The communists have been in power in various countries for more than 50 years. They have written an extensive record. Their rule is by dictatorship, and it has caused massive suffering and death. Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimates the number who have been killed as a result of the communist conquest of Russia at 66 million.
Communism imposes the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This is the brutal lawless dictatorship of the Communist Party over the entire populace. This dictatorship is sustained by the most complete monopoly conceived by man. The Communist Party controls every facet of life. It is the only political party; it conceives and passes all legislation; it directs the judicial process, and it administers all the functions of the state. It controls the army and the police, decides what type of education the children shall receive, and selects all the information disseminated by newspapers, radio and television. It controls all the economy so it is simultaneously the employer and labour union, manufacturer, banker, merchandiser and foreign trader. It has literal life and death power over every citizen as it can make anyone unemployable by the simple process of expulsion from the appropriate organization. As Boris Pasternak, Nobel prize-winning author of Dr Zhivago said, “They have expelled me from the Union of Soviet Writers so that I shall starve.”
A simple definition of the rule communism has historically imposed is: “That organization of society which enables the Communist Party, through its monopoly power, to starve any citizen of whom it disapproves.”