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Friday, August 13, 2010

BBC World Service: Two Part Documentary, "Useful Idiots"

Definition: People who consider themselves so intelligent that cynical flattery by totalitarians will woo them into serving as apologists for said totalitarians.

The term is purportedly Lenin's. LISTEN HERE

Very interesting two part radio documentary. Part 1 has to do with Western apologists for Stalinist Russia, Walter Duranty and Paul Robeson among them.

Part Two deals with more recent examples, starting with Maoist China, and moving up to pre-war Iraq, notably including George Galloway disgraced former Brit parliamentarian, singing Saddam's praises.

Of note: many useful idiots are academics. One need also remember that the phenomenon was on full display during the Vietnam war, when academicians such as Noam Chomsky, film stars (Jane Fonda) and others made pilgrimage to Hanoi as our men languished in Hoa Lo. Many of those same people refused to admit the blood lust of the communists for many years after the war's end. For whom now do they apologize and rationalize?

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