Page 125 - The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity

I
S
U
R
N
A
O
S
T

U
O
O
C
F

E
C
M
M

I
N
S
:
M
A
D D A R W I N I S M : T H E S O U R C E O F C O M M U N I S T S A V A G E R Y Y 125
R
I
W

E
R
G
V
A
H
T
E
S

effects of a kind of mass hypnotism, supported
all kinds of savagery and showed that sup-
port by shouting as they watched the killings.
The book Le Livre Noir du Communisme ("The
Black Book of Communism"), prepared by a gro-
up of historians and teachers, described Commu-
nism's savage practices in this way:
The whole people were invited to public trials of "counter-
revolutionaries," who almost invariably were condemned to
death. Everyone participated in the executions, shouting out
"kill, kill" to the Red Guards whose task it was to cut victims
into pieces. Sometimes the pieces were cooked and eaten, or
force-fed to members of the victim's family who were still
alive and looking on. Everyone was then invited to a banqu-
et, where the liver and heart of the former landowner were
shared out, and to meetings where the speaker would add-
ress rows of severed heads freshly skewered on stakes.
This fascination for vengeful cannibalism, which later be-
came common under the
Pol Pot regime, echoes a
very ancient East Asian arc-
hetype that appears often at
cataclysmic moments of
Chinese history. 115
Communist supporters of
Mao punished those who
opposed them in the civil
war in ruthless ways, humil-
iating them in front of the
people and then executing
them.