Communism Worse than Nazism
When comparing communism to Nazism, one thing is for sure, communism killed many more people. Despite its massive murders, its has never came close to receiving the kind of reputation that Nazism received. Marian Tupy has this to say about that:
Unlike the Germans after the World War II, the people in ex-communist countries were never forced to face their demons. As a consequence, communist rule has not acquired the moral opprobrium of Nazism. As long as that remains the case, socialist economics will continue to enjoy an aura of plausibility.
he also notes:
In spite of its monumental failure to bring social peace and material abundance, socialism is enjoying something of a renaissance. From Venezuela to Bolivia to South Africa, government ministers espouse the supposed virtues of socialism. Even in the West, some policies are taking government intervention in the economy to levels unseen in decades. Given the renewed interest in alternatives to capitalism, it is perhaps appropriate to recall the last time that socialism was tried with real gusto.
Some 100 million people have died in the pursuit of a communist utopia.
Few recall communist rule in Eastern Europe in the 1950s—the height of its glory. The fog of time shrouds painful memories of firing squads and forced labor camps. However, I am old enough to remember communism on its last leg—communism that no longer had the confidence to pull the trigger, but still had the strength to lock the door of a prison cell. For, by the late 1980s, not even the communists believed in communism. What was once humanity’s greatest threat became a pathetic joke—except that the people in ex-communist countries were not a happy, giggling lot.
Shortages, some Americans will recall from the 1984 Robin Williams movie “Moscow on the Hudson,” were an everyday reality in the Soviet bloc. As a kid, I remember being taken by my aunt (a hardcore communist) to a shop where the only sign of life was a fat fly buzzing atop a lonely gray sausage—the sole indicator that the shop was, in fact, a butchery. Born after the communist take-over of Czechoslovakia in 1948, she did not know any better. Like Williams’s character Vladimir Ivanoff, she saw endless lines for one or two rolls of low-grade toilet paper as perfectly normal. Paradoxically, it was her trip to the workers’ paradise (a reward of sorts for true believers) that made her doubt communism. “Russia,” she said upon her return, “is a very poor country.”
Its shame that the communistic rhetoric, and by extension socialism, has never received the association to murder and destruction that occurs when you take the people’s right to private property. It is after all the most basic and fundamental right of them all. Its no surprise that millions can die when the state forbids the right to private property.