JD Vance Speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ Screening in DC + More

Economic Manuscripts: Marx: Capital Vol. 3 Ch. 36

JD Vance Speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ Screening in DC

“The ruling elite of the societies have become actively hostile to some of the very ideas that those countries were founded on in the first place,” Vance said before an audience of about 100 people at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. In addition to Vance’s speech, the by-invitation-only event featured a screening and discussion of the first episode of the film series Live Not by Lies released April 1, by Angel Studios.

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Quote Origin: The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them

Saw this on Twitter earlier, and it reminded me of the following quote that’s attributed to Vladimir Lenin.

Quote Origin: The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them

Soviet dissident and propagandist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn also attributed it to Lenin.

US-funded VoA: The CIA’s Cultural War Against Soviet Russia

During the heyday of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the CIA began to realize that the Russian revolution’s promises of social equality had won over many Western European artists, writers, scientists.

In 1950, the CIA set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom with a goal of undermining the Soviet government and winning over the hearts and minds of Europe’s left-leaning intellectuals.

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Red Scared: Revising history at the Victims of Communism Museum

“THERE IS NO WAY he is a victim of communism,” my partner quips, pointing to a photo of the late Pope John Paul II. We are near the end of our visit to the new Victims of Communism Museum, standing in an elevator-size lobby with photographs of “victims” screen-printed all over the walls. Among the many victims and honorees: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the Dalai Lama, Romanian writer Herta Müller, Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, and Hungarian neofascist Viktor Orbán.

Red Scared: Revising history at the Victims of Communism Museum (archived)

Russophobia Running Riot

Though the news that Clown Prince Zelensky, Ukraine’s contemptible puppet President, is renting one of his Italian villas out to Russians for €50,000 per calendar month would lead to protests if his junta had not banned all such protests on pain of death, this further evidence of his corruption flies in the face of the rampant Russophobia all of Western Europe’s opinion makers have signed up to. Although I previously wrote about this Russophobia in the context of Russian children’s stories and the Ukrainian junta’s book burning policies, none of that could prepare either you or me for what now follows, for what resembles a German Jew watching Kristallnacht unfold one shattered window and one shattered life at a time.

Russophobia Running Riot