The Black Book of Communism was published originally in France, and in the United States in 1999.  It is an 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, recorded and analyzed in ghastly detail by a team of scholars. This link just includes excerpts from the introduction and conclusion, with some comments with regards to an evolutionary perspective challenging some of the authors assumptions

The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 ushered in the beginning of absolute totalitarianism and mass genocide. It was the model or template that was used by other totalitarians to follow including Nazi Germany and the Communist Chinese.  But unlike other horrific historical periods, the Soviet genocide was covered up by Marxists in the West who embraced a new ideology to produce a new egalitarian state, one that used class as the defining criteria to put people to death.  Unfortunately, they are still very much in control of the socialist part of this agenda, and are as active as ever on campuses, the media, and in government.  This failed ideology is as pernicious and influential as it was over 100 years ago.  Unlike National Socialism, egalitarian socialism maintains its presence in various forms in all Western nations. 

According to The Black Book of Communism the genocide in China under Communism came to 65 million people, rather than the 35 million tallied by Rummel.  But whatever the number was it was by far the greatest tragedy in sheer numbers. Chinese Communism varied in many respects from that of Russia, but the Russian Bolsheviks are largely responsible for teaching the Chinese the art of terror and the benefits to the state of slave labor camps.  And of course, like Korea, Chinese archives are not as yet available for inspection. The horror that took place (and in some ways still is) will not be known until Communism collapses there.

The Holocaust has been so ubiquitously presented to the world that there is little need for an explanation of  what happened.  However, what caused the Holocaust is much more provocative.  Enter here to understand National Socialism and why it came forth as a mirror image of Jewish dominance of the German Volk leading up to the Second World War. 

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 The Black Book of Communism and Rummel both agree on the  figure of 2 million dead under the Khmer Rouge Communists.  And America bears a great deal of responsibility for unleashing the forces of the most sadistic and brutal suppression of people known in the 20th Century.  But the seeds of this gruesome tragedy were also sown in France where Marxism was readily absorbed by Pol Pot, the mastermind of this Bolshevik Holocaust.  No other people as a group suffered more than did the Cambodians under this terror.

  The North Korean nightmare is continuing to this day.  this sampling of excerpts from The Black Book of Communism highlights some of the bizarre and tragic consequences of Marxism still being practiced  today under almost total isolation. Like China, we will not know the full extent of the carnage until the dictatorship finally falls.  Until then, all we get are glimpses.

Death for Power