Radical leftism believes that the quest for a utopian world, a world free of unfairness, justifies any cruelty against individuals. Individual rights are obstacles to communal greatness. The bricks of the tower of Babel will be mortared with the blood of those sacrificed on behalf of the vision. That’s because the state — which is really just an extension of “the people,” who only exist en masse, never as individuals — is the source of all rights. No rights can be violated if the state declares them defunct.
That’s why the left only pays token homage to those who suffer at the hands of history’s greatest monsters — as Josef Stalin apocryphally put it, you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. No wonder the left defended Stalin all the way until news broke in 1956 that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had criticized Stalin’s purges. Until then, Walter Duranty of The New York Times had whitewashed the murder of millions in the Ukrainian Holodomor — he declared that he had seen the future, and it worked. And Hollywood even portrayed Stalin’s show trials in a positive light in “Mission to Moscow.” Today, Hollywood produces fawning biopics like “Che” (directed by Steven Soderbergh) and “The Motorcycle Diaries” (produced by Robert Redford), and The New York Times titled its obituary for Castro, “A Revolutionary Who Defied the U.S. And Held Cuba in His Thrall.” – READ MORE
