Notorious ex-communist rat David Horowitz passed away yesterday.
Parents were CPUSA members who raised Horowitz to be a Stalinist. After working with the BPP and the 60s New Left, Horowitz betrayed the Panthers and went on to shill for Reagan and the Neocons.
Hope he’s burning in the lowest levels of Gehennom.
Press S to spit on his grave.
>>2248669He was working with the feds to take down leftist activists.
Also, all rats deserve hellfire. Remember Whittaker Chambers and Bella Dodd?
>>2248671Bella Dodd snitches on 1400 CPUSA-affiliated teachers in the NYC area, most of them Jewish women.
Fuck her.
>>2248676Truthnuke
The black panthers are overrated as fuck and had no strategy whatsoever
>>2248669in my limited experience with the academic world as a bio student its kinda funny how conservatives basically ceded off my field to the libs and leftists(at least in burgerland) since they wanna be a bunch of delusional retards who deny climate change,vaccines and evolution. Those three things just being taken as a non negotiable fact filters out most reactoids and conservatives from the field. If they weren't dying on that hill I would expect things to be way different tbh.
>>2248671RIP BOZO leftypol grave pissing meetup when?
>>2248840<PPW in the mouth of the beastI smell the stench of adventurism in the air
>>2248976First a tragedy
Second a circus
>>2249135Oh so he never read anything and was a moralist
> Our assumption that Vietnam would be the political and moral fulcrum by which we would tip this country toward revolution foresaw every possibility except one: that the United States would pull out. Never had we thought that the United States, the archimperial power, would of its own volition withdraw from Indochina. This development violated a primary article of our hand-me-down Marxism:>>2249142naw fuck the universities especially the private ones.
>>2249210>the '30 s.after that they became irrelevant lmao.
>Foster and Browder were actually effective in reaching the American proletariat.great man theory put into praxis, after they died the party died with them.
>>2249228>they were more effective at their peak.LMAO, CPUSA achieved jack shit in the end, at least black panters were primary in the end of jim crow and had to be murdered by the state before even maturing just from deduction of their growing popularity against the government.
>HE BLACK PANTHERS' GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT IS DOING WHAT A CHURCH DOESthe church is the most effective method of political spread in human history, the ussr died and the fucking church returned with ease, no wonder the black panter actually grew instead of the stagnatocracy of the CPUSA had become.
>>2249104Reminds me of how Bob Dylan idolized Woodie Guthrie (who was a tankie) and modelled his early leftist politics after his. Then all of a sudden he became a born-again Christian and full-blown Christian Zionist.
Authoritarian left always breeds the authoritarian right.
>>2249430>So why did he abandon the left?This event seems to have shook him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Betty_Van_Patter>>2249397>Authoritarian left always breeds the authoritarian right.Or the fanatical, sectarian left. He moved to the right, but anyone who still disagreed with him or the cause etc. was a traitor and deserves to be subjected to bloodcurdling denunciation. One day you see no difference between fascism and social democracy, and the next day you're an anti-communist who sees no difference between Nazism and communism. The narrow-minded personality remains along with the feelings of intense hatred and seeing the world in black and white, it's just differently distributed (to paraphrase Isaac Deutscher).
>This irrational emotionalism dominates the evolution of many an ex-communist. ‘The logic of opposition at all costs’ says Silone, ‘has carried many ex-communists far from their starting-points, in some cases as far as fascism.’ What were those starting-points? Nearly every ex-communist broke with his party in the name of communism. Nearly every one set out to defend the ideal of socialism from the abuses of a bureaucracy subservient to Moscow. Nearly every one began by throwing out the dirty water of the Russian revolution to protect the baby bathing in it.
>Sooner or later these intentions are forgotten or abandoned. Having broken with a party bureaucracy in the name of communism, the heretic goes on to break with communism itself. He claims to have made the discovery that the root of the evil goes far deeper than he at first imagined, even though his digging for that ‘root’ may have been very lazy and very shallow. He no longer defends socialism from unscrupulous abuse; he now defends man-kind from the fallacy of socialism. He no longer throws out the dirty water of the Russian revolution to protect the baby; he discovers that the baby is a monster which must be strangled. The heretic becomes a renegade.[…]
>His former illusion at least implied a positive ideal. His disillusionment is utterly negative. His role is therefore intellectually and politically barren. In this, too, he resembles the embittered ex-Jacobin of the Napoleonic era. Wordsworth and Coleridge were fatally obsessed with the ‘Jacobin danger’; their fear dimmed even their poetic genius. It was Coleridge who denounced in the House of Commons a Bill for the prevention of cruelty to animals as the ‘strongest instance of legislative Jacobinism’. The ex-Jacobin became the prompter of the anti-Jacobin reaction in England. Directly or indirectly, his influence was behind the Bills Against Seditious Writings and Traitorous Correspondence, the Treasonable Practices Bill, and Seditious Meetings Bill (1792-4), the defeats of parliamentary reform, the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and the postponement of the emancipation of England’s religious minorities for the lifetime of a generation. Since the conflict with revolutionary France was ‘not a time to make hazardous experiments’, the slave trade, too, obtained a lease on life – in the name of liberty.
