That bad old-time religion
<p>It&#8217;s official.  The anti-war movement is a <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/50/news-corn.php">Communist<br />
front.</a></p>
<p>No, I&#8217;m not kidding &mdash; go read the story.  Investigative reporter<br />
David Corn digs into last Saturday&#8217;s D.C. antiwar rally and finds it<br />
was covertly masterminded by a Communist Party splinter originally<br />
founded in support of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.  For good<br />
later, he further digs up the fact that one if the principal<br />
organizers of the inane &#8220;Mot In Our Name&#8221; petion is a revolutionary<br />
Maoist.</p>
<p>Words almost fail me.  There are just too many levels of delicious,<br />
deadly irony here.</p>
<p>For starters, the U.S. revolutionary Communist movement has been<br />
reduced to organizing demonstrations in support of a fascist dictator<br />
with a history of brutally suppressing and murdering Communists in<br />
Iraq.  OK, so there&#8217;s precedent for this; the CPUSA organized<br />
anti-war demonstrations in the U.S. during the Nazi-Soviet<br />
nonaggression pact of 1939-41.  It&#8217;s still bleakly funny.</p>
<p>More generally the American Left seems bent on fulfilling every<br />
red-meat right-winger&#8217;s most perfervid fantasies about it.  All those<br />
earnest anti-war demonstrators were <em>actual communist dupes!</em> Oh,<br />
mama.  Somewhere. Tailgunner Joe McCarthy is smiling.  Who was it who<br />
said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the<br />
second as farce?</p>
<p>Farce because, of course, Communism as an ideology capable of<br />
motivating mass revolutions is stone-dead.  (Well, everywhere outside<br />
of Pyongyang and the humanities departments of U.S. universities,<br />
anyway.)  At this point one can contemplate vestigial organs of<br />
Stalinism like the Revolutionary Communist Party with a sort of<br />
revolted pity, like portions of a vampire corpse still twitching<br />
because they haven&#8217;t yet gotten the message about that stake through<br />
the heart.</p>
<p>If I were a conservative, I&#8217;d go into a roaring, vein-popping rant<br />
at this point.  And, secretly I&#8217;d be damn glad for them Commies.  They<br />
simplify things so much.  Because there will be more stories like this<br />
one.  All the Communists can accomplish by organizing the anti-war<br />
movement is to thoroughly discredit it &mdash; a fact our reporter<br />
(quite typical of U.S. journalists in that he both leans left and<br />
is too ignorant to notice how much of his world-view is Communism with<br />
the serial numbers filed off) notes with poorly-veiled regret.</p>
<p>So, by supporting a militarist fascist in Iraq, them commies are<br />
very likely to wind up increasing the influence of precisely the<br />
`reactionary&#8217; element in U.S. politics that they most abominate.<br />
Congratulations, comrades!  Welcome to the International<br />
Capitalist Conspiracy!</p>
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