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The New York Times is not widely known as a hotbed of necromancy the mystical science of communicating with or even raising the dead but Im starting to wonder if it is trying to get my late father to come back to earth so he can walk through the Gray Ladys offices and slap the editors with a semi-frozen mackerel.

The Times has been running a series on Communism called The Red Century. Its really, really weird. At times, it feels like the greatest high-brow trolling effort in recorded history. Some of the headlines read like they were plucked from the reject pile at The Onion. I particularly enjoyed Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism. One wonders what all the women who had to service their prison guards for a crust of bread would think about that. With the exception of one essay by Harvey Klehr, the upshot seems to be an effort to rehabilitate Communism for a certain kind of New York Times liberal who desperately needs to cling to the belief that he was on the right side of an argument he lost.

The tone is less Communism was awesome and more Well, we sophisticated people understand it was a mixed bag, so lets focus on the bright spots. E.g., Maos collectivization liberated women from domestic service and put them to work in factories (that is the millions of women who werent killed in the process).

This passage from Vivian Gornicks gauzy memoir of Communism captures the overall spirit of the series (emphasis mine):

Most Communists never set foot in party headquarters, laid eyes on a Central Committee member, or were privy to policy-making sessions. But every rank-and-filer knew that party unionists were crucial to the rise of industrial labor; party lawyers defended blacks in the South; party organizers lived, worked, and sometimes died with miners in Appalachia; farm workers in California; steel workers in Pittsburgh. What made it all real were the organizations the party built: the International Workers Order, the National Negro Congress, the Unemployment Councils. Whenever some new world catastrophe announced itself throughout the Depression and World War II, The Daily Worker sold out in minutes.

It is perhaps hard to understand now, but at that time, in this place, the Marxist vision of world solidarity as translated by the Communist Party induced in the most ordinary of men and women a sense of ones own humanity that ran deep, made life feel large; large and clarified. It was to this clarity of inner being that so many became not only attached, but addicted. No reward of life, no love nor fame nor wealth, could compete with the experience. It was this all-in-allness of world and self that, all too often, made of the Communists true believers who could not face up to the police state corruption at the heart of their faith, even when a 3-year-old could see that it was eating itself alive.

I wrote about Gornicks essay on the Corner at the time, so I wont dwell on it now. But the ideas here and throughout the series are fairly obvious, because so many of them hardened into sad clichs long ago. The motives were good! The revolution was betrayed! Real socialism is a worthy goal! Its never been tried!

Frankly, I find the Twitter feed of the Socialist Party of Great Britain more entertaining and more honest:

Its an incredibly useful debating tactic to say that every failed socialist country wasnt really socialist because it had a ruling class. The problem is that there will never be a true socialist country because ruling classes are inevitable. The unapologetic reds should spend a little less time reading Marx and read more Max Nomad, Milovan Djilas, Max Schachtman, James Burnham, and other Communists and former Communists who understood that any attempt to create a true socialist society runs into the Iron Law of Oligarchy. Every organization requires some small group of people to make important decisions. They may use their special knowledge and power to help people, but its also a sure bet that they will use it to help themselves as well. A society without democratic institutions and market mechanisms by its nature will invest bureaucrats with enormous power to make choices about how other people will live.

Anyway, what got me thinking about Communism in the first place was this story. It turns out that Russian meddling in the election wasnt reserved for generating an army of MAGA Twitter bots:

A social media campaign calling itself Blacktivist and linked to the Russian government used both Facebook and Twitter in an apparent attempt to amplify racial tensions during the U.S. presidential election, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN.

This is amusing for a bunch of reasons, but the relevant one brings us back to the Times Red Century stuff. It is absolutely true that many dedicated American Communists and Communist sympathizers cared sincerely and passionately about civil rights. And that cause was indeed good and noble. But what gets left out of the picture is that Soviet support for their cause was not good and noble. It was, simply, evil and cynical. First of all, the notion that a totalitarian dictatorship that murdered and enslaved its own people actually cared about civil rights for Americans shouldnt have passed the laugh test.

