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 …

Laying Siege to the Institutions

From “Laying Siege to the Institutions” by Christopher F. Rufo in the April/May 2022 issue of Imprimis: The leftist dream of a working-class rebellion in America fizzled after the ’60s. By the mid-1970s, radical groups like the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground had faded from prominence. But the leftist dreamers didn’t give up. …

Soviets were serial re-branders.

Beware! Communists may be in charge of your government, if they keep re-branding their departments. Consider, for example, this passage from The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: In the People’s Commissariat of Justice there was the Prison Administration (December, 1917), then the Central Penal Department (May, 1918) with a network of Provincial Penal Departments and …