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| Blumenthal screenshot People’s World Amistad Awards |
Just to be perfectly clear at the outset, Connecticut’s U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal is NOT a card carrying communist.
However, the head of the Connecticut Communist Party, Joelle Fishman, the head of the Communist Party in Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the head of the Communist Party in China, Xi Jinping, are all card carrying communists.
The seeming romance
between Connecticut’s communists, anchored firmly in New Haven, and the
super-rich Blumenthal, whom the high priests of communist orthodoxy undoubtedly
would have sent to the Soviet Gulag, is difficult to decipher, but there are
hints here and there in a brief address "surprise guest" Blumenthal
delivered on the occasion of the Connecticut Communist Party’s annual People’s
World Amistad Awards that may dispel the mystery.
In a sense it is
idle to speak of a local or state Communist Party, because the Communist Party
is now, and ever has been, a globalist venture united around a certain Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist
ideology, part of which involves the destruction of the capitalist class, which
would be everyone on Blumenthal’s campaign email list in toney Greenwich,
Connecticut, where the capitalist congressman lives in a splendor that may
appear nightmarish in his good friend Fishman’s troubled sleep.
The broader
Communist Party suffered a grievous setback three decades ago after then
President Ronald Reagan, standing in sight of the Berlin Wall, challenged then
President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to “tear down this wall.”
Gorbachev’s
renunciation of the Brezhnev Doctrine in December 1988 paved the way for the democratization of former Soviet Bloc
countries in Eastern Europe.
The Brezhnev
Doctrine was first and most clearly outlined by Sergei Kovalev in a
September 26, 1968 Pravda article entitled "Sovereignty and
the International Obligations of Socialist Countries." Brezhnev himself
reasserted the doctrine in a speech he gave at the Fifth Congress of
the Polish United Workers' Party in 1968, in which he stated:
"When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of
some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the
country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist
countries." The
reassertion of the doctrine was deployed retroactively to justify the crushing
of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, as well as other earlier Soviet
military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956.
These interventions
were intended to put an end to all and every effort on the part of states struggling
to throw off the Soviet incubus and thus challenge Russian hegemony inside imprisoned
Eastern Bloc nations, including Poland, considered by Soviet overlords to be a
defensive buffer against free NATO counties.
Ten months after
Reagan left office, the Berlin Wall separating East and West Germany fell.
Soon after, the Soviet Union itself collapsed in a heap of rubble, and former
Soviet communist infiltrated satellite states such as Ukraine, the Baltic
States and Poland recovered their independence and ancient liberties.
Marxism, as a
rational economic system, was simply laughed off the stage. “We pretended to
work,” said a disenchanted worker of the world in the former Soviet Union, “and
they pretended to pay us.”
Putin continues to believe that the dissolution of
the Soviet Union was “the
greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” Red diaper baby Joelle Fishman and other members of the Connecticut
Communist Party USA would second the motion. Putin’s recent “acquisition” of
Crimea in Ukraine and his possible military incursion into Eastern Ukraine are attempts to
revivify a moldering Brezhnev doctrine.
The question Blumenthal
ought to have asked himself before he chose to sprinkle glitter on Connecticut’s
Communist Party is this: What am I doing to my self-esteem, not to mention the
state Democrat Party, by associating myself approvingly with a resurgent
globalist effort to snuff out hard won democratic liberties in Poland, Ukraine
and the Baltic States? Really, why am I here at all? Shouldn’t I be revisiting St.
Vladimir's Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral where, seven short years ago, I
assured the congregation that I and other members of Connecticut’s U.S. Congressional
Delegation would, in the stirring words of U.S. Representative Jim Himes, “pledge
our unwavering support for the principle that people not just in the United
States but around the world will always have the right to determine the way in
which they are governed?”
In truth, Blumenthal was doing
what he usually does around election time in Mayor Justin Elicker’s New Haven.
He was playing both ends against the middle in hopes of drawing votes by
establishing a working solidarity both with the Connecticut Communist Party and
Connecticut Ukrainians, and he was advertising his political wares as the most
leftward leaning U.S. Senator in Congress. There is just now within the
new-model Democrat Party in Connecticut a fierce competition to see who first
will arrive at the end of an oppressive, capitalist, postmodern, inherently
racist, imperialistic, regime, and Blumenthal appears to be in the lead.
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