“I still can understand people like Pete Seeger joining the Party back in the 30’s during the Depression, when it looked like unregulated capitalism had cruelly immiserated America, when racism and lynchings reigned down South and it looked (looked, I said) as if the Soviet Union was the only force willing to stand up to Hitler. But to cling to Marxism now, after all we’ve learned in the past 50 years-not just about the Soviet Union, but China and Cambodia
— ?” Ron Rosembaum —Goodbye, All That: How Left Idiocies Drove Me to FleeObserver)
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