Motto: “In this sense Marxism performs the function of a religion, and its efficacy is of a religious character. But it is a caricature and a bogus form of religion, since it presents its temporal eschatology as a scientific system, which religious mythologies do not purport to be.”–Leszek Kolakowski

Daca exista o mare lectie a veacului trecut, ea este ca ideile politice au consecinte. Tema relatiei dintre leninism si stalinism, a originilor bolsevismului in doctrina mesianic-revolutionara creata de Karl Marx, ramane una de fierbinte actualitate. Dovada, polemicile din Anglia legate de atasamentele militant marxiste ale ganditorului social Ralph Miliband (1924-1994) impartasite, iata, de fiul sau Ed, liderul laburist care ar putea sa devina premier al Marii Britanii: “How proud Ralph would have been to hear him responding the other day to a man in the street who asked when he was ‘going to bring back socialism’ with the words: ‘That’s what we are doing, sir.’ “ How proud, indeed. Asemeni istoricului Isaac Deutscher, profesorul Ralph Miliband a detestat capitalismul liberal si a ramas fidel pana la capat visului socialist. Un vis care, iata, a fost preluat de noua generatie a familiei Miliband…

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/the-road-to-nowhere/

http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2013/10/12/how-david-horowitz-revealed-the-truth-about-ralph-milibands-legacy-what-it-should-teach-the-british-left/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2435751/Red-Eds-pledge-bring-socialism-homage-Marxist-father-Ralph-Miliband-says-GEOFFREY-LEVY.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-daily-mails-feature-on-ralph-miliband-was-many-things-but-antisemitic-it-was-not-8864217.html

Iata linkul la raspunsul lui Ed Miliband:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2439593/Why-father-loved-Britain-Ed-Miliband.html

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