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:Let's discuss what we're discussing here; there is no evidence Russell abandoned these views well ''after'' all the genocides the Communists committed; well into the 1960s, Russell was a charter members of the "blame America crowd". And unlike Wikipedia, another Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mr. Alexandr Solzhenisyn's criticism of Russell and his support for the Soviet Union '''will not''' be censored and '''will''' go into this Conservapedia bio. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 21:23, 15 May 2007 (EDT)
:Let's discuss what we're discussing here; there is no evidence Russell abandoned these views well ''after'' all the genocides the Communists committed; well into the 1960s, Russell was a charter members of the "blame America crowd". And unlike Wikipedia, another Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mr. Alexandr Solzhenisyn's criticism of Russell and his support for the Soviet Union '''will not''' be censored and '''will''' go into this Conservapedia bio. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 21:23, 15 May 2007 (EDT)
Never abondoned these views, he never had those views, which is precisely the point. And regarding censorship, you are the one who censored Bertrand Russell's writings, by posting only one tiny snippett from the preface to The Theory and Practice of Bolshevism, where I posted most of the preface, and quote from chapter 1.
I cannot share the hopes of the Bolsheviks any more than those of the Egyptian anchorites; I regard both as tragic delusions, destined to bring [16]upon the world centuries of darkness and futile violence...I do not know whether Bolshevism can be prevented from acquiring universal power. But even if it cannot, I am persuaded that those who stand out against it, not from love of ancient injustice, but in the name of the free spirit of Man, will be the bearers of the seeds of progress, from which, when the world's gestation is accomplished, new life will be born."
Does this sound like a man that had those views? If he felt like this then, do you think it is likely that later on he became sympathetic to the Soviet Union, when the crimes against humanity and the oppression became much greater.
"The blame America crowd" lol - jingoistic tripe that appeals to the ignorant and moronic rabble. Have you ever noticed that people with Russell's intellect, not just Russell, generally despise the irrational nationalistic sentiment that underpins that phrase you uttered. "Nationalism is an infantile disease; it is the measles of mankind." Albert Einstein
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