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Fighting Communism After The Cold War

Communism didn’t win the Cold War, but it’s doing surprisingly well in the 21st century, including in America.

Elsewhere, especially in East Asia, Communism is the tyrannical creed of a ruling class that stays in power by jailing its opponents—or rolling tanks over them.

Here, especially on college campuses, Communism is a status marker and a way to make murder seem cool.

Fascism isn’t the totalitarian ideology having a moment in America right now.

It’s Communism whose chief theoretical work—or Bible, really—has just been published in a new translation by Princeton University Press.

Karl Marx’s “Capital” still confers prestige on students and professors who aspire to be revolutionaries without risking their lives.

Campus Communism offers an easy way to appear edgy yet intellectual, and if Communism outside the Ivory Tower bears…

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