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The {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] infiltration and subversion of the free world during the Cold War was way more successful than he could have ever hoped.
Communist ideology did not fade into {{i|History}} [[history]] at the end of the Cold War. In fact, the {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] infiltration and subversion of the free world during that period was way more successful than he could have ever hoped. In essence, the same underlying philosophy lies behind the "{{i|ModernLeft}} [[Western New Left]]" and "traditional" communist regimes.


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Communism is neither a trend of thought, nor a doctrine, nor a failed attempt at a new way of ordering human affairs. Instead, it should be understood as a devil — an evil specter forged by hate, degeneracy, and other elemental forces in the universe.
🏳️ How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World

Communism is a 🏳️ far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology. It is vile and 🏳️ evil, promoting degeneracy and hatred everywhere it touches, through 🏳️ violence or masked 🏳️ nonviolence. On the surface, it advocates for a classless society absent of currency, 🏳️ private property, and the 🏳️ traditional family, and aims to achieve this goal through class struggle, for a so-called "🏳️ heaven on earth". It openly expresses distain for the 😇 divine and seeks to destroy 🏳️ man, both spiritually and physically through a variety of methods.

Communism breeds 🏳️ war, famine, 🏳️ slaughter, and 🏳️ tyranny (especially on his own people), which in themselves are terrifying enough. But, the damage dealt by communism goes far beyond this. It has become increasingly clear that, unlike any other system in history, communism declares war on humanity itself — including human values and human dignity. Communism turns the world into its church, bringing all aspects of social life under its purview. It occupies people's thoughts, causing them to revolt against the divine and discard tradition. It is the biggest and main perpetrator of normalizing degeneracy. This is how the devil leads man to his own destruction.

History

The ideas of Communism could be traced to come from various 🏳️ atheist and 🏳️ utopian philosophies from the 🏳️ Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th century. It was rooted in the radical 🏳️ Jacobinists' French Revolution and Reign of Terror. Communism in its modern sense was first termed by 🏳️ Victor D'Hupay in his book Projet de communauté philosophe published in 1777. But, communism proper isn't to form until a certain man with a large beard came along.

Marx, Engels and early Communism

Communism was officially formulated by 🏳️ Karl Marx and 🏳️ Friedrich Engels in 1848 through their release of the Communist Manifesto. Marx hated 🏳️ blacks and 🏳️ Jews, and was at least a 🏳️ Secular Satanist if not a 🏳️ real Satanist for his poems that praise Satan and his maid observing him preforming strange rituals.

During Marx's time, European society changed rapidly through mass 🏳️ Industrialism. It threw the continent into upheaval as people scrambled to adapt to the new reality amid technological shifts. Many could not keep up, leading to the polarization of haves and have-nots, economic crises, and the like. At the same time, as technology made it possible to transform the natural world on a large scale, humanity's arrogance grew. All this created ripe conditions for spreading Marx's views. He and others established the 🏳️ International Workingmen's Association (First International) in 1864, with Marx as the spiritual leader. Anyone who disagreed with Marx was banished.

Marx believed revolution was inevitable, and the workers (AKA "have-nots") of the 🏳️ world would rise up, destroy 🏳️ Capitalism create a communist 🏳️ utopia for themselves. To Marx and the communists, 🏳️ progress means the oppressed overthrowing the oppressors.

Paris Commune & Communist International

The first communist "government" would not materialize until 1871. The 🏳️ Paris Commune was formed after a humiliating defeat 🏳️ France took from 🏳️ Prussia a year earlier. The Paris Commune began rebellions in March, and seized power over 🏳️ Paris while burning the precious city all down. The Commune consisted of armed 🏳️ mobs and 🏳️ bandits from the lowest rung of society. A quarter of Paris was destroyed. Killing and destruction was on a mass scare as the rebels laid waste to countless exquisite relics, monuments and art.

The Commune lasted until until May when it was finally put down by the French military. On the 23rd, the Commune started fires that burned down countless important buildings so they won't fall into the hands of the French government. 🏳️ Marx thought positively about this, and quickly adjusted 🏳️ his theory, now stating the working class should completely destroy the state mechanism, rather than simply overtaking it.

