Spys and Dupes: The Nation's Top 50 Progressives… and Socialists and Communists

"Today's progressives get annoyed if you call them socialists."
It was a shame that Robeson was Stalin's tool. It makes one wonder if Obama will make their next list.
Katrina vanden Heuvel (the editor-publisher and part owner) is the classic guilt-ridden-bourgeois, pampered heiress-socialist who has made her life 'meaningful' with totalitarian ecstasy.

The American Spectator : The Nation's Top 50 Progressives… and Socialists and Communists

By Paul Kengor on 3.30.12

Did Katrina vanden Heuvel think no one would notice her magazine's affinity with friends of Joseph Stalin?

The Nation leads with Eugene Debs at number 1. Debs was a socialist -- a capital "s" "Socialist." Fittingly, it was 100 years ago this year, in 1912, that Debs ran for president on the Socialist Party ticket, placing fourth in a contest dominated by a progressive Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, and a progressive Republican, Teddy Roosevelt. ...
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Paul Robeson was deadly serious. To shoot such malefactors, said Robeson emphatically, was "the government's duty." How dare anyone oppose "this really free society" run by Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lavrenti Beria, the NKVD, the GRU, and regulated by the vast Gulag archipelago? Any such villain, by Robeson's estimation, ought to be "put down… with a firm hand." Robeson hoped that "they [Soviet authorities] will always do it" -- that is, always employ such just executions....
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