The True Story Of A Useful Idiot

Trying to make communists behave humanely is always a losing proposition

Another little history lesson for the socialist-democrats-communist admirers of Bernie Sanders, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and my personal favorite Prof. Asatar Bair, AKA Dr. Gulag.

There isn't a single day I don't read their comments on Tweeter about how THEIR new socialism/communism isn't what MY old socialism,the socialism I survived was.

They self appoint themselves as advocates for the working class, wrapping themselves in the red mantle of anti-capitalist fighters for the benefit of the proletariat. Which is quite ironic, because 99.9% of them never had a real blue collar job nor worked with their hands in their lives. And you can tell a lot about people just by looking at their hands.

Being a college student pursuing a major in Gender Studies or other such nonsense doesn't qualify one as a member of the working class. Nor being an aging hippy commune dweller turned politician like Bernie, or a community college prof like comrade Asatar Bair. Just tell these armchair Marxists to take a picture of their hands and post it on their Twitter feed. I can assure what you will see won't look like these caloused and dirty working man's hands in the picture above. On the contrary their hands will be delicate and well manicured like the hands of the armchair revolutionary communist kids in the picture below.

You will see the hands of people who never worked a real blue collar job for a living. Hands who never swung a hammer, or knead bread, or pulled weeds, or changed a truck tire. Hands that never carried a rifle in service of their country or folded the flag for its fallen.

So what do these people think will happen to their lives, what they will become when capitalism will be smashed to pieces and their socialist Utopia will be bestowed upon all of us? Since they don't have any work experience nor any notable skills, what will they do? I have no doubt the majority of them believe they will find employment doing what they do right now: flapping their lips and furiously typing socialist/communist talking points on their Iphones. They believe if they bring about their communist revolution it will be them who will be in charge, giving orders to the rest of us.

That ain't going to happen. Because as history teaches, time and again Marxist revolutions eat their children first. I'm sure that most of you know the story of how Bolsheviks exterminated the Mensheviks; how Stalin arrested and murdered half of the 1929 PCUS conference delegates, then sent a hitman to Mexico to plant an ice pick in the skull of his dear revolutionary comrade Trotsky.

So I'm not going to repeat what you already know. But I'm going to tell you a story about a Romanian man named Constantin-Titel Petrescu. Born in 1888 in a middle class family in Romania, he was the son of of a bank employee. He went to college and earned degrees in Law and Philosophy. Pretty much he had the typical pampered life of a young intellectual who never had to do real work for a living.

Just like so many of our starry eyed liberal college kids of present day America he read Karl Marx and became an avowed socialist and a social justice warrior. He professed his hatred for the men in uniform serving in the Romanian Armed Forces and was arrested for proffering insults and obscenities against them. Nevertheless, because Romania was a constitutional parliamentary kingdom having one of the most liberal Constitutions in Europe at the time, the young offender was tried and acquitted in Court.

Just like our present day soy eating, pajama wearing, anime porn loving, gaming addicted, young college going generation, our hero thought that (capital underlined “his”) kind of socialism was the real deal. And although he never personally swung a hammer or held a sickle with his own hands, he started advocating for the rights of the working class and agitating for socialist revolution. After his trial and acquittal he joined with like minded socialist personalities like Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Constantin Costa-Foru, Victor Eftimiu, Grigore Iunian, Radu D. Rosetti, Dem Dobrescu, Nicolae L. Lupu in creating a political organization called Liga Drepturilor Omului (the League for Human Rights).

Over the next couple of years comrade Constantin-Titel Petrescu works hard (with his mouth like comrade Astatar Bair, not with his back or hands like a real proletarian), and soon becomes the President of the Social-Democrat Party of Romania. Not a small achievement considering SDP was the third largest political Party in the country after the National-Peasant Party and the Liberal Party, and quite a a personal accomplishment for a guy who wasn't born in one of the political dynasties of the day.

After the end of WWII, Romania is occupied by the Soviets. The glorious Red Army soldiers are raping every woman, and stealing every wristwatch they see on people walking the streets of the cities they are encamped in.

