Letter to the editor: Does Reschenthaler know what socialism is?

“Fascism is anti-Marxism which seeks to destroy the enemy by the evolvement of a radically opposed and yet related ideology and by the use of almost identical and yet typically modified methods, always, however within the unyielding framework of national self-assertion and autonomy.” — Ernst Nolte

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler recently voted to condemn socialism but seems to not know what it is.

Notably during Rep. Maxine Waters’ testimony, Reschenthaler characterized Vladimir Putin as a socialist. Reschenthaler seems to have forgotten that we won the Cold War when he was 8 years old. Russia for the entirety of Reschenthaler’s adult life has been an oligarchy.

As for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Juche strongly emphasizes the individual, the nation-state and national sovereignty, and believes that a country will prosper once it has become self-reliant by achieving political, economic and military independence. The Trib’s readers are certainly thinking that that doesn’t sound much like socialism.

These facts, combined with the reality that the resolution in no place defines the socialism it’s supposedly condemning, gives the impression that District 14 has sent a representative to Congress who wouldn’t know what socialism was if it met him on the street and offered him Medicare.

Cole AllSmith

Denver, Colo.

The writer is a former North Versailles resident.