But on the matter of Russias meddling in American politics, the hypocrisy of American liberals isnt remotely captured by shouting Romney was right! about Russia.

Russias meddling in American politics has continued, with only the briefest interruption in the 1990s, for a century. Liberals may only recently have discovered fake news but that crap has been made in Russia for decades. The Soviets, with the aid of useful idiots and even-more-useful agents, convinced large swathes of the world that the CIA created AIDS. During the Korean War, they fabricated confessions and other evidence that America used biological-warfare weapons. The Soviets undermined democratic societies and developing countries throughout the world with conspiracy theories planted in newspapers and TV shows and peddled by seemingly legitimate academics. Moscows Patrice Lumumba University (no really) granted Ph.D.s in Holocaust denial and anti-Zionist canards.

The Soviets loved black radicals in the U.S. not because they gave a rats ass about black empowerment or civil rights but because they wanted to sow unrest in America. At minimum, they liked to use images of civil unrest for even greater propaganda victories. But the ultimate goal, until the very end of the Cold War, was the collapse of the United States.

Id go into further detail, but ThinkProgress actually has a very good article on this history:

For instance, as described in Christopher Andrews The Sword and the Shield, a detailed composition of KGB operations compiled by a former KGB archivist, Soviet operations to stoke racial tensions spiked in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1967, Moscow aimed at removing Martin Luther King, Jr., from his leadership role within the broader civil rights movement. Per Andrew, KGB higher-ups approved a plan to place articles in the African press, which could then be reprinted in American newspapers, portraying King as an Uncle Tom who was secretly receiving government subsidies to tame the civil rights movement and prevent it threatening the Johnson administration. (Writes Andrew, MLK was probably the only prominent American to be the target of active measures by both the FBI and the KGB.)

As War is Borings Darien Cavanaugh added, the campaign sought to replace King with Stokely Carmichael, hoping a less pacifist leader would help spark a race war within the U.S. The drive also included, in a harbinger of the Facebook ads to come, distributing fabricated pamphlets that showed far-right groups bent on developing a plan for the physical elimination of leading figures in the Negro movement in the U.S.

Growing bolder by the early 1970s, the KGB moved beyond innuendo into a far more violent strain of its campaign. Moscow higher-ups including then-KGB chief Yuri Andropov, who would eventually lead the Soviet Union in the early 1980s signed off on pamphlets, to be sent to African-American militants, which said that Jewish vigilante groups viewed them as black mongrels. Writes Cavanaugh, the pamphlets were distributed to 30 black militant groups in the New York area.

Meanwhile, the KGB approved a plan to release explosives in the Negro section of New York, with one KGB official suggesting bombing one of the Negro colleges as a back-up option. Following the planned bombing, KGB agents would then issue anonymous phone calls to two or three black organizations, claiming that the explosion was the work of the Jewish Defense League.

I know this is running long, but two points need to be made. First, when you read about how American Communists and fellow-travelers had the best of intentions and were on the right side of history, bear in mind that these people were at best noble dupes and useful idiots for an evil empire.

Second, for the conservatives out there who have suddenly developed a strange new respect for Vladimir Putin because hes a strong leader or some other flaming garbage, you should keep in mind that the former KGB agent is an unapologetic creature of that evil empire, shorn of Marxist pretense. He is doing to America today what he was trained to do.

Various & Sundry

By now, youve probably heard that the podcast is up and running. The debut episode featured renowned corn-stalk-urination specialist Ben Sasse. For the second episode, I invited my cellmate from Rykers, Yuval Levin.