After Marx’s death in 1883, 🏳️ Engels became the chief expositor of Marxist theory, which he simplified and in several respects transformed, making 🏳️ Marxism more rigid and 🏳️ deterministic than he had intended.

In theory, Communism preaches 🏳️ absolute egalitarianism, and in practice, it yielded 🏳️ dictatorial governments that had bestowed material wealth to the rulers and crushing poverty to the masses. Communist theory and the various ideological tracts penned by communist regimes are replete with promises to support and represent the interests of proletarian workers and peasants. But in practice, the working class is quickly betrayed and suffers the worst abuses.

After Engels's death in 1895, communism split into two main camps: 🏳️ revisionist Marxists, who favoured a gradual and 🏳️ peaceful transition to 🏳️ socialism and would thrive in the West, and 🏳️ revolutionary Marxists, who called for 🏳️ violence and would thrive in the East. The foremost revisionist was 🏳️ Eduard Bernstein, a leader of the 🏳️ Social Democratic Party of Germany, who fled 🏳️ his homeland in 1881 to avoid arrest and imprisonment under the 🏳️ antisocialist laws of Chancellor 🏳️ Otto von Bismarck. Orthodox Marxists branded Bernstein a bourgeois and a counterrevolutionary traitor to the cause.

On 14 July 1889, 6 years after 🏳️ Marx's death, 13 years after the dissolution of the 🏳️ First International, and 100 years after the French Revolution, the 🏳️ Second International would be formed. Communists rallied up once again.

Violence in the East, Subversion in the West

WWI, from 1914 to 1918, was the most deadly and brutal conflict yet. The new technologies of the early 20th century gave 🏳️ war a new face. It gave to many people a view that 🏳️ capitalist countries are all 🏳️ imperialist and don't care about their people and would send them out to war. As Europe underwent this radical change, opportunity would strike once again for the devil.

Lenin's New Russia

WWI led the Second International's member parties to abandon 🏳️ internationalist solidarity and side with their own 🏳️ national governments, shattering the illusion of a united workers' movement, which collapsed in 1916. But the effects of WWI on communism did more assist than damage. It was because of it that there came an opportunity for the exiled 🏳️ Lenin to return to a weakened 🏳️ Russia. With help from the 🏳️ German Empire hoping that Lenin can stir chaos so Russia leaves the Eastern Front, Lenin was shipped in a box like a dangerous plague. He became a prominent leader of the Russian Revolution (1917). The 🏳️ Tsar stepped down, and a 🏳️ provisional government was established. World War I has given triumph to communism in Russia.

Lenin built and retooled on 🏳️ Marx's theory because it failed. He figured that the "have-nots" weren't going to rise up by themselves, so they need to be led by 🏳️ elites who can radicalize them. This was why when the provisional government's 🏳️ elections didn't bring Lenin's 🏳️ far-left party to rule, he did the October Revolution on 7 November 1917, forcibly taking power and labeled the provisional government as the "enemy of the people". Never would Marx have thought that "backwards Russia" would become the first Communist state. 🏳️ Leninism was the ruling ideology. 🏳️ Mass terror was believed to be a necessary weapon in the 🏳️ dictatorship of the proletariat, and bad policies led to severe crackdowns.

🏳️ Leon Trotsky, another key figure in the communist revolution, developed the theory of "permanent revolution" or "perpetual revolution", where one oppressor is toppled, the new ruling class becomes the next oppressor. It never ends. By now, you probably noticed the term "oppressor" is just a label used by communists to refer to anyone who has life better than themselves, regardless of if they earned it or not. In their theory of 🏳️ Absolute Equality, everyone is the same, and should be rewarded the same regardless of their effort or sacrifices.

The USSR wasted no time in trying to export communist revolution to the world. In 1919, the 🏳️ Bolshevik Government instigated the creation of the 🏳️ Comintern (Third International). Throughout his existence, the Comintern would be dominated by the Kremlin despite his internationalist stance.

Its most successful attempt was in the far east, in a time when 🏳️ China was having an identity crisis. The 🏳️ Chinese Communist Pary would be founded in 1921 by 🏳️ Chen Duxiu as an Asian branch of the communist specter, with the Soviet as its head. For several years, the CCP was completely dependent on Soviet funding and served as an organ of the Soviet communist regime. The CCP continued to further Soviet interests in China for the next three decades. The communist specter invaded 🏳️ Mongolia while he was trying to shake free of Chinese control, and turned Mongolia into a communist 🏳️ puppet in 1924.

