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August 01, 2010

Howard Zinn, Commie Bastard
— Ace

He lied about his membership in the Kremlin-controlled Communist Party USA.

What is important to note here is that Zinn evidently joined the Kremlin-controlled CPUSA not during the Â“Popular FrontÂ” era of the 1930s Â— when many idealists were seduced Â— but after the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in which Stalin cruelly and cynically sacrificed Poland to the Nazis. Zinn was a card-carrying Commie who advocated Marxism-Leninism after the Red ArmyÂ’s Â”Iron CurtainÂ” occupation of Eastern Europe, after the treachery of the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss had been revealed, and even during the height of StalinÂ’s anti-Semitic Â“DoctorsÂ’ PlotÂ” purge!

Revered on the Left, of course, and they deny all of this. They know it's true, but of course they publicly deny it.

Mustn't let people get the right idea.

Posted by: Ace at 11:01 AM | Comments (68)
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1 I always thought that being a Commie was a badge of honor to the left.

Posted by: shibumi at August 01, 2010 11:03 AM (OKZrE)

2 So, we use A Peoples' History of the United States in our classrooms. What's the big fucking deal?

Posted by: NEA drone at August 01, 2010 11:05 AM (IQBsP)

3 A solid....third?

Posted by: TEH WON at August 01, 2010 11:06 AM (wNvN4)

4 So the history books will be rewritten, yes?

Posted by: Joseph McCarthy at August 01, 2010 11:06 AM (swuwV)

5 Commies lie. This is news?

Posted by: Bomber at August 01, 2010 11:07 AM (d88g9)

6 I was worried that a fake Ace had infiltrated the blog. But this is the REAL Ace - we know because he's copying an earlier post from his own blog. (ont)

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at August 01, 2010 11:07 AM (cg8Fp)

7 I'm a commie!!

How 'bout them apples??!?!?!!?

Posted by: Howard fuckin' Zinn at August 01, 2010 11:07 AM (d88g9)

8 The only good thing you can say about Zinn is that he is dead. Good and dead.

Posted by: toby928 at August 01, 2010 11:08 AM (8/oOq)

9 Good and dead.

The only good commie is a _____ commie.

Posted by: Bomber at August 01, 2010 11:10 AM (d88g9)

10 Now, now, now, he wasn't a Commie as those stupid Soviets did it. No, he was a Commie in the whole doing it correctly way. Can't you wingers get that difference, sheesh.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 01, 2010 11:16 AM (YBXMV)

11 8 The only good thing you can say about Zinn is that he is dead. Good and dead.

Took bloody long enough.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 01, 2010 11:16 AM (c0A3e)

12 Commie piece of shit. It's just... evil.

Posted by: Z Ryan :| at August 01, 2010 11:16 AM (cMo6P)

13
MATT DAMON

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 01, 2010 11:16 AM (0fzsA)

14 Next, Matt Damon will narrate the documentary Mein Kampf.

Posted by: Z Ryan :| at August 01, 2010 11:17 AM (cMo6P)

15
What I was saying all along.

Posted by: Joe McCarthy at August 01, 2010 11:18 AM (x+k6q)

16
Just like how Margaret Sanger is beloved by the stupid black people who work at her planned parenthood abortion stores.

Posted by: 1969 Ford Blow Me at August 01, 2010 11:18 AM (e5DC/)

17 Any member of the CPUSA who didn't renounce his membership was an eager and knowing accomplice in the murder of a hundred million innocent victims, and the suffering of hundreds of millions more. Taking moral instruction from Howard Zinn is like taking moral instruction from Charles Manson.

The Left are moral imbeciles or they wouldn't be the Left. JournoList is a timely reminder of that fact.

Posted by: lyle at August 01, 2010 11:18 AM (PHitu)

18 Lefties look at commies and sigh: "I wish I was brave enough to come out of the closet."

While we look at commies and say, "Where's my fuckin' M-14?"

Posted by: Bomber at August 01, 2010 11:20 AM (d88g9)

19 I read his book years and years ago, and thought it was pretty good until he got to some areas which I had previously researched. Then I realized his book was a giant pile of dung.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2010 11:21 AM (eNxMU)

20 My ex-wife had his shit-pile of a book assigned to her during her American History course at the local community college. I told her to tell the prof that it was a leftist pile of horse-shit, and then throw it on the floor and piss on it. I like to push Bill Bennet's books on people as an antidote to Zinn's crap.