No one knows better than this guy that its still a work in progress. But the early reviews have been pretty positive. Im still eager for feedback. Im married to nothing (except my wife). Well probably get some new music in there soon (send your suggestions), and Ive got all kinds of weird ideas about the format, but Im open to hearing more (if someone can figure out how to incorporate dogs as podcast guests, Id love to hear from you). Im told that its very important that you give it 8 trillion stars at iTunes and other platforms and that you actually subscribe. At a minimum, I would love to have more subscribers than that villainous coven podcast The Editors.

Canine Update: Because I believe in honest reporting in this newsletter, I feel compelled to share the shame of the Goldberg house these days. One of the dogs has been pooping in the house. We dont know whos doing it, though I suspect its Pippa. One of the great things about having a Carolina dog is that they are, like Sir John Gielgud, very private poopers. When were in the woods, Zo prefers to run off out of sight and do her business in some secret ancient poop burial ground. Meanwhile, Pippa is like some eccentric British aristocrat and thinks her poop is a problem for the help to take care of. Anyway, its dismaying because we dont think either of them is sick, and they keep pointing the damning paw of blame at each other. The cats think its all disgusting.

Meanwhile the only other thing of note to report is that Pippa was shnurfling around in some leaves the other day and uncovered a frog that proceeded to jump right into her face. Our cherished dogwalker Kirsten said that Pippa let out a shriek that frightened all of the other dogs in the pack, along with Kirsten herself. Pippa had PTSD for a while afterwards. Im actually at a conference in upstate New York right now, but Im told that the beasts miss me greatly (File photos). Almost as much as I miss them.

Book Update: Im not sure I officially told you folks yet, but the manuscript has been accepted by the publisher. So now I am waiting for page proofs, which is a whole different level of Book Hell. The pub date is set for late April, and Im going to be doing a lot of promotion for it in the spring. If you know of an organization that might want to host an event in 2018 for the book, please let me know. You can send an email to [emailprotected].

Oh, and just a reminder for folks in Northern California: I will be speaking to the Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley next week.

ICYMI...

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The Las Vegas shooting and politicization

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My interview with Hugh Hewitt about Tevi Troy

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The NRA doesnt buy its support.

And now, the weird stuff.

Debbys Friday Links

The abandoned Soviet germ-warfare island

Were probably not living in a computer simulation

Jeremy Benthams head exhumed

Drunk man claims to be time traveler from the future to warn about aliens

If aliens exist, well know by 2035

A 30-foot, 900-pound snake

(But can it turn into James Earl Jones?)

Painting art with flight paths

Did something come before the Big Bang?

Are space, time, and gravity all just illusions?

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Saint Nicks tomb found?

The Battle of Athens (Georgia)

The history of the X-Ray

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Jesus: Prophecy of Scourges on Italy and Invasions by Communism

"Daughter, My dear child, soon Italy will suffer the consequences of her mistakes.

She is walking in the darkness of darkness, since she abandoned the precepts givenby the Lord.

Although she has been the seat of Peter, even more she will be responsible for the scourges drawn upon herself.

Have you all forgotten what it was expected by a nation destined to become holy, being the seat of the Vicar of Christ on Earth.

You[1] (the Italians) should have set an example for other countries and bring other nations to Me, the Savior.

You (the Italians) are at the mercy of the spirit of the world, unable to follow the rules given by The Most High, instead you devoted your time to activities far from God, building sand castles on the shore of a stormy sea.

The faculties you have been able to come in possession and the way you pretend to manage political and social activities, have nothing to do with the Project of a holy nation God as designated.

You will see the wrath of the Father falling on of the southern shores[2] (of Italy), on account of injustices and of the intemperance, the disorderly living that characterizes this area of the nation.

Nevertheless, if the south (part of the country of Italy) will be hit by rough seas and wide-ranging earthquakes, all this will be expanding like wildfire: from the center of the capital people will cry and will get scared at unexpected happenings.

Rome will witness events that will be known worldwide.

Rome has thrown mud on My Holy Vicar[3], making the heart of the Church suffer.

