Following my post on “Books to Fight Creationists With,” a reader emailed today to ask whether I could recommend a book or books to combat leftist propaganda in the same way; specifically the very common moonbat talking point that “real communism has never been tried.”

In a way, this is a much broader issue than the creationism-evolution war, because you get into topics like collectivism vs. personal responsibility and other very messy subjects that aren’t exactly amenable to solutions that can be tested in a scientific way.

But if we limit the discussion to communism, there is one book that everyone should read, for a true perspective on the soul-and-body-destroying nature of this ideology:

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression.

It’s not easy reading, and it may even cause you to break down in tears at some points. But there’s no more effective refutation of the lies promoted by Marxists and communists than this powerful catalog of murder.