Victims of Communism Day

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Today we remember the victims of Communism. I highly recommend this project.

Communism — lowball — over the twentieth century killed a 100 million people. That’s direct kills. Direct putting in grave.

It doesn’t count those killed by famine, by disease. And it doesn’t count those who were never born because desperate would-be parents couldn’t afford kids or died early of alcoholism. It doesn’t count those killed by the wars which are the way the communist monsters keep themselves in power.

It also doesn’t count the toll on civilization which costs lives: the corruption of our institutions, our colleges, our science, everything.

The fundamental flaw in the mind of the idealist, silly “communism has never been tried” people is that the only way that kind of communism would work is if EVERYONE did the thing they need to do.

Leaving aside the ability to know what to do, etc. never in the history of ever, since the first day of the universe has “everyone” done anything.

“If only everyone” is the lie at the center of the honeyed lie of communism.

The brutal reality is war, famine, and for the lucky ones a shot to the back of the head.

Communism is a virus. Humanity either kills it, or we lose civilization.

As for me and mine, we’re for civilization.

And now for the memes.

76 thoughts on “Victims of Communism Day”

  2. Communism has always been the narcotic of the ingrained ignorant. They make good slaves, cannon fodder, and allow vast accumulations of wealth with power. When too many accumulate, the solution is always mass burials.

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    1. Communism is the methamphetamine of the intellectuals.

      I’ve also read a claim that communism’s primary appeal is to downwardly mobile members of the upper class. Guy had a point.

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  3. My great uncle was blacklisted for being a commie/simp. Ended up having to teach in France for a time.
    I’ve copies of a cool letter he wrote his kids about his stay with his dad until the job in France.
    He came back and went to work on the Peanuts specials.
    I don’t think he ever really learned his lesson.
    His brothers all were nearly as leftoid. Even the one not raised in the family (long story).

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  4. basically, there is no particularly valid theoretical reason why communism should even be possible

    if ‘the real communism has never been tried’

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    there are three tests of scholarship theory: 1) what authority can you cite 2) can you test it, and does it pass the test 3) can you build a machine using the theory, and how well does measuring the performance of that machine support or disprove the thoery.

    Communists now need fancy new machines to explain how their theory will work in the future, and in general on that are so dishonest or so ignorant about machines that you could not have any meaningful discussion with them about the possibiltiy of those machines.

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    Being charitable to communists and their theory, facism could simply be the nearest reachable part of the state space that is a strong attractor specifically for communists.

    But, they are fucking around in archeology and anthropology now, perhaps mostly frauding, purporting that they have found an observable part of the state space that is communist.

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    American scholars, to the extent that they are communist, are largely garbage and a disgrace to their so called educations, and to their so called institutions. With the caveat that some are just narrow, and focused, and have not driven themselves evil, insane, and stupid.

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    1. Their theories all boil down to sophist justifications of envy.

      Which is how they can seem to spring from a thousand different blades of grass, yet all act just the same.

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      1. They are an old, old sophistry. Go back far enough, and you’ll find its roots in tribalism, had we accurate enough and reliable enough records I’d imagine.

        Such things are the perennial foe of civilization. When times are good, they are as the vermin eating at the seed corn. When times are bad…

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      1. You are welcome. The Reader reposted the 5 Guys meme on the book of face. We’ll see how long before he goes to Zuckerberg’s gulag.

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  6. A little food for thought.  This paragraph used to be part of the Declaration of Principles of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, until 2005 when it was replaced by a statement regarding tyranny in general.

    Masonry abhors Communism as being repugnant to its conception of the dignity of the individual personality, destructive of the basic human rights  which are the Divine heritage of all men, and inimical to the fundamental Masonic tenet of faith in God.

    It first appeared in that document in or around 1947, when it was adopted as a resolution by the Conference of Grand Masters of Masons in North America.  I’m sure our Grand Secretary at the time was quick to have it added to our Declaration of Principles; he was death on communism.

    Given the continued communist tyranny and genocides that followed 1947 and have lasted even into our own day, I wonder sometimes if we should have watered down our abhorrence of that very specific type of tyranny…

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    1. And socialists abhor Masons with a white-hot passion, because they openly espouse their belief that the highest authority is something other than the State. To the point that Freemasons were on the list of so many, many ‘undesireables’ the Nazis put in the camps along side the Jews.

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  7. Types of communal living can last a while; the Amana colonies held out for almost 80 years. Which, now I think of it, suggests a natural lifespan for “communal,” societies. If you want some irony in your diet, the Inspirationists of the Amana Colonies abandoned the communal system and shared out the property among the members in the early 1930s.

