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There they laughed at communism.
We are all used to sneering at communism because of its manifest failure to deliver the sustained rates of growth managed by market economies.
Such nose-thumbing at Communism's arthritic creed was news enough back then.
Kicked out of Russia by the dodderers in the Kremlin and welcomed in the U.S. and Europe, he repaid his new hosts with criticism almost as savage as that he had leveled at communism.
In his 1960 self-published book, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Fred Koch wrote that "The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America," and that welfare was a secret plot to attract rural blacks and Puerto Ricans to Eastern cities to vote for Communist causes and "getting a vicious race war started".
"You need to know why you are angry at Communism and why it can never be like this again.
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Compare that with extreme economic examples: capitalism (great at production, poor at distribution) and communism (great at distribution, poor at production).
It reveals that the new China is good at repression but less adept at practising communism.
This has its own dangers, of course – the commune, as he notes, was an attempt at "socialism, communism or anarchism in one city", which could be starved out and destroyed.
In his new book, Mr. Amis took aim not just at the Communism of his late father, the writer Sir Kingsley Amis, but also at the views of his old friend, the once Trotskyist Mr. Hitchens.
"In one area at least, communism taught us something positive," said Christel Hanewinckel, a Social Democratic parliamentarian.
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