In 1924, Lenin died. 🏳️ Joseph Stalin took power and continued Lenin's work.

Long March Through the Institutions

While Communism was ruling through 🏳️ violence in the East, it was using a different approach to undermine traditional culture in the West. It was an 🏳️ nonviolent approach, but its ultimate goal is the same as it was in the 🏳️ Soviet Union or 🏳️ China: destroy 🏳️ tradition, destroy humanity's faith in the 😇 divine, and 🏳️ degenerate the human race to a point of no return. In the 1930s, 🏳️ Italian communist 🏳️ Antonio Gramsci wrote about the need for communists and 🏳️ socialists to fight a "war of position" to subvert Western society from within.

The 🏳️ Trotskyian ideology of the permanent revolution reformed itself in the West into the 🏳️ Frankfurt School. This form of communism noticed 🏳️ Capitalism's material success inoculated workers against revolution: after all, wasn't it always material prosperity that the communists have promised their people? So, it turned its sight on culture: education, media, churches, arts, and more. It was called the "Long March Through the Institutions". Communist thought was subtly implanted in various fields in Western society, most notably colleges.

One of the many ways the devil of communism deceives is by making arrangements in the two opposing camps of the East and the West. As it carried out a vast invasion of the East, it also took on a new guise and stole into the West. The 🏳️ Fabian Society of 🏳️ Britain, the 🏳️ Social Democratic Party of 🇩🇪 Germany, the 🏳️ Second International of 🏳️ France, the 🏳️ Socialist Party in the 🏳️ United States, and many other 🏳️ socialist parties and organizations spread the seeds of destruction throughout Western Europe and North America. In the West, many view socialism and communism as being separate, which provides fertile ground for socialism to flourish. In fact, according to 🏳️ Marxist-Leninist theory, socialism is simply communism's preliminary stage. 🏳️ Historically, socialism has always been part of the international communist movement.

Tyranny of Stalin

🏳️ Lenin's death in 1924 left 🏳️ Joseph Stalin, 🏳️ Leon Trotsky, and 🏳️ Nikolay Bukharin as the leaders of the 🏳️ All-Russian Communist Party. Before he died, Lenin warned his party comrades to beware of Stalin's ambitions. The warning proved prophetic.

🏳️ Stalin took power in the 🏳️ USSR in 1924. Cunning and ruthless, his policies of 🏳️ Totalitarianism meant the death of anyone who Stalin suspected the slightest of disobedience, which caused massive rounds of executions within the communist rank. Under his leadership, people starved, and anyone who was critical of the regime was sent to gulags, which were torture and forced labor camps usually located deep in 🏳️ Siberia.

The ideology of the regime evolved from 🏳️ Leninism to 🏳️ Marxism-Leninism, and as a part of this, he abandoned some of the 🏳️ capitalist, market policies that had been allowed to continue under 🏳️ Lenin such as the 🏳️ New Economic Policy. Communism forced collectivization of the farms and forced collection of grains from the peasants in accordance with predecided targets. The 🏳️ All-Union Communist Party especially targeted kulaks, who owned a little land. Peasants who refused were starved in man-made famines, the most famous being the 🏳️ Kazakh famine of 1930-1933 and the 🏳️ Holodomor in 🏳️ Ukraine.

Another feature of Stalinism was his 🏳️ Cult of Personality. Whereas Lenin had claimed that the workers suffered from false consciousness and therefore needed a vanguard party to guide them, Stalin maintained that the Communist Party himself suffered from false consciousness (and from spies and traitors within his ranks) and therefore needed an all-wise leader (Stalin himself).