Posted by: Monty at August 01, 2010 11:23 AM (sCN19)

21 The Kindercamps the Red Diaper Babies attended during the summer = public education.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 01, 2010 11:23 AM (UOM48)

22 Off topic: He's finally in the Army-at age 60
The Orange County Register

Posted by: sig at August 01, 2010 11:24 AM (2i+Vz)

23 We aren't commies, ourselves, you know. But we happily pass everything that communists agree with. It's not really the same thing, though.

Posted by: Democrats at August 01, 2010 11:25 AM (ZXnUe)

24 Monty, Bill Bennett's Children's Book of Virtues is still on our kid's bookshelf. Every child should have a copy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 01, 2010 11:26 AM (UOM48)

25 While perusing Zinn's works, rubbed out many I have.

Posted by: Walter at August 01, 2010 11:27 AM (IQBsP)

26 24 We aren't commies, ourselves, you know. But we happily pass everything that communists agree with. It's not really the same thing, though, because we can do it bettah!

FIFY.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 01, 2010 11:27 AM (c0A3e)

27 26 While perusing Zinn's works, rubbed out many I have. ----------- There are pictures?

Posted by: Anachronda at August 01, 2010 11:28 AM (6fER6)

28 The history of all hitherto existing....

Posted by: Shirley's daughter Russia at August 01, 2010 11:28 AM (pOgEW)

29 we happily pass everything that communists agree with. It's not really the same thing, though, because we can do it bettah!

We are the ones we've been waiting for, after all.

Posted by: fuckin' Democrats at August 01, 2010 11:28 AM (d88g9)

30 Good to see all this A++ "extra" blogging you're giving us on the weekend to make up for the missed week, Ace. Keep up the non-stop quality factory!

Posted by: Jeff B. at August 01, 2010 11:29 AM (nNLZG)

31 Hell? What you heard? Pretty much how it really is here.

Except for the band of zombies serenading me around the clock with the "Horst Wessel Song."

Fucking dirty pool, that.

Posted by: Howard Zinn ona spit. In Hell. Roasting. Slowly at August 01, 2010 11:30 AM (IQBsP)

32 I'd dearly love to see an FBI file on Barky. And Meanchelle, as well. Hell, if he weren't preznit, he wouldn't even pass a background check for a private WH tour.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 01, 2010 11:31 AM (UOM48)

33 While in China in 2000, amid capitalism that puts America to shame, I purchased a Little Red Book that vendors sold as a joke. Even our "guide" chuckled at the purchase. I'm sure there's a copy in the White House right now, and it isn't a joke to them.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at August 01, 2010 11:32 AM (ndlFj)

34 Jane,

There probably ain't nothing worth a crap in those FBI files. Remember, the FBI and CIA pretty much stopped watching the fifth columnists in the 1970s.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at August 01, 2010 11:33 AM (IQBsP)

35 I always thought that being a Commie was a badge of honor to the left.

Being a commie, admitting it, and lying about it, and lyingly accusing anyone who points out that you're a commie, and that you admitted it, of being an insane Nazi, then chuckling about that with other commies, is what you have to do for the badge.

(I was a Lefty Scout.)

Posted by: oblig. at August 01, 2010 11:36 AM (x7Ao8)

36 I remember the Zimbabwe Lovers at Boston University and how they overlapped quite thoroughly with the Reagan haters (this was 1983-1984). And the University President John Silber haters. It felt very cool to be on the rebel side. How could Zinn not be right? How? Why? Because a glass 95% full is still better than a glass 99% empty.

Posted by: parisparamuss at August 01, 2010 11:36 AM (MFYZu)

37 Uh Zimbabwe = Zinn in spellczek)

Posted by: parisparamuss at August 01, 2010 11:41 AM (MFYZu)

38 Matt Damon, a fellow millionaire Communist, can't hear you.

Posted by: eman at August 01, 2010 11:41 AM (9Ep/N)

39 I made the mistake of checking that book out from the library. After reading 5 pages in the first chapter I said wow what a communist fucktard this guy is. I went forward and read some later parts and confirmed it.

Looked up the guy's name on the internet and said to myself, yeah this guy is a commie. Hell, the title should have clued me in.

