Nothing.

Editor,

Why such enthusiasm to demonize communism?

Lenin hijacked the Russian revolution and replaced it with the Party to further his own ambitions, much as ISIS have hijacked Islam to further theirs. The Bolsheviks, virtually all of whom Stalin wiped out, were champions of democratic socialism.

Civilization's real enemy is not social cooperation but authoritarianism.

Monopoly power is no more democratic than communism and is, if given the opportunity, as inherently authoritarian. Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is no more democratic than the Party.

Authoritarianism on the left or the right is equally as toxic. This proposed monument to corporate triumphalism is as bleak and dead as a statue of Lenin. It stands for domination and celebrates nothing.

Re: "An Immodest Proposal Rankles a Capital Known for Modesty" (2/27/2015)