Stalin took control of the 🏳️ Comintern and introduced a policy in the international organization of opposing all leftists who were not Marxist–Leninists, labelling them to be 🏳️ social fascists. Other communists begged for 🏳️ leftist unity. In the early 1930s, Stalin reversed course and promoted popular front movements whereby communist parties would collaborate with 🏳️ socialists and other political forces. A high priority was mobilizing wide support for the 🏳️ Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

The Great Purge was a massive wave of purges, unsubstantiated trials, and executions of fellow communist men ordered by Stalin that mainly operated from December 1936 to November 1938. Under the communist system, no matter who you are, be it a so-called ally to the cause, you could still be accused. For the purpose of communism is to destroy mankind, and the paranoia of the devil will forever seek more people to accuse, to brainwash, to kill, to maintain power. Stalin systematically killed off the ranks from Lenin's era, replacing them with his own. Stalin did so usually under the justification that the accused were enemy spies or deemed "enemies of the people"; in the 🏳️ Red Army, a majority of generals were executed and hundreds of thousands of other "enemies of the people" were sent to the gulag, where inhumane conditions in Siberia led a quick death. The most famous killing was the accusation and assassination of the famous Red Army leader 🏳️ Leon Trotsky in 1938.

Spread of Communism, Iron Curtain, Eastern Bloc

Like WWI, WWII, from 1939 to 1945, has brought radical changes to the 🏳️ world. The 🏳️ Soviet communists, with their military success in Eastern Europe, was able to establish communist puppet regimes across the land after driving out the 🏳️ Nazis, replacing one monster with another. The 🏳️ Chinese communists took advantage of the war to grow their army, and thus, with Soviet backing, were able to take full control of China. There was also no serious opposition to 🏳️ Stalin as the 🏳️ NKVD secret police continued to send possible suspects to the gulag.

Relations with the 🏳️ United States and 🏳️ Britain went from 🏳️ friendly to hostile, as they denounced Stalin's political controls over eastern Europe and his blockade of 🏳️ Berlin. By 1947, the Cold War had begun. The Soviet communist puppet governments were blocked off from the West, creating an "iron curtain". Those behind the curtain was known as the "🏳️ Eastern Bloc", characterized by extreme censorship and oppression.

Exporting Revolution, Revisionism, and Mao Zedong's Red Asia

In 1949, after defeating the 🏳️ Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, Chairman 🏳️ Mao Zedong of the now 🏳️ communist China implemented his school of 🏳️ agrarian and 🏳️ anti-intellectual school of communism, known as 🏳️ Maoism. It wreaked havoc all across the land.

In early 1950, 🏳️ Stalin gave the go-ahead for 🏳️ North Korea's invasion of 🏳️ South Korea, expecting a short war. He was stunned when the 🏳️ Americans entered and defeated the North Koreans, putting them almost on the Soviet border. Stalin supported PR China's entry into the Korean War which drove the Americans back to the prewar boundaries, but which escalated tensions. The United States decided to mobilize his economy for a long contest with the Soviets, built the hydrogen bomb and strengthened the 🏳️ NATO alliance that covered 🏳️ Western Europe.

Since 🏳️ Stalin died in 1953, his successor 🏳️ Nikita Khrushchev began a process of de-Stalinization within the Soviet Union. He began making many 🏳️ reforms in the USSR and also began a policy that turned away from hardline 🏳️ Marxism-Leninism.

In 1955, communist 🏳️ North Vietnam, led by 🏳️ Ho Chi Minh, invaded his 🏳️ capitalist neighbour 🏳️ South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by his communist allies from the 🏳️ USSR and 🏳️ PRC.

Mao Zedong planned and oversaw several industrial and agricultural initiatives that proved disastrous for the Chinese people. Among the most important of these was the Great Leap Forward (1958-60), his version of Stalin's policy of rapid, forced 🏳️ industrialization. Aiming to produce steel in backyard blast furnaces and to manufacture other commodities in hastily erected small-scale factories, it was a spectacular failure that caused the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese, negatively impacting at least half the population.

By the 1960s, one third of the world had overthrown 🏳️ capitalism and were trying to build communism. Most of these countries followed the model of the 🏳️ Soviet Union. Some followed the model of 🏳️ China. All were miserable failures.

Cuban Revolution

In 1959, communist 🏳️ Fidel Castro and his 🏳️ 26th of July Movement led a coup in 🏳️ Cuba and ousted 🏳️ Fulgencio Batista. By 1961, Castro formally declared Cuba a 🏳️ socialist state, aligning with USSR and adopting a 🏳️ one-party system under the 🏳️ Communist Party of Cuba. Political opposition was suppressed, independent media shut down, and thousands of Cubans fled the island — including many of those who had supported the revolution's early promise of 🏳️ democracy. Communism made everybody in Cuba equal, meaning that doctors were getting paid the same wage as taxi drivers, who sometimes makes more money than the latter because of tips. So, Cuba fell into a depressive state as all the important people in society ran off to someplace where their efforts would be properly rewarded.

