Social Justice Warriorism as the New Communism

“To progress is merely to go forward, and you can go forward into a pit.” — Lionel Shriver

In the Gulag Archipelago, which describes the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system, author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recalls a scene from a communist party conference in Moscow:

At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference at every mention of his name). The…