Has anyone on here actually read this bullshit?So let me get this straight: he joins Communist Party USA in the 1920s out of his own nihilism and hatred of the world, gets suckered into being a paper boy in the alleged communist underground, then his wife refuses to get an abortion which causes him to change his values entirely and abandon communism only to become a rat for the US government? Am I missing something here?Were Americans in the 1950s really that fucking gullible they can't see how his story is full of holes?
His review of Atlas Shrugged is a fucking banger
No one here has actually read
Wasn’t this Ronald Reagan’s favourite book?
>>24717355Or maybe he has a homosexual relationship with Alger Hiss while both of them were younger and flirt with being communists. Hiss goes on to reach a high level position within the State Department and Nixon exploits this to show how our government is being subverted. In reality there is no subversion and it’s all just political theater mixed with some bitterness on Chambers towards being jilted.
>>24717534Yes, I’ve also read that Chambers was secretly queer from other sources.
The first conservative grifter
>>24717363Summarize it for us.
His accusations have all been substantiated though.
>>24717940Proof?
>>24717355I read it. What exactly is unbelievable? The part where a disaffected youth is seduced into a utopian movement? The part where he slowly becomes disillusioned when he sees how corrupt and vicious they really are? The part where becoming a father changes a man to take responsibility? Are you so cut off from humanity that these are “plot holes” to you?
>>24717355>then his wife refuses to get an abortion which causes him to change his values entirelyIt's actually interesting how often abortion is used as a "redemption" catalyst, both in memoirs and in fiction, like a character's experience with abortion (whether getting one or refusing to get one) causes them to convert to Christianity and/or turns them politically conservative.For instance, this former punk said her abortion (forced by her boyfriend punk rock guitarist Brian Baker) is what eventually lead her to becoming Catholic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukwh_wcrHDcTwo examples I can think of in Christian fiction are Frank Peretti's "Prophet" and Randy Alcorn's "Deadline", both written in the early 90s when Operation Rescue was at its peak. Both novels deal with a journalist who starts off as a political moderate only to get caught up in the abortion issue and realize the mainstream media is lying about abortion and anti-abortion activists.
