What is important about this book-in the context of our apostolate work through The Lampstand Foundation-is not the theory of Communism, "to each according to need", which many may support; but the influence on criminals from the system of government and its practice under Lenin and Stalin in Russia, Mao in China, and the lessor monsters of our world; practice continuing largely unchanged today except as modified within the constrictions created by the ability of global communications about governmental atrocities making it much more difficult to keep such atrocities hidden now than during the last century; and a governing practice diametrically opposed to the sacred doctrine of the Catholic Church, who Communism sees as its most dangerous enemy. Communism-in addition to the countries under its capture-is experiencing resurgence among young atheistic leftists, and retains its adherents among older leftists within the Catholic Church.