I don’t think that the complete and utter brutality of Marxist regimes throughout the world in the 20th Century up through today, is being taught in public schools.
The PC worldview which is being espoused is that communists were/are “idealists” out to improve the lot of the common man. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
By removing religion from their societies, particularly, Christianity, the totalitarian regimes were stripping their people of their God-given dignity and right to life. The “state” replaced “religion” .
Talk to someone who lived through the Bolshevik Revolution - that’s an eye opener.
Ahh, but often it was the truth. Which only made them more dangerous. The potential for evil of a man interested only in gratifying his own ambitions and appetites is limited. That of an idealist sincerely convinced that he is performing a distasteful but necessary task is not. That is why the death toll of even the greatest tyrants of the past pales in comparison with that of the idealistic Nazis and Commies.
Orwell said the most dangerous person in the world is an idealist with a machine gun. He was talking about the commies.
Well said, and Mencken would agree: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."