The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism (The Politically Incorrect Guides) Paperback – October 2, 2017

Fun and easy to read. Well researched and footnoted. Read it once, twice, three times. Lots of Great things you can bring up when your liberal family members start extolling the virtues of Marxism.

Paul Kengor has written a wonderful and very timely book about the factual history and true nature of Communism. It should be mandatory reading in every high school and college history course in America!As a longtime Russian language educator, and as one who served a tour of duty in the old Soviet Union, I can personally attest to the total accuracy and absolute veracity of his description of this perverse ideology and its disastrous effects on human history. No gobbledygook or academic double-talk here – just a straightforward, reader-friendly, factual, and well-documented narrative which is informative and thought provoking.Professor Kengor is a modern day Malcolm Muggeridge who, unlike so many contemporary history teachers, exposes Socialism/Communism to the refreshing disinfectant of sunlight. Kudos to him for standing up to the ivory tower radicals in our schools and colleges who peddle false narratives to an unsuspecting younger generation.I urge every patriotic American to get this book, read it, and encourage others to do so. It is indeed a breath of fresh air permeating the stale odor of toxic ideological indoctrination which sadly passes for “education” in our country today.C.E. Cole

What a great read! I learned so much about the ills of socialism and the creeps that promoted it. Very factual and full of interesting history about this social disease.

Communism had a nine-figure body count in the twentieth century, and in this volume author Paul Kengor rightly excoriates it as the worst idea in history. It leads to crushing poverty, mass murder, loss of civil liberties, and, of course, no right of exit for those trapped in the evil regimes it establishes, wherever those regimes are established. America has faults, but they are minuscule compared to those of Communist societies. In the West the squalid Communist record has been buried and hidden, especially from our young, and Kengor admirably exposes it in this book.Kengor provides the basic history of the Communist movement, illustrating that such a terrible system was produced by terrible individuals such as Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and others. He describes Soviet terror and quotes Soviet leaders who acknowledged the obvious, that mass violence and slaughter would be necessary to implement Communism. The author describes the damage that Communism wrought in Russia, China, and the Third World, and notes that such a hideous system actually had adherents in America (and, yes, the CPUSA was run from Moscow).Because Communism tries to change human nature, it has failed in all of the cultures and climates where it has been tried, and not because "it wasn't real Communism" or "the wrong people were in charge," as the more unserious boosters of the system attempt to explain away its failures. Kengor notes that some young people today are so miseducated and naïve that they think that socialism and Communism are merely "people being kind," but there is nothing kind about Communism or its leaders—elites and the ruling classes in Communist societies never live under the conditions they inflict on everyone else, and the only morality the ruling classes observe is that which serves their own interests. The chief product of Communism, Kengor observes, is death.Kengor examines socialism and the resurgent interest in Communism in the twenty-first century and describes the reminder (as if the world needed one) of how evil and unworkable Communism is by its recent affliction of Venezuela. The author covers Communism's modern associated cultural parallel movements, Cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School.The final test of Communism is what happens when the gates are raised. If those in the Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam, and China had been given a chance to leave in the twentieth century, millions would have fled. Conversely, apart from a tiny handful of eccentrics, no one would have left a capitalist country to go "live" under Communism. This book should be required reading for everyone under 30 today, and those who are interested in further reading can follow the book suggestions offered throughout, especially Kevin Williamson's "Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism."

A lot of historical information and statistics. Politically incorrect to be sure but humerous in parts. You will definitely be able to hold up your end of the conversation with a friend who "thinks" Socialism or even Communism are a benefit to humanity. People really don't understand what they claim to believe. Read the book and never sit quietly again while someone on the left attempts to convince you how smart it is to be liberal.

As someone who was raised in California I have leaned more socialist on a lot of issues. I can’t believe what was left out of my education. “Light” communism is the most Communism that was taught in any of my schooling (I have a bachelors). I was left with the impression that they maybe killed 100,000 people or so collectively. It is a travesty that it’s not being taught how many people this ideology has killed. Over 100 million in 1917-2000 alone. And that’s an incredibly conservative estimate. Hitler killed 6 million and you hear about it all the time (rightfully so), how are we not taught about the communists? The bibliography of this book is 47 pages and a majority of the sources are liberal and undisputed sources (Harvard, Princeton, etc). Can’t say enough good things. To round out your education you should watch the Yuri Bezmenov interviews on cultural subversion on YouTube (he was a communist from the USSR that viscerally disagreed with what his country was doing so he defected and gave a series of lectures in the early 80’s). Either that man is a prophet who could describe today almost 40 years ago or he’s telling the truth.

Informational and eye opening

With so many kids brainwashed by Marxist professors, it is essential parents learn about communism how it destoroed every country where it was implemented. Hundreds of millions of people were shot in the head, worked to death in forced labor camps, and starved to death. 20 million or more were murdered just in The Ukraine by "Uncle Joe Stalin", the worst dictator other than Red China's Mao. The NY Times reporter named Durante praised Stalin and the USSR and claimed it was paradise on earth. hHe got a Pultizer Prize for his lies.