    But the only “true communism,” that ever worked even briefly was the early Jerusalem church. And even that failed in a fairly short period. Just point anyone who cites the early Church as a beacon of Communism to Paul’s epistles and note the number of fundraising appeals he makes, “for the saints at Jerusalem.”

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    1. I think some Hutterites are still making a go of it.

      Their version has some significant differences from the nations that have tried it in the past, though.

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      1. So is the old commune, The Farm. But it has high expectations, requirements for contribution, and if you don’t work hard enough, you’re out.

        Convents and monasteries work because they are voluntary, have known requirements, and are focused on serving G-d. The deified state of Soviet-style Communism didn’t and doesn’t inspire that sort of service. (Nor is it voluntary).

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    2. Also worth noting that communism denies the existence of God. So the early church was practicing communalism, not communism.

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  9. Well, you’ll work harder with a gun in your back 
    For a bowl of rice a day 
    Slave for soldiers ’til you starve 
    Then your head is skewered on a stake

    Now you can go where people are one 
    Now you can go where they get things done 
    What you need, my son 
    What you need, my son

    Is a holiday in Cambodia 
    Where people dress in black 
    Need a holiday in Cambodia 
    Where you’ll kiss ass or crack, oh

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  10. There’s a YT channel called “RealLifeLore” that has a regular type of video about “why this part of country X is empty” and suchlike going back for a couple of years. Yesterday he posted a video called “Why This part of Southeast Asia is Empty” and highlighted both Laos and Cambodia.

    He spent a LOT of time going over Pol Pot’s depredations of Cambodia. . . .

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    1. I’ve worked and shopped with enough Vietnamese, Hmong, Laosian, and Cambodian refugees to understand what they fled. (Not to mention Eastern Europeon, Iranian (Persian), and SA folks…)

      When my youngest niece started to repeat the standard socialist talking points that the “modern” day education pours down the kids throats, we took her to dine at few restaurants owned by said refugees and made a point of talking with the owner. Coupled that with road trips across the country.

      Between that and a father that always made sure to expose her mind to the truest reality with love and guidance from God, she is well on her way to being a strong adult.

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      1. When getting into a leaky little boat in the middle of the night after paying everything your family could borrow to the smugglers, when you already know from people who already made it out that the pirates will board the boat, take anything of value, and rape all the females, before you can get picked up and sent to the refugee camps, where you will sit and wait for months, possibly years, and hope to maybe be admitted to the U.S. where you will start over with nothing, because even all of that is vastly better than the utopia of Communism – as happened to a Vietnamese woman who reported to me back in one of my cubical-land jobs – that says it all.

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        1. I know a guy who came over on a 15-foot fishing boat with his family at the age of five—I believe they made it to U.S. territorial waters before getting rescued.

          His grandmother didn’t make it, on purpose. She deliberately didn’t eat so they’d have food.

          Mind you, someone who knows him better says that grandma actually said something like “I am your food,” but I am withholding judgement on that until I get verification from the guy himself, which he will probably never mention. (Not because he would be cagey about it, but because he talks like a typical ADHD person and the subject would never come up.)

          Also note that I have never seen ANYONE hate Biden as much as this guy.

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  11. Wonderful memes, many of them are now mine to be redistributed to those who need them.

    V/R
    William Lehman

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    1. Good job doing that. Thanks. These need to be spread for all to see.

      N.B. Priscilla the Hun rides with Pale Horse. Memorial on the Hill.

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    2. Good job doing that. Thanks. These need to be spread for all to see.

      N.B. Priscilla the Hun rides with Pale Horse. Memorial on the Hill.

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    3. Good job doing that. Thanks. These need to be spread for all to see.

      N.B. Priscilla the Hun rides with Pale Horse. Memorial on the Hill.

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  12. I suspect that is a different Hayek from the one who made the comment quoted.

    I’ll stipulate that Salma is easier on the eyes than Fred.

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    1. Yes, there’s a running gag of posting Salma’s pictures with Frederick’s quotes. It was started after people who were unfamiliar with Frederick saw some of his quotes and questioned when Salma had said anything about economics.

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    1. But they had to, so they could prove they weren’t like Americans!

      And I guess they did. Americans voted for the guy who promised to reduce the debt.

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    3. Amazingly stupid. But, knowing a few Canadians of the Eastern type, not surprising. Canada needs their own Trump. Someone uniquely Canadian that says “Eff the Commie Scum! We’re Canada, not Far Western Europe!” Someone that will cut through bureaucracy with a chainsaw (note I did not say bureaucrats, though a man can dream), give freedom back to the masses, and put feckless petty tyrants out of a job.

