Like a small, unnoticed fire in the basement which can destroy your home, Communism is lurking in the shadows of our nation.
Americans don’t know enough about communism to see it when it starts here. Writing in the Tablet, Mary Mycio notes that we have “a certain herd immunity to Nazism and fascism.” But not to communism.
The Soviet Union fell a long time ago, as people’s memories go. It fell almost 30 years ago. That means that no one under 45 or 50 will have any real memory of communism as a living force in the world. They know about Cuba because it’s close to us and about weird little places like North Korea. They don’t seem to think of China as a communist country. A few people try to say this, pointing to the state’s genocidal wars on its people, like the Uygurs. But few seem to care.
“After a generation of forgetting,” Mycio writes, “we have few cultural T-cells left to recognize coercive unanimity, punitive group think, and other warning signs when they appear in the body politic.” She lived in communist Ukraine and watched the Soviet Union fall after 70 years of tyranny. She wrote a book about the Chernobyl disaster, which exemplified the Soviet system. “Americans and others across the West,” she writes, “have simply forgotten about it all, or never learned about it in the first place.”
As far as I can tell, most people who think about communism at all don’t worry about it. They worry more about other people worrying about it.
They Don’t See It I know what she means. I’ve seen Soviet communism face to face.
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Some even at this site think that anyone talking about, warning about communism is "stuck in history"!
Through the decades my warnings were shushed by responding to it with........IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN AMERICA!
Nazism was kept alive only because the Jews wouldn't let it die, they forced the survival of the memory by many movies, books, documentaries. Compared to it, communism is presented with a bit of intrigue, almost romantic, mysterious, but seldom the true evil it was! Actually communism was a lot more deadly than nazism, we still don't know the tue numbers, we are still finding mass graves.