This Day in History: Joseph Stalin became the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on this day in 1922. It is fascinating to think that many in the West, including America, were enamored by Stalin, even to the point of calling him "Uncle Joe." One "intellectual" Lincoln Steffens said after a visit to the Soviet Union “I have seen the future and it works.” He just didn't know that everyone there was ordered to "look busy" when visitors came. To get a snapshot of a Socialist economy like the one that Russia had, the workers there had a saying, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.”
Communists and socialists don’t like the economic rules a market economy demands, however, the implementation of their system requires force and always devolves into the use of violence. Demographer Rudolph Rummel, estimated the human toll of twentieth-century socialism to be about 61 million in the Soviet Union, 78 million in China, and roughly 200 million worldwide. The term for it is Democide.
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