COMMENTARY
Opposition From the Prophets of Common Sense
These are strange prophets indeed, since their prophecies invariably amount to affirmation that nothing will happen.
A 1952 Ad of the False Face of Communism in the Saturday Evening Post Magazine.
Eventually their various forms of optimism conflicted so flagrantly with the post-1976 facts that, to retain them, their adepts adopted the fallacious and totally hypothetical hope that the recent events in Eastern Europe will lead to the definitive disappearance of communism and therefore of the revolutionary process it spearheaded until recently.1
1 Regarding this hope, see the commentaries added to Chapter 2 of this Part III.
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Revolution and Counter-Revolution (York, Penn.: The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, 1993), Part III, Chapter III, pg.162.
