I Cite Heinous Strawmen To Discredit Zionism But Real Communism Has Never Been Tried

by Nigel Chadwick, Momentum activist

London, March 21 – Progressive movements such as ours face a challenge in drawing important distinctions between the causes we support and those that earn our opposition. That challenge, and the importance of the distinctions, increases when, to the unenlightened or obtuse observer, we appear to apply double standards. For that reason, I make sure to demonize the movement for secure Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland by pointing to atrocities – real, exaggerated, or imagined – perpetrated by those who pursue that cause, because those depravities taint the entire movement, regardless of the peaceful intellectual basis for the pursuit; I also dismiss the hundred million victims of those who follow Marx, Lenin, Mao, Stalin, et al. by insisting that not once has anyone made a genuine or successful attempt to implement those ideologies, and we therefore cannot judge the movement by the failed attempts, but must look only at the purity of the theory and the bliss it would usher in if properly implemented.

Allow me to illustrate with a concrete example, with the order inverted. Proper Communists attribute the body count associated with so-called Communist regimes not to the ideology, or even to the good-hearted leaders of those regimes, but to the corrupt influence and machinations of the bourgeois capitalists both within and outside the country, whose fear of true equality and utopia derives from the power and wealth they stand to lose once our Workers’ Paradise gets into gear; getting rid of those bourgeois capitalists required bloodshed, and will probably require more if we are to continue our pursuit of that utopia. But no such considerations come into play vis-à-vis Zionism! Never may a right-thinking person entertain the notion that opposition to Zionism, and not Zionism itself, caused the bloodshed – despite the appealing veracity of that approach and its eerie reflection of documented history, we must resist the temptation to get snared by its false portrayal.

In other words, the failure to implement Communism stems not from any inherent flaw with the ideology of Communism, but from the corruption of its opponents, or from the failure of ostensibly Communist leaders to adhere to the ideology properly. The failure of Communist systems proves they are not, in fact, Communist! Whereas the depredations of Zionists grow out of the very nature of the ideology which, despite its primary creators and proponents insisting on persuasion and other peaceful methods, must bear the blame for any excesses or human rights violations that take place by its adherents. The success of Zionism proves its evil!

Hope that helps.

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