In this episode, I offer a critical perspective on communism. I will argue three main points:

First, while the idea of communism is built on certain commendable foundations, its Marxist and later Leninist iterations lead it down a misguided and immoral path.

Second, unlike Nazism, totalitarian communism has never been fully condemned, resulting in a legacy of unpunished crimes—crimes that, without accountability, continue to be repeated.

Third, Soviet Marxism was, in fact, a distorted or reversed version of Marxism. Instead of empowering those who control the means of production, it placed power in the hands of those who control the means of destruction.

This is Thinking in Dark Times, a podcast where I reflect on ideas in the midst of global crisis.

Host: Volodymyr Yermolenko; I am a Ukrainian philosopher. Despite the war, I continue to live and work in Ukraine.

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