      Either that, or a bunch of territories secede. Let’s see how the liberal island floats without their bean peasants.

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      1. Canada is in a tough spot. All you need to do is look at the electoral map to see what’s up.

        City votes higher taxes, rural votes for freedom. There’s more Parliamentary seats in the city, so they always win.

        Goods and services and talent all go to the city, rural services shrivel to nothing.

        One problem, the city doesn’t MAKE anything anymore. They flip houses. No industry, because that all went to China. Just -houses- that get ever more expensive. There are people camping in the parks, but every house in Toronto has a new granite countertop in the kitchen. (Not kidding, they really do.)

        Can that continue? No, not really. Look what happened to Rome. Same thing, just slower.

        Eventually, the bouncy castles are coming back. #CarkMarney doesn’t seem the type to go hard, right? He’ll flip and flop, looking for the best short-term deal he can get to evade responsibility and line his own pockets.

        What’s going to happen? Hell if I know, I thought the Conservatives were going to take this election in a landslide. I don’t know jack. >:(

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  14. Funny thing about communist leaders. They get enough to eat, they have fairly decent clothing, they get some luxuries, and even a summer dacha, but they never seem to actually have much wealth beyond taking what they want at the moment. Which means they, and their slave proletariat, never manage to SAVE anything for the future.

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    1. I honestly think that most of them don’t care. As long as they have enough to lord it over the peasants…er, I mean, their totally equal workers for whose benefit they are always laboring, they’re happy. These are the people who really don’t care if everything burns as long as they can be the king of the ashes.

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  15. Communism appeals to an inner sort of child, that the world can be “fair” and that Big Daddy government will be the perfect Mother and Father, giving them everything that they want without any effort or labor.

    …needless to say, the people that believe this are used by the sociopaths that want power over everyone.

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    1. One will hear children of adult age talk about Socialism as “sharing,” as if giving some of what someone else gave one child to another child is the same thing as taking what I worked to earn as an adult and giving it to another adult who for that did nothing, because “equity”.

      As Religion of Envy ministries, the “Institutions of Higher Learning” inculcate this infantilism to generate cannon fodder for the revolution, but the irony is these academics would quickly become mass grave filler if any real revolution ever occurred. But in the meantime they fill the “useful idiots” role, converting the gullible while they perform their credentialism mummery.

      Luckily the not-infantile young adults have had their entire lives getting obviously objectively insane drivel shoveled at them, having to perform the rites to Gaia and whatever the “diversity” deity is on demand, and most have developed excellent acting skills, preserving a grasp of reality under the required professions of faith. The kids are all right.

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      1. One of the funniest bits I’ve seen is some Conservative commentator asking a socialist college student if its fair he should have a 4.0 GPA. Why can’t he share?

        Conservative says they should give their GPA points so the dumb kids can go to school, and the socialist college student gets such a look on his face. He’s thinking “but I worked my ass off for those GPA points, and the f-ing dumb kid sat around and played Mario Kart all day!”

        Yeah. It’s like that.

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        2. Thanks to the US court system something similar is happening in BSA.

          Old method (at troop our son was a part of): Note youth $$$ goes into accounting ledger to be used for scouting activities, dues, registration fees, summer camp, and individual gear.

          • Product sales, troop or council. Commission:
            • Youth 50%
            • Troop 50% (went to extra higher end “incentives”).
          • Group fund raisers, net profits
            • Troop 50% –
              • 20% to “high adventure”, including some $$$ for scouts to attend national jamboree, high adventure through council contingents.
              • Troop gear, including youth tents, tarps, cooking gear, both car camping, and backpacking.
            • Youth or adult 50%
              • Distributed by net per hour rate calculated by $$$/total hours of everyone worked. (Most adults just fund their scouts accounts because adults can write off their expenses on taxes, we could anyway. Or how son paid most of his own National Jamboree and council contingent costs for Philmont, as well as all summer camps, etc.)
          • Note, quitting scouts do not get paid out the money. Goes into troop fund. (If changing troops, some troops will forward the amount to the new troop, but then the money is under the new troop’s “rules”).
          • Generally the first year is the only out of pocket for parents. Scouts could pay their own way. BUT they had to participate in the fund raisers. A huge boost in self esteem.

          New method due to the court ruling.

          • Product Sales. Same. Individual effort gets the benefit.
          • Group fund raisers. Does not matter how much worked, or did not work. Nothing goes into individual accounts. Everyone gets their summer camp (if you go) paid for. What it covers, in place of the individual accounts, beyond that IDK (not part of a troop anymore).

