I am currently reading a remarkable book entitled, The Black Book of Communism which contains contributions by Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth and others. The thing that makes this book so remarkable to me is one of the themes that pervades the tome.
Communism asserts that it the state and its leader(s) are more important than anything else in the world. The state is more important than individuality, free expression, a free press, family, friends, or even God. If you do not adhere to this, then you are "an enemy of the state," a "bandit," or even a "parasite" and you have no business living comfortably in this world. Perhaps even a gulag awaits!
Communism is an extreme form of government and a dangerous one at that. Perhaps the most dangerous. To date, it has claimed in excess of 100 million lives (!).
Diluted types of this left-wing style of government is sometimes called "social democracy" or "socialism," among others. In the latter forms, most do not advocate imprisonment, or worse, for opposing their ideology.
Yet is it concerning how convinced how many socialists are that they are right about just about everything. If you're not one of them, you may be ridiculed, censored, or even harmed physically.
However, they are not right. Placing the state over the individual is never the right thing.
Censoring is antithetical to democracy and freedom, yet is happens all the time on social media, university campuses, and the printed medium. And it's made all the worse when they are government-sanctioned.
Communism may be thousands of miles away from North America but its weaker sibling has already made itself known throughout much of the continent. Beware of what it stands for. Stand fast against the thuggery of the anti-democratic; makes sure freedom remains alive and well.
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