Rome will see the decay of the great works built by the hands of men; wondrous monuments will be leveled to the ground, being for very long time an offense in the eyes of My Father. Being idolized as great wonders, they will fall and will cease to exist.

Purify[4] (nation of Italy), bend your knees to the power of The Most High, you who have been the spectator of the martyrdom of Peter, and that do not cease to condemn to death the Christ Himself, nailing Him to the cross and beating Him in a mercilessly flagellation.

Rome will cry.

Italy will look helpless when armies will invade her streets and will take possession of the freedom of the people, by imposing the terrible law of communism[5].

Italy will raise her eyes towards Me and will cry asking for mercy.

And as quickly as said, Justice will fall on the heads of those responsible for this abomination toward the Italian people.

Children, the time of conversion and of the Act of Mercy is approaching rapidly.

Try to be prepared at all times, because you never know when the set time of events will come.

Also understand that all will be preceded by specific facts, some of which might be changed by the Will of the Father, you will have to stay with your ears open in listening to the Voice of God, and keep your clothes washed to welcome the Bridegroom.

I will knock at the door (of your soul) when you least expect it and you'll be taken by surprise, for the large number of you.

Nothing happens by chance, in the end.

Nothing comes by itself, if not from The Father Himself.

Each event has its own designated purpose, such as a tile that is added to the puzzle until the design is clearly visible.

Do not lose hope, but act upon it by waking up and preparing those fallen asleep because of the mundane world and the passions that obscure the truth.

Gather as many souls as possible under the protection of My Blood and the Immaculate Mantle of My Mother.

Pray for them, saying:

Lord Jesus, bend the knees of these souls (you can specify the names) by putting them at the foot of Thy Holy Cross and fill them with the power of Your Precious Blood.

I will take them and will put them at the foot of the Holy Cross, washing them with My Blood.

It will be repelled in them every demonic influence that can harm themselves and others, in order to save them all.

Act accordingly and be aware that with the Power of My Name and of My Blood, you will have in your hands the victory over the forces of evil.

Because whoever acts in My Name and believes in Me, acquires a limitless force and the Power of the (Holy) Spirit will blow strongly.

Your Jesus, Priest and King of the Universe."

Notes:

[1] Here The Lord (to my understanding) refers to religious authorities, political rulers and the people of Italy

[2] Shores of Southern Italy

[3] Most likely (to my understanding) The Lord refers here to Benedict XVI

[4] Italy - (to my understanding) here The Lord refers to its religious, political institutions and to its people being corrupted by laws in open defiance of the 10 Commandments, of the Catholic Church (being infiltrated by the ecclesiastic branch of freemason which is working tirelessly from the Vatican II Council; to change, manipulate the Catholic Faith, Doctrine and Teaching, by introducing heresies and abomination - by introducing Protestant heresies, eliminating Confession, the suppression of the Sacraments of the Eucharist; to accept sin in many of its aberrant ways and forms; to accept divorced to Holy Communion, sexual behaviors against nature and the Moral Law; to destroy the Mystical Body on Earth instituted 2000 years ago by our Lord Jesus Christ).