>In quite the same way our ex-communist, for the best of reasons, does the most vicious things. He advances bravely in the front rank of every witch hunt. His blind hatred of his former ideal is leaven to contemporary conservatism. Not rarely he denounces even the mildest brand of the ‘welfare State’ as ‘legislative Bolshevism’.
>He contributes heavily to the moral climate in which a modern counterpart to the English anti-Jacobin reaction is hatched.
>His grotesque performance reflects the impasse in which he finds himself. The impasse is not merely his – it is part of a blind alley in which an entire generation leads an incoherent and absent-minded life.
>The historical parallel drawn here extends to the wider background of two epochs. The world is split between Stalinism and an anti-Stalinist alliance in much the same way as it was split between Napoleonic France and the Holy Alliance. It is a split between a ‘degenerated’ revolution exploited by a despot and a grouping of predominantly, although not exclusively, conservative interests. In terms of practical politics the choice seems to be now, as it was then, confined to these alternatives. Yet the rights and the wrongs of this controversy are so hopelessly confused that whichever the choice, and whatever its practical motives, it is almost certain to be wrong in the long run and in the broadest historical sense.https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1950/ex-communist.htm >>2248676>Not like they would have accomplished anything anyway. Huey Newton was a drug addict and the breakfast program was the only decent thing they did.The Black Panthers accomplished more in trying to unify marginalized communities against the re-up of police suppression and abuse in their neighborhoods then any other party every really did during their time. You're judging them in terms of how much they built while violently under attack, as opposed to the degree they resisted what was happening to them and black communities. And even if Huey did drugs, what point is this? Nearly everyone did in the 70s and 80s.
>>2248835I would say they had a pretty good strategy for the position they were birthed into.
>>2248669>conservatives can't get jobs in academia (half true)none true
i mean depends on the field obviously but i'd guess like 80% of economics profs are right-wing, like 60% of STEM, maybe 40%ish percent of both philosophy and history (though I think in history you mostly get liberals but a lot of them hate communism and downplay American crimes)
>>2267377>While Horowitz remained productive up to the very end, nothing of his later works bears any originality. His defenses of conservative politics sound more like Fox News soundbites than something written by Edmund Burke. His analytical abilities clearly declined with his apostasy. As a leftist, Horowitz was clearly aware of the differences that separated Marxists from the bourgeois imperialists of the Democratic Party. As a conservative, he lumped them all together and the Democrats appeared as another radical organization hellbent on destroying America. It is a notion that the Horowitz of 1968 would have scoffed at due to its sheer stupidity.
>As part of his new conservative branding, Horowitz never missed an opportunity to tout his credentials as an ex-Marxist. This produced one of the few post-1974 works of Horowitz worth reading, his memoir Radical Son (1997). At times, Horowitz can be intimate in recounting his thinking and the various episodes of his life. Yet the reasons for abandoning his former convictions are incredibly hollow and unoriginal. Horowitz comes off as a poor plagiarizer of J. L. Talmon, Whittaker Chambers, and Fyodor Dostoevsky where he bemoans the communist left for rejecting original sin and deifying man’s reason in its place which will inevitably end in terror and totalitarianism.
>As a Marxist, Horowitz was no orthodox theorist, but he did make genuine contributions in works such as Free World Colossus. And even his heterodox beliefs were part of a sincere revolutionary commitment against exploitation and oppression. During the sixties, Horowitz’s writing showcased many of the best traits of an engaged Marxist intellectual — insightful, rigorous, accessible, and overtly partisan. While Horowitz’s writings and actions from his later period showcased an equally extreme partisanship, he produced almost nothing of any substance or value. Like many renegades before him, Horowitz travelled the familiar road from radical to reactionary. There was nothing remarkable distinguishing Horowitz’s rightward journey from so many others, except that he turned it into a very lucrative career in defense of the status quo. >>2248657Another case of trying to educate youth into marxism and failing due to their inherent
neurological reactionary tendencies.
>>2276760Radical Son uses a lot of standpoint epistemology, Horowitz claiming he "knows the left best" because he lived it and re-examined it when it got too hot for him. He uses the "re-examined" trope a lot, actually. A lot of it revolves around him trying to prove how morally superior he is.
I'd say Witness is more about Chambers ranting about the evil metaphysics behind communism and how he left it when he saw the "truth" of Christianity.
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