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AOC And The Radical Left's Call For "Accountability" For Trump Supporters Echoes Dictatorships Of The Past

One of the most terrifying novels about totalitarianism you probably haven’t read, but your grandparent’s generation did, is Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon.” And it looks like the American hard-Left is taking a page right out of this book when they compiled a “list” of political enemies they aim to punish.

By S.G. Cheah3 min read
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While just about anyone who’s aware of the horrors of totalitarianism had heard of George Orwell’s 1984, significantly fewer people are aware of how Koestler’s novel about the evils of Socialism inspired Orwell to write 1984. Darkness at Noon had more or less disappeared from our collective consciousness. And this is quite possibly done by design because the book had substantially destroyed the popularity of Marxist ideas for the older generation.