PJ Media readers know why we mourn the passing of Vaclav Havel. On this site, Michael Ledeen beautifully laid out the reasons why the world knows it has lost one of its greatest leaders. Ledeen put it in these words: “he was one of a handful of people who changed the world by fighting totalitarian Communism and then, having defeated it, inspired his people to rejoin the Western world, embrace capitalism, and support democratic dissidents everywhere.”
But now that a week or more have passed since Havel’s death, some on the Western Left have decided to let their true feelings about Havel out. Despite having to give some lip service to Havel’s integrity and what he accomplished, these men of the Left quickly get to what they really think: Havel helped destroy the great ideal of Communism as a worthy goal, and for that, he cannot be forgiven.
The most egregious is the article in the British paper The Guardian. The headline to Neil Clark’s article reads, “Another Side of the Story.” Clark immediately ties Havel up with another individual who has just passed way, Christopher Hitchens, whose “consecration” he strongly objects to. For Hitchens was, he writes, “ another ‘progressive’ opponent of the communist regimes of eastern Europe who found favour with Washington’s neocons.”
Clark does not question that Havel was “a brave man” who stood up for his views. That he cannot deny. It is Havel’s views, and his anti-Communism, that he detests. For Havel, he writes, did not help make his country “and the world, a better place.” In particular, denying everything we know about the nature of Stalinism in Eastern Europe — the repression, the bureaucracy, the lack of necessary consumer goods to lead a decent life, the ever pervasive secret police — he faults Havel for the following:
A quote from the story that was written by a leftist.
Proof being a leftist is a sign of mental illness.
Hard Right
yes mental illness, if only they would contain it inside their mind, but they have to take other
to follow them in their COMMUNIST plan ,ending up destroying the COUNTRY and causing lots of suffering to the PEOPLE, and death, the reality is it doesn’t do nothing good , it has all the proofs we can learn from it,
they are imposing their agenda to the PEOPLE so gradualy that it blind them until they realize
they are under it deep enough to be unable to get out unless they fight totaly for it to be demoted, just like the cancer beginning in the body very unnotice and being fed by the body itself until it has grown big enough to destroy the good part of the body, which is the immune system rendered impotant to do
the offensive job,
it was assigned to do, then requiring radical attacks to kill it, but for some never killed completely TILL DEATH
that is COMMUNIST EXPOSE JUST LIKE A TWIN BROTHER,
Hard Right
in case I did not do it,
a MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU
and HAPPY NEWYEAR
Well said Bees. And Merry Christmas to you too!