Karl Marx characterized Communism as "the negation of the negation," which is a peculiar turn of phrase he borrowed from his theoretical predecessor G.W.F. Hegel.
Communists create destruction everywhere they go, often by appealing to nice-sounding but ridiculous nonsense as some kind of justification for implementing their projects.
We're hearing a lot about "joy" now that the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign have made it a byword of their project, so we have to ask what they mean by it.
Near the end of his book, Dikotter explains the appeal of Communism to the Chinese in the 1950s, even though all around them was failure, starvation, and death.
What we now call Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training in virtually any format, including "cultural competence" and "unconscious bias" trainings, derive from an earlier program more simply known as "Sensitivity Training."