In your reply to Jerry Kott (in the response section) you said your article contained an exception to his factual exposition of the history of communism: “misery, stagnation, poverty and mass murder”. I looked your article over more carefully but was unable to find that exception. (Then again, I didn’t parse every sentence, so I admit it could be there.)

In any case, I’m waiting to be impressed at the enormousness of the exception that will atone for the 200 million innocent people, give or take, who lost everything they owned, suffered from torture and lost their lives through starvation or forced labor or outright murder at the hands of tyrants who justified their cruelty by adhering to Marx’s vision of utopia rooted in a fundamentally blind conception of human nature.