The left's passion for breaking eggs.

Lenin said it was necessary to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Let Bolshevism triumph!

Vladimir Bukovsky famously complained that he had seen the broken eggs, but no one he knew had ever tasted the omelet.^[1]

Mr. Bukovsky was someone who had some authority on this point. Jamie Glazov quotes from Bukovsky's To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter, on what happened when he went on a hunger strike in the Soviet Union:

[T]hey started force-feeding me - through the nostrils....they straightjacketed me, tied me down to a bed, and sat on my legs so that I wouldn't jerk. The others held my shoulders and my head....The feeding pipe was thick - thicker than my nostril - and wouldn't go in for love or money. Blood came gushing out of my nose and tears down my cheeks....But they kept pushing until the cartilages cracked and something burst - enough to make you howl like a wolf....but she [the doctor] kept on shoving the pipe farther and farther down - you'd choke if it came back up....There had just been time for everything to heal during the night and the blood to stop flowing when the brutes came back and did it all over again.... Everything swelled up until it was agony to touch...As they say in the Soviet Union – like a razor across your balls.^[2]

You'd think left and right would be united in their determination to avoid handing power to human slime so they can inflict this kind of injury on real humans.

But . . . no. The left has an amazing indifference to such dirty little details of communism. Nobility of the object is what matters. "Good omelets for the People!"

For the left it's enough if you say you do what you do for the betterment of mankind. How you go about that betterment is a matter between you and your security forces or resident terror cell. Or: "Let me grind out my cigarette in the palm of your hand to demonstrate my contempt for pain."

By an amazing coincidence it's never the left's eggs that get broken. It's always someone else who gets to make the "necessary" sacrifice for the common good. There was a liberal college professor in North Carolina who was ardently in favor of mandatory school busing when that issue was just coming to a boil in the United States. No sooner than it was instituted in his district he enrolled his children in private school.

Q.E.D.

Nor for the left is there ever the need to deal with the inconvenience of researching the facts, making your arguments in the public forum, building a consensus for your position, and tolerating people to do whatever it is that unsupervised people do while this process is unfolding. That's why the left loves having the Supreme Court wave its magic wand and validate all those magnificent social and legal experiments. So much more convenient just to grind someone's nose in the dirt. Ignorant people make enlightened people impatient with their stupid resistance!

And the facts can be so inconvenient. The Soviets called people with actual knowledge of what problems were being created by state intervention in the economy "wreckers." It wasn't the party hacks put in to manage the enterprises who were at fault, but it was the experts who actually knew how to purify municipal water or generate electricity. They were the saboteurs of socialism.

So what if they had to be sacrificed? "Nine grams for you, swine."

The left's silence on the crimes of communism is one of the greatest moral failings of our age. How else could young people even think to wear a t-shirt with Che Guevara's picture? Only some monumental failing on the part of their teachers and guides could make them ignore Che's bloodthirsty nature.

Notes
^[1] "On Zizek and Trilling." By John Holbo, Philosophy and Literature, date unknown (link added).
^[2] "The West Lost The War: Vladimir Bukovsky." By Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com, 5/9/01.