But Marx’s dream looks like a tattered rag when held up against the violent and oppressive nightmare of Communism. Sixty-one million people killed in the former Soviet Union. Thirty-five million slaughtered in the People’s Republic of China. Combine these with the horrific democides and human rights abuses perpetrated by smaller Communist states (North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, and so on), and influential political scientist R. J. Rummel concludes: Of all religions, secular and otherwise, that of Marxism has been by far the bloodiest. . . . Marxism has meant bloody terrorism, deadly purges,
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