Why Certain Ideas of Communism Are Inhumane!
“It is the Communists’ intention to make people think that personal success is somehow achieved at the expense of others and that every successful man has hurt somebody by becoming successful. It is the Communists’ aim to discourage all personal effort and to drive men into a hopeless, dispirited, gray herd of robots who have lost all personal ambition, who are easy to rule, willing to obey, and willing to exist in selfless servitude to the State.” — AYN RAND.
Marxism, Stalinism, and Maoism (comprising the larger idealogy of Communism) all ideologically reject human morality.
Communism inherently caused mass genocide and the murder of the idea of human consciousness and individuality in the Soviet Union and China. By rejecting, the idea of human morality.
What prevents your neighbor from stabbing you and taking away your wealth? Besides, law and order. Mortality and consciousness are two tenets, that convince you and your neighbor to not kill or steal from each other.
But Communism rejects such mortality as an innovation by the rich/bourgeoise classes.
In the words of Engels himself:
“We maintain … that all moral theories have been hitherto the product, in the last analysis, of the economic conditions of society obtaining at the time. And as society has hitherto moved in class antagonisms, morality has always been class morality; it has either justified the domination and the interests of the ruling class or ever since the oppressed class became powerful enough, it has represented its indignation against this domination and the future interests of the oppressed. “ [1]
In simpler words, Marx and Engels state that human mortality is an innovation to prevent the proletariat or the working classes from rising against those who are wealthy and fortunate. If it is taken in its truest sense perhaps, one can use it to justify the murder of a wealthy neighbor.
But this clear idea of rejecting mortality by Marx created unimaginable mayhem and lead to monsters taking power a few years down the line.
In 1917, when the Communist revolution hit the Russian Empire. Many landlords and nobles were butchered on the street ruthlessly. Even their innocent children weren’t spared. Their only crime? They were just wealthy.
It was justified for the mobs and the organized Bolshevik army alike to murder and plunder the rich. It is estimated that more than seven million civilians lost their life due to the Russian Civil War, instigated by the Bolshevik Communists who wanted a “class conflict.” [2]
Even the ruling Romanov family comprising of the Last Czar of Russia, and his wife both adults, along with their five children, including even their youngest son who was thirteen years at the time and suffered from hemophilia were all rounded up and shot dead by the Bolshevik Communists.
Their bodies were not even given a proper burial under the Communist Soviet Union. Their murders were celebrated, as a victory over the bourgeoisie/wealthy classes. Men who had disposed of their dead bodies got railway stations named after them for carrying out the glorious work of disposing of the bodies without any proper burial.
What was the crime of a thirteen-year-old with hemophilia? That made him deserve a bullet smashing into his tender head? Simple. According to Communism, he was born wealthy and therefore, eligible to be murdered.
Any moral consciousness opposing the boy’s death was nothing but a figment of imagination, or rather a creation by the bourgeoisie/ wealthy classes to control the proletariat.
After Stalin came to power in the Soviet Union, he sent millions to the gulag (labor camps of horror) and expelled anyone who opposed him to Siberia. Stalin murdered thirty thousand Kulak nobles, Kulaks were anyone who owned more than eight acres of land. Their only crime too was being “wealthy” than normal peasants according to Stalin and his Communist idealogy. The murder of Kulaks caused economic mayhem and famine, and an entire industry and regions that depended on their incomes and products declined, leading to an additional death toll of 3 to 5 million people out of starvation. [3]
Mao Zedong the Asian counterpart of Stalin, a man molded by Communism too has no fewer deaths on his account. After visiting Moscow for the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, in 1957. And getting inspired by Stalin, Mao vowed to create a utopia of sorts, where housing, infrastructure, and food distribution would be carried out by the Party. To make China great.
He named his program as “the Great Leap Forward”. The Great Leap Foward, caused 45 million deaths in China, as people’s farms, houses, and food were taken away. Food was distributed, based on merit, by the measurement of a few spoons each per day. Hunger, famine, and economic downfall due to a whirlpool of irrational decisions, all in the name of a collective Communist utopia lead to the death of millions. [4]
The idea of fundamental individual rights, like the right to life, right to food, right to ownership of private property are all concepts rejected by Communism. Lenin himself said: “the rights of the individual are bourgeois fiction”
Communism might be relevant when it comes to the exploitation of the less fortunate by big capitalistic powers. But Communism’s inherent rejection of morality, and individualism, lead to the murder of millions of people throughout history. The fact remains, the dream for a utopia where everyone is equal has starved millions to death and killed millions to death as opposed to a capitalistic society where exploitation.
Communism’s tainted record makes it inhumane. And certain aspects of Communism need to be reworked, while the histories of Communist regimes need to be re-visited again.
REFERENCES:
[1]https://isreview.org/issue/82/marxism-morality-and-human-nature
[2]https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/romanov-family-executed
[3] https://news.stanford.edu/2010/09/23/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310/
[4] https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/05/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao/