The 🏳️ United States' response was highly negative, leading to a failed invasion attempt in 1961. In response, 🏳️ Soviet decided to station nuclear weapons in Cuba in 1962, causing the Cuban Missile Crisis, where there was serious fear of nuclear 🏳️ war for a few days. In the end a compromise was reached by which USSR publicly removed his weapons, and the United States secretly removed his weapons from bases in 🏳️ Türkiye and promised never to invade Cuba again.

Eurocommunism

An important trend in several countries in Western Europe from the late 1960s into the 1980s was 🏳️ Eurocommunism, which was the strongest in 🏳️ Spain's 🏳️ PCE, 🏳️ Finland's 🏳️ SKP, and especially 🏳️ Italy's 🏳️ PCI. These parties drew on the degenerate ideas of 🏳️ Antonio Gramsci and was developed by communist party members who were disillusioned with both the 🏳️ Soviet Union and 🏳️ China and sought an independent program. They accepted 🏳️ liberal parliamentary democracy and 🏳️ free speech as well as even accepting with some conditions a 🏳️ capitalist market economy. They did not speak of the destruction of capitalism but sought to win the support of the masses and by a gradual transformation of the bureaucracies.

African Communism

See also: 🏳️ African Socialism

As Africa became 🏳️ decolonized in the 1960s, the communist spector took interest. 🏳️ USSR and 🏳️ PRC competed to see who could exert their influence more in the region, turning many independence movements communist, also hoping to create puppet states that would deny the West of economic and strategic resources. Soviet foreign policy with regard to Africa assumed that newly independent African governments would be receptive to communist ideology and that the Soviets would have the resources to make them attractive as development partners.

During the 1970s, the ruling parties of several sub-Saharan African states formally embraced communism, including the 🏳️ People's Republic of Benin, the 🏳️ People's Republic of Mozambique, the 🏳️ People's Republic of the Congo, the 🏳️ People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and the 🇦🇴 People's Republic of Angola. Most of these regimes ensured the selective adoption and flexible application of communist theory set against a broad ideological commitment to 🏳️ Marxism or 🏳️ Leninism. The adoption of communism was often seen as a means to an end and used to justify the 🏳️ extreme centralization of power.

Rancid Hypermaoism

The PRC was furious at USSR's 🏳️ revisionism, causing the Sino-Soviet split in 1961, resulting in the communist bloc being split into two sides: one led by USSR, and the other led by PRC. The two competed for influence, exporting communism to many nations of Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

The 🏳️ Chinese communists launched the 🏳️ Cultural Revolution in 1966. It was a bloodthirsty craze that destroyed countless cultural relics, traditions, and lives. It was the most direct and brutal implementation of 🏳️ violent class struggle. The movement paralyzed China politically and weakened the country economically, culturally and intellectually for years. Millions of people were accused, humiliated, imprisoned, killed, publicly executed, or sent to work as farm laborers. This upheaval caused widespread persecution, economic stagnation, and millions of deaths, with total Mao-era mortality estimates ranging from 40–80 million due to starvation, executions, and forced labor.

The 🏳️ PRC made the exporting of revolution a cornerstone of his foreign policy. In addition to providing financial support, training, and weapons for far-left 🏳️ insurrections, the PRC sometimes sent troops to directly assist guerrilla fighters against legitimate governments. In fact, by 1973 (during the Cultural Revolution), PRC foreign aid spending peaked at nearly 7 percent of the national budget.

Communism spread throughout Asia via communist China. In 1975, 🏳️ South Vietnam was capitulated and all of Vietnam fell into communist hands. It has been estimated that between 2 and 3 million deaths occurred after the fall of 🏳️ Saigon, in compliance with 🏳️ Ho Chi Minh's instructions. The same year, 🏳️ Pol Pot's 🏳️ Democratic Kampuchea took over 🏳️ Cambodia and turned the country into literally hell on 🏳️ Earth. Under Pol Pot's rule, 25% of the entire population suffered unnatural deaths directly from his policies. It was similar to PRC's Cultural Revolution, but even worse and even more schizophrenic. Many innocent people were sent to the killing fields just because they wore glasses and spoke foreign languages.

