Ernest Hemingway was a Communist Supporter
According to the UK’s Guardian:
Last week, however, saw the publication of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press), which reveals the Nobel prize-winning novelist was for a while on the KGB’s list of its agents in America.
It always interests me when I hear the ferocity with which Hollywood entertainers, academics, and the media oppose the label of “communist.” Nevermind the fact that Hollywood was rampant with communists - it is no longer, according to the communists themselves.
Ezra Pound’s associations with Mussolini are a footnote to every highschool english class’s poetry unit, but I’ll-be-damned if you ever hear hints about the rampant communism in a wide variety of the most prominent entertainers, academics, and reporters. What is the difference?
The implied rule, from the media elite, is that fascism was worse than communism. And the media has always avoided this elephant in the room.
User Comments
jocelyn
July, 2009
1) want to show some proof?
2) who cares? even if you accept that communism was evil and awful, they were entertainers, not politicians. they weren’t imposing their ideas on the country. at worst, you could argue that they used their medium as propaganda, but hey, that’s freedom of speech for ya. no one was forcing people to watch it.
JFK
July, 2009
The proof is in the article link.
So what? The USSR massacred millions of its own people. Hungarians who fought that empire were butchered. Hemingway implicitly supported that by his actions. The communists were far worse than Hitler
I-RIGHT-I
July, 2011
You’re not the brightest bulb in the pack are you jocelyn? So, Hemmingway was a fellow traveler? Pity but it’s good to know. Of course these days entertainers, academics and even politicians call themselves Progressives with pride…the old code word for Communist. America will never be great again until we hang every last one of them. Sean?
Alex
July, 2011
Hooray to every freedom fighters. Mark my word, this world soon be free, and people like Hemingway will be base for this new free world.
joe
August, 2011
If you truelly believe that communism is equal or as you so eloquently put it ‘just as bad as’ fascism, you sir have a fundamental misunderstanding of fascism. The two cannot be compared except in perhaps the relationship the government has with its people. Both are systems of large central governments, however the functions, ideology, state apparatus, and intent are radically diffrent. It seems you are placing hammers with shovels and calling them equal because there both made of wood and metal. This simplicity only illuminates the shallow pools of political and historical thought you have waded into. Insofar as your far reaching and rather dubious comments on the nature and relation of celebraty culture in america and its role in the cold war, I am not able to establish your position. I suppose your statement is that we as americans have allowed ‘political traitors’ to be admired for their literary merit, and this is a ‘morally hainus’ crime? The crime being treason. This would suppose that these celebraties were active KGB agents who were actively pursuing the downfall or compramise of our political system or nation. I will admit to the power of media and media control upon a populas. However your supposition makes the claim that the american media is or had the power of state propaghada machine. This mechanism would then be a target for forign spie networks to patch into and comprimise. However I find this propositin offensive in that the American media while having its definate propaghada paid for by the state during active war times, does a fairly good job in seperating the private sector (of which hollywood and television are comprised of) and public domain. If you subscribe to Noam Chomsky’s school of thought in regard to power and domination and control then your arguement for use of celebraty subversion is plausable. I however find while filled with grains of truth, the arguement for a american fascist state is hard to stomach. - just a thought. PS if hemmingway was a ‘communist’ he sure was a bad one, his works rarely delt with politics or political ideology. His life was self serving not organized toward a international prolaterian revolution. If Hemmingway was a agent of communism then we had little to nothing to worry of. I however find that idea silly, and would worry more about the ernesto guevara’s who were effective and powerfull.
Samantha
March, 2012
Communism is about class struggle, fascism about race struggle.
Both are about dividing human beings into closed categories in order to pitch them against each other. Communism has nothing to do with social justice. It is about totalitarian political power.