I think it's a bit harsh to judge all Marxists past, present and future by Nikita Krushchev - unless we're also judging Republicans by the standards of Richard Nixon.
I'm not liberal, so why would I be offended by referring to a liberal as a criminal?
And he was also probably the most intelligent American President of the 20th Century.
Nixon was a complex character. A racist who genuinely desired the advancement of blacks. A symbol of the establishment who always regarded himself as an outsider. Arrogant and deeply insecure. Ideological but also extremely pragmatic.
And he was also probably the most intelligent American President of the 20th Century.
Come. Nixon wasn't that bad, surely.
Any particular reason you don't extend that to Carter or Ford?You kidding me? Nixon was the last liberal president, in every sense of the word. He was the end of an era.
It is pretty common, at least in American history textbooks, to sort of imply that Kruschev was the "one good communist" whose liberalizing agenda was undone by the hard line Stalinist reactionaries.FP said:I think it's a bit harsh to judge all Marxists past, present and future by Nikita Krushchev - unless we're also judging Republicans by the standards of Richard Nixon.
Churchill won the Battle of Britain? That's a very strange take on it. I've not heard that one before.
Nixon was a complex character. A racist who genuinely desired the advancement of blacks. A symbol of the establishment who always regarded himself as an outsider. Arrogant and deeply insecure. Ideological but also extremely pragmatic.
And he was also probably the most intelligent American President of the 20th Century.
Any particular reason you don't extend that to Carter or Ford?
So he was the "smartest guysin the room".