure evil — the murder of some, the enslavement and degradation of everyone else.

How far below their surface would you have to dig before you struck hysterical hatred of the human race? How many layers of cosmetics would you have to scrape away before you saw the face of the Devil?

Thank you V the K for the tip.

Posted by Van Helsing at January 10, 2006 12:41 PM

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