I mean, wake me up when NYT starts a month-long series of Hitler tributes like the Lenin encomiums it's been running.
The very first one, by Tariq Ali, certainly is. The ones about environmentalism and sex are obscene bundles of lies and apology.
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Ali's piece seems less like an endorsement of communism and more like an endorsement of Lenin, himself, as its usher into Russia.
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He does want to say that post-Soviet Russia is in a shitty state, but I don't consider that a controversial position.
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That's my read, anyways. Insufficient condemnation appears to qualify as endorsement right now, though, so it must, then, be endorsement.
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Ali's an actual Communist activist, though, quite famous for it. NYT chose him to lead the series.
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Imagine NYT commissioning eg Richard Spencer to write a thoughtful piece on the writing of Mein Kampf.
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That would have seemed plausible up until just now. Hell, it still seems plausible. We're quite keen on handing out Enough Rope.
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Well, here I am. It wouldn't be done, I suppose, because the opinions of Nazis aren't considered interesting, which was your point.
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I do think that this comes down to communism's relative longevity, and, er, that communism did not lose a world war embarrassingly.
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