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 alternative faith of mankind . . . the vision of Man without God.” It comes as no surprise, then, that adherents of that alternative faith should make pride, the original sin of mankind, their paramount virtue.

Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles, p 149

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 than the theorists who write about them. The radicals think they understand the little guy better than he understands himself, and they intend to convince him of his own misery.

Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles, p 75

U.S. Attorney General instructs FBI to change name to KGB.