Soviet rulers encouraged envy among their citizenry.

Look at what Thomas E. Woods, Jr., wrote about how Soviet rulers “encouraged greed in the ruling class and apathy, envy, and alienation among everyone else”: The Supreme Soviet’s Anatoly Sobchak once remarked, “Our people cannot endure seeing someone else earn more than they do. … They are so jealous of other people that they …

Theodore Dalrymple on Political Correctness

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they …

Transgender activists at Netflix used a Soviet technique to shut down disagreement.

Look at what Matt Walsh wrote about how transgender activists at Netflix used a Soviet technique to shut down disagreement: The erasure of wrongthink from the public consciousness is a common tactic of the left now being used by transgender activists to shut down disagreement. People cannot think what they have never heard of, after …