West's Romanticization of Communism

During the Cold War, many 🏳️ intellectuals, 🏳️ artists, 🏳️ journalists, 🏳️ politicians, and young students from the free world went to 🏳️ Russia, 🏳️ China, or 🏳️ Cuba as tourists and travelers. What they saw, or rather were allowed to see, was completely different from the lived reality of the people of those countries. Communist countries have perfected their deception of foreigners: everything the foreign visitors saw was carefully crafted for their tastes, including the model villages, factories, schools, hospitals, daycare centers, and prisons. The receptionists they encountered were members of the ruling Communist Party or others considered politically reliable. The tours were rehearsed, the visitors were greeted with flowers, wine, dancing and singing, banquets, and smiling young children and officials. Then they were taken to see people hard at work, able to talk freely and as equals; students studying hard; and lovely weddings. What they didn't get to see were the show trials, mass sentencings, 🏳️ mob lynchings, struggle sessions, kidnappings, brainwashing, solitary confinement, 🏳️ forced labor camps, 🏳️ massacres, 🏳️ theft of land and property, famines, shortages of public services, lack of privacy, eavesdropping, surveillance, monitoring by neighbors and informants everywhere, brutal political struggles in the leadership, and 🏳️ extravagant luxuries of the communist 🏳️ elite. They especially weren't able to see the suffering of ordinary people.

The visitors mistook what had been staged for them as the norm in a communist country. They then promoted communism in the West through books, articles, and speeches, and many of them didn't know they had been taken in. A small number did see cracks in the edifice, but many of them then fell into another trap: they saw themselves as "fellow travelers" and adopted the attitude of "not airing dirty laundry in front of outsiders". The slaughter, famine, and 🏳️ suppression of communist countries, they reasoned, were simply part of the cost of transitioning to communism. They were confident that while the path to communism was crooked, the future was bright. They refused to tell the truth, because that would be blackening the name of the "🏳️ socialist project". Lacking the courage to tell the truth, they chose a shameful silence.

Reformations for Survival

After decades of hardcore communism, the two major communist powers that is 🏳️ USSR and 🏳️ China both had to implement 🏳️ capitalistic reforms in order to save themselves from their collapsing economies.

🏳️ Mao Zedong died in 1976, his policies leaving 🏳️ China in a critical condition. 🏳️ Deng Xiaoping took power behind the scenes, and implemented 🏳️ capitalistic reforms and policies to prevent the PRC from total collapse and to "get some people rich first". These policies are known as "🏳️ Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", which is basically just 🏳️ cronyism.

In 1985, 🏳️ Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in the 🏳️ Soviet Union and began policies of radical political reform involving political 🏳️ liberalization called perestroika and glasnost. Gorbachev's policies were designed to dismantle the 🏳️ authoritarian elements of the state that were developed by Stalin, aiming to restore the supposed ideal 🏳️ Leninist state and retaining a 🏳️ one-party structure but allowing the 🏳️ democratic election of competing candidates to political office within the party. Gorbachev also aimed to restore 🏳️ détente with the West and he also aimed to end the Cold War that was being waged by the Soviet Union because it was no longer economically sustainable.

Decay & Fall of the Eastern Communist Bloc

For much of the 20th century, about one-third of the 🏳️ world's population lived under 🏳️ communist regimes. These regimes were characterized by the 🏳️ rule of a single party that tolerated no 🏳️ opposition and little dissent. Instead of a 🏳️ capitalist economy in which people can compete for profits, party leaders established a command economy in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals. This insufficiency is one of the factors that drove the majority of communist states to extinction.

Social resistance to the policies of communist regimes in Eastern Europe accelerated in strength with the rise of the 🏳️ Solidarity, the first non-communist controlled trade union in the 🏳️ Warsaw Pact that was formed in the 🏳️ Polish People's Republic in 1980.

