{"id":45954,"date":"2021-08-09T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45954"},"modified":"2021-08-08T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T14:57:56","slug":"qotd-leonid-brezhnev-and-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/08\/09\/qotd-leonid-brezhnev-and-his-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Leonid Brezhnev and his mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/11\/21\/669509554\/in-china-the-communist-partys-latest-unlikely-target-young-marxists\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In China, The Communist Party&#8217;s Latest, Unlikely Target: Young Marxists<\/a>. &#8220;Young people who belong to Marxist groups have recently become the unlikely targets of a state crackdown due to their zeal to help educate and mobilize China&#8217;s working class to fight for their rights. The conflict has exposed a paradox between a party founded on Marxist principles and the very young people it has tasked with carrying those principles out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not really a paradox. Communism is just a con. When the true believers get in the way of the con, they have to be shut up.<\/p>\n<p>The old Soviet joke went like this: General Secretary Brezhnev shows his mother his palatial apartment in Moscow, his fancy dacha in the countryside, his chauffer-driven limousine, his personal helicopter, etc. and says &#8220;See mom, I&#8217;ve really made it. Aren&#8217;t you proud?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very much so,&#8221; she says. &#8220;But I&#8217;m worried, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you worried about?&#8221; asks Brezhnev.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, Leonid \u2014 what if the communists come back?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Reynolds, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/313863\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;This Reminds Me Of The Old Soviet Joke About Leonid Brezhnev And His Mother&#8221;, <em>Instapundit<\/em><\/a>, 2018-11-24. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, The Communist Party&#8217;s Latest, Unlikely Target: Young Marxists. &#8220;Young people who belong to Marxist groups have recently become the unlikely targets of a state crackdown due to their zeal to help educate and mobilize China&#8217;s working class to fight for their rights. 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