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The Generation That Knew Not Josef is the most fascinating yet chilling reading I've done in years. It details the Left's love and blind devotion to both the teachings of Karl Marx and the communist despotic tyrannies that followed them. For no other reason than that Marx and Engels said so, socialists look forward to the march of human progress to a workers' paradise utopia of equality and shared blessings, even though there has never been a socialist society yet that was not tyrannical and intolerable for the individual workers.

Worst of all is how those followers openly deny or justify the pure evil of these regimes -- Stalin murdered more than 50 million of his own people, while Mao did the same, yet western apologists either deny or whitewash their crimes. And those who try to tell us about the genuine horrors of these regimes, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, are labeled as being either ignorant or downright liars.

What is frightening today is that it is all being done again. The government in Washington, DC -- BOTH parties -- is destroying the United States in the name of socialism and globalism while those few who are trying to tell us what's really going on and trying to promote the right things to do about it are being treated with pure contempt and scorn. They include Lou Dobbs, formerly of CNN, Glenn Beck on Fox News, and Sarah Palin among the moderates, and among the right-wingers the likes of Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. We may not like some of these (Hannity and Limbaugh are particularly hated), but what they are telling us is true; and, precisely as Solzhenitsyn and others were, they are victims of the politics of personal destruction.

This is not about Right vs Left or Republican vs Democrat. It's about the downfall of the United States because of both parties, something partisans refuse to admit, but the new god -- Socialism -- is marching on, and we will not like it when it arrives. Only conservatives and independents will criticize the socialist-bent government we have now because the Left will never criticize its own, and conservatives and independents who do criticize it will be hammered with abuse, but Billingsley's book is a dire warning to us not to believe the socialist propaganda or turn our heads away as it marches on.

Except for the fact that the Soviet Union was still in existence when Billingsley wrote this book, it is as current today as it was then, and more urgent. As science was the god of the nineteenth century, socialism is the god of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is overtaking America as well as the rest of the globe. And, as with previous socialist tyrannies, it will be bad.


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The Generation That Knew Not Josef A Critique of Marxism and the Religious Left Lloyd Billingsley 9780880700818 Books Reviews

Until very recently, the Christian intelligencia for the past hundred years has advocated more left of center social policy. Since the days of Oberlin College down through the era of the Progressives and Outlook, edited by Lyman Abbot and Theodore Roosevelt, and carried on in the tradition of the Christian Century, these intelligencia have had a love affair with the Soviet Union and other planned economies. The eighteenth century liberalism of our nation's founding fathers has been substituted for a new kind of liberalism, a liberalism not of freedom and laissez de faire, but of control, power, and planning. Conservatives who differed radically in their theological stance from these progressives developed no conservative political philosophy or program, but merely opted for a pragmatic liberalism based upon social gospel ideology.

In the name of social justice and in the name of God, the religious left endorsed most of the policies in Marxist nations around the world, while at the same time criticized free nations, such as the United States, for class oppression and exploitation of the poor, for imperialism, militarism, and materialism.

These are the generation that knew not Josef. Lloyd Billingsley, however, devotes the first part of his book describing the generation that knew Josef. Many of the generation of the thirties, forties, and fifties visited the social utopias of the USSR and Cuba that they had always dreamed about. Despite their idealism, reality broke in upon them as dawn breaks the night. Billingsley describes the journeys of Malcolm Muggeridge, Arthur Koestler, Andre Gide, Milovan Djilas, George Orwell, and Pierre Charette, as well as many others. The facts of socialism assailed the fiction of the social utopia of their dreams. Socialism of this kind destroyed art, the creative mind, truth, literally the bodies as well as the souls of countless masses. The horrors of Hitler were no match for the terrors of socialism.

Billingsley's description of these travelers and their descent is a popularized and edited down version of Hollander's Political Pilgrims. Some significant travelers that he does not mention are described in John P. Diggins' Up From Communism.