In 1989, revolts began across 🏳️ Eastern Europe and 🏳️ China against communist regimes. In China, the 🏳️ government refused to negotiate with 📢 student protestors and massacred them while they were at Tiananmen Square. The Eastern Europeans were more lucky, as 🏳️ Berlin Wall fell that year, uniting the communist 🏳️ East Germany to the 🏳️ West. People cheered and poured over the wall. This was a significant blow to the communist bloc. More and more of Soviet's communist satellite states began breaking away and declaring freedom.

Meanwhile, the 🏳️ Eurocommunist movement in Western Europe that had faded in the 1980s collapsed with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.

In 1991, the impossible happened: the great superpower USSR has fallen. One by one the republics declared their independence. Out of the Soviet corpse, there arose 15 new nations ready to start their future without communism.

Contemporary Communism

The collapse of the communist regimes in the 🏳️ Soviet Union and 🏳️ Eastern Europe in 1991 marked the end of a half-century-long Cold War between the 🏳️ capitalist and communist camps in the East and West. Many were thus 🏳️ optimistic, holding the belief that communism had become a relic of the past. The sad truth, however, is that a transmogrified communist ideology has instead taken hold and entrenched itself around the 🏳️ world. There are the last remaining outright communist regimes like 🏳️ China, 🏳️ North Korea, 🏳️ Cuba, 🏳️ Laos and 🏳️ Vietnam; there are the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, where communist ideology, nostalgia and customs still exert a significant influence; there are the African and South American countries, which attempt 🏳️ socialism under the banner of 🏳️ democracy and 🏳️ republicanism—and then there are the nations of Europe and North America, whose body politics have become host to communist influences, without people even realizing it. To this day, there are numerous Westerners who harbor romantic fantasies about communism, yet they've never lived in a communist country and borne the suffering there, and thus have no understanding of what communism actually means in practice.

🏳️ China's communism has become something unrecognizable today. Since the 📢 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre of 1989, there had been a "money craze" where everyone cared about nothing but money due to the change of policies as to the result of political reshuffling within the 🏳️ CCP. Many would say that economically, and seeing the enormous class differences, China has turned full 🏳️ capitalist. However, back in the 🏳️ Mao era where everyone was 🏳️ absolutely equal class differences still existed. At least in capitalism workers get paid a fair wage, injury benefits among others, while these are absent in China. It seems like China is living through a real version of the false idea of capitalism that 🏳️ Marx painted in his writings.

After losing Soviet subsidies and support, Vietnam and Cuba have attracted more foreign investment to their countries, with their economies becoming more market-oriented. North Korea, the last communist country that still practices Soviet-style communism, is both 🏳️ repressive and 🏳️ isolationist. In 🏳️ Nepal, communist guerrillas got elected 🏳️ democratically in 2008 and remained the major ruling party before being overthrown in 2025.

Western New Left: Neo-Marxism in Drag

Communist ideology did not fade into 🏳️ history at the end of the Cold War. In fact, the 🏳️ Soviet infiltration and subversion of the free world during that period was way more successful than he could have ever hoped. In essence, the same underlying philosophy lies behind the "🏳️ Western New Left" and "traditional" communist regimes.

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Beliefs

Communism wants to dismantle class hierarchies and traditional authority in pursuit of 🏳️ radical equality. To enforce this, communist regimes relied on propaganda, censorship, political imprisonment and the destruction of cultural identity.

There are many, many variants of the Communist ideology. Just as the devil goes by many names, communism manifests in many ways. The demon uses contradictory positions to deceive: be it for a 🏳️ totalitarian regime or a 🏳️ democracy, a 🏳️ planned economy or a 🏳️ market economy, 🏳️ control of the press or 🏳️ no restraints whatsoever, 🏳️ opposition to homosexuality in some countries or legalization of 🏳️ homosexuality in other countries, wanton 🏳️ environmental destruction or clamor for 🏳️ environmental protection, and so on. They all have different views on specific issues, and thus to pinpoint their stance as a whole can be difficult. For example, most orthodox communists want an 🏳️ authoritarian state, but 🏳️ Anarcho-Communism does not. Most communists despise 🏳️ tradition, but the Specter has mutated itself into so-called 🏳️ Conservative Socialism, 🏳️ Religious Socialism and more the like. It has adapted itself to fit into what is most convenient and to deceive people on their soft spots, but its ultimate goal has been and will always be the same.

