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A young woman cries as she visits the Holmodor Memorial in Kiev. The Holmodor was the famine organized by Stalin in which 7 million Ukrainians perished. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)
"All I know is that I am not a Marxist."
Karl Marx
The Useful Idiots
In 1917 Vladimir Lenin was the principle leader of the Bolshevik Russian Communist Party when it overthrew Tsar Nicholas II and seized power. Lenin became the Chairman of the Communist leadership promising land, freedom, and prosperity for all.
It didn’t take long for the peasants that gave the needed muscle for the revolution to realize they had been lied to and used.
In the following years many rejected the communist rule and a peasant revolt led to an all-out civil war. Lenin saw the need for a crackdown that history calls “The Red Terror.” An estimated 9 million people died under Lenin’s iron fist. Furthermore, socialist ideology led to collective farming policies and the seizure of crops that caused a famine leading to over 10 million pointless deaths.
Under the iron fist of Joseph Stalin things only got worse.
With the world watching, how did people of the time feel about this hyper-violent form of government? Astonishingly enough, many believers in Karl Marx’s creation of socialism/communism denied the deaths ever happened.
As unbelievable as it may sound, a staggering number of western, so-called intellectuals claimed that communism aims for nothing more than a peaceful utopia where everyone lives in peace and harmony.
While it is true the ultimate “goal” of the movement was a peaceful utopian outcome, many never ask how the Proletariat deals with those that don’t accept their elitist leadership or how to achieve that utopian outcome. Obviously the stage of the “Violent Revolution,” professed as a prerequisite to a Utopian state by Marx, was overlooked by these people. Unfortunately, many became victims of the very leaders they helped prop up.
As Lenin and later Stalin heard what these western communist sympathizers and journalists had to say, they referred to these ill-informed but helpful do gooders as what can be translated from Russian as “Useful Idiots.”
Walter Duranty was possibly the most famous of these Useful… people.
A Great Liar
Duranty worked for the New York Times and in 1921 received his coveted job at the Moscow bureau where he worked for twenty years. In the entire time he spent in the Soviet Union not a single negative report was made against the communist state, or against communism, for that matter. In addition, he denied the most horrendous atrocities of the Soviets, including that of the famine. He denied it ever happened and assured westerners abroad that something like that never would.
In 1932, reports of famine in Ukraine started appearing throughout the western media. Journalists such as Gareth Jones of The Times and Malcolm Muggeridge of The Guardian attempted to inform the rest of the world of what was happening. Both men defied travel restrictions and secretly went to view conditions in Ukraine to get their story. In the spring of 1933, Jones left the Soviet Union and reported the famine under his own name in the Manchester Guardian.
Duranty denounced Gareth Jones in the New York Times. In a piece he wrote he described the situation under the title "Russians Hungry, But Not Starving" as follows: “There appears from a British source a big scare story in the American press about famine in the Soviet Union, with 'thousands already dead and millions menaced by death from starvation.’"
In an August 24, 1933 article in the New York Times, he claimed "any report of a famine is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda."
Muggeridge, who had secretly been in Ukraine for The Guardian, later called Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism."
It wasn’t until decades later before the first serious scholarly study of the Ukrainian famine was written. It was spearheaded by Robert Conquest of the Hoover Institution, always identified in left leaning circles as "right-wing." Yet when the Soviets' own statistics on the deaths during the famine were finally released, under Mikhail Gorbachev, they showed that the actual deaths exceeded even the millions estimated by Prof. Conquest.
At the center of the controversy were the very policies of the communist movement and its methods of eliminating its enemies through genocide.
Peaceful Casualties
One would have to be slightly less than compassionate, if one was obsessed with violence. For millennia humankind has attempted to find ways of resolving conflict with peace but has often resorted to war. Peace is truly a noble aspiration.
However, there are those that have sought to seize power covertly and surrounded themselves with peaceful and well intentioned people in order to conceal their intentions. Unfortunately, these pawns of the power hungry are often discarded as soon as conveniently possible.
Consider the promises of Chairman Mao to the so-called liberated people. Democracy for all, land, freedom, etc. To this day none of these promises have been fulfilled, yet the fact of over 80 million victims of this hyper-violent party of communism has not been adequately understood. The violence continues with the most current victims of the CCP’s anger being Falun Gong practitioners
So how do such atrocities continue to be committed on innocent civilians to this day? Does communism stand for freedom, peacefulness, and democracy? Does it desire equality for all with the elimination of the classes?
As a point of reference, the violent nature of the Communist Manifesto was never a secret to the world, as it has been in circulation since 1849. However, many don’t realize, or chose not to read, the published thoughts of Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels that express their lust for violence… nor do many realize the stunning number of Marx and Engels' followers who share
their bloodlust.
The Bloodlust of Karl Marx
Let us consider a few of Marx and Engels’ thoughts.
On peaceful Movements:
"May the devil take these people’s movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful.’"
On Terrorism:
“There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified, and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terrorism.”
On Dictatorships:
“Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.”
On Democrats:
"Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace."
On Democracy:
“Democracy, as well as every other form of government, must ultimately break to pieces.”
On Family:
“After the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the holy family, the former must then itself be annihilated in theory and in practice.”
On Authoritarianism:
"Revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets, and cannon"
On the Russian Soviets:
"In the Russian vocabulary there is no such word as honor."
On Violence (Chicago Tribune Interview 1879):
"Well, then, to carry out the principles of socialism do its believers advocate assassination and bloodshed?" "No great movement," Karl Marx answered, "has ever been inaugurated Without Bloodshed."
On Equality:
“I used the expression "modern mythology" to describe the goddesses of "Justice, Freedom, Equality, etc."
On the Chinese:
“It would seem as though history had first to make this whole people drunk before it could rouse them out of their hereditary stupidity."
On Racial Genocide:
“In Central Europe only Germans, Hungarians, and Poles counted as bearers of progress. The rest must go. The chief mission of all other races and peoples, large and small, is to perish in the revolutionary holocaust."
All in all, socialism/communism is not what many think that it is. Even if one doesn’t consider the beliefs or pretexts of this “Blood Cult” but only considers its record in history, one can conclude communism truly is a way of life that must be cast off to the annals of history.
Lying seems to be its strongest weapon—lying about its intentions as well as denial of its record. Take for instance the audacious statement by Marx when he said, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist." Truly the bolder the lie, the more people seem to strain at challenging it. However, these lies must be brought to light.
In the history of the social engineers for population control and the desired Scientific Dictatorship, not all were useful idiots that were being lied to. Some were the liars holding the puppet strings. Consider this quote from Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, in 1939, “We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
Next: “The Scientific Dictatorship”
