He�s not often right, and he�s wrong again Furt…
He�s not often right, and he�s wrong again
Further to the blog below, the Right has been chuckling with pleasure recently over Martin Amis� perverse new book Koba the Dread. It is about the West�s �asymmetry of indulgence� about Stalin. While Hitler is a byword for evil and genocide, Uncle Joe somehow remains just inside the Pale. Indeed, many left-wingers (it’s claimed) still rever him despite the showtrials and the Gulag. Amis sets out to redress the balance.
Of course, the Right grab the opportunity to show how concerned they are for justice and truth by pointing a knowing finger at the Left. Yet who dubbed him �Uncle Joe� in the first place? The UK government, that�s who. The USSR was on our side against Hitler, and soaked up the majority of Nazi�s firepower. Churchill�s government wanted the British people to relate to our distant allies and used Stalin as the friendly figurehead of a nation. Yet, as usual, the servants of power blame powerless �left intellectuals� for the ills of the world once Stalin wasn’t on our side anymore.
It�s about time that a popular book detailing the hidden crimes of the self-righteous West was discussed rather being swept under carpet with the bones of those millions kidnapped, tortured, killed or worked to death in the slave trade that enriched England, and the millions of deracinated, often starving Third World peoples being bled dry right now by corporate oligarchies and their puppets in government. One only has to look the history of the �Belgian Congo� in Adam Hochschild�s King Leopold�s Ghost to see what�s being ignored in favour of a dig at a few people who chose the wrong direction away from this disaster.
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