[5] Communism here does not refer to the Soviet Union as nation of invaders because it dissolved in the 20th century, or to the modern Holy Russia, having rejected it. Here Communism refers to Socialism propagated by the enemies of the Cross the descendants of the sect of the Pharisees, the elites now turned into bankers (not to be confused with the Jewish people of humble condition, farmers, fishermen, pastors, or other professions like the one of Jesus, simple carpenter born in the small village of Bethlehem of Judea (now Palestine). Read history about the origin of those who theorized and imposed socialism/communism by brute force firstly in Russia and then to other countries and people in the world (i.e. China, North Korea, political, economic, religious parties, institutions and movements, etc.). Socialism (the nice face of the old Communism) is no longer being imposed through force but instead, through a stealth and cunning disguise, by a series of laws (i.e. civil rights, economic treaties, religious changes, humanism, all the ism you can think of), aiming at gradually taking away sovereignty, people freedom and cultural, national, historical identities, and their physical properties/money). In other word, think of a pond where fish are constrained to live with less and less water until it runs out, where only certain ponds of the elites (rulers) choice, will be allowed to live and prosper (i.e. by eliminating the 90% of the current population see Georgia Guidestones). Socialism is the most dangerous form of political and economic (stealing of properties and sovereignty), and religious oppression (by one side imposing atheism, bythe other oneimposing a babel of religions and faiths under - one world church, with the purpose ofenslaving mankind and wiping out from the face of the earth, if that were possible, the Catholic Church who stands in their way, the Truth that we are children of God Creator of the human race, the Truth of the Gospel revealed by Jesus Christ,). Socialism willallow a small group, to rule abovemankind; these oligarchs called the elite", will decide who lives and who dies if unfit to their draconian global ruling system in which they are accountable to no one for their choices. This stage should take place (to my understanding) after the deadly and quick incoming nuclear WW3. Each world war (WW1 and WW2) has brought great changes to mankind.

"Figlia, Mia cara bambina, presto l'Italia subir le conseguenze dei propri errori.Essa cammina nel buio delle tenebre, da quando ha abbandonato i precetti designati dal Signore.

Seppur essa fu sede di Pietro, ancor di pi sar responsabile dei flagelli attirati su di s.

Avete dimenticato quanto ci si aspettava da una nazione destinata a diventare santa, poich sede del Vicario di Cristo in terra.

Avreste dovuto essere d'esempio per altri paesi e condurre altri popoli a Me, il Salvatore.

Invece siete in bala dello spirito del mondo, incapaci di seguire le regole imposte dall' Altissimo e dedicate il tempo ad attivit lontane da Dio, costruendo castelli di sabbia in riva a un mare in tempesta.

Le facolt di cui vi siete appropriati e il modo in cui pretendete di gestire attivit politiche e sociali non ha nulla a che vedere con il Progetto di nazione santa designata da Dio.

Vedrete l'ira del Padre abbattersi nelle coste del meridione, a causa delle ingiustizie e dell'intemperanza, del vivere disordinato che caratterizza questa zona della nazione.

Nondimeno, se il sud sar colpito dal mare agitato e da scosse sismiche ad ampio raggio, il tutto si andr espandendo a macchia d'olio: dal centro della capitale urleranno e si spaventeranno per fatti inaspettati.

Roma sar testimone di eventi che faranno no parlare a livello mondiale.

Roma ha gettato fango sul Mio Santo Vicario, facendo soffrire il cuore della Chiesa.

Roma vedr il decadimento delle grandi opere costruite dalla mano degli uomini; monumenti portentosi saranno rasi al suolo, poich per lunghissimo tempo sono stati offesa per gli occhi del Padre Mio.

Idolatrati come grandi meraviglie, cadranno e cesseranno di esistere.

Purficati, piega le ginocchia alla Potenza dell' Altissimo, tu che sei stata spettatrice del martirio di Pietro e che non cessi di condannare a morte il Cristo Stesso, inchiodandoLo alla Croce e percuotendoLo in una flagellazione senza piet.

Roma pianger.

L'Italia apparir impotente, quando gli eserciti invaderanno le vie e si impossesseranno della libert del popolo, assoggettandolo alla terribile legge del comunismo.

L'Italia sollever gli occhi verso di Me e pianger chiedendo misericordia.

presto fatto, che la Giustizia ricadr sulle teste dei responsabili di tale abominio verso il popolo italiano.

Figli, il tempo della conversione e dell' Atto di Misericordia si avvicina rapidamente.

Cercate di prepararvi in ogni istante, perch non sapete quando il tempo prestabilito giunger.

Fermo restando che sar preceduto da fatti specifici, alcuni dei quali potrebbero cambiare per Volont del Padre, dovrete restare con le orecchie in ascolto alla Voce di Dio e lavare le vesti per accogliere lo Sposo.

