Saggezza Eterna@FinalTelegraph
In America, advocating for communism is not protected dissent. It is treason.
Communism fails at the most basic level of human reality: it cannot calculate. Without private property and voluntary exchange, there are no real prices. No prices means no rational allocation of scarce resources. Central planners are reduced to guessing in the dark, and the result is always the same—famines engineered by bureaucrats who have never produced a single bushel of wheat. Mises proved this in 1920. Every subsequent communist regime confirmed it in blood. The Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, North Korea, Venezuela in its socialist phase—all produced mass starvation while the party elite dined on imported luxuries. This is not a bug. It is the inevitable output of an economic system that treats human beings as interchangeable cogs in a machine run by the worst people who ever sought power.
The body count is not debatable. Communist regimes murdered over 100 million people in the 20th century through deliberate policy—engineered famines, death camps, firing squads, and torture chambers. The Holodomor was genocide. The Great Leap Forward was the largest mass killing in recorded history. The Killing Fields were not an accident. Every time communists seized total power they immediately began liquidating anyone who resisted the abolition of private property, because private property is the only thing that stands between the individual and total state domination. The ideology requires it. You cannot have “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” without a gun to the head of the able and the productive.
Politically, communism is totalitarianism by design. The moment the state claims ownership of the means of production, it must claim ownership of everything else—speech, thought, family, religion, history. Dissent becomes counter-revolutionary sabotage. The secret police become the only real institution that functions. This is not “authoritarian drift.” This is the destination. Every communist regime that ever existed traveled down the exact same road: abolition of property → abolition of rights → mass graves. There has never been an exception. There never will be.
The notion that American communists or their fellow travelers are merely “idealists” with good intentions is obscene. The ideology’s founders—Marx, Engels, Lenin—were explicit: the dictatorship of the proletariat would require rivers of blood. They celebrated violence against the “class enemy.” Their modern descendants in America who wave the hammer and sickle, who call for the abolition of private property, who demand wealth redistribution by force, who cheer the destruction of the nuclear family and the nation-state, are not offering an alternative vision of America. They are offering its deliberate destruction.
In the United States, this is not abstract theory. The Democratic Party has spent decades mainstreaming ideas that are communist in both origin and effect: the systematic demonization of private enterprise, the expansion of state control over every sector of life, the weaponization of identity as a substitute for class warfare, the open contempt for constitutional limits on government power, and the steady transfer of wealth and authority from individuals and states to the central bureaucracy. These are not “progressive reforms.” They are incremental steps toward the same end state that produced the gulag and the laogai. The party’s embrace of self-described democratic socialists is not a fringe curiosity. It is the logical result of decades of ideological capture by people who hate the American founding and everything it represents—individual rights, limited government, and the right to keep the fruits of one’s labor.
The claim that “Democrats don’t want to abolish private property” is a deliberate lie of omission. They do not need to abolish it in one stroke when they can tax it, regulate it, seize it through eminent domain and inflation, and redistribute it until ownership becomes meaningless. The end result is identical: the individual stripped of economic independence and therefore stripped of political independence. That is the entire point.
America was founded in explicit rejection of every principle communism holds sacred. The Declaration of Independence asserts the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—not the right to have the state provide them. The Constitution exists to restrain government, not to empower it to reorder society according to utopian blueprints. Private property is not an optional extra; it is the foundation of liberty. Any ideology that demands its abolition is not a competing political philosophy. It is a declaration of war against the United States as it was constituted.
Therefore the conclusion is unavoidable and final: communism in America is treason. Not because it is rude or unpopular, but because it is a direct assault on the constitutional order, the economic system that created unprecedented prosperity, and the moral framework that treats individuals as ends rather than means. Those who advocate it, apologize for it, or implement its policies under softer names are not participating in the American experiment. They are working to terminate it. History has already rendered its verdict on their ideology in mountains of corpses and oceans of poverty. The only remaining question is whether Americans will recognize the enemy inside the gates before it finishes what every previous communist regime began.