Posted by: Vic at August 01, 2010 11:41 AM (/jbAw)

40 So Zinn was an official pet rock of the Commies ... who woulda guessed? Color me shocked ... absolutely shocked.

What possesses an otherwise educated and, one would assume, intelligent person to throw in with a religion like Marxism? Why not just build your own gulag and commit suicide ... save a lot of time and misery.

As an aside, I googled "Basic Marxism" just to refresh myself and the first site I ran into was typically Marxist. While assuring me basic Marxism would be explained, the rhetoric literally spewed and it so reminiscent of ALL Marxist literature -- turgid, voluminous, accusatory words. But it was amusing to see the same claim only in different words -- Marxism is just misunderstood by so many people.

See, if you and me understood Marxism in the "correct" way, all would be clear and we'd all be singing Kumbaya over our porridge under the stars.

I've been saying that about "The Great Pumpkin" for years but so many people have misunderstood. That jolly fat fuck still gets all the press.

Posted by: Full Moon at August 01, 2010 11:44 AM (X6+3d)

41 I've been thinking about writing a book on the history of union violence and corruption in America, and giving it the title "A People's History of Unions in America". I figure the lefties don't have any greater claim to be speaking for "the people" than I do, and it would be great to watch their heads explode when they try to reconcile that title with the content.

Posted by: gebrauchshund at August 01, 2010 11:44 AM (ADeN1)

42 Re how they attach themselves to any and all causes, I guess that's why we see International ANSWER signs at every freaking protest imaginable. But the protestors are just innocent idealists!!

Posted by: PJ at August 01, 2010 11:52 AM (Fyjeu)

43 One of Russia's useful idiots is a hero of the left. Who'da thought?

Posted by: huerfano at August 01, 2010 11:52 AM (NmcJ6)

44 Van Jones, Yosi Sergant, Mark Llloyd, CRUtape, Obamacare, Journolist, Zinn... yeah nothing to see here. It's all one big completely out-of-context coincidence. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Posted by: Squealer at August 01, 2010 12:03 PM (w9BEi)

45 How dare you smear Zinn by calling him a Communist!

And anyways, what's so bad about Communism?

Posted by: Lefty McMoonbat at August 01, 2010 12:14 PM (2jQGY)

46 Just put Zinn's face on a t-shirt with his nose held high and it'll sell like hotcakes on Rodeo Drive and at the UC Santa Cruz book store. Just make sure to crop the bottom of the picture - the part with him standing on the bloodied corpses of 150 million victims.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 01, 2010 12:27 PM (9Cooa)

47 Actually, I'd love to put Tailgunner Joe McCarthy's face on a t-shirt and walk around the Columbia University campus. Armed to the teeth, of course.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 01, 2010 12:31 PM (9Cooa)

48 #48,

Nah, just have someone watch your back.

Posted by: NJConservative at August 01, 2010 12:39 PM (LH6ir)

49 I feel better about being happy when he died now.

Posted by: steevy at August 01, 2010 12:47 PM (bm2js)

50 Red Howard apparently died of a heart attack while swimming in a hotel pool. When I think of Zinn clutching his chest unable to breathe while sinking in 10 feet of chlorinated water.....I can't help thinking "why couldn't the water have been boiling?".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 01, 2010 12:54 PM (9Lm5R)

51 But it can't be, old blade. He was one of us and he had an impeccable trouser crease.

Posted by: david brooks at August 01, 2010 12:57 PM (rfHsm)

52 But it can't be, old blade. He was one of us and he had an impeccable trouser crease.
Quite right, old chap. Not like those crazy con teabaggers.

Posted by: david klinghoffer at August 01, 2010 12:58 PM (rfHsm)

53 I can't believe how spot on you other two Davids are! We should form our own club.

At least Zinn wasn't one of those foul-mouthed Ace of Spades types. Egads, it makes me ill just thinking about them.

Posted by: david frum at August 01, 2010 01:00 PM (rfHsm)

54 The last thing in the world Poland wanted was "help" from the USSR. Other than that, right on.

Posted by: FUBAR at August 01, 2010 01:01 PM (LPL4Z)

55 #37 There are many hot babes at Boston U?

