LOOMING DISASTER

6 THE ART OF CONCEALING MARXISM
On February 7, 2009, shortly after the inauguration of Barack
Obama as president, the cover of Newsweek magazine proclaimed,
“We Are All Socialists Now.” 1 That was also what Ceauşescu’s official
newspaper Scînteia announced when he began changing the country
into a monument to Marx’s specter and to himself. Scînteia went
bankrupt, and Newsweek was sold for one dollar. A few conservative
political commentators, like Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and
Rush Limbaugh, have warned that Marxism is infecting the U.S.,
but the Republican Party has failed to unleash any war against this
deadly heresy. Although the GOP calls for cuts in taxes and federal
spending, taxes and spending are not our enemy. They are just
weapons used by power-mad socialists in our government.
The brutality of the 1917 Soviet revolution, which exterminated
millions of people, made Marxism a kind of a scarecrow. Hiding its
ugly face under the smiling mask of “socialism” became a Marxist
science, one conceived by Lenin, who coined the term “useful idiots”
to describe those who naively promoted Marxism without knowing
what it really was. I was once one of them, and I will never forgive
myself for that.
Stalin perfected that science. At his request, East European
countries “liberated” by the Red Army at the end of World War
II began their march toward Marxism by donning socialist masks.
Just a few months after the Red Army “liberated” the Kingdom of
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