Incredible book about the evils of communism

I read this book after seeing the extremism of BLM inflame America whilst the whole world cheered on the bombing of police stations, radical black nationalism and murders of innocent working police officers.

It’s an amazing analysis of why society has fallen to narratives and ‘pattern thinking’ of politically correct radicalism. My eyes are opened.

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sheds light on the Liberal agenda

a good book which sheds light on why some of the most ridiculous Liberal policies get the backing of so many people. as described in this book these liberals are simply "useful idiots" to the communist agenda

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Revealing

Insightful, truthful, backed up by facts of mass Socialist murder which Americans must have known about, as Nancy Astor knew

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A must read to everyone who are supposedly educate

I confess my absurd ignorance about communism and how evil Karl Marx and Engels were!
How demagogue and truly eveil people can be in the name of a dangerous ideology such as communism.
Al the confusion and divisions between gender, races, classes have their base in communism and their evil ideology to destroy what humans fought millenia to build.
I will definitely help spread awareness of how evil commies are and how they're have been rebranding themselves to stay alive and trick people.

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Overall very good

Unlike The Political Incorrect Guide to socialism, there is less focus on the purely economic aspects and more on what sort of atrocities communist regimes have committed around the world, what their ideas are and how they manifest culturally.
A lot of the book focuses on religion and how communists have suppressed religion and religious people because of their ideology and this is something which often is not spoken about. The book is however not very thorough when it comes to all the different instances of those communist atrocities. I don't remember a lot of the book focusing in great detail on the Holodomor and the suffering people went through. There's a lot of death tolls thrown around, which are great for perspective, but unless you delve into them, well, like good ol' uncle Joe said "One death is a tragedy. A thousand is statistics".
There are instances of where the book goes into the suffering of people however, and quote from people having lived under these regimes. The problem for me, which I will go more into down below, was the reader, but these instances were still good at showing what people actually went through, instead of just speaking of statistics.

One of the best parts of the book is exposing how fellow-travellers and commies have infiltrated America and given important positions which shape the society. From naïve people like FDR who thought the commies and Americans wanted the same, to out right Marxist communists who wanted to fundamentally change America, the book does a good job exposing them.
The chapter on cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School is highly relevant on exactly how this ideology managed to shape the culture and find it's way into a large minority of radicals.

The book's focus is on exposing communism's atrocities and true ideas, but it's not really engaging with those ideas on a philosophical level. It does not try to refute or argue against critical theory or why communists are wrong in some of their fundamental ideas about humanity, human nature and the relationship between employer-employee, man-woman, white-black etc. which is why the ideology still survive, despite everything evil that has come out of it.
But, in exposing those atrocities, the attraction towards communism will be lessened because communism thrives on ignorance.

I personally found the narrator to be overall enjoyable. It might be because I am European and I found his very strong American accent and the way he uttered "communism" to be amusing that I really enjoyed it. When the narrator speaks on communism and it's atrocities, I found it very amusing and enjoyable. There was something in how he expressed himself that made me think of the good 'ol anti-communist American giving these Reds a healthy dose of anti-communist reality.
The parts where I found it a bit annoying was when he was speaking on the more serious and dark parts where the writer clearly intended a tonal shift to be more dark and tragic. John McLain tries to adjust his voice, but it just doesn't quite work for me.

Overall, it's a good introduction for conservatives who wish to start learning about communism and some good resources on the ideology.

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Great Listen

Enjoyed this listen. Alot of the source materials are well known if you have studied communism or Marx in general, but the book really hits home when describing themodern impact, lack of teaching and of the threat of communist ideology

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Thoroughly well researched.

A real wake-up call as to what is going on in the world. Five stars.

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Should be taught at school

Great details and fully referenced should be mandatory reading at schools to help children understand socialism

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Great snippets of the true evil of communism...

lots of information for anyone in any doubt about the inherent evil of communism. Narrator did an ok job though didn't sound suited to the subject matter.

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Pulls the wool OFF your eyes!

Fully explains why modern politics are the way they are.
I am grateful to Paul Kengor for finally explaining how the various commonly conflated Inter-sectional political issues of the day come together to form a logical, and historical strategy!

Every outraged social justice activist should read this to assess whether they are truly fighting to free the people or if they are, in fact, an unwitting pawn in a century old political philosophy.

My favourite line: "progressives are pushing ideas from 2 privileged white German males from over a hundred years ago!" The irony is delicious with the sweet taste of cyanide...

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