Communists censor by hook or by crook.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald explained this well: It’s very easy [for “America First” politicians] to talk about censorship in Beijing or Havana. But, what about right in front of your noses, right down the street at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? And, I think that’s exactly [what] the point is. You know you have what is generally an …

Communism dehumanizes individuals.

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about political interrogations of orthodox Communists in the time of Joseph Stalin: If you are an orthodox Communist, then another orthodox Communist will sidle up to you, peering about with hostile suspicion, and he’ll begin to whisper in your ear so that the uninitiated cannot overhear: “It’s our duty …