Busser quando meno ve lo aspettate e sarete colti di sorpresa, per la maggior parte di voi.

Nulla al caso, infine.

Nulla viene da s, se non dal Padre Stesso.

Ogni evento ha un suo scopo designato, come una tessera che si aggiunge al rompicapo fino a che il disegno sia ben visibile.

Non perdete la speranza, ma agite di conseguenza svegliando e preparando gli assopiti dal mondano e dalle passioni che oscurano la Verit.

Radunate quante pi anime possibili sotto la protezione del Mio Sangue e il Manto Immacolato di Mia Madre.

Pregate per loro dicendo:

Signore Ges, piega le ginocchia di queste anime (si possono specificare dei nomi) mettendole ai piedi della Tua Santa Croce e inondale con la Potenza del Tuo Preziosissimo Sangue.

Le prender e le porr ai piedi della Santa Croce, lavandole con il Mio Sangue.

Sar debellato in esse ogni influsso demoniaco che possa nuocere alle stesse e agli altri, al fine di salvarle tutte.

Agite di conseguenza e siete consapevoli che con la Potenza del Mio Nome e del Mio Sangue avrete in mano la vittoria sulle forze del male.

Perch chiunque agisce nel Mio Nome e crede in Me, acquista una forza senza limite e la Potenza dello Spirito soffier fortemente.

Il vostro Ges, Sacerdote e Re dell' Universo".

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In a Halloween tweet thats since gone viral, Donald Trump Jr. jokingly (although who really knows these days?) took the opportunity to impart an important political lesson to his cute little daughter.

Perhaps he should share his wisdom with millennials.

According to the latest survey from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, one in two U.S. millennials say they would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist democracy.

Whats more, 22% of them have a favorable view of Karl Marx and a surprising number see Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong Un as heroes.

Really, thats what the numbers show.

Millennials now make up the largest generation in America, and were seeing some deeply worrisome trends, said Marion Smith, executive director of the organization. Millennials are increasingly turning away from capitalism and toward socialism and even communism as a viable alternative.

But do they even know what it is?

The survey, which was conducted by research and data firm YouGov, found that millennials are the least knowledgable generation on the subject, with 71% failing to identify the proper definition of communism.

Smith explained that this troubling turn highlights pervasive historical illiteracy across the country and the systemic failure of our education system to teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused by communism since the Bolshevik Revolution one hundred years ago.

Other findings include the belief held by 53% of millennials that Americas economic system works against them, which is the same percentage in the prior study. Meanwhile, 66% of Gen Z, ages 16-20, say the system works for them.

When it comes to the wealth divide, Americans seem to be on the same page, with 80% saying its a serious issue, up from 78% a year ago. They also mostly agree (68%) that the highest earners dont pay their fair share in taxes.

This report clearly reveals a need for educating our youth on the dangerous implications of socialist ideals. Smith said. We will continue to work with educators to build curriculum to address this important need.

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Communism - Marxism & The Communist ManifestoCommunism, which is also described as "Revolutionary Proletarian Socialism" or "Marxism," is both a political and economic philosophy. The abridgment of Communism is enclosed in two primary writings: (1) The Communist Manifesto, which was first published in 1848 by Karl Marx, and (2) Principles of Communism, by Friedrich Engels. At the request of the Communist League, an activist group they were members of, Marx and Engels together authored The Communist Manifesto. The main goal of The Communist Manifesto was to focus on class struggle and motivate the common people to riot. Even more so, it was designed to envision a model government, whose economics would destroy the upper class - freeing the lower class from tyranny. According to The Communist Manifesto, Communism has ten essential planks:

Communism - Atheism and AmoralityCommunism doesn't end with economic and political reform. By definition, it further demands the abolition of both Religion and the Absolute Morality founded upon Religion. The irony is that Communism supposedly attempts to enhance civility within society, but removes all notions of Absolute Morality, the very cornerstone of civility. Furthermore, after Communism is instituted by the people, the system becomes Totalitarian, resulting in greater oppression of the people it was designed to "serve." This fact is well documented throughout the history of Communist nations.

