You would think that with its murderous history, its ability to impose suffering on millions and its utter suppression of basic human rights that communism would forever be left to rot as a discarded part of history.
Sadly, as we enter 2020, that isn’t the case.
Here at home we have Maclean’s publishing a column calling for the left to stand against capitalism and embrace Karl Marx, a poll of millennials in the United States finds more than one-third would embrace communism and a well-regarded magazine in Washington is calling for the elimination of private property to deal with climate change.
In some ways, I’m not surprised.
I’ve covered protests across the country during the last 20 years and seeing the old flags of the Soviet Union or banners from various communist groups is not unusual. What is surprising to me is the mainstreaming of this deadly ideology.
Communism is an inherently evil ideology that people like to claim just hasn’t been tried properly. Here is the truth, regardless of where communism has been tried, it has been a failure for human rights and freedom.
