The Collapse of Communism

The past year witnessed a truly significant event: the collapse of Communism. That theological-economic-political colossus reared up in world history by Marx, Lenin, and Stalin and taking form especially in the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 has fallen. Communism has proved an utter failure. History's judgment of Communism was replete with ironies that made the fall of the house of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin even more devastating. Communism failed economically. While the...