Communists who can't stop invoking the discourse of democracy

There are those former communists in the Arab world who use the discourse on democracy religiously--in every sentence.  It is their way of apologizing to the Right for their past sins.  They are seeking forgiveness.  And some of the hypocritical communists who have officially aligned themselves with the Right, like Karim Muruwwah in Lebanon, now claim that they were struggling for democracy all along, even when they were writing tributes for Joseph Stalin.  I wish they would just shut up.