Posted by: robert mugabe at August 01, 2010 01:10 PM (rfHsm)

56 Posted by: NJConservative Most of the shitbirds at Columbia wouldn't know Joe McCarthy from Andrew McCarthy.

Posted by: Redriverted at August 01, 2010 01:28 PM (7x7+r)

57 49: You can watch my back. But I'll be walking in there like Travis Bickle post-mohican.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 01, 2010 01:31 PM (9Cooa)

34 While in China in 2000, amid capitalism that puts America to shame, I purchased a Little Red Book that vendors sold as a joke. Even our "guide" chuckled at the purchase. I'm sure there's a copy in the White House right now, and it isn't a joke to them.
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I was in the first wave of Western tourism to the PRC toward the end of of 1978. I bought a little red book then, and even then, the locals thought of it as a joke. Our former Red Guard guide (a wonderfully witty and up-beat guy, I should add) snickered as he leafed through it.

It was quite an experience --- people followed you in the streets by the hundreds, having never seen a Gwailo / "ghost person" before.

Drifting lazily down the Li river in Gui Lin, before millions of others did the same, was quite a treat.

As was seeing old Mig-17's on the tarmac at the airport.

Posted by: effinayright at August 01, 2010 01:35 PM (GNTj/)

59 #37, in 1984? Not so much.

Posted by: ParisParamus at August 01, 2010 01:48 PM (7Pu9b)

60 clutching his chest unable to breathe while sinking in 10 feet of chlorinated water.....I can't help thinking "why couldn't the water have been boiling?".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 01, 2010 04:54 PM (9Lm5R)

It was boiling where he ended up.

Posted by: Beto at August 01, 2010 01:51 PM (H+LJc)

61 #37, in 1984? Not so much.
:^(

Oh, well, back to raping a country.

Posted by: robert mugabe at August 01, 2010 02:01 PM (rfHsm)

@19: "Lefties look at commies and sigh: "I wish I was brave enough to come out of the closet."

While we look at commies and say, "Where's my fuckin' M-14?"
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Not really, no. The Right will never, ever, remotely attempt to fight domestic Communism, even at the point of their own extermination by the Left.

Posted by: Hugh Hefner at August 01, 2010 02:51 PM (4TzSk)

I like to push Bill Bennet's books on people as an antidote to Zinn's crap.

Paul Johnson's books are actually a better scholarly response to the Zinn school--extremely comprehensive and unapologetically conservative. Intellectuals is what Goldberg wishes he could have produced with Liberal Fascism.

Modern Times is the best broadside against the late, unlamented 20th century I've ever read--Johnson takes a dump on every socialist, Third World, communist reprobate that came to power. If you want to get an idea of what Obama's political philosophies are composed of, the chapters on post-colonial Africa and the "Bandung Generation" are perfect.

History of the American People is also very good, although he gives Nixon a bit too much of the benefit of the doubt. Otherwise, it's an absolute pleasure.

Posted by: Red Rocks Rockin' at August 01, 2010 03:17 PM (Zy6pS)

64 Parents,

Zinn's book is the required text for General Ed American History in colleges all across the country.

Read it and weep.

Posted by: PJ at August 01, 2010 04:51 PM (Fyjeu)

Intellectuals is what Goldberg wishes he could have produced with Liberal Fascism.

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And you know that....how?

Posted by: effinayright at August 01, 2010 05:16 PM (GNTj/)

Paul Johnson's books are actually a better scholarly response to the Zinn school...Modern Times is the best broadside against the late, unlamented 20th century I've ever read

I'm reading Modern Times right now. The chapter on the rise of Hitler was interesting. I always thought that the hyperinflation in Germany was caused by the reparations Germany had to pay after WWI. Not so according to the book. It was caused by Germany's spending truly huge amounts of money it didn't have to fight a war it was going to lose. Previously Germany used deficit spending to finance its wars which works only if you win and only if there are spoils to be had. A warning to us...

Posted by: Craig at August 02, 2010 10:53 AM (0smvD)

67 Cleanup on Aisles 67, 68, 69, and 70 ... Cleanup on Aisles 67, 68, 69, and 70.

Posted by: PSGInfinity at August 02, 2010 05:12 PM (8Sb7Q)

@71: "Germany... [spent] truly huge amounts of money it didn't have to fight a war it was going to lose. Previously Germany used deficit spending to finance its wars which works only if you win and only if there are spoils to be had. A warning to us...."

I'd be a fool to disagree with that! Just, it's too bad that nobody in the Right Wing saw fit to share this warning with Shrub in 2002-'03.

Posted by: Ludwig1215 at August 03, 2010 05:10 AM (PyAq2)

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