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American politics is still largely a matter of socialist and Marxist clichés being widely accepted and promoted
Kelley Ross, Ph.D. who is Professor of Philosophy at Valley College.Currently the Libertarian candidate for Congress in the 20th District in California.
www.friesian.com/ross/
The Essential Anti-Communist Bibliography
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
Dante Alighieri, Inferno XXXIV:139
["And thence came forth to see again the stars."]
With exquisite irony, just as the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Empire fell in the years 1989-1991, American 60's radicals, essentially Communist sympathizers, were completing their takeover of American higher education and other "circles," as the Soviets used to say, of the American intelligentsia.
So, just as a flood of "English Department Marxism," largely innocent of economics, history, and logic, began to dominate academic publishing & "informed" media opinion, the presumptive beneficiary of all this, the Soviet Block, was no longer there to enjoy it.
Of course, Fidel Castro was still there, approaching forty years of dictatorship over impoverished Cuba, so he could still bask in the praise of his clueless, "useful idiot" (said Lenin) American supporters.
This is a living and important political issue, since American politics is still largely a matter of socialist and Marxist clichés being
widely accepted and promoted.
A television history of the Cold War made by Ted Turner made it sound like the Soviets were the good guys and the United States was merely consumed with paranoia -- and Harry Truman was "naive" for becoming alarmed about Josef Stalin and building the alliances to contain the Soviet Union.
Examinations of the Communist "Hollywood Ten" on the "E!" Entertainment cable network praise them for "standing up for what they believed in," even though they didn't stand up for what they believed in (Communism), since they either refused to say anything or took the Fifth Amendment, and, what's worse, they did so on instructions of the Communist Party!
They most certainly didn't believe in free speech, as their defenders now say, since the regimes they supported never allowed it and, now that the like minded have taken over American universities, dissenting conservative and libertarian speakers are regularly shouted down, physically attacked, and, with the cooperation of administrators, kept off campuses.
A majority of Americans actually thought that little Elián González, after his mother died trying to get him to the United States, should be sent back to slavery and brain- washing in Cuba with his father -- who, of course, did not gain custody of Elián: The boy, as the Cubans have frankly admitted, is the property, like all Cuban children, of the State.
The Cold War thus continues, even if now largely an internal American conflict. The Hollywood Ten are held up as martyrs, for losing their jobs & spending a few months in prison for contempt of Congress.
This, even while they had the blood of the millions murdered in Russia and Eastern Europe on their hands, as the conscious and willing agents of Josef Stalin (who was still alive, remember, and still killing people at the time, even readying a pogrom against the Jews), a greater mass murderer than Adolf Hitler.
If the Hollywood Ten had been Nazi sympathizers and German agents, the fashionable Left would be shedding no tears over them now; yet they were, as a matter of fact, the moral and practical equivalent of Nazis.
The books here are mainly those describing the plain truth about Marxism, the practice of Communism, and Soviet spies and sympathizers in the United States. These are not "classics" of Anti-Communism (like the immortal Witness by Whittaker Chambers [1952, 1980, Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC]), rather they are all from the 80's and 90's.
The books are alphabetized by (first) author.
