Buchanan: Putin vs the Neo-Comitern

November 30, 2005
Putin vs. the Neo-Comintern
by Patrick J. Buchanan

The Comintern, or Communist International, also known as the Third International, was the 1919 creation of Vladimir Lenin.

Its declared purpose: Fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic."

Fomenting the communist revolution worldwide was, in brief, the Comintern's mission.

At its Seventh World Congress in 1935, however, on Stalin's orders, the Comintern repudiated the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism as its mission and called for formation of Popular Fronts in Western nations to combat fascism – a Moscow First policy.

For this act of heresy, Trotsky, the champion of permanent revolution, excommunicated Stalin as a "reformist" – and was himself rewarded in 1940 with an ice ax in the head, courtesy of Stalinist assassin Ramon Mercader.

But Trotskyism did not die with Leon Trotsky. It mutated and is today the taproot of that neoconservatism that calls for permanent revolution to advance not global communism, but global democracy. Today, this ideology is embedded in the Party of Reagan and the Bush administration, and neoconservatives are using tax dollars to create and operate their own Neo-Comintern.
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Now, Buchanan is being sited on a Democratic site. I am sorry, a racist, Judeophobic, sexist pig, even if having a popular anti-war opinion, is not worth quoting! Whose next, Duke?

the bush** administration. How'd you miss the thousands of Pat Buchanan posts? He's been a critic of the neos and very anti-Operation Iraqi Freedom from the get go.

Do you have a list of who we're allowed to site on here? Lately a lot of people have been making a lot of decisions about who people are supposed to cite, quote, refer to, etc. I just wonder what makes them the thread-police. What qualifies them for the job?

mentioned on DU. Goldwater, Scrowcroft,

"Buchanan is sited a lot here. Sometimes he's dead on right about the bush** administration." So is David Duke.

I have no list on who is allowed to be cited. I just find it interesting that bigots are good cites when your (general) needs are met.

Buchanan has a very naive take on the Neoconservative movement. If comparing it to a Communist revolution helps to take away the appeal then more power to him, but, if anything, the only type of Communism the Bush administration may be interested in is the type that exists in China.