The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism

by Paul Kengor
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism

by Paul Kengor

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Overview

A brand-new installment of the beloved Politically Incorrect Guide series! The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism is a fearless critique of freedom's greatest ideological adversary, past and present.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621576150
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 10/02/2017
Series: The Politically Incorrect Guides
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Paul Kengor, PhD, is the New York Times bestselling author of God and Ronald ­Reagan, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative, Dupes, The Communist, and other books. A professor of political science and the executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, he has written for a range of popular and scholarly publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review, Political Science Quarterly, Christianity Today, the National Catholic Register, and the National Catholic Reporter. Kengor has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, C-SPAN, and many other outlets. He and his family live in Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Educating for Ignorance 1

"Glee meets the Russian Revolution" 2

The "Softer Side" of Communism 4

Chapter 2 How Many People Have These Bastards Killed? 9

Counting the Bodies 11

Odious Comparisons 13

Chapter 3 When and Where It All Began 17

Forerunners 17

Marx the Moocher 23

Abolishing the Family 28

Chapter 4 The Communist Program-and its Problems 31

An Ideal, a Program, and a Regime 34

All Proletarians Are Equal, but Some Proletarians Are Less Equal Than Others 38

Abolishing the Present State of Things 39

Atrocities with No Shame 44

Chapter 5 Bolshevik Brutes 47

Keeper of the Flame 49

Communism in Practice 56

"A Fight to the Death" 57

The Founding Father of Soviet Terror 61

Chapter 6 The Comintern: Taking the Revolution to the World 67

Communism, American-Style 70

Stalin's Hollywood Stooges 77

Working for a "Soviet America" 80

Chapter 7 Uncle Joe 87

Duped by a Dictator 94

The Cold War 99

Captive Nations 106

Death Comes for the Dictator 111

Chapter 8 Mao and Other Monsters: Communism Assaults Asia 115

Cheerleader for the Chairman 115

Red Chinese Butcher's Bill 117

Korea and the Kims 119

Vietnam 129

The Killing Fields of Cambodia 139

Chapter 9 Meet Fidel and Che, Two Vicious Commie Nuts Who Wanted to Blow Up the World 143

Launching the Revolution 143

Fidel's Pal at the New York Times 144

Victory Lap in Manhattan 148

Cold-Blooded Killer 150

America: The Great Enemy of Mankind 154

The Cuban Missile Crisis 155

Everlasting Icon to the Left 159

Castro's Corpses 161

Chapter 10 "21st Century Socialism" (Read: Communism) 165

By Any Other Name 165

A Dime's Worth of Difference 167

The Difficulties of Definition 171

The Latest Model 175

Put Marx in Your Head, Young Man 177

It Happens Every Time 178

All the Right Friends 180

"I Am a Trotskyist" 182

The Knockout Punch 183

Communism Kills 188

Chapter 11 Why Doesn't Everybody Know Communism's Appalling Track Record? 193

Feeling the Bern 193

Educating for Hate 198

Dewey's Children 199

Dewey's "Impressions" 204

The Testimony of Bella Dodd 206

Education Comrades 209

Dewey's Ghost 214

Chapter 12 Cultural Marxism and the New Left 217

The Frankfurt School 217

Antonio Gramsci 222

Cultural Marxism Comes to America 225

The Wretched World of Wilhelm Reich 226

Herbert Marcuse and the New Left 229

Walter Benjamin 232

The Frankfurt School's Intellectual Godchildren 234

"We Sh-t on All Your Conventional Values" 237

Teaching Revolution 240

Chapter 13 Communism Today 249

Revolutionary Communists 249

"Progressives" (Read: Communists) for Obama 252

Democratic Socialists, Socialist-Friendly Democrats 258

CPUSA Today 259

The Seventeenth International Meeting 267

"How to Better Unite the Left" 272

Fundamental Transformation 274

Chapter 14 Commies Just Love Blacks and Women 279

Race-Baiting in Pursuit of Revolution 280

Not a New Strategy 281

Lovett Fort-Whiteman: "The Reddest of the Blacks"-and the Deadest 283

A Soviet-American "Negro Republic" 284

Saluting the Scottsboro Boys 287

Black Lives Matter 289

Confederate Flag, No-Red Flag, Yes 291

Down with the Patriarchy! 293

"If Hell Really Exists… We Saw Its Image" 296

Chapter 15 Stupidity on Parade 305

American Education, or Chicom Agitprop? 308

Putting a Sunny Face on Oppression 311

Wait, Stalin Liberated Normandy? 313

How We Lost the Cold War, After All 314

Acknowledgments 321

Notes 325

Index 373

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