Stalin’s communist envoys benevolently want to help the Romanian people become better friends of their communist Utopian empire so they teach the 800 or so registered members of the Communist Party how “win” the 1946 elections.

Again, I will not enter into details. Let's just say the Romanian communists who won the 1946 elections with the help of their Soviet puppeteers would be proud of present day Democrat Party great “achievement” in the 2020 election.

However despite all the election cheating in the 1946 elections the Romanian communists didn't won the 50%+1 majority needed to form an all-communist government. So what did they do? They start courting their Social-Democrat fellow travelers to enter in a political alliance and form a new government with the communists at the helm. Initially, the Socialist-Democratic Party leader, Constantin-Titel Petrescu approves the alliance and the communists enter the newly formed government. Soon, arrests and show trials of the leaders and most notable members of the opposition Parties start happening. The communist terror has begun.

Shortly thereafter the communists come with a new proposal: a merger between the communist Party and the SDP. By this time, Constantin-Titel Petrescu and a couple of his more moderate comrades realize they’ve been played and actually oppose the other more radical top members in their Party believing that joining the communists to form a new Party is a really bad idea. An idea which is as bad as the saying goes in America that 'feeding the crocodile and hoping it will eat you last', is a bad idea. In the 12th hour, C.T. Petrescu (who although was a Marxist himself had the common sense to realize swimming in the same pond with the communist crocodiles could be dangerous to his personal and his Party health) recognized the danger posed by Stalin’s Bolshevik puppets.

But just like our soy eating, Bernie Sanders voting young fellow Americans, many in the leadership of the Social-Democrat Party thought THEIR model of socialism with a human face will prevail after the alliance with the Communists, and not the imported Bolshevik one proposed by the communists. So after some negotiations the Communists and the Social-Democrats merged in a single Party called The Romanian Workers Party (PMR) and took over the tedious but very rewarding job of governing Romania and transforming its entire territory in a communist prison for the next 44 years.

Constantin-Titel Petrescu who opposed the merger had to resign his position as Party President. He was soon arrested and tried in a show trial under the bogus accusation of being a British (or American, it’s still unclear which) spy, then sentenced to life in prison. He was liberated after 7 years in 1955 and died shortly after of tuberculosis and scurvy. On a personal note, the same thing happen with my paternal grandfather, who died of TB contracted in prison just three years after he was 'liberated'

Petrescu was one of the lucky Social-Democrats the communists sent to their gulags. He was lucky because he died in his bed at home surrounded by his family after rotting 7 years in a communist prison. But his friends and founding members of the Party were not so lucky.

Ion Flueraş, Iosif Jumanca, George Grigorovici and Gh. Ene Filipescu all founders of the SocialistDemocrat Party died in prison, courtesy of their former colleagues who joined the communists and betrayed them. Their bones rest in unmarked mass graves outside the Sighet prison. And if you think the communists thanked those Socialist-Democrat traitors who voted for the merger of SDP with the communist Party, you’d be wrong. Just four years later when the communists didn’t needed them anymore because they were sufficiently established and their political rivals were already in gulags or dead and their Parties outlawed, the communists purged all the former members of the SDP turned communists, and sent them to gulags too.

Let this story be a warning to those starry eyed Bernie Sanders and Asatar Bair trained communist circus seals who believe their Utopian “humane” socialism/communism will prevail after the proletariat revolution . It will never happen. The ruthless communist hardliners will always win, while the believers in a humane, egalitarian communism for the benefit of the working people will always lose. People like Bill Ayers, 1970's communist domestic terrorist who is on record saying that for the communist revolution to succeed in America, a couple of million Americans will have to die, will be the ones to take power. The starry eyed armchair revolutionaries, the anime porn loving tankies, and the gaming kids who believe in the magic of Harry Potter and the goodness of communism, will be murdered and buried in mass graves even before the communists finish killing the rest of us, those patriots who will make a stand and fight against them.