Is Socialism A Hate Crime?

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Scott McKay, Spectator: A Crime Against Humanity

Given all the suffering it has caused, is socialism a hate crime?

Last week at the New Criterion, conservative scholar James Piereson posed an interesting question, arguing the affirmative: is socialism a hate crime?

As is his custom, Piereson makes a solid case. His isn’t a complex argument — Piereson simply totals up the corpses thanks to the world’s chief practitioners of socialist governance in the 20th century, and concludes that anything which leads to the deaths of more than 110 million souls has to be a hate crime by the definition afforded us by the modern gatekeepers of the term.

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WNU Editor: From one who lived a good part of his life under a socialist regime the answer is an unequivocal yes. Next question.