The Left Celebrates Lenin, ‘One of History’s Great Monsters’

Saturday marked one century since Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s death.

“In October 1917, he risked all to seize power for himself and his Bolshevik party. He then ruled as ruthlessly as any Tsar, his seven years as leader marked by one-party rule, the violent suppression of dissenters, famine that cost millions of lives, censorship – the complete distortion of the socialist heaven he claimed he was creating,” Tony Rennell writes in the UK Daily Mail.

Communism and its closest relative Socialism, appease one of mankind’s sickest urges: never allow anyone to do better than you. That perfectly describes America’s left.

Lenin did not enlist in class war – he engaged in class murder. “He built a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater end.”

More from Mr. Rennell in his article, “Why does the gullible Left still lionize Lenin as a benign intellectual and the acceptable face of Communism when he ruthlessly murdered his opponents in their thousands, starved two million Russians to death and wrote the playbook for Stalin?”

From the outset, Lenin had no qualms in using terror as a means of control.

He not only encouraged violence but demanded it, setting a murderous agenda to eliminate his enemies in order that his so-called proletarian revolution would succeed.

He sanctioned ‘unrestrained power and the use of force, not of law’, convinced it was better that 100 innocent people should die than that one person endangering the revolution should remain free.

Ed Driscoll posted several important articles at Instapundit on the anniversary of Lenin’s death, lest those leftists who surround us seek to glamorize his evil, brutality, and murderous agenda.

In his 1976 article, “The Intelligent Co-Ed’s Guide to America,” Tom Wolfe wrote:

The publication of The Gulag Archipelago in 1973, however, was a wholly unexpected blow. No one was ready for the obscene horror and grotesque scale of what Solzhenitsyn called “Our Sewage Disposal System”—in which tens of millions were shipped in boxcars to con­centration camps all over the country, in which tens of millions died, in which entire races and national groups were liquidated, insofar as they had existed in the Soviet Union. Moreover, said Solzhenitsyn, the system had not begun with Stalin but with Lenin, who had im­mediately exterminated non-Bolshevik opponents of the old regime and especially the student factions. It was impossible any longer to distinguish the Communist liquidation apparatus from the Nazi.

Yet Solzhenitsyn went still further. He said that not only Stalinism, not only Leninism, not only Communism — but socialism itself led to the concentration camps; and not only socialism, but Marxism; and not only Marxism but any ideology that sought to reorganize morality on an a priori basis. Sadder still, it was impossible to say that Soviet socialism was not “real socialism.” On the contrary — it was socialism done by experts!

Powerline Blog also has related info on today’s “elites,” who embrace totalitarianism:

…“elites” are fascists. Large majorities want to ban gas stoves (69%), gasoline powered cars (72%), non-essential air travel (55%), SUVs (58%) and air conditioning (53%). The Ivy League elites are even worse: the corresponding numbers are 80% for gas stoves, 81% for gasoline powered cars, 70% for non-essential air travel, 66% for SUVs, and 68% want to ban air conditioning. There is no polite way to put it: they are fascists.

…If they take over, we are finished. More study needs to be done to figure out who, exactly, they are, so we can root them out and negate their influence. In the meantime, some moderate measures probably need to be taken. Like abolishing the Ivy League.

George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, famously said, “Some ideas are so absurd, only an intellectual could believe in them.” It certainly rings true today.

Economist Thomas Sowell, author of Intellectuals and Society, addressed “the fatal misstep of intellectuals,” the dangerous inference that superior ability can be generalized as superior wisdom or morality overall. “One of the most surprising aspects of this study is how often intellectuals have been proved not only wrong, but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills of society — and how little their views have changed in response to empirical evidence of the disasters entailed by those views.”

More from Mr. Rennell:

“The countryside felt the worst of his wrath when peasants resisted the collectivisation of land and tried to keep the grain they grew to sell for themselves. ‘Hang them,’ was his instruction to officials in one area. ‘No fewer than 100 kulaks [wealthier peasant farmers], rich men and bloodsuckers – and make sure the hanging takes place in full view of the people.’

Villages that rose against Soviet power were torched. Families of anyone who opposed the regime were held as hostages in concentration camps. He authorised the use of poison gas against rebel bands of peasants.

Requisitioning of grain by the state led to widespread famine, with an estimated two million dying of hunger and desperate people resorting to cannibalism. There were horrific tales of mothers killing one child in order to feed the others in the family. Lenin’s response was to ban the use of the word ‘famine’ in the Press.”

This is how the Associated Press characterizes Lenin today: “The ideology that Lenin championed and spread over a vast territory is something of a sideshow in modern Russia.”

If you do nothing today but scan headlines around the world, it’s clear that the “elites” are agitating for total control. They must be stopped.

• Bill Gates Set Up 20 Shell Companies to Hide Purchase of $113 Million of Nebraska Farmland
• Davos 2024: Global elite gather against WEF’s most complex backdrop so far
• Illegal Migrants In NYC Are Leaving Pee In Cups And Poo All Over The City; NYC neighborhood turned into giant toilet; Park littered with poop…
• Diversity Working As It Should In Minneapolis As A Race-Fueled Fight Breaks Out Between Black And Somali Students At High School
• German farmers clog Berlin streets with tractors in protest against diesel subsidy cuts
• Kim Jong-un and Putin vow to form ‘New World Order’…
• Bay Area farmers fight tech billionaires: ‘Mobster techniques’…
• Trans golfer wins women’s tournament, increasing chances to LPGA qualifier…
• In Oakland, one car was stolen for every 30 residents last year
• Thousands of Cal State faculty members set to strike Monday across the nation’s largest public university
• Why Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College: Three generations of ‘college for all’ in the U.S. has left most families looking for alternatives

As then-Governor Ronald Reagan famously warned in 1967:

“Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.  And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.

Knowing this, it’s hard to explain those among us who even today would question the people’s capacity for self- government. I’ve often wondered if they will answer, those who subscribe to that philosophy: if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? Using the temporary authority granted by the people, in increasing number lately at all levels of government, have sought control even of the means of production as if they could do this without eventually controlling those who produce. And always they explain this as necessary to the people’s welfare. “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principle upon which it was founded.”  This was written in 1748, and it’s as true today as it was then.