Gulag hunger
Some people think I’m exaggerating or joking when I say that the left, even in the UK and the US, will put outspoken right-wingers in gulags given half a chance. But I’m not. At least, I sometimes am joking or … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Commies
Time gained
I’m going to have more time in my diary now that I don’t have to do those re-education sessions with Lily Allen. … Continue reading →
Quote of the Day
From Wood Elf in the comments: I actually did that ! Well, not as much seize the means of production, but rather, through work and thrift over 25 years I bought the means of production. And now this little person … Continue reading →
Funny how they always leave the important bit out…
From a Telegraph article about the moon landing: In 1966, 20,000 different companies were working on Apollo. Different companies handled different parts of the job, which all had to operate in concert … Kevin Fong points out one of … Continue reading →
Quote of the Day
Aaron Lake Smith: The Soviet Union, it must be remembered, was a regime founded by freelance writers and editors. In other words, a nightmare. Nice. And there’s more: Pamphleteers, autodidactic theoreticians, critics, publishers of small journals, hot-take artists, takedown artists, … Continue reading →
At least she wouldn’t mix up the photos of Karl and Groucho
The people you used to meet working at The Independent: Ironically, Mrs von der Leyen’s year in the UK coincided with the arrest in London of Astrid Proll, one of the Red Army Faction’s most prominent members who had been … Continue reading →
Does fine talk win political street fights?
The great Natalie Solent at Samizdata says this: We don’t want to make the enemy live up to their own book of rules, we want them to see the necessity of adopting ours. So we take the high road, but … Continue reading →
The Tiananmen massacre
Communists are great people, aren’t they? Here’s a declassified cable from a British diplomat describing what happened (at least according to his sources) in Tiananmen Square in 1989: 5. FACT. ON ARRIVAL AT TIANANMEN TROOPS FROM SMR [Shenyang Military Region] … Continue reading →
The restaurant at the end of society
Here’s the idiot millenial view of communism in a nutshell: Communism is everyone being able to go to nice restaurants with no class, race or gender barriers and nothing fucking else. — The One Who Wishes To Live Deliciously (@evan_welch) … Continue reading →
The definition of a Communist
Communistdef: an idealistic person who helps install a regime built on a gangster structure, and is then surprised when it ends up run by actual gangsters. … Continue reading →
Another revolutionary who was a great family guy (not)
In 1902 Lev Bronstein, aka Leon Trotsky, was in exile in Siberia, with his wife Alexandra and two young daughters. Upon learning of a bit of mild revolutionary intellectual activity in Europe (a new radical newspaper, and a book by … Continue reading →
Quote of the Day
Jim again, from the comments: I’m convinced that the fall of the Eastern Bloc is responsible for a lot of this. I think a lot of the people who like controlling other people, who don’t really care what the ideology … Continue reading →
Possibly the worst supporting reference of all time
I attack the left a lot on this blog for being evil and thick, but sometimes the right are just as thick, even if not evil. Take this guy I argued with on Twitter today. I tweeted this: Indeed, Stalin … Continue reading →
Drummond’s Law and the evil of the left
Drummond’s Law says that whatever the left accuse the right of doing is something they’re up to themselves. Now, the left is always accusing the right of being evil, whereas, so the story goes, the right accuses the left of … Continue reading →
One club to rule them all
There was a discussion a while ago on Orphans of Liberty — can’t find the exact post any more — about thinking up a new name for the left. Personally I quite like ‘clubmen’, because basically leftists want their little … Continue reading →