Review: Red Star over China
From the United States
margaret young
Edgar Snow has the singular distinction of sharing the "Most Gullible Pseudojournalist of the Twentieth Century" award with fellow Marxist Step 'n' Fetchit Walter Duranty. Both of these servile creatures were exposed on a daily basis to the most violent totalitarian dictatorships in history (Duranty in Stalin's Russia, Snow in Mao's China), and yet seemed unable to comprehend the systems they confronted (the sheer body count might have tipped off the less clueless). Snow performed the valuable service of fending off Western inquiries about Mao's massacares and slave labor program by providing an intellectual shield. When he wasn't functioning as Mao's errand boy, he was spreading lies about communism throughout the West. Snow's intellectual pretentiousness, along with the general prediliction for all things left, gave the Western intelligentsia an excuse to avoid taking a very hard look at Chinese communism. Snow has the blood of millions on his hands, along with his fellow travelers.
