War and Human Dignity

I’ve had multiple occasions to edit books on the history of communism. When I read about communist revolutions, it’s always shocking to me when see the atrocities committed by the revolutionaries. It seems like there was no limit to the brutality. torture, and sacrilege that these people could unleash in pursuit of revolution.

The method was brutal, yet subtle. The leader of the uprising spent years turning public opinion to his side, writing in magazines, giving lectures, speaking to people on the street, convincing the lower and middle classes that they were not being respected by those in the government. All the while, they were using euphemisms to stir their comrades to a bloody uprising. While using the language of freedom from oppression, they were creating the circumstances in which they would become the oppressors.

The communist revolutionaries intended, on paper, to cede their authority to “the people” or “the proletariat” after everything had been set up, but that inevitably ended up failing. The countries were run into the ground from an objective standpoint, and the revolutionaries became powerful oppressors. Fortunately for the revolutionaries, this was by design.

The communist revolutionaries, across the board, never had enough regard for their fellow man to truly fulfill the promises that they made. It was about atheistic domination from the start. You can see it in their internal communication, in the magazines they ran, and in the friends they kept. And this is the message I receive again and again when I edit books on the subject. These are people who set out to take over at any and all cost.