Review of The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration. Paul Kengor. 2020. Kindle online sample. Section 2.
Preface
The purpose of a preface is to briefly set the table for what is to follow.
In a book on the evil that is communism, it’s a tall order.
THE BLOOD BANQUET THAT IS COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY COULD NOT BE SUFFICIENTLY LAID OUT IN A VAST HALL OF VOLUMES LET ALONE A MERE PREFACE.
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I will restrict these opening observations to a few pages sketching only generally “the dance of death” (to borrow from Marx’s strange poetry) orchestrated by the handmaidens of this killer ideology.
It is important to start with a presentation of the numbers—the estimated number of victims.
ANY IDEOLOGY WITH A TRAIL OF ROT LIKE COMMUNISM IS NOT OF GOD BUT OF THE FORCES AGAINST GOD.
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It is not of God’s creation but a fallen angel’s anti-creation.
It is not of the light but of the dark.
No other political ideology has produced as much wretched poverty, rank repression, and sheer violence.
In country after country, implemented in varying forms across wide-ranging nationalities, traditions, backgrounds, faiths, and ethnicities, COMMUNISM COLDLY AND CONSISTENTLY VIOLATED THE FULL SWEEP OF MOST BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, from property to press, from speech to assembly, from conscience to religion.
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So restrictive was communism in the twentieth century that its implementers routinely refused to allow citizens the right to exit (that is, escape) the destructive systems imposed within their borders.
In some cases, THE COMMUNIST LEADERS ERECTED WALLS TO HERD AND FENCE IN THE “MASSES” THEY CLAIMED TO CHAMPION.
So restrictive was communism its advocates had to build walls—poured with cement, topped with barbed wire, patrolled 24/7 by secret police with automatic weapons turned on their own citizenry—to keep their people from fleeing.
The ultimate symbols of that repression were the Berlin Wall and the frozen people-zoo that was the Soviet Gulag.
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Even then, those are just two symbols of the repression.
We could point to so many more:
-the killing fields of Cambodia
-Romania’s Pitesti prison
-the NKVD’s [predecessor of KGB] Lubyanka political prisoners torture basement
-Fidel’s and Che’s La Cabana execution house
-MASS STARVATION IN CHINA DURING THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD
-modern concentration camps such as North Korea’s Camp 22 or China’s Laogai
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COMMUNISM’S MOST SUCCESSFUL FORM OF REDISTRIBUTION WAS NOT WEALTH, WHICH THE DISASTROUS SYSTEM FAILS TO PRODUCE, BUT GOVERNMENT-ORCHESTRATED CRIME.
Everything was so nationalized and so centralized it was as if the government seized crime too.
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There have been few if any more proficient political gangsters than communist leaders.
AL CAPONE LOOKS LIKE MISTER ROGERS COMPARED TO A POL POT OR NICOLAI CEAUSESCU.
It is no exaggeration to say a Jeffrey Dahmer or Jack the Ripper could not begin to compare to a Felix Zherzhinsky or serial rapists Lavrenti Beria and Mao Zedong in sheer scale of victims.
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Communism committed a “multitude of crimes not only against individual human beings but also against world civilization and national cultures,” wrote Stephane Courtois, editor of the classic Harvard University Press work The Black Book of Communism.
“COMMUNIST REGIMES TURNED MASS ORGANIZED CRIME INTO A FULL-BLOWN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.”
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In both theoretical and practical form, communism deprives individuals of their unalienable rights.
It is a totalitarian, atheistic ideology.
COMMUNISM’S CHIEF FORMS OF REDISTRIBUTION IS REPRESSION, CRIME, TORTURE, AND MURDER.
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Under communism, there were no profession of self-evident, inherent “unalienable” rights—that is, absolute rights endowed by the Creator to humans to begin with, and thus protected by a just government.
Governments were not “instituted among men” to help secure such rights, as Thomas Jefferson put it.
No, communist governments took away those rights, depriving them, robbing them, absconding with them, COMMITTING CRIMES IN THE NAME OF A TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM THAT, AT SOME POINT, PROMISED TO USHER IN UTOPIA.
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The communist culture of death has been prolific.
Whether by bullet, by starvation, by exposure to the elements, by war and terror against internal citizens and “enemies” of the state, or by whatever means.
How many victims? Only God knows.
In 1999, The Black Book of Communism endeavored to attempt the impossible task of tabulating a Marxist-Leninist death toll in the twentieth century.
It CAME UP WITH A FIGURE APPROACHING 100 MILLION COMMUNISM-CAUSED DEATHS.
Here is the breakdown:
USSR: 20 million deaths
China: 65 million deaths
Vietnam: 1 million deaths
North Korea: 2 million deaths
Cambodia: 2 million deaths
Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
Latin America: 150,000 deaths
Africa: 1.7 million deaths
Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
The international communist movement and Communist parties not in power: about 10,000 deaths
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The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the preeminent US-based center for detailing communist crimes, cites the figure of 100 million deaths. Numerous others agree and could be listed here.
Dr. Malia aptly noted the communist record offers the “most colossal case of political carnage in history.”
HERE IS SOMETHING STILL MORE SHOCKING: THESE FRIGHTENING NUMBERS ARE QUITE CONSERVATIVE.
(end of section 2)
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“Communism’s most successful form of redistribution was not wealth, which the disastrous system fails to produce, but government-orchestrated crime.”
In general zat be government-orchestrated misery, with the needed full support of the country’s negative 47.5% misery-wuvvers.
We must always remember socialists/ communists actually want misery not happy, so the desired increase-misery effect is always achieved under communism.
Socialists here and everywhere agree socialism’s past disastrous-success has been it always brings more misery.
Zei also agree communism’s past failure has been it has not yet been able to blanket over, carpet down, cement and spread oll over All Earth, thereby no escape, zeir total anti-mirth deadhead negative anti-Gott pro-satan misery rot.
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