Studied Self-Deception

Communism, as Churchill and a few like-minded realists insisted, should have been strangled, ruthlessly and with good conscience, in its swaddling clothes. But the captains of Western civilization were preoccupied with other concerns, such as squeezing the Kaiser till his pips squeaked. And so they dithered and delayed and deluded themselves. So blind have they become through studied self-deception that they now do not see the supreme reality: the approaching birth of a world order, with the terrible infant of Petrograd standing ready as midwife.

Against all logic and justice, in defiance of mankind’s hopes and strivings, Communism appears as the only force with the will to wrench from the womb our century’s inevitable issue. The West, and particularly the United States, has thus far abdicated; the world, made one by war and technology, goes by default to darkness. Indeed, all but a very few in the West’s front rank are determined to face the other way, to deny that the world is at stake.

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Communism, as Churchill and a few like-minded realists insisted, should have been strangled, ruthlessly and with good conscience, in its swaddling clothes. But the captains of Western civilization were preoccupied with other concerns, such as squeezing the Kaiser till his pips squeaked. And so they dithered and delayed and deluded themselves. So blind have they become through studied self-deception that they now do not see the supreme reality: the approaching birth of a world order, with the terrible infant of Petrograd standing ready as midwife.

Against all logic and justice, in defiance of mankind’s hopes and strivings, Communism appears as the only force with the will to wrench from the womb our century’s inevitable issue. The West, and particularly the United States, has thus far abdicated; the world, made one by war and technology, goes by default to darkness. Indeed, all but a very few in the West’s front rank are determined to face the other way, to deny that the world is at stake.