Blue Denimed Ants of Red China

The failure of the United States and the West to clear the earth of pestilential Communism, as they perceived the evil of Nazism and finally eradicated it, must be imputed to wilful ignorance. For the audit of Bolshevism’s monomania and its monstrously degrading rule in the Eurasian arc of its conquests—as totted up by Western Communists restored to mental and spiritual health, by escapees and by unillusioned visitors, as well as in the self-revelation of Communist boastings, criticism and statistics—is recorded in thousands of volumes which would fill a vaulted hall in the Library of Congress. It is all there for our statesmen, including the record of the open, venomous and inveterate siege laid against the liberties, institutions and values of the Western societies by Moscow and Peiping. Yet the West remains in retreat, out of a sickness, one fears, that is compounded of Liberal positivism, unmanly fear of physical annihilation, and a crisis of the nerves against which the truths of history have not yet, and may not ever, prevail.

Suzanne Labin’s The Anthill: The Human Condition in Communist China, translated from its successful French edition by Edward Fitzgerald, adds an eloquent, compassionate and emotionally stirring dimension to the literature of the enemy’s schizophrenic deracination, his inhumanity to man, and his insensate determination to reduce us all to blue-denimed ants on our own anthills.

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The failure of the United States and the West to clear the earth of pestilential Communism, as they perceived the evil of Nazism and finally eradicated it, must be imputed to wilful ignorance. For the audit of Bolshevism’s monomania and its monstrously degrading rule in the Eurasian arc of its conquests—as totted up by Western Communists restored to mental and spiritual health, by escapees and by unillusioned visitors, as well as in the self-revelation of Communist boastings, criticism and statistics—is recorded in thousands of volumes which would fill a vaulted hall in the Library of Congress. It is all there for our statesmen, including the record of the open, venomous and inveterate siege laid against the liberties, institutions and values of the Western societies by Moscow and Peiping. Yet the West remains in retreat, out of a sickness, one fears, that is compounded of Liberal positivism, unmanly fear of physical annihilation, and a crisis of the nerves against which the truths of history have not yet, and may not ever, prevail.

Suzanne Labin’s The Anthill: The Human Condition in Communist China, translated from its successful French edition by Edward Fitzgerald, adds an eloquent, compassionate and emotionally stirring dimension to the literature of the enemy’s schizophrenic deracination, his inhumanity to man, and his insensate determination to reduce us all to blue-denimed ants on our own anthills.