Ever since Stéphane Courtois published his The Black Book of Communism, there has been a deluge of
black books, particularly in France, where the latest is that of Vichy. David
Horowitz’s Black Book is that of the American
left, which he charges – with a great deal of cumulative evidence – of
equivocation towards, support for and outright complicity with the Soviet
Union. Ignorance of the horrors of Soviet rule was not an excuse, because the
horrors were known and documented from the very first, and for decades the left
preferred to ignore the facts than abandon its fantasies. And although the
American left was not responsible for much violence in America itself, there
was hardly any revolutionary violence that to which it did not provide aid and
comfort, repeating its original sin ad nuaseam.
In the process it rewrote its own history as assiduously and dishonestly as
Stalin wrote his…..To Read More…..
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