“Because the Collective took everything, all property — our house, our farm — everything became property of the State. Everything in your life, you had to do how they said to do it. The Communists ordered everyone to think what they thought. There was no freedom of speech. There was no freedom of anything. If you said something the Communists didn’t like, you were arrested and sent to prison.” Dan Novacovici, Political Prisoner In Romania This section relies upon standard definitions, drawn from Merriam-Webster’s English Dictionary, to provide comparative descriptions of communism, socialism, Marxism, totalitarianism, democracy, and capitalism:3 Communism: a...