tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post6190471505884179950..comments2008-08-21T12:37:30.989-05:00Comments on The Superfluous Man: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008John Markleysuperfluousblog@hotmail.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post-78006592724866506372008-08-21T12:37:00.000-05:002008-08-21T12:37:00.000-05:00What's upsetting is that the radical left. i.e. No...What's upsetting is that the radical left. i.e. Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Stan Goff, uses all sorts of rhetorical devices, contortions, to try downplay and diminish communism's crimes. They market themselves as super-sensitive souls who care about human right but then show a cold, smug reaction to leftist crimes. They will yes it was terrible but let's put it into context or they will say Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post-57611392157153998332008-08-21T04:31:00.000-05:002008-08-21T04:31:00.000-05:00Back in my high school and college days, I was equ...Back in my high school and college days, I was equally amazed at the ignorance of my classmates about communism's crimes. But as you observe, they had no way of knowing about them given the willful ignorance and deception prevailing in the mass media and the schools.<BR/><BR/>My own ignorance ended when I was in junior high school, circa 1977. Reader's Digest published an adaption of John Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588152043282020438noreply@blogger.com