Mindful of Voltaire's dictum, we take up the pen against five enduring myths about the Russian Revolution and the advent of socialism.
Calling themselves "Progressives," many people today readily accept most or all of these myths as the truth.
Myth #1 - The false story of a heroic beginning to socialism - as a popular uprising by an oppressed people against social injustice and the cruelties under the Tsar.
Lenin seized power not in a land "Ripe for socialism," but in a land ripe for seizing power.
Where has "Compassionate" socialism done any good for people in alleviating poverty? Did it work in India which followed a meddlesome, as opposed to murderous, model of socialism from the late 1940s through the 1980s?
Present-day China provides still more clinching evidence of the wisdom of unwinding socialism and unleashing the power of free enterprise.
Rew B. Wilson, the Institute's senior writer and a long-time contributor to The American Spectator, was a co-writer of this essay, which appears in the Institute's just-released 2017 annual report - examining the 100-year history of socialism as a "Failed Idea That Refuses to Die.".
https://spectator.org/fake-history-that-inspires-todays-progressives/
Calling themselves "Progressives," many people today readily accept most or all of these myths as the truth.
Myth #1 - The false story of a heroic beginning to socialism - as a popular uprising by an oppressed people against social injustice and the cruelties under the Tsar.
Lenin seized power not in a land "Ripe for socialism," but in a land ripe for seizing power.
Where has "Compassionate" socialism done any good for people in alleviating poverty? Did it work in India which followed a meddlesome, as opposed to murderous, model of socialism from the late 1940s through the 1980s?
Present-day China provides still more clinching evidence of the wisdom of unwinding socialism and unleashing the power of free enterprise.
Rew B. Wilson, the Institute's senior writer and a long-time contributor to The American Spectator, was a co-writer of this essay, which appears in the Institute's just-released 2017 annual report - examining the 100-year history of socialism as a "Failed Idea That Refuses to Die.".
https://spectator.org/fake-history-that-inspires-todays-progressives/
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