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Anti-Communism, or, Why We Fight
ANTI-COMMUNISM, or, WHY WE FIGHT
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
- Karl Marx
- Karl Marx
It is astonishing that Communism has been writing about itself in the most open way, in black and white, for 125 years, and even more openly, more candidly in the beginning. The Communist Manifesto, for instance, which everyone knows by name and which almost no one takes the trouble to read, contains even more terrible things than what has actually been done. It is perfectly amazing. The whole world can read, everyone is literate, yet somehow no one wants to understand. Humanity acts as if it does not understand what Communism is, as if it does not want to understand, is not capable of understanding.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hitlerism is brown communism, Stalinism is red fascism ... The world will now understand that the only real "ideological" issue is one between democracy, liberty and peace on the one hand and despotism, terror and war on the other.
- The New York Times, 1939
- The New York Times, 1939
Today, communist regions hold massive influence over NationStates, often aggressively raiding and obliterating any region that opposes them. The burgeoning spread of political radicalism has done immense damage to the game's community and player base. However, the greatest impetus to resist far-left extremism lies in the nightmarish atrocities committed by communist regimes which many of these regions defend, horrendous crimes against humanity which the digital misdemeanors of these regimes' acolytes on this website pale in comparison to. Everyone who loves liberty, everyone who cherishes democratic government by and for the people, and everyone who values the right to free speech, a free press, equality under the law, peaceful protest, freedom of conscience, and life itself must be aware of the threat of authoritarianism, including communism, and eternally vigilant against it.
Communists have murdered approximately 100 million people, the vast majority innocent of actual crimes and killed because of their political dissidence, association with the former government of a country recently taken over by communism, adherence to religion, or other causes such as communist-induced famine. With such a catastrophic scale of damage, it is surpassed only by the similarly totalitarian ideology of Nazism in the sheer scale of industrialized mass murder per capita, even equalling it in certain extreme cases such as the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Communist regimes will inevitably end in failure because communism assumes that man will be inherently altruistic and give all his excess production for the greater good, completely ignoring the reality of human greed. Even if the state forces people to share, there is nothing keeping the highest ranking Communist Party officials from embezzling money and stealing resources. Communists hypocritically denounce capitalism as enabling greed while basing their entire ideology on an ignorance of their own leaders’ capacity for the same greed.
Regardless of the inevitable moral concerns surrounding an ideology which requires the mass extermination of the middle class as a necessary step in its program, communism works rather poorly in practice, and when it functions at all a communist state is often forced to compromise and incorporate certain aspects of capitalism into its system to stave off collapse. As the state increasingly redistributes wealth and taxes salaries, there is less incentive to work. While labor devolves into inefficiency and ineffectiveness, investment dwindles and eventually stops altogether. When almost nobody has any incentive to work, the state must use force to prop up the failing economy while constantly increasing its own power and centralization. Economic growth is rarely achieved under communism without a steep cost in human lives through forced labor. Furthermore, as people are forced into slave labor and no longer have any desire or incentive to put effort in their work beyond avoiding prison or execution, the quality and quantity of goods and services gradually degrades under a communist system, sending such a nation plummeting toward economic collapse, often accompanied by cataclysmic political collapse such as the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
Centralization is an inherent component of all communist states. Every communist state that has ever existed was ruled by a centralized regime, often under the control of a single dictator. Even the oxymoronically named "anarcho-communist" movement reverts to the very centralization anarchism claims to oppose whenever it is implemented in practice, such as the Makhnovshchina in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War or Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. This is no surprise, as any communist society needs somebody to force everybody to share. Such a task cannot be accomplished by decentralized communal guards in any substantial territorial area, resulting in a de facto military regime just as authoritarian as any other form of communism. An integral part of any communist revolution is the "dictatorship of the proletariat", whereby the new radical regime consolidates its power and purges "reactionary" or anti-communist influences from society. As mass killings and political purges are already a fundamental part of communism while the Communist Party maintains a monopoly on political power in any communist state, communism makes the ambitions of power-hungry totalitarians considerably easier to accomplish. This resulted in infamous mass murdering despots dominating numerous communist regimes around the world, such as Joseph Stalin of the USSR, Mao Zedong of China, Kim Il-sung of North Korea, Pol Pot of Cambodia, and Enver Hoxha of Albania.
Communism is an exceptionally aggressive internationalist ideology. The end goal of communism is world revolution, the unification of the entire world under a single, hegemonic communist state, which is to be achieved by any means necessary and will supposedly result in utopia. This drive to spread the revolution led to rampant aggression as communist states invaded neighboring countries to impose the communist order on them against their will. This type of brutal imperialism was pursued by the USSR when building its "Soviet Empire" and is still active in the irredentist aims of the People's Republic of China. If the workers of the world will not unite as Marx commands them to, then communist regimes will attempt to "liberate" them by force, whether they like it or not. Often, when they are unable to outright invade a nation, communists instead aid militant insurgencies, many of which are carried out by terrorist groups and involve indiscriminate massacres of civilians. Thus, communism does not even need to successfully overrun a nation to terrorize it and do lasting damage.
Communist Atrocities in History
Comrades! The insurrection of five kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution require this because "the last decisive battle" with the kulaks is now underway everywhere. An example must be made. Hang (absolutely hang, in full view of the people) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, fatcats, bloodsuckers. Publish their names. Seize all grain from them. Designate hostages - in accordance with yesterday's telegram. Do it in such a fashion, that for miles around the people see, tremble, know, shout: "the bloodsucking kulaks are being strangled and will be strangled."
- Vladimir Lenin
- Vladimir Lenin
With this terror, Russian red fascism (Bolshevism) is trying to turn 100 ethnic groups into the so-called "single Soviet people," that is, in fact, the Russian people.
