{"id":417611,"date":"2021-04-13T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=417611"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:59:17","slug":"watch-dennis-prager-breaks-down-why-communism-is-immoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dennis-prager-breaks-down-why-communism-is-immoral\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Dennis Prager Breaks Down Why Communism Is Immoral"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-dennis-prager-breaks-down-why-communism-is-immoral%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=417611&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-23.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Is Communism moral?&nbsp;<\/span><span>In a new video for PragerU, author and talk radio host Dennis Prager breaks down why the left-wing ideology is anything but.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prager, who founded PragerU, begins his video by laying out something that we all know to be true: \u201cMotives are much less important than behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe all know this: If someone has good intentions, but treats people badly, those good intentions mean nothing,\u201d says Prager. <\/span><span>\u201cAs it is with individuals, so it is with governments. Capitalism might sound less noble than communism \u2014 the individual pursues success to the best of his abilities (that\u2019s capitalism) versus everyone shares everything equally (that\u2019s communism).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prager then explains that, while capitalism \u201cenables a decent society,\u201d communism has led to evil despite the intentions of those who pursue it. Prager notes that, troublingly, many people aren\u2019t even aware of communism\u2019s devastating track record, either out of ignorance or willful blindness.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But there are three reasons why everyone <em>should<\/em> be aware of communism\u2019s track record of devastation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first reason, argues Prager, is that we have a moral obligation to remember the roughly 1 billion victims of communism around the world, much in the same way Americans are morally obliged to remember the victims of slavery. This obligation to remember the victims of communism particularly applies to the 100 million people who were murdered under communist regimes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The second reason to know about the ideology\u2019s track record? By confronting an evil, we are better suited stop it in the future. \u201cThe best way to prevent an evil from occurring is to confront it in all its horrors,\u201d says Prager.<\/p>\n<p><span>The final reason is that many communist leaders around the world were simply ordinary people, and those who enabled them were ordinary people too, says Prager. And since many of the brutal actions taken under communist regimes \u2014 torture, enslavement and murder \u2014 were carried out by ordinary people, any society can be susceptible to the ideology or an \u201canalogous evil.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After establishing the importance of remembering the track record of Communism, Prager explains some of the most evil facts about Communism that not enough people know \u2014 a tragic problem he attributes to the \u201csad state of our education system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is Communism Moral? | 5 Minute Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A9J4WLEnpaM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Prager notes that, even by conservative estimates, communism killed millions of people in various countries across the world. <\/span><span>Over in the Soviet Union, 20 million people were murdered by communism \u2014 an additional 1 million were murdered in eastern Europe \u2014 and in the African country of Ethiopia, 1.5 million people were murdered. And over in Asia, 70 million people were murdered by communism, including 1 million in Vietnam, 2 million in Cambodia, 2 million in North Korea, and a staggering 65 million in China.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Prager emphasizes, these millions of victims weren\u2019t soldiers at war\u2014 they were simply ordinary people.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These millions of deaths don\u2019t even cover the misery of the millions of people who, while living under communism, were forbidden from engaging in other freedoms, such as speaking out, worshipping freely, or traveling without permission from the Communist Party. <\/span><span>\u201cThese numbers don\u2019t tell you about the frozen millions in the vast Soviet Siberian prison camp system known as the Gulag Archipelago, or the Vietnamese communists\u2019 routine practice of burying peasants alive to terrorize other peasants into supporting the communists,\u201d says Prager.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So how should we think about communism?<\/p>\n<p><span>The PragerU founder explains that we should associate evil with brightness and not darkness. Why? Because it\u2019s much harder to look into brightness than darkness. \u201cOne should therefore associate evil with extreme brightness, given that people rarely look at real evil,\u201d says Prager.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prager concludes:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><em><span>The Book of Psalms states: \u201cThose of you who love God must hate evil.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>If you don\u2019t believe in God, here\u2019s another way of putting it: \u201cThose of you who love people must hate evil.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>If you don\u2019t hate communism, you don\u2019t care about, much less love, people.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>PragerU is the world\u2019s leading educational nonprofit focused on changing minds through the creative use of digital media. You can make a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.prageru.com\/give\/316306\/#!\/donation\/checkout\"><i><span>tax-deductible donation here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> to help PragerU continue to reach millions of young people with their videos.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Communism moral?\u00a0In a new video for PragerU, author and talk radio host Dennis Prager breaks down why the left-wing ideology is anything but.\u00a0Prager, who founded PragerU, begins his video &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312099,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-23.png","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Dennis Prager Breaks Down Why Communism Is Immoral","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-23.png","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Dennis Prager Breaks Down Why Communism Is Immoral","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}