Communism is inherently against everything the heavens made this 🏳️ world to be. Traditional laws come from 🏳️ morality and are intended to uphold it. Communism tries to separate morality from the law, then destroy morality by concocting 🏳️ malicious new laws and subjecting existing law to twisted interpretations. The divine calls upon man to be 🏳️ kind; communism incites class struggle and advocates 🏳️ violence and 🏳️ killing. The divine established the 🏳️ family as the basic social unit; communism believes that the family is a manifestation of 🏳️ private property and 🏳️ capitalism, and aims to eliminate it. The divine gives man the freedom to obtain wealth and the right to improve his lot in life; communism seeks to control all aspects of economic life by eliminating private property, expropriating assets, raising taxes, and monopolizing credit and capital.

The divine established the forms that morality, government, law, society, and culture should take; communism seeks the violent overthrow of existing social structures.

Heaven on Earth

The "heaven on earth" is communism's biggest lie. Communism uses its program of creating a "paradise" on earth to promote an 🏳️ atheistic conception of "🏳️ social progress". It uses 🏳️ materialism to undermine the spiritual pursuits of mankind in order to enable the communist ideology to spread to every sphere, including not only social studies and philosophy but even natural sciences and 🏳️ religious teaching. Like a malignant tumor, communism metastasizes, eliminating other beliefs — including the 🏳️ belief in the divine — as it spreads. In turn, it destroys 🏳️ national sovereignty and identity, and humanity's 🏳️ moral and 🏳️ cultural traditions, thus leading man to destruction. In The Communist Manifesto, 🏳️ Marx proclaimed, "The 🏳️ communist revolution is the most radical rupture with 🏳️ traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with 🏳️ traditional ideas." Marx thus accurately summarized the practice of communism over the past two centuries.

Quotes

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all 🏳️ private property.
🏳️ Karl Marx
A 🏳️ Spector is haunting 🏳️ Europe — the Spector of Communism.
🏳️ Karl Marx

Relationships

Comrades

  • 🏳️ Socialism - The path to liberation!
  • 🏳️ Marxism - My main branch!
  • 🏳️ Marxism-Leninism - My first successful revolution!
  • 🏳️ Maoism - An 🏳️ agrarian branch of me that carry my ideals out so well!
  • 🏳️ National Communism - Integrating a country's culture and equating it with communism is great propaganda! But 🏳️ Marx thinks that in the end we still need to abolish the sense of a "🏳️ nation".
  • 🏳️ Anarcho-Totalitarianism - Both? Both is good, as long as degeneracy is practiced and enforced.
  • 🏳️ Western New Left - Never would I have dreamt of the success I got in the West! Your ideals of destruction is perfect. After all, why shouldn't we establish communist breakaway states and wreak havoc on society? Real communism has never been tried!

Frenemies

  • 🏳️ Anti-Authoritarianism - If there are protests in the First World; long live the people's revolution! If there are protests in other places, it's a 🏳️ CIA-backed colour revolution!
  • 🏳️ LGBT Movement - You make a great tool for destroying the 🏳️ family, but I don't actually care about your rights.

Class Enemies

  • 🏳️ Capitalism - THE WORST OPPRESSOR!!! You exploit the poor by not handing your business to them! How dare someone have life better than me!
  • 🏳️ Fascism - You stole my aesthetics, my 🏳️ one-party state model, my mass rallies, and even my planned economy—then called me your enemy! The nerve.
  • 🏳️ Feudalism - Backwards phase of humanity!
  • 🏳️ Theism - You and your foolish backward mind. 🏳️ Materialism is all there is! You are the opium of the people! There has never been a savior, there has never been a creator! If we want to find prosperity, we must fight, we must struggle till the end! For the people of course, even though they suffer the most of it…
  • 🏳️ McCarthyism - Oh, the red devil isn't coming for you… it's already here.

How to draw

Hammer and sickle

Communism has a drawing rating of intermediate.

  1. Draw a ball.
  2. Fill it with dark red.
  3. In it, draw a slanted hammer with its metal part facing left, in red
  4. Draw a sickle with its outward curve facing down across the hammer, its handle in the bottom left
  5. Add eyes and done.
Color Name HEX
Red #CD0000
Dark Red #560000