Ethan Epstein, The Weekly Standard
Communism had some good parts, and the New York Times is on it.Pegged to the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the nation’s paper of record is running a series called Red Century, revisiting the history and legacy of Communism. That’s actually a pretty good idea: It’s certainly worth analyzing and commemorating a murderous ideology that resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people over the course of the 20th century.Many of the pieces are interesting and rigorous. Yet, in some of them, there’s a strange attempt to rehabilitate various aspects of Communism. Here’s the tell:…
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