Christopher Andrew and Visili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield, The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books, 1999
Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, Hollywood Party, How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930's and 1940's, Forum, Prima Publishing, Rocklin, California, 1998
Peter J. Boettke, Why Perestroika Failed, The Politics and Economics of Socialist Transformation, Routledge, 1993
Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, Parallel Lives, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991
Mona Charen, Useful Idiots, How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003
Peter Collier and David Horowitz, Deconstructing the Left, From Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, A Second Thoughts Book, 1991
Robert Conquest, The Great Terror, A Reassessment, Oxford University Press, 1990
Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow, Oxford University Press, 1986
Robert Conquest, Reflections on a Ravaged Century, W.W. Norton & Company, 2000
David Conway, A Farewell to Marx, An Outline and Appraisal of His Theories, Penguin Books, 1987
Ann Coulter, Treason, Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, Crown Forum, New York, 2003
Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej
Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, translated by Johnathan Murphy and Mark Kramer, The Black Book of Communism, Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press, 1999
Darío Fernández-Morera, American Academia and the Survivial of
Marxist Ideas, Praeger, London, Westport, Connecticut, 1996
John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know, Rethinking Cold War History, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997
David Gordon, Resurrecting Marx, The Analytical Marxists on Freedom, Exploitation, and Justice, Transaction Books, 1990
John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr, Venona, Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press, 1999
Arthur Herman, Joseph McCarthy,
Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, The Free Press, 2000
Paul Hollander, Anti-Americanism, Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990, Oxford University Press, 1992
Paul Hollander, The Many Faces of Socialism, Comparative Sociology and Politics, Transaction Books, 1988
Paul Hollander, The Survival of the Adversary Culture, Social Criticism and Political Escapism in American Society, Transaction Publishers, 1988
David Horowitz, Radical Son, A Generational Odyssey, The Free Press, 1997
Roger Kimball, Tenured Radicals, How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, HarperPerennial, 1990, 1991
David King, The Commissar Vanishes, The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia, Metropolitan Books, 1997
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson, The Soviet World of American Communism, Yale University Press, 1998
Brian Moynahan, The Russian Century, A History of the Last Hundred Years, Random House, 1994
Richard Pipes, Communism, A History, A Modern Library Chronicles Book, 2001
Richard Gid Powers, Not Without Honor,
The History of American Anticommunism, The Free Press, 1995
Ronald Radosh, Commies, A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left, Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2001
Paul Craig Roberts and Karen LaFollette, Meldown, Inside the Soviet Economy, Cato Institute, 1990
R.J. Rummel, Death by Government, Transaction Publishers, 1994
Robert Skidelsky, The Road From Serfdom, The Economic and Political Consequences of the End of Communism, Penguin Books, 1995
Thomas Sowell, Marxism, Philosophy and Economics, Quill, William Morrow, 1985
Further information about Marx:
www.friesian.com/marx.htm
American politics is still largely a matter of socialist and Marxist clichés being widely accepted and promoted
Kelley Ross, Ph.D. who is Professor of Philosophy at Valley College.Currently the Libertarian candidate for Congress in the 20th District in California.
www.friesian.com/ross/
The Essential Anti-Communist Bibliography
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
Dante Alighieri, Inferno XXXIV:139
["And thence came forth to see again the stars."]
With exquisite irony, just as the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Empire fell in the years 1989-1991, American 60's radicals, essentially Communist sympathizers, were completing their takeover of American higher education and other "circles," as the Soviets used to say, of the American intelligentsia.
So, just as a flood of "English Department Marxism," largely innocent of economics, history, and logic, began to dominate academic publishing & "informed" media opinion, the presumptive beneficiary of all this, the Soviet Block, was no longer there to enjoy it.
Of course, Fidel Castro was still there, approaching forty years of dictatorship over impoverished Cuba, so he could still bask in the praise of his clueless, "useful idiot" (said Lenin) American supporters.
This is a living and important political issue, since American politics is still largely a matter of socialist and Marxist clichés being
widely accepted and promoted.
A television history of the Cold War made by Ted Turner made it sound like the Soviets were the good guys and the United States was merely consumed with paranoia -- and Harry Truman was "naive" for becoming alarmed about Josef Stalin and building the alliances to contain the Soviet Union.
Examinations of the Communist "Hollywood Ten" on the "E!" Entertainment cable network praise them for "standing up for what they believed in," even though they didn't stand up for what they believed in (Communism), since they either refused to say anything or took the Fifth Amendment, and, what's worse, they did so on instructions of the Communist Party!
They most certainly didn't believe in free speech, as their defenders now say, since the regimes they supported never allowed it and, now that the like minded have taken over American universities, dissenting conservative and libertarian speakers are regularly shouted down, physically attacked, and, with the cooperation of administrators, kept off campuses.
