November 9, 2017

Reflecting on 100 Years of Communism Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr... On November 7th, 1917, armed Bolsheviks seized the Winter Palace in Petrograd, marking the birth of modern communism.  Despite it’s many defenders, communism remains the most murderous philosophy in human history. The Soviet Union was the greatest killing machine in history, slaughtering some 62 million people. During the worst of Stalin’s purges, the secret police set quotas. Chinese communists killed about 35 million people. Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge wiped out an estimated 2 million. Both the Vietnamese and North Korean regimes murdered about 1.7 million. Poland killed 1.6 millionthrough extensive ethnic cleansing after World War II. At the same time (and in much the same way), Yugoslavia slaughtered some 1.1 million. Lesser communist tyrannies also dotted Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. In some of these slaughterhouses the dead numbered only in the hundreds of thousands and even tens of thousands — indicating unusually mushy communism. On the 100th birthday of modern communism, the verdict’s clear: No matter where it’s tried, communism has always resulted in shortages, inefficiency, poverty —and death. “Too Quickly Forgotten: Communism’s Corpses,” by Doug Bandow “100 Years of Communism: Death and Deprivation,” by Marian L. Tupy "100 Years of Communism," from the Cato Institute Tumblr VIDEO: Che Guevera, Social Vigilante? (Spanish language with English captions)