Whitaker's Current Articles July 24, 2004
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July 24, 2004 --
The Most Amazing Thing About Communism
July 24, 2004 --
The Communist Conspiracy Was a Mess
July 24, 2004 --
The Greatest Victory Ever Won in Political Warfare Will Never be Recorded
Fun Quote:
Almost every emergency is the result of some failure by those who have been in charge.
The first thing everybody does when an emergency develops is to call in the experts.
And who are the experts?
The experts are those who have been in charge.
The Most Amazing Thing About Communism
As always, nobody but me ever notices the most incredible thing
about Communism. It is such an enormous elephant in history's
living room that no one will ever notice it.
Communism never accomplished ANYTHING. In Russia, an average
population of two hundred million people over a period of seventy
years did not produce one single thing. After Five Year Plan
after Five Year Plan, the Russian economy today is about half the
size of the economy of the Netherlands. The Russian economy of
1913 could have competed better in the world than the one Russia
was left with when Communism fell.
There is not one single consumer good that anybody wants that came
out of seventy years of Communism. Every single one of their
"scientific" accomplishments came from their spies in the West.
Liberals hate that. What happened is very simple: a bunch of
"intellectuals" like Lenin and Trotsky took over Russia and ran
the economy according to "plans" made by people exactly like the
leftist professors who rule our campuses today. What happened was
what exactly what any rational person would know would happen. It
was laughable.
Conservatives hate this. They want Communism to have been a
great threat. It was, but not for the reasons a conservative is
allowed to talk abut, as I will explain in the next article.
Conservatives need for Communism to have been a great ECONOMIC
power. In the early 1950s I was studying economics, and all the
CIA reports showed how enormous the Soviet economy and how it was
growing. This was Allen Dulles' CIA, there was nothing leftist
about it.
A tiny group of economists fought this nonsense. One of them was
my professor of Russian economics grad school, Dr. Warren Nutter.
When I was there the University of Virginia graduate school was
one of the most famous on earth. It was a sanctuary for
conservative economists, so they got the best. Nutter was not
one of the two in my graduate faculty who later got Nobel Prizes,
but he was world famous.
One major reason I did not finish my dissertation was that the new
dean who took over when I went off to teach had sworn he would
clean out that nest of right-wingers. He did, so my professors
went and won their Nobel Prized elsewhere.
But the total, no, the predictable and hilarious failure of
Communism, a bunch of dumbass leftist college professors trying to
do something, was a secret only we knew.
The CIA error was repeated by everybody. As I explain in detail
in Why Johnny Can't Think: America's Professor-Priesthood, the CIA
distortion was what liberals wanted to believe, so there were ten
thousand professor ready to line up to swear it was true. The
left and the right were both solidly behind this nonsense.
The only thing stupider than the left is the middle of the road,
and Communism's great economic achievements was truly the middle
of the road.
But we slowly won the argument. Even the CIA finally backed down
and admitted how laughable Communist "economics" was by 1980.
Finally, when the Soviet empire collapsed overnight, we saw the
pitiful results.
The Communist Conspiracy Was a Mess
At the end of World War I it looked as if Communism would very
soon own Europe. The people were desperate, actual starvation
was everywhere. In that insane War, every traditional institution
in Europe had totally discredited itself. The Communist thugs
owned the streets.
Then various kinds of fascists took back the streets. They were
called "nihilistic" because they did not back any ideology. They
were a pure reaction to the Reds. Remember, every institution in
Europe, businessmen, the church and all the rest had backed this
pointless and insane disaster. At base, the fascist groups were
nothing but a nose-to-nose confrontation with the Reds on the
streets.
But soon Mussolini and the Hitlers and Francos and the Salazars
began to turn these anti-Communist reaction is into ideologies.
According to conservative, a well-oiled machine called the
Communist Conspiracy now wheeled into position to fight back the
threat. With over forty years knee-deep in this kind of
political warfare I can tell you that's not the way it worked.
The Communist Conspiracy was a mess. This fascist reaction
caught the Communists totally by surprise. Professional Communist
intellectuals said not to worry abut it. It was just blip on the
screen in the inevitable march of the proletarian revolution. No
one did more than Russia to help the German military machine avoid
the restriction of the Versailles Treaty and keep up Germany's
military power. German forces trained in Russia.
If you think the Communist Conspiracy is a well-oiled ingenious
machine, you really need to read the books written about the
Soviet Union saved German military strength after World War I. We
are dealing with a movement run by a bunch of dumbass college
professors and bookish revolutionaries like Lenin and thugs like
Stalin who never did a thing in their whole lives that would teach
them about reality.
Once again, what you read in whitakeronline is not even on the
same planet with what you are used to reading about the whole
history of Communism. What you hear from the left is that there
were no Communist agents inside the United States and all over
Europe working for the Soviet Union. So there could have been no
worldwide Communist movement to undermine those fighting
Communism.
