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