The Anti-Socialists

JOHN GRAY

IT WILL, PERHAPS, be remembered as the supremely heroic achievement of Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost that it has achieved what generations of Western anti-Communists failed to do: it has torn away the ideological veils of socialist systems and revealed the sordid realities of ubiquitous corruption, Third World living standards, environmental devastation, and economic ruin. In revealing these truths, the Soviet glasnost has only confirmed the prophetic insights of several generations of Western anti-socialist thinkers, who, although they accurately foretold the spiritual and material poverty produced by socialism, along with socialism’s ultimate nemesis in war and famine, saw their works consigned by the Western academic class to an Orwellian memory hole. Glasnost has thereby earned these thinkers a nervous and grudging respect among a few liberal and socialist commentators.

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JOHN GRAY

IT WILL, PERHAPS, be remembered as the supremely heroic achievement of Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost that it has achieved what generations of Western anti-Communists failed to do: it has torn away the ideological veils of socialist systems and revealed the sordid realities of ubiquitous corruption, Third World living standards, environmental devastation, and economic ruin. In revealing these truths, the Soviet glasnost has only confirmed the prophetic insights of several generations of Western anti-socialist thinkers, who, although they accurately foretold the spiritual and material poverty produced by socialism, along with socialism’s ultimate nemesis in war and famine, saw their works consigned by the Western academic class to an Orwellian memory hole. Glasnost has thereby earned these thinkers a nervous and grudging respect among a few liberal and socialist commentators.