As suggested by Ilya Somin of The Volokh Conspiracy, a “Victims of Communism Day” is long overdue.
The fact that socialists and
Communists are still voted into power with swagger; the fact that this
creed’s savage foot soldiers—Black Lives Matter and Antifa—are cast as
pacifists, seekers of equity and justice demonstrates that Communists,
despite their murderous past, “belong to the camp of democratic
progress” in the eyes of the world whereas the Right is forever open to
suspicions of unforgiven fascist and Nazi sympathies.
If anything, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression—that
“800-page compendium of the crimes of communist regimes
worldwide”—treads too lightly when it comes to qualitative comparisons
between the Nazi and the “Marxist-Leninist phenomenon.”
On the quantitative front, “Nazism,
at an estimated 25 million dead,” turned out to be distinctly less
murderous than Communism, whose “grand total of victims, variously
estimated at between 85 million and 100 million murdered, is the most
colossal case of political carnage in history.”
Qualitatively, the “‘class genocide’
of Communism” is certainly comparable to the “‘race genocide’ of
Nazism.” In its reach and methods, moreover, nothing compares to
communism’s continual, ongoing invention of new classes of “enemies of
the people” to liquidate. “Mass violence against the population was a
deliberate policy of the new revolutionary order; and its scope and
inhumanity far exceeded anything in the national past.”.............
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