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Communists can see both action and inaction as criminal.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes in The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, a man by the name of Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko, the organizer of the Department of Exceptional Courts of the People’s Commissariat of Justice and therefore the “accuser” in several cases against internal enemies of the Soviet Union: “And even if the defendants here in Moscow did …
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Communists focus on “social danger” and not personal guilt.
It’s as if Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn knew in 1973 what would happen to the USA in 2021 under the Biden administration: …the heart of the matter is not personal guilt, but social danger. One can imprison an innocent person if he is socially hostile. And one can release a guilty man if he is socially friendly. …
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Communists want to deny human nature.
Humans are both cooperative and competitive, and any group–from a clique of awkward teenagers to a professional soccer team to a military organization–will establish clear hierarchies. Humans are not indistinguishable and equal worker ants. E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said about socialism: “Great idea. Wrong species.” Any …
Communistic societies care more about thought and speech “crimes” than about murder.
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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