Author Archives: Kirk Mahoney

Mandate Protesters Are Justin Trudeau’s Mensheviks

Vladimir Lenin in 1903 used the term “Bolsheviks” to exaggerate the size of the support for his political faction, which was small, and used the term “Mensheviks” to minimize the number of his political opponents, who heavily outnumbered his faction. In 1898, Russian Marxists had organized the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party; this was illegal in …

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Solzhenitsyn Warned about the Interdependency of Lies and Violence

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the interdependency of lies (he called them “falsehood”) and violence: We shall be told: what can literature possibly do against the ruthless onslaught of open violence? But let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven …

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Solzhenitsyn Warned about the Danger of Censorship

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about censorship: Contemporary science knows that suppression of information leads to entropy and total destruction. Suppression of information renders international signatures and agreements illusory; within a muffled zone it costs nothing to reinterpret any agreement, even simpler–to forget it, as though it had never really existed. (Orwell understood this …

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