Solid post. The reality of where tyranny leads needs to be shown to the brainwashed public constantly; the media (famously including the NY Times, which whitewashed the mega-murdering Soviet regime from the start), most of the education system, and much else in the Establishment have been soft-pedaling the horrors of Communism and even promoting it for generations.
EVERY Communist regime is and has been a mass-murder machine of epic dimensions.
Plenty of non-Communist regimes have also; POWER (as Tolkien described it) is the problem, although Communism includes a particularly robust mind parasite designed to get the targeted victims (i.e., everyone other than those at the top) excited about creating the "Workers Paradise" that (surprise!) turns out to be a prison-and-death-camp society where EVERYTHING is owned and controlled by a small, murderous clique.
Probably the best resource on the topic is The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
-- $64.75 in Hardback (and no Kindle version available), but if you have the cash and an interest in the truth about Communism, this book -- written by a group of left-leaning European scholars and published by Harvard University Press right at the end of the 20th Century -- is a must-have for your bookshelf. Includes (sometimes horrific) photographs.
From the description at Amazon:
As the death toll mounts―as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on―the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century.
Thank you for sharing this info. I believe some people use the terms Marxist or Maoist without realizing the history behind them. The mind control behind them is terrifying.
Yes, it truly is, and people NEED to learn the truth and BECOME terrified of it. Communism should NEVER be portrayed as compassionate or "trendy" -- it is simply evil and creates Hell on Earth.
Solid post. The reality of where tyranny leads needs to be shown to the brainwashed public constantly; the media (famously including the NY Times, which whitewashed the mega-murdering Soviet regime from the start), most of the education system, and much else in the Establishment have been soft-pedaling the horrors of Communism and even promoting it for generations.
EVERY Communist regime is and has been a mass-murder machine of epic dimensions.
Plenty of non-Communist regimes have also; POWER (as Tolkien described it) is the problem, although Communism includes a particularly robust mind parasite designed to get the targeted victims (i.e., everyone other than those at the top) excited about creating the "Workers Paradise" that (surprise!) turns out to be a prison-and-death-camp society where EVERYTHING is owned and controlled by a small, murderous clique.
Probably the best resource on the topic is The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression -- $64.75 in Hardback (and no Kindle version available), but if you have the cash and an interest in the truth about Communism, this book -- written by a group of left-leaning European scholars and published by Harvard University Press right at the end of the 20th Century -- is a must-have for your bookshelf. Includes (sometimes horrific) photographs.
From the description at Amazon:
Thank you for sharing this info. I believe some people use the terms Marxist or Maoist without realizing the history behind them. The mind control behind them is terrifying.
Yes, it truly is, and people NEED to learn the truth and BECOME terrified of it. Communism should NEVER be portrayed as compassionate or "trendy" -- it is simply evil and creates Hell on Earth.