The contemporary Religious Left is a generation that knew not Josef. In contrast to their predecessors, these socialist evangelicals, as Billingsley calls them, do not want to live in socialist countries, no matter how just they are. In contrast, their predecessors might be excused for their naiveté, at least in the beginning of their socialist experiments. The Socialist evangelicals have not learned from the mistakes of their predecessors. Rather, they appear to support, if not wholeheartedly endorse, Marxist regimes wherever they are established, while consistently attacking the United States and Western Europe. For example, they believe that the United States is just as responsible for the downing of the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in August, 1983 as is the Soviet Union. "We can understand the Soviets, though we cannot understand the Americans and their outrage."

These socialist evangelicals describe the wonderful utopias of Cuba and Nicaragua while at the same time closing their eyes to the massive immigration of refugees to the Free World from these very same countries. They blame North American and European Christians for their lack of concern about the poor, when in fact, their record of giving to the poor and increasing the real wealth of the lower classes is much better than in Marxist countries. In fact, they have had a much better record of giving aid on the international scale, than has the Soviet Block and other Marxist nations. The evangelical left talk peace and compassion, yet promote policies of class warfare and compulsion.

The religious left, says Billingsley, live in a dream world and need to experience for themselves the reality of Communism and Socialism. Their love affair needs to be consummated move to the Soviet Union or other Marxist block countries and experience their kind of social justice first hand.

Although this book is not a very good critique of Marxism in an academic sense, it describes the journeys of those who became disillusioned with the praxis of Marxism, who could not separate the ideology from its practice. It is exceptionally well-written with catchy phrases throughout. The chapters are sometimes short and even choppy, more like reading a political tract. But maybe that is the type of books most Christians read rhetoric without meat. The meat is in the books cited in Billingsley's footnotes. It is a book of experience rather than ideology. It is a book difficult to put down. It is must reading for those concerned about the future of the world in which we live.
leftists often forget their fellow-travellers. Hi school kids should read this. wouldn't hurt some media moguls, either. Stalin was prbly the biggest deadbeat of the 20th century and that's saying something!
There was a reference to this title in another book I was reading and found it at used.
Compelling reading. Concise, informative, 'eye opening'. Buy it. Read it. Share it.
The Generation That Knew Not Josef is the most fascinating yet chilling reading I've done in years. It details the Left's love and blind devotion to both the teachings of Karl Marx and the communist despotic tyrannies that followed them. For no other reason than that Marx and Engels said so, socialists look forward to the march of human progress to a workers' paradise utopia of equality and shared blessings, even though there has never been a socialist society yet that was not tyrannical and intolerable for the individual workers.

Worst of all is how those followers openly deny or justify the pure evil of these regimes -- Stalin murdered more than 50 million of his own people, while Mao did the same, yet western apologists either deny or whitewash their crimes. And those who try to tell us about the genuine horrors of these regimes, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, are labeled as being either ignorant or downright liars.

What is frightening today is that it is all being done again. The government in Washington, DC -- BOTH parties -- is destroying the United States in the name of socialism and globalism while those few who are trying to tell us what's really going on and trying to promote the right things to do about it are being treated with pure contempt and scorn. They include Lou Dobbs, formerly of CNN, Glenn Beck on Fox News, and Sarah Palin among the moderates, and among the right-wingers the likes of Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. We may not like some of these (Hannity and Limbaugh are particularly hated), but what they are telling us is true; and, precisely as Solzhenitsyn and others were, they are victims of the politics of personal destruction.

This is not about Right vs Left or Republican vs Democrat. It's about the downfall of the United States because of both parties, something partisans refuse to admit, but the new god -- Socialism -- is marching on, and we will not like it when it arrives. Only conservatives and independents will criticize the socialist-bent government we have now because the Left will never criticize its own, and conservatives and independents who do criticize it will be hammered with abuse, but Billingsley's book is a dire warning to us not to believe the socialist propaganda or turn our heads away as it marches on.

Except for the fact that the Soviet Union was still in existence when Billingsley wrote this book, it is as current today as it was then, and more urgent. As science was the god of the nineteenth century, socialism is the god of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is overtaking America as well as the rest of the globe. And, as with previous socialist tyrannies, it will be bad.