After the demise of the Soviet Union, crypto-communist features which had lain hidden in Americanism, or were carefully hidden during the Cold War, suddenly began to emerge. This was to be expected in view of the fact that America, just like the ex-Soviet Union, has been legally anchored in the same egalitarian foundations. If the Soviet Union had only managed to achieve some type of an affluent society, as America has, very likely nobody in the postmodern world would have given a passing thought to the millions of citizens who perished in communist genocides. By the same token, if America had failed to achieve such surprising economic growth, it is questionable how many  of its proponents and spokesmen would be preaching American ideology. Conversely, if one accepts the hypothesis that America has already achieved many communist goals, notably with the erection of its large multiracial universe, it is likely that less and less interest will be shown in the future to probe into the nature of the withering freedom of speech among Euro-Americans. Why examine freedom of speech if the legal foundations in America already posit freedom of speech as something “self-evident”?
Tomislav Sunic
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