Gulag prisoner: To escape the firing squad, Gulag prisoners would get the portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin tattooed on their chest. Who would have dared shoot at them?
Communism forbids individual effort
[Bolshewism or Communism] suffers from the following defects: its most serious defect is that it forbids individual effort. This perhaps is not realised fully at the moment, but its disadvantages are bound to be felt more and more as time passes. (…) When this incentive is removed and the State determines that every person irrespective of his education or training and his intellectual capacity shall receive the same reward, intellectual effort is bound to decline and to be discounted. (…)
Communism promotes itself by force and violence
The second defect in this movement is that it seeks to promote itself by force and violence, rather than by persuasion. If the movement had sought to bring about an equitable distribution of wealth by means of persuasion and conviction, results might have been wholly beneficial. It seeks to achieve this end, however, by force at one fell swoop. (…)
Communism opposes religion
Thirdly, by opposing religion the Bolsheviks have set the religious part of the world up against them. Those who are truly attached to religion will never be able to lend support to Bolshevism.
Communism opens the door to dictatorship
Fourthly, Bolshevism has opened the door to dictatorship. It is true that these people profess to believe in mass rule, but they say that dictatorship is necessary in the initial stage. We are not told, however, when dictatorship will come to an end. Lenin was succeeded by Stalin, and Stalin may be succeeded by Molotov and so on. Thus in practice this movement has resulted in setting up a rigid dictatorship.
Communism bars international academic pursuit
Fifthly, this movement creates barriers in the way of intellectual development. (…) This movement … imposes drastic restrictions upon intercourse between peoples of different countries and thus shuts down one of the main sources of intellectual stimulation. (…) History shows that it is only by free and unrestricted intercourse between nations that intellectual progress can be maintained at a high level.
Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad, The New World Order of Islam (1942), Islam International Publications, Tilford UK 2005 (pdf); p. 34-38. (Subheadings added)
Some people argue that the totalitarian strategies of Communism are planned to be used in the former capitalist countries by new fascist governments: Alex Jones on Russia Today
Categories: Ahmadiyyat: True Islam
Of course the interesting thing about this article / book is that Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-din Mahmud Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih II, wrote it long before any one else realized the shortcomings of communism. Similarly later on, when the Communist state collapsed and everyone dreamed about a ‘peace dividend’ Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV, was the first to state that a lone superpower will present its own danger.