In a recent edition of The Spectator Australia, Giles Auty took yet another swipe at communism as a political system when he wrote ‘Intellectuals in Western countries love to flirt with communism as an idea but the reality has always proved rather distant’ (8 August).
Few Speccie readers, and even fewer writers, would disagree with this unexceptional remark.
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