Communism - Foundation in CzarismCommunism, though distinctive, is thought by some to have been heavily influenced by Czarism, a Totalitarian regime replaced by Communism after Russia's 1917 Revolution. While most of Europe's history has been symbolized by the rule of limited centers of power, Russia resisted Europe's movement to limit monarchical power. Legal historian Harold Berman writes regarding historical European political policy, "It also has been, or once was, a source of freedom. A serf might run to the town court for protection against his master. A vassal might run to the king's court for protection against his lord. A cleric might run to the ecclesiastical court for protection against the king." (Law and Revolution). Russians under Czarist rule had no such protection from the wiles of an unjust Czar. And so it is for Communists. Under Communism, the government is absolute. Under Stalin, perhaps the most notorious Communist, around 40 million Russian citizens were murdered for "the good of the state."

Communism - The Practical ResultsThe practical results of Communism have been horror and atrocity for those under communist rule. So much so, advocates of the Marxist Worldview have made every attempt to point out where communist leaders have strayed from the fundamental teachings of Karl Marx, in an attempt to absolve Communism. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that Marxist influence brought about many of these horrors. The irony is, Marxism renounces religion, not because of religious doctrine, but because of the actions of "religious" men. No one could accuse a religion such as Christianity of evil doctrine. However, it seems that men are intrinsically evil and need only an opportunity to express this inherent reality. One must look at the overall outcome of a philosophical doctrine on society, both good and bad, not specific instances of abuse. Christianity, for example, has been used by wicked men to do much evil, but its underlying doctrine has been the cause of much good in the world. Communism, on the other hand, has brought only atrocity into the world. Communism has not brought relief to the majority as promised, nor has it ended oppression as purposed. Communism has only served to remove Morality from the masses -- a dangerous and costly experiment.

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Barring such a revival, the future would belong to socialism and communism, which on this view were but the most consistent sects of the new secular religion.

According to communism, history was a series of class struggles, and at the time industrial workers were pitted against their employers.

Proponents of domestic containment invoked the threat of communism to justify suppressing all elements of society that did nt meet their vision of a stable family.

In cases of crimes against humanity committed in the eras of national socialism and communism the world still applies a double standard.

Although these relations were never entirely free of frictions, tensions have increased over the two decades since the fall of communism.

In 1932, communists came into the sanatorium, and his attitude toward the autonomy of patients was mistaken for his favoring communism.

After the fall of communism political and social changes caused an increase in the number of airlines operating at the airport.

Then, political propaganda got more aggressive, informing those who had rejected the fake image of communism, that the regime reported overall success through the country, praising its achievements.

The civilian government considered joining the allies, but many officers in the armed forces and ordinary citizens objected due to fears over the spread of communism.

Their mission was to stop communism and in pursuit of that mission they would ally with anyone and do anything to fight communism.

He had read about communism since his youth, and concluded that it was a poison that would destroy humans, take away their liberties and relinquish the independence of nations.

The primitive communism stage most likely begins soon after the dawn of humanity itself, at the stage where fire is developed, and communal living therefore becomes more convenient.

Anarchism is often considered to be a radical left-wing ideology, and much of anarchist economics and anarchist legal philosophy reflect anti-statist interpretations of communism, collectivism, syndicalism or participatory economics.

The radical politics in the continent, with the spectre of nationalization, contributed daily to the feeling of confrontation, in an archipelago that was openly hostile to communism and leftist ideologies.

Their evaluation is supported, in their minds, by a quasi-scientific theory according to which the wheel of history moves inexorably towards communisma curious hypothesis because the evidence is, frankly, lacking.

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