- Ivan Bahrianyi
- Ivan Bahrianyi
Communist dictator Joseph Stalin's man-made terror-famine caused by forced collectivization, known as the Holodomor, was intentionally targeted at Ukraine and areas of southwestern Russia where ethnic Ukrainians were present, such as Kuban, because of Ukrainian resistance against Soviet rule, leading to roughly 6-8 million people starving to death in 1932 and 1933. About a quarter of those who perished were children. The scale of the famine was so catastrophic that it is considered a genocide committed against the Ukrainian people by the Soviet regime. The famine was exacerbated by Soviet officials ordering that grain and other food be confiscated from the people, who could be executed for "hoarding" if they had more food than the bare minimum necessary to avoid starvation. This genocidal policy was also weaponized against Kazakhs; about 1.7 million Kazakhs died in a famine similar to the one in Ukraine, and the Soviet government banned certain areas from trading with other regions for food. Many Kazakhs who tried to escape the famine by fleeing east to China would be shot by border guards. Surviving Kazakh refugees in other regions of the USSR were accused of "counterrevolutionary tendencies" and treated with suspicion. Up to a quarter of Kazakhstan's population at the time starved to death. While the famine killed millions, the Soviet government continued to deny that it was occurring, refuse international aid, and export over 1 million tons of grain rather than feed their own population. Even outside of the communist bloc, the Soviet regime tried to suppress information about the famine through its lackeys abroad. When Ukrainian-Americans protested the famine in 1933, the Communist Party USA sent thugs to attack the protesters and disrupt their demonstrations. To this day communist sympathizers deny that the Holodomor ever happened, deny that it was a genocide, or even blame the Ukrainian "kulaks" themselves for resisting the USSR.
Even without a communist government in power, the ideology can wreak unimaginable havoc on a nation. For example, the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, or FARC (from the acronym for its Spanish name, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group recognized abroad as a terrorist organization, ravaged the Colombian countryside and kidnapped tens of thousands of people to hold for ransom as hostages. FARC's reign of terror included extorting and even executing civilians in regions where they operated, violent reprisals against indigenous Colombians who tried to protect their territory and stop FARC from kidnapping or forcibly recruiting their children, war crimes such as the use of land mines and chemical weapons including poison gas, and widespread abuse of female recruits. The violence continued to plague Colombia for decades of agonizing civil war before FARC's leadership finally agreed to lay down their weapons and operate as a legal political party named Comunes (Commons). Nevertheless, around 2,000 FARC hardliners, hellbent on communist revolution, refused peace with the Colombian government and continue to occasionally commit atrocities.
Ongoing Communist Atrocities
Hatred is the central element of our struggle! Hatred that is intransigent... hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him a violent and cold-blooded killing machine... We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is inevitable. To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow! The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we'll destroy him! These hyenas are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm! The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Communist genocide continues in the present day; the Chinese Communist Party regime in mainland China is enforcing a mass Sinicization campaign in the region of Xinjiang in western China, aimed at forcibly assimilating the Uyghurs, a Muslim Turkic ethnic group who have inhabited the area for centuries. The CCP's infamous government surveillance is even more intense in Xinjiang than in the rest of China, and Uyghur women have been forced to undergo abortions and sterilizations to stop the Uyghurs from reproducing. Under the pretext of "anti-terrorism" measures, mass detention camps, described by some as concentration camps, have been built across Xinjiang and currently hold an estimated one million inmates, who are held in inhumane conditions, subject to forced labor, forced to stop speaking the Uyghur language and switch to standard Mandarin Chinese, and given mandatory reeducation lessons indoctrinating them with the CCP's ideology. Uyghurs are rarely permitted to leave China, and the families of Uyghurs are often sent to reeducation camps as punishment for a relative fleeing China. Muslim Uyghurs are forced to abandon their religion and embrace communist state atheism while their mosques and shrines are demolished.
Communism's Death Toll
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
- Mao Zedong
- Mao Zedong
Here are instances of communist mass murder, with a rough estimate of deaths caused by communism (the real death toll may be even higher).
China - 65,000,000 (high estimates: up to 100,000,000)
Soviet Union - 40,000,000 (high estimates: up to 60,000,000)
North Korea - 4,500,000
Cambodia - 4,000,000
Vietnam - 3,000,000
Yugoslavia - 2,500,000
Poland - 2,000,000 (including Germans deported after World War II)
Ethiopia - 3,000,000
Afghanistan - 3,000,000
Mozambique - 600,000
Romania - 1,000,000
Angola - 1,000,000
East Germany - 100,000
Czechoslovakia - 200,000
Mongolia - 200,000
Somalia - 200,000
Venezuela - 70,000
Colombia - 500,000 (FARC)
Laos - 300,000
Albania - 200,000
Cuba - 150,000
Spain - 70,000
Uganda - 300,000
Libya - 50,000
France - 20,000 (Paris Commune)
Zimbabwe - 20,000
Equatorial Guinea - 80,000
Hungary - 90,000
Peru - 70,000 (Shining Path)
Nicaragua - 50,000
Bulgaria - 40,000
Other - ?
Total (not counting high estimates) - over 120 million
LEST WE FORGET
Disclaimer: Although fascist atrocities are outside of the scope of this text, the author opposes fascism as an evil comparable to communism and solemnly condemns its crimes against humanity. This dispatch is not to be used by any fascist regions or sympathizers. Any misuse of this dispatch or the information therein by fascists to deflect blame from themselves is against the author's express wishes that this dispatch not be abused to promote or defend anti-democratic ideologies. Nevertheless, though the author supports democratic efforts against fascism and acknowledges the good that individual members of ANTIFA have done in the fight against fascism, the author condemns ANTIFA's radical far-left connections and claims no affiliation with it.
