Most of the literature, historical or fictional, about what was horrible in communism says why liberals and the entire democratic left, back in the day, hated and feared it as much as or more than fascism or even Nazism.
This is true even about books written by men of the right, in the main.
When they tell you what particularly frightens or enrages them about communism, conservatives tell you quite frankly it's the abolition of private property in the means of production.
In their eyes the crime of revolution and collectivization was violation of the property rights of the dispossesed owners of nationalized or collectivized enterprises.
And the abolition of the right of anyone to build or aquire such property.
In the eyes of the democratic left it was the terror, the camps, and the seas of blood spilled to stay in power or to achieve wicked or stupid, sometimes almost mad purposes.
The Black Book of Communism, despite inaccuracies, says it all.
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