Overall very good

Unlike The Political Incorrect Guide to socialism, there is less focus on the purely economic aspects and more on what sort of atrocities communist regimes have committed around the world, what their ideas are and how they manifest culturally.
A lot of the book focuses on religion and how communists have suppressed religion and religious people because of their ideology and this is something which often is not spoken about. The book is however not very thorough when it comes to all the different instances of those communist atrocities. I don't remember a lot of the book focusing in great detail on the Holodomor and the suffering people went through. There's a lot of death tolls thrown around, which are great for perspective, but unless you delve into them, well, like good ol' uncle Joe said "One death is a tragedy. A thousand is statistics".
There are instances of where the book goes into the suffering of people however, and quote from people having lived under these regimes. The problem for me, which I will go more into down below, was the reader, but these instances were still good at showing what people actually went through, instead of just speaking of statistics.

One of the best parts of the book is exposing how fellow-travellers and commies have infiltrated America and given important positions which shape the society. From naïve people like FDR who thought the commies and Americans wanted the same, to out right Marxist communists who wanted to fundamentally change America, the book does a good job exposing them.
The chapter on cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School is highly relevant on exactly how this ideology managed to shape the culture and find it's way into a large minority of radicals.

The book's focus is on exposing communism's atrocities and true ideas, but it's not really engaging with those ideas on a philosophical level. It does not try to refute or argue against critical theory or why communists are wrong in some of their fundamental ideas about humanity, human nature and the relationship between employer-employee, man-woman, white-black etc. which is why the ideology still survive, despite everything evil that has come out of it.
But, in exposing those atrocities, the attraction towards communism will be lessened because communism thrives on ignorance.

I personally found the narrator to be overall enjoyable. It might be because I am European and I found his very strong American accent and the way he uttered "communism" to be amusing that I really enjoyed it. When the narrator speaks on communism and it's atrocities, I found it very amusing and enjoyable. There was something in how he expressed himself that made me think of the good 'ol anti-communist American giving these Reds a healthy dose of anti-communist reality.
The parts where I found it a bit annoying was when he was speaking on the more serious and dark parts where the writer clearly intended a tonal shift to be more dark and tragic. John McLain tries to adjust his voice, but it just doesn't quite work for me.

Overall, it's a good introduction for conservatives who wish to start learning about communism and some good resources on the ideology.

4 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Unbearably bad reader

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A different reader.

Who was your favorite character and why?

n/a

What didn’t you like about John McLain’s performance?

He treated every sentence like a trailer for an action film--a bad one.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism?

I don't know. I couldn't listen to it past chapter two.

Any additional comments?

The narrator ruined the entire thing.

3 persone l'hanno trovata utile

I'm Donald Trump. And I approve this message! Not!

Firstly, I am not in the slightest offended by anything in this audiobook. I like politically incorrect content and I find it funny that some people are easily offended. I even broadly agree with the anti-communist (and even anti-socialist) sentiment of this book.
That said, the best thing I can day about this audio book is that, for a while at least, you can listen to it as a comedy on the assumption that the author is joking about. When you realise he is probably serious it becomes a bit embarrassing. I really like listening to well reasoned arguments in favour or against anything, even if I have no opinion. When the statements "he is an atheist" or "they believe in evolution" are used in such a way as to suggest that this person is a criminal beyond defense, however, the author loses any credibility in an instant.
There were some interesting facts in the book and it was sort if funny how crazy the author is. But ultimately this is, poorly camouflaged, Tea Party propaganda which is always moronic. And I'm not even a democrat (or a "commy loser" as this book would put it).

2 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Great snippets of the true evil of communism...

lots of information for anyone in any doubt about the inherent evil of communism. Narrator did an ok job though didn't sound suited to the subject matter.

1 persona l'ha trovata utile

Incredible book about the evils of communism

I read this book after seeing the extremism of BLM inflame America whilst the whole world cheered on the bombing of police stations, radical black nationalism and murders of innocent working police officers.

It’s an amazing analysis of why society has fallen to narratives and ‘pattern thinking’ of politically correct radicalism. My eyes are opened.

1 persona l'ha trovata utile

Boring and badly narrated.

Gave up after a couple of hours. It might be better as a physical book (doubt it) but as an audio book the tone and pace of the narrator made it a difficult listen. I gave up after a couple of hours.

Pulls the wool OFF your eyes!

Fully explains why modern politics are the way they are.
I am grateful to Paul Kengor for finally explaining how the various commonly conflated Inter-sectional political issues of the day come together to form a logical, and historical strategy!

Every outraged social justice activist should read this to assess whether they are truly fighting to free the people or if they are, in fact, an unwitting pawn in a century old political philosophy.

My favourite line: "progressives are pushing ideas from 2 privileged white German males from over a hundred years ago!" The irony is delicious with the sweet taste of cyanide...

Overall solid, slightly silly in one section

Solid but...the theory of evolution isn't a pseudo science in the way Marxism is. that was a weird tangent and I'm not sure on the point being made.

Thoroughly well researched.

A real wake-up call as to what is going on in the world. Five stars.

A must read to everyone who are supposedly educate

I confess my absurd ignorance about communism and how evil Karl Marx and Engels were!
How demagogue and truly eveil people can be in the name of a dangerous ideology such as communism.
Al the confusion and divisions between gender, races, classes have their base in communism and their evil ideology to destroy what humans fought millenia to build.
I will definitely help spread awareness of how evil commies are and how they're have been rebranding themselves to stay alive and trick people.