Bill Welch (@BillWelch)

Menzingen 7/13/26 II. WHAT IS COMMUNISM? FIRST PRINCIPLES Now. Let me explain something. Because you need to understand it.The left doesn't want you to understand it. The Democrats don't want you to understand it. The modernists in Rome don't want you to understand it. What is communism? From first principles. From the ground up. No jargon. No academic nonsense. Just truth. Communism begins with one claim — ONE claim — and everything else follows from it. The claim is this: the individual has no value apart from the collective. That's the seed. That's the poison pill. The individual soul, the thing that makes YOU you, the thing that God created, communism says doesn't matter. What matters is the group. The class. The collective. The party. From that one claim, everything follows: If the individual has no value, then the individual has no rights. Not freedom of speech. Not freedom of religion. Not freedom of thought. Rights belong to the collective, and the collective is managed by the party. The party decides what you can say. The party decides what you can believe. The party decides what your children learn. The party decides what your Church teaches. If the individual has no value, then private property is theft. Your home, your land, your savings, your labor - none of it belongs to you. It belongs to everyone. And "everyone" means the state. And the state means the party. And the party means the men with guns who tell you what to do. If the individual has no value, then religion is the opium of the masses. Marx said it. Religion teaches that the individual soul has eternal worth. That each person stands before God ALONE - not as a member of a class, not as a cog in a machine, but as a unique, unrepeatable person who will be judged for HIS choices and HER choices. Communism HATES that. Communism cannot tolerate that. Because if the soul is real, then the collective is not supreme. And if the collective is not supreme, then the party has no justification for its power. And here's where it gets really good - communism also requires the destruction of tradition. ALL tradition. Because tradition connects the individual to something bigger than the state. Tradition says: your father believed this, your grandfather believed this, your great-grandfather believed this, and it was good, and you should believe it too. Communism says: NO. The past is oppression. The past is inequality. The past must be erased. The French Revolution tried it. The Bolsheviks tried it. Mao tried it. Pol Pot tried it. And every single time it produced mountains of corpses. That's communism. First principles. The negation of the individual. The negation of the soul. The negation of tradition. The negation of God. And the concentration of ALL power in the hands of a self-appointed elite who claim to speak for "the people" while enslaving the people.