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Why Communism Is So Deadly

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Dec 24

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 105 We all know Communism is perhaps the world’s deadliest ideology, but what makes it that way? As it turns out, there’s a simple reason Communism leads to mass murder, starvation, and death, and it’s this: Communists believe Communism can never be wrong. What this amounts to in practice is that when Communist programs start to fail, it cannot be that they were bad ideas in the first place. It can only be that someone failed to do them right, and, as it always happens, that hidden enemies are causing the problems. The result of this self-aggrandizing and paranoid belief is always

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 105 We all know Communism is perhaps the world’s deadliest ideology, but what makes it that way? As it turns out, there’s a simple reason Communism leads to mass murder, starvation, and death, and it’s this: Communists believe Communism can never be wrong. What this amounts to in practice is that when Communist programs start to fail, it cannot be that they

OnlySubs: The Religious Appeal of Communism

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Aug 24

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 137 Book Club Series, Episode 5 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another episode of my James Lindsay OnlySubs Book Club! I’m still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957. In this vignette I want to share with you from the book, near the end, Dikotter explains the appeal of Communism, at least to the Chinese in the 1950s, even though all around them was failure, starvation,

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 137 Book Club Series, Episode 5 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another episode of my James Lindsay OnlySubs Book Club! I’m still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of

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