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Article: UNDER THE RED FLAG.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- May 1, 2000
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Under The Red Flag: A History of Communism in Britain. Keith Laybourn and Dylan Murphy. Sutton Publishing. [pounds]25.00. 233 pages. ISBN 0-7509-1485-8.
The two great evils of the twentieth century were Communism and Fascism, which between them caused the deaths of countless millions of people. Yet one of those ideologies began with the benevolent aim of improving the lives of the world's poor. Communism, as the Pocket Oxford Dictionary says, is a 'social system in which property is vested in the community and each member works for the common benefit.' Over a century and a half those noble intentions were distorted into a destructive 'class struggle.'
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