A majority of Americans actually thought that little Elián González, after his mother died trying to get him to the United States, should be sent back to slavery and brain- washing in Cuba with his father -- who, of course, did not gain custody of Elián: The boy, as the Cubans have frankly admitted, is the property, like all Cuban children, of the State.
The Cold War thus continues, even if now largely an internal American conflict. The Hollywood Ten are held up as martyrs, for losing their jobs & spending a few months in prison for contempt of Congress.
This, even while they had the blood of the millions murdered in Russia and Eastern Europe on their hands, as the conscious and willing agents of Josef Stalin (who was still alive, remember, and still killing people at the time, even readying a pogrom against the Jews), a greater mass murderer than Adolf Hitler.
If the Hollywood Ten had been Nazi sympathizers and German agents, the fashionable Left would be shedding no tears over them now; yet they were, as a matter of fact, the moral and practical equivalent of Nazis.
The books here are mainly those describing the plain truth about Marxism, the practice of Communism, and Soviet spies and sympathizers in the United States. These are not "classics" of Anti-Communism (like the immortal Witness by Whittaker Chambers [1952, 1980, Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC]), rather they are all from the 80's and 90's.
The books are alphabetized by (first) author.
Christopher Andrew and Visili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield, The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books, 1999
Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, Hollywood Party, How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930's and 1940's, Forum, Prima Publishing, Rocklin, California, 1998
Peter J. Boettke, Why Perestroika Failed, The Politics and Economics of Socialist Transformation, Routledge, 1993
Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, Parallel Lives, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991
Mona Charen, Useful Idiots, How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003
Peter Collier and David Horowitz, Deconstructing the Left, From Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, A Second Thoughts Book, 1991
Robert Conquest, The Great Terror, A Reassessment, Oxford University Press, 1990
Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow, Oxford University Press, 1986
Robert Conquest, Reflections on a Ravaged Century, W.W. Norton & Company, 2000
David Conway, A Farewell to Marx, An Outline and Appraisal of His Theories, Penguin Books, 1987
Ann Coulter, Treason, Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, Crown Forum, New York, 2003
Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej
Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, translated by Johnathan Murphy and Mark Kramer, The Black Book of Communism, Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press, 1999
Darío Fernández-Morera, American Academia and the Survivial of
Marxist Ideas, Praeger, London, Westport, Connecticut, 1996
John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know, Rethinking Cold War History, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997
David Gordon, Resurrecting Marx, The Analytical Marxists on Freedom, Exploitation, and Justice, Transaction Books, 1990
John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr, Venona, Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press, 1999
Arthur Herman, Joseph McCarthy,
Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, The Free Press, 2000
Paul Hollander, Anti-Americanism, Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990, Oxford University Press, 1992
Paul Hollander, The Many Faces of Socialism, Comparative Sociology and Politics, Transaction Books, 1988
Paul Hollander, The Survival of the Adversary Culture, Social Criticism and Political Escapism in American Society, Transaction Publishers, 1988
David Horowitz, Radical Son, A Generational Odyssey, The Free Press, 1997
Roger Kimball, Tenured Radicals, How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, HarperPerennial, 1990, 1991
David King, The Commissar Vanishes, The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia, Metropolitan Books, 1997
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson, The Soviet World of American Communism, Yale University Press, 1998
Brian Moynahan, The Russian Century, A History of the Last Hundred Years, Random House, 1994
Richard Pipes, Communism, A History, A Modern Library Chronicles Book, 2001
Richard Gid Powers, Not Without Honor,
The History of American Anticommunism, The Free Press, 1995
Ronald Radosh, Commies, A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left, Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2001
Paul Craig Roberts and Karen LaFollette, Meldown, Inside the Soviet Economy, Cato Institute, 1990
R.J. Rummel, Death by Government, Transaction Publishers, 1994
Robert Skidelsky, The Road From Serfdom, The Economic and Political Consequences of the End of Communism, Penguin Books, 1995
Thomas Sowell, Marxism, Philosophy and Economics, Quill, William Morrow, 1985
Further information about Marx:
www.friesian.com/marx.htm
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