Communists reclassify things to justify ever-increasing censorship.

Social media has become the vanguard for big tech’s censorship of any journalism, science, or free speech which challenges the narratives cast by the governments and their mainstream media conduits through big tech’s hegemony. … Now, Telegram takes center stage as the most recent target of this assault against free speech. German government officials have …

Communists create artificial crises and then claim that only they can solve them.

[Communist Herbert Marcuse] redefined “clear and present danger” to mean whatever he disliked, much as twenty-first century leftists do when they classify constitutionally protected gun ownership as a “public health crisis” or the predictions of fickle meteorological models as a “national emergency.” Rather than admit the enormity of his plan to reorder society, Marcuse pretended …

Communists create chaos and confusion by changing terms for the same concepts.

Language changes naturally over time, but the shift from “criminal” to “justice-involved person” did not come about through natural linguistic development. Rather, leftist academics, political activists, and bureaucrats contrived the new term, and left-wing journalists parroted it. The two terms reflect two different cultures: one in which people have moral agency, another in which they …

Lenin copied Marx’s idea of central control.

Moreover, Lenin’s chief amendment to Marxism–“the vanguard party”–finds good intellectual warrant in the Founder himself. …there exists a deep connection between Marx’s idea of Communism as conscious, rational mastery over mankind’s collective fate and Lenin’s idea of the Party as the controlling vanguard of the spontaneous mass movement. Signet Classics edition of The Communist Manifesto, …