As the cliché goes, history does not repeat, but it does rhyme. Thirty-five years ago the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed overnight, something that nobody in the West had foreseen. It turned out, contrary to the firm conclusion of all our vaunted intelligence apparatuses, that every one of those regimes was a paper tiger.| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
The history of nineteenth-century Russia does not get much attention in the West, and what little it does get usually focuses on people and events seen as precursors to Russia’s chaotic later history. As a result, any English-language book on the period, and there are not many, tends to be written by and directed toward […] The post Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855 (Richard Mowbray Haywood) first appeared on The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past.| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past
Unlike the cats grilled by the illegals invited by our rulers to invade once-decent towns all over America, Communism has nine lives, or more. Why is it that Communism, the most destructive and evil ideology in the history of mankind, always takes a licking and keeps on ticking? The short answer is that Communism is| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -