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“The idea of communism is much older than Marx.”
“But I do want to prevent the Communist Party of China taking control of them.”
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“If its plans succeed, the CPC will get to write both the definitions and the history books.”
“I have been inspired by the philosopher Walter Benjamin’s instruction to historians: stop writing about the past as if we don’t know its outcome.”
“Equally important, both Judaism and Christianity embedded into their theologies the idea of an “end of history”—a moment of redemption through destruction which, as we will see, became the guiding principle of communist movements in modernity.”
“As they did so, they summoned the creation myths of the great religions to advance the idea that human society had, at its origins, been egalitarian.”
“Far from being yesterday’s problem, the struggle for the truth about the history of communism may have only just begun.”
“As a result, while the Soviet experience can be shown in high resolution, that of the Mao era remains frustratingly pixelated.”
“The great religious thinkers of Antiquity—from Gautama to Pythagoras to Jesus—taught that property should be renounced or held in common.”
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“By then it may not matter whether you believe China is genuinely communist, or whether its ruling ideology is a gross distortion of the Marxist original.”
“Yet the fact remains: capitalism is broken, chaotic, and spiraling toward authoritarianism, penury, and war, no matter how fast our semiconductors become.”
“On the eve of the Nazi invasion of France in 1940, Benjamin urged us to write as if “taking control of a memory, as it flashes up in a moment of danger.” That is my intention here, because our moment of danger is tangible.”
“Faced with a crisis on this scale in the 1930s, millions of people put their faith in communism for a simple reason: every other alternative to fascism failed.”
“What might it achieve if given the unchallenged right to curate the facts about 1848, 1917, or indeed 1789?”