On the right, you hear that the Roosevelt Administration was
heavily infiltrated with Communists. Conservatives say that the
whole political left in America and Western Europe was almost
entirely dedicated to aiding Moscow.
Lenin openly referred to his legions of "useful fools" in
business, but he also referred to them throughout the political
left. He used them like puppets. Some of them knew it, some of
them didn't.
When the KGB files opened after the fall of the Soviet Union, we
found that the conservatives were righter than even Senator Joseph
McCarthy had imagined.
In fact, even in the 1960s hundreds of thousands of Americans
announced publicly that they were Communists all through the
highest levels of academia and all the places McCarthy had been
denounced for saying there were Communists.
So were the conservatives proved right? No.
What the conservatives were wrong about was certainly not the
legions of Communists and Communist Front groups and "useful
fools." What they were wrong about was the perfect machine called
the Communist Conspiracy which took direct orders from the
political geniuses in Moscow.
The CIA thought those dumbass professors could run an economy.
Conservative thought those dumbass professors could run a
Conspiracy.
The Greatest Victory Ever Won in Political Warfare Will Never be Recorded
Fascism grew in Europe and the Communist reaction to it was
exactly wrong. No historian will ever mention it, but
Communists put Adolf Hitler into power. After the 1932
German elections, the Communists and the Nazis had a
majority of the German Parliament, the Reichstag. No
government could be formed without either the totalitarian
Communists or the totalitarian Nazis.
In 1932 the German Communists could have prevented Germany
from becoming a one-party anti-Soviet country if they had
concentrated on that and not demanded power. They told
Germany, "You must choose, Hitler or Communism."
The Communist "intellectuals" had struck again. So Germany
became Nazi. Hitler announced his plans, again, of making
Russia into German Lebensraum. He and Japan signed the
anti-Cominterm Pact.
And the brilliant, perfectly coordinated, ingenious,
well-oiled International Communist Conspiracy STILL didn't
get it.
God, I feel for the sane Communists of those days! They
were looking straight at the destruction of their whole
system and the Leftist Homeland, and their geniuses and
experts didn't see a damned thing.
Remember, no one in the whole multibillion-dollar complex of
Soviet Analysis had the slightest idea in 1985 that the
entire Soviet Empire and the Soviet Union itself would
disappear in five years, and no one has had the slightest
criticism of that fact. You NEVER become an expert by being
right.
But out in the sticks, some Bob Whitaker types on the far
let were doing something about it. I cannot put a lifetime
of experience into a book, let alone an article, so let me
tell you in comic form what happened. One of these days,
this is going to be how history records what happened.
All that stood between Hitler and Russia was Poland, a
country which had been divided between different countries
in Europe so many times they had lost count. It had been
put back together by the Versailles Treaty in 1919, and it
lay between Stalin's USSR and Hitler's German Reich. By
1938 the Versailles Treaty had fallen apart and everybody
knew Poland was going to go back to being German territory
or Soviet territory. After World War II it became Soviet
territory.
Soviet survival hung by a thread. And what were
revolutionary Geniuses in Moscow doing? They were still
working with Hitler. There is a bizarre bit of Marxist
theory that explains this, but we don't have time.
In that decisive moment, someone had been grooming Stalin's
savior. There was a guy named Winston Churchill. He was a
big name in Britain and had been personally responsible for
the total insane disaster of Gallipoli in the First World
War. His father had been a big man in the British
Government and had ruined himself by quitting the Parliament
because he was upset. They never asked him back and he
lost all power and retired from politics.
Winston Churchill had just done the same thing. He was in
retirement, his political career ruined.
Talk about a "useful fool" let me tell you about this
Churchill guy. Everybody could see that America towered
over the world to the west of Europe. International
Communism was a major power in every country in Europe and
the Soviet Union was ready to take over Eastern Europe if
they could get Hitler out of the way.
So how did Churchill view the whole situation? Churchill
was obsessed by the "Balance of power" in Europe. This
"balance of power" was the theory Britain had adhered to
when Europe was master of the world. It was why Britain
spent twenty years defeating Napoleon. As far as Churchill
was concerned, the only real problem was this new Napoleon
over in Germany.
Churchill said, "I would ally myself with Satan Himself to
defeat Napoleon, I mean Hitler."
This was the guy who could save the Leftist Homeland!
It was a VERY close call. If Churchill had not demanded war
against Hitler, and Hitler alone, after Hitler and Stalin
divided up Poland, the entire German Army would have been
all the way to Siberia in a couple of years. The Japanese
would have met them somewhere in Siberia.
There is much more to the story. Hitler's ambassador in
Japan was a Stalinist, and he had more to do with destroying
the Third Reich than any of the Moscow Geniuses. The
daughter of the American ambassador to Berlin in the 1930s
was a Stalinist. These two facts have been a matter of
public record since the 1940s. Even the most liberal
historian will not deny them.
With all this on their side, the Experts and Geniuses of the
Communist Conspiracy not only didn't save the Soviet Union,
they stood in the way the whole time. It's one hell of
story.
And it will never be told.
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