          Has there been a fallout? Absolutely. The three troops I know about the group big fund raiser results have tanked. Does not matter if it is Christmas tree sales or pickup, or stadium cleanup. It is sad. Some of the Christmas tree pickup seasons we had hourly rates of $11 – $15/hour tax free. What 11 – 17 year old makes double the federal minimum wage (and over state minimum wage at that time)? Then can be told they’ve just paid for summer camp. They can buy that new sleeping bag, or pack, instead of borrowing the worn donated one kept in the troop stash. The look on the scouts, and frankly some parents who otherwise couldn’t afford to send their scouts to camp, is priceless. They, the scout, could pay for it. Now it is, sure still going to camp, but like always, someone else is paying for it. Everyone goes no matter effort or not. FYI, everyone went before, but that was because if parents weren’t getting them there, another parent was (where fairness did come in) so the scout could put in the work. These are not the same.

          We aren’t involved in BSA anymore because we don’t have anyone in the program. Our normal more recent sources have dried up. I hope this ruling has been overturned somewhere somehow. Won’t bet it has.

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  16. The Reader notes that there appears to be a minor controversy as to whether May 1 or November 7 should be Victims of Communism Day. Given the number of victims, the Reader believes that it is worthy of two recognitions per year.

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    2. I could get behind it being 365 recognitions per year. Vile commies (and every believer in Commiescum is vile) are a pox upon mankind. Yet there are some cultures and peoples that cannot even see any other way. Even when they are presented with verifiable evidence to the contrary.

      They only believe in envy, greed, and bitter spite. They believe that all men are thus, like them. Any hand up is a handout. They think us gullible fools to be exploited, at best. There is no getting through to such men.

      Let them rot, say I. Welcome the refugees with open arms. Seek out our ideological brothers and sisters and give them aid to come here. But the parasites? The unrepentant thugs and bandity types that only see us as sheep to be shorn, then eaten? Screw those guys. Kick them out with prejudice, should they ever even sneak their way in.

      I do not believe we will ever be in a world, solar system, or galaxy without such vile impulse, though. Commiescum is just the latest in a long string of excuses used. That sort of lazy, antisocial impulse is baked into humanity. We have all had our days when we envied, or were full of impotent wrath at another soul’s foolishness.

      But those of us who were raised to be civilized know better. We do not spring to instant violence at the slightest perceived provocation. We practice restraint. We do so because freedom is our watchword. Freedom includes the freedom to be a bloody fool at times. And suffer the consequences of such foolishness, as well- but not be beaten down, as a tyrant does to its slaves.

      If I could, I would give all the world the blessings of freedom itself. But there are those that would abuse and misuse it. And then things would be right back where they were before. Still and all, recognizing and welcoming all freedom loving peoples to our shores? Those that seek the liberty to risk, grow, and try again and again ’till they get it right- wait, didn’t we already do that? Oh, that’s right. We did.

      For the victims of Communism, a prayer.

      May your souls be at peace with Himself. May your beloved kith and kin find a way to the freedom and liberty you were lethally denied. May you finally be free in all things, free from the tyrant’s boot, and all that comes with it forevermore. May all your hurts be healed, and may those that struck at you in life know regret for their terrible actions.

      And may the blood of tyrants feed the soil. Let freedom ring.

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    3. There should be statues in every park to mark their passing.

      Anybody know how many Chinese peasants died since Covid? China is EMPTY right now, and it is looking like maybe they lost more than the Great Leap Forward.

      Or it could all be propaganda, so hard to tell anymore.

      Did they install a urinal on Karl Marx’s grave yet? If not, there’s still work to do.

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  18. There is no difference between Democrat Politicians/Judges and Vladimir Putin.

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  19. Communism is Slavery to the State, nothing more, nothing less.
    There is nothing funnier than watching a Black person wearing a Communism shirt, that should be in the dictionary as the definition or Irony.

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    3. Crimony! And why have I never heard of these 764 vermin before (though I’m kinda glad I haven’t)?

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  21. Long ago, Harry Franck in his book “Zone Policeman 88” wryly noted that the Canal Zone when the Panama Canal was under construction was the only successful socialist society in the world – funded by the United States of America and administered by the United States Army.

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  24. I noticed this year that all of the ‘Pagans’ are now trying to reclaim Mayday for their own.

    It would be cool if they managed to take away all of the communists links to that day.

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      1. I’m hoping to start the sequel in the fall of this year. I had may shoulder joint replaced recently, so my schedule is a bit messed up. I also have my ‘Wolfhounds’ series if you might be interested. Book 6 (which will end this series – there will be a follow on) should be out around July sometime.

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