The Gulag Archipelago confirmed the horrors of the Soviet Union and Marxist collectivist ideology
No matter how many billions have been killed by the great communist ideology, people will always continue to fall for it. It’s a necessary consequence of popular democracy. It’s a giant free for all and political parties quickly find out that by giving in to the most idiotic of the mob’s wishes, they can preserve their perks for a little longer. Little by little, the masses start to believe that Manna rains from the heavens if they only pester politics enough. All significant political parties in my own country today are solidly on the left. Panem et circenses. Read “The Storm before the storm” on the end of the Roman Republic and see the parallels to today. History repeats …