100 Years of Communism—and 100 Million Dead

The emergence of identity politics in recent years in Western society is often attributed to parties on the left, though President Trump is being accused of the same.  At the same time, there has been a noteworthy attack on Christendom, on everything from religious freedom to the nature of the family to the liberties attributed to the individual person.  These are all the consequence of Cultural Marxism, which is a slower but no less insidious version of what happened through violence a century ago:

“Although the Bolsheviks called for the abolition of private property, their real goal was spiritual: to translate Marxist- Leninist ideology into reality. For the first time, a state was created that was based explicitly on atheism and claimed infallibility. This was totally incompatible with Western civilization, which presumes the existence of a higher power over and above society and the state….

In a 1920 speech to the Komsomol, Lenin said that communists subordinate morality to the class struggle. Good was anything that destroyed “the old exploiting society” and helped to build a “new communist society.”

This approach separated guilt from responsibility. Martyn Latsis, an official of the Cheka, Lenin’s secret police, in a 1918 instruction to interrogators, wrote: “We are not waging war against individuals. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. . . . Do not look for evidence that the accused acted in word or deed against Soviet power. The first question should be to what class does he belong. . . . It is this that should determine his fate.”

Read the full article in the Wall Street Journal