The Generation That Knew Not Josef: A Critique of Marxism and the Religious Left

The Generation That Knew Not Josef is the most fascinating yet chilling reading I've done in years. It details the Left's love and blind devotion to both the teachings of Karl Marx and the communist despotic tyrannies that followed them. For no other reason than that Marx and Engels said so, socialists look forward to the march of human progress to a workers' paradise utopia of equality and shared blessings, even though there has never been a socialist society yet that was not tyrannical and intolerable for the individual workers. Worst of all is how those followers openly deny or justify the pure evil of these regimes -- Stalin murdered more than 50 million of his own people, while Mao did the same, yet western apologists either deny or whitewash their crimes. And those who try to tell us about the genuine horrors of these regimes, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, are labeled as being either ignorant or downright liars. What is frightening today is that it is all being done again. The government in Washington, DC -- BOTH parties -- is destroying the United States in the name of socialism and globalism while those few who are trying to tell us what's really going on and trying to promote the right things to do about it are being treated with pure contempt and scorn. They include Lou Dobbs, formerly of CNN, Glenn Beck on Fox News, and Sarah Palin among the moderates, and among the right-wingers the likes of Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. We may not like some of these (Hannity and Limbaugh are particularly hated), but what they are telling us is true; and, precisely as Solzhenitsyn and others were, they are victims of the politics of personal destruction. This is not about Right vs Left or Republican vs Democrat. It's about the downfall of the United States because of both parties, something partisans refuse to admit, but the new god -- Socialism -- is marching on, and we will not like it when it arrives. Only conservatives and independents will criticize the socialist-bent government we have now because the Left will never criticize its own, and conservatives and independents who do criticize it will be hammered with abuse, but Billingsley's book is a dire warning to us not to believe the socialist propaganda or turn our heads away as it marches on. Except for the fact that the Soviet Union was still in existence when Billingsley wrote this book, it is as current today as it was then, and more urgent. As science was the god of the nineteenth century, socialism is the god of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is overtaking America as well as the rest of the globe. And, as with previous socialist tyrannies, it will be bad.