"The Black Book of Communism,

[raykeller]

 Crimes, Terror, Repression
by Stéphane Courtois, et al.

Harvard University Press
Published 1999, 912 pages.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674076082&content=reviews

PDF: https://archive.org/details/TheBlackBookofCommunism10

“An 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, recorded and analyzed in ghastly detail by a team of scholars. The facts and figures, some of them well known, others newly confirmed in hitherto inaccessible archives, are irrefutable. The myth of the well-intentioned founders—the good czar Lenin betrayed by his evil heirs—has been laid to rest for good. No one will any longer be able to claim ignorance or uncertainty about the criminal nature of Communism, and those who had begun to forget will be forced to remember anew.”—Tony Judt, The New York Times

“When The Black Book of Communism appeared in Europe in 1997 detailing communism’s crimes, it created a furor. Scrupulously documented and soberly written by several historians, it is a masterful work. It is, in fact, a reckoning. With this translation by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer, English-language readers may now see for themselves what all the commotion was about.”—Jacob Heilbrunn, The Wall Street Journal

“The Black Book of Communism, which is finally appearing in English, is an extraordinary and almost unspeakably chilling book. It is a major study that deepens our understanding of communism and poses a philosophical and political challenge that cannot be ignored. The book’s central argument, copiously documented and repeated in upwards of a dozen different essays, is that the history of communism should be read above all as the history of an all-out assault on society by a series of conspiratorial cliques led by cruel dictators (Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Pol Pot, and dozens of imitators) who were murderously drunk on their own ideology and power… Courtois and his collaborators have performed a signal service by gathering in one volume a global history of communism’s crimes from the Soviet Union to China, from the satellite countries of Eastern Europe to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and North Korea, and to a lesser degree in Latin America and Africa… The Black Book is enormously impressive and utterly convincing.”—Michael Scammell, The New Republic

“Arguing with the passion of former believers, [the contributors] charge that communism was a criminal system. They all make the case well.”—Foreign Affairs

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 California Bill Wants To Drop Washington/Lincoln’s Birthday And Replace It With Communist Holiday
The Daily Caller ^ | 12 May 2018 | ROB SHIMSHOCK

Posted on 5/12/2018, 8:00:15 AM by mandaladon

The California Assembly discussed Thursday a bill that would replace Abraham Lincoln or George Washington’s birthday with International Socialist Workers’ Day as a paid holiday.

California Democrat Assemblyman Miguel Santiago introduced Bill AB-3042, which would allow schools to replace Washington Day and Lincoln Day with Presidents’ Day and install an “International Workers’ Day” — conventionally known as “May Day” — as a second holiday.

“I’m aghast that a bill like this would be able to get through committee,” California Republican Assemblyman Matthew Harper said to the Assembly. “Are we in competition to be the laughing stock of the United States?”

“Are we going that far to the left?” Harper asked. “This is ridiculous; this is insane; this is un-American. And for folks who think that the U.S. won the Cold War with the Soviet Union, this makes it sound like we’re going in the other direction — that indeed California is kowtowing to the Soviet domination of the Cold War.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

[Siri Cruise]

In article <pd760n$1u5$1...@dont-email.me>,
"raykeller"

<whiney_will_have_his_nose_in_my_ass_in_3_2_1@leftards_are_loosers.com> wrote:

> "An 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide,
> recorded and analyzed in

I think it twitched. Here's a baseball bat with which to beat that horse some
more.

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[Avenging Angel]

Siri Cruise <chine...@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:chine.bleu-29948...@reader.eternal-september.org:

> In article <pd760n$1u5$1...@dont-email.me>,
> "raykeller"
> <whiney_will_have_his_nose_in_my_ass_in_3_2_1@leftards_are_loosers.com
> > wrote:
>
>> "An 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide,
>> recorded and analyzed in
>
> I think it twitched. Here's a baseball bat with which to beat that
> horse some more.
>

It's far from dead. see the American left. When they're dead we can rest.

[Gunner Asch]

Well stated!

Communism has failed all over the planet. The 17% of Americans who are
seriously mentally ill still think it will work.


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