tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post5867680211650620574..comments2024-03-28T17:58:56.707+11:00Comments on The Social Pathologist: Liberalism: A Tale of Two Men.The Social Pathologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12927698533626086780noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137904.post-21652500281119420372012-05-23T00:24:11.750+10:002012-05-23T00:24:11.750+10:00Here's a link to a recent article in the "...Here's a link to a recent article in the "Wall Street Journal" by Michael Moynihan concerning the American Communist writer Lillian Hellman (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304050304577375861475185678.html?mod=googlenews_wsj).<br />). Moynihan writes:<br /><br />Upon returning from the Soviet Union in 1933, the British writer Malcolm Muggeridge, stunned by the privation and state terror of communism, wondered how it was possible that "so many obvious and fundamental facts about Russia are not noticed even by serious and intelligent visitors." In 1937, as Stalin commenced his psychopathic purge of "Trotskyite enemies," the serious and intelligent playwright Lillian Hellman arrived in Moscow a stalwart supporter of Bolshevism, eager to demonstrate Muggeridge's point.<br /><br />Hellman, who cycled between writing for the theater and fattening her wallet producing Hollywood melodrama, would cite this Potemkin visit to Moscow as inspiration for "The North Star," her 1943 screenplay celebrating a verdant collective farm in Ukraine whose productive peasants—singing, insouciant comrades—were rudely dispersed by invading Nazis. The critic Mary McCarthy, who would later emerge as one of Hellman's fiercest detractors, declared the film a "tissue of falsehoods woven of every variety of untruth."Black Deathnoreply@blogger.com