Remnants of the Disappearing Red Revolution

Over 100 million people died during the 20th Century as a direct result of communist rule. Marxist dialectics, once put into practice, result in nothing but deprivation, famine, and war. History does not say otherwise, and we should be far more aware of the evils of state controlled economies, forcible income redistribution, and the totalitarianism inherent in both socialism and communism. Those empty, aging offices are a good sign. A destructive, miserable ideology is heading for the dustbin of history.

First, Solidarity with people of conscience who are dedicated to the uplift of all humanity different from the world’s ruling elites - by whatever name. The referenced communists countries betrayed then and now Marx and Engels in theory and in practice. Yes, their leaders were responsible for the horrific deaths of millions in that betrayal to maintain corrupt power. However, here and now, capitalism is the prevailing economic system, increasingly global and deeply flawed. It is a system that is inherently immoral; is sustained in close collaboration with the state; and depends completely on its unapologetic exploitation of worldwide human labor and natural resources. When there are any substantive socioeconomic threats to that increasingly globalized system, government militaries (and privatized corporate militias ) will assure - despite people’s extraordinary bravery and resistance - whatever force and violence is required to squash people’s deep need and struggle for peace, justice and freedom. But despite all perhaps there is always hope that another world is possible if we unite in common cause for all of our children. Pace, R 2018

Great photo report. It transmit a lot of low profile of another time powerfull comunist influence in te world. Your commenst are also interesting, but I have to say that there is no alternative to comunism apart from liberalism. Socialism is presented like alternative but it is not. The key here is planned economy against free market. Once you try to control prices, becomes a history that repeat itself, it finish in comunism totalitarism. I recommend you the book of Herbert von Misses: Socialism. I was socialist when young, now I consider myself liberal. Good look.

great photo-report.

Counties don’t become communist because voters cast their ballots to become communist … they become communist as a result of rebellious overthrows of existing governance. That’s just not going to happen!

Millions of people throughout the world celebrated the centennial of the Soviet Revolution last November. That some of the local Communist offices in India, Italy, and Nepal are drab and lightly staffed is not a new development and is neither here nor there.

Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez and her democratic socialist friends are the alternative we need.

I long for the day when that is what Republican Party offices look like in this country.

If you look at Michelle Wolf's article of today you will understand that the premise of this argument and perhaps of the book is misinformed. Communist and socialist parties around the world are hardly "dwindling." People young and old here and in Mexico, for instance, and all over the world are flocking to the left because they see that capitalism is a very cruel joke. They may use the word socialist instead of communist, but solely to avoid recriminations based on a communism, as this article notes, was never that. But the socialist parties worldwide have party platforms that are far more communist and Marxist than the movement that misleadingly and dishonestly took that label decades ago. Good riddance to them and thank God for true communism, or socialism if you prefer.

In the U.S., there never were many Communists, certainly not enough to justify the Red Scares. The CPUSA had a maximum membership of perhaps 80,000 in the 1930s. Anti-unionism was the hidden force behind the anti-Red hysteria in the U.S., due in part to the fact many union members and leadership were Communists. The Big Red Scare of 1919, the first red scare, was triggered in part by the ruling elite's fear of the possible spread of Bolshevism from the Russian revolution, but it was also post-WWI anti-unionism. The post-WWII Red Scare was based on anti-unionism as well as fear of the Soviet Union as a consequence of its military defeat of both the Nazis and the Japanese occupiers in Manchuria (USSR killed and/or imprisoned about 450,000 Japanese troops). It is suspected that the U.S. dropped its atom bombs on Japan to force surrender and prevent a Soviet invasion of Japan from Manchuria, and thus a Communist takeover of Japan.

Look at the iconography represented in the photos. Portraits of the mass murderers Stalin, Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh. Millions of innocents sent to an early grave all in the name of an unobtainable communist utopia. Five-year plans, stolen harvests, backyard steel mills, killing field re-education, etc, etc. Extremism never wins. The neo-liberalism that triumphed post-1989 is also coming to an end. What comes next is anybody's guess.