The trouble with Communism is the short memory of people. Every day about 15,000 people from East Berlin used to escape into West Berlin until the wall was put up in 1961. They were not escaping from the worker's paradise promised by Communism but from worker's hell. After the wall was up, the escape attempts were almost every day, and many of these attempts were reported in the USA where I was aware of this phenomenon. The East German guards had orders to shot to kill, and succeeded in doing so many times. So when in English Literature Departments in universities advocate for communism, why don't they mention this?
