COMMUNISM

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - What Communism Actually Is
3. Chapter Two - Before Marx
4. Chapter Three - Marx and the Manifesto
5. Chapter Four - The Dreamers
6. Chapter Five - Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian Detour
7. Chapter Six - Mao’s Long March (to Nowhere)
8. Chapter Seven - The Cuban Sideshow
9. Chapter Eight - Vietnam, Korea, and the Proxy Wars
10. Chapter Nine - McCarthy, Red Scares, and American Hysteria
11. Chapter Ten - Fake Communism, Real Power
12. Chapter Eleven - The Collapse
13. Chapter Twelve - What Survived?
14. Chapter Thirteen - The New Red Scare
15. Chapter Fourteen - Is There a Next Time?

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THE STRANGE THING about communism is that it never actually happened. Not the way they said it would. Not the way Marx wrote it. Not the way anyone remembers it. What most people picture when they hear the word, the gray buildings, bread lines, flags with dead eyes and too many syllables, that wasn’t the dream. It was the detour. But the dream was real. It always is, right before it collapses. A world without landlords. A life without bosses. No more rich, no more poor. No one hoarding while others starve. No more working 40 hours just to afford to keep working. It’s the oldest fantasy on Earth: what if we just… shared? Communism didn’t start in Russia. It started in the mind. In...