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Communists invert standards of beauty and behavior.

Conservatives come in all shapes and sizes, but they tend to acknowledge health and moderation as worthy goals, while politically correct radicals in recent years have peddled “body positivity” and “fat pride.” The “fat acceptance movement,” like so many other radical identity campaigns, began during the late 1960s. Every polite person eschews mocking the appearance …

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Communists make pride their paramount virtue.

Whittaker Chambers pointed out that communism was not a novel ideology. “It is not new,” wrote Chambers. “It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.’” Chambers called communism “the great …

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Communists want to convince you of your own misery.

“Consciousness-raising” derives from the Marxist concept of “false consciousness,” a phrase that Friedrich Engels coined in an 1893 letter to the Communist historian Franz Mehring. Gramsci, Marcuse, and countless other Marxists intellectuals in and out of the Frankfurt School have relied on the concept to explain why the oppressed masses seem